Make It Monday #280 - Stamping Outside The Box

Hello friends.  Lexi Daly is up this week for the Make It Monday challenge, and she's showing us a fun and simple technique where you use an image that you place partially outside the box to draw the eye to the image.  Here's what I came up with:

I started by die cutting a rounded rectangle (Gina Marie Designs), and then left the die in place while I blended some Hibiscus Burst and Orange Zest inks over the inside of the rectangle.  Using Polka Dot Basics and Hibiscus Burst ink, I stamped the open circles on my rectangle and then inlaid it back into my 4 x 5 1/4 layer.  My die cut butterfly is from the Life Is Beautiful set, and here's a closer up so you can see the 2 layers of it better:

I used some sparkling embossing powder on the bottom butterfly, along with some light blending of the Hibiscus Burst ink, and then added a vellum layer on top with a few enamel dots.  My sentiment comes from the Choose Joy stamp set...one of my all time FAVORITES!!  Very CAS and I really like the way it turned out!

Edited to add:  Bonnie reminded me that this card would also work for the challenge going on over at the CAS Mix Up Card Challenge for April, where the focus is on inlaid die cutting.  I used inlaid die cutting for my "box", stamping, embossing, and die cutting for my butterfly.

To play along with the CAS Mix Up Challenge, click HERE.

There's still time to play along with this week's Make It Monday Challenge too, so check out Lexi's video and fabulous cards, and then play along right HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by today...I love it when you do!