Negative and Positive

This week on the Mod Squad Blog, we are asked to use a die cut and have both the negative and positive cuts on our card. I am also entering this in the new StampTV Release Party Challenge where we are asked to divide a panel on our card into separate pieces.

I was thinking about the positive and negative challenge and then when the Release Party challenge was to divide a panel into pieces, I thought of this technique. I forgot how many little pieces are in this die when I picked it out to use!

I die cut half of the butterfly from the black cardstock and carefully removed all of the little pieces. I taped the cardstock onto a piece of white cardstock, lining it up about halfway across. I laid the die cut back in the hole and used this as a template to place the little pieces back in position. I then flipped the die cut over, ran it through my Xyron machine to put adhesive on the back and adhered it on the white side, matching it up with the negative side. I matted this layer and adhered it to the card base with some foam squares.

I stamped the sentiment, die cut and matted it, and adhered it below the butterfly image.

Here are the products I used:

Gina K. Designs: Birthday Blessings stamp set; Black, White and Sweet Mango cardstock

Die-Versions 'Butterfly Kisses' Whispers die

Sizzix/ Tim Holtz Celebrate die

VersaFine Onyx Black ink

Xyron Create a Sticker machine

Zig 2 way glue pen

Tombow Mono Adhesive

Foam Squares from my stash