Hi again! I’m back with another card featuring more of the Spellbinders Four Petal Collection. I am in love with these dies. It’s really fun to cut all the different layers from various colors and build your flower displays. They’re so pretty and you can’t mess it up no matter what colors you choose.

For this card, I went simple but elegant. The greenery is more of a teal than green and my accents are all cut from gold foil cardstock for the flowers too. The flower layers are white which I felt gave me license to have a bolder background color.

After cutting and gluing the floral pieces together, I cut and embossed an orange panel with the Dazzling Dots embossing folder. Once that was embossed, I inked the edges with a darker orange distress oxide ink and splattered the panel with gold watercolor. I glued the florals down and placed and acrylic block on top for a while to help keep things flat on the bumpy background.

While that was drying, I cut the “hello” sentiment using the Thanks Enclosed sentiments die set. The shadow is black cardstock and the top layer of hello is matching gold foil with 3 layers of white cardstock underneath it for dimension. I stamped a sub sentiment from I’ve Got You Covered stamp set and cut it into a strip. The die cut sentiment is attached with liquid glue and the stamped one is popped up with foam strips.

Do you have this amazing die set yet? What color combos have you tried or would you like to try? I’d love to know!

Products used:
Four Petal Reflection dies
Thanks Enclosed Sentiments dies
I’ve Got You Covered stamps
Dazzling Dots embossing folder
Bearly Art liquid glue
Foam strips

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Hello again! I’m stopping by with a quick and eye catching card to share with you featuring Spellbinders Four Petal Scroll hot foil plates. This one simple set makes it incredibly easy to create eye catching cards quick and easy.

With hot foil plates, you can ink your paper before or after you foil, which is awesome and so helpful when you can’t decide what to do. Today I foiled my panel and trimmed it down before using distress oxide inks to blend a purple ombre, fading into the center. Then I foiled the sentiment on black and cut it out with the die that comes in the set.

I popped it up with foam squares and then added black strips to my foiled panel to tie the black in a bit more. I popped the whole panel up on a white card base with foam tape and my card is all finished!

It’s really that easy! Sometimes I can’t believe you can get such stunning results from one set of dies. And changing out the foil you use will give you completely different looks too. It’s wonderful!

Products used today:
Four Petal Scroll glimmer foil plates
Glimmer Foil – spellbound multipack
Distress Oxide Ink – wilted violet, shaded lilac and dusty concord
Foam squares and tape
Liquid glue

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Happy Friday everyone! This month the 10th falls on a Friday which makes it twice as fun when you pair it with the new Spellbinders release!!! Today I’m sharing a card using some of the new Four Petal Collection. These dies are gorgeous and so fun to create with!

I started with light and bright cardstocks and cut all my pieces out using the Four Petal Bloom Reflection die set. Then I used liquid glue to adhere all the layers together. I love how these florals are different so it’s inviting to create different colored flowers on the same grouping.

I also chose a sentiment from the new Thanks Enclosed Sentiments set and cut from one of the floral colors of cardstock so it coordinated. The new sentiment set is incredible!!! It’s so packed full of all the words!

For the background, I used the Plaid embossing folder on black cardstock. To enhance the dimension I lightly inked the edges with white pigment ink before adhering the panel to a white card base. For a little shimmer I splattered pearl watercolor on the panel too.

I adhered the floral pieces with liquid glue but popped the sentiment up with foam squares so it would overlap the florals nicely.

Products used today:
Four Petal Bloom Reflection dies
Thanks Enclosed Sentiment dies
Plaid Company embossing folder
Bearly Art liquid glue
Foam squares
LH Colors watercolor – pearl

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Thanks for stopping by today. I have another fantastic card using of the Spellbinders The Painter’s Garden die sets. Today I’m creating with the Bird of Paradise dies. These were a dream to create with. So fun and easy to create a gorgeous flower!

Today I started with all colored cardstock and used dye inks to give depth and dimension. Once the blending was done, I curved and shaped all the pieces with my fingers and a bone folder. After the flower was glued together I added some extra depth with copic markers where I felt it needed shading, mostly the orange and blue pieces.

I hot foiled the Woven glimmer plate on black cardstock with iridescent foil for a great textured background. Then for the sentiment I pulled out that fantastic die cutting foam again and made a dimensional glittery hello. These dies came from the Showered with Love collection but I loved the simplicity not taking away from the flower.

