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Emily Midgett

Spellbinders Easy Card Kit of the Month + Extras!

Hi there! The Spring Delight Easy Card Kit of the Month from Spellbinders features a crazy amount of elements to create literally dozens of cards. Printed ephemera, chipboard stickers, patterned paper, embellishments, adhesive, card bases, envelopes… the possibilities and combinations of product are endless! I shared two projects using only elements from the kit in THIS POST from yesterday, but today, I thought I’d share two more projects that feature elements from the kit combined with other Spellbinders dies and hot foil plates. There’s no reason why you can’t combine the kit with goodies that you might already have in your stash! I have two projects to share with you today, so let’s get started with the details!

My first project features several of the pieces of printed ephemera from the Spring Delight kit, which I combined with some foiled pieces from my stash to create this dreamy, blushing, shiny birthday card! I like to foil lots of different color combinations when I have my Glimmer machine out, creating bunches of different backgrounds and elements in different color schemes. I used the Plaid Tidings Glimmer Hot Foil Plate to foil this tone-on-tone plaid background, using Blush foil with Barely Peach cardstock. I used that foiled background as the basis for my color palette for this project.

After deciding on my foiled and patterned background, I sifted through the ephemera pack from the Spring Delight kit to find images in the coordinating color scheme, settling on the sweet coral owl, peachy birthday cake, and blushy flowers and foliage, with a few hearts for good measure.

I trimmed the plaid background down a bit and mounted it on an A2 panel of solid pale pink cardstock, included in the Spring Delight kit to create a monochromatic mat. After finding a foiled Happy Birthday sentiment in my packet of foiled sentiments (created using Blush foil and the Essential Glimmer Greetings and Solid Rectangle foil plate set), I used the sentiment as a “ground” for my birthday owl and cake, adhering all of the elements with liquid and foam adhesives for lots of dimension. There are so many different elements included in the Spring Delight kit that it’s easy to pick and choose a group of monochromatic elements, especially when you pair them with some products from your own stash!

My second project uses the new Spring Tea die set, which was designed to coordinate with the Spring Delight kit! I die cut the different elements from the Spring Tea set using the pale blue, mint, and white cardstock included with the Spring Delight kit. I also die cut a vellum arch using the Essential Arches nested dies, as well as a white “for you” greeting that I cut using the Smooth Lines Mix & Match sentiment dies.

Once I had die cut all of the different elements, I pulled out some of the elements from the Spring Delight kit. I trimmed down the lovely pink plaid patterned paper to A2 size, then selected a few hearts, a butterfly, and chipboard “happy birthday” greeting to coordinate with the little bunny and flowers. Before adhering my vellum to my card front, I arranged the elements on the vellum arch, adhering them using liquid and tape adhesive.

Once all of my main elements were adhered to the vellum die cut, I flipped it over and added foam adhesive behind the solid die cuts to hide it. The vellum helps to create a more solid background for the busy die cut elements, helping them stand out from the patterned background, and popping them up with foam adhesive helps to add dimension and create some extra space from that pink plaid. To add one more element of shine, I added Opal gems to the flower centers. I love the extra texture and shine that this simple step adds to the card!

Well, that’s all for my projects today! I hope you’ll take a peek at the different Spellbinders Club Kits. They’re super versatile and packed with value, and you can easily use them alone for super quick cards or pair them with items that you already have in your crafty arsenal to create really unique and interesting projects. Thanks so much for reading today, and have a marvelous day!

Spellbinders Easy Card Kit of the Month-February 2023!

It’s officially February (finally, right? Why does January seem so interminably slow?) and so it’s time to introduce the new Spellbinders Club Kits! This month’s Spring Delight Easy Card Kit of the Month is filled to the brim with supplies to create an insane amount of cards *so, so quickly.* Busy momma here, and so cranking out quick cards is my specialty, which is why I adore the sheer volume of goodies in the Easy Card Kit of the Month. You receive so many beautiful and colorful printed ephemera, 6×6 patterned paper, chipboard stickers, puffy sentiment stickers, embellishments, card bases, envelopes, even adhesive! Truly a comprehensive kit that makes creating a breeze. The images in this month’s kit are utterly reminiscent of spring, with sweet bunnies and birds, tons of flowers and foliage, citrus images, and objects like houses, teapots, coffee cups, etc, so that you can create cards for almost any occasion.

