Hello and welcome to my second Limelight post! I hope you enjoyed my first entry 
This week I’d like to revisit one of my favourite techniques, that I call “out of the box”, which involves having parts of an image sticking out of a die-cut frame. It’s a popular thing among paper crafters, but not everyone knows how to do it.
Firstly, stamp your image (I used the lily flower from the Lily Of Hope set), and choose the Nestabilities die that you would like to go with it.
Mark the parts of the flower that stick out of the frame, with a pencil (I added the red dots digitally for a better view), and remove the die.
Take a pair of sharp scissors, and cut around the excessive bits, watching not to cut out any paper that goes inside the circle. We don’t want unwanted gaps in it Make a cut a little deeper into the circle, wherever your dots are – remember that the die is broader than the actual cutting blade, to allow for embossing.
Take your Nestie and fit back over the image, watching that all the parts that you don’t want to be cut, are flipped over the die.
Secure the Nestie on the paper, run through your die-cutting machine, and voila! You should get something like this:
Here’s what I designed with my “out of the box” Lily. I added the sentiment from Tag Lines, and coloured the flower with Copics.
Thank you for joining me today, and I hope you’ll stop by again next week!
~Iwona (Chupa)
Great tutorial!! I have wanted to try this but wasn’t sure how to go about it. Thank you for sharing!
This is a great tutorial and the finished card is FAB! Thank you for being our Limelight Designer this month.
Jan Marie
Beautiful your colorig is wonderful. Great tutorial on how to take it out of the box.
Gorgeous!
Stunning Chupa! Your coloring is amazing!
Wow Very Cool!!
This is gorgeous!! and Wonderful tutorial !! I love the colors you chose!! and your color is awesome!!!
Fantastic tutorial Chpa – thanks so much! I have never tried this technique before (much admired, but never tried!!)
Can’t wait to give it a go now that I’ve seen your stunning card, Rx
Gorgeous flower, layout and coloring! Love how you used all your dies, very inspiring card!
Gorgeous flower, layout and coloring! Love how you used all your dies, very inspiring card!
Absolutely beautiful Chupa. I love this technique and have used it before. I think I need to do it again. Thanks for the inspiration.
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Thanks for the tutorial…I haven’t actually tried it before. This helps! Your card is gorgeous.
Thank you so much for this turotial. I have always wondered how to get the cut-out parts separate from the die. : ) Now I can do it!
Sue C
gorgeous! I always love this technique…you rocked it!
An absolute beauty! Love the colors & design & details! The out of the box adds so much class!
Your card is so pretty!! Thanks for showing us this technique. I love the colors you used on your lily and your bg.
Gorgeous card, Chupa!
Hugs and smiles
LOVE LOVE LOVE this Chupa!!! I have always wondered how to do this and now I can give it a try!!!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It surly does help when you publish these tutorials so that we know how to create these beautiful cards…..
Absolutely Stunning Iwona and what a fabulous tutorial!!!!