Hi friends!
Today I’m honored to join Spellbinders October 2017 Blog Hop, celebrating release of 3 new collections: Spellbinders Classics, September Die D-Lites and Seth Apter Collection #4.
You probably came from Kimberly Crawford If not – you may consider starting from the beginning at Spellbinders Paper Arts and see what other designers sharing using products from new release.
I made tree cards using newly released dies.
For my first card I used very beautiful and extremely elegant Spellbinders Shapeabilities Eau De Lavande Label Etched Dies.
I used the biggest label and die cut it out of Solar White cardstock using Platinum 6 die-cutting machine. Then I made an A2 card out of Pale Gray Cardstock, trimmed the bottom and top parts of the label and foam mounted them onto the card base.
I also made a label for the sentiment using the same die. I used partial die-cutting technique to make it of a smaller size. And then I cut a stripe from it, stamped the sentiment and foam mounted in the middle of the card.
I really like how elegant this card look. It reminds me a piece of Dutch 18th Century Clothing 🙂
Sometimes I make cards that turn out to be a “corporation style” (as I call them). You know this style of card which usually businesses sent out to their clients and partners during holiday times. My next card is one of those:)
First I die cut a lavender swag using Spellbinders Shapeabilities Lavender Swag Etched Dies as well as a label using Spellbinders Shapeabilities Eau De Lavande Label Etched Dies out of Gold Mirror Cardstock.
And I made an A2 card out of dark blue cardstock.
I foam mounted the label onto the card base. And also white embossed a sentiment onto a vellum stripe, adhered it behind the swag (between its branches) and foam mounted the swag onto the card positioning the sentiment in the middle of the label.
One type of the cards I often make feature kraft cardstock, vellum and white embossing. This is a winning combination and I tend to make such cards pretty often.
For my last card I first made an A2 card base out of kraft cardstock and dry embossed the floral design in the bottom part using Spellbinders Shapeabilities Poppies Etched Dies. Usually dry embossing with dies gives pretty significant indentation. I flattened it a bit bu running my card base through die-cutting machine with several sheets of thin printer paper as a shim.
Then I die cut several poppies out of vellum, applied embossing ink through the die design and white embossed it. And I added some more details using Versamarker (stamps, leaf veins) and also white embossed them. Following by adhering them onto the card.
Lastly I white embossed the sentiment in the top part of the card.
PRIZES
To celebrate this release, Spellbinders is giving away a $50 gift certificate to FIVE lucky winners. Please leave a comment on Spellbinders blog by Thursday, October 19th 11:59 pm EDT for a chance to win. The winners will be announced in the blog hop post on Spellbinders blog the following day.
I will also randomly choose a winner from comments left on this post and the prize will be $25 gift certificate to Spellbinders shop. Please leave a comment on this post by Saturday, October 21th at 11:59 PM EST for a chance to win. I will announce the winner here in this post on Sunday, October 22th.
WINNER
The winner of $25 Gift Certificate is Debbie B.
Congratulations!
I will email the winner instructions of how to claim your prize.
Thank you everyone for your lovely comments! I really appreciate your attention to my works!
GET HOPPING!
The next stop in the blog hop will be amazing Julia Stainton. If you got lost, please go back to Spellbinders Paper Arts blog.
BLOG HOP
Spellbinders Paper Arts
Jennifer Mcguire
Seth Apter
Laura Bassen
Yana Smakula
Wanda Guess
Debi Adams
Kimberly Crawford
Svitlana Shayevich
Julia Stainton
Amy Kolling
SUPPLIES
If you’re interested in the supplies I’ve used – they’re listed below. Where available I use compensated affiliate links (which means if you make a purchase I will get a small commission with no additional cost for you). Click on the letters below to go to a favorite store: Simon Says Stamp (SSS), Scrapbook.com (SC), Amazon (AZ), etc.
I truly appreciate your support!
