 Hi stampers, welcome to another week of Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm Beth and I'm here to share with you a die set that I think is a hidden gem in the annual catalog. If you look at page 174 of the annual catalog right now, you'll see the rugged icons dies. These are standalone. They don't have a stamp set that coordinates with them and this is really the only place in the catalog that they're featured. I found these dies and was so inspired to work with them so we ordered them right away and I got to work. I love that in the die set there is an abundance of different images. There's this mountain scene, there's a beard, a fishing pole, a drill and a guitar. And they are so, so fun. I paired these dies with the charming sentiment stamp set. This is also in the annual catalog and I love the different sizes of the sentiments, the different fonts. I thought that they were really fun and easy to create with, but I think that you could use a sentiment stamp set that you have on hand or a multitude of others would work for this die set as well. Let me show you some projects that I created. Here's the fun gift card holder with the drill. I thought that the Ryobi drill was kind of my inspiration for the colors. Super cute. Then I moved on to the guitars. I liked creating kind of a monochromatic background there. I thought that worked really well. The beards just layered them over some masculine colors made it really simple. My dad is a big fisherman so I thought of this one when I made, I thought of him when I made this one. Cute. This one was really easy to cut out too. And then I got to the mountain and I got to the beard and I wanted to do some extra special things with them. So let me show you some tips that I've picked up while using this die set. First I created this card. Crazy. It is so, so fun to create the mountain scene from these dies, but you have to cut out a bunch of different colors in order to build that. Let me show you how I've done that and give you some tips on how to make it easier. I cut them out in Night of Navy, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Pill Papaya, Evening Evergreen, and Mint Macaron. And then from the layering circles' framelits I also cut out an Evening Evergreen circle. So that's what you'll need to build this little mountain scene. One way to make it way easier is to put adhesive sheets on your squares before you cut them out. Okay, so you'll take your 2 ½ by 2 ½ square and add an adhesive sheet. If you don't have this product working with these dies, it makes it so much easier. So you'll grab some adhesive sheets, cut them down to 2 ½ by 2 ½, layer that on your card stock, and then you'll run your card stock through your stamp and cut out an embossed machine, and you'll get these little circles. Now the adhesive sheets kind of hold all the pieces in, which is really nice when you're going through and there's so many different little pieces. I also cut out this circle so that we have something to build upon, and all of these little pieces in between the mountain scene. I didn't want to have to put those back in, so I wanted the Evening Evergreen to show through, and that circle does that for me. So let's start building. We're going to start with our Evening Evergreen. This is what our base behind is going to be, so I'm going to pull out all these little pieces of my Evening Evergreen. And a tool that's really helpful for this is your Take Your Pick tool. I'm just using the little pick end, the sharp end, and I'm going to pop out all of these little pieces. But here's a little tip. I'm ready to adhere this right now. I'm going to grab the edge of my adhesive sheet. It's just like a paper backing, kind of like your dimensionals or a sticker. And I'm going to pull, and look, it's going to pull off pieces for me that I don't want there. So that's going to save me a little bit of time. And now this entire thing is sticky. I don't have to use green glue, which also is an option. That's what I used had I not had these adhesive sheets. I would have used green glue. So there's kind of my little piece that we're going to be layering. I'm going to lay this on top of my Evening Evergreen circle. It's a little bit smaller because I didn't want it to show behind it. So I'm going to just adhere that down. And that's what we're going to build on. So let's start. My palpapaya, my little sun, let's say, I'm going to save these pieces. I'm going to show you what I did with my extras after I finished this card. So I'm going to peel off the backing. And it's just kind of like putting together a puzzle. You just have the little layouts of where they go, and you just pop them in. And it's like a little sticker, and it just stays right where you want it to go. OK, so there's that. My river here, I did a mint macaroon. I'm going to peel off that backing and place that right here. And again, I know exactly where it's supposed to go. Let's do crumb cake. That's what we did on our little mountain scenes here. Now as your pieces get smaller, you'll want to pop out one at a time. If you pop out too many, it's hard to figure out where they go. If you really like putting together puzzles, that's a good time way to do it, I guess. I'll have to search a little bit and put on those. Let's do our old olive scenes here, right around the trees. OK, this gets just a little bit tricky, so let me show you something that I did. Some of these pieces are kind of small when it comes to the little tree scene. Use these two little pieces here and here. Instead of trying to peel off, even on this piece that's kind of small, instead of trying to peel off that backing, I'm just going to use a little dot of green glue and I'm just going to place that on there, just because I think it's easier than trying to wrestle with that little paper backing on the back. And then again, just use your Take Your Pick tool to guide it into place and that will dry just like that. There we go, let's do our sky. And there we go, we've got our little mountain scene. It takes a little bit of piecing, but you'll get your little mountain scene all put together and then you can build wishing you the happiest of birthday cards. So fun. I wanted to make a little bit of an easier mountain scene. So we did this at a recent class. I just put a blue backing behind a little bit bigger than what the old olive is and then added the little sun there. Now to get the sun, our attendees had to cut out a yellow daffodil delight mountain scene. We had them take that and blend with a blending brush right over that onto their envelope. I thought that was kind of cute to add the little mountain scene there as well. Because you have all of these extra pieces after you finished your card, I didn't want to waste those. So I took those and I made this card, another wishing you the happiest of birthdays because you can never have too many birthday masculine cards and I just used those same colors and layered them on there just like that. So those are some fun ideas. My last one I want to show you is with the beard and this one is really simple and I thought just so cute when I saw it. So first you'll want to take a mint macaron square. This is two and a half by two and a half inches and it does have the adhesive sheet on the back and I'm going to run this through on my stamp and cut and emboss machine. I wanted to do this to show you how easily these dyes come out because they are a little more detailed and sometimes when you've got a detailed dye they get stuck or you have to run them through multiple times but let me show you how easy these pop out. So I run it through, right, here's this, I'm just going to pull it out and that adhesive sheet is on there but it's cut all the way through. So for this card I do have to pop out each of these pieces so I could sit and do this with my take your pick tool but I'm going to be adhering it so I'm going to pull off my adhesive sheet and it's going to pull off all those pieces for me. Of course it worked great for the video, I love when that happens. I'm just going to pop out his lips since that's the last little part. Okay, so I'm going to first adhere my smoky slate piece of paper right on top of my basic black. Okay, just lay that down. I already cut out a little beard cut out in the top of that smoky slate piece. Just layer that over and then I've got my beard that I just ran through in mint macaron and I'm just going to place that in the cut out and then you get kind of that positive negative so you can see the detail in the mint macaron beard but you didn't have to piece it behind it. Okay, so here's the card that I made just using the hay there really simple but has such a fun impact with that color. So I hope you've liked these cards that I made. I know that I'm constantly searching for masculine cards and I love making them and making them special so that they have a little bit something different about them. I think that the rugged icons die set could be a great addition to your collection when creating masculine cards. Make sure to play with colors, make sure to get those adhesive sheets so it'll make your creating a little bit easier and your take your pick tool. Those are the two tips that I had for this die set. 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