Fishtail Banner Die Challenge: Share Your Projects with Us

Hello there!  I'm so excited to be hosting our first blog challenge!  Yay!  It's something I hope to be doing a lot more of in the near future.  The team has been sharing some really fun ways to use the fishtail banner dies this week and now I'd love to see your ideas with them!  

The crowned winner will receive two stamp sets of their choice from our upcoming Christmas release with an invitation to be featured as a special guest on our blog in October!

  

Back when I released the second set of banner dies I shared these sketches on some of the many fun ways to use the dies.  Please feel free to use one of these ideas for the challenge to get your creative juicing flowing (or any other idea you can dream up).

For anyone who is just joining us or who might have recently discovered our company, I thought I would re-share some of the many fun ways that I have used them on past cards...  Clicking on the card image will take you to the original blog post with more details on how they were created and the other stamps used.  :)

I hope you will join me in using the link tool below to link up your Fishtail Banner projects from your blogs or web galleries.   To get things started I have linked a few more projects below that were previously shared on the blog using the dies.  

The only challenge requirements are to use the banner dies somewhere on your project. Mixing other products and brands are welcome and feel free to link as many entries as you would like.  

You have through Friday at Midnight PST on September 18, 2016 to join in the fun.  The winner will be announced by Monday, September 19th.  :)

Fishtail Banners II: Sweet Birthday Wishes Card with Lexa

Hi everyone, Lexa here today with another inspirational idea on how to use your Fishtail Banners II dies. I will pair it up with Sweet Shoppe stamps and coordinating dies to make an extra sweet birthday card.

I used the faux stitched dies on Fishtail Banners II to create some patterns and textures for my background. I lined them up together and did both dies together at one time. I love how it turns out--it adds a pretty texture to my background. The Sweet Word Die was cut four times on a piece of white cardstock and I glued them together.  After that I add a generous amount of Stardust Stickles to add some sparkles. You know glitters are hardly captured on a camera.

I stamped all my images with Versafine black ink on a watercolor paper and colored them all with Distress Markers. And as my sweet tooth I couldn't choose which one should I have for this card, so I put them all together in one card. Hehe. Oh boy, now I'm craving something sweet!

I tried to capture how beautiful the glitter is, and it looks like a sugar coating instead. LOL.

Can you resist all the smiley faces on every sweets? I just can't.

I hope you enjoy today's post. Wishing you a wonderful day.

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Fishtail Banners II Week: Fall Fox Card with Vanessa

Hello friends!  Vanessa here with an autumn card mixing the wonderful Fishtail Banner II dies, Woodsy Creatures, Harvest Happiness and Comfy Creatures.

For my card I used one of the pretty sketches Mendi provided here. First, I die-cut the Fishtail banner from a panel of woodgrain patterned paper and a circle from its center. Then I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment using white embossing powder. Now I stamped the pumpkins, masking the first ones before stamping the next, and colored them with Copics. I backed the circle window of the panel with vellum to tone down my background and adhered the panel to the card. Then I stamped, paper-pieced and colored the fox, die-cut him with the matching dies and adhered him to the card.

I might repeat myself, but it is so fun to combine the various stamp sets to create new, cute creatures! Thank you for visiting today!

Vanessa

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Halloween Cuties & Fishtail Banner Batty For You Card by Lindsey

Hi Lindsey here today sharing a Halloween card using Halloween Cuties and Fishtail Banners. The Fishtail Banners are fun to create with because you can make all kinds of shapes as well as add dot and stitched details to your card as well. Let's get started!

I started with an orange A2 sized piece of orange cardstock for my card base. I used the dot part of the Fishtail Banner to add some dot detail to my background. Next I used the scallop banner to cut a diamond out of gray cardstock. This is what I did my stamping on. I stamped spider webs on each diamond corner. Then I stamped the sentiment, bats, and stars in the center. I colored all of my images with Copic markers. I added a black scalloped diamond behind the stamped panel to help it stand out. 

In order to bring the color scheme together, I created a scalloped black diamond with a scalloped purple diamond in the middle. I then cut the diamond in half and added half of it to the top of the card and half of it to the bottom. To finish the card, I added a few black pearls on the orange panel. That's it!

I hope you enjoyed my card and will continue to check back to the blog for more inspiration. I hope you'll give the Fishtail Banners a try. I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with. Thanks for reading and have a great day!

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Fishtail Banner II: Have a Sweet Day! with Anni

Hey stampers, Anni here!  For this week's card I used one of my all time favorite sets Sweet Shoppe and combined it with the great Fishtail Banners II dies. These are so versatile and useful.

I chose one of the great sketches you can find here.

Sketches are so much fun to use. They are always a fantastic starting point for your project and you can build your idea around them.  I started by stamping all the sweet treats, colored them with Copics and fussy cut them (there are coordinating dies available, too).  I used totally untypical colors for me. Most of the time there is some turquoise on my cards but I tried to step out of my comfort zone.

I searched for some matching patterned paper in my stash and found this really old one. It might be six are seven years old bit I don't think you would recognize if I haven't told you.
I die cut that patterned paper and some off-white colored cardstock with the Fishtail Banner dies. The patterned paper I matted with some darker cardstock for more contrast.
I stamped the sentiment on the cardstock banner and adhered everything onto the card base.  For the little something I added some Glossy Accents to the treats.

Thanks for stopping by and have a sunny week.
Anni

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