Hochanda

Good afternoon blog surfers.  Today's post is all about making dies work for us to create our own aperture cards - easily. First of all I used a set of decorative square dies, please follow this link for the dies: decorative square dies Choose your cardstock that's going to be the top layer.  Cut this to the size, and then decide where you wish your aperture to sit.  Play with this, as you are not restricted to where you place your aperture, or indeed how many apertures you decide to have.  Cut this out first. I then embossed it, using one of the Creative Expressions embossing folders - the one I used for my card is called Sparkle Squares, but the one you see here in the picture is Floral Stripes.  Emboss after you have die cut, otherwise you will flatten the embossing: For the lovely embossing folders follow this link: floral stripeEmbossing Folders I love embossing folders.  There's so many ways to use them, and they are so incredib...