Scotch Man (DRU Inspiration)

Hey everyone, it's my turn on the Dies R Us Inspiration Blog. Today I'm sharing a masculine birthday card, but it would really be perfect for anyone who loves a good glass of bourbon/whiskey/scotch etc. 😀

I used the following dies from Dies R Us:

Yvonne's Creations: Whiskey

Tutti Designs: Slimline Gentlemen Background

Tutti Designs: Slimline Scalloped Rectangles

Memory Box: Tall Birthday Candles

Die-Versions: Marker Micro

Poppystamps: Happy Birthday Background (any of these would work)

Spellbinders: Sunday Drive with Santa add-on (any small image would work for the bottle label)

MFT: Bitty Birthday Wishes (any of these would work)

As I usually do, I die cut all my pieces before starting the assembly process. I started with the Whiskey bottle and die cut everything in both white cardstock and in vellum.  At this point I wasn't exactly sure how I was going to combine the individual pieces, but I knew I wanted to color the bottle with my Copics. I ended up adding the vellum to the top of the bottle and around the outsides of the glasses to give each of these pieces a frosted look.

The label was die cut from a piece of silver mirrored cardstock.

Next came the small deer head for the label. This was also die cut from vellum.

The Tall Birthday Candles and the Slimline Scalloped Rectangles were die cut from white cardstock as well. These pieces will be for the inside of the card.

I used the negative pieces from Poppystamp's Happy Birthday Background die for the front sentiment.

Brown cardstock was used to die cut the  Slimline Gentlemen Background and then it was adhered to a page from an old dictionary. (If you look closely, it's one of the "S" pages and defines the word Scot and Scottish.)

This is the inside of birthday card.

And one final look at the front of the birthday card:

Head back to the Dies R Us Blog tomorrow for more fabulous inspiration from the DRU Inspiration design team.

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Magic of Christmas {Scrapy Land #97}

Happy Wednesday!  It's the first Wednesday of September and that means it's time for a new Scrapy Land Challenge!  The theme is always Anything Goes using any brand of die that Scrapy Land sells.

As I've mentioned before, I'm slowly working on my Christmas cards.  So I have another one to share with you today.  I used the following dies for my card:

Yvonne Creations: Christmas Decoration

Sue Wilson Designs: California Collection-Beverly Hills

Cheery Lynn Designs: Lattice 1

Sunny Studios: Fishtail Banners (any of these would work as well)

The image is a digi called Fairy Bauble from Make It Crafty.  I colored it with Copic markers and used the colors suggested on the online video class.  Once the image was finished, it was die cut out using the Sue Wilson die.

The backdrop was created by die cutting the Lattice 1 die three times from three different colors of cardstock.  I offset each one so the color patterns would be different.  (I cut off the excess portion on the sides so that the entire piece was still an A2 size.)

The Christmas Decoration was die cut from white cardstock and heat embossed with Gold embossing powder.

The sentiment (from Sunny Studios called Holiday Style) was stamped onto my fishtail die cut and heat embossed using Hero Arts White embossing powder. 

I pop dotted it in the center so it would look curved.

Now it's your turn to join along in the fun.  You have until Sept 15 to upload your project to the Scrapy Land Challenge.  Remember it can be anything (mixed media, scrapbook page, altered art), as long as it includes dies that Scrapy Land sells.  There are over 55 brands to choose from.  You can see them all here.

This major milestone will be celebrated on Oct 17.  Stay tuned for details.