Heffy Doodle June 2018 Release

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Welcome to the Heffy Doodle June 2018 Release Blog Hop! Thanks for joining us and hope you find lots of inspriation!

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Line up:

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Kelly Martin

Ali Farmer (you are here!)

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Francesca Vignoli

Jessica McAfee Mercer

Dennice Watts

Cassie Tezak

Tallie Clewley

Sindu Jay

Crystal Thompson

Heather Hoffman

Koren Wiskman

So excited to finally share with you the new Heffy Doodle Release - and it's a beauty!! Two of my favorites are the Party Palooza Set and the Everyday Sentiment Duos and I have used them to create this sweet Birthday card.
If you'd like a handy hint too on how to use your portrait backdrop/cover dies on a landscape card....read on!! 

I first stamped the images from the Party Palooza set onto white smooth card in Momento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured them with copics. I cut them out and applied some white gel pen for accents and some Nuvo shimmer pen to help them sparkle. I attached embrodery thread to the balloons for strings.

I stamped the happy Birthday sentiment from the Everyday Sentiments Duos onto a black card strip with versamark ink and white embossed it. 

To make the background piece for this card, I used the Altenew Dotted Scales Debossing Cover Die. Now, this die is in portrait orientation and I wanted it go go across the card (in landscape) so that the curves immitated the curves in the icing of the cake in the Party Palooza Set. This is how I did it....

I first positioned half the card on the die as per below.

I then positioned the die down on my Big Shot with the card in place and put the top plate so that I didn't reach the 'cutting' edge of the die.  I rang it through my Big Shot but only just over half-way across the card.

This effectively debossed one half of the cardfront.

I then positioned the other half of the card on the debossing plate fitting the previously impressed pattern into the correct part of the die. 

I secured with tape to keep it in place and ran it though my Big Shot same as before - positioning the top plate and only running it through just over half-way & back again.

Viola! Quite quick and easy!

I then used the My Favorite Things Stitched Window Die to cut 3 windows in this piece and attached it to a white cardbase.  I positioned all my images in the windows and adhered them. I adhered my sentiment strip along the bottom and finished the card off with sequins.

Hope you enjoyed and it inspires you to have fun with the new release!

Ali xx