Dahlia Turnabout

Today's card is courtesy of an ingenious design from Concord & 9th that I've been working with for a few days.  I'm going to give you fair warning here that this is going to be a very picture heavy post.  Concord & 9th has some of the most innovative and well engineered products on the market and this one is phenomenal. In recent months, they have released several of the "Turnabout" Style stamps but they were all geared to being background stamps. Customers had asked for a smaller version that could be used in a Mini MISTI and they delivered as well as trying out a new type of die in the same Turnabout Style.

The Dahlia Turnabout Bundle is the stamp set and the die in one bundle and because you are buying them together, you get a bit of a discount vs. purchasing them separately. They are each available for purchase separately if you aren't sure about the die. The cool thing about the die is that it works the same way as the stamp, requiring anywhere from 1- 4 rotations depending on the look you want.  For the first card I made, I opted to use just one die cut position to allow my Rose Gold Metallic Cardstock to show through.

For this first time using the stamp, I didn't get my paper lined up perfectly for the stamping, but it is good enough.  I don't say that lightly because I am a perfectionist.  But the petals on a flower wouldn't be all perfectly symmetrical so this is okay. I used Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet and Pure Poppy Inks for this card and some Rose Gold Metallic Card stock that I found at Michael's when I was doing some borders for a wedding album back in the spring.  I bought extra sheets because I had such a hard time finding it. I die cut the "awesome" (a Waffle Flower Die) from the same Rose Gold.  The "You're" is from an older stamp set by Concord & 9th called Being Classy and I stamped it in Versamark on a little angled banner and heat set it with Ranger Copper Metallic Embossing Powder.  That was the first Concord & 9th product I ever bought.  It was the perfect size for this card.

I think you can see where the die cuts from this photo that I took this morning.  It was dark outside when I tried to photograph this card last night so I didn't post a very good picture although I did get one up on Instagram.

Greg from Concord & 9th did a video and so did Jennifer McGuire on how to use the stamp.  When I made my first card, Greg's video was the only one up. Jennifer's went up just as soon as I finished my card. Jennifer highlights a few ways to use this set and shows a few other products as well.

These cards are for a card drive that I am participating in and shows just a few of the many color combinations that you could use.  The colors are listed below in the linked supply list.

After I had made a few of these, I wanted to make a Christmas Card so I grabbed some Jewel Toned Inks and some gold foiled cardstock along with the Believe Stamp and Die Set from Simon Says Stamp and made this lovely card.

One of the rotations of ink is stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with Simon Says Stamp Antique Gold Embossing Powder done twice.  Jennifer McGuire showed this technique a couple of weeks ago and since I love gold, I loved learning it.  It just helps make the embossing pop a lot more and I only did two layers here on the bloom.  The Sentiment was only done once.  It's a little hard to see the gold foiled die cut sentiment, so I popped another view in here for you so you can see that it is there.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I'll be adding this Christmas Card to the Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge #84 and to the Tic Tac Toe Challenge.

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