Spellbinders Support Ukraine stamp and die sets

Hi everyone! Spellbinders is proud to support the people of Ukraine and have designed a special stamp set to stand in solidarity with their fight for freedom. The Freedom Sunflowers clear stamp set (STP-154) has a sentiment quote in English and Ukrainian as a show of solidarity with the fight for freedom in Ukraine.

 Spellbinders is donating 100% of sales from these products to help the people of Ukraine.

 In addition to the stamp set, there are select stamps & dies included as well!

Click here to see all the stamps and dies included in the Support Ukraine suite

 

One of the die sets is the Create-a-Sunflower. This die set is one of the original die sets in their "Create-a-Flower" collection.

Here is a card I made with this lovely set back in 2014 when this set was originally released.

This card also uses the now retired Majestic Circles die set, but there are several circle die sets available that would give you a similar look and feel:

Rings Around the Circle

Picot Petite Circles

Classic Scalloped Circles SM

Other items used in this card are Wink of Stella Glitter Brush, Patterned paper and enamel dots.

The sunflower is fairly simple to create.

To create the flower, you will need to cut:

10 flower petals of each size (since the petal sizes are on 1 die, you need to run it through 10 times)

4 petal bases (adhere the petals to each of the 10 "pointy" parts)

1 flower center

amount of leaves are optional

Adhere 10 of each size of petal to the petal base and repeat with all 4 sizes. Layer together and add the center.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here's a close up of the flower details.

Contemporary dogwood flower card

Hi everyone!  I have another fun flower card to share.  I've been into purple lately, so when designing this I reached for the fabulous Deep Lilac cardstock to pair with the awesome Contemporary Circles die set!

The flower on this card is from the Create-a-Flower series of dies (which has 24 flowers in it now!) and is the Dogwood.  I love it and it is super easy to make.  You only have to die cut the pieces once (other flowers require multiple pieces).  Here is a picture.

I lightly sponged some Bubblegum Pink ink onto each petal and bent them slightly over my thumb.  I then glued the petals to the petal base.  I overlapped them at the center to get my petals close enough to touch at the sides.  The stamens are also super easy, just a tiny curve with my embossing tool and done. 

Here is the Contemporary Circles, isn't it the coolest?  It also comes in a Square and Diamonds!!

 Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here is a close up picture.  You can see I added a sequin and pearl to the center.

Card Deets:  
Spellbinders Supplies:  
Dies: Dogwood (S2-125), Contemporary Circles (S4-498), Celebration (IN-012)

Other Supplies: 

Fun Stampers Journey cardstock in Black Licorice, Sweet Pear, Deep Lilac, and Kiwi Kiss and Journey Sequins in Bloom Time; Blush pearls in 2 and 3mm

Adhesive: Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares

Crafty flower birthday card and another winner

Hi everyone!!  I have a fun card to share that uses one of the new flower die series from Spellbinders called Crafty Flowers.  There are 6 sets in this series and my card uses Crafty Flowers 3.

I also used the Fancy Lattice die if a fun way.  First I cut out a rectangle from my card front using my paper trimmer.  Below I show after my first 2 cuts.

Next I die cut some white cardstock using my Fancy Lattice die.  I adhered it to the back of the opening using white liner tape.  Then I adhered a piece of purple ombre patterned paper behind the opening.  Fun huh?!?

Next I die cut the pieces for my flower.  I ended up using 5 of the medium sized petal and 10 of the small petal.  These flowers are pretty easy to assemble.  There is a split in the bottom of the petal and you separate it and adhere it to the petal base, shown below.

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Before I go, I never heard back from my Fun Stamper's Journey prize package winner I announced last week.  So that means I get to pick another winner!!  Random.org helped me chose:

 #31

Babbi Rissling May 5, 2015 at 9:38 PM

Perfection! Cheerful on so many levels. Love it!

Congrats Babbi!  Send me an email (info on my right side bar) and I will forward your address to FSJ right away!  You have until Thursday to get back to me.

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Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here's a close up picture.

Card Deets:  
Spellbinders Supplies:  
Dies: Fancy Lattice (S5-152), Crafty Flower 3 (S2-170), Springs (S2-048); Sentiments One (S2-082) (ES-009)

Other Supplies: 

Fun Stampers Journey cardstock in Black Licorice, Banana Cream, Pretty Amethyst, Lavender Fusion and Lemon Grass and white liner tape; My Mind's Eye "Sherbert" 6x6 pad; purple rhinestones

Adhesive: Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares

Gerber daisy hello card

Hi everyone! I have a fun card to share today using one of the older shapes, the Curved Rectangles and one of the Create-a-Flower dies, the Gerber Daisy.  

With this flower, there are 3 sizes of the petals: large, medium and small.

To make each layer you will need 8 petals.

I wanted my flower more full, so I cut each size two times.  You can see the cuts below.  One good thing about the petal die is there are 2 of each petal size on it, so you will need to run it through 4 times, make sense?