 Altenew Gold Mirror Cardstock Click A Shop: AN |
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 Bazzill Whirlypop Card Shoppe Cardstock Click A Shop: SSS | SC |
 Neenah Classic Crest Smooth Solar White Cardstock 110 Lb Click A Shop: SSS | AZ |
 Altenew Thinking Of You Stamp Set Click A Shop: SSS | AN |
 Altenew Floral Frame Stamp Set Click A Shop: SSS | AN |
 Spellbinders Shapeabilities Eau De Lavande Label Etched Dies Click A Shop: SB |
 Spellbinders Shapeabilities Lavender Swag Etched Dies Click A Shop: SB |
 Spellbinders Shapeabilities Poppies Etched Dies Click A Shop: SB |
 Hero Arts Navy Shadow Dye Ink Pad Click A Shop: SSS | SC |
 Hero Arts Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Click A Shop: SSS | SC |
 Ek Success Powder Tool Click A Shop: SSS | AZ | SC |
 Tsukineko Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad Click A Shop: SSS | SC |
 Tsukineko Versamark Versamarker Watermark Emboss Pen Click A Shop: SSS |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder Click A Shop: SSS | SC |
 3l Scrapbook Adhesives Foam Squares Small White Click A Shop: SSS | SC |
 3l Scrapbook Adhesives Foam Squares Regular White Click A Shop: SSS |
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Audrey Clark
My favorite card is the “Have a Beautiful day” one! So pretty. The vellum is really pretty with white embossing. Great work! 🙂
Lagene
AWESOME cards, Great Release, I especially love your Have a Beautiful Day card on kraft!
Leena Björk
Your floral card is really beautiful – I love the use of vellum.
ambecoming
They just keep getting prettier! I love the look of the white + vellum+ kraft. I have always liked white pigment ink on kraft, but I guess it won’t dry too well on vellum. This is gorgeous. Thank you. I am going to be looking at a lot of these dies with different eyes.
Julie Haedtke
Simple and pretty! Great Cards!
Sandy N.
Such beautiful cards. I especially love your ‘corporation’ card, so very elegant.
Christina Labbe
Lovely, elegant, clean cards that really make the beautiful dies pop.
Kristina "CraftyPaws"
Gorgeous cards! I especially love that poppies one. All beautiful!
Nelissa Winters
Beautiful, elegant cards.
Genelle Heath McDonald Brown
All of your cards are beautiful and I could relate to each of them. However, I love “have a beautiful day” the most. I need to get these dies!
Anahi Serrano
Very nice!
Debbie B
Beautiful cards! Nice and refreshing way to think about dies again! Spellbinders has some fantastic dies in this release! Awesome blog hop with so much talent! Thanks for sharing yours!
Jeane Campbell
Oh, my! You really out did yourself! Loved what you did with
the new dies. Love the poppy card the best. Think I’m
going to be needing that die set!
Becky moore
I’m thrilled with the way these dies look! So crisp and detailed. your cards are all beautiful!!
Valerie Breingan
Your floral is my most favorite.Im in awwww what this machine can do.Thank you.
Kim Salito
Your cards are amazing.
Barb Macaskill
What a beautiful trio of cards! I love how each one is so different from the last one yet all are beautiful!
That is the beauty of Spellbinders dies! They inspire you and make you want to find all of the different ways to use them! TFS!
lynda
Love the “Beautiful Day” card……such an interesting effect using the dies to dry emboss with….and love how you embossed on vellum using the dies as a stencil. Very creative.
Pennie Artz-Glasser
Beautiful dies and the cards are amazing!
Betty
three lovely cards, Svitlana – wonderful designs and colors!!
Jeanne Beam
Beautiful cards. Love all of them . Thanks for sharing…
Denise Bryant
Beautiful cards! Love these pretty dies! The gold paper is so pretty, really adds an elegant look!
Gilda (McStamper)
Your cards are fabulous. Love the dies. Especially love the kraft card with white flowers.
Sharon O
Beautiful cards!
