Crafty As L

Welcome to my DT post and this week, I’ve been busy making an interactive card featuring the Nuts About Squirrels stamps and dies .   I do love an interactive card, particularly one that doesn’t require any specialist dies, which allows you to make it any size you like.   This one was for my husband for our wedding anniversary. To begin, I made a panel to chop up for the background.   I applied Deco Transfer Gel Duo through the  Leafy stencil and left it to dry before placing a Deco Foil green and gold foil sheet over and running it through my Big Shot.   The ‘Duo’ part of the gel is that either pressure or heat can be used to fix the foil so you can use a die-cutting machine or laminator to complete the process. Next, I stamped the squirrel, leaves and acorns and coloured them using a variety of alcohol markers.   After die-cutting them, I added some clear Nuvo Drops to the squirrel’s eye, nose and to the acorns for some extra shine. Now for the card base, which is essentially

  My card this week is one that I made for the November Visible Image ATC swap which has the theme “Shine Bright”.   My first thought was a lightbulb for obvious reasons but I don’t yet have that stamp set so I had to think again.   I ended up using the  Robot Data stamps and dies which, although the robots on the packaging are a little rusty, my versions are hot off the production line, all bright, shiny and new.  This design would also work well for those tricky men's birthday cards. For the background panel, I blended Distress Oxides in Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn and then spritzed with a little water to add texture.   Using a green ink pad, I stamped some of the small background stamps randomly around the card. For the card, I stamped and silver heat-embossed the large robot on grey card and then coloured with alcohol markers.   I did the same with the small robot for the ATC. Using my Zig 2-Way Glue Pen, I added dots and dashes where I thought the highlights on th