Trying out Inlaid Die Cutting

Hi, I've made 2 Christmas cards with the inlaid diecutting technique. I've seen some wonderful results on Instagram and decided to give it a go. It was rather fun!

I die cut the sentiments first on both cardstock. Then I stamped the grumplings images with Versa Fine ink and coloured them with my Faber Castell watercolour pencils. I don't use any water or blender liquids at all. I prefer it this way. Next, I watercoloured the words with distress inks. I used 4 recent colours and did not exactly planned where to put the colours. It was random and fun! After all colouring was completed, I adhered everything together on the card bases.

Here are the cards.

I'm entering both cards in the Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #12 and also Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Christmas. 

Products I used for creating both the clean and simple cards are:

Taylored Expressions Stamps Holiday Grumplings

My Favorite Things Die-namics Christmas Greetings

My Favorite Things Stitched Rounded Rectangle STAX

Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

Faber Castell Watercolour Pencils

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads

Tsukineko Versa Fine Onyx Black Ink Pad

Zig Wing of Stella Clear