Hi everyone!
I got to playing with the brand new Spellbinders May 2022 Club Kits and couldn’t stop! Wow Spellbinders has knocked out of the park with this month’s kits – and they all pair so beautifully together. I couldn’t resist going for the same color palette for all of my cards, and changing up the background color so they all go together as a set. The card colors I used were Brushed Gold, Alabaster, Glacier, Beeswax, Pink Sand and Purple Mist, all by Spellbinders.
To start with, I used the Glimmer Kit ‘Stitched Glimmer Butterflies’. This set is amazing – it has mix and match butterfly wing inserts that you can keep sold, glimmer, add stitch lines, or even die cut small diamonds. I wanted to stitch AND glimmer so I made two cards. For this first one, I die cut the wings from Alabaster, including the stitched eyelet inserts. I added stitching using some variegated yellow thread. I glimmered the sentiments from the set using Matte Gold glimmer hot foil, for this one, on Beeswax, and die cut it out. The butterfly bodies are die cut using Brushed Gold, which I glued to the main wings.
My background is a panel of Glacier, dry embossed with the May Embossing Folder of the Month ‘Faux Stitch’. I adhered it to a card then mounted my butterflies using foam behind the body and then behind the stitched inner parts of the wings. I popped up the sentiment and finished with a few Fashion Gold Embellishments here and there.
My second set of butterflies were die cut from Beeswax, without an inner die cut leaving it solid. I then glimmered the wings with Matte Gold using the glimmer plates in the set. I adhered the bodies and then mounted the butterflies onto a dry embossed panel of Alabaster. The sentiment was glimmered on Glacier in Matte Gold, and then I added a few Fashion Gold embellishments, including onto the butterfly’s wings to finish. On both of my cards I added a little gold glitter splatter here and there for extra interest.
My next card features a the new Small Die of the Month ‘Stitched Hello’. Although it’s not that small! I die cut the main outline from Glacier, and added stitching in gold metallic thread, and blue variegated thread. I did also die cut the largest florals from Purple Mist and added gold stitching to tie in, popped them up onto the outline with foam tape.
The ‘Hope’ was die cut from Brushed Gold and mounted onto the stitched panel using foam tape. I also added a left over glimmered sentiment from the first card set, on Alabaster. The background is dry embossed using Pink Sand on which I popped up my stitched panel. I then finished with Fashion Gold embellishments into the floral centres.
My final card features the Large Die of the Month ‘Stitched For You’. This set has a giant ‘You’ that can be stitched and layered, and comes with several co-ordinating sentiments in a fun modern font. I dry embossed the background once more this time using Purple Mist. I actually flipped the panel over so the ‘back’ of the dry embossing was the background for a little different look. I also only slotted it into the embossing folder a third of the way, at an angle, leaving a flat area on one side.
I die cut the ‘hello’ from Brushed Gold, overlaid onto a shadow panel of Glacier with glue. The ‘You’ was cut from Pink Sand and the base layer from Alabaster. I added some gold metallic stitching on the You and popped it onto the Alabaster layer then adhered both sentiments directly to the dry embossed panel, adding a few gold glitter splatters.
I added sub sentiment that I’d glimmered earlier onto Beeswax, mounting it above the U. I finished with a few Fashion Gold embellishments like before to tie all four cards together!
I think my favorite of the set is the Small Die – I always love those stitching panels!
Jenny
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