This is my son, who is now (gasp!) 16 years old and waiting anxiously to get his drivers license.  Me, not so much.  Here he is driving my *new* car, unfortunately for me, he really likes it, and it’s much cooler than the mini van it replaced!

 I began with grabbing a few of the new die templates I hadn’t played with yet.  I started with the S4-243 Ric Rac Diamond Borderabilities® Petite, using the Accent piece, that is the one with only one cut line.  To make the border 12″ long I cut/embossed it in sections, like this:

Tape the Borderabilties® to your paper, cut side down, using low tack tape.

Place the die template and paper with the cut side up onto the Magnetic Spacer Plate, top with the White Master Mat.  Feed into your Wizard™ to cut.

The long piece will stick out the other end, that’s ok!

Remove the Magnetic Mat from the Sandwich, place the Tan Embossing Mat on top of the cut area only, so that only that part gets embossed. 

Repeat the process by moving the Borderabilities® down the paper, cut, them emboss only the part you just cut.  If you cover the part that was previously embossed, you will flatten out that embossing.

I adhered the black border behind the striped paper and added it to the layout. 

The next die template is S4-259 Deckled Edge Classic Ovals LG.  This die template has a vintage or torn paper look (just like the Deckled Rectangles) and it coordinates perfectly with S4-110 Classic Ovals LG, for matting and layering. I added rub on letters and tucked it under the photo.

The “2″ is from S5-023 Mega Ovals LG #1, the smallest of the die templates.  Simply cut/emboss and add the rub-on number.

The next die template is the car from S4-261 Play Time.  My first car looked just like that one!  To have the car driving off the page in that direction, I employed the reflections technique we just talked about here and here. 

The paper is Cosmo Cricket, Boyfriend and Lil’ Man, as well as some stickers; other stickers are from 7gypsies, 97% Complete, Family, Teen, Boys and Home.  Adhesive is from SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES by 3L, E-Z Runner. I inked everything with Clearsnap, Colorbox Black Pigment Ink.  I used some matching cardstock, as well as rub-on and sticker letters.

Here’s a little eye candy for you, compliments of Design Team Member Janine Blackwelder.  On all three of these layouts she created a 12″ border with the S4-243 Ric Rac Diamond Borderabilties® Petite.

Truly Amazing

Coloring The Eggs

Happy Easter!

Have a great day!
Beth

Mirror Mirror on the Card, here’s a cool technique that’s not too hard!

Today I wanted to show you how to make a mirror image of a die cut, so that you can have your die cut face either way on your projects.  Condsider some of the adorable Shapeabilities sets from Spellbinders™, such as S4-263  Easter Fun or S4-260 New Arrival.  What if you wanted an image to be facing in the opposite direction? 

I created this card to show off the mirror image of the Bunny.

For the Bunny on the left, I cut/embossed the die template as usual.  For the Bunny on the right, I did the following steps.  {Personal note: after I made this card, I ran an errand.  When I returned home to finish the blog post, I realized the Bunny had hopped away! If you see my Bunny, please send him back! In the mean time I used the Baby from S4-260 New Arrival for the step shots.}

For the sake of example, I used two tones of purple cardstock.  I cut/embossed the dark purple as usual in my Wizard™.  For the mirror image, I used the lighter tone of cardstock.

(I stick regular household tape to my t-shirt to pick up fuzzies and make the tape less tacky.)

Remember if you are using paper with a pattern or texture, to place the back side of the pattern or texture on the cut side of the die template when you cut. Then flip over the die cut to emboss the patterned or textured side correctly.

Super easy!

Supplies: Spellbinders™ Wizard™ ; S4-263 Easter Fun; S4-260 New Arrival; S4-242 Big Scalloped Borderabilities® Petite; S4-248 Labels Thirteen; S5-023 Mega Oval LG; S5-024 Mega Classic Scalloped Ovals LG; Clearsnap, Colorbox Black Pigment, Lavender Fluid Chalk Ink; SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES by 3L; 3D Foam Squares; My Minds Eye, Penny Lane Free Bird “Peace”, Laundry Line Coastal “Comfort” Cuddle Dots Paper; Core’dinations, Color Core Cardstock; Purple Cardstock; Stamp.