Lori Ritchie
I’m not playing this game anymore, I’m not wasting my time entering comments on everyone’s blog to win $50 gift certificate, this practise is ridiculous. I love crafting just like the next person but I will no long be held hostage. I’d like to unsubscribe but can’t find an unsubscribe button.
Svitlana Shayevich
Lori, I’m sorry that you fell this way. The last thing I want to hold hostage.
I myself only subscribe to blogs when I’m interested in content provided. Not just to track giveaways.
If you’re subscribed by email you can easily stop receiving them by clicking unsubscribe link in any email (it’s located at the very end of each email).
Janice
Lovely cards, great colour choices!
Julie Booker
I love the embossing on the poppy card, very subtle but helps make the card.
Linda Hyden
I learned so much looking at how you made your cards, one die in so many different and beautiful ways.
Isabelle
Fabulous cards !
Lindar C
Beautiful cards! The vellum flowers are so soft and pretty. Love the mirrored cardstock!
Melody Moore
I love how simple but very elegant your cards are. They are lovely.
Rebecca Ednie
That commenter who felt she was held hostage was very rude. I’m sorry she attacked you that way. It’s simple enough to enjoy the cards and ignore the giveaway. They are after all very pretty cards!
Diane Brown
Fantastic cards, love them they are all very elegant. Great dies and a fantastic collection.
When growing up I was taught ‘if you have nothing nice to say don’g say anything at all’ and that person did not have to comment, she is ver rude.
Di
Roberta S.
Lovely cards thank your for sharing. Love your response to the unpleasnt comment.
Carol watson
Beautiful cards, thanks for showing the products you used..l.love that thank you card!
Lisa
Beautiful cards! I especially love the one with the poppies – probably because they are my favorite flower:) Thank you for sharing your talent with us!
Sonia W
Great cards !!
jpscraps
Wonderful cards! Love the Spellbinders with mirror cardstock.
Toni L
Gorgeous! Love your cards.
Lorie
Nice cards, my favorite is the one made with craft paper and poppies.
Shirley T
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the blue with gold card…..very stunning.
Carolyn S
What beautiful cards you have created!! And I am more than happy to try for a chance to win! I appreciate your hard work and the generosity of the companies!
Carol O’Leary
All three of your cards are lovely, but the vellum poppies on kraft cardstock are just spectacular! Thanks so much for sharing!
joy meadows
Each one of your cards is simply beautiful in its own way!! Love them all.
Lee
All the cards were terrific but wow I loved the last one. It was so soft and so lovely — the stamps, the composition, the use of so much white. Very wonderful!
Becca Yahrling
Your cards are all so lovely. I am a huge fan of white on kraft so that’s my favorite.
Julie M
Wonderful cards.
Lori Hefner
Beautiful cards, I especially love the Have a beautiful day!! I love seeing vellum in projects as well, it brings such a softness to projects:) Thank you so much for sharing!!
Judy
Beautiful cards and floral dies!
Stef Perry
All three cards are so striking and beautiful! Love the metallics and the kraft, white and vellum for a softer look.
Cynthia Cole
All three cards are beautiful!
Karen
Thank you for the beautiful cards and explaining just how you used the white embossing on the vellum flowers, I have wanted to try it but have been hesitant. They are all beautiful!
Maggie B
Oh, my Svetlana….your cards are all beautiful but I’m especially drawn to the beautiful poppies on the kraft cardstock. Kraft with the white ink is classically elegant and I love that you kept it clean and simple. Thanks so much for sharing and I hope you have a wonderful week. ~HUGS~
#kindnessmatters
Helen
Great cards, Svitlana. Each so unique, each so lovely. Your creativity always inspires me. tfs
Carmela
I love the dark blue card! What a gorgeous color. Love how you used the ornamental die cuts on your cards.
Maria B
I like your “corporate” card. The blue and gold is striking.
Nicole B
I love the simple layouts for these complex die cuts!
Barbara Happe
Very elegant cards!
Tracey Bennett
Beautiful work! A very elegant card!
