Happy Holiday Train Slimline card

I am not really one for slimline cards, however I felt it necessary in order to create this card.  I wanted to use the train die set that came with the Spellbinders All Aboard Limited Edition Christmas 2021 kit   

This card was so much fun to create!  I started by creating my background.  I cut a round mask from the Gina K  Masking Magic Sheets and placed it where I wanted the moon to be.  Then using a domed blender, and Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire, and Salty Ocean distress inks,, I blended a lovely night sky.  I then removed the masking paper to reveal a bright white moon.  Next I cut some white glitter paper to create a snowy affect on the ground.  I stamped the sign post onto X-press it Blending Cardstock using the Simon Says Stamp Christmas Cheer Stamp Set.  It was colored with copic markers, fussy cut and adhered to the card.  

Next I used the Spellbinders Die of the Month APG for Nov18 which has unfortunately retired, but I had it in my stash.  Hopefully you have something similar that you could use.  I cut it from black cardstock and adhered it across the moon as shown in the picture. 

The "Happy Holidays" was stamped  using clear pigment ink and the Stamp Simply Floral Cluster Winter Poinsettia stamp set, then heat embossed with white embossing powder. 

I then used the train die from the All Aboard Christmas set and cut out all the pieces from various colors of cardstock.  I assembled the train and popped it up on the card using foam squares.  I wanted my train to look a little bit more Christmassy, so I stamped some  holly and berries from the Doodle Stamps Christmas Magic Stamp set onto  X-press it Blending Cardstock and colored them with my copic markers, They were then fussy cut and adhered to my train as shown in the photo.  

All and all, I love this train die set.  It  has a ton of pieces, but is worth it once all put together.  You will be seeing more of this train die set in future cards I  am sure!  

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What a Happy Accident!

 I was playing and practicing with my new Glimmer Hot foil system trying to line up my Fanfare Glimmer Plate  using Gold Foil and red cardstock.  I was trying to  line up the fanfare plate to create a background. Well needless to say, I made an error and didn't get the result I was going for.  So on to plan B. 

 I cut off the mistake and thought I hated to waist the good part of this card.   So on to create yet another birthday card.   So I used the Birthday Hugs and Wishes Glimmer plate and again used gold foil.  Then I decided to use my new Guilded Nested Rectangle Glimmer plate.  I chose the one that fit around the sentiment and again using gold foil, foiled it onto the red paper.  

I then cut the red foiled, paper to 3.75 x 5" and wrapped  a gold ribbon from my stash around the center of the card between to two foiled areas.  This was then mounted onto a piece of brushed gold cardstock measuring 4 x 5.25.  I then placed them onto a shite card base and added a gold bow on the ribbon band.  

Then as a final detail, I decided to add gold pearls to each of the fans in the fanfare foiled area.  I am so happy to have been able to save this piece.  I think this turned out to be quite the fancy birthday card.  

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Floral Edged Happy Birthday Card

 I am finding that with more use and practice I am getting better results from my glimmer hot foil system and it's plates.  I purchased this Curved Glimmer Border and when I received it I noticed it was a Glimmer Kit of the Month.  Well I subscribe to the Large and Small dies of the month, so I went thru my collection and low and behold, I had the matching die set, LDOM-APR21 Universal Curved Border Set.  Well I decided right away these must be used together!

I started off by cutting a piece of white cardstock 5.25 x 4 inches.  I then die cut the floral edge along the bottom of this piece. .  Next I foiled the sentiment and floral outline border above the die cut so that the curves were even.  I used  Blush Foil for this step.  

I proceeded to die cut some of the separate leaves and flowers from the border set in different colors of cardstock and gluing them on top of the matching flowers on the border.  For the leaves in the boarder, I simply cut another border from green paper and cut out the leaves and branch and glued them on top of the cut border.  I then felt it needed something extra, so I cut out an extra medium sized flower and placed it above the word  "Birthday" on the card.  This finished piece was then adhered, centered, on top of a white base card.  Pearls were then placed in the center of each flower for the finishing touch!

This particular card was difficult to photograph with all the foiled areas.  Here is another photo showing off the glimmered foil better. 

I really like the contrast between the colored flowers and the foiled flowers and sentiment.  

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Glimmer Hot Foil Thank You Card

 Today I received a couple of the Spellbinders Hot Foil Glimmer Plates I ordered.   So of course I had to have a go at creating with them.  This is what I came up with.  

I started out with a white base card.  I then took my new Spellbinders Glimmering Peony plate and gold foil  and foiled it onto a sheet of white cardstock.  I allowed this to cool and then colored the image with copic markers.  The colors I used were R85, R83, and R81 for the pink flowers, YG67, YG63, YG03 for the leaves, and finally B00 for the shadow.  

