Spellbinders Propagation Garden by Annie Williams

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It’s spring and all the beautiful flowers are beginning to bloom outside but our tried and true all season plants are still inside. House plants are the best…giving life in our living area. My mother had house plants all over as I was growing up. And this first card has another special meaning…

When my adult daughter was in fourth grade I was a parent volunteer on a trip to the career center for the area. One of the classrooms we visited was the Horticulture class. They had lots of plants they were growing and taking care of — especially the spider plants. We were each given a baby spider plant to take home with us. It was planted and well loved at home and my daughter and her three sisters each took a baby shoot off it to grow in their own home. Thirty years later, the plant offshoots are still going strong. So this is my favorite card!

Using the PROPAGATED PLANTS ETCHED DIES:

  1. Cut several of the wide spread dies from lighter and darker shades of green – ink blend on them if you would like. I did a little but my paper was iridescent so it doesn’t show a lot in the picture.
  2. Cut some roots in a lighter shade of green or beige color.
  3. Cut one (or two) of the leaf parts in pieces to create two smaller “babies” and attach roots.
  4. Use patterned paper or leftover to create a vase. I cut my vase from a scrap of my watercolored embossed die of the month paper (see previous blog post).
  5. Create a background — mine is on gray paper embossed with Simon Hurley’s 3D Embossing folder (I LOVE THIS DESIGN)
  6. Splatter your background with some black ink and White Spatter. Please note: this white spatter is terrific but it doesn’t look like much when you first get it. It is mighty and just needs a bit of a stir and a little water to thin it and then tap your brush to splatter your surface.
  7. Embellish as desired.

I chose to put this on a slim line card since the babies hang down from the parent plant. I used some twine to connect the parent plant with the baby plants.

The next two cards were really fun to make. The one on the left uses the String of Pearls dies and the right card uses the Bamboo and Monstera plant dies. Again I created vases from scraps of my watercolored embossed paper. The frames we lots of fun also. The one on the left looks difficult but if you follow directions online after cutting out all the pieces, it is really easy to put together.

The left background is from the Leafy Helix Embossing folder and on the right from the Tufted 3D Embossing folder.

The sentiments are all from the Propagation Garden Sentiments Stamp and Die set.

I just LOVE this co!! All of it reminds me of a great memories that are very special! Do you have memories of special plants from your past? Please share in the comments.

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Hugs, Penny

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Spellbinders Embossing folder of the Month

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Do you want to add a bit of texture to the background of your card?  Do you sew or stitch? Or not?  Either way, this embossing folder works great in either the embossed or debossed side.

On a piece of Altenew watercolor paper I embossed the design with the folder.  I want to practice and learn more with watercolors so I decided I would try a rainbow affect.  With Altenew watercolor paints I first wet a row of the embossed design then added in some pigment going down in rainbow order.  I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it so I just went ROYGBIV overall and figured I’d go from there.

I tried lots of different ways to layout a design and finally took the Nestabilities Deckled Rectangles Etched dies and cut out a piece from the ROY part and from the GBIV part of the paper.  Playing with it still, I dropped a random white die cut on it and thought — oooo, that white looks good on the darker GBIV piece.  From Simon Hurley’s Floral Stems Etched dies I cut one of the long-stemmed flowers from white cardstock.  To keep with the rainbow theme, I cut out a piece of holographic paper with the deckled rectangles also.

Now the layout was getting easier and easier to see how pieces would fit together.

For the first panel over the card base, I debossed a plain white card panel with 80# Neenah Solar white cardstock.  This folder is great on both sides.

This was looking very bright and cheery so I thought it would make a great birthday card.  The sentiment comes from the Thanks Enclosed set of dies.  I cut it out 4 times and layered three of them.  I added some glossy accents but didn’t like it so I just added the fourth die cut on top when the accents were still tacky and it became my glue.

With the white flower to the left of the Happy Birthday, popped up with foam squares, the layout and card was complete!

Sometimes it takes awhile to find what you like. Sometimes what you started with you don’t like. Yet, if you walk away and come back to it, it will take on a new life and is so much better than you expected. In the end, I really like this card but it did have to grow on me in fits and spurts. What do you think? Have you ever had that experience? Feel free to share with me on Facebook or Instagram your thoughts.