Additional techniques employed are Reverse Stenciling on the S4-248 Labels Thirteen, and Extended Borders with the S4-242 Big Scalloped Borderabilities® Petite.

So if you are still with me, here are a few examples of mirror imaging from our Design Team!

Christy Farneth Kerr shows us two examples of the Ice Cream Cone from S4-276 Sweet Treats, with A Girl and Her Cone, and Ice Cream Social.

Karen Hunsaker made mirror images of the creatures in S4-273 From the Sea on her Lucy By The Sea scrapbook layout.

I’m off to get some carrots so my Bunny will come back.  Have a wonderful Saturday!

Beth

Hey everyone. Thanks, as always, for coming by our busy blog. I’m sharing something very near and dear to my heart today: Spellbinders Design Team 2009-2010…what an incredible bunch of ladies I’ve had the privilege of working with this past year. {Some I actually worked with for 4 years and one very special one, Stacey Caron, I met way back in February of 2005}. I wanted to pay tribute to this fabulous team of extremely talented ladies. They are finishing their “tour” as the 2009-2010 Spellbinders™ Design Team soon. In the not too distant future, Beth and Margie will be introducing the new team…but for now…

Here is my spread, filled with my Creative Cohorts.

I enjoyed putting this layout together, thinking of all the fun and crazy time’s we’ve shared together.

The most challenging part of creating this layout, sort of a puzzle, was putting all the photos on the page so they looked their best. The photos, taken last year at our Design Team Retreat, coordinated perfectly for a couple of reasons:

• Consistency in attire: Designers chose either white or black shirts for the photo shoot. We took some with scarves and some without.
• Print consistency: size and shape of the pics is similar.
• Print “adventure”: Using both color and b/w photos and mixing them on the page, brought the spread together with a unifying and colorful background.

Once I placed the photos, I dressed the spread with a few of my favorite die templates: S7-013 Heirloom Scroll Border Grand which I cut/embossed and then sanded, one for each page to ground the title. I cut/embossed/stenciled with airbrushing the S4-158 Sunflower Two which gave me several options for embellishing the pages. Here is a closer look at one the sunflowers and the stamped tag:

We’d better give the rest of the team “their close-up” too.

As I share this spread and we wish this year’s team a “Bon Voyage” onto other great things, I need to say my own “Adieu.” Yes, it may be hard to believe but my time at Spellbinders™ is ending as well. As my life transitions into new opportunities, I find that I’m needed in new directions: family, church, volunteering, and the like. So this layout, as it turns out, is one way of saying “so long” to a company that I’ve dearly loved working for over the past four years. Of course, I won’t ever give up any of my “Abilities” die templates, my Wizard™ or any of these fabulous friends. And you can always visit me, or any of the other members, on our personal blogs.

Thanks for everything…Eli

Supplies: Spellbinders™ Wizard™; S4-158 Sunflower Twol S7-013 Heirloom Scroll Border Grand. S4-251 Big Scalloped Ovals LG; Cosmo Cricket, Girl Friday patterned papers Monday, Wednesday and Saturday; The Robin’s Nest, Sun Yellow Watercolor paper; JustRite® Stampers, Inspired stamp and Wood Oval Stamper; Copic Markers, Sketch RV17 Deep Magenta, Airbrush System; Creative Impressions, Gingham Ribbon;  Glue Dots, Mini dots; Chalk ink; Sand paper

Please join me in wishing Eli all the best as she follows her dreams.  She’s only a mouse click away on her personal blog, Frillions.  Thank you, Eli, for the fun times and friendship!
Beth

Great Savvy Saturday Done with One idea, Eli!  Thanks for the inspiration to make several cards from 1 sheet (or 1.5 sheets) of paper.  I’ve taken a twist on your idea, to use up  scraps to make cards too.  I must also thank Mother Nature for inspiration, as I’ve seen the tips of tulips breaking through the soil, now that most of the snow has melted.  All this ‘thinkin’ Spring’ is finally working!

