CAS - Right as Rain

Spellbinders | CAS Anemone Blooms

Hello! Today, I am sharing a CAS friendship card to showcase products in the Spellbinders Anemone Blooms Collection designed by Yana Smakula. I previously shared a card using products from the collection here.

Cut Anemones from Phone Booth cardstock. Tape bloom pieces from the back. (I found that if I only made one pass with the cutting machine and carefully removed the die-cut, I was able to keep the bloom pieces in the frame.)
Cut center pieces from Onyx cardstock with the Anemones die. Insert centers into floral clusters.
Cut outline of Anemones from Snowdrift cardstock and adhere to floral piece.
Glimmer foil sentiment with plate in the Inside Card Glimmer Sentiments set in Opaque Black on a Sea Glass cardstock panel. The messages in the set work on both the front and inside of cards. Trim panel to 4 inches x 5 1/4 inches.
Add assembled anemones to panel and embellish with Silver Mix Gems.

Spellbinders | Advent Calendar Days 12 + 14

Hello! Today, I am sharing card created with the Day 12 and Day 14 surprises – a bird die set and a pair of floral greenery (I used one of the two) – in the Crafty Advent Calendar from Spellbinders. Follow along on the Spellbinders blog for daily inspiration. I also used the solid heart die from Day 8.

Dry-emboss light blue cardstock with the December 2022 embossing folder; trim to 3 7/8-inch square. Add to 4 1/4-inch white cardstock card base.
Cut heart using the Advent Calendar Day 8 die from Vellum.
Glimmer foil the Be Bold sentiment on Snowdrift in Gold; cut with coordinating die.
Cut bird from Snowdrift, Onyx, Brushed Gold, and red cardstock; assemble.
Cut branch from Brushed Gold and Snowdrift cardstock; assemble.
Add heart, bird, branch, and sentiment to card; embellish with Gold Mix Gems.

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Spellbinders | Advent Calendar Day 8

Hello! Today, I am sharing card created with the surprise for Day Eight – a pieced heart die set – in the Crafty Advent Calendar from Spellbinders. Follow along on the Spellbinders blog for daily inspiration.

Use Fluted Classics Squares dies to create card base from Snowdrift cardstock. Card measures almost 4 1/2 inches wide.
Use the December 2022 Embossing Folder to dry-emboss Pomegranate cardstock; cut with die in the Fluted Classics Squares set.
Use the Day Eight Advent Calendar die set to cut heart pieces from Brushed Gold and glitter cardstock. Tape pieces on back and add to heart cut from Vellum.
Glimmer foil in Gold the More Sentiments sentiment and cut with coordinating banner die.
Add heart assembly to card background and embellish with Gold Mix Gems.

Spellbinders | Advent Calendar Day 7

Hello! Today I am sharing card created with the surprise for Day Seven in the Crafty Advent Calendar from Spellbinders. Follow along on the Spellbinders blog for daily inspiration.

Day Seven was a three-piece stencil set with which I made a Christmas card. I used the same design as the one for Day Three.

I applied Slippery When Wet, Later Gator, and Bee Sting Lunar Paste through the stencils to Snowdrift cardstock, allowing dry time between the three applications.
Once the panel was dry, I cut with the tree die in the Blooming Tree set.
I glimmer-foiled in Gold the Mini Christmas Sentiments sentiment on a dark-red cardstock panel.
I cut the foiled panel with the largest Essential Arches die.
I adhered the arch panel to a Snowdrift cardstock A2-size base.
I embellished the tree with a star cut from Brushed Gold with a die in the Holiday Decorations set and the panel with Gold Mix Gems.

Spellbinders | December 2022 Large Die + Embossing Folder – Another Take

Hello! Today, I am sharing another Valentine’s Day/love-themed card created with the Spellbinders December 2022 Large Die “Blooming Heart” and Embossing Folder “Heart Blooms.” I previously shared a card here created with these two items. This design was inspired by the “I Love Lucy” heart, even though it does not look like it!

I created a 5 1/4 inch square card base from Brushed Gold cardstock. I dry-embossed a pearl finish white cardstock with the Embossing Folder, trimmed it, and added it to the base.
I cut the Large Die heart from dark red cardstock and the left floral element from gold glitter foam and Brushed Gold cardstock. The Brushed Gold cardstock nicely shows the die detail. I adhered the Brushed Gold element to the glitter foam piece for depth.
I cut the sentiment from the pearl finish white cardstock.
I added the floral piece and sentiment to the heart, added the heart to the background, and embellished with Gold Mix Gems.