I know sometimes you can look at a die and think, it's pretty, but it only does one thing so it doesn't deserve a place in your stash. Being very short on space in my personal storage space I have the same conversations with myself - but the Patterns Peacock Inlay Die from the recent Concord and 9th was a must have for me. Not only do I love peacock feathers (the colour scheme is very me!) but I could see lots of possibilities to use it in different ways.
So today I have 3 very different cards to share using just the one die with 5 different shades of card.
First off - I die cut the main die once each from sapphire glitter (altenew), starfruit, seaglass and peacock all from Concord and 9th card stock. Popped all the pieces out into colour and shape groups and then I could play (I love doing this sort of crafting in the winter when I don't want to be upstairs in the craftroom of an evening - I do all my die cutting quickly then dump it into a little tin I keep for die cut bits, and take it downstairs so I can sit and craft in the warm whilst we watch TV after dinner) I also die cut the smallest teardrop shapes which come as a separate strip from both matt gold and sapphire glitter.
For the first card - I went pretty much with the standard layout - starting with the frame in navy glitter, infilling the central areas with starfruit, seaglass and glued them in place, adding a navy glitter teardrop layer on top. I wanted this card to be extra sparkly so I added a Ombre Glitter Drop in Sparkle and Shine colour (these drops are my latest obession!) on top of each navy teardrop (missing two in the middle where my sentiment was going) The sentiment was created with an alphabet die to spell out sparkly in gold mirri card and the rest of the sentiment comes form Warm and Cozy stamp from The Greetery. I love to mix and match sentiments like this so you can emphasise a word. It also means you can say exactly what you want to say too!
The second card shows how you can ditch the idea of this die needing to fill a whole card front. On this one I made just one bold border strip down the side by mixing the 3 blue toned feathers and adding some matt gold centres on top, overlapping them down the card to make a full border. Finished with a sentiment from Waffle Flower Crafts Sweet Lattice Sentiments (my go to sentiment set for many, many cards - it never leaves my craft desk!) and a few more ombre glitter drops - this time in starry sky colour. Quick, easy and very CAS if the full on background is too OTT for your taste.
You could take this one further, use the feather shapes to make a wreath shape on a square card, spell out a name in feathers on a banner, create a central element from four feathers - just play with the shapes til you get a pattern you like
Finally - I had the 3 other colours of "frame" sat on the desk and I really like the colour combo and the pattern - it was giving me 70s wallpaper vibes so I decided it would be fun to make a card just with those. I started with more of the navy glitter card (love it!) and then added the starfruit on top. Next I offset the peacock so a third of each "loop" was overhanging on the right, glued it in place, trimmed off the excess and glued those on the left so the pattern was "full". I repeated that with the seaglass overhanging on the left and filling in on the right (you could skip that step if you don't like that you can see the seams, but you'd have a slightly narrower panel that wouldn't fill a full card front. I really love the pattern it creates and thought it would work well for those often tricky masculine birthdays so I just opted for a simple sentiment using the new Mini Sentiments Embossing Folder from Altenew which gives a lovely Dymo label style strip - just cut from matt gold card.
I really hope this has given you some ideas on how to get the most from your coverplate dies - share your ideas with us on socials - tag us with #madewithsevenhills
Tara