I created a total of four projects using elements of this kit, and the two that I’m sharing today feature only elements from the kit, with only the addition of a pink bow! I love that the contents of the kit are cohesive and work beautifully together, but you can create tons of totally different projects depending on which colors and elements you focus.

For this first card, I focused on the citrus elements in the kit. I used the beautiful citrus patterned paper as my main background, accenting it with the sweet black and white scalloped paper. When pairing two different patterns on the same card, I always make sure to choose contrasting patterns, then break them up with a coordinating strip of solid cardstock. On this card, I separated the two patterned papers with a strip of solid black cardstock.

I adhered the citrus medallion with some of the foam tape included in the kit, then added a few bits and bobs from the ephemera pack that coordinated, tucking them here and there in a little cluster in the center of the card. I added one of the chipboard greetings and finished it off with some Opal gems for a bit of sparkle. The perfect card to cheer up a friend!

My second card uses the floral ephemera from the Spring Delight Easy Card Kit of the Month. I trimmed down another of the lovely 6×6 papers in the kit, this time in a muted sage green with dainty little floral sprigs. I arranged a bunch of the flowers and foliage in a circle on my glass craft mat, then used some Press’n’Seal to pick up the arrangement. I flipped it over while still attached to the Press’n’Seal and added foam adhesive to each of the individual die cuts.

I flipped the Press’n’Seal over and adhered the floral wreath to the patterned card front. Because there are two of each image in the printed ephemera pack, I was able to add another layer of a few of the flowers for extra height and interest! I selected one of the chipboard banners from the chipboard sheets included in the kit and adhered it to the wreath with some more foam adhesive. I created a little pink bow with some (super old) seam binding that I’ve got in my stash and tucked it beneath the chipboard banner for a little extra texture. Finally, I added a smattering of Opal gems for some dainty sparkle!

Well, that’s all for today’s projects! I have two more to share with you, this time combining the contents of the kit with some items from my stash. I will share those tomorrow! If you like the looks of this kit and want the ease of having it sent to you each month without having to actually remember to order it, you can subscribe to receive a discounted rate! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Altenew February 2023 Boho Chic Stamp, Die, Stencil & More Release Blog Hop #1 + Giveaway ($300 in Total Prizes!)

Hi there! Today, we are celebrating the release of Altenew’s new Boho Chic collection, a new array of products that have so many unique subjects/styles and can work seamlessly together or on their own! You can check out the full hop list HERE on the Altenew blog or check out the link list at the bottom of this post.

My projects for today’s post feature an interesting, new-to-me color combination: rose gold, blush, and teal. I began by doing some hot foiling with the new Delicate Floral Motif hot foil plate. I loved the look of the contrast of Altenew’s Rose Gold Hot Foil roll on some intense teal cardstock, so I used that as my color inspiration for both projects today, keeping the colors intense and vibrant on the hot foiled card, juxtaposing it with a lighter, more pastel version for the second project. Let’s get started with the details!

To start, I hot foiled the new Delicate Floral Motif hot foil plate with the Rose Gold Hot Foil from Altenew on some intense teal cardstock from my stash, centering it a bit to the left of the center of the A2 card front and using some low-tack tape to keep it in place when using my hot foil machine. I love how beautifully the contrast of colors showcases details from the new Delicate Floral Motif hot foil plate. To highlight the details even further and direct the eye towards the hot foiled focal point, I blended some Emerald ink around the edges of the card front, then splattered some coordinating rose gold metallic watercolor around the edges.

While my panel was drying, I hot foiled greetings from the Versatile Greetings and Sweet Sentiments hot foil and die bundles. I used the same teal cardstock and Rose Gold Hot Foil to keep the color scheme completely cohesive. I love the combination of fonts with these two sentiment sets; the chunky type font contrasts beautifully with the delicate script of the handwritten font. Once I had hot foiled and die cut the greetings, I popped them up on the card front using some foam adhesive.

