FCD presents die-normous fun!

Welcome to the FireCracker Designs by Pamela February Blog Hop!

If you came here from Happy Hour over at Marie's - WELCOME!!!!!

If you are just stopping by my blog today you really ought to go to Pamela's first and then continue on the hop from there...don't worry I'll be here when you get back! LOL
Most of the time there is a little goodie after a hop so you really want to start at the beginning and follow through to the end so you don't miss out!

Ready to get on with the post? I am :)
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So what do you do with something like this?



Well silly it is called a die cut and you stamp on it!


Now here is a really cool piece of information for those who are scissor challenged or
have a bit of handicap that makes cutting fine details hard...
THE WORK IS ALREADY DONE FOR YOU WITH THESE DIE CUTS!
WoOt wOoT!
Yeah I am one who has some hand difficulties and cutting can be quite a challenge at times so this is so awesome that Pamela offers die cuts for many of her sets which allows me to layer things up and not have to cause myself undue pain in the process!


I am not going to go over all the deets about how to stamp them as Pamela already has a really awesome tutorial showing how to do that ...just click {here}
Don't forget to come back and finish the hop though {VBG}

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Now that you are back check out what I did with my fish die cuts from the
Something Fishy set.



Pretty amazing what a little color can do to a white piece of paper isn't it! LOL


So now I have these pretty stamped fish that I rubbed some pearl ex on to make them shimmer a little. Now what? Well you can use them on any project really but I choose to make a card with one of them. I cuttlebugged (yes I do think Webster's needs to add that to the ole Dictionary!) a bubbly background and ran a little blue ink over it just enough to highlight some of the bubbles. I then matted this onto some green textured card stock. Then I adhered some of the plant pieces (which are also die cuts!) to the bottom of the bubbly layer and also added a little hardware to frame the word Shine. Since I choose to use this word I stamped and cut out the light from the Something Fishy set and added it to my already stamped die cut fish.. I placed him with his tail amongst the plant life and his light "shining" out front. After I had the whole top assembled I mounted it onto a white card base. (this hides the hardware poking through!)

Here is what I ended up with! A fun little card and I can add whatever message I want to the inside although I am thinking of a birthday greeting for a little boy and adding that I hope he shines all day on his special day!



So what do you think? Die cuts are pretty awesome aren't they! I challenge you to give them a try and share your results with us all too! Now I imagine you are all ready to swim on to the next portion of the hop so off I send you to

Julie's . . . Mahalo

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