My Cluttered Corner

Of course Queen and Co. has amazing embellishments and flowers and their shaker kits and Toppings are to die for. But a really affordable and versatile product that sometimes gets overlooked is washi! 

Die cutting washi and combining it with strips of washi is an easy way to add color and patterns to a simple card.

I included all of these ideas and some additional tips and tricks for getting really great cuts in this video:

I really love using die cuts because they can lay flat on your project or can be popped up with dimensional adhesive. 

You can adhere them, stitch them or staple them down.

You can layer them under photos or layer other embellishments on top of them.

Lucky for me the Stash Bash YouTube Hop this month was using chpiboard or die cuts. I actually don't have any chipboard left in my stash!! So die cuts it was! Here is the process video where I used up a load of die cuts from the Scrapbook Circle May kits.

This month is all about flowers over at Queen & Co, and I have two cards that fit the bill! Each card uses flowers and a heart shape, but one uses the positive of the heart and one uses the negative. Here is the first card I made. The dimensional heart is actually a piece of foam that has adhesive on each side because it was an element that I popped out of the Queen and Co. Foam Front Shaker Card Kit.

To create the negative space of a heart, I die cut the heart from a card panel and stamped inside the heart like a window.

I love heart shapes and using the positive and negative to create floral embellished cards was so fun! If you are interested in the supplies I used, just scroll down! Thanks so much for stopping by!