CAS - Right as Rain

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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Spellbinders April Clubs Blog Hop

Hello! Today, I am delighted to be participating in a blog hop along with other crafters sharing projects created with the various Spellbinders April 2020 Club Subscriptions. You should have reached me from the blog of Ilina Crouse. For the hop, I created three cards with the April Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Special Celebrations.”

Spellbinders is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 3 lucky blog readers, selected from the comments on the Spellbinders blog. Hop along for additional chances to win. Giveaway closes Sunday, April 26, 11:59 pm EDT. The winner will be announced in the Spellbinders blog hop post the following Tuesday. The winner is responsible for shipping cost, duties, and taxes. Please note, the gift certificate cannot be applied to Club Subscriptions; it can be applied to shop past Club products, Club extras, and regular releases.

Additionally, I will be drawing a winner to receive a $25 gift certificate from the comments on my blog. Deadline is Friday, April 24 at 11:59pm EDT. The winner is responsible for shipping cost, duties, and taxes.

I used the April Small Die of the Month kit to create cards to celebrate an anniversary, Christmas, and an engagement.

The April Small Die of the Month set is designed to work with the Trucking Through the Seasons set; the dies can also be used on their own. You can see additional cards I created with the kit here.

For the anniversary card, I created the sentiment using the “Forever” license plate. I added heart balloons and a heart cut from patterned paper for the background.

The balloons were tethered with strings from the Sunday Drive Hitched set.

On the Christmas card, I used the “Happy” ornament overlay and “Holidays” license plate included in the Small Die of the Month set.

I cut two additional ornaments, leaving them plain, and “tied” the three ornaments together with twine.

For the engagement congratulations, I cut a license plate using the Truckin Through the Seasons set and cut the ring and heart balloons using the April Small Die of the Month set. I tied gold twine to the balloons, pulled the twine through the ring, and adhered the ends under the license plate.

To add texture and visual interest, I dry-embossed the background with the Inspire embossing folder.

Now it’s time to head to the blog of Alicia Havranek.

Blog Hop Participants:
Spellbinders Blog
Yana Smakula
Nichol Spohr
Tina Smith
Desiree Kuemmerle
Jennifer Snyder
Laurie Willison
Bibi Cameron
Kathy Clement
Jill Hilliard
Ilina Crouse
Jean Manis
Alicia Havranek
Hussena Calcuttawala
Joy Baldwin
Marie Heiderscheit
Zsoka Marko
Dina Kowal

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