Hey everyone! Happy Monday!
If you’ve been to my blog before, you’ll know that I love fussy cutting. I enjoy the challenge of intricate cutting, and even find it therapeutic. I know, I’m a bit weird.
So when it comes to dies, I tend to only use them if it’s for something special – detailed or intricate shapes that I can’t easily cut myself, or a design that just blows you away.
And when it comes to that, no-one does it quite like Spellbinders.
Spellbinders dies were the first ones I coveted an attempted to ‘collect’. I love the wide variety of designs, and their nesting dies were what first reeled me in. But the Nestabilites are only the tip of the iceberg – Spellbinders produce collections of dies that coordinate wonderfully together and even have stamps too! So it was an awesome surprise and honour to be asked to Guest Design for Spellbinders for a new release Blog Hop – and of course I said yes!
I was truly spoilt for choice when it came to selecting a collection to play with – so of course I was greedy and picked two! The Chantilly Lace Collection features some truly beautiful dies based on the designs of vintage lace and is absolutely breathtaking. And the quirky Love Set Match Collection contains some really unique dies and fun stamp sets!
I couldn’t wait to put both to use!
Let’s start with the Chantilly Lace Collection:
I couldn’t not create a Wedding Stationery Collection with these dies. They were crying out to me to do so!
Let’s start with how beautifully these dies cut. Thanks to the quality of the dies, and the power of the Platinum 6 machine, these designs cut like a knife through butter. Don’t want to be forever poking out all those tiny pieces? The Tool ‘N’ One is a go-to that I won’t be without now!
When the shape is so intricate, you really don’t need much to bring the design to life. I added some stamped details for the invitation, and a band of patterned paper to hide/reveal the details!
Don’t forget to RSVP – I created a little card for that!
I die cut the shape twice, adhering the patterned paper over the top before securing the centre panel to the design too. Again a little stamped detail was all that was needed to bring the beauty out.
This final piece was too pretty to use up, so I left it as-is! It layers beautifully with the rest of the set!
Next up was the Love Set Match Collection:
Back to something more familiar to me – cards! I fell head over heels for the cute Wink Wink set and that lightbulb in particular! I stamped it several times and then blended some yellow ink over the top to help them glow!
A little label maker accompaniment made this sentiment complete!
Aren’t these goodies amazing?! They were so much fun to create with too!
Giveaway!
I’m sure this Hop will whet your appetite – so it’s a good thing there are some giveaways up for grabs!
To celebrate this release, Spellbinders is giving away a $50 gift certificate to FIVE lucky winners. Please leave a comment on Spellbinders blog by Sunday, November 26th 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.
In addition, I am also giving away a $25 gift certificate too – so make sure you leave a comment on my post to win!
Here’s your Hop order for today:
Spellbinders
Jennifer Mcguire
Becca Feeken
May Sukyong Park
Yana Smakula
Jenn Shurkus
Debi Adams
Taheerah Atchia
Stephanie Low
Laurie Willison
Keeway Tsao
Simon Hurley
Erum Tasneem
Laurie Schmidlin
Tiffany Solorio
Nicole Picadura
Thanks for stopping by – and good luck!
Supplies
Chantilly Lace Wedding Stationery Collection
You’re Brilliant Card
Hello Taheera! 🙂 I’m sure you must be busy with the Advent Calendar extravaganza! Just dropping by to know if the winner for the giveaway was announced..
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Of course we all love Spellbinders dies and the ones you chose are no exception. Your style is unique and very contemporary which helps me to rethink what papers and colors work together. Thanks for sharing with us as a SPECIAL GUEST DEDIGNER!
Beautiful! Love spellbinder dies. So intricate
Love the design. So intricate and Lacey.
I absolutely LOVE this card. It caught my eye right away when I went to the Spellbinders website, and encouraged to seek your page. Thank you for sharing!
beautiful … such detial
Such beautiful projects! Love everything about them.
What beautiful and intricate patterns. Love your projects.
Love these designs! Spellbinders looks like a ton of fun to work/play with! I’d love to make these!
I really love that marbled paper combined with the lacy dies for a truly modern look!
Lovely card.. Loved it the core
Love how you combined the Chantilly lace dies with bright colors for a whole new look!
I love the overlay that you made. stunning.
All your creations are so gorgeous !
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That’s a whole lot of holes!
Those Chantilly Lace dies are lovely and I love your fab idea for them!!
Great pair up of fancy dies and marbled paper.
These are gorgeous!
Love how you give a bit of history with your posts. I have heard such good things with Spellbinder dies, but haven’t yet tried them. This chantilly lace is a beautful new release.
I cannot wait to get my hands on the Chantilly Lace dies. Your wedding stationery set is classic but has a modern twist. SO pretty. Thanks!
What a brilliant idea for wedding invites. Love these dies, perfect for weddings.
Fantastic use of dies.
beautiful
I love the super Nate Diaz! And I love what you did with them, awesome!
This is so gorgeous with these Spellbinders dies!!! The Chantilly lace makes it look so lux!
Gorgeous cards – love the Chantilly lace dies.
Beautiful dies. I love Spellbinder dies.
Great projects! So creative!
What great projects!! I LOVE the patterned paper you used!!
Real cool card and love, love, love these dies!! Happy Thanksgiving.
Brilliant! Light bulbs have given me another idea for a card, thanks.
Wow fabulous projects – thanks for the chance to win:)
What a lovely stationery collection! I also really like your lightbulb card 🙂
what beautiful cards! Such an assortment of detailed dies. Thanks for the chance to win.
~Gin K.~