Hi there! Today I’m sharing a couple of projects featuring two new Be Bold Color Block die sets by Spellbinders. My first card features the new Be Bold Color Block Happy Birthday die set. I u…

Hello crafty friends! It’s Jean here sharing three cards created with the Be Bold Collection at Spellbinders. This distinctive collection of and floral and foliage dies, lower- and uppercase alphabet sets, punctuation dies, embossing folders, and casual script sentiments lends itself to endless creative possibilities. I took an organic approach to designing my creations like assembling a floral bouquet. Let’s take a look as I share the cards from start to finish. To begin, I selected three dark cardstock backgrounds. I started die-cutting the letters, sentiments, florals, and foliage from a variety of cardstock colors. Usually, I decide my colors ahead of time, rather than take this more playful approach. After placing the die-cut pieces on the dark-colored backgrounds, I eliminated colors that did not work. I die cut the Lemon Zest and Be Bold Blooms elements from the chosen colors. At this point, I didn’t know how many I would use, instead, I focused on creating more than enough so that I could play with the elements. Using the analogy of assembling a floral bouquet, I built an inventory of flowers and foliage. With a variety of flowers and foliage on the backgrounds, I decided which items would be in which colors. I began building paper bouquets, without adhering anything. Like a floral bouquet, I used the largest shapes as the focal and supporting flowers, foliage pieces for structure, and the airy accents as delicate details. With the bouquets and lemon plant pieces loosely in place, I used masks, A2– and Mini Slimline-sized, to determine what card base size I would use. After determining the card base sizes, I adhered the elements to the bases. For the card showcasing the Lemon Zest set, I adhered the large leaf element and Smooth Lines “Congrats” first and built from there. For the Mini Slimline card with the tongue-in-cheek “How Old?” sentiment, cut with the Uppercase, Lowercase, and Punctuation sets, I adhered the sentiment to the center and built the clusters of flowers above and below. For the card with the Smooth Lines “Thank You” sentiment, I constructed the upper-left and lower-right floral clusters, adhered the sentiment at an angle, and filled in with smaller florals. Note: I used the circle from the Be Bold Punctuation & More set (the exclamation and question mark dots) for a few of the flower centers. While my cards did not use the collection’s embossing folders, doing so would “step up” the designs. Thanks so much for dropping by today. I hope you are inspired to take a playful approach in your own creations with the Be Bold Collection! Other Supplies Assorted colored cardstock; dimensional adhesive; glue

Hello! Happy Wednesday! I hope you're having a great week so far! We're having a chinook blowing through so the weather has been so lovely. Very windy but nice and warm! I can't believe we're in February and cruising our way into the middle of the month! I feel like time is flying by! I'd say we've made it through the worst of winter but I know better than that! This is Alberta - we've still got months of winter ahead of us!!! We've got a brand new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches! Our hostess this week is the lovely Linda Callahan! Linda's cards always make me smile! Please head over to her blog to see how amazing they are! Linda's sketch is pretty amazing! I wasn't sure I was going to be able to pull off a card because I had been feeling under the weather but I got one in in the nick of time! I might have gone a little foil crazy on this card! I had ordered some foil plates that first took forever to be shipped and then took forever to get here! I've been wanting to try them all - just didn't realize I'd use a lot of them on one card!! The background is also foiled. I used black foil on black cardstock! I do love the look - it looks much better in person! Supplies: Cardstock: Basic Black, Hammermill White Coverstock Other: Dazzling Diamonds Foil Plate (Spellbinders), Be Bold Glimmer Sentiments (Spellbinders), Magnolia Glimmer Blooms (Spellbinders), Black Jewels, Gold Foil (Spellbinders) Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog! There are some amazing cards there that will inspire you and hopefully you'll join in our challenge! I hope you have the most amazing day! Jen

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Hello, crafty friends! I had the pleasure of playing with the Be Bold Color Block Congrats Etched Dies from the Be Bold Color Block Collection and it was so much fun! I love the bold words because there are so many design possibilities on big surfaces like this. I die cut the congrats plate with cardstock in Mist, Paradise, Adriatic, Lavender and heavyweight white cardstock. I used Stick It adhesive to adhere the entire panel of Adriatic cardstock on to a sheet of copy paper. Then I adhered only the white letters to the Adriatic panel using liquid glue. I created the congrats word using a mix of Mist, Paradise and Lavender die cuts, flipped them over and used tape to attach the word into a single piece. Using the Hex Floral Glimmer Hot Foil Plate Set and Skybright Glimmer Hot Foil, I heat foiled the floral pattern into the letters. Next, I used liquid glue to adhere the heat foiled letters to the panel. The Adriatic panel is a single layer and the letters are three layers. I die cut the yay word from heavyweight white cardstock and silver glitter cardstock, stacking them with liquid glue. The leaves are from the December 2021 Small Die of the Month -- Sketched Florals & Frame (which may be released for individual purchase at a later date) and I layered vellum over heavyweight white cardstock. Vellum on its own was too subtle and white was too stark so the vellum softened the white for the right opaqueness. As I mentioned earlier, the Hex Floral Glimmer Hot Foil Plate Set is currently 25% off as part of the Feel the Love Sale. This sale includes so many great deals of up to 40% off select products and runs through 11:59pm MST through January 24, 2022. Thanks so much for stopping by! Sources: