Talking in Circles

Last month I purchased the Talking in Circles cardmaking kit from Taylored Expressions. The kit included dies to cut circles, half circles, and quarter circles, as well as preprinted card stock "maps" in A2 and mini slim card sizes. You can glue the die-cut pieces directly on the maps so you don't have to worry about getting everything perfectly aligned. Yay! When I sat down to play with the kit I had fun cutting a bunch of pieces from card stock scraps and creating several cards.

If you look at just the arrangement of the die-cut pieces on these two cards, without paying attention to the colors, you'll notice that they have the same layout. Using different colors of card stock creates totally different patterns!

These two cards also have the same layout, but for the card on the left the circles are composed of quarter-circle pieces. For the card on the right I didn't glue the circles onto the map because I wanted to have them on a different color background. I did use the map to lay them out, then I picked up the circles with Press and Seal, applied glue to the backs and adhered them to the gray card base.

I also tried making a few mini slim cards. For the card on the top, I die cut the word "celebrate" out of the middle of the glitter card stock that's layered behind the main panel. I drew a border around the focal layer on the bottom card because it seemed like it needed a little "something."

For my last two cards I decided to make something other than birthday cards. I want to try to send more cards "just because," and I think these fit the bill nicely.

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