I began with some larger scraps of patterned paper, then added 2 shades of cardstock that compliment it.  My tendancy is to use a darker color, but this time I went outside of my comfort zone and pulled a springy yellow to go with this Cosmo Cricket’s Flouriste Collection.

I selected a few dies to mix and match and went about cutting/embossing some shapes with my Wizard™.  I made several frames, so that I could use both the outside and inside pieces, and enjoyed the time savings from cutting/embossing more than one die template at a time. 

These are the pieces I worked with

I used the S4-239 Classic Scalloped Borderabilities® Petite to make a 12″ long border, then scissor cut it down to the desired sizes.  I did the same with a shorter piece of the solid green cardstock. The die cuts were inked, and then I stamped 2 sentiments from Hero Arts on the small tags.  Ribbon looks adorable when weaved into the holds on the Borderabilties® die cuts, and I also tied it to the small tags.

So quick, so easy, and I used up some pieces of paper that would have gone into the scrap pile. Here are the finished cards, see how I mixed and matched up the die cuts:

I used these supplies: Spellbinders™ S4-239 Classic Scalloped Borderabilities® Petite; S4-253 Big Scalloped Squares LG; S4-240 Labels Eleven; S5-022 Labels Ten; S4-114 Standard Circles LG; S4-142 Long Classic Rectangles LG; S3-150 Ribbon Tags Trio; S3-148 Tags Trio; Cosmo Cricket, Flouriste Collection, Maize and Primrose Paper; Hero Arts, Thoughtful Stamps; Clearsnap, Colorbox, Black Pigment, Chestnut Roan Fluid Chalk Ink; Cardstock, Ribbon.

This concept makes me think of Design Team Member Janine Blackwelder’s Just a Note Organizer.  Janine made a set of cards and a box as a gift.  Wouldn’t you love to recieve these?

Janine’s instructions and supply list are here!

Have a great day!

Beth

I was asked by a friend to create a group of coordinated thank you cards and I knew that my Spellbinders™ supplies would be just the thing to do that. I surfed around the net and found some great ideas from crafters about creating a bunch of cards out of just one sheet of cardstock.

Now that seems impossible and in some ways it is…You actually need to have a supply of card bases to complete this project, a sheet of wonderful cardstock, some embellishments and adhesive…THEN, you can create a bunch of cards with just one sheet of 12×12″ cardstock…”done with one.” OK, I need to confess something here, I actually used three half sheets, but “done with one and a half” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

I suggest gathering some card bases and two coordinating cardstocks to start. Then gather your favorite die templates and your Wizard™. Add an adventurous attitude and you’ll be ready to go. Here is what I chose:

This is the second time I have created a set like this and I learned a few things I want to pass along. I chose papers that coordinated and imagined in my head that one would be in the background, one would be used primarily for matting and the other would be used for die cut embellishments. Keeping these “separate” in my mind really helped the design process.  Let’s get started.

Cut each of your papers in half (6×12″). Using larger die templates, such as Spellbinders™ Labels, arrange 6-8 onto blue textured paper. This was a fun “puzzle” to see how many die templates I could get on ½ sheet.

Make sure that there is space between some of the die templates to cut the cardstock into 2-3 pieces, fitting each section onto a Master Mat. Each of the die templates is labeled for easy reference. The number refers to the die template size, counting #1 at the center.

Use the same technique with the brown dot paper and plenty of die templates, utilizing some of the smaller ones for stamping, accents and embellishments.

After arranging the die cuts on the paper, and trimming it into smaller pieces, select a few to cut/emboss. Then cut/emboss the rest of the pieces in that block.

Cut the background paper. I cut one inch off the side and then cut various heights, as seen below on the right. Then put some of the elements together as seen on the left.

Next, arrange the elements on the cards with the background papers.

