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Autumn Flower Cart
I want to add some more depth to my composition, so I’m mixing Ground Espresso and Villainous Potion to use as a shadow wash.
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Variegated Stitched Pumpkins
The Spellbinders Stitching Die Set for September 2025 is a fun top-down view of pumpkins in three different sizes. It’s called Stitched Pumpkin Tops.
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Missing Tile Sympathy
I could have used the hexagon die included with the set to create the hole. But I felt that it was too neat. Grief isn’t neat.
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Peach Pattern Play
When I got the September BetterPress Kit of the Month from Spellbinders, I immediately knew that I wanted to play with the patterns.
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Little Fish
I used the same silver speckled holographic foil and dark turquoise cardstock for one of the sentiments, “Even little fish make big waves.” It’s such a great sentiment!
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Reindeer Greetings
Finally I tripled the sentiment and popped it up on some foam tape. That was necessary to bring it to the same level as the deer.
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Stenciled Emboss Resist
Because I love the bat, I chose “You make me batty.”
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Turquoise Impression
I glued the turquoise bottle die cut to the back of the embossed bottle, taking care to only spread glue above the score line. This gave me a shaped card that will stand up on its own.
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So Many Reindeer
I started by stamping all the reindeer from Kat Scrappiness Reindeer Games Stamp Set on watercolor paper. I watercolored them with mostly earth tones.
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Cheerful Kitty
My grey kitty is from Bibi Cameron’s Cheerful Kittens Die Set by Spellbinders. You can find an introduction to the die set in a previous post.
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Cozy Sheep
For the background I used the July Embossing Folder of the Month from Spellbinders. It’s called Frosted Stitch.
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Nautical Motifs
My idea for this card was to create a faux dip dyed background and then BetterPress over it with a nautical motif.
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Life’s a Beach Shaker
I added the sentiment strip by gluing it to the leaves and added shells and the sand castle to decorate it. Then I adhered the beverage-sipping gnome to the center above the sentiment with foam tape.
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What’s Up, Gnomie?
I started by stamping the male gnome from the Kat Scrappiness Summer Gnomes Stamp Set twice on watercolor paper.
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Harbor Weave
For this quick and easy card I used the Spellbinders BetterPress Kit for June 2025. It’s called Harbor Weave. I love the round shapes!
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Mariner’s Weave
Spellbinders June Clubs are all about the ocean and sea. The Embossing Folder of the Month is called Mariner’s Weave. It makes me think of fancy Nordic sweaters with stitches going in different directions.
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Cowboy Quokka Dad
I’m still working my way through the Kat Scrappiness Cowboy Quokka Ephemera Pack. This time I used it for a Father’s Day Card.
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Rainbow Songbirds
June is Pride month, so the theme for the Pinkfresh Studio June Challenge is rainbows. I’m going with that theme, but I’ve chosen mostly pale inks for my rainbow.
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Strawberry Lemonade Birthday Shaker
Shaker Element I started this card with the shaker element. For this I die cut the largest frame from the Kat Scrappiness A2 Reverse Scallop Die Set three times. For the top layer I used a piece of Hammermill that I scribbled with a purple alcohol marker. That’s because I was following Color Cube palette…
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Abstract Thinking
Abstract Study creates a large-scale pattern that adds interest, without stealing the show. I can see using this one for many of embossing folder techniques.
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Rosegold Birthday
Next I used the large cover plate from the May BetterPress Kit to make an impression on rosegold mirror cardstock. It’s called From A to Z.
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Spring Days
This is the last card in this series of cards using the April BetterPress Kit, Post Edge Expression, and the Field Notes 3D Embossing Folder from Spellbinders.
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Embossing Folder Friend
For the sentiment I used the Spellbinders Small Die of the Month for August 2024. I like the chunky font and that it has shadow dies for all the words.
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Sunset Peony Fantasy
There are six stencils in the Peony Fantasy Layering Stencils Set, but I want to use two different colors for stencil 1. Stencil 1 has openings for coloring the flower centers, as well as the lightest color on the leaves.
