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Spellbinders May Clubs Blog Hop

Hello! Today, I am delighted to be participating in a blog hop along with other papercrafters sharing projects created with the Spellbinders May 2020 Club Subscriptions. You should have reached me from the blog of Jennifer Snyder. (The entire list of participants is listed at the end of my post.) For the hop, I created a card with the May Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Stacked Decorative Edges.”

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, May 31, 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 from the comments on my blog to receive a $25 gift certificate. Deadline is Friday, May 29 at 11:59pm EDT. The winner is responsible for shipping cost, duties, and taxes.

To create my CAS card, I used two of the dies in the May Small Die of the Month set to cut detailed borders. The dies can be lined up together and cut simultaneously in a variety of combinations. I cut the borders from three different cardstock colors.
I lined the backs of the die-cut borders with Whip Cream cardstock.
I heat-embossed the sentiment in silver on to Whip Cream cardstock.

I added the Butterfly Frame die-cut, cut three times for additional dimension, to the top of the card as a focal point.
I assembled the card by adhering the panels on to a card base, starting with the bottom layer first.
At the point where the white panel meets the pink detailed border, I added a thin strip of Whip Cream cardstock.

Looking for more inspiration with the Stacked Decorative Edges? I shared two CAS cards using the May Small Die of the Month kit in this post.

Head next to the blog of Virginia Lu.

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Blog Hop List:
Spellbinders Blog
Yana Smakula
Nichol Spohr
Tina Smith
Desiree Kuemmerle
Kathy Clement
Bibi Cameron
Jackie Pasko
Marie Heiderscheit
Jill Hilliard
Carrie Rhoades
Hussena Calcuttawala
Jennifer Snyder
Jean Manis
Virginia Lu
Jeanne Jachna
Ilina Crouse

Spellbinders Botanical Greenhouse

Hello! Today I am sharing two cards featuring the Spellbinders Botanical House die set. This is a fun set that can be used for a variety of occasions and/or messages, specifically uplifting ones! I think of greenhouses as a place where positive things are made possible, and right now, I’m all about focusing on the positive.

I used the same design recipe for both cards: patterned paper background, sentiment stamped on a rectangle, with the greenhouse as the focal point.

On the first card, I cut the greenhouse from gold cardstock.
I used the negative shape to cut out a piece of Whip Cream cardstock.
I cut the foliage pieces from two cardstock colors to coordinate with the patterned paper background.
I heat-embossed the sentiment on to a rectangular piece of cardstock.
I partially glued the greenhouse to the white background, placed the foliage inside the greenhouse, adhered the foliage, and adhered the rest of the greenhouse.
I added the assembled greenhouse and sentiment to the card base.

On the second card, I followed the same formula changing the colors and sentiment. Additionally, I added flowers cut with a flower die in the Hitched set to add punch and to coordinate with the background paper.

Hope you have an uplifting day!

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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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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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