Celebrations!

Welcome back crafting friends. I'm at the Dies R Us Inspiration Blog, today, to share a birthday card with you.

It's my last post as DT member for Dies R Us, and although I already miss this team, I'm happy to know that you will have many wonderful projects to look forward to from the new DT members.

It's also my birthday today, so I thought today's post should be all about celebrations :-) 

Let's begin with a nice cosmopolitan cocktail to kick it off, shall we? :-)

 Friends, this awesome die set is from Sue Wilson and it's called 3D Cosmopolitan Cocktail.

 This set comes with a die that allows you to turn the glass into a 3D cut. I cut mine out of vellum to give it a frosted look.  Since my card is going to be mailed overseas, I flattened my glass a little, but the 3D effect is still somewhat visible! This allows you to place the straw and the olive inside the "glass".  Doesn't it look realistic?

I began with a card base from that measures 6.5" x 5" when folded. On the front side, I placed Sue Wilson's Lyra die with the cut on the outside of the card.  This makes a beautiful and elegant edge.  This die set consists of 3 pieces, two cutting edges and flourish piece. This means that you can create different edge designs, create an inlay piece by not using any of the cutting edgers, or a stand alone flourish by using both cutting edgers.  Not sure what I mean?  I'll post a pic for you at the end of this post. 

Next, I cut out all the bits and pieces for my drink, and then it's just a matter of putting all the pieces together which is really easy peasy!

To make it look more realistic, I placed glue along the edge of the "glass" and spread some chunky glass glitter over it, to give the idea of a sugared glass :-)

I cut the word "Celebrate" twice and stacked them upon each other for a bit of dimension. I also used a foam dot for the strawberry.  All that was left was to do was to scatter a few sequins to add to the whole party atmosphere :-)

On the inside I used a sentiment and a balloon stamp, as well as a panel of the pink shiny card stock to make the Lyra flourish pop.

This card stock is really hard to photograph, but I wanted to give you an idea of how it shines, so here is another pic.

Now as promised, here are the pics showing you how the Lyra die works:

As you can see, it consists of 3 pieces. Two cutting edgers and a centre flourish.

And here are all the different cuts you can make with this die set by using the different combinations.

To end this post, here a quick recap of the supplies I used to make this card, with links to the Dies R Us store for your convenience:

Lyra Gemini Die - Sue Wilson

3D Cosmopolitan Cocktail Die - Sue Wilson

Zig 2-way Glue Pen

Thermoweb Foam Squares

It's been a great pleasure and honour to have been part of this awesome team and having had the opportunity to share my creations with you.  I hope that I was able to inspire you to use your dies, and to create a project to play along at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog for your chance to win a gift voucher to the Dies R Us Store.   A new challenge begins on the first and fifteenth of every month.

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