Next you tuck the point of each label into the slot of the "layer forming disc" and then glue it down.

I added some stickles to some of the petals and sentiment and added some chino colored pearls as accents.  I embossed the flower panel with the Graduated Dots folder (I used side A).  This is a cool Grand sized folder, you will notice the dots get smaller in size as you go down.  The reverse side is also cool, check it out.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here's a close up picture.

Card Deets:   
Spellbinders Dies: IN-037 Celebration Two, S2-066 Create-a-Gerber Daisy Shapeabilities®; S5-006 Curved Rectangles Nestabilities®; EG-001 Graduated Dots M-bossabilities folder
Other Supplies: White and kraft cardstock; ; Kaisercraft, hot pink rhinestones
Adhesive: Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares    
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders dies at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

FS404 70th birthday card

Hi everyone!  I have a fun card to share today.  I made time to play in this week's Featured Stamper challenge over on Splitcoast Stampers.  For those of you new to this challenge, each week an active member of SCS is chosen and the challenge is to find a card in their gallery and CASE it.  You must change at least 2 things and give credit to the stamper.  I used to play along every Sunday and stalked the challenge thread Saturday night to see who the Featured Stamper was.  But alas, the kids got older and I got busier and now I just don't have the time.  But this was so much fun I want to try and make this a regular thing now!!

The Featured Stamper this week is Monia.  She has an amazing gallery with so much detail and flowers, I think I was a kid in a candy store picking a card to CASE!  I chose this lovely card.  I changed the color scheme, card shape, main flower type among other things.  But I kept to the card layout.

My mom turned 70 last week (I didn't send her a card yet, I know, I know!), and she loves my cards that have more layers and flowers, so this one was perfect for her.  Her favorite color is purple, so I chose to work with Bazzill's Sour Grape cardstock for my main color.

My flower is from Spellbinders Create-a-Rose set.  I went a little crazy and added a few more layers than normal.  You can see a step out tutorial on how I made the rose on this blog post.  There are also complete PDF instructions on Spellbinders web page on the Create-a-Rose page.  The card shape is from Labels 42 and coordinating accent layers are from the Labels 42 Decorative Elements set.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here is a close up picture.  You can even see the subtle glitter I added to the flower!

Card Deets:  
Spellbinders Dies: S2-067 Create-a-Rose Shapeabilities®; S4-471 Labels 42, S4-473 Labels 42 Decorative Elements Nestabilities®
Other Supplies: Purple,White and green cardstock; Silver metallic string; Glitter stickers, Wink of Stella clear glitter pen, silver glitter accent baubles, branch punch
Adhesive: Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares 

NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders dies at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Sunflower congratulations

Hi everyone!  Today's card uses the Create-a-Sunflower die set.  I haven't had a chance to use this set and with fall around the corner (gasp!), I wanted to try it out.  I also used the Majestic Circles set.  Spellbinders has many many beautiful decorative die sets that coordinate with the basic shapes of circles, squares, rectangles and ovals -I just have to remember to use them more often!

It was actually pretty easy to make.  Here is a picture of the die cuts needed for the flower.

You will need to cut:

10 flower petals of each size (since the petals are on 1 die, you need to run it through 10 times)

4 petal bases (adhere the petals to each of the 10 "pointy" parts)

1 flower center

amount of leaves is optional

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here's a close up of the flower details.

Card Deets:  
Spellbinder dies: S2-061 Create-a-Sunflower Shapeabilities®, S4-420 Majestic Circles and S4-114 Standard Circles LG Nestabilities® 
Stamps: JustRite Stampers, Large Elegant Sentiments
Paper: White, daffodil, chocolate and green cardstock; My Mind's Eye, In Bloom 6x6 paper pad
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: Prima flowers Audrey in Turquoise Teal, My Mind's Eye Enamel dots; Wink of Stella glitter brush in clear
Adhesive - Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L foam squares
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. 

Blog-a-versary winner and a thank you card

Hi everyone!  WOW!  I was blown away by all the amazing comments you all left me on my Blog-a-versary post!  I read each and every one and thank you!!
Random.org helped me chose 2 winners for my giveaway:

Here are your random numbers:

28 37 

Shirley July 7, 2014 at 10:09 PM

Congratulations on reaching a milestone. How sweet of you to share your goodies with us! Your style and your designers are my style of stamping so I gleam a lot of awesome ideas from your blog. Just adore all the ribbons. I want them all. Keep up the good work and know there are many of us out there who really really enjoy your blog!! Congratulations again!

Barbara Plummer July 8, 2014 at 4:56 AM

How time does fly! Thank you for the chance to win some great goodies, and thank you for sharing your creations - they are motivating.

 Congrats to Shirley and Barbara!!!  Please send me an email with your address info to cardsbymichelle@hotmail.com and I'll get your box out to you right away.  You will have until Tuesday morning to contact me.

