 Hi everyone and welcome back, it's Vicky here and today I'm going to share three different designs using the same die and in all of my designs I will be using Distress Oxidings in different techniques. So I will be playing with this large outline thanks die, this is from the latest release by Simon Says Stamp from their Die Semper release and actually this is part of a blog hope as we celebrate this release make sure to go to my blog you will find links there to lots of inspiration and giveaways so here's how the die looks I used white cardstock to cut out everything and this is what you get now by running it just once you get all those spaces so you get this negative you get the outline of all the letters and of course you get the big bold letters that you can use today I will be using everything that I cut out here in three different card designs but of course you can mix and match them and there are so many different designs that you can come up with so for example you can cut out everything from different colored cardstock and then put everything back together with the inlay technique but this time it would be super colorful anyway I will continue and create three cards and for today I decided to use my Distress Oxide Inks and I will be working with this Distress Mixed Media cardstock this cardstock is by Ranger and it is a slightly off white and it takes Distress Oxide Inks beautifully so for the first technique I'm going to do some inking for that I'm using three different shades of Distress Oxides I'm starting with Siggles Preserves this is Abandoned Cora and I will end up with Tartar Trows for all my cards today I will be using Distress Oxides both in Inks and in the form of sprays and I will be using different techniques for my backgrounds so now I finished blending here I just want to make sure that as the two colors meet they have a lovely blending without any harsh lines it looks beautiful as it is but if you love the look of splashes then you can add some water and then leave it for a few seconds to react with the ink underneath and then bloat it with some paper towel so here I have a lovely background and you can repeat the same process with your favorite color combination and then all you have to do is to just stick the letters on top now for sticking down the letters I have the negative here which I'm not going to use but I am using it as a template so that I can place the letters inside at the back of the letters I have a tiny little foam squares so that I can add some dimension on my card I'm using some white glue at the back and I'm going to stick that on my card base that's four and a quarter by five and a half and to finish off my card I'm going to add a secondary sentiment this comes from the you got this stamp set I love this because it's packed with sentiments in a teeny tiny font I have stamped and embossed it with white ink and cut it out in a thin black strip and I'm going to stick it there and lately I'm kind of obsessed with gems and I just have to stick them everywhere so I'm using the pink ones from this set this is by Pinkfruits Studio and you will find everything I'm using linked down below just like always I'm going to add some dots of glue here and there and then stick those gems on top here are some close-up photos on the first card for today and imagine that you can do any color combo for the background now for the next one I will be using the negative and this time I'm going for a shaker card so I'm adding double-sided tape all around this piece I'm going to peel off the packing and then stick on top a piece of acetate I have a large letter size acetate here so I'm going to stick it there and cut out the excess with my scissors but of course remember that you can use leftovers from packaging which is something that I do all the time but somehow I couldn't find any leftovers so now I will create the background for my window for that I'm working again on a mixed media cardstock distress mixed media cardstock and I will work with my distress oxide sprays I started by applying water on my paper to make sure that it is nice and wet and then on top I'm using two colors that's spiced marmalade and picked raspberry I'm going to use my heat gun and make sure that the first layer is completely dry and then I will go ahead and do a second layer now just because I have lots of water there you will see that this is going to give that a chalky finish look and it's not going to dry as vibrant as you see it now if you want to have super vibrant colors then you can use your this your original distress sprays which are not going to give that chalky look when they react with water now you can see that with the sprays I got this look as if I did ink blending but it was super quick to make and the sprays blend on their own so you don't have to fight with your blending tools and make sure that you don't have any harsh lines or any splotches here and there now you can see the back of my window I have added some foam tape all around the border and now I am going to bring in some sequins this is by studio katia and it is called majestic confetti you will find it linked below so now I'm going to peel off the backing from my foam tape and stick it on top now my background is slightly bigger so I end up having a border but if you want you can make it exactly the same size as the top panel so it's time to put my card together I'm using white glue at the back I'm going to stick it on top of a standard card that's four and a quarter by five and a half and as you can see I finished off the sentiment by adica secondary one again a teeny tiny one from you got this stamp set that I white embossed on black cardstock and here are some close-up photos and let's move on to the last card for today again I'm using my distressed mixed media cardstock and this time I'm going with the smouching technique where I'm going to apply some ink on my non-stick mat here I'm going to apply some water and then smush my paper on top the colors that I'm using here are peacock feathers and twisted citron a combination that I absolutely love and as you can see I didn't apply too much ink on my craft mat just because I didn't want it to cover up completely the whole panel I just want to have some concentrated color at the mainly the center now I'm going to make sure that this is dry and I will repeat the process to add even more color I'm not introducing any new colors I'm just repeating the same process one more time and although this technique looks quite random you can still control how much of one color you have on your paper so here I went back and added only twisted citron at the bottom mainly and I was super happy with the outcome a lovely abstract background for a very artistic look now this panel is four and a quarter by five and a half so I am cutting out about two quarters from each dimension and this time I will use the outlines of the letters now I went ahead and cut out the word thanks one more time from black cardstock and I'm going to stick white on top of black slightly offset so it's going to give a little bit of shadow to do that I'm using my xaron sticker maker I think this is the easiest and quickest method to stick those skinny letters one on top of the other but of course you can use a glue pen or your white glue whatever works so each time I'm going to peel a letter and stick it on top of the black one making sure that it is slightly offset and of course ginger was making sure that I did everything correctly so hopefully you can see here the shadow the black shadow that I end up having underneath the letter and I will repeat the same thing for all the letters it's kind of time consuming but it's worth it you will see that that shadow really helps those letters to stand out in the finished project now I'm going to play around with all those letters and try to decide where everything is going to go since I have such an abstract background I don't want to have neatly placed the letters so these are going to be kind of offset and overlapping one another since I am going for a more artistic look on this card this time I'm using my white nuvo deluxe glue at the back but of course I could have used my sticker maker I just didn't think about it at that point and since I have that black shadow to bring everything together I'm going to match this panel with a piece of black cardstock by the way I never create black card bases I always use a black mat and then I'm just going to stick the whole thing on top of a pre-folded standard card that it is white so I can easily write my message inside and again I need to add some blink this time I'm using march crystals and august crystals by studio katia and here is the finished look and I think this is probably my favorite out of the three cards that I share today let me know in the comments which one is yours so here are all the three cards that I made using the bolt letters the negative space and the skinny outlines using one die and my distressed oxides and this were the projects for today don't forget down below you will find a link to my blog there are lots of giveaways along the blog post you will also find a list of all the supplies that I used I hope you had fun that you got inspired thank you all so much for watching today and I'll see you next time