Friday Die Day!

Hello friends

It's Friday Die Day!

And for the very first time you can view Friday Die Day both here on the blog
or a video on YouTube!

 

The featured die is Basic Lattice from the Expandable Pattern designs.

I've had quite a few questions regarding the Expandable Patterns

so hoping to answer those today.

It is one die, presented as a flat plate measuring 6 x 4 inches.

This is how it looks cut/embossed.

Note that it does not cut an outer edge.

 The reason it does not cut an outer edge is so that you can expand your die cutting.

Here you can see that I've moved the die along to align to create a long strip of pattern. 

A little bit of removable tape ensures everything stays in its place.

 I'm using my Artisan X-Plorer™ for this but if you wanted to create a larger

piece for scrapbooking then you would switch to the Grand Calibur®. 

 And this is how it looks as an expanded pattern, great stuff!

You could use this across a 12 x 12 scrapbook page, wrap around boxes and more. 

For today's project I chose to cut a smaller piece as I wanted it to resemble 

garden trellis.  To cut I just sliced it with my paper trimmer.

 This is the reverse side to show you how I am intertwining Sprigs.

My advice here is go slowly, pinch the leaves together which is fine as it adds

dimension to the front view.

 Switching to the front view.  I wanted it to look

very much like garden trellis!

I then adhered this to a cream card base (yes a card - not a tag!)

I wrapped around some ribbon, twine and a small tag.

(The tag is left over from last week's FDD - 

Back to Basics Tags - waste not - want not!)

The addition of some little flowers and pearls. 

 The 'you' is from a new Die D-Lite - Celebration,

it has three useful sentiments - thank you, happy birthday, You and me, 

(available to pre-order, just drop me an email).

 And some close up shots.

 I'm really loving the lattice, thinking of different colours, perhaps white

with beautiful spring flowers.

It is Mitchell's birthday today - he is 20, no idea how that happened,

I don't feel a lot older than 20 myself (on a good day)! 

He is visiting Harry Potter Studios today with his girlfriend, I'm having to work otherwise
I would definitely be tagging along.

Hoping to do some celebrating tomorrow.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend -

are you crafting?