OWH Be A Rebel Challenge #6 - Use a Die Cut

 Welcome to my blog for the 2nd day of the OWH virtual card making party! I love being a rebel especially to make cards for OWH!  My challenge to you is to make a card using a die. 
I love working with dies and seeing what can be done with them.  Today I have 2 cards to show you using dies.  I used a technique I learned from Sandy Allnock that she calls Out of the Box die cutting.  I used 2 digital images I got from Bugaboo Digi Stamps.  I love their digi stamps and the different ways you can use them.  The dragon I colored on the computer before I printed it and the bear I colored with watercolor pencils after I die cut it. I sized the images on the computer so that part of the image would stick out of the die I wanted to use.  I printed them on regular paper first and tested the images with the dies then I printed them out on GP cardstock.  Before I cut them out with the die I fussy cut around the part that sticks out of the die and slid it over the back of the die so it wouldn't get cut.

Here is my dragon card.  I used the bonus sketch from the OWH S&S blog. His wings and a bit of his tail stick out over the edge of the die, Spellbinders Reverse Wonky Rectangle. I popped his wings with dimensional tape so they would stick up a bit.  I added Glossy Accents to the heart to make it stand out.  All the cardstock I used except the actual card base came from my scrap stash that I had cut up and organized after Sandy's challenge.  I found the vellum greeting in my stash and added the brads to hold it on.

Here is my bear card.  I used sketch #34 from the OWH S&S blog. The bear image has the star sticking off the edge.  I colored him with watercolor pencils and added Glossy Accents to his halo and both stars.  The die is the Spellbinders Wonky Square.  The papers are scraps from my scrap pile except for the stripe DP which I cut down from another card front.  I was going to use different colors but when I started putting them together with the bear image the colors didn't work. The sentiment was one I had already cut out.  It comes from the Hero-Arts/Sizzix Stamp and Framelit Die set Floral.  The image and sentiment both have dimensional tape.

Now it is your turn.  Go make a card or two using a die then link it up here and on Facebook.  Thank you for joining me today.