A Study in: Quatrefoil (more positive shapes)

If you're new to my blog, you've landed right in the middle of a series of posts focusing on several different ways to use the same die ... Papertrey's Quatrefoil Cover Plate die.

I had a few more ideas for using the positive shapes from the Papertrey Ink Quatrefoil die, and then I'll move on to the negative shapes in a subsequent post.

First up is a card inspired by a sketch from the 6 year anniversary celebration at Papertrey Ink. 

This card uses a bunch of the white quatrefoil shapes attached to a punched circle. To me, it kinda looks like a mum due to all the tiny little knobs you see from the quatrefoils. The center is a furry fiber wound up and attached so the ends stick out. So loving the white, embossed sentiments these days. Especially on gray.

 Next is a "just because" project. I still have a billion some left over shapes and just stuck one on a tag with a button and sentiment from Tiny Treats. Done. When I'm finished with this series I will end up keeping the leftovers in a ziploc bag. Does anyone else do that? I store all leftover shapes for each die in ziplocs. Alphas all get stored in the same bag. It's quite a mix now.

Next is a card for CAS-ual Fridays challenge to be inspired by a song. Thinking about this on the way to my son's preschool, my song became the ever-popular, "Ring Around the Rosie." It actually inspired the white mum card above and the tree card from the last post too.

 One of the moms at the preschool drop-off had a pink bag with navy and green details. Loved it. Totally says "Spring" to me. You may notice that this arrangement is a little different than the white mum card because it uses the odd quatrefoil pieces at the left and right ends of the die. See how the 4th edge doesn't have a bump on it? Before, I threw all those away because they were a deformed quatrefoil shape, but in this case that straight edge works perfectly to define the inside of the wreath shape.

 This last card is inspired by a celebrity card-maker hanging out CASE Study for this whole month. Paper Crafts Go-To-Gal Teri Anderson is the muse and offered this fantastically graphic card for inspiration.

 Here's my take on it. Love the big, overlapping, alphanumeric symbol and repeated text in Teri's card, so I've incorporated both elements here, as well as stayed pretty close to the overall layout. (note: I got the "2" from my bag of leftover numbers, such a time-saver, and I probably wouldn't have thought to use the felt if it wasn't there already.)

You didn't think I forgot the quatrefoils, did you? For shame. Can you see them?

They are used as the interlocking background for "bir-th-day." They nestle quite nicely into each other if you cut a little bit off of each side. Not perfectly, but I rather like that. In this case it works to join the different parts of the word together.

Well, that rounds out the cards made with the positive shapes. Stay tuned for the negative shapes, then the whole darn thing, then 3D shapes. You will be SO TIRED of this die by the end of the month : )

Thanks for looking!
-Kelly


Previous posts in this series: Die within a Die, Positive Shapes