Once I had added the foiled sentiment die cuts, I almost called it good, but the more I looked at it, the more it felt like I needed just one more element of that metallic rose gold. One of my favorite ways to accent a focal point is to add a rectangular frame around the edge of my card front, and the Fine Frames Cover Die creates perfectly delicate accent frames that fit so many different styles of card. I die cut the Fine Frames Cover Die from some glittery cardstock in a shade almost identical to the rose gold foil. I adhered one around the blended edge of my card front using some liquid adhesive. The rose gold foil, rose gold splatters, and rose gold frame contrast so beautifully with the dark teal background!

My second card is a light and airy version of the same color scheme used before. I know that the new Swamp Buttercup is probably meant to be done in shades of yellow, but I was in “rose gold mode,” so I took some artistic license and blended the flowers using the muted pinks of the Woodland Escape Fresh Dye Ink collection. I blended the leaves using Lagoon and Emerald inks, lightly blending a touch of the darkest shade from the Woodland Escape quartet on the edge of the foliage to add extra dimension and interest. I die cut the finished floral bouquet using the coordinating die.

For the background, I die cut the new Rattan Stripes die from two A2 panels of pale peach cardstock, rotating it 90* the second time to create a plaid pattern. I adhered them both to a white A2 card front using liquid adhesive around the edges. The pale peach cardstock creates such a subtle background, but with tons of texture to keep things interesting. I added the die cut stenciled bouquet to the plaid card front using foam tape.

For the greeting, I used the Sweet Sentiments dies to die cut a glittery greeting. I die cut the solid background piece from some heavyweight vellum, then die cut the detail layer once from plain white cardstock and once from the same glittery rose gold cardstock used on the previous card. I adhered it to the card front, nestling it amongst the flowers with some dots of liquid adhesive. The final touch was to add a few peachy gems for some sparkle.

Well, that’s all for my projects today! Now for some fun giveaway information:

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a *$100 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $20 gift certificate to 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 02/07/2023 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 11 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 02/08/2023.
*The winner of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.

Here’s the full hop list:

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!

Make Way For Ducklings with Spellbinders!

Hi there! So when I was pregnant with my first set of twins, my baby shower was planned around one of my favorite books from childhood: Make Way For Ducklings. I loved the mental image of me as momma duck with my little trail of ducklings behind me. (I had no idea how appropriate that image would end up being…. I couldn’t have been more shocked to find out years later that we were going to have twins again lol.) When I saw the new Showered With Love collection from Spellbinders released this month, I couldn’t wait to use it to create some cute little baby cards! I focus so much on flowers that I sometimes I forget how much fun it can be to play with other subjects. Let’s get started with the details!

Both of my cards today feature the darling new Duck with Umbrella dies, and I love that the accessories can create a gender neutral, girl, or boy version of this sweet little duckling! I kept the color schemes somewhat neutral, with bright yellow duckies, Waterfall card bases, and red and black accents.

My first gender neutral card starts out by die cutting the Duck with Umbrella dies, cutting the duckling components from yellow, black, and orange cardstock, and the accessories from bright red cardstock. I used a small blending brush to blend Marigold ink (from Pinkfresh Studio) around the edges of the duckling, and Merlot ink (from Simon Says Stamp) around the edges of the red accessories. I find that this small step makes a huge difference in the finished look of the die cuts. It helps to add shape and dimension to this otherwise-flat image. I adhered all of the components together with liquid glue, popping up the little baby wing with some foam adhesive for extra dimension.

I die cut the card base using the new Raining Hearts dies from the new Showered With Love collection, using the raindrop background die with some Waterfall cardstock, backing it with some glittering aqua cardstock. I love the twinkling raindrops peeking out behind the aqua cardstock!

The Raining Hearts set includes a couple of sentiment die cuts, so I die cut the detail “hello” from some more glittery aqua cardstock, cutting the background layer from some black cardstock. I tried to keep the black accents to the “rule of three” so that the accents felt intentional, so I also die cut the “baby” from some more black cardstock with the Be Bold Uppercase alphabet dies. I cut the letters twice and adhered them together to add a bit of extra height. I also added a glittery aqua “sweet,” cut using the My Sweet Friend die collection. I adhered all of the components to the rainy card front using both liquid and foam adhesive for lots of texture and dimension!

My second card features the same color scheme, this time with a card that would be perfect for a little girl’s birthday! After creating the sweet little duckling from the Duck with Umbrella die set, I die cut one of the little bows included in the set and added it to her “hair,” making this baby into a little girl duckling with one piece of cardstock! Isn’t she so cute?

