I am so excited to be a guest designer with Elliebelle's Corner this month. Each month, Ellie and her co-host Pauline pick their favorites and feature the cards on the blog and then the designer of the card is asked to join them in next month's challenge. My Stitched Sunflower card was picked by Pauline in last month's challenge.
This month's theme is "Something with Feathers or Fur". Well even though I love all of God's creatures, I am partial to birds, so I have not one, but two bird cards to show you. My first card is the one that will be featured on Ellie's blog. The second one is just an extra.
Peacock Card
My hubby, whose love language is not gifts, always gives me money for my birthday and Christmas. I've always found this hysterical since we have a joint bank account and if I wanted money I would take it out myself. I usually just buy other people stuff with the money or pay bills, but this year I did spend a little on myself. Spellbinders had a huge Black Friday sale so I bought quite a few new toys. I hadn't updated my paper crafting supplies in a while, so it was time. Styles change in the paper crafting world just like they do in fashion and home decor, and if you want to stay relevant in the paper crafting world, you have to purchase the new toys! ha ha!
The biggest changes I noticed in paper crafting was less stamped images and more die cuts, 3D embossing, and stenciling, so I invested in a lot of dies, embossing folders, and stencils.
The dies today are so much better than my old Cuttlebug dies. They are all so detailed with embossed features and come in so many layers/pieces. In the old days, a die was just one shape, now a die, like this peacock die, can come in 11 pieces or more. It does make assembling and card making a more tedious process, of which I'm still getting used to, but the results sure are beautiful.
To make this card I used "Spellbinder's Kaleidoscope Peacock". I cut all the pieces out of the DCWV "Royal Garden Matstack " solid and designer packs, then I assembled the peacock and put it up on dimensionals onto a white panel cut with a Spellbinder's Nestability. Gems were added for embellishment. The sentiment is from Crafty Secrets "Mouse Party" and is embossed in gold to match the gold foil designer paper.
Bird House Card
My next card uses one of Spellbinder's large dies sets called "Snow Capped Holidays". This one is currently sold out so I can't provide a link for you. Spellbinder's large die sets are HUGE. One die set fills up an entire card and contains so many dies. This card truly was a labor of love, but I sure do like the result.
To make my card I first embossed a light green background with a "Forever Green" Spellbinder's embossing folder (sold out), then I swiped a white ink pad over the raised parts. All the pieces from the set were then cut out. I ink blended and/or colored some of the pieces with Copic Markers. Sometimes I think it's quicker and easier to just cut the little pieces (like the bird beaks and berries) all in white card stock and then color them in. It can take a lot of time to cut all the little pieces in different colors of card stock. I then assembled everything, and popped the bird house up on dimensionals. The sentiment is from Spellbinder's "Winter Wonderland" sentiments.
I hope you enjoyed all my "Something with Feathers..." cards today. If you're a card maker, we'd love to have you join us in the "I Spy with My Little Eye" link up this month.
Have A Great Day! Amy
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2 fabulous cards Amy. Both are beautiful, though my favourite is the peacock. Such a stunning intricate die and I love the foiled background paper you have paired it with. Thanks so much for joining us this month as Guest Fesigner on “I Soy With My Little Eye” Challenge xx
ReplyDeleteThank you Pauline. I'm glad I could join you this month!
DeleteBoth are absoluely amazing and what a great way to showcase these pretty dies! Hard to pick a favorite but it might be the first one with that beautiful teal color but the cheerful birds on the second are so cute!! I ordered a couple of Spellbinder dies I came across on sale but their shipping is currently sooooo slow! Who knows, they may be sold out by the time they get to my order.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you joined us as a guest designer!!
Thanks Ellie, and thanks for letting me guest design. Yes, I keep hearing from Spellbinders that they updated something so their shipping is slow, but you would think they would have fixed the issue by now. What I ordered in mid November arrived in late December, then they gave me a $5.00 "I'm Sorry" coupon to use on my next order.
DeleteThese are both stunning cards! I have noticed that die cuts come in so many pieces now too and while I do love them I am not always patient enough to really embrace them.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I know, it takes a lot more time to make a card now-a-days.
DeleteWow, these are gorgeous! You do amazing work! I'm so glad I'm your neighbor at TrafficJamReboot this week!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much!
DeleteOh my, very nice! This post is one of my features for this week's WTJR, thank you for joining us! Melynda @scratchmadefood!
ReplyDeleteThank you! And thanks for the feature too! I so appreciate it.
DeleteI absolutely love both of these, Amy! Wow. So gorgeous. (I laughed at your joint bank account/money for your birthday thing. That really is funny.) Thanks for sharing this with us at the Will Blog for Comments #54 linkup. We hope to see you again at #55 next week!
ReplyDeleteThank you. Yes, hubby's language is definitely not gift buying. ha ha.
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