In the spotlight: Spellbinders Small and Large Die of the Month kits - June

Hey there friends,

I'm so excited to share my projects with the awesome Spellbinders June Small and Large Die of the Month kits today!

As I've mentioned before, Spellbinders have several monthly kits, which are really great! You can subscribe to:

• Small Die of the Month
• Large Die of the Month
• Card Kit of the Month
• Stamp of the Month
• Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month
• Glimmer Hot Foil Kit of the Month

These are all a great value, have a look! You can find all necessary information about these kits here.

Warning, this is a photo heavy post because I've made quite a few projects. I won't write step-by-step but if you have any questions on how I've made something, please leave a comment and I will get back to you!

First up, the Small Die of the Month of June! In this kit you get a kaleidoscope trio:

I've only used the hexagons and the circles to create my card duo. All patterned papers I've used are from the gorgeous Pink Paislee/Paige Evans Horizon scrapbook collection. 

The sentiments I've created using the Everyday Sentiments Glimmer Hot Foil plates and Blush Foil. Next time I use my Glimmer Hot Foil System, I will make sure to make a ton of these sentiments in different colors so I have them ready to go when I need them! So practical!

Next up the Large Die Kit! It's a super fun one! I've tried to create cards with each of the dies in this kit so you can see just how much stuff you get - I think the only one I didn't end up using is the "HI" sentiment. These are fun slider cards with a wreath design that you can decorate for literally any occasion! Spellbinders also provides a pictorial in the kit, so you know what to do with the dies! I  hardly ever make a interactive cards so I always need the pictorial to figure out what to use for what hehe!

Here are my cards:

OK, so this is my favorite...because...teeny tiny bunnies!!! I mean seriously <3. 

Rainbow shamrocks! The clouds I just free handed, fussy cut and dry embossed.

Shaker vellum pocket!

And this last one...looked waaaay better in my head :(.

I hope I could inspire you to work on some slider cards of your own! After the first one they very pretty easy to handle. I am warning you though, you will need to die cut a ton of shapes ha!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Have a wonderful day y'all! 

First Flight - DT layout for Paige Evans

Hello lovelies,

I'm back today with a new layout for the Paige Evans Design Team! I've used Paige's latest collection, Horizon on this one.  I wanted to use some paper that I haven't seen used all that much before (so obviously rainbow paper OUT haha!) and when I went through the collection, Paper 17 caught my eyes, with all those super cute suitcases! We travel often, not as much as before Maxim was born, but still quite often. So finding a picture wouldn't have been hard. BUT. The picture that I instantly thought of was one of Maxim in his car seat on top of some suitcases on the airport trolley...It was his first flight, alone with me... In retrospect this is a super funny story. That day  I obviously did NOT think so. Bear with me here...

I fussy cut out all suitcases (I didn't actually need all of them for this layout) and because I like my projects to be sturdy, I also glued all suitcases onto heavy weight card stock and then cut them out again. Mind you, not the handles. Those are so small, I would never be able to do that LOL! I played with the arrangement - I originally only wanted 2 rows but the layout felt so empty, so I went with 3. I added foam adhesive behind each suitcase as well as my photo and adhered them to the background.  I wrote my super long journaling on a tag, and because both sides are full, I have to be able to turn this around. However I wanted the tag to stay in place, so after threading some twine through the handles and holes (if that makes sense?!), I glued down the twine behind the tag, plus I added a paper clip in the front so it stays put!

OK, back to the story! Earlier that day my mom called me and listed all the things I shouldn't forget. I mean back then I seriously wrote lists of things I needed to pack, organised by rooms (as in what I need from each room). And she kept saying, "Just don't lock yourself out, always have the keys in your hands". I'll tell you what, I have never ever ever locked myself out in 31 years so honestly I was perfectly relaxed. Then the taxi came. Me, holding Maxim on one arm, started to put the suitcases outside, keeping the door open with one of my legs. One of them fell...What's my automatic reaction?! Trying to stop it from falling, so I stepped outside. OMG. Door shut closed behind me. Full on panic. I had my phone in my pocket so I called Martin, cos he is generally super calm. What do I do, what do I do?! The taxi is here, half my stuff is inside (like flight tickets, passports, wallet and all those unnecessary things haha! This was before I owned a smart phone, too.). The balcony door was open! Lucky for me we used to live on the first floor (or second if you are in the US). Martin told me to go around in our street and check if anyone has a ladder. There was a company across the street that had a ladder but it didn't go half way up the balcony...Eventually someone found a ladder that reached the bottom of our balcony, so I gave my baby to this person, climbed up and then somehow managed to pull myself up. I still remember what I was wearing. Crazy! Also, thank god I was young and thin and relatively fit back then, I could never do this now! By the time we checked in at the airport I was calm but I didn't tell any of this to my parents before landing in Vienna. All this trouble for a one hour flight seriously :D. AAAAAND what does my mom say?! I TOLD YOU SO! O.Em.Gee. 

Back to the layout! I pulled out some stickers, puffy stickers, charms, die cuts and embellished my page. Last but not least I added my title and some white paint splatters. Done!

I hope I could inspire you to go get crafty and maybe put a smile on your face with my story. It's one I wouldn't ever forget even if I didn't have this page, but I felt like it needed to be documented.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Have an awesome day!

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SUPPLY LIST:

Horizon collection: Paper 17, Paper 21, Stickers, Thickers, Epoxy Stickers, Ephemera Die Cuts, Charms, Shaped Paper Clips 

In the spotlight: Spellbinders Card Kit of the Month - June

Hello there crafty friends,

Today I'm sharing projects I've made with the gorgeous Spellbinders June Card Kit of the Month!

As I've mentioned before, Spellbinders have several monthly kits, which are really great! You can subscribe to:

• Small Die of the Month
• Large Die of the Month
• Card Kit of the Month
• Stamp of the Month
• Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month
• Glimmer Hot Foil Kit of the Month

These are all a great value, have a look! You can find all necessary information about these kits here.

Here's a list of what you get:

This is a super fun kit, full of sunshine and happiness! I've had so much fun creating with it! That balloon dog die though! I can't even!

Without further ado, here are my projects:

That's it! I hope I could inspire you in one way or the other!

Should you have any questions on what products I've used or how I made something, please comment below and I'll get back to you!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Have a wonderful day!

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