Summer is still going full force here in southwestern Pennsylvania, so I had palm trees on the mind when I saw this week's sketch from Splitcoaststampers.
I made this card on my Happy Half Hour Facebook Live this past Thursday, on the fly. You can see the replay here, with this card beginning at 36:10.
![Aloha tropical card timeless tropical, in the tropics dies, stampin' up!, die-cut techniques, tropical, splitcoaststampers, card sketch, challenges, nicole steele, independent stampin' up! demonstrator, pittsburgh pa](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO8yBA2iNgfLtpLXN1oG5A4ZmWTZDI-mKagDVqrOx4f8dQh6WDf8fT7WXZfkVWfvyLnHLzBM1kr7irO4NDhNWCcjh_SqbsNSA7vUKtDCTXwce1J9IyL5YupT6tpqmNxlmegE2Rw7ubqv8/w480-h640/blog+timeless+tropical+die-cutting+shadowing.jpg)
See how the cut palm trees are slightly off-set from where I cut them? That's a technique called Die-Cut Shadowing. I cut the palm trees from the middle of that Flirty Flamingo piece, then cut 2 more palm tree images, making sure one of them was stamped first. I then stack and glue them together to give them more "oomph".
I pulled out some retired product and used the same card sketch and same technique for my second card. The stamp set is Dragonfly Dreams and the dies are Detailed Dragonflies.
![die-cut shadowing technique card dragonfly dreams, stampin' up!, die-cut techniques, tropical, splitcoaststampers, card sketch, challenges, nicole steele, independent stampin' up! demonstrator, pittsburgh pa](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlfqy12ujuWLm5ioIFSCttywL3QG3TSPV-nsZMRBevOz4xsVVZs3tFWFwfabG0Jb45H_MkCVzpIehgqU5eCP3XEUIw3WgEX_t8Jdy6YfL0BivArvi1idUPW66jeTgBqw3JIXV-85RPkJ4/w480-h640/blog+dragonfly+dreams+shadow+die+DTGD+closeup.jpg)
See how they pop off the card? These dragonflies are stacked and glued with a Fine Tip Glue Pen. It really isn't as hard as it seems.
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