Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms Birthday Card…

March 31, 2023April 1, 2023 Pam Sparks12 Comments

Hi friends and cardmakers! Hope you’re having a beautiful week! I needed some birthday cards this month so I finally put to use these florals that I’d put together last year! I die cut a bunch of Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms from different Bazzill Card Shopped cardstocks, glued them up and there they sat in an envelope box lid! So many gals have used these dies… I’d guess they were the most popular floral set of 2022!

I used a poppystamps Double Stitch Rectangle Frames die to showcase the bouquet.

A Taylored Expressions Sentiment Strip.

Some Scrapbook Adhesives 3D Foam Micro Squares to mount the flowers. These worked out really nice because I needed to stick stems under!

Linking to some challenges…

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – anything goes

Word Art Wednesday – anything goes

Cardz 4 Galz – Spring Flowers

I’ll link up below what I used. It’s super simple! I didn’t even add any inking to the flowers!

Thank you for stopping by! Happy Spring flower creating to you! ttul!

Here’s what I used for this card… (I left in the Scrapbook.com and Simon Says Stamp links but they are both out of stock) (bummer, the Double Stitch Rectangle Frames dies are no longer available) I’ll link up another that’s similar but not the same size.

Be Bold Blooms Etched Dies from the… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Simple Strips Background [ TE ]	Simple Strips Die [ TE ]
Bazzill Card Shoppe [ STR ]	Scrapbook Adhesives 3D Self-Adhesive… [ STR ]	Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock… [ HBL ]
Poppystamps – 2478 Scalloped Stitch… [ STR \| SSS ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	Ranger Ink Jet Black Archival Ink Pad [ SBC \| SSS ]

All Occasion · cards · Distress Ink coloring · Embossing Folders · Flowers · Foiling · Hot Foiling · Oxide Inks · Spellbinders dies · Techniques

Spellbinders February Release Four Petal Floral 3D Embossing Folder Card…

February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 Pam Sparks18 Comments

Hi everyone! Do you remember the poinsettia embossing folder card I made HERE? I tried it again with the NEW Spellbinders Four Petal Floral 3D Embossing Folder.

I did this one a little different. I ran it through the Big Shot with the embossing folder setup after I inked it up with Antique Linen Distress Ink pad. (regular dye ink) You ink it on the wrong side, the side that debosses, the design is recessed into the cardstock but you don’t want to go deep this time. Use a thinner sandwich. I inked it up so it’d be easier to see where to brush on the ink. The first time I did it I got too much green on the pink.

I found that I could kinda ‘wash’ the ink off with a damp stiff-ish paint brush, after I deep embossed it and brushed back in the right color. I missed a few spots though! hehe

Scroll down (last picture) and you’ll see how it looks after ink blending and before the last embossing like the folder is meant to be embossed.

After inking with yellow, pink, green oxide inks and deep embossing, you ink blend again over the top of all of it with Vintage photo distress oxide ink.

It’s a super fun, vintage-y, distressed look that the camera makes brighter and deeper color than it really is IRL.

I hot foiled the sentiment on a die cut panel using the Spellbinders Something Special Glimmer Hot Foil Plate and gold hot foil.

I spattered on some gold ink for sparkle and glued on some gold pearls to glam it up… oh and some thin gold cord before I glued it to an A7 size cardbase.

Here’s the not so pretty ink blended panel! :O I know… at this point you think, I should quit! This is NOT working! lol

Never fear….keep going! lol

As to my Hallmark commentary last time… this one is Hallmark size anyway! lol

Linking to some challenges…

The Flower Challenge – Use your latest stamps and dies

Just Us Girls Challenge – Sparkle (I have gold sparkly spatters)

Can You Handle the Pressure – anything goes with an embossing folder

Sunshiny day here today, probably won’t be tomorrow when this posts and I haven’t even made it out! I can’t believe it’s already Feb, 14th! Weather and time seem to be my go to conversation! ugh. Sorry!

