Cut away cards

 Cut away cards

stamps used:  Catherine Pooler Take a peek stamp set, Various stamp companies for saying

I enjoy making cards that are a little different.  These card fronts are cut away, so they open a little different.

Basic instructions:

1. Cut off section of front of the card.  This will form the front flap.

2. Adhere pattern paper to front flap.

3. Stamp on white card with image of choice.  Adhere stamped card to color layer.

4. Add double stick tape to bottom half of stamped layered card, and adhere to front flap.  

5. Stamp inside of card as desired.

stamps used:  Catherine Pooler build a snowman stamp/die set

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Butterfly cut away

                                                  Butterfly cut away

                                                stamps used:  Catherine Pooler stamp set/dies

This is a big butterfly that can almost fill a whole A2 card, but this time I decided to add to a layer.  I call this card a cut away card, because that is exactly what I did!  I cut away the bottom of the layer with the die from the stamp set, then mounted it onto another layer that I stamped with the smaller images in the set.  It might be hard to see but I also embossed both butterflies with a new embossing powder called Halo.  When heated it almost looks holographic ... kinda floats there and adds extra colors over the image.  You can click on the image to see a bigger picture.  You can see more cards using this big butterfly with a spotlight technique here, in this post doing the split technique, also here is a shaker card using this same butterfly.

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Cut away anniversary card

stamp used:  MFP (love)

DSP by SU

Owl builder punch by SU

Vine punch by EK success

I call this card ... CutAway card because that is exactly what I did ... I cut away the front of the card.  This is an anniversary card for a friend whose actual anniversary is on Valentines Day.  For the envelope I added some DSP to the flap just for fun. 

I know in above photo you can't see what I'm talking about so look below to see another photo of unfinished CutAway card.  

The card on the top is closed so the Kraft card front is cut away ... hence the name I gave this card.  This is not a new design it has been around for years, this is just the name I call this card.  The bottom card is open so you can see how the front of the card is cut away.  When it is closed you can see the inside of the card as you can see in the finished card, too.

Happy Valentine's Day!

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