Add the final touches with stamping, ribbon, and other embellishments. Here are my final results. Some of the images changed from those above but isn’t creating like that some times?

Supplies: Spellbinders™ Wizard™, S4-111 Classic Scalloped Ovals LG, S3-146 Butterflies Two, S4-162 Labels Two, S4-168 Large Labels, S4-189 Labels Three, S4-190 Labels Four, S4-199 Floral Accent, S4-200 Floral Bouquet, S4-204 Fleur De Lis Pendants, S4-214 Eyelet Borderabilities® Petite, S4-233 Labels Nine, S4-251 Big Scalloped Ovals LG, S5-004 Sunflower Garden, S5-014 Deckled Mega Rectangles SM, S5-019 Labels Eight; Chatterbox artsy.licious flocked paper; My Mind’s Eye dot and lacey paper; Clearsnap cat eye watermark ink; Taylored Expressions sentiment stamp, JustRite Stampers stamp, Sparkle N Sprinkle embossing powder; Glue Dots, Pop-Up, Craft, Mini; Textured cream cardstock, Brown ribbons, PVA glue

Most of all…have fun with this one and enjoy your weekend.

Eli

Congratulations again to next year’s Design Team. If you missed the post, go check it out here.

Today, I decided to get started on the next season: Spring. I’m really excited for the days to get warmer and (eventually) to see flowers. Since it will continue snowing in Denver for a month or so, this charming little Duck die template, part of S4-261 Play Time, will have to usher it in…

So, let me share how to create this card. First, gather the following supplies:

Spellbinders™ Wizard™, S4-261 Play Time, S4-211 Tulips Borderabilities® Petite; Core’dinations Blue, Pink, Purple, Orange and Yellow ColorCore Cardstocks; My Mind’s Eye Free Bird “Peace” patterned paper; Clearsnap ColorBox Lime Pastel Chalk ink; JustRite® Stampers Times New Roman 95 pt letter stamps; Copic YR18 Sanguine Sketch marker and atyou Spica Orange, Silver Glitter Pens; Glue Dots International, Glue Dots Mini; Green ribbon; Emory board; Lavender dye ink; Acrylic coating

Now, cut the card base by using a piece of 12×12″ blue cardstock to 5½” across. Then cut/emboss S4-211 Tulips Borderabilities® Petite from the bottom of the cardstock. In order to do this, you may need to run it through the Wizard™ twice, moving the Magnetic Spacer Plate in between.

After cutting/embossing, turn the die template over, with paper still in place, and stencil using light green chalk ink. If desired, color above the die template with the ink pad.

Fold the card to the size you want and crease. Trim the back side if needed. Then cut/emboss just tulips from S4-211 Tulips Borderabilities® Petite in pink, orange and purple cardstocks. Add a Mini Glue Dot to each tulip. Place it inside the flower space and press onto the card base back.

Using a small emery board or other sanding tool, sand over the entire card front. You’ll see the ColorCore peak out of the embossed places.

Cut the duck toy from S4-261 Play Time.

Emboss as usual if you want the duck to face left. Use the reflections technique if you want it to face right. Here’s the trick. After cutting, tape the duck to the back of the die template and emboss. You’ll get a mirror image.

Decorate the duck with a tiny die cut circle for his eye, a tulip for his wing, orange marker for his beak and plenty of glitter pens for fun.

Onto yellow cardstock, using lavender ink, stamp “Spring”. For a fun look, place the letters on different lines as seen here.

Enhance with lavender glitter pen. Tear the strip, following the lines of the stamping.

Cut orange and blue mats for the center of the card. Then, cut/emboss and sand S4-251Big Scalloped Ovals LG (#3, counting #1 at the center). Cut it in half so it will show on the top and bottom of the Spring “banner.” Adhere to the card as shown.

Adhere the banner and duck on the card and add a ribbon from the banner to the duck’s beak. Now, spring can come no matter the weather.

Thanks for coming today and check out these other spring-inspired cards by our Design Team.

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Kimberly Crawford created this fresh card with the S4-209 Tulips Pendants.

