Spellbinders September Club Kits - Autumn Greetings

 The Spellbinders Club Kits are now available for new members, and this month's theme is Autumn Greetings!

I'm loving the Dies of the Month: Autumn Scarecrow! I paired them with the 3D embossing folder: Pumpkin Patch.

supplies: colored cardstock, Autumn Scarecrow dies, Pumpkin Patch embossing folder

There are 24 pieces in the small die set.  You get a choice of the scarecrow head that I used or a jack-o-lantern one.  There's also a bat.  And you can use the pumpkins, sunflowers, and crow all on their own to make your own scene.

I thought this little scene would look good against the new Pumpkin Patch 3D embossing folder.  

And while I had it out, I used it one more time, but colored it using the black-out technique and brown ink, and added the Caboodle bonus item for this month, Hoppy Halloween.  The sentiment dies are included, and read "Trick or Treat".

white, kraft, and colored cardstock, Pumpkin Patch 3D folder, markers and vintage photo distress ink, Hoppy Halloween frog and sentiment dies

Next are the Large Dies: Picture Perfect Autumn.  I used a sentiment from last month's All Seasons release.  This is a 5 X 7" card.

supplies: colored cardstock, Picture Perfect Autumn dies, Four Seasons Autumn die, sub-sentiment from All Seasons Autumn Sentiments BetterPress plate

This 23 piece set also includes some large sunflower dies that can be put into the foreground of your scene and a small banner sentiment, but today I chose to use a large sentiment instead.  I thoroughly enjoyed using these beautiful fall colors!

Here's another card using the sunflower dies from the set.  I used the same sentiment as above.

supplies: various cardstock colors, a blue plaid dp, Picture Perfect Autumn sunflowers, All Seasons Autumn Sentiment press plate and die

The Stitching dies for this month make a large sunflower!  I paired them with the Embossing Folder of the month.

supplies: colored cardstocks, Stitched Sunflower (includes sentiment), 3 strands of embroidery floss to match, and Autumn Chevron embossing folder

I cut 2 of the flower dies and stacked them.  The sentiment dies are included in the set, and come with shadow dies, also.

Up next is the Glimmer of the Month: Friendly Thanks.  This month it comes with a roll of Rose Gold foil, and it is luscious!  I apologize for not being able to capture the beautiful color.  

supplies: white and pale green cardstock, Friendly Thanks glimmer plates, Rose Gold Glimmer hot foil, Solid Rectangle glimmer plate, Little Blooms dies, tiny pearls

After foiling the big Thanks and a sub-sentiment, one of 5 choices in the set, I cut another piece of Rose Gold foil and placed it over my Solid Rectangle glimmer plate to give me a foiled rectangle.  I then used that to cut out the flowers for my little arrangements.  

The Stencils of the Month are called Colorful Pumpkins.

supplies: white and orange cardstock, Colorful Pumpkins stencils, distress inks in carved pumpkin, antique linen, shabby shutters, mustard seed, and tea dye, sentiment from Autumn Wishes, the clear stamp of the month

The stencil set is 5 parts, and you can use them in any order, but make the stems last.  I changed colors as I changed stencils.  As I like to do, I used one of the stencils to emboss the orange pumpkins after everything was colored and the panel was trimmed.  My sentiment is one of those from this month's clear stamp of the month, which you'll see next.

The stamp/die set this month is called Autumn Wishes, and consists of these 2 images, plus a variety of sentiments, with dies for almost everything.  

supplies: white cardstock, Autumn Wishes stamps/dies, markers to color

I simply stamped, colored, and die-cut the images, then arranged them onto a white card base on which I'd already stamped my sentiment.

You can look HERE for information on Spellbinders Clubs.  Each is available for new subscribers only from the 6th until the 27th of each month.  If you click on my links under each card, you can see the specifics of each product.  You can subscribe to each of our 10 kits separately, (and you can "unjoin" a subscription at any time without any penalty), or you can get them all, plus a free bonus item each month, and save 60% by choosing the Deluxe Caboodle!

Four Seasons: Spring

 Here is my final card to show you the new All Seasons Collection from Spellbinders released last month.

supplies: white and colored cardstock, Four Seasons dies, All Seasons Spring press plate/die, Little Blooms flower dies, Rainboot Bouquet Daffodil dies, Flowers and Foliage 3D embossing folder

If you look back at my 2 previous posts using this collection, you'll see that I used the same layout for all 3 of my cards, simply changing up the theme of each.  These Four Season dies are large, big enough to be used for scrapbooking, so they take up a little more real estate on an A2 card and don't need much else.