After everything was assembled, I thought it needed more texture so I placed the card in my splatter box and flicked white paint on it. This absolutely completes the card for me. I couldn’t love it more!

Products used:
Bird of Paradise dies
Woven glimmer hot foil plate
Hot foil – iridescent
Raining Hearts dies
Die Cutting glitter foam
Bearly Art liquid glue
Foam squares and tape

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Welcome friends! Today I’m here to share another card featuring a few different sets from the adorable Showered with Love Spellbinders collection. I just adore this whole collection and have been wanted to put the sweet raincoat and boots on the ducky so I finally did it!

I started my card by playing around with the Duck with Umbrella die set to cut and ink blend all my ducky pieces. I used liquid glue to adhere everything and set her aside. Then I used the Raindrops embossing folder on a piece of white cardstock and ink blended from the top left fading to nothing in the bottom right.

Another thing I picked up recently is the new die cutting glitter foam from Spellbinders. I thought this was the perfect time to pull it out and give it a try. It cut like butter! It’s so perfect and pops right up after it comes out of the die. I love it! After I cut the clouds and rainbow from Rain or Shine I started assembling my card.

The clouds and rainbow are adhered with liquid glue and the duck is popped up with foam squares. Then I chose a sentiment from I’ve Got You Covered and cut it out with a banner die from my stash. I didn’t really want a bold black sentiment so I used the same color as the raindrops and then inked up the bottom of the banner before popping it up with foam squares over part of the ducky’s boots.

I love how this fun card turned out! It’s so sweet and totally got me in the mood for all things spring to craft!

Products used:
Duck with Umbrella dies
Rain or Shine dies
I’ve Got You Covered stamps
Pop-Up Die Cutting Glitter Foam sheets
Foam squares
Liquid glue

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Welcome friends! I’m here today with a card featuring one of the new releases from Spellbinders in The Painter’s Garden release. These dies are stunning and create life-like florals so simply. The design of the dies makes it seamless and simple for you.

Today I am using the Carolina Allspice dies and can’t believe how these flowers just came to life as I colored and worked with each layer.

There is slight embossing on each die that should be cut more than once with a “x2” or “x3” depending how many you’ll need to accomplish the intended look. For this die set, for each stem it suggests you die cut x2 sets of flowers. So I did that from white cardstock to create two stems and coordinating florals.

I did a simple Google search to find out the general color of these flowers and started playing around with copic colors. For the blooms I landed on R59, R37 and R35 with YG03 for the tips of some. I did color both sides of the cardstock because these are 3D and you do see both sides.

For the foliage I used E77 and E74 for the branch and a very odd combo of YG95 and YG03 for a base with G28 for shadows and blended back out with YG95. After it worked for the first leaf I just kept repeating it for both sets. There could very well be an easier combo to accomplish something similar. However, I do find it therapeutic to color die cuts like these where you have no lines to worry about.

The background panel is hot foiled with rose gold foil and the Geometric Diamond plate, then blended color in using the coordinating stencil set and Lawn Fawn dye inks.

I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment from the I’ve Got You Covered stamp set. Then I used the coordinating die to cut it out.

I adhered the foiled background to a card base and added the Carolina Allspice branches with foam squares. I popped the sentiment up the same way and my card is all finished. Isn’t it just beautiful!?! I love the shiny foiling with the 3D florals together. So much visual texture and interest.

Products used today:
Carolina Allspice dies
Geometric Diamond hot foil plate
Layered Geometric Diamond stencils
I’ve Got You Covered stamps and dies
Hot Foil – rose gold
Foam squares
Liquid glue

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Hello again! I’m back with another card featuring the newly release Sprinkled With Love Collection from Spellbinders. Today I have a card using the adorable ducky from Duck With Umbrella. Not only is there a super cute duck but so many fun accessories to use with it!

To start, I took a moment to die cut a bunch of elements from Duck With Umbrella and used my liquid glue to assemble them all. I decided to pop the wing up with a foam square so it gave a little dimension and made it easier to place the umbrella too.

For the background, I foiled the Scattered Dot Pattern hot foil plate with the teal foil in the Spellbound variety pack. Then I took a scrap from the same color and foiled “thinking of you” from Everyday Sentiments II on white cardstock. To assemble my card, I trimmed the background to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up on a white card base. Then I popped the duck and sentiment up with foam squares too.

