Backyard Basics Inlay Technique

My Stamp of the Month for December is Backyard Basics - and it's been fun working with this set - something different that holiday cards!!  

One technique I found that I absolutely fell in LOVE with is the "Inlay" technique.  This technique is so cool because it has "faux" dimension, but is a very flat card (unless you ADD some fat stuff to it BIG GRIN).  AND I LOVE it because you can make two cards at one time!!  

Can you see the inlay???

Here's a closer look at each card

Neat, eh?

Stamp Sets:   Backyard Basics (129255 W, 129258 C page 79); Express Yourself (Hostess Sett 130336 W, 130339 C, page 205)

Card Stock:  Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Epic Day This and That Designer Series Paper (130814, page 154)

Ink:  Pool Party

Embellishment:  In-color Boutique Details (130938, page 169)

Punch:  Modern Label (119849, page 181)

Big Shot:  Big Shot:  Backyard Basics Framelits (129380, page 187); Circles Collection Framelits (129381, page 186)

Other:  Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets (120805, page 174)

Instructions for the “Inlay” technique

1.  I cut a piece of Whisper White Card Stock 5 ¼” x 4” and a piece of the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets the same size.  I added that to the Whisper White Card Stock.   I cut ¼” strips of the Epic Day This and That DSP and covered the entire piece of whisper white with the strips (the adhesive sheet made it very easy!!)

2.  I cut a piece of the DSP (the pool party with words on it) 5 ¼” x 4”.  I layered the dsp and the whisper white piece and put the 3^rd from the largest circle framelit and the butterfly from the Backyard Basics Framelits and ran them through the big shot (used my Magnetic Platform to keep it in place!!!)

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3.  I then “inlaid” the  many-colored circle on the plain piece of pool party and the pool party on the many-colored background and opposite with the butterfly!!  Cool, eh?  (I’m going to be trying this AGAIN!!  Love it!)

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