Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good morning everyone. Today I have the other "out of my comfort zone" card.  This one started with the "feather" Gelli plate background I made some days earlier. I recently bought a card making magazine that had a feather stamp & stencil as a freebie on it. Inside the magazine it mentioned a sister magazine that had a feather die - so of course I had to buy that one too to get the set. So I stamped some feathers & then proceeded to die cut them.  Now, this process was not as successful as I wished & I had used a technique that I had seen on the Internet to aid this task.  You die cut the item - in this case the feather in a scrap of paper to act as a template.  You then place the aperture over the stamped image & slot the die into place to cut it out.  Sounds good & when I was on a workshop run by Clearly Besotted this technique was also shown & it worked.  So, I think I need to try again. Here is the card. ...

... out of it that is! Hi everyone - I mentioned yesterday that I had made two cards that were out of my comfort zone. I think that was the right way to describe it - they aren't way out really, but certainly different for me. The first one came about like this The square background paper is a page out of the pad that I used to create my friends 50th birthday card with & it was still open on my desk.  Behind it in the pad was the smaller piece which as you can see I have stamped some outline flowers on.  That part page matches the bottom corner of the square page. The flowers were stamped in Versamark Ink & embossed in gold EP. Next I cut out the flowers & stamped some vines again in Versamark & gold EP, plus a "birthday wishes" stamp in black. This is the finished card. I layered the square page onto some cream paper leaving a small margin & then onto green paper leaving a narrow margin.  This was then mounted onto an 8x8 scal...