Thanks for visiting today. Please come back again.

HUGS, PENNY

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Spellbinders More Fresh Picked in specialty Glitter

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Do you like glitz and glimmer on your cards?  Do you like sparkle?  Then Spellbinders Glitter paper is for  you!

Here a a sample of the paper with the beautiful new die “More Fresh Picked Angel Trumpets” This is a great combination with the glitter paper as it takes up the whole card front.  It will fit on an A2 size also but I chose a 5”x6.5” card base to display this beauty.

I also like to play with some of the colors on the glitter paper.  I loved the pink flowers that it created.  For the edges and the centers I modified the pink glitter:

  • Added Ranger Gumball Alcohol ink to make the pink a darker color
  • Added Ranger Sunshine Alcohol ink to make it orangey. 

So much fun to play with the colors and so easy to just add a few drops to create a new color.  These glitter papers are strong enough to take the extra colors/moisture but still die cut beautifully.

After putting it together I added some black and white spatter to the card.  Black splatter can be done easily with almost any black ink but I have struggled with the white splatter…UNTIL NOW.  Spellbinders recently came out with a new White Splatter.  Don’t be fooled by its small bottle – and on opening to find it only is partially filled.  This is truly SMALL and MIGHTY.  The white pigment may have a little oily separation look but a simple stir with your paint brush is all it needs.  Then using that paint brush, put some on an acrylic block and spritz it with water.  Hold your brush over the area you want to splatter and just tap your brush around.  I really like this splatter because it is sharp and clear, not translucent.  It especailly is good over black cardstock.

This is a quick card in die cutting and putting together and makes a great statement piece!  Glitz, glitter, bright colors, full card…you can’t go wrong with any of the components of this card.

Do you have a different color Angel Trumpet in your yard?  Show me yours with this die and tag me so I can see its beauty also.

Thanks for visiting my page.    Hope you come again and share your creations with me also.

HUGS, Penny

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Spellbinders Glimmer Club of the Month

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Do you like sparkle and shine on your cards? Do you look for new ways to create shine? Well, this month’s theme of the monthly clubs at spellbinders seems (pun intended) to be on stitching. But wait, you aren’t a fan of stitching? No problem, I’ve got you covered!

I didn’t know about stitching on cards much so I decided to just glimmer the six strips and use them as stripes on my card. Using the glimmer machine and Aura foil, I foiled on white cardstock. Then I used the solid plate and glimmered the reverse on white cardstock. I also glimmered the Better Press Butterfly Garden Press Plate and Die set, using only the sentiment and the butterfly of the reverse.

For the first card I colored my strips with blue inks from Altenew – Artic, Persian Blue and Sapphire. (TIP: rub cardstock with paper towel to bring back the shine after inking.) I taped the stipes together to get a good idea of how I wanted them on the card. Then ran white cardstock through the Four Floral 3D embossing folder. This is one of my favorite embossing folders! I cut some gold cardstock for the bottom of the card, angled for what I wanted to match the strips. To put it all together, I layered light blue cardstock then the white embossed panel popped up with foam tape. Next I added the gold over the bottom and angled the strips over gold and white with more foam tape. Since I know of lots of birthdays coming up I die cut the sentiment(not sure which company’s sentiment it is), glued it down and added the butterfly.

This second card I used the same Four Pedal 3D embossing folder with a white cardstock panel. Mounted it on gold background, added the Glimmered strips across the bottom with foam tape and topped it off with the butterfly.

Maybe someday I will stitch on cards, but for now, I think I’ll stick to the strips. Let me know what you like to do and if you would try this.

Thanks for visiting me…come back again soon.

Hugs, Penny

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Altenew 10th Anniversary!!

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Such a pleasure it is to say HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to my good friends at Altenew!

If you are following along you are coming from Karen Brown‘s post. If you want to start at the beginning, click here Altenew Card Blog.

Just look at all the goodies they are offering…their gift to YOU!