Thanks for coming by - I hope your day is a great one!

Simon Hurley Let It Snow Collection!

 I was fortunate enough to get to play with a few sets from this month's new Simon Hurley Let It Snow collection!

supplies: black, white, red, green, aqua, orange, pink cardstock, Playful Penguins dies, Frozen Flurries cover plate, Handwritten Holiday Sentiments, tiny white pom-poms, adhesive foam squares

This is such a fun collection!  I made just 2 of the 3 different penguins, and didn't even use some of the accessories that are included, like reindeer horns and a Rudolph nose, a gift package, and more hats.  The sentiment set includes 16 different word dies with matching shadows that you can use to make your own greeting.  And the Frozen Flurries is a cover plate that can be used whole as I did, or you can pick out the individual flakes to make your own arrangement.  As you can see, you have a nice selection of flakes in all sizes!

Thanks for stopping by - I hope my card helped to cool you down from this summer heat!

A Woodland Scene

 Here's a new BetterPress plate/die set that I couldn't wait to get home to play with!  I've always been enamored with woodland scenes, and now I have another way to make them!

supplies: white, red, kraft, and cream cardstock, Birch Trees & Friends press plate, black, grey and cement inks, sentiment from All Seasons Spring press plate/die set

This set is one of those that comes with a registration template that helps you to place the various birch trees and use different colors of inks on them.  This was my first time using a registration template, and it was an easy process!  After finishing pressing the trees, I tore a scrap of white cardstock for the snowy ground, and then added my sweet fawn, birds, and my sentiment.

You'll be seeing lots more of this in the coming months!

Hope your day is going well - thanks so much for stopping by!

Woodblock Wednesday!

 I have so enjoyed playing along with Amy's Woodblock Wednesday each month; it's a good thing to use these beautiful stamps once again!  Here's my card for this month.

supplies: white, corals, yellow, and green cardstock, a leafy design paper, (retired) Hero Arts S5324 Simple Frame from 2016, sentiment from their (retired) Made with Love clear set, Spellbinders flower and leaf dies 

This framing stamp is pretty, isn't it?  I stamped it twice, once on my background white base, and again on the printed paper, then cut out the rectangle of the print and attached it to the card base.  That sentiment is a favorite too, just because of the mixed font and unusual layout.

You can see the other entries for this month HERE at Amy's blog.

In Memory of Sidnie

 The Simon Says Stamp family got some bad news earlier this month when our Wednesday Teammate Sidnie Des Jardins passed away.  

The Wednesday Challenge is dedicating this week's challenge to her.  Lols kindly asked a few "retired" members of the Wednesday team to participate, too.  Here is my card.

supplies: white and Cotton Candy cardstock, Simon Vintage Garden sentiment, (retired) You Have My Heart floral spray, Sunny Studio Quilted Hearts embossing folder

Sidnie will be missed.  You can see more cards for her at the Simon Wednesday Blog this week.

Thanks for visiting today.

Friend

 Here's another large die from the new Storytelling release at Spellbinders.  I mixed it with an embossing folder, and a smaller banner sentiment.

supplies: white cardstock, vellum, Nature's Botanical Wreath 3D embossing folder, Peony ink, Friends dies, Curved Everyday Sentiments glimmer plate/die set, pink glimmer foil

This large sentiment actually is made to read "Friends", plural, but the "s" is separate, and it's easy to trim the shadow die, too, so that it can be used either way.  

I used the blackout technique to color the details and background of the wreath design with a bright pink ink.  Then I cut the sentiment from white cardstock, and the shadow from vellum, and added a previously foiled banner sentiment.

Hope your day is going well - thanks so much for visiting today!

Home Sweet Home

Here's a card that uses a couple new sets from Spellbinders' Storytelling Collection: Home Sweet Home dies, and Christmas Sentiments press plate.

supplies: colored cardstock, snowflake paper and trees from Handmade Holidays Card Kit, Home  Sweet Home dies, Christmas Sentiments betterpress plate, red glimmer foil, Essential Arch die

There's something about houses that always draws me in, and this is a nice medium size that works to make a little scene.  I didn't have any tree dies in scale, (hint, hint, Spellbinders!) so I used ephemera ones, along with a snowflake paper for my background, from this year's Card Kit.  The trees have gold-foiled decorations, which work nicely with my red foiled sentiment.  Don't you love that teensy fence?  

Thank you for visiting today - have a good one!

Spellbinders Storytelling Release!

