Alphabet Soup

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 My card today is for Nat's Daring Cardmakers Challenge this week

Alphabet Soup

I don't know about you, but I have a slight problem when it comes to alphabet dies and stamps... I love the look of them, I buy them, but I rarely take the time to use them for anything other than personalising the odd card here and there.

So this week I'm challenging myself and you to grab those alphabet stamps or dies and use them to create the sentiment* for your card!

* Hint, short words could be your friend, especially for the upcoming festive season!

 Click Here for some ideas from the design team

Recently I've been trying to make more use of my hot foiling machine and this challenge reminded me of a Hot Foiling alphabet I must have bought about 3 years ago and have never actually used  (but don't you pretend you haven't stash sitting there unused for just as long!)

So I used silver foil to create the HAPPY letters for my sentiment and die cut them with the smallest circle from a nested set.  I was actually going to cut 'Christmas' from silver card using a set of handwriting dies but they are small and fiddly and I ran out of time.

I absolutely love the brilliant tree dies from Spellbinders' Sealed Christmas Tree Squiggle Etched Dies,  so I used them in two different ways.

First I hot foiled them using different finishes of turquoise and silver foils.  I really like seeing which of my regular dies work well with the hot foiling technique

Secondly I die cut the trees in the regular way from matching cardstock and adhered them over and among the foiled trees

I glued the letters onto a strip of silver glitter washi tape before fixing them in place then added the die cut 'Christmas' to the lower edge

 Since making this card I've been trying the same kind of technique using different colours so I'll be sharing them soon!

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

Kathy xx