Officially subscribed to a card kit

Another card kit! I purchased so many Spellbinders' card kits in the last year that I figured it was time to break down and subscribe. Now I'll be making stuff that's current, instead of last year's.  This month's kit is called Merry Wishes, and the die is a street light. Who knew they could be so festive!

So, right off the bat I came out copying other people's designs. The above is from Tina Smith at Cards and Coffee Time.  Several of the other cards below are heavily inspired by other card makers, but sadly I didn't keep notes when I saw them. If I copied yours without crediting you, I apologize.

I apparently threw the kitchen sink at this one. 

The street light on this one is a chipboard sticker that was included in the kit. I think the ones made with the die set are better.

Another kitchen sink target. Sometimes I don't know when to stop.

The white "doily" in back of the wreath is from Spellbinders' Elegant Twist" circles.  The green Christmas word is from one of the previous kits from last year that I bought this year. 

This one was a lot of fun, so much gold foiling on the pattered paper!  The paper combination was inspired by Jennifer Snyder. There is also glitter inside the sequins on the wreath on the street light. The "sparkle" word is part of the puffy sticker set that came in the kit as well.

The tree is die cut with the tree in the Small Die of the Month from Spellbinders, called Frankie Goes to the North Pole. The die cut gifts are from other sets. 

There is a lot of stuff left in this kit, and I am not even tired of it yet, so there will be more cards from this one coming.

 

Sparkling holidays, so sparkling.

 Another Christmas card kit from Spellbinders, this one is Sparkling Holidays, the kit of the month from October 2019.  Although the colors of this kit are not my favorites, I really did want the sentiment dies. The bonus is that the tiny poinsettia is turning into my favorite.

Here are the 10 cards I made with this kit. There is a lot of stuff left over, so there may be a few more in the future. After all I did 19 with the November 2019 kit.

Cardinals for Christmas

 

Cardinals are quintessential Christmas birds, not only for the male's bright red coloring, but because I only see them in the winter here in Florida. 

These birds are created with a die from Gina Marie Designs called Layering Cardinal. I have to tell you, this didn't come with instructions and I had a real time trying to figure out how to do the wing layers and the legs/feet. I found only one example of this assembled on line so I took that one and ran with it. The card above is 5" by 6.5", larger than the usual cards I make. The wreath is build with various greenery from Spellbinders' kits. 

One of my pet peeves with art featuring cardinals is that there are often multiple males in the picture, but no females. What's up with that?   So for this card I took the die and cut it from some golden brown card stock and flipped it over to make the mirror image. I used a bone folder to smooth down the cut edges since the back side isn't as finished looking around the edges.

The greenery that the birds are perched on are from assorted bits from Spellbinders' kits, as are the script die cut sentiments.  I had the silver snowflake die cuts in a cup on my desk from several years ago. The card below was also inked around the perimeter of the navy base with black soot Distress Oxide ink, and finished with some baker's twine at the top fold.

Christmas Wishes kit (almost) 10 more cards

Nine more cards from the Spellbinders' Christmas Wishes kit, which was the kit of the month last November.  You may remember that I bought this kit last spring because I was obsessed with the poinsettia die that comes with the kit. And you can only get it in this kit.

So, technically, I'm calling this one as part of the kit because it uses the designer paper and 2 of the ephemera pieces from the kit. It uses the truck from Spellbinders' "Truckin' through the seasons", and the tree from the "Merry Everything" kit.

The kit also had dies that created ornaments, so I made a few with metallic card stock and paired them up with some of the ephemera pieces.  I also used sequins on this one.

This one used more of the ephemera, one of the chipboard pieces, and gold Nuvo drops.

Yay, more of the poinsettias that I got the whole kit for.

What's a Spellbinders card kit collection without a collage card or two?  I used the banana creme card stock, and used a wood embossing plate over it and then grouped on the "stuff".

So, I'm officially tired of the kit and I still have a bunch of stuff left in it. Should I keep the stuff together in the box or distribute it around the craft room?  I have space for one more kit box on the shelf allotted  to them.

Christmas Wishes - 10 cards from one kit, so far

These cards are from the Spellbinders' card kit of the month for November 2019, "Christmas Wishes".  I bought this kit on sale, but truth to be told I mainly got it for the die.  It's the only way to get them, and I've been wanting the little poinsettia die since I saw it last fall. The card above also used Spellbinders' scalloped circle dies and Gina Marie Designs' greenery sprigs dies.

Yes, this card features the dies from the set, the poinsettias that I had to have. The ornament dies are nice, too.

The above card is on a forest green background that has been embossed with a folder from Fun Stamper's Journey, of pine sprigs.

The "Merry Christmas" die is from Kat Scrappiness. The center bit of the "M" always sticks in the die and I've about a 50% chance of getting it out without ripping it or distorting it. Yay me.

This last card features a new frame die I got from Spellbinders, Candlewicking.  It's another tricky one that only works if  I pass it through the Big Shot multiple times in different configurations.  It does't show in the photograph, but there are circles embossed in the center of each little diamond shape. These require their own pass through the machine with the tan embossing mats. 

I have loads of products left in this kit so there will be more cards coming from it. 

One more for the swans!

Another card from the Spellbinder's card kit, "Golden Swan", which was the February 2019 kit of the month.

The golden swan kit

It's another old card kit that is new to me.  This one is Spellbinders' Golden Swan, from February 2019. Who knew we'd look back on 2019 so fondly?