Semicircle Turnabout Stamps & Yay Dies
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Have you seen Concord & 9th’s latest release? We’re excited to have these gorgeous goods IN STOCK NOW! Be sure to check out all of the new designs! Please welcome special guest Greg Cottrell, who has made 3 beautiful samples to inspire you! Read on and enjoy!
Hey everybody, Greg here! Angie made me craft against my will. Kidding! Sort of…for those of you who don’t know, I don’t do the cardmaking at Concord & 9th. (You can thank Robyn for that…our talented Creative Director!) I stepped out of my comfort zone to work with two of the products I designed for our March 9th product release – Semicircle Turnabout stamp set (if you’re not familiar with Turnabout stamps yet, check out our videos on our YouTube channel) and Yay dies. I hope you enjoy!
With my background in product development, I’m always looking for creative ways to solve problems and unique ways to design products. For these cards, I challenged myself to make three cards using one stamped 4.25” x 5.5” panel. That one panel would be all the stamping I would need, then I would create the rest of the cards with card stock and a few embellishments. I thought through how I would break up the panel, and this is what I came up with:
The first card became a shaker card, using the negative space of the circle cutout to fill with sequins. I just layered the “Yay!” die-cut over the shaker element, then adhered the whole panel to a gray card base. This came together extremely fast for a shaker card!
For the second card, I took the fallout of the circle die-cut and cut the “It’s your day!” sentiment out of the circle. Then I used the strip of stamped semicircles to accent the card. Something that may not be as obvious about this card…the coral cardstock was cut out using the label die in Yay dies. I used both sides of the cut to get the arrow shape. Some silver thread, sequins, and charcoal cardstock finished off this card nicely!
The third and final card I created was pieced together with the label die in the set! I cut “Happy together” out of the coral cardstock to create the focal point. Using the last strip of stamped semicircles, I cut it into 4 pieces and layered over some white cardstock and ran it through the Big Shot with the label die. The label shape ended up being the perfect size to piece 4 together up the card front. I like how different this card turned out next to the others!
So, there you have it! Three cards from one 4.25” x 5.5” stamped panel. I’ll admit, it was fun stepping out of my normal role and making some cards. I hope this inspired you and gave you even more ideas for Semicircle Turnabout stamps and Yay dies!
We love seeing what you create so be sure to #concordand9th. We also love working with Simon Says Stamp and really appreciate being highlighted on their blog today!
Take care!
Greg Cottrell
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These cards look
fabulous! Love all
the details and die
cutting.
Carla from Utah
Great cards. Love the colour scheme.
Great cards from these new products and love how you stretched the elements to come up with three cards – very creative !
Great cards today. I love all of the new products you shared with us today.
wow…I really love the graphic design of the cards!
Cristina
thehouseoftheblackbirds.blogspot.it
Your cards are gorgeous, love the graphic design and color combination.
Great Cards!
Love your innovative products!!
Really like seeing your vision &
thought process for the cards, Thanks!
Cute cards – I love the little string detail and that is a gorgeous scripted YAY die!
sweet cards – love the turnabout stamp and word dies
Love the color combo!
For someone that doesn’t make cards they turned out pretty good. I already follow by email.
Clever boy you are.
Great job!! Love the colors on these cards!
I just started using turn about stamps. I love the geometric pattern of this one. I love the soft colors you used to stamp the design.
Great cards and products. The turnabout line is awesome.
Fabulous cards! Great use of a single panel, too.
Great designs using the turnabout stamp.
Yay, for you, Greg! Maybe you should continue your card-making! Great job and great dies!
Very nice! Love the shaker. Id love to try a turnabout stamp. On my wish list!
Love the shaker card! :)
Nice job, Greg. I especially love the third card and how all the label dies snugged in together.
For someone who doesn’t make cards, you did an excellent job! I simply love the turn-out stamps! I think I “may” have all of them (hush, it will be our little secrect!).
Fantastic cards! The turnabout stamp is fabulous. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you stepped out of your comfort zone. Your cards turned out great! Love the shaker card with yay sentiment die.
Super cool cards! I love the turnabout stamp system!
Love these colors together!
The idea of the turnabout stamps is simply brilliant, and I love this new design
Love Concord & 9th Turnabout stamps!
Oooh I love the colours of these cards, and the contemporary designs! The turnabout stamps are so fun! I have one to play with, too! :-)
The turn about stamps are so interesting. I like the “YAY”
I just recently heard about the turnabout stamps — what a cool idea. And then you made 3 cards using just one 1/4-page — awesome!
Fantastic cards! I love the color combo and that they were all made from 1 panel.
You’re a genius creating such unique products & you should make cards more often!
Grwat cards! The turnabout stamps are really neat!
Great reminder that creating an entire background can yield multiple cards. Like the colour combos.
Awesome cards!
Thanks for sharing.
great colors
Terrific cards! Love the colors and the use of the dies — so clever.
The turnabout stamps are genius and it was great to see how you used the one stamped panel for these 3 terrific card designs!
Beautiful cards!!! Great layouts!!!
Love these cards – almost CAS!!! Very creative!
So very clever. Love that.
Great idea – love these cards.
Thanks Greg for stepping out of your usual role–your cards look terrific! Now I need to figure out how to get my hubby to try his hand at card making!
Beautiful cards! Great designs, lovely layout and colours! Should consider making more cards in the future =)
This is a great challenge to stretch your supplies. The results are lovely.
Hi, first it was nice to see a man craft, I don’t think in my 20 yr’s I have seen that. I love the dies you designed, they are awesome and I think you should “step out of your comfort zone” more often, you did an amazing job, your cards are very cool, love all 3 of them, love Concord’s products also. Great post today.
Love your cards. Great job!!!!
Great cards!!
Wonderful cards!!