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Easter comes just after the beginning of spring this year. Janine Blackwelder combined both themes.

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Lesa Rapp shares the first fruits of spring, strawberries, created from the  S4-274 Nested Fish die template.

Boy! A hard act to follow with the fabulous projects that Beth and Eli had created! Both projects are themed with Valentine’s and Mardi Gras in mind. Well, my mind is wandering to Spring! With the repetition of shapes that both artists used, I choose to re-visit a die template that I haven’t used in awhile, S4-135 Classic Scalloped Paisley #2 & #3 (#1 being the smallest die).

I wanted to make a frame using a 6″x8″ canvas panel, paper, paint and embellishments. To start, I painted the edges of the canvas panel with pink acrylic paint. Set aside to dry. You can find these panels in any craft stores in the U.S.

With the S4-135 Classic Scalloped Paisley #2, I cut/embossed eight (8) die cuts using Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday Collection. Then I edged each piece with Clearsnap Queue Ink as a highlight and then curled each die cut. I layered all the paisley together to make one thick piece and at the narrow end, I poked a hole. Insert a brad and fan the paisley out to make a flower. Set aside. Using the S4-135 Classic Scalloped Paisley #3, I cut/embossed one (1) piece to make a leaf for the flower. I fold down the middle and curled each side of the fold. Then edged with Clearsnap Dark Moss Ink.

Next, I reached for the S7-014 Classic Lace Border Grand to add as a beautiful accent for the frame. I cut/embossed the border and used Clearsnap Queue Ink to highlight its embossing. Since this is a 12″ border, I cut in half to use it as a topper and an anchor piece for the flower and leaf.

Using the 6″x8″ canvas as a template, I cut a piece of Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday paper to cover the front of the canvas. Then edged with the pink acrylic paint I used earlier on the canvas and adhered to its front. I adhered in order onto the canvas: lace border/topper, a 4″x5.25″ picture, lace border, leaf and flower. I embellished with pearls on the topper and border. The flower center had to have some texture so I took a thick circle-shaped foam tape and dipped into my tub full of Flower Soft Sweet Pea. Shake off excess and adhere in the middle of the flower.

Here’s a second look at the final project…

So are you thinkin’ spring?
They say “be careful what you wish for” but in this case, I’ll take it! LOL!

Calling all Spellbinders® Fans! We are nominated for another round of When Creativity Knocks’ Great Crafter’s Tool Hunt 2™ for the Presto Punch™ as your favorite new tool. Don’t wait…register today! Vote and you will be eligible to win one of the incredible prize packages they are offering - one of them even includes the Presto Punch™. Good luck and thank you!!

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Have a great day!!
MargieH

Laissez les bons temps rouler! Happy Mardi Gras! Fat Tuesday! Shrove Tuesday

In a number of places in the world such as: Venice, Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, Patras (Greece), Nice (France) and more, The celebration of Carnival or Mardi Gras culminates today with grand festivities. It is common to dress in elaborate costumes with masks of all kinds. For Christians, the season of Lent begins at midnight going into Ash Wednesday. So, Mardi Gras is the last chance to dance, sing and party until Easter.

When I was thinking about my post today, I was cruising the blog, and loved what Beth did in her Savvy Saturday post using the Presto Punch™ and a repetition of shapes. It inspired me to use a similar concept but with the more detailed and intricate shapes with the Wizard™. I created a Mardi Gras mask.

This project progressed slowly, but surely. I began looking at my die templates for something that could make the foundation of the mask. I chose the new S4-268 Nested Pears (#3, counting #1 at the center). What I realized as soon as I started, is that in order to make a symmetrical mask, I needed to cut everything twice: once from the front of the paper and once from the back. If I just cut two images from the same side, everything would face the same direction.

Want to make one? Here’s how!