For the card base, I wanted something that was fairly neutral but still would be appropriate for a small child, so I pulled out the Plaid Company Embossing Folder and ran it through my Platinum 6 with an A2 panel of Waterfall cardstock. Once my card front was full of texture, I gently ran the Hero Arts Arctic ink pad over the raised area to add a little bit of extra interest to the background and to enhance the plaid pattern. To ground the scene and tone down the plaid pattern on the background, I also die cut a dainty oval from the Elliiptical Ovals die collection using some heavyweight vellum.

To make the card extra festive for a kiddo-friendly birthday card, I added some banners and confetti cut from the Party Decor die set using red cardstock and glittery aqua cardstock. I also die cut a greeting from the Smooth Lines Mix & Match Sentiments, cut from some more glittering aqua cardstock. I arranged the sentiment and duckling on the scalloped vellum oval, then flipped it over and added dots of liquid adhesive behind the solid die cuts to help hide the adhesive, then flipped it back over and adhered it to the plaid panel. I added the banners and confetti with some more liquid adhesive, then added a heat embossed birthday greeting strip with some foam tape. Lots of texture and dimension on this card!

Well, that’s all for these projects! I love creating sweet birthday and baby cards, and it will be so nice to have these on hand for our next birthday party or baby shower. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

More Pinkfresh Studio January 2023 Release Inspiration!

Hi there! I am back today with another project that I’m also sharing over on Instagram as part of the Pinkfresh Studio January 2023 Release Instagram Hop. I always love seeing my illustrations become stamps, but I was even more excited when Kinnari (the owner of Pinkfresh Studio) told me that they were going to create a Wonderful In Every Way Hot Foil Plate in addition to the stamp set, stencils, and coordinating die. I am totally obsessed with hot foiling, and seeing my design as a hot foil plate was so exciting! Yesterday, I shared a watercolored project using my new Wonderful In Every Way stamp set (which you can check out HERE), and today I am sharing a project using the Wonderful In Every Way Hot Foil Plate, coordinating layering stencils, and coordinating die. Let’s get started with the details!

Foiling on colored cardstock is one of my most favorite ways to utilize color in my cards. I think that the finished effect of using one shade of colored cardstock throughout the project makes for such a polished, cohesive final product. To that end, I wanted to do some colorful foiling on a shade of super pale apricot colored cardstock using some pretty pink foil using the new Wonderful In Every Way Hot Foil Plate.

I began by hot foiling the large floral image from Wonderful In Every Way Hot Foil Plate twice on a panel of A2 apricot colored cardstock using some bubblegum pink foil. I arranged the image so that it was slightly off the edge of the cardstock both times. I then used the layering stencils with the Peach Fuzz, Coral Reef, Ballet Slipper, Bubble Gum, and Sparkling Rose inks. I kept the focus on the pretty pink blooms, adding just a hint of color and shadow to the foliage with the peachy inks.

I initially planned on making a one layered card with both of the foiled floral swags creating a sort of frame on my pale apricot card front, but I ended up wanting to add a bit of color and texture to the area behind the blooms, so I used the coordinating die to cut the finished foiled and stenciled images out. Because I had hot foiled them on the edges of the same size panel of cardstock, I had a guide for exactly where to place them on my background. I die cut the Dotted Lattice cover plate die from some coordinating matte pink foil cardstock and layered it on another A2 panel of the pale apricot cardstock. I love how this looks almost tone-on-tone, but still it’s so colorful!

I adhered the die cut blooms to the top and bottom of the card front with foam adhesive, using the straight edges as my guide for placement. I always like to coordinate the foil/cardstock combination for the greetings with the focal points, so when I was foiling (I do all of my hot foiling in a big batch so that I have lots of bits and bobs to use later) I made sure to hot foil the new Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil set using the same foil/cardstock combination so that everything stayed cohesive. I adhered the greeting with a double layer of foam tape to help it stand out even more from the background, then added a few Blossom Glitter Drops for some more sparkle!

Well, that’s all for today’s project! You should take a peek at the hop happening over on Instagram; Pinkfresh Studio is giving away tons of prizes, and we have even more inspiration to share with you using this month’s new release. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!