 I also have a card to share.  My card uses one of the Imperial Gold set of dies, Gold Rounds One.  These dies are special because they don't cut out the shape themselves, they are designed to be combined with the basic shapes that do the cutting.  These dies have patterns that both emboss and DEboss.

Here's the Gold Rounds One set:

  For my circle ring, I inked up the Gold die #5 with pink ink and then embossed it into a precut white cardstock ring.  Here's how it turned out.

 My flower was make from the Create-a-Rose set.  You can see a step out tutorial on how I made the rose on this blog post.  Or there are complete PDF instructions on Spellbinders web page on the Create-a-Rose page.  I used the Floral Flourishes set for the leaf flourish details.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here's a close up picture of the rose and circle detail.

Card Deets: 
Spellbinder dies: S2-067 Create-a-Rose, S4-327 Floral Flourishes, and  IN-037 Celebration Two Shapeabilities®; S4-412 Gold Rounds One Nestabilities®

Paper: Gina K Designs, White, Innocent Pink and Grass Green Pure Luxury cardstock;  Prima Marketing Anna Marie 6x6 paper pad; Gold mirror cardstock  
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: Gold Sequins and pink Rhinestones; SEI, Gold glitter dots  
Adhesive - Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares 
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Create-a-Flower: Gerber Daisy tutorial

Hi everyone!  I have a fun summer Thank You card to share today.  Most of you are familiar with the new series of dies from Spellbinders called Create-a-Flower which make amazing realistic flowers!!  They are also in the Die D-Lite category, so they have a lower price.  Win-win!  You can see the Create a Rose flower I made on this post.  My card today uses the lovely Gerber Daisy.  And I have to say, this is a pretty easy flower to assemble. The accent flowers are made from my oldie but goodie die set, Bitty Blossoms.

Here are some step out photos showing how I made the flower.

This picture shows cuts for a 1 layer flower.  Note: After seeing it assembled, I wanted the flower a bit fuller, so I made 2 of each petal size.  Essentially made all these cuts again.

 To assemble the petal layers, just poke the petal end into the pre-cut slit on the base.  To secure my petals, I added a dot of glue to each.

 Here is what it looks like from the underneath side.

 Here you can see how each petal layer looks assembled, the top two are already doubled up.  The lower ones are what they look like as a single layer.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here's a close up picture of the flower details, you can see I added some stickles to some of the petals.

Card Deets: 
Spellbinder dies: S3-206 Create A Gerber Daisy and S5-086 Bitty Blossoms Shapeabilities®, S4-310 Labels Eighteen Nestabilities®, EG-002 Dainty Dots M-bossibilities Folder

Stamps: Fun Stampers Journey, Greet and Shout stamp set 
Paper: Bazzill Paper Basics, Marshmallow, Cotton Candy, Lollipop, Marshmallow Chick, Sour Grape and Easter Grass Card Shoppe cardstock; 

Ink: Tsukineko, Versafine Onyx Black
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: Kaisercraft yellow rhinestones and Pink/white baker's twine; Sentiment label is sticker from Little Bee
Adhesive - Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares 
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. 

Birthday Create-a-Rose card

Hi everyone!  Have you all had a chance to check out Spellbinders' new line of dies called the Create-a-Flower?  They make really cool realistic looking flowers!  I've used the Create-a-Rose on my card and I took a couple photos along the way to help demonstrate how to make the flowers.

Here is what the die set looks like:

What's cool about these dies is that the 2 leaves and 4 petals are each on 1 die together, so this decreases the amount of times you run them through your machine.
Here are all my die cuts laid out.

My large rose used 6 of the largest petals
5 of the second largest petals
5 of the second smallest petals
4 of the smallest petals (3 curled, 1 not)
 I made my roses with both pattern paper and cardstock to give them a whimsical feel.

There are many ways to form petals.  I went with quick and easy and gently curved the petal tops backwards over a small paint brush, then cupped the petal bottoms upwards.  This allows the petals to curve up with the ends back.  Put your glue at the back of the little petal stem.
Begin by gluing 6 large petals around the base and building up from there with each size.   Lastly I curled my smallest petals inward and glued them to the center, adding a glitter dot to the center.

You may have noticed the glittery lattice piece?  I die cut white cardstock with the Fancy Lattice expandables die, then ran it through my Xyron machine and sprinkled the glitter on it.  With the Xyron, you get complete coverage for your glitter.  I used a Quickie Glue Pen to adhere it to my card.

 Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here's a close up picture of the roses and lattice detail.

Card Deets: 
Spellbinder dies: S2-067 Create-a-Rose and S5-152 Fancy Lattice Shapeabilities®

Stamps - JustRite Papercrafts, Large Elegant Sentiments; 
Paper: Bazzill Paper Basics, Marshmallow, Spearmint Stick, Robin's Egg and Sugar Wafer Card Shoppe cardstock;  My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart "Record It" 6x6 pad;
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: May Arts, Burlap String, Ultrafine Crystal Glitter; SEI, Silver glitter dots
Adhesive - Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares; Xyron 9" creative station