Monday, December 2, 2024

Day Two - Clear Stamp and Die of the Month for December 2024

Today I am sharing with you another one of this month's Spellbinder Club Kits. It is the clear stamp and die club called Forever Yours. I love how this card turned out and I even used some of the flowers from another of this months club kits which I will be sharing with you in the days to come. Please check back tomorrow to see the next monthly club kit I will be featuring!

To create this card, I started with a white A2 card base to which I added a mat of red paper measuring 5.25 x 4.0 inches and centered it on the card front so that the red cardstock had a white border around it. Next I used Spellbinders Essential Stylish Ovals and created a series of boarders, each one smaller than the one before it to create a layered affect, I cut these pieces from dark and light pink, white, and red cardstock. The sentiment from the Clear Stamp and Die of the Month which was a sentiment set, was stamped in black ink and the matching die was used to cut it out. It was then attached to the centermost (red) oval.

Then using some of the leaves and small flowers from the Dis of the Month Club Kit, I created five separate flowers and leaves and added them as shown to add some decoration to the card.

I hope you enjoyed this card and will give it a try. I rely like the clean simple look of it. To see all the Monthly Club kits Spellbinders has to offer, click here.

If you click on SOME of the links in the blog or purchase from any of the vendors on the right side of each post, please use my link (just click on the image for the store you want to use). It will not affect your purchase in any way, but will provide me with a very small compensation for your order. Some are affiliate links, some are not. This is what helps me to be able to purchase new products to share with you! Thank you! It is very much appreciated.
Thanks for stopping by and have an amazing day!

Jeanne
A Stroke of Jeanne-ius
Never Stop Creating

Supply List:

CSDOM- DEC 24 - Forever Yours

Essential Stylish Ovals Dies

DOM- Dec 24 Blooming Hello

lPlatinum 6 die cutting machine

Paper Trimmer

Bearly art glue

Detail scissors

A2 card base

Cardstock and black ink from my stash.

Sunday, December 1, 2024

Day One - Stitching Die of the Month for December 2024

I hope you all are full of turkey and really enjoyed your Thanksgiving! Today is December 1st and you know what that means,... Spellbinders has released it's new monthly clubs for December 2024. Over the next few days, I will be showing off some of the clubs that will be available for purchase as of Dec. 6th. This is my first one

I really love this card! Of course you all know I love pink. This is the Stitched Die of the Month for December 2024. It is called Stitched Notched Corner Card

To see all of the clubs spellbinders has to offer this month simply click here.

To make this card I started with a white A2 card base to which I added a mat of dark pink cardstock which measures 4 x 5.25 and was centered onto the white base card. I then die cut the next two pieces using the STDOM. The larger background die was cut from white cardstock and the top piece (to be stitched) was cut from light pink cardstock. It was then stitched using a somewhat dark pink thread. I used all 6 strands for this procedure. Once I was done stitching this piece I attached both it and the white piece onto the center of the dark pink cardstock already on the card. Because of the stitching of the back of the light pink piece it almost appears to be popped up but it isn't.

Next I cut the flower and leaf piece using green cardstock. The I cut the flowers from solid dark pink and then the stitched pieces from the same color. The flowers were then stitched with three strands of light pink thread. They were then attached to the leaves and glued to the bottom of the oval.

Finally I cut out the letters from the dark pink cardstock and glued them in the center of the oval as shown. As I said, I really like how this card turned out and it was relatively easy to make. You could easily stamp a different sentiment in the oval and make this card for another occasion. If you like to stitch on cards you will certainly love this club kit!

If you click on SOME of the links in the blog or purchase from any of the vendors on the right side of each post, please use my link (just click on the image for the store you want to use). It will not affect your purchase in any way, but will provide me with a very small compensation for your order. Some are affiliate links, some are not. This is what helps me to be able to purchase new products to share with you! Thank you! It is very much appreciated.
Thanks for stopping by and have an amazing day!

