Over the next few days I will be giving out tips on different ways to use your dies.
Tip # 1
USE DIES AS STENCILS
There are two ways to do this. Either directly sponge into or around your die as I have done on the fish card or create a stencil from your die and then sponge with that.

Fish card: To create rings of water, I used the smallest layering oval die and daubered balmy blue around the oval so I had a ring of colour both sides of the die. When I lifted the die off, there was stark white where the die had been, but then I lay down the next size up oval die and repeated the process by lightly daubering garden green ink. This filled in the white space and added extra rings of colour.

Paris card: I made a stencil by diecutting the swirl shape out of window sheet. (A couple of the inside swirls I had to add back in with red sticky tape.) I have used this stencil for several classes now and it is still holding up well!
I used white shimmery embossing paste to press into the stencil. I think it gives a great look to this wintery day card.
The basic card layout minus the swirls came from a card made by UK demonstrator, Mikaela Titheridge.