Tracey Magner
First I would like to comment on your cards, The first one was STUNNING, I loved it, probable my favorite, but I loved them all! The 2nd was so beautiful, I don’t think it was a corporate card at all, it was way TOO ELEGANT and BEAUTIFUL for that, I just loved it. The third card was awesome and I loved that you used Kraft, not many people use that nowadays but I really love the way it looks when you make a card with it and those poppies in the white just pop and look amazing against the kraft, awesome job. Now for the women who left the comment about not winning gift cards, that was so rude, and I am so sorry she was rude to you!! She doesn’t get that these Blogs you designers work so hard to keep up are NOT about winning prizes!!! They are about people, hopefully friends and talented women sharing that talent with other crafters around the world, so we all can share ideas, designs, what they have learned, what they have made, new products that are out there with different companies and more and sometimes, yes they will have a blog hop to introduce those new products and the companies offer gift cards sometimes, if your lucky you may win, BUT that is NOT what these blogs are about and that was so unfair of you to take your anger out on Svitlana, she has a wonderful blog that we all enjoy and we all subscribe because we feel she is very talented and enjoy seeing her cards and learning from her not to win contest.
Margaret
Beautiful dies! And your cards are elegant! Thanks for sharing.
JmB
Very pretty cards. Thank you for sharing.
Kirsty Vittetoe
Absolutely beautiful!
Christine
Beautiful cards. The different embossing layers on last card was really effective.
Marsha Guskey
Lovely cards! Thanks so much!
Sue LD
Your cards are gorgeous!
Loly Borda
Beautiful cards! I love the gold and blue, probably my favorite but the other two are awesome as well! TFS
Karthikha Uday
Fantastic cards!! Love the vellum flowers and the bright blue and gold combination! The thinking of you card is so elegant! 🙂
Clara Timmons
Love your first “thinking of you” !
Tracy A
Beautiful cards. The blue and gold card is especially striking.
Sherry Lowmaster
gorgeous! love it and the new die!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sara
Just beautiful! The Ukraine has a lot of very gifted card makers! Thank you for sharing.
FeM
Wow your cards are gorgeous.
Deborah Rusignuolo
Beautiful cards so very elegant. TFS
Kathy Ferguson
I loved all of your cards. The designs are very elegant. Thanks for sharing.
Anna Kosskovskaya
О они такие классные! Мне кажется, такие продукты – это очень твое! Открытки очень эффектны и аж дух захватывают!!
Sharon L.
Gorgeous cards, simple and elegant.
Kim Hund
Beautiful cards. Love the colors and clean designs.
Cécile
wonderful cards. And thank you for the opportunity to win a gift card 🙂
Sara Emily Barker
All three of your cards are BEAUTIFUL, and I love the special creative techniques you’ve shared on each of them. My favorite tip is cutting the die cut on the first to make the label. I love getting extra mileage out of my products, and this is a super idea to do just that. The last card is my favorite…I love the subtle background embossing and kraft and white always looks so elegant! Thank you for sharing your techniques and beautiful inspiration! Oh, and for the giveaway, too!
Tara Prince
Gorgeous cards! I love the navy and gold combo!
Teresa Doyle
WOW Svitlana, these are VERY elegant. Love how you used the label die on the first one and what beautiful rich blue on your second card and with the gold…ACK! So gorgeous! Of course kraft & white is one of my fave colour combos on a card and add my beloved poppies and you have another winner! Beautifully done on all counts!
Liz mcallister
I am really enjoying this beautiful blog hop. So many beautiful new products and cards
Kim
I’m so new to this and love what I’m seeing thank you for sharing with us.
Maureen Chandler
Lovely cards – I want all these dies and my list keeps growing!!! Your color choices are very elegant and the dies are truly beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing and don’t be discouraged by anyone’s comments! Sometimes I do blog hops and sometimes I don’t – sometimes I just look at the designs and don’t make comments if I don’t have time. It’s still wonderful that artists like yourself share what you are making and if you didn’t mention the products you are using, how would the rest of us know about them???
