Hello friends, I have a couple of cards to share today that showcase the October Spellbinders Die of the Month – Home For the Holidays die set! I’m delighted with these cards and love the way they turned out!! I made one that is specifically holiday season themed, then made a second card that is a non-season-specific birthday card!
This first card is such a sweetly anticipatory and homey scene, with the individual components die cut and assembled against a background of dry embossed wall texture, accompanied by the lovely scripted, die cut sentiment!
I began by die cutting the dress, apron and gifts from a variety of patterned papers in my stash. (Using up squirreled away bits of leftover paper is always an added bonus, right?!) The tree sections, stem and pot, along with the pie pieces, arms, legs, head, neck, hair, shoes and apron panel are all cut from Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock so that I could Tombow Marker-color them and get an artsy watercolor feel.
I ran a card panel of Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock through the Sizzix machine twice, embossing the bottom end with a stripes folder and the top portion with a quilted pattern folder. I found some woodgrain paper in my stash and cut a decorative “chair rail board” and divided the two patterns with that.
I assembled and adhered all the pieces of the gifts and tree and arranged them at her feet. I did the same with the pie and glued it into position in her hands. I die cut the sentiment words once from grey cardstock and once from leftover Bristol cardstock, layered them together and adhered them to the card front. Lastly, I drew on a very subtle face with a Copic Multiliner pen.
My second card is a birthday card as I had mentioned. I die cut the gifts from the Home For the Holidays set seven times and painted the parts of each set with each of the colors of the rainbow.
While the gift boxes were drying, I used the same colors of Mijello Mission Gold watercolors to paint a card panel cut to an A2 sized card, in a rainbow background wash. The Mijello paints are so rich and intense; it sometimes takes everything I have to control them and I still have a lot to learn.
Next, I set the background panel aside to dry and gathered up all the gift pieces to assemble and adhere. When the rainbow painted background panel was dry, I stamped the sentiment from the Reverse Confetti Sentimental Sayings stamp set with Versafine Onyx black ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.
Then I adhered each of the gift boxes to the bottom, aligning very approximately to the rainbow background stripes. To balance the black sentiment stamped near the top, I added a narrow strip of black diagonal striped patterned paper, and that completes this bright and cheerful birthday card!
This set is available at Spellbinders during the month of October while supplies last, and is only a $15 monthly subscription but is a $27 value! There are many subscription options available but basically, they save you 50% on your products!
Thank you for visiting my blog today, I appreciate your support and interest and hope you have a wonderful day!