Gather the following supplies: Wizard™, S4-121 Doodle Parts, S4-157 Sunflower Set One, S4-204 Fleur de Lis Pendants (small fleur), S4-218 Lattice Borderabilities® Petite, S4-264 Nested Eggs, S4-268 Nested Pear (#3) (Spellbinders); Core’dinations purple, green color core cardstocks; Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist; My Mind’s Eye, Penny Lane “Hattie Marie” patterned paper; Creative Impressions glitter brad; Glue Dots, Mini and Craft Glue Dots; SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVE by 3L, 3D Squares, mini; Metallic Paper; Glitter glue; PVA glue

Cut the #3 S4-268 Nested Pears die template twice from chipboard and twice from patterned paper (front and back). Line up the die template with the patterned paper as shown below and then cut out the center for the eye hole. (I used the small Fleur de Lis die template from the S4-204 Fleur de Lis Pendant and the #2 die template from S4-264 Nested Eggs, but choose whatever shape interests you)

To cut a matching pear, lay the first cut pear onto the paper, lining up the pattern.

Place the S4-268 Nested Pears die template under the paper, cut edge up.

Complete the sandwich and run through the Wizard™ to cut. Giving you something like this:

Then cut an eye hole out of the center of the second pear and both chipboard pieces.

Cut/emboss gold metallic paper from the S4-218 Lattice Borderabilities® Petite and from chipboard. Glue the decorative papers to all the chipboard pieces.

Add the pears to the S4-218 Lattice Borderabilities® Petite.

Cut/emboss two leaves S4-157 Sunflower Set One. Cut another and with the paper still in the die, spray with Turquoise Glimmer Mist (to help, I lay the die over scrap paper with the W-024 Magnetic Spacer Plate underneath to keep the die tight against the paper). Allow to dry and then emboss. Repeat twice. You will now have five leaves, three with glimmer. Using one of the shimmering leaves, bend the last portion of each leaf forward and bend the center so that it forms a peak. Then adhere the two folded flaps to the eye pieces. Add the top center gold piece (which came out of the lattice) using a glittered brad.

Add the other two shimmering leaves to the top of the mask, near the center and the plain leaves to the outside.

Next, choose a gradient of monochromatic colors.

Cut two S4-121 Doodle Parts from each color, one from the front or more textured side and one from the back or the flat side. You should get something like this.

Adhere to the mask, placing the center ones on the front and the rest on the back. Finally, use glitter glue to embellish the mask.

Now go out and celebrate! Eli

Don’t forget to vote for the Presto Punch™ as your favorite new tool at When Creativity Knocks. Don’t wait…register today, vote and maybe you’ll win one of the incredible prize packages they are offering. {One of them even includes the Presto Punch™}.

The Great Crafters Tool Hunt 2 starts on February 12
Spellbinders™ Presto Punch™ is in the running! More details on Savvy Saturday!

Happy Chinese New Year! The Year of the Tiger begins on February 14th, 2010.

It’s a beautiful celebration of wonderful traditions and ancient remembrances.

I created a little card to send to good friends who have two adopted Chinese daughters. I wanted to honor their tradition, so I did a little research, looking for images, colors etc for Chinese New Year. I found an image that inspired my color scheme. I loved the vibrant red, orange, gold and green.

I also found a darling image of two Chinese children holding “Happy New Year” banners. Using the dragon face as my guide, I chose an assortment of Copic Sketch markers to color the little girl.

After coloring and trimming, I chose patterned papers to coordinate and a few other supplies:

I was particularly intrigued by the S4-243 Ric Rac Diamond Borderabilities™ Petite die template and how it might make great Chinese lanterns that are so typical of the season of celebration. With the brown dot paper, I cut/embossed/sanded the border strip and then trimmed it into three sections. To make the three pieces look even more like lanterns, I cut the tops and bottoms in curves.

I cut/embossed the S4-190 Labels Four (#5, counting #1 at the center) from green cardstock as a backing for the little girl. I edged it with a Gray marker. Then, to make the “Happy New Year” tag, I grabbed red cardstock and traced part of S4-190 Labels Four (#4) with a pen. I added letter stickers to the top half. The letters below were from my counting the letters and spaces to find the center. I placed the stickers at the center and worked outwards.

