cardmaking - Right as Rain

Spellbinders | Simon’s Space Adventure

Hello! I’m thrilled to be a guest on the Spellbinders blog sharing space-themed cards created with Simon’s Space Adventure Collection at Spellbinders. I would be delighted for you to take a look and leave a comment!

I previously shared a birthday card created with products in the collection HERE.

Now through January 26, 2025, Spellbinders is having a Paper Party Sale.

Spellbinders | Bougie Birthday Collection

Hello! I’m thrilled to be a guest on the Spellbinders blog sharing three cards created with the Bougie Birthday Collection by Nina Boettcher at Spellbinders. Whether it is a birthday, anniversary, or another special occasion, the collection has supplies with which to create stylish cards. I hope you will take a look and leave me a comment!

Now through January 26, 2025, Spellbinders is having a Paper Party Sale.

Spellbinders Die-cut Still Life Scene

Hello! Today I’m sharing a card on which I’ve brought together several die sets to design a timeless still life scene featuring vases filled with greenery and cheerful daisies. The die-cut sentiment, “bloom,” adds a sweet and simple finishing touch to the design. This card showcases how mixing and matching products can inspire entirely new designs.

- Dry-emboss light-yellow cardstock with the Tiny Dots folder. Add to an A2-size card base. Add a strip of gray cardstock (SU Gray Granite) 1 1/4″ tall (by 5 1/2″ wide) to the base to represent the ground.
- Cut the Ceramic Vases from three cardstock colors.
- With dies in the Floral Stems set, cut the daisies from textured white cardstock, yellow cardstock (SU Daffodil Delight) and white glitter foam (glitter side down). Cut additional greenery with dies in the Autumn Sealed Sprigs set.
- Cut sentiment from white cardstock and white glitter foam (glitter side down) with a die in the Fresh Picked Sentiments set. Adhere.
- Add vases with greenery and flowers to the card base with dot adhesive and foam squares. Add sentiment with glue.

Pond-Themed Stencil Card | Waffle Flower

Hello! Dive into the tranquility of nature with a pond-themed card created with the Waffle Flower The Pond stencil, part of their postage collage line. The layering stencil design brings the scene to life and a preprinted punny sentiment adds the perfect finishing touch.

As I worked with the Waffle Flower stencil, I found myself fully immersed in the creative flow—layering colors and details became a meditative process.

- Dry-emboss yellow cardstock panel (SU Daffodil Delight) with the Penny Black Texture folder; add to an A2-sized card base.
- Cut white cardstock with the Postage Collage Die before stenciling The Pond. On my first foray into the Waffle Flower postage collage line, I stenciled first and then cut. Cutting first is the better approach!
- Optionally, back the stenciled panel with white cardstock. Stamp the postage elements with the Postage Collage stamps set with Archival black ink.
- Add the Hoppy sentiment with foam adhesive to the center of the panel. The subsentiments are preprinted. I used Black Soot ink around the edges to cover the white of the cardstock for a polished look.
- Add the panel to the card base with foam adhesive.

Distress Ink colors: Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon, Squeezed Lemonade, Lost Shadow, Black Soot, Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness, Kitsch Flamingo, Carved Pumpkin, Crackling Campfire

Out-of-This-World Alien Birthday Card

Hello! Today, I am sharing a birthday card that’s truly out of this world! Using Spellbinders products, I created a playful scene featuring a UFO and an alien with balloons.

- Dry-emboss an A2-size Blue Jay cardstock panel with the Stargazer folder. Attach to a card base.
- Cut UFO and aliens with the UFO Friend die set, which is one of several sets in Simon’s Space Adventure Collection. Assemble.
- Cut the balloons with dies in the Birthday Bliss set. Assemble.
- Press the Let’s Celebrate sentiment on to a yellow cardstock panel. With the UFO beam die in the UFO Friend set, cut the beam from scratch paper. Using the negative of the beam piece, draw the longer beam on to the sentiment panel. Use scissors or a paper cutter to cut the longer beam.
- Attach the sentiment beam under the assembled UFO. Add elements to the card base with glue and foam squares.