Giveaway Prizes

Over $3,500 in total prizes! We are giving away a $50 Altenew gift certificate to 10 winners, a $20 ArtistrybyAltenew gift certificate to 5 winners, and an online papercrafting class ($39.99 value) from Altenew Academy Online Class to 14 winners. There are also 28 awesome companies/crafty friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:

Be sure to leave comments by 04/16/2024 for a chance to win one of 68 prizes! To make the hop more exciting, start your comment with “Hi from (city or country where you’re from)!” 68 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog on 04/19/2024.

I finished the Altenew Educators Certification Program in April of 2021. I learned so much from this program — still going back to the original classes and enjoying newer ones also. Below are two cards using the Sunshine Flowers Craft Your Life Kit : one that was tried and true and the second that I challenged myself to something new.

Altenew is known for their great layering stamps so here is my Tried and True. Using the stamp set from Sunshine Flowers I used Obsidian Ink, Pink Quart and Purple Wine inks. The leaves were done in Olive and Moss. The sentiment is also from the same kit stacking four die cuts on top of each other for dimension. The flower was also embossed with the embossing folder and popped up with foam tape. To add some depth to the card base I ink blended the light pink cardstock with Purple Wine ink around the edges. Then Splattered the card with black and Purple Wine for background interest.

This one is the one I challenged myself. Taking black cardstock I used the embossing folder from the Sunshine Flower kit and then colored it with Acrylic Markers. I found I had to build up the yellow several times for it to show more solidly on the black background. Even though these markers are not meant to blend I was able to create a small blend by adding some pink into the centers and on the tips. Then I used white spatter on the background to add some interest. For the first time using these markers I was really pleased.

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Hugs, Penny

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Spellbinders Embossing Folder of the Month Club

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Only two days to go to still get this folder…Don’t miss your chance!

This is a classy folder – whether you want to color it or keep it white, it makes for a tremendous background.

Products used: Spellbinders March 2024 Embossing folder of the Month, Magnolia Blooms Etched Dies from the Yana’s Blooms Collection, alcohol markers, sentiment is from Smooth Lines Mix & Match Sentiments Etched Dies from the Be Bold Collection, Altenew Cosmic Berry fresh dye ink.

Products used: Spellbinders March 2024 Embossing folder of the Month, flowers from Rain Boot Bouquet small die of the month for February 2024, sentiment from Build a Card hello from small die of the month for November 2023, Oval from Infinity Punch & Pierce Plate Etched Dies part of the Stylish Ovals Collection, Altenew Be Grapeful fresh dye ink. (Tip when using direct to paper ink technique – use a full size ink pad rather than a cube for better results.)

Thanks for visiting today! Remember, order club collections by the 27th of March in order to get these specific items.

Hugs, Penny

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day Pot of Gold at the end of a Rainbow

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I looked out my window after the rain and not only did I see a beautiful rainbow but also a huge pot of gold overflowing with nuggets! Oh, soooo magical!

This great background was made curtsey of Spellbinders Glimmer plate of the Month and Rainbow hot foil. So much fun for a simple card.

Steps:

  1. Ink blend a white card base with some Distress Speckled Egg ink and a touch of Lost Shadow.
  2. Using the Glimmer machine and Rainbow foil create another piece of cardstock.
  3. Once foiled, clean up any loose foil then ink blend over it with both inks again. When done rub a paper towel over the foil to bring out the shine again.
  4. To create the pot I went really simple — an oval die cut that spans the width of the rainbow. I added some black embossing powder over part of the ‘pot’ to indicate an edge. By using a Distress embossing brush pen it is very easy to do. Add powder then heat.
  5. The stand for the pot was just a negative piece of cardstock from the end of the oval diecutting then adding black embossing powder as in #4.
  6. I trimmed the RAINBOW down on each side following the lines and used some thin (1/8″) foam tape to adhere it to the card base.
  7. I did the same for the stand of the pot, then added more thin tape to the whole pot and positioned it over the rainbow.
  8. Using a gold pen I put coins and nuggets into the pot.

The special surprise for added dimension is GOLD WAX from wax seals! Instead of making a big seal I simply created little drops and used them like dots to fill and overflow my lucky pot!

The sentiment is also from the March Glimmer Club of the Month foiled with Cobalt blue foil. CLUBS ARE OPEN NOW FOR MARCH. Click the link below to get yours before March 27th. With every foil plate ensemble there is also a role of foil – color may vary.

