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Hello, hello! Spellbinders is celebrating 23 years this month, and to celebrate this incredible papercrafting company, I shopped my stash for some of my favorite Spellbinder’s dies, invited a few other papercrafting companies, and reimagined them for a fresh, new card design. I’m thrilled with how this sweet mashup turned out because mashups aren’t always so successful, at least for me. Check out the supplies I used for this card, and then I’ll walk you through my process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spellbinders Large Die of the Month April 2024 Pins and Needles Jar
Spellbinders Large Die of the Month January 2024 Honey Bee Jar
Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Strawberry Patch
Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Outside In Stitched Strawberry – blossoms
Concord & 9th Friendly Floral – bee
Papertrey Ink Birthday Pops – sentiment and strawberry seeds
Papertrey Ink Cover Plate Handmade Quilt
Waffle Flower Postage Cake Slice Die and Stencil – oval label
Pretty Pink Posh Summer Drinks Stamp Set – strawberry stamp on label
Concord & 9th Cardstock Wheat
Birch Press Design Cardstock Cilantro and Golden Wheat
SSS Cardstock Sea Glass and Lipstick Red
Doodlebug 6×6 Paper Pad Buffalo Check – Woodgrain Rainbow Petite Prints
SSS Pawsitively Saturated Ink Cranberry and Field
SSS Pawsitevely Perfect White Splatter Medium
Distress Ink Gathered Twigs
Copic Markers: R32, R43, R35, R46<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My idea for this card design began with wanting to create a card with a cheerful summery vibe. I thought strawberries, honey bees, and homemade jam were the perfect elements! My first step was to reimagine the jar from the Pins and Needles set, shortening it quite a bit using a partial die-cutting technique and coloring the center area with Copic markers. I also used a small blue blending brush to add subtle color to the outside of the jar, using whatever color had built up on my brush. For a more realistic look, I added strawberry seeds using a teeny tiny stamp from the Papertrey Ink Birthday Pops set and brown ink. I finished the jar with some decorative elements, including the jar topper and twine from the Honey Bee Jar set and an oval postage-edged label that I stamped with a sentiment and a small strawberry.
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My next step was to create the background panel for my card. Starting with a Wheat cardstock panel, I die-cut it using the Handmade Quilt cover plate and then added subtle shading to the edges with Gathered Twigs ink before spattering the panel with white splatter medium. I attached the jam jar with foam squares and then got to work on the other elements of my card design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I die-cut the components for the strawberries and the bees from colored cardstocks and added subtle shading to the strawberries and the leaves. Then I arranged everything on my card front, tucking some elements behind the jar, popping some things up with foam squares, and gluing others down with liquid glue. Finally, I attached the card front to a top-fold card base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you so much for stopping by and reading about my summertime mashup celebrating Spellbinder’s 23 years. Happy crafting!
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Hello, hello! Spellbinders is celebrating 23 years this month, and to celebrate this incredible papercrafting company, I shopped my stash for some of my favorite Spellbinder’s dies, invited a few other papercrafting companies, and reimagined them for a fresh, new card design. 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