Jeanne
A Stroke of Jeanne-ius
Never Stop Creating

Supply List:

STDOM-DEC 24 Stitched Notched Corner Card

lPlatinum 6 die cutting machine

Paper Trimmer

Bearly art glue

Detail scissors

A2 card base

Cardstock, Thread, and needle from my stash.

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Day Three of New Projects Featuring the Felt Die Collection by Nicole Spohr

Today I have something really different to show you. I created an ornament for my fall tree. Yes, I said fall tree. My husband convinced me to leave our tree up all year and just decorate it for each holiday/season. So as I said, I have a fall tree. I used the new Felt Die Collection from Nicole Spohr by Spellbinders to create this fun ornament for my tree. It is called the Felt Pumpkin Lane House Die. I will definitely be making more to adorn my tree.

I thought I would also show you a picture of my tree, too.

I just started to learn to quilt, and made the tree skirt and mantle cloth also. Here is a photo of the ornament on the tree.

To create this ornament I used mostly felt from the Merino Felt Sheets cool collection, except for the orange. I cut out each shape from felt and also from cardstock. I stitched each piece to the cardstock to give the ornament more stability. I stitched each piece with matching or coordinating thread which I had in my stash. If you wanted to hide your stitching on the back, you could add another sheet of paper or more felt. I used hot glue to assemble the pieces together and also used hot glue to add a piece of gold twine for hanging.

I think this would also make a great fall card. You could attach it to the card in a way that it could be removed and used as an ornament. This was the recipient would get a card and a gift!

To see all of this new collection from Spellbinders and Nicole Spohr, simply click here. I hope you enjoyed these three products and will give them a look for yourself. There are many in the collection, though I only featured three of them. They also have the wool felt available since you can't find it in local craft stores.

If you click on SOME of the links in the blog or purchase from any of the vendors on the right side of each post, please use my link (just click on the image for the store you want to use). It will not affect your purchase in any way, but will provide me with a very small compensation for your order. Some are affiliate links, some are not. This is what helps me to be able to purchase new products to share with you! Thank you! It is very much appreciated.
Thanks for stopping by and have an amazing day!

Jeanne
A Stroke of Jeanne-ius
Never Stop Creating

Supply List:

Merino Felt Sheets Cool Collection (except for the orange

lPlatinum 6 die cutting machine

Paper Trimmer

Bearly art glue

Detail scissors

Cardstock, thread, needle, orange felt, twine, hot glue and glue gun all from my stash.

Friday, November 22, 2024

Second of Three New Projects Featuring the Felt Die Collection by Nicole Spohr

Today I am featuring a project I created using the new felt dies from Nicole Spohr for Spellbinders. This time I am using the candy cane die. I also used them with both felt and cardstock to give them a more textured look. The second candy cane was cut and I used the back side inverted so that I had two candy canes that cross. Here is the card I made.

To make this card, I started with a 5x7 white base card to which I added a mat of red cardstock measuring 4.75 x 6.75 this was then centered and applied to the card front. I then cut this pretty printed paper to measure 4.5 x 6.5 inches and applied that centered on the red cardstock. Next I cut two candy canes from white cardstock. The second one was inverted so that I used the back side. Once it was stitched you couldn't tell it was reversed. I cut the red stripes from red felt that I had in my stash along with the berries. I stitched the white areas of the candy canes with white embroidery thread. The stripes were then added after being stitched with red embroidery thread. The three holly leaves were cut from the green felt that was included in the Merino Felt sheets cool collection and were stitched with green thread. They were all arranged and attached to the card front with glue. I added the sentiment using my hot foil machine and the Comfort and Joy foil plate and die set. It was foiled with gold foil and added across the bottom of the card.

I love how this card turned out. I also love the texture that the felt added. It really adds to the look of the card! I hope you will give some of these dies a chance! Like I said, if you do not like the look or want to deal with the felt you can always just use paper and treat them as a stitching die. To see the entire collection of felt dies, just click here.

Be sure to check back tomorrow when I will have the last of my three projects for this collection. I am sure you don't want to miss it!