When we first received in these fun little alphabet dies I fell in love with the project pictured with the Lemon Drop die, where the word "hi" is accentuated. I realized that the letter placement of this fabulous little alphabet from Lifestyle Crafts would make a very cute Valentine as well and if you leave off the heart it would make a cute little thank you (I owe you - or I O U) for a favor received.
There are a ton of different ways to highlight the letters in this alphabet "background." I love sparkle and so I opted to use glitter to create the focal sentiment, but you could also pop out all the letters and highlight certain ones by placing different colored cardstock behind the letter or color in different letters with your markers, or cut out different colored cardstock with the die and pop out the white ones inserting the colored ones. SO MANY options - I love it!
Run the alphabet die through your die cut machine being very careful to keep it on a firm, flat surface when moving it. Then using tweezers remove the letters you want to highlight.
Apply Be Creative (Sookwang) tape to the back side of your letter sheet as shown above.
Apply a piece of Be Creative Tape to the back side of another piece of Neenah Cardstock and cut out the letters you would like to highlight. Remove the tape backing, apply glitter and burnish (or gently rub) the glitter into the surface of the tape. Insert the letters in your large letter background.
Apply glitter strips using Be Creative Tape in the 1/4" width.
Place a Hero Arts pearl heart in the center of the O. Highlighting the O with silver glitter allowed me to frame the sweet little heart to draw more attention to it. Once again a very simple, sweet design for the Valentine in your life.
Tip: This particular alphabet is scaled beautifully for creating sentiments on your card fronts with the die cut letters and Ann, one of the lovely ladies here at work pointed out that the quotation marks would make fabulous little molars for a tooth fairy card or page! So fun!!!
Thank you for joining me here again in the CLASSroom - have a fabulous weekend!
paper: Galvanized Curious Metallic Cardstock, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White
accessories: Lifestyle Crafts Lemon Drop Alphabet, Glitter Ritz - Fire Red and Silver, Be Creative (Sookwang) Tape 4 1/2" and 1/4", Hero Arts Pearl Heart
