Last week I die-cut washi tape with some basic die shapes, like a heart, or block-style letters. Then I wondered: What about more intricate dies like the detail butterflies you see above?
Well, let’s take a look!
The card you see above uses Hot Off The Press’ Butterfly Cutting Dies. These have layer-able dies—there’s a butterfly silhouette that goes on the bottom, and a detail piece that goes on top.
The detail die is pretty intricate, and yet—they cut through a washi tape layer beautifully!
First, place your tape onto standard-weight cardstock.
Then, place the die on the paper and run it through your die cutting machine.
Then, you can opt to die-cut the silhouette shape from a contrasting solid color—here, I chose black—and layer the two . You’ll notice that one butterfly has the light-colored washi tape at the top of the butterfly wings, and the other one has the light washi tape at the bottom. It’s fun to play around to see which parts of the tape will really show.
And that’s the main difference between using an intricate die, and using a silhouette, like the heart or the letters from last week: With detail dies, you capture just a hint of the tape design.
Here’s another card design—
Look at the black-and-white background pattern—that uses the Fancy Quatrefoil background die from Hot Off The Press, plus the 4″-wide Curators Wings washi tape from 49 and Market. The die looks like this:
The process is the same as before. First, place the tape onto white cardstock.
Then, place the die on top and die-cut.
Note: The die is just a hair shy of being as wide as the 4″-wide tape. So—you can either put down two strips of the tape, or snip the die-cut piece apart to use just a portion.
That’s what I did here—I used scissors to cut a more freeform version of the design, and glued it directly to my card front. Then I added butterflies die-cut from black, white and cream cardstock.
I added a few little gemstones as well—plus a stamped sentiment from Altenew’s Many Thanks stamp set. The sentiment and the butterflies have dimension thanks to foam tape.
Easy-peasy! I love putting my washi tapes to good use—and I hope you’ve been inspired to combine your tape stash with your dies too!
