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So Day 2's class was about using die cuts and one of the techniques was using an inlay technique similar to that done with wood working. In fact the instructor used wood veneer paper. Very cool.

So I don't have any wood veneer paper (and yes I'm sure that some of you are surprised that I don't have that particular item in my stash of goodies)... but I do have some velvet paper that I bought from Stampin' Up! years ago and have never found the right card to use it for. Well this is the card...

So my first attempt, not so good... the card turned out okay eventually but boy did it take a lot of fiddling to get it to look right. Second attempt much better. First of all it was much easier and as a result looks much bette r. Love it!

So my problem is that I used a snowflake die that was very intricate and once I cut the words the pieces got even smaller. My first attempt I cut the words first and then the die - do not recommend.

Second go round... cut the snowflake first and didn't remove the die right away. I flipped the die over so that the paper was on the top and used some eclipse tape to hold all the pieces in place. Pressed down to transfer all the small pieces to the masking tape. Then I removed the die from the velvet paper, added sookwang tape to the back. From a scrape piece of release paper from sookwang tape I cut the snowflake die again. Used that on the negative space on tope of the sookwang tape and used it as a template to position all the little pieces. Sounds complicated but worked great.

Then I cut the words 2x - once out of the velvet paper and once out of Wasabi Green cardstock. Added more sookwang tape to the back of the velvet paper and inlayed the green words into the velvet paper. Final step was to remove the release paper from the snowflake, revealing the sookwang tape. Added Dazzling Diamonds glitter. Then just mounted on Wasabi cardstock and then on a white card stock.

A little complicated but I am very happy with how it's turned out.