Sketched Blooms 1 - Spellblogger post for Spellbinders

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For my Spellbloggers post this time I've used one of the die sets that really caught my eye when I was browsing through the 1new2 section of the  Spellbinders store!

I loved the Sketched Blooms collection - they are so fresh and cute! So obviously I couldn't resist ordering up a couple of the sets. I'm sharing a simple card made using Sketched Blooms1 today 

Info:
Smooth White card blank, with extra of the same card for the raised panel

Black card to cut the Sketched Blooms 1 and the loopy "hello" sentiment

Red, Orange and Red card torn into rough square shapes to mat the flowers on to.  Scraps of the same card for the tiny punched squares 

Glossy Accents and tiny beads for the flower centres

Here are the details of all the Spellbinders die sets used this time 
 
 Sketched Blooms1 
 Die D-Lites Etched Dies

 Sentiments 5 
Die D-Lites Etched Dies  (loopy hello. just a note) 

Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine
 

Aren't the flowers cute? I can't draw for toffee, so something with a 'hand-drawn" feel about it is a real bonus for my die collection!

Anyway, that's it for this time. Thank you for visiting. 

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April's Elemental Inspiration

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I hope you're well this sunny Friday morning.  Rumour has it that today is going to be the warmest of the year - mind you, it doesn't have to try too hard, does it?  It's a relief to see everything bursting into life again - Spring is really here, I think (she says, fingers crossed and touching wood)

It's the first Friday of April,  and my turn to choose this month's Elemental Inspiration Picture for the Daring Cardmakers Challenge. As usual I struggled with my own challenge, and I'm not entirely happy with the results - it looked different in my head!

I chose to use the gold frame, the overlapping rectangles and the green leafy sprigs as the main trio of elements from the mood board, I've kept vaguely to the colour scheme, and used a bunch of patterned papers.  The sketch-style dandelions in the frame echo the sketched portrait on the board

Here's the mood board - you need to choose at least 3 elements to use when you make your card

Suggestions: sketching, woman, feathers, colours, overlapping rectangles, buttons, metal frames, leaves/sprigs, arrows. triangles, shells, quotations

I started with a cream card blank and chose some lovely digital papers from Grepic for the layers, one of which I resized just a section of to create the candelions for the framed picture

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Cream card blank

Royal Blue card, Dark Green card

Digital paper collection from Grepic via Etsy, resized and printed on textured white card

Gold frame cut using Tonic nested rectangles die set 

A few pearls for the dandelion centres

Leaf dies all from a Small Die of the Month club set by Spellbinders

The gold card I used to cut the frame also came from Spellbinders - it was in one of the fab Card Kit of the Month boxes I bought in one of their sales and is absolutely the best gold card I've ever come across!

That's it for today, thank you for looking - I would lo0ve it if you'd join in and see what you can make using the elements from the picture.  You can see what the team made by clicking HERE

Elegant Blue and Cream - Spellblogger post for Spellbinders

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For my Spellbloggers post this time I've used two die sets from Becca Feeken's beautiful new Elegant 3D Vignettes collection from Spellbinders

What I love about these die sets is bot only how they will blend with other sets but how beautifully they will work in many different projects.

The rosette die comes with three different edging dies.  You just butt your chosen edger up to the rosette die and cut both in one pass.  I've used two of the edges on this card as you can see

Info:
Soft Cream card blank cut into a 'fat' rectangle

Extra cream card for the vertical panel

Cream paper

Blue card

The upper cream panel was adhered first to spare strips of the blue card then on to the card blank

The lower rosette with the zig zag edge was cut in blue card and folded up, fixing with circles to create the rosette

The upper rosette was cut in a lovely cream coloured paper (heavier than text weight), using the fanciest of the edging dies - it is so pretty and lacy!

Before forming this rosette I cut about 1cm off the long edge.

The cream rosette was glued in place using a circle of card between that and the blue one

For the vertical blue strip I used the fancy edging die again, this time just on the two long sides of a strip of blue card

Next the bow pieces were cut and glued together before adding to the rosette.

To complete I used some pearly faux brads in a cream colour

Here are the details of all the Spellbinders die sets used this time 

Tiered Rosettes  Elegant 3D Vignettes by Becca Feeken 

Shapeabilities Etched Dies

 Petite Double Bow and Flowers  Elegant 3D Vignettes by Becca Feeken
Shapeabilities Etched Dies

Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine
 

That's it for this time. Thank you for visiting. 
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