The Artistic Dies are continuing to be a favorite, which I combined with Stylish Shapes Dies for today’s card.

I began by using an Artistic Die to cut the leaves from a pattern of Bright & Beautiful Designer Paper. This gives the leaves a “beautiful” variety of color, don’t you think?

Stylish Shapes and Leaves

For the background, I used a Stylish Shapes Die to cut five holes in Basic White Cardstock, 4 ” X 5 1/4″, which I glued to a Thick Basic White card base, 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″, folded at 4 1/4″. Then, I used the same die to cut five shapes from Bright & Beautiful Designer Paper in Azure Afternoon. Azure Afternoon is a new color, introduced during the “color refresh,” and isn’t it a pretty shade of blue? After cutting, I glued the blue shapes in the holes. Don’t you like the way this shows off the two rows of perforations?

I “eye-balled” the “ladder,” so it isn’t perfectly straight and centered, but close 🙂 

Next, I glued the leaves along the stem, and base of the leaves, allowing the leaves to lift for dimension.

Prior to gluing the bottom “rung of the ladder,” I stamped the sentiment in Memento Black Ink. “Hello” is from the Wonderful Thoughts Stamp Set. I included the bundle in my Product List below, because you really need the dies to go with this stamp set.

For one last detail, I added three 2022-2024 In Color Matte Dots in Parakeet Party.

I was inspired by Freshly Made Sketches.

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