A piece of pink cardstock was then cut using the Scalloped Stitched Rectangles from Cratin Desert Divas which has gone out of business, but I had it in my stash.  If you have it great!  If, not you could use something similar.  I adhered the frame to my foiled and colored image and then attached to base card. 

Next I foiled the sentiment from the Spellbinders Elegant Occasions Sentiments plate onto white paper.  It was cut out using the coordinating die from the same set.  These sentiments are so beautiful!  I am so glad I decided to purchase them.  

 This was then popped up using foam squares and attached to the lower front of the card.  I then added some gold pearls as the final embellishment.  The two  machines I used to create this card were the Spellbinders Hot Foil Glimmer System and the Platinum 6 die cutting machine., but the hot foil system is compatible with several other brands of die cutting machines.  NOTE:  HOT FOIL SYSTEM DOES NOT WORK WITH THE GEMINI OR GEMINI JR.

I hope your enjoy this card.  I feel that the Hot Foil Glimmer System has opened up my creative possibilities and you will see more foiled cards from me in the future. 

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Merry Christmas Wreath Card

 This is another card made by combing stamps and dies from different companies.  This card features items from both Spellbinders and Honey Bee Stamps.

To create this card, I first started with a white base card.  I then took papers from the Christmas Traditions Paper Pack.  (the green print and the foiled polka dots.) I used the green print and cut it to 5.25 x 4 inches and centered it onto the base card.  I then took the polka dot paper and cut it to 5 x 3.75" and centered it on top of the green.  

The wreath was cut with two different light green cardstocks using the Honey Bee Stamps Grapevine Wreath Die..  The pieces were staggered and then glued onto the card.  Next the poinsettias and pine cones were cut using the Spellbinders Christmas Blooms die set in the colors shown.  They were arranged and adhered to the bottom of the wreath.  The bow from the Grapevine Wreath Die, was cut from brushed gold paper and attached to the top of the wreath.   The sentiment was stamped in the center of the wreath using the Spellbinders Christmas Sentiments stamp set using black ink.

I then felt that the card needed something else.  I had a scrap of Simon Says Holographic paper left over from a different project.  This piece measured approx. .25 inches high and 3.75 inches across and had been embossed.  I am so glad I kept it!  It added a little more bling to this card.  It was then attached to a strip of the green paper used for the first mat and adhered across the bottom section of the card.  

All and all I think it turned out pretty good.  I hope you like it!

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Stamps of Life Christmas Wreath Card

 Today I am playing with my Stamps of Life, Stamp and die of the month, Hollywreath2.  Which can also be purchased separately (not as a subscription) if that is what you prefer.  

To create this card, I started by stamping the wreath and bow onto X-press it Blending Cardstock using versa fine Claire, Nocturne ink.  Both images were then colored using my copic markers.  

They were then cut out using the coordinating dies.  I used a piece of red paper cut to 4 x 5.25 inches to form a red boarder around the front of the card.  Next I found this awesome print paper in my stash and cut it to 3.75 x 5 inches and adhered to the red leaving a small boarder around the outside.  Next I glued the wreath using liquid glue and popped up the bow with foam squares.  

The word "Joy" was stamped on white paper using clear pigment ink.  It was then heat embossed using gold embossing powder.    It was cut to a square shape and also popped up using foam squares.  

Finally I added some gold pearls as an embellishment.  I hope you enjoyed this card!  I love how thee colors go so well together to create this striking Christmas Card.

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Playing with Glimmer Hot Foil Machine

 Today I decided to play with my Glimmer Hot Foil machine from Spellbinders.  Since I only have the two plates that came with it (waiting for others to arrive)  I decided to try something different. 

I started by using green foil  on black cardstock.  This performed pretty well, so I decided to turn in into a Christmas Card.  

I trimmed the black cardstock to 5.25 x 4 inches.  I then cut out some of the poinsettias, pine cones and greenery from the Christmas Blooms die set .  This was arranged and glued at the top of the oval.  I wanted an ornament in the center, however I didn't know where I would put a sentiment.  I searched thru my box of Christmas stamps and dies and came across this particular one - Deck the Halls - which had both features I wanted.   This was die cut from gold cardstock and placed just under the floral arrangement so that it appeared to be hanging from that.  Then I added a twine bow and gold drops for the center of the poinsettias.

I like how it turned out, but wish I had done it  on white paper instead.  Oh, well, maybe next time!

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Shopping Cart with Baking Goods

 I have had such an overwhelming response to this particular card!  I have had so many of you wanting to know where I got the items to make and fill my cart.  So I decided to create this post to list all the items used.  

Shopping cart itself 

Carton of Milk

 Flour, Rolling Pin, Butter, and spoon

 Oven Mitt and Whisk

Mixer, Spatula, Measuring Spoons, and timer

I also used x-press it cardstock (which I use exclusively for copic coloring)  All the baking elements were fussy cut.  