Hope this finds you creating valentines or something! I’ll talk to you again soon!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Shopping links to the products I used… thank you so much for clicking through from here! I appreciate it and no cost to you! Valentines SALE! Go HERE! Feb. 14 – 20

Spellbinders – Four Petal Collection… [ SBC \| SPL \| SSS ]	Spellbinders – Inspired Basics… [ SBC \| SPL ]	Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil -… [ SBC \| SPL \| SSS ]
Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil… [ SBC \| SBC \| SSS ]

cards · Christmas · Embossing Folders · Spellbinders dies · Winter

Spellbinders Scenic Poinsettias Card…

December 13, 2022 Pam Sparks10 Comments

Hi everyone! I’m still here! Down to the wire trying to do all the things! I made this card a few weeks ago and today I decided I was going to get it posted finally!

I LOVE this gorgeous embossing folder from Spellbinders.

I was inspired by Annie HERE…

I started out like she describes but I went back after and added some green color pencil for the berry stems and holly leaves.

For my die cuts I used the Spellbinders Holiday Blooms die set. I remembered I had all the watercolor backgrounds from following Jill Foster’s background video for the new Penny Black release for Christmas! I used them for die cutting and I’m so happy with how well they go with the ink blended embossing!

The hot foiled Merry Christmas Sentiment is also from Spellbinders. I’ll link below!

Thank you so much for coming over to visit my blog! Tonight we have a grandkids choir concert. They’re part of a homeschool choir with an excellent director who has high expectations so it’s always a beautiful and a blessed event for us. Can’t wait! ❤

ttul!

Here’s what I used to make this card…

Spellbinders – 3D Embossing Folder…

[ SBC | SPL | SSS ]

Spellbinders – Celebrate The Season…

[ SBC | SSS | SPL ]

Spellbinders – Tinsel Time Collection…

[ SBC | SSS | SPL ]

SALE at Simon Says Stamp and at Spellbinders!

Shopping · Spellbinders dies

Spellbinders Early Black Friday Sale… and it’s GOOD!

November 21, 2022 Pam Sparks2 Comments

Hi everyone! I’m shopping the Early Sale and just thought some of you might want to know too!

HERE’s my recent SB posts…

I think the mailbox cards are my favorite! Click the Early Black Friday Sale logo above or the words in this sentence to go to the SB web store, scroll down.

Thank you, thank you!

cards · Christmas · copics · Die Piecing · Foiling · Spellbinders dies · Winter

Spellbinders Blooming Tree Glimmer Hot Foil Plate and Die Set Card…

August 12, 2022August 12, 2022 Pam Sparks7 Comments

Hi everyone! I’m feeling festive on this second Friday of August already! This is such a pretty hot foil plate set! Easy and fast to add some touches of color too!

I used the Plaid Tidings Background Glimmer Hot Foil Plate on the top layer. While I was deciding what I was going to do for this card, I also just embossed this plate through my machine… it worked great!

After I foiled the Plaid, I die cut one of the Essential Arches Dies in the panel. I used mounting tape to raise it up on the cardbase.

I hot foiled a sentiment from the Christmas Magic Glimmer Hot Foil Plate set. I haven’t tried embossing these yet but I want to. I hope it works!

The smallest die in the Precision Layering Mini Slimline B die set works perfect for cutting out these sentiments! YAY!

A2 size card…one more for the stash!

That’s all there is to it! Holler if you have any questions! Have a wonderful weekend!

Here’s what I used to make this card…

Spellbinders – Glimmer Greetings… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	Spellbinders – Tinsel Time Collection… [ SBC \| SPL ]	Spellbinders – Glimmer Greetings… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]
Spellbinders – Glimmer Greetings… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	Spellbinders – Precision Layering… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	copic sketch markers at Simon Says… [ SSS \| TE \| BLIC ]
Glimmer Hot Foil System \| Spell… [ SPL \| SSS ]	Spellbinders – Platinum 6 Machine Die… [ SBC \| SPL \| SSS ]	Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil -… [ SBC \| SPL ]
Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil -… [ SBC \| SPL ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]