 Here comes another new release from Spellbinders!  This large collection launched earlier this month, and I'll have a few cards to share with you in the next few days.

supplies: various patterned Christmas paper strips, Christmas & December dies, Christmas Sentiments betterpress plate/die set, red glimmer foil

I believe these new word dies, much like the previous Four Seasons sets, are made to be used in scrapbooking, but they will work on A2 cards, too, if you make them landscape cards.  So after choosing my sentiment, I pulled out an ANCIENT 6" pad of papers and cut them into various sizes of strips, then just glued those onto my card base.  I added the new goodies, and I was finished!  This is a card that can easily be reproduced, just mixing up your patterns and colors, and it's a wonderful way to use up every bit of your patterned papers!  It's really fun to find patterns that work together, and to me it feels a bit like making a quilt.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.

Perfect Touch Rectangles!

 Here's a new set of nesting rectangles called Perfect Touch that's part of the newly released Cheers collection at Spellbinders. 

I paired it with some of the Snowcapped Holidays dies from last month for my card today.

supplies: colored cardstock, NEW Perfect Touch Rectangle dies, Snowcapped Holidays birds and greenery, Sending Joy Sentiments press plate/die set, red glimmer foil

I used the largest die plus 2 of the remaining 5 dies in this new set.  It also includes a tag!  In my opinion, you can't have enough of these nesting dies, and the sweet detail on this one is just right - enough to notice, but not enough to distract from the other elements.

I hope you'll come back again soon - thanks for visiting!

Dancin' Christmas Friends - Klondike the Moose!

 I have a card today from a new collection this month, Dancin' Christmas Friends.  

supplies: white, krafts, and teals cardstock, Dancin' Moose Klondike, All Seasons Winter press plate/die set, Teal glimmer hot foil, Frozen Flurries die

I think Klondike is so fun, and I plan to make him into ornaments to give to our grands - wouldn't it be fun to make a bunch of these with sweaters of different colors, and various lengths of his legs?  At his largest he can be about 6" tall.

This time I made a slim-line card, added the snowflakes from the Frozen Flurries cover plate die, and a little foiled sentiment.

This Dancin' Christmas Friends collection has a fun variety of creatures in it - do check it out!  They all have swinging legs so that they can dance!

Four Seasons: Autumn

 Here's another card using some dies and press plates from the new All Seasons Collection from Spellbinders, this time with an autumn theme.

supplies: kraft, Surf Blue, and fall colors of cardstock, a blue plank design paper, Four Seasons dies, All Seasons Autumn press plate/die, Autumn Leaves dies

This time I used the press plate as it was intended, with black ink.  

If you want to see the summer press plate, I used it HERE (2nd card) with Yana's Poppies dies.  Each of the plates has 6 sentiments specific to the season it represents.  I like that you can "print" them all out at one time, then use the matching die to cut them out and use for separate projects.

Thanks for visiting today - I hope you'll come back soon to see my card using the Spring set.

Four Seasons Winter

 Spellbinders has released an exclusive collection called All Seasons.  It consists of a set of dies and shadow dies of the names of the four seasons, plus 4 press plates sets with smaller sentiments for each season.  Today I'm using the Winter ones.

supplies: white, aqua, and silver glitter cardstock, various strips of aqua/snowflake patterned papers, Four Seasons dies, All Seasons Winter betterpress plate and die set, teal glimmer hot foil, various small snowflake dies

I cut my paper scraps into strips, and then used them to cover an A2 panel, leaving a tiny border between the strips.  Then I simply foiled the press plate sentiment, cut out the large word dies and some snowflakes, and put everything together. 

I'll share some of the other seasons with you soon!  Thanks for stopping by!

Yana's Poppies, part 2

 Here's a die that's part of the new Yana's Poppies Collection.  

For my first card, I cut it twice from ivory cardstock, added tape to the reverse to hold everything together, then colored in the details with some peach and green Zig markers.

supplies: white and Pink Sand cardstock, Yana's Poppies die, Zig markers to color, Floral Expressions 3D folder, medium scalloped die,  Curved Everyday Sentiment, foiled in Blush glimmer foil, adhesive foam squares

I wanted some texture behind my flowers, and this month's lovely Floral Expressions 3D embossing folder did the trick!

On my 2nd card, I used colored cardstock, and paper-pieced the design.

supplies: white, black, bright yellow, orange and green cardstock, Yana's Poppies die, Poppy Background press plate, sentiment from All Seasons Summer press plate/die set, gold glimmer foil

I embossed the Poppy Background press plate, and foiled a sentiment from another new press plate of sentiments called All Seasons Summer.

Thanks for visiting me today!