We’re so excited to welcome special guest Dilay Nacar to the blog today to help us celebrate World Cardmaking Day! Dilay’s cardmaking style has so many beautiful details to look at, and what she creates may look more complicated than it really is! Let’s see how Dilay creates two amazing cards by die cutting!
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Hello and Happy World Cardmaking Day, SCT friends! It’s Dilay Nacar with you! In honor of World Cardmaking Day today, I’m sharing two cards that combine two of my favorite brands: Pinkfresh Studio and The Stamp Market!
Each card features ways to use standard dies in unconventional ways—something that I love doing! Let’s get started!
Supplies | The Stamp Market: Bitty Botanicals Dies, Happiest Hi & Hello Layering Dies, Mini Slimline Basics Die, Diamond Glitter Cardstock, Color Crush Inks: Navy, Orchid, Lipstick, Melon, and Curry; Concord & 9th: White Cardstock, Lots to Say Stamp Set, Hero Arts White Embossing Powder
This first card is a mini slimline using products from The Stamp Market! To begin, I cut the base with the Mini Slimline Basics die, then die cut and ink blended the Bitty Botanicals leaves and stems using ink colors Orchid, Navy, Lipstick, Melon, and Curry. Next, I cut multiple circles using a small circle die, then adhered the stems over the top, trimming off the excess. To assemble, I adhered each of the circles with foam tape then tucked in the remaining stems behind, coordinating the colors. To add a little sparkle, I cut a few more leaves in Diamond Glitter cardstock and adhered them around the circles.
To finish, I cut the ‘Hi’ from the Happiest Hi & Hello Layering set in Diamond Glitter cardstock, and the shadow die in white. I adhered the two together then to the panel using foam tape. I then added a heat embossed sub sentiment (on navy cardstock) and mounted the panel onto a side-folding card base!
Supplies | Concord & 9th: White and Midnight Cardstock, Harvest Wreath Dies, Everyday Sayings Dies, Triple Step Bloom Heart Stamp Set, Inks (Eggplant, Cranberry, Marmalade, Stardust, Midnight); The Stamp Market: Diamond Glitter Cardstock; Gina K Designs: Connext Glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Adhesive; Hero Arts White Embossing Powder
The second card uses amazing products from Concord & 9th! I began by cutting an A2-sized white card base, then adhered (in a staggered pattern) multiple strips cut with the sentiment strip die in the Harvest Wreath die set, trimming off any excess. Next, I cut leaves from the Harvest Wreath die set and ink blended them with ink colors in Cranberry, Eggplant, Midnight, Marmalade, and Starburst. I adhered the leaves onto a piece of white cardstock and cut it with the ‘hello’ word die from the Everyday Sayings die set, then cut the shadow die in white.
To add some sparkle, I cut the hello once more using The Stamps Market’s Diamond Glitter cardstock and adhered it, slightly offset, in between the layers. I die cut multiple leaves from the same Harvest Wreath die set in white and adhered them over the background to add some more detail before adding the hello to the center. To finish, I adhered to a heat embossed sub-sentiment then mounted the panel onto a top-folding card base!
I hope you enjoyed reading about these cards and are inspired to create something new with your dies! Thank you so much for joining me on this special day, crafters!
Hi, everyone! My name is Dilay (most call me Dee) and I currently live in Connecticut with my amazing husband and two fur babies. I have been crafting for as long as I can remember, but I recently found my true passion in designing and creating cards! If I’m not working or spending time with my family, I’m in my craft room making a beautiful mess.
Find more of Dilay’s beautiful card creations here: Blog | Instagram | Facebook
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What gorgeous cards created using products from two of our favourite companies, too, Dilay! How would you like to re-create Dilay’s mini slimline card? One lucky winner will be able to do that thanks to our friends at The Stamp Market!
To enter to win these prizes:
Leave us a comment by Thursday, October 7th at 11:59pm ET, telling us your favourite cardmaking technique! A comment will be selected at random and the winner announced on Friday, October 8th, here on the blog!
Join us again here on the blog at 2pm, as we create a card suite with Latisha Yoast and Concord & 9th, with another chance to win a fabulous prize!
My favourite card making technique is stamping and colour the image with Copic.
My favorite card making technique has to be stamping and coloring with stencils ( my new love)!
I love using dimension to add texture to my cards (and playing with color by using colored foam for that dimension.)
I adore both of these cards and have added them to my Pinterest page as inspiration.
I do t have a favourite technique! I love trying new things all the time and can’t wait to try stamping on a chunky word like this card!
I love stamping and then colouring!!
