Split circles

 If you ever use Pinterest, you'll know what it's like when you take a closer look at a pin and the next time you visit your home page is packed with similar ones. Well, this happened to me a couple of days ago and now my feed is full of cards made by stacking die cuts made with nesting dies. So I had to get it out of my system by making my own take on the idea. 

As you can imagine, it's a perfect way of using up snippets! I chose a selection of orange and green card snippets, cut then with stitched circle dies, stuck the layers together keeping one spot on the perimeter of each aligned, then cut the whole stack in half. 

Next I took a snippet of black, dusted it with an anti static pad and stamped the sentiment with clear embossing ink then embossed it with opaque white powder. 

I cut the stack of circles in half across the common diameter and arranged the two halves either side  of the sentiment strip, offsetting them by half the diameter of the largest circle. 

I've seen lots of variations on this theme, some keeping the circle intact, some stacking them centrally, some cutting the individual circles in half before stacking them then working so that one side is stacked to the left and one to the right, then lined up so the smallest circle matches up again (this creates a lovely wave like effect, I must try it, perhaps all in shades of blue). And of course the same thing done using other shapes such as squares and hexagons. So if you are looking to clear out your snippets box, you could make a whole set of these! 

I am sharing this with 

Pixie's Snippets Playground - challenge 397 

A Place to Start - Pick a Shape 

A Bit More Time to Craft Extra - Anything goes  

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