I hope this answers all your questions about this card.  If not, please feel free to contact me or add a comment to this post.  

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Wishing You Peace and Joy

Today I am showing off a more traditional Christmas card using the new Spellbinders Three Kings stamp set.   

For this card, I decided to create a slim line card.  I started with a white base card (finished card measures 9 x 4).  I then cut another piece of white cardstock slightly smaller so that I would have a white frame around it.  Using Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, and Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks, I ink blended a beautiful night sky onto the white piece.  I started at the top with the darkest color ink and blended down to the lightest color on the bottom.  I then cut a piece of tan cardstock the length of this piece and inked it with Tea Dye Distress Ink, to make it resemble the sandy desert.  It was then glued across the bottom of this piece.  Next I stamped the images from the Three Kings stamp set onto the blue background using Versa Fine Clair Nocturne ink.  

Using the star from the same set and the sentiment from the Spellbinders Christmas Time Sentiments stamp set, I stamped them both with clear pigment  ink.  Then I dusted and heat set them with white embossing powder.  Then I adhered this panel to the base card.  

I really like how the background stands out behind the black inked images and the white embossing just pops!  I hope you like this card and will take a moment to check out all the wonderful products available at Spellbinders.

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Thru the Woods Christmas Card

Today I am featuring a card using the new Spellbinders Thru the Woods die set from  the Christmas Traditions Collection .

To create this card I started with a white base card.  To that I added two mats, one red, and the other this pretty gold and white paper from the Christmas Traditions Paper Pack  also from the Christmas Traditions Collection.  

The ornament was cut from Brushed Gold cardstock   The inside elements were cut from various cardstock I have had in my stash.  The snow was cut using white glitter paper, The truck was cut using the same red and the matting with yellow tail lights.  The bumber is mirrored silver and of course, The tires are black.  The trees were cut from two different colors of green and the sky is a light blue.  

The poinsettia cluster above the ornament was created using the Christmas Blooms die set from the Tis the Season Collection.   I used several different color scraps to create this topper.  As you can see, I used the same red, greens, and yellow  that I used elsewhere on the card.  The pine cone was done with dark brown and tan.  Finally I add a Gold and White twine (from my stash)  bow to the arrangement. 

Of course I used all the normal supples such as tape runners, and liquid glue.  I hope you enjoyed this card and will consider stopping over at Spellbinders to check out all the new items!

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Autumn Blessings Bicycle card

Did you ever have that sheet of paper that was so pretty, you didn't want to use it?   I am sure we can all relate.  Well I loved this background paper from Honey Bee Halloween Harvest paper pack and wasn't

quite sure how or when to use it.  Then I had this idea for a card, and I knew this paper was where it belonged!

I started out with a white base card and cut a slightly smaller piece of this beautiful colored paper for the background.  I then wanted to use the Honey Bee Stamps Build a Bicycle die for the bicycle which was cut from a dark copper paper, silver, and black.  It was assembled and glued to the front of the card.  The basket and pumpkins were stamped onto X-pressing Blending cardstock using Versa Claire Nocturne Ink   The basket was from the Honey Bee Stamps Riding By stamp set and the pumpkins were from the Stamp Simply Seasonal Wreaths  Fall/Winter Stamp Set.  Both were colored with copic markers. 

They were both fussy cut and arranged in a pleasing fashion.  The filler leaves and sunflower were from two different Spellbinder sets, Welcome Fall Dies and Wagon Full of Fall .  They were cut from various shades of fall colored cardstock.  A great way to use up all those scraps!  They were then placed behind and around the pumpkins as fillers .  The sunflower was adhered to the front of the basket.  

Basket and flowers were then popped up using foam squares and adhered to the card base.  The sentiment was stamped from Pink and Main Autumn Blessings stamp set.  Which is discontinued, but can be purchased here.  As a final special touch, I add some clear orange gems from my stash.  

I love the beautiful fall colors in this card.  I hope you do too!  

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Fall Leaves Card Creator

 As I was going thru my stash, I came across this die set from the Spellbinders, DOM-Oct20 (which is still available) which I had never used.  I decided now is as good a time as any, to give it a try.  

I started with a white base card and cut out the boarder dies using mirrored gold cardstock .  Die pieces were assembled and adhered to the card base using liquid glue.  I then die cut all the leaves from various fall colored cardstock and glued them on to p of the gold frame, matching the leaves underneath.  You will end up with colored leaves and a mirror gold stems and frame.  

Again using the mirrored gold, I cut out a stitched oval using the Cottage Cutz Stitched Oval Dies.   This was placed in the center of the card and popped up using foam squares.  I cut the word :blessed" using the included die from several sheets of white cadstock.  They were stacked and glued to the front of the oval to give some dimension.  

