Cut Sheets, Stamps and Dies I

At last year's Paper Craft Show, many of you purchased sets of cut sheets with coordinating stamps and dies, so I thought I would do some quick tutorials on different ways you can use them. I'm going to be working with the Celebrations set, but these techniques can be done with any of our coordinating product range.

I've cut three sets of the gift images from the cut sheets. As you can see, there are three different colour groups in the pack, which can be used for a variety of occasions. Today I want to show you a simple technique using the brightly coloured images and a couple of pens.

The images from the cut sheets contain no outlines, so you can add some in with a pen. I'm going to use a black, fine line pen to draw lines on the bottom and right hand side of the different sections of the gift below. It will create a kind of cartoon-style shadow.

Now I'm going to use the white pen to draw lines on the top and left-hand side of the different parts of the image... basically, opposite the black lines.

Here's a before and after so you can compare the difference...

And here's how they look on a card!

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