After placing all the stickers, I cut the tag, placing the S4-190 Labels Four on the cardstock, cut side towards the paper, matching the template edge to the pen lines. I used low-tac art tape to secure it to the paper and then cut it in the Wizard™.

For some reason, my letter stickers were less than stellar in the “sticky” department. I decided to covered it with a liquid lacquer. I let it dry and put the card together.

Supplies: Spellbinders™ Wizard™, S4-190 Labels Four, S4-243 Ric Rac Diamond Borderabilities™ Petite; My Mind’s Eye Penny Lane My Friend and Life, I Love You, Feeling Groovy Blue Sky patterned papers; Fancy Pants, Fancy Free, Claire de Lune ric rac; Core’dinations red and green color core cardstocks; Copic Sketch markers, E00 Skin White, YR07 Cadmium Orange, Y19 Napoli Yellow, RV11 Pink, R27 Cadmium Red, W7 Warm Gray #7; SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVE by 3L, 3-D Mini Squares; Glue Dots, Craft Dots; Letter stickers, Coloring page

While you celebrate Valentine’s Day on Sunday, take a minute to celebrate the Chinese New Year, too.

Thanks for stopping by…Eli

I loved all the foiled accents on Savvy Saturday. The colors shine on our Premium Craft Foil and with so many color choices, I can’t decide. My solution is to always have the 12 piece Assorted Colors of Premium Craft Foil on hand because its variety of colors – a girl has a right to change her mind, right?!

With all this cold weather, I wanted something “Spring-y” for a friendship card. I pulled out S4-249 Scalloped Circle LG #7 (the smallest die being #1) to create a window card.

I had this beautiful blue craft foil that I wanted to frame the card front with. So I cut the middle of the craft foil with the S4-249 Scalloped Circle LG #7.

Cut Sandwich with Craft Foil (from bottom up):
White Master Mat
Magnetic Spacer Plate
S4-249 Scalloped Circle LG #7
Premium Craft Foil (color side down)
White Master Mat

The I2-1004 Impressabilities™ Flower was a perfect embossing background for the theme I wanted to create with this card. I cut the I2-1004 Impressabilities™ Flower into strips and positioned it to cover most of the craft foil frame.

Emboss Sandwich with Craft Foil (from bottom up):
White Master Mat
I2-1004 Impressabilties™ Flower
Premium Craft Foil (color side up)
Tan Embossing Pad
White Master Mat

Leaving the I2-1004 Impressabilities™ Flower embedded in the craft foil, I sanded away to highlight the embossing. Loved how it turned out.

Using My Mind’s Eye 29th Street Market Collection, I cut a window on my card front by placing the S4-249 Big Scalloped Circle LG #7 with the Magnetic Spacer Plate inside the card (card front is folded on the inside). Then I embossed by replacing the Magnetic Spacer Plate with the Tan Embossing Pad. The scalloped cut out will be used later so I put it aside.

Stamping the JustRite Stampers Friendship Borders & Center Round 3 1/4″ set onto the My Mind’s Eye 29th Street Market Collection, I cut/embossed the image into two separate pieces using S4-114 Standard Circle LG #6 & #4.

I adhered the cut out from the S4-249 Big Scalloped Circle LG #7 and the stamped image to the inside of the card. Make sure to position them to peek out through the window of the card front. I used Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L 3D Foam Square to “lift” the middle of the stamped image.

On the card front, I adhered the foiled window and added ribbon to the bottom. If you can see the bottom right corner, I added a “charm” by cutting a flower from the I2-1004 Impressabilities™ Flower. You will notice that I added some Flower Soft and Copic to add color and texture to the image.

Here are some other examples on what our Design Team Members Linda Duke and Janine Blackwelder created with their craft foil:

Design Team Member Linda Duke

Design Team Member Janine Blackwelder

If you are looking for another kind of bling, I suggest giving our Premium Craft Foil a try for your next project.

Thanks for stopping by!
MargieH