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Spellbinders May 2020 Small Die of the Month – Stacked Decorative Edges

Hello and Happy May! Today I am sharing two CAS “Thank You” cards created with the May Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Stacked Decorative Edges.”

For the first card, I cut Whip Cream cardstock with one of the detailed dies which I refer to as latticework. The detail die does not cut an edge.
I used the Thank You die to cut four frame pieces, twice per panel for extra depth. I trimmed the latticework strip and framed it with the border piece. I repeated this four times.
I used the Thank You die to cut the sentiment, which I framed in the same manner as the latticework strips. The five strips formed a 4 1/4″ square which I added to a 4 1/2″ card base.

On the second card I used one of the set’s edge borders to cut cardstock from six different shades of blue-green. This just happens to be the cardstock color of which I have this many shades.

After cutting the six cardstock colors with the edge border die, I trimmed the panels and adhered them together on a base in the darkest shade.
I cut the Thank You from Whip Cream cardstock and backed it with cardstock in the next-to-darkest shade and adhered it to the card front.

There are dozens of ways to use the dies in the set to create elegant CAS cards.

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Penny Black Wings and Vases

Hello! Today I am sharing a CAS friendship card created with Penny Black supplies.

I stamped the 30-704 Wings and Vases image and colored it with Copic markers and colored pencils.
I cut the image with its corresponding die set.
I stamped the 30-700 Carefree Wishes sentiment on to a white cardstock panel.
I added light blue ink to the panel in the area where the vase of flowers would be placed.
I cut two butterflies from white cardstock using a die in the 51-610 Hydrangea set.
I added the flowers and vase as well as the butterflies to the panel with foam adhesive.
I added the assembly to a dry-embossed cardstock base.

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Spellbinders Sunday Drive

Hello! Today I am delighted to share two cards – wedding and birthday – created with the new Spellbinders Sunday Drive die set and the Hitched add-on die set.

The Sunday Drive set includes the pieces to create the convertible car, as well as balloons, HAPPY letter dies, a package, and a Birthday license plate.

I couldn’t resist creating a red convertible and used primary colors to tie in with the patterned paper.

The Hitched die set works with the Sunday Drive set to create a wedding card. I used the flowers and foliage from the set, along with dies from the April Small Die of the Month set to cut the heart balloons. The set also includes dies to add tin cans to the bumper, which I didn’t use.

I glued strands of floss behind the balloons and tucked the strings in between layers on the car.

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Spellbinders Flourished Fretwork by Becca Feeken

Hello! Today I am sharing two elegant CAS cards created with die sets from the Flourished Fretwork collection by Becca Feeken at Spellbinders.

I created my first card with the Oval Coronet set. The set includes five dies: a small oval (which I didn’t use), an ornate oval overlay, a solid oval of the same size, an ornate base oval, and a base oval of the same size.

I cut the ornate elements from Whip Cream cardstock. I cut the background of the small oval from Robin’s Egg cardstock and the base background from Calypso Coral cardstock. I stamped the sentiment in gold ink in the center of the top oval. I dry-embossed the Petal Pink background with the Inspire embossing folder. I added flowers created with a die in the Floral Tiara Topper set, to which I adhered centers punched with a hole punch from Brush Gold cardstock.

On my second card I used the Richelieu Square set.

The Richelieu Square die set includes six dies: an ornate circle, a circle die of the same size without detail, an ornate square, a square die of the same size without detail, and a 4.4″ square border die, and a square die of the same size. I cut the ornate pieces from Whip Cream cardstock. The background of the circle and large square were cut from Calypso Coral and the smaller rectangle from Robin’s Egg cardstock. I left off a front sentiment to allow the ornate elements speak for themselves.

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Paper Smooches – You Make Me Smile

The Spellbinders Blog Hop post is here.

Hello! I created a CAS card for the current Paper Smooches challenge whose theme is HAPPY.

I used the Polaroid die set and a sentiment from the We Totally Click stamp set. I have had these products for a long time. I use the Polaroid frame frequently, however, I’m not sure I’ve ever used the Polaroid camera.

I originally created a card with just the camera and found it didn’t click (pun intended). I found a photo of my youngest son and my husband that I printed on my computer to fit within the frame. I used a patterned paper from the Authentique Hooray pad as the background.

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