My favourite card technique is colouring with alcohol markers. Those cards are beautiful ????
My favourite technique depends on my interest of the day. Some days it’s stencils others ink blending. I’m learning so many new things and want to practise them all!
I have to say these cards are striking! The colors just pop. My favorite technique is emboss resist. I adore The Stamp Market ????
Love thee cards and those colorful leaves. My favorite card technique is basic stamping and die cutting.
Quick and easy with layers is my style so I love techniques that lend to that! These cards are GORGEOUS!!!
My favourite technique lately is water colour backgrounds w a sentiment stamped in black.
My favorite technique would currently be using layers. I love the look!
I like to make cards full of die cuts!!!
Love diecuts for cardmaking. And Dilay’s cards with Pinkfresh and Stamp Market products are gorgeous!
Beautiful cards! One of my favourite card making techniques is emboss resist.
Love Dilay’s cards! ❤️ I’m enjoying using stencils with my distress oxide inks to create backgrounds then die cutting or stamping my sentiments!
My favorite card making techniques is all the things. How can you pick just one? ???? There are so many new and fun additions since I stepped away around 2009. The evolvement of stamps, the entry of the Misti and so many new and different ways to color and cut paper. I’m having a ball.
I love your white on white layers! I am primarily a scrapbooker so when I make cards, I like to use the stamps from my collection that are often ignored because their size and theme is more appropriate to card making.
These cards are so lovely. Love the leaves!
As a newer card maker I just love all the ways I can learn from so many of the amazingly talented instructors SCT brings our way for inspiration. I am loving using my die cut & stamping platform for giving my card designs a little more oomph as I learn ????
I love stenciling with different mediums and adding texture
Beautiful cards! Thanks for the great prize giveaway from The Stamp Market!
I love die cutting and ink blending, but most of all I just live card making!
My new favourite card making technique is a combination of masking and ink blending. Thanks to The Stamp Market for this great giveaway.
I really like using the white on white technique. The pops of color really set it off nicely. Love The Stamp market products!
I love die cutting, rearranging the cuts into something unusual. I love the use of color against the white on these cards. Great idea!
The cards are beautiful. I like stamping and die cutting. I like doing different things.
I have just started working with the stencils and am really enjoying them. I also have liked die cutting several of the same stamps and stacking them to give my card dimension.
I love ink blending!! It is funny to create different color backgrounds. I also like ink blending in combination with stencils.
These cards are gorgeous! My favorite technique is to die cut and put things together like a puzzle with inlay and paper piecing.
Love the hello dies, what a great way to make an easy but impactful cards! I love the heat embossing technique.
Terrific cards, I really like using embossing folders to add texture and die cuts for the focal point. Thanks for such wonderful inspiration for World Card Making Day!
I love layered die cuts!
I love ink blending and am in the process of collecting all the ink colours from different manufacturers. Lol
Super beautiful cards!! I love Dee’s work! :) Ink blending and emboss resist are my fav techniques :)
I love using my dies in fun ways. I’m always looking for new techniques and ideas and I love the ones shown here!
I love stamping an image and coloring with my alcohol markers, then placing it on a background made with a bit of stenciling. Love the ideas shared!
Beautiful inspriations indeed!! My usual go-to card making technique is stamp and watercolor, but lately I die cutting a whole lot more!!
My favorite card making technique includes ink blending with die cuts in creative ways!
These are gorgeous! I would love to try to CASE exactly the way they are!
So many techniques out there. I think I like die cutting because you can use them so many different ways.
Lovely cards! I love stamping and then coloring my stamps with stencils the most!
I love the white on white card. It’s so pretty. I think my favorite technique lately has been my shimmer powders. I made lots of unique backgrounds to use later when I’m card making.
These cards are just breathtaking, such a wonderful combo of products from both companies. Ink blending is probably my favourite technique!
Gorgeous cards! My favorite cardmaking technique is using die cuts!
First of all, my jaw just about dropped to the floor when I saw these gorgeous projects!!! WOW and WOW!!! One of my favourite techniques is diecutting followed closely by dry embossing (using embossing folders!) Thanks for the chance to win!
Beautiful cards! I love the bits of color on the large Hello. My favorite technique would be hand-paintong and die cutting! So much fun!
Beautiful samples! I’m not sure I have a favorite technique but I tend to use some combination of multiple layers, ink blending, die cuts, fussy cutting, and hand coloring on my cards.
I am so sad I am on vacation and unable to make any cards today. But you can be sure I’m watching videos when I can and making plans for when I return!
Wow, stunning cards by Dilay! My fave technique is ink blending!
My favorite card making technique is stencils and ink blending