I’m having a lot of fun with the Swirly Scribbles thinlits dies as you’ve probably noticed. Piet Mondrian was a dutch painter who was known for what he termed neoplasticism – drawings of vertical and horizontal black lines over a white background with the addition of three primary colours. The Paper Pumpkin alternates that I’ve been making lately using the white die cuts reminded me of Mondrian’s work and I decided to use the same idea using the Swirly Scribbles thinlits dies.

So I started by using the Swirly Scribbles thinlits die to cut out the shape in basic black. Then, since I was on a dapper denim kick, I cut it out with that card stock and then also daffodil delight and real red. I used my two way glue pen to glue the piece of basic black to the thick whisper white and trimmed off the ends with my paper snips. Next I took the cut outs in the three primary colours and added them to the card. I decided to leave a couple blank for a more Mondrian like effect. Then comes a demonstration of why I love photopolymer stamps – not only can you see where you’re placing them, but you can bend them. I took the celebrate stamp from Endless Birthday wishes and bent it to match the curve of the thinlits and stamped it in real red.

I bought these thinlits because I loved the circular scribbles but I’ve barely used those yet because I keep using this shape!

There’s less than a week to go to the new catalogue – and thus less than a week left to get the retiring items from last year’s catalogue. Make sure that you have everything that you need from that one before it’s too late!

See you tomorrow – around 8am when a new challenge at CAS Colour & Sketches is revealed,

Liz