Welcome back friends. Yesterday was a very busy day so although this released yesterday, I’m sharing it today to spread things out a bit.

Spellbinders has a few releases this month that I was lucky enough to get to play with early. The Glimmer Cardfront Sentiments release also has this gorgeous stencil and die combo. I loved creating this card and think making sets of these in color themes would be a wonderful gift to share with someone.

To start, I used an A2 piece of white cardstock and inked up the stencil, step-by-step. It was super easy to follow and has registration marks for each step so you know it’s lined up perfectly. I chose distress oxides today because I wanted to splattered/splotchy look. For my detail layer on the flowers, I also used glitz glitter gel to add sparkle to the flower centers. Once it was dry, I used the coordinating die to cut the florals out.

I spritzed them with water and blotted them dry, then flicked gold watercolor on them as well. While that step was drying, I took a 4×5.25 inch white panel and used the Dazzling Dots embossing folder on it. I popped this panel up on a white card base with foam tape before doing the same with the flowers.

There is a wonderful hello die and shadow that comes in the set as well. I cut the word from glitter foam using the peach in the painted desert pack. I used liquid glue to adhere it to the vellum shadow and then to the flowers.

Isn’t this stencil just beautiful?!? It was so simple to use too!

Products used:
Hello Blooms stencil and dies
Dazzling Dots embossing folder
Distress Oxide Inks – tattered rose, abandoned coral, gathered twigs, bundled sage, dried marigold
Die Cutting Glitter Foam – painted desert
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue
LH Color watercolor – gold

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Welcome everyone! I’m so glad you stopped by. Today I have a card using the newly released Stitched Kaleidoscope Hexi-Gem die set. I this is simple die set is gorgeous and a little addicting to stitch up. I could see making a lot of these in the future. Great to cut ahead, stitch on the go and create cards with later.

I cut the main piece from black cardstock and stitched it with a metallic variegated thread. Then I chose cardstock colors inspired by my thread to fill in the extra border pieces that come in the die set. After the stitching was finished, I adhered the two pieces together with liquid glue and added foam tape to the back.

I stamped a sentiment from an older Spellbinders sentiment set and used the strip die included to cut it out. This is the same teal cardstock I used in the edge of the stitched piece. I like how they tie in together. This is added with a foam strip.

Last, I inked blended salvaged patina, scattered straw and spun sugar distress oxide inks on a white panel and spritzed it with water. After blotting it dry I flicked some black paint on the panel too. I popped this panel up with foam tape before adding my stitched pieces on top.

Have you tried stitching dies before? Do you enjoy them? They are definitely different then typical cross stitch or embroidery but I think they’re fun too.

Products used:
Stitched Kaleidoscope Hexi-Gem dies
Distress Oxide Ink – salvaged patina, scattered straw, spun sugar
Foam tape and squares

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Happy Friday my friends! Today is release day for the Simon Hurley Photosynthesis collection with Spellbinders! I got to play with a few of the products in this release and they are so easy to create with but fun and beautiful too! Today I have two cards featuring the new Daffodil Frame dies and Must-Have Sentiments glimmer plate.

First of all, the new Must-Have Sentiments glimmer plate is one plate that has six sentiments and a coordinating die that cuts them all out at once. It’s fantastic and pure genius! I tried some simple silver foil on black cardstock and beautiful teal on white cardstock and now I have a bunch of sentiments ready to go!

This first card is a shaker but has no bulk. No foam strips or anything. I cut the daffodils from a white A2 cardfront and ink blended it green. Then I used the flower and stem dies to cut coordinating pieces from yellow and green cardstock, adhering them with liquid glue. Then I cut the daffodils and frame from yellow cardstock, trimmed the flowers out so I just had the frame and glued it around the edge.

I created a little glitter pocket using an acetate sleeve I usually put my finished cards in and adhered it on the side of my card. I trimmed the right size window out of a piece of white cardstock and adhered it over the glitter pocket to hide the ugly parts.

Last of all, I added my glimmered sentiment with foam squares and also adhered a few gold baubles around the design.

This daffodil frame is absolutely perfect for a mini slimline card, so I just had to create one my first go-round with it. This time I cut the daffodils and frame from green cardstock and then cut the leaves from a lighter green and flowers from yellow and orange. This time I added a little dimension to the die cut pieces with copic markers.

Next, I trimmed a piece of white cardstock to 2.5×5.5 inches and inked it up with peacock feathers and salvaged patina distress oxide ink. I spritzed the panel with water, blotted it dry and flicked white paint on the panel as well.

Once the panel was dry, I popped it up on a 3×6 mini slimline card base with foam tape. Then I added the daffodils with foam squares too. Last, with a combo of liquid glue and foam squares I added a glimmered sentiment to the bottom right side.

Be sure to check out the whole Photosynthesis collection. It’s beautiful! I will have a few more cards for you using more products in the release very soon!

Products used today:
Daffodil Frame dies
Must-Have Sentiments glimmer plate
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue
White liner tape
Distress Oxide Ink – salvaged patina, peacock feathers
Twiddler’s Nook gold baubles
Pink & Main – super fine glitter

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