This card is a great way  to use up all those fall colored scraps of cardstock.  It is really hard to photogrraph mirror gold paper, so my photo is not the greatest, but I hope you get the idea.  

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Hello Telephone Card

I just love this telephone die that came in Spellbinders Septembers Card Kit of the Month.  I have already featured several cards from that kit earlier this month.  Today I decided to get out that die and play with it some more.  Here is what I came up with.

I have been making a conscious effort to use up some of my stash.  So for this card, I started with a white card base.  The background paper is one piece (from my stash) not two.  It is divided like that to give the impression of two different papers.  This was adhered to the base card.  I then assembled the telephone and popped it up using foam squares to the front of the card.  

Using yellow and white  papers from my stash I created some flowers using the Spellbinders Petite Floral Potpourri die set.  They were then attached to the phone as shown in the photo.  The sentiment was cut twice from the Hello Die from both black and tan cardstock using a die from my stash.  It was adhered offset to give the look of a shadow.

Finally I found these enamel drops which matched my background paper perfectly.  I used small ones for the flower centers and the larger ones to embellish the card.  These too were from my stash.  

Mixing old and new products is a great way to use up paper scraps and other items from your stash.  I have tried to put mine to good use on this card.  Please let me know what you think in the comment section below!

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Happy Fall Gnome Card

 I am not really a big gnome fan, but when I saw this stamp from Miss Ink Stamps, I just had to have it!  As you  know, I love to color and this stamp gave me the chance to do just that!

I first stamped this Pumpkin Spice Latte stamp onto X-press It Blending Cardstock using VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink.    I then colored using various colors of copic markers.    It was cut out using my Memory Box Stitched Rectangle Layers Die set.  

Using a blue cardstock that matched the coffee cup, I cut a slightly larger rectangle to  frame the image.  I used the Honey Bee Stamps Gingham Galore:  Fall paper pack and cut a piece slightly smaller than the card itself.  I tied some natural twine around the gingham paper and tied a bow.  The gingham paper was adhered to the white card base.  Then the blue framed image was adhered to that.  

I am really pleased with how this came out.  I hope you like it too!  

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Take Time to Smell the Flowers

 I recently purchased the Cartoon Tulips stamp and die bundle from Altenew and decided to play with it.  I am not really an orange person, but I love when a card is done in orange turns out so pretty

 I first layered the tulips with ink, but then decided to color them instead using my copic markers.  I stamped the image onto X-press it blending card stock using VersaFine Claire Nocturne ink.  For this particular card, I used YR18, YR04, Y38 for the tulips and YG67, YG63, and YG03 for the leaves and stems.  I think they turned out so pretty.  

After coloring, I cut out the tulips with the matching die.  Using a strip of the light orange gingham paper from the Honey Bee Stamps Gingham Galore: Fall paper pack, (which if you like the paper, they also have matching envelopes!)  I placed it down the center of a sheet of pretty gold and white paper from the Spellbinders Love The Moment paper pad which is expired. 

This was then all placed on a white card base.  The flowers were popped up against the gingham strip using foam squares. I found some orange ribbon from my stash to place at the bottom of the tulips.  The sentiment was stamped using the My Favorite Flower stamp and die from Honey Bee Stamps and versa fine clair nocturne ink

As a final touch I added some clear orange acrylic drops as embellishments. 

I really liked how this turned out!  If you like it too, please let me know in the comments below.

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Autumn Blessings Wreath Card

 I have been creating many cards during the time I have been posting for the Spellbinders Card Kit of the Month for September.  One of the things I love about card making, is the ability to get creative while using products from different companies.  This is just one example of being able to do that.  

I really love the fall colors of this card.  I started out with a plain white base card.  I then added a background of gold-ish colored gingham paper from the Honey Bee Gingham Galore: Fall paper pack.   This is the perfect paper pack if you love gingham like I do.  Then using some pumpkin bread cardstock and the Large Die of the Month from July 21 From Spellbinders to cut a strip across the center of the card.  I then chose the next smaller die from that set and cut the reverse side of the background paper to create a smaller strip across the center.   I glued them together and placed across the center of the background paper and trimmed off the excess from the die cut strips.

The wreath was created using 2 shades of brown cardstock using the Honey Bee Stamps Grapevine Wreath die set.  The two wreaths were glued together using liquid glue.  I then cut several fall leaves and flowers in various fall colors from the Spellbinders Mini Fall Blooms Die set.  I then cut the bow from the grapevine wreath die set in a light tan color and added it to my wreath using a glue dot.  Finally I added the sentiment from Pink and Main's Autumn Blessings stamp set (which is apparently retired, but can be purchased here) using versafine Claire Nocturne ink.    I love this ink!  It produces clear sharp impressions every time.  

Anyway, that's it for this card.  I hope you like it.  I will be sharing more of my designs soon, so check back often.  

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