Monday, June 24, 2024

A Kaleidoscope of Cards

Welcome class!
In the neverending quest to use all the product that is in my unused basket, I reached for a series of Spellbinders products I got for Christmas and ended up making 4 very different cards with the same base product:  the Kaleidoscope Flowers Betterpress press plate! 

So here are the lesson plans:
CARD 1
1.  Pick your colors.  I used Pinkfresh inks for all of my cards.  This first one uses Turquoise, Pacific, Citron and Spanish Moss.
2.  I hot foiled using the Betterpress plate with silver and blended over the top.  
3.  I die cut and stamped the sentiment using the Spellbinders Stitched Kaleidoscope Arch dies and the Kaleidoscope Arch Sentiments stamps.
4.  To add a little flash, I die cut some flowers and placed silver enamel dots in the middle to go along with the silver hot foil.
CARD 2
1.  Pick your colors.  A warm palette of Pinkfresh Mimosa, Mango Sorbet and Bubble Gum this time.  
2.  Use the Betterpress plate traditionally with black ink. Take a mask and selectively blend over the background.
3.  Slap a sentiment on there using the Small Die of the Month die set from August 2022 (Outlined Sentiments).
4.  Add a few clear enamel dots that you found in your stash when cleaning up your craft room over the summer!

CARD 3
1.  Pick your colors.  Went with a cool palette using Summer Shower, Seaside, and Regal Kiss.
2.  Crop your Betterpress panel and then cut a rectangle on a tilt.  I then cut the insert panel into 4 pieces that were 1 1/8 inch wide, then popped them up with foam. Pull one of them and insert an ink blended sentiment from Fresh Picked Sentiments.
3.  Accent with some Spellbinders Prism AB Color Essential Gems.

EXTRA CREDIT!  
Didn't plan on this card but when I had one piece left over from the previous card I couldn't let it go to waste.  I was inspired by a recent card on Instagram made by Karen Downs with a simple sentiment over a blended panel.  
1.  Pick your colors.  I used Waterfall, Turquoise, Paradise and Atlantis.
2.  Blend your panel.
3.  Emboss your sentiment (this one is from Spellbinders Just Wanted to Say Sentiments).
4.  Add a few black enamel dots for fun.

Product Line Up:
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Class dismissed!

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