Linda S.
All of your cards are beautiful but I especially like the poppies with the embossing. Thanks for sharing that technique with us.
Di Wong
Beautiful cards! I especially like the poppy card and that lovely die.
FD91354
so many lovely card designs. great inspiration! Love your use of colors.
JuLie L
Love the use of the tag die for the card!
Pam
Love what you did, such bold color combinations.
Dj
I love the Kraft/white combination too. It looks so elegant but takes out the guesswork. TFS!
Trina P.
Oh I love the Kraft Card. So simple and simply elegant.
Denise F.
Such beautiful designs! Thanks for the opportunity to enter!
Karen Page
Your first card is beautiful and is an ingenious way to use the die!!! I love when someone uses their creativity instead of just pumping out the standard product! But my favorite was the third card. Spellbinders has been a long time favorite of mine for their ability to stencil through the die. In all the years I’ve been using them though, I never thought to emboss through them! Brilliant!! On another note, your work is always beautiful. I may not always take the time to comment but I come for the content, not the contests. Don’t let that one comment bring you down 😉 Some people… *sigh*
Mary Holshouser
I love the simplicity of the embossed flowers on the kraft.
To me that design is always so elegant.
Your corporate card is fantastic. Regal and pretty.
All are great.
thanks for sharing.
Marjorie Dumontier
Your cards are just amazing! And the dies you choose to work with are just awesome !!
Stacey Kowbel
Great cards! I love the vellum flowers and white embossing on them!
Lieve S
3 beautiful cards; with the kraft card as my favourite.
Really beautiful colour, dies, paper, … combination !
SentSue
Beautiful color choice. Thanks for sharing.
Amanda
3 wonderful cards x
Eva
Nice cards! I need to try the embossing on vellum – thanks for sharing!
Dawn@Petals.Paper.SimpleThymes
All three cards are just beautiful, Svitlana! The details in these new dies are just amazing! ♡
vicki dutcher
Very CAS and classy all at the same time!
Madhatter
These are very beautiful elegant cards I love them all. Thank you for sharing.
Tracey.x
Scrapnsister1
Wow I love all of them. You create amazing pieces.
Catherine Lenoci
Beautiful cards!
Dawn Skene
These are all so beautiful!
D.Ann C
So many elegant cards!! Hard to pick a fav, but I think mine is the gray and white Thinking of You card!
mjmarmo
So elegant! Thank you for the inspiration!
mjmarmo
Gorgeous cards! Thank you for the inspiration!
Jackie Price
Wow some beautiful cards but that last one is my favourite! I’m a big fan of white and vellum on kraft. You can never go wrong with it. Love it!!
Marrian Piers
Hi! I love the cards you make – very inspiring! I love using Altenew stamps – they are my favorite!
Heather Thompson
just lovely! Great cards.
Jackie P Neal
Svitlana,
Your cards are so elegant and so gorgeous! You really used those new dies beautifully! I just love these! Thank you so very much for your inspiring post- hope to be back again!
Jackie “)
Franka M.
Gorgeous cards, I especially love the last one. Thanks for sharing.
Polona
Amazing cards and inspiration!!!
PatGLex
Oh, my! I am seeing so many uses of one of my favorites of the new dies — the etched poppy die! I love kraft cards but never thought of doing a white cut with it! Thanks for the idea (and for yet another reason to get this die!)
Laura Harding Peddicord
Your work is so unique and beautiful. It’s also very inspiring. Thank you for sharing!
Neet
Three totally different cards. Each of them showcasing the dies perfectly. Not sure which is my fave but I am drawn to the first one. It is so very elegant. Thanks for sharing.
Valerija
Wonderful cards. Love them all!
Aimee LaCroix-Slocum
The last card with the white embossed vellum is amazing. I love that you paired that soft, elegant look of the vellum with the kraft cardstock. This is definitely something I want to try.
Blanka H
These are beautiful!