Isn’t she just the cutest thing!?! I had so much fun cutting and assembling her and can’t wait to create a bunch more duckies with different accessories! It’s going to be so fun!

Products used today:
Duck With Umbrella dies
Scattered Dot Pattern glimmer hot foil plate
Everyday Sentiments II hot foil plates
Glimmer Hot Foil Rolls – Spellbound
Foam squares and tape
Liquid glue

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Hi friends! I’m super excited to share a couple of projects with you featuring today’s Showered With Love release from Spellbinders! This collection is over the top adorable and was so much fun to create with! I have a pair of cards today and will be back with another one later this week.

These Raining Hearts dies pair perfectly with the Umbrella Bloom set and give you so many options to create! Today I used the actual raindrops for my background on both cards but there is also a version with heart shaped rain drops that is too cute!

First up, I used some distress oxide sprays to create a textured background. While that was drying I die cut the pieces for an umbrella and inked them all yellow. After inking I used liquid glue to assemble to pieces together.

I chose white glitter paper for the raindrops and tied it back in as the shadow for my sentiment. The background panel is popped up with foam tape and the umbrella is popped up as well. I glued the handle directly to the card front and popped the sentiment up too. This held the handle in place since I didn’t have foam small enough for the skinny handle.

For my second card, I used a peach cardstock, inked the edges with light orange and splattered it with the orange ink and white paint. I chose a melon cardstock for my umbrella and just inked the back layer with a similar color to give it some dimension and shadow.

This time I used blue cardstock for my raindrops and sentiment shadow. Everything is assembled the same except I glued the sentiment directly to the panel this time. I think both ways look nice.

Be sure to head to Spellbinders and check out the release! There is a sweet little ducky and the florals that go with the Umbrella Bloom I used today are stunning! So much versatility and fun to create with!

Products used today:
Umbrella Bloom dies
Raining Hearts dies
Distress Oxide Sprays – mermaid lagoon and cracked pistachio
Foam tape
Liquid glue

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Hey everyone! I’m super excited to be sharing that I’m guest designing for Spellbinders and their amazing Sealed Collection! If you haven’t tried making your own wax seals, I can’t recommend it enough! Every video I’ve watched and blog I’ve read touts how addicting and fun they are to create. Well, I’m here to confirm that is absolutely true! I have been making bunches of them. It’s so fun to try different colors of wax, mixing and matching, all the things!

I created a trio of cards today following about the same layout but with different backgrounds and extras. I hope you like them and find some inspiration to give this a try!

I started simple by die cutting a few of the Sealed Squiggles from different colors and the Sealed Sprigs too. I mixed and matched berry colors and adhered everything together. Then I started separating them into groups to create cards. I played off the gold glitter paper in the berries to cut the Sealed Twine from as well.

I kept the background simple with some ink blending in an ombre and used the lighter of the inks to stamp a sentiment using Mini Christmas Greetings stamp and die set. I used liquid glue to adhere everything together and topped the twine off with my favorite Christmas Truck wax seal and a mixture of red and gold wax.

Next, using all the same products, I stepped the background up a little by hot foiling the Layered Geometric Diamond plate on dark blue cardstock using Prism hot foil. I cut the foiled background down with a layered rectangle die, adhered all of my elements and popped the panel up with foam tape on a white card base.

For my last card share today, I hot foiled the same background but this time I did it on white cardstock and used the incredible layering stencil set that coordinates to fill in the openings and create a stunning background, full of interest and texture. This card is assembled the same as the one previous with a little dimension adding to the mix too.

I hope you enjoyed these projects and I would really love to know if you’ve jumped in with both feet on wax seal making as well! It’s so much fun. I’ve also started adding them to the back of envelopes too!

Products used today:
Wax Seal Starter Kit
Sending Flowers wax seal stamp
Christmas Truck was seal stamp
Sealed Berry Sprig dies
Sealed Squiggles dies
Geometric Diamond hot foil plate
Geometric Diamond layering stencils
Sealed Twine die
Wax Beads – red and pastel aqua
Mini Christmas Greetings stamps and dies
Glimmer Hot Foil Variety Pack – Spellbound

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