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Happy Hooray Balloons Birthday Card

Hello! Today, I’m excited to share a colorful balloon birthday card created with the Spellbinders BetterPress system. The Happy Hooray Balloons set includes mylar printed registration templates along with plates and banner dies. The registration template makes it possible to easily create a multi-color letterpress design. In addition to the mylar templates, you can also download the registration template (to be printed at home) HERE.

- With the registration template in place, press the balloons, letters, and strings with Tuscan, Strawberry, Hydrangea, and Black ink on an A-2 panel using the Happy Hooray Balloons set. (I removed one of the three shims.) Add to an A-2 card base.
- Separately, create the “Birthday” sentiment portion in Black ink and cut with the banner die in the Happy Hooray Balloons set. Add to the card with foam adhesive.
- Embellish with stars cut from silver glitter foam with a die in the Merry Mug Creations set.

Spellbinders Stitching Friendship

Hello! Today, I am sharing a friendship card featuring a jar holding a miscellany of needlecraft supplies – scissors, a floss card, floss skein, thimble, buttons, needles – created with the Spellbinders April 2024 Large Die of the Month Club Kit, “Pins & Needles Jar.” Create a card for a different occasion by simply changing the sentiment!

- To create the card background, dry-emboss a 5″ x 7″ panel with the Tiny Dots folder. Add to a card base with debossed side face up.
- Cut Large Die of the Month Club Kit pieces from a variety of cardstock colors and patterned paper. Assemble as required.
- Add the assembled jar to the background. Fill with the assembled items.
- BetterPress the Always and Forever sentiment with Cosmic Sky ink on Snowdrift cardstock. Cut with the coordinating die. Add to the card by “pinning” it into the jar cushion.

Spellbinders Flossy Thanks

Hello! Today, I am sharing a thank you card featuring skeins of colorful needlecraft floss and a faux-stitched sentiment, created with the Spellbinders April 2024 Small Die of the Month Club Kit – “Faux Stitched Sentiments & Floss.”

The “Faux Stitched Sentiments & Floss” die set features 9 cutting dies. Please note, the subscription sign-up window will open on the 6th of each month and close on the 27th (once existing club members subscriptions have been processed.) If there is additional inventory remaining, then they will be made available for new subscriptions and will have limited availability.

- Add an A2-size panel of Dot and Stripe patterned paper to card base.
- With dies in the Small Die of the Month Club Kit set, cut floss skeins from cardstock and assemble. Add assembled skeins to card base.
- With a die in the Small Die of the Month Club Kit set, cut faux-stitched sentiment from Onyx, Brushed Gold, and gold glitter foam (for depth). Assemble and add to card front.

Spellbinders Monstrous Birthday Bash

Hello! Today, I am sharing a birthday card created with the Spellbinders Dancin’ Birthday Monster and Birthday Balloons die sets, part of the Monster Birthday Collection. You can see the other cards I created with the collection HERE and HERE.

- Cover A2-size card base with Teal Topaz cardstock.
- BetterPress in black ink the sentiment from the Let’s Celebrate set on Snowdrift cardstock. Cut with the largest die in the Essential Stylish Ovals set.
- Stencil the oval using the On the Dots Stencil with Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste, masking the area around the sentiment. (I wrote a guest post for the Spellbinders blog spotlighting Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste, which you can read HERE.) Once dry, add the stenciled oval to the card base.
- Cut monsters with the Dancin’ Birthday Monster from a variety of cardstock colors and assemble. Cut balloon pieces with the Birthday Balloons set; assemble.
- Add assembled monsters and balloon to card.

Spring-Themed Window Scene

Hello! I am sharing a spring-themed friendship card featuring several Sunny Studio Stamps die sets. This scene captures the essence of the spring season with charming elements like window box flowers and garden tools. The sentiment “You Brighten My Day” encapsulates the joy and warmth this card aims to convey. I recently posted a round-up of spring-themed cards HERE.

- Dry-emboss A2-size Sea Glass cardstock with the Burlap folder. Add to the card base. Cut a strip of green cardstock to represent grass and add to the card base. (Alternatively, you could use a grass die to cut the top of this piece.)
- Cut the window, window box, and shutters from a variety of cardstock colors with the Wonderful Windows die set. Assemble. Back window with yellow cardstock. (I previously used the Wonderful Windows set on a card HERE.)
- Cut flowers, garden pots, and gardening tools with dies in the Spring Garden Dies set from a variety of cardstock colors. Assemble.
- BetterPress the sentiment in Leaf ink with the Always and Forever Press Plate. Cut with coordinating die.
- Add window assembly, sentiment, flowers, pots, and garden tools to the card front, using foam adhesive where appropriate.