Yesterday, Keri Lee Sereika showed her cool creation with the S4-203 Contemporary Hearts Pendant and the S4-212 Contemporary Hearts Borderabilities®. Thank you, Keri Lee, for the wonderful inspiration! Remember you have until June 26th (11:59PM EST) to enter to win.

Welcome to Day 5 of the Spellbinders™ Pendants Blog Frenzy!!

Today, Sherry Cheever will show her great projects using the S4-210 Lattice Pendant and the S4-218 Lattice Borderabilities®.

***Remember you need to send an email to enter! Link is in Sherry’s Blog! Good Luck!!***

How many years of crafting?
I’ve been crafting in one or another since I was about 8 years old. I remember weaving pot holders and selling them to the neighbors for pennies (I guess you can say that was my first paying job too). That would mean, that I’ve been crafting for 42 years now.

How long have you been blogging?
I started my own website in November of 2005 with daily posts. When Splitcoaststampers offered blogs to the Daily Dozen Alumni, I jumped on the bandwagon and my first blog post there was February 24, 2007.

Your favorite Spellbinders™ die?
I think my favorite Spellbinders dies are the S4-202 Large Deckled Rectangles and the S4-201 Small Deckled Rectangles Nestabilities® and the S4-085 Snowflake Wonder.

Favorite food/beverage for crafting?
I always have coffee or Diet Coke (and sometimes chocolate) close at hand.

One thing you get inspiration from and why?
Most times I draw inspiration from art work of wallpaper that I see in different places that I go. I also like to browse the Kohl’s Sunday ads for pictures of any art they might have on sale.

Here are some of Sherry’s recent works of art!

***Remember you need to send an email to enter! Link is in Sherry’s Blog! Good Luck!!***

When it was cold out, my mom used to tell us kids to put on layers.
Well, it’s warm out but I’m saying “put on layers - your Nesties™ layers!”

We will be cutting the Nestibilities® and layering them to make a wonderful design. Remember when you first purchased your Nestibilities®? They were nested in a package ready to be used. All you need to do is to position them in the same way on your magnetic spacer or white spacer (depending on which Wizard™ you have) and you’re good to go!

From bottom, the sandwich is your conventional cut receipe:
White Master Mat
Die (cut side UP - if you have a white spacer, I would tape down the die with removable tape on the non-cut side to hold in place
Paper
White Master Mat

After cutting, emboss by removing the spacer plate from the sandwich and add the Tan Embossing Mat by placing it on top of the die.

So your sandwich will be (from bottom):
White Master Mat
Die (cut side UP)
Paper
Tan Embossing Mat
White Master Mat

Although you may have seen this technique with our Flower Nestibilities® (such as the S4-191 Dahlia and the S4-192 Blossom), I decided to go a little geometric with mine by using the S4-202 Large Deckled Rectangles.

With the Core’dinations Color Core Cardstock , I cut/embossed the entire nested die template but only used the three (3) largest sizes and the center. Then I sanded the embossed areas. I only adhered the largest frame flat on to the card base and then foam taped the two other frames with Scrapbook Adhesives to give it a 3-D effect. The center I stamped the “HI” by using JustRite Stampers letters and Clearsnap Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink Chestnut Roan. Using My Mind’s Eye Penny Lane Collection, I made a card base and cut/embossed a flower from the S4-200 Flower Bouquet Miniabilities die template. To accent the flower, I stenciled with Clearsnaps Queue and added a Hero Arts Pearl in the middle. Adhere the finished flower with Scrapbook Adhesives 3D foam square in the middle of the frames and adhere the “HI” center on to the lower right hand corner…you are done!

To give you some more ideas, we did a post on this topic for a card and for a layout back in March.

So will you be putting your layers on?!
Have a great Saturday!

MargieH

We can’t believe it’s already time to award the die templates to the winner of Day 10. Time flies when you are having fun. Yes, we are having fun and hope you are too. We are so glad that our visitors continue to enter in numbers over 2,000. So, let’s get to it and see what is being given away today:

Our winner today, comes to us through Random.com’s choice of number:

Here are your random numbers:
914
Timestamp: 2009-01-17 04:19:41 UTC

From that number, we contacted our new friend:

Georgette of Glen Mills, Pennsylvania

Who Said:

Wow. It doesn’t get much better than that (Well, at least only for a few more days.) Thanks again to everyone who is joining us for our Fifth Anniversary Celebration. Good luck over the last few days of contests.

I feel like I’m running a marathon and I’m just rounding the last corner on the first loop. Ahead of me, I can see a line-up of five die templates. Amazing, new, highly detailed, you know, the kind you’ve come to expect from Spellbinders™. The Main “glass of water” for today is the Small Deckled Rectangles that was released by Sherry Cheever on her blog. Thanks Sherry for your superb projects. Now let’s check out the five die template sets up for today’s winner:

We had nearly 2,200 entrants on Sherry’s give-away days. Of course, we went over to Random.org to see who might get picked.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

78

Timestamp: 2009-01-10 07:26:37 UTC

which lead us to contact:

Claudia from Redding, California

and she nearly burst when she said, ”

“OH MY GOODNESS!!! I can’t believe it!! Spellbinders dies are Totally Awesome!! I won?? I WON!! I am jumping up and down!!! The blog reveals have shown really gorgeous uses for these dies, and provided so many great ideas. They are so inspiring. I’m really looking forward to trying these beautiful new designs. Thank you so much!”

WOW. You said it, girl. Thanks to everyone who played and keep it up ’cause there are many more Spellbinders™ die templates to come.

Cheers, Eli