You've been hearing a lot of talk from me about making card elements. Today, I am going to show you how to do that. Let's start with die cutting. First of all, you will have to cut your pieces out. All four of the dies I am using are from Papertrey Ink and they all have coordinating stamp sets. I like to think I am being very efficient when I am cutting out my mat stacks. As you can see, I use four dies at a time. I even double up my paper.
So with each cycle through the Big Shot, I get 8 pieces cut. Not bad! Next up, I stamp the card elements using various stamps and colors. This takes awhile and I do mess up one or two every now and again. I find that the more you stamp the image, the better you get at the placement. Once I have the 
mat stacks all stamped out, I package them (this is how I store them) in clear plastic sleeves. They are all set to use on a card. I usually do the cutting and stamping on the same day. I do a ton of them.
The fun part comes when you go to use all of your card elements. I have already showed you how I make "Lana Cuts"
backgrounds. I have a box full of these sorted by brands of paper. So usually I start with picking my background piece. Then I grab a card element that I like for the layout of the background. Finally, I chose an image. This particular one is a digital image by Pure Innocence. I color in my image with my Copic markers to coordinate with my papers. Once I am done, I cut out my image and 
pop it up with some foam tape on the mat stack. I usually will add ribbons, and buttons at this time. The whole card just comes together so easily when you make them this way.
I have been using different images on these cards, but so far I am loving the digital images by Sweet & Sassy (Cocoa) and the Pure Innocence images. I like being able to play with the size before I print them so they will fit my card perfectly!
I hope you have enjoyed my little card elements class! LOL! Happy Sunday!