Step up to the Pot Of Gold and claim your prize! Don’t forget to follow me and let me know how much gold you captured on your venture. I’ll be waiting to hear how much y’all got!

Hugs, Penny

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Spellbinders Wax Seal Club of the Month – a different way to use your wax seal

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Do you like to make cards that have different folds or designs in them? This is a great way to make an easel card!

Spellbinder Clubs are open to new subscribers from the 6th of the month to the 27th of the month. Go get yours now!

Can’t you just see this going to someone who just bought a house? Someone who recently moved? It’s the beginning of a New Chapter in their lives.

To create your wax seal:

Melt wax of your color choice. I found with the square seal it was best to use 4 beads rather than three. It might also come out better if you use 5 beads. Use the Wax Seal of the Month for March, let it cool, then color with acrylic or metallic markers.

This fun card was quite simple to make.

  1. Take a top folding A2 card base. Score and fold one side of it in half again (at the 2.75 inch mark), folding it toward the center of the card.
  2. With some patterned paper create a background — this was just checkered but I added some ink blending with Distress Lumberjack Plaid color.
  3. Create a door using the Spellbinder Open House Door Base Etched dies
  4. Embellish your house wall with flowers, vines, whatever you’d like. These flowers are from the Rainboot Bouquet Small die of the Month-Feb 2024
  5. Attach your finished card front only on the bottom half of the card base so that when you open it the front will stick up straight.
  6. To keep the easel in place, take your wax seal and attach it to the lower center of the inside of your cardbase.

VOILA! Now your card will open and display nicely staying upright as the wax seal holds the bottom of the card front from closing.

Wasn’t that fun? If you create a card with this idea, please tag me on Instagram at @pennypynnonen or on Facebook on my Folded With Card page. I’d love to have you follow me as well.

Thanks for visiting! Please come again. My door is always open to you! And the lights are on!

Hugs, Penny

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Spellbinders Trellis die -Through the Arbor Garden Die Bundle by Susan Tierney-Cockburn

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Have you ever sat in the warm sunshine under a flower covered arbor? Can you feel that warmth on your face? And the pleasing colorful flowers are entertaining your mind.

My version of this Trellis die is a bit different than the die would suggest. Instead of having a solid trellis I was easily able to create an arbor with just a couple of cuts…Just take out the two middle sections leaving the top on one piece and cut a left and a right piece of another.

I ran some white card stock through the Embossing Folder of the month to glue the trellis to. The rest was easy — die cut flowers and arrange them however you want. I purposely didn’t cover all of the trellis as I really wanted to show that you could use it in different ways.

What’s your favorite flower to add to a trellis? Do you have a trellis in your yard?

Please comment and sign up to follow my page. Lots more to come in the future. And remember that the Club of the Month kits are open now until February 27th.

Thanks for visiting.

Hugs, Penny

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Lovely Daffodils from Spellbinders Glimmer Club of the month

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Hmmm – What’s your weather like today? Here in Michigan we’ve been having some great spring thinking weather…until today. Now we have 4-5 inches of snow!! Oh how I long for SPRING…and the sweet sight of daffodils popping up all over the yard. Planted so long ago but coming thru the thick of winter to bring us hope and cheeriness.

Spellbinder’s Glimmer plate of the month to the rescue! The foil that came with it is Champagne and it is a very soft and soothing gold. To add a bit of color I just used a few Altenew Artist markers to outline giving a subtle bit of color. The sentiment came with the glimmer plate and cut it out with coordinating die and stacked. I took the deeper yellow color Artist marker C014 and colored it all -then the clear to take some of it off. I really like this highlighted look.

And the bonus card is the reverse of this using a solid plate to foil. It almost looks black but in real life it is the same soft and soothing gold. The second picture shows more of the Champagne from an overhead view.

The brilliance is gorgeous but it doesn’t photograph well.

I hope you are enjoying our look into Spring beauties with Spellbinders. These flowers are terrific! Spellbinders Clubs are OPEN for February kits until Feb 27th. Come join in now by clicking the first link in the Supply list below.

I invite you to comment and tell me what you think. Also, please sign up to follow me through this great cardmaking journey.

Come back again, Penny

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