Don’t you just love the shimmer and shine from the Glimmer Clubs?  This month is NO exception with the gorgeous Tropical Bloom with Fuchsia Flower foil.

Steps:

• Using the Glimmer machine and following directions I put my plate down, foil shiny side down, cardstock, heated it up and ran it through my Spellbinders Platinum machine.  OOOO so pretty.
• There are two sentiments with this flower plate – Thinking of You and Sending Best Wishes.  Both were glimmered with the same fuchsia flower foil.
• Using the stencil that came with it I colored the flower with a pale purple then darker in the center…fading to the ends to give it the glowing effect.  I also colored the stem green to stand out from the flower.
• There was no die with this plate but it was very easy to fussy cut out with good scissors.
• The background was a pale shade of lilac cardstock embossed with the Embossing folder of the Month laid over some Tim Holtz metallic cardstock.
• To add more dimension, I put foam tape behind the flower so it floats on the carefront.

This, so far, is one of my favorite Glimmers of the Month…but Spellbinders keeps getting better and better so who knows what will come next.

Bonus Card

Since this plate came with a stencil also, I was curious as to how it would look with just the stencil and no outline.  I started playing with it and using blue ink for just a few pf the pedals, fading to purple.  Then I thought I would try a minty green to mix into the pedals….

OK HERE’s the happy accident!  I picked up a blending brush that had a light gray on it but hadn’t been used for awhile so I figured the ink was dry, but light enough it wouldn’t be affecting the minty green too much.  Surprise, some of the green came through but so did the gray, and some of the purple from the stencil moved onto the paper as well.  Hmm, what is this going to look like?  When I took the stencil off and saw the beauty of this, I was totally enamored.  Will I be able to redo this another time?  Probably not, but by using blending brushes of the past you can still come out with beautiful work.  Now, THIS is my favorite card!

Do you have a happy accident?  Please share in the comments and tag me on Facebook (Penny Pynnonen or Folded With Care) or Instagram (@pennypynnonen)

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Hugs, Penny

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Do you ever wonder how to use delicate and fine detail dies?  Do you have trouble cutting them out?  Try some of the Spellbinders Glitter paper.  I cuts like ‘butter” (as Laura Bassen might say).

This first one is cut with pink and green glitter paper Spellbinders Timeless Duo.  TIP:  use low tack tape to hold your die in place and cut it with the cutting edge upward.  With this tip and the great glitter paper everything comes out spectacularly.

The background is embossed with Spellbinders background Embossing folder of the month – partially embossing the top and the bottom, leaving a flat space at the center; Lightly ink blended over to show the texture.  The whole card base was cut out with the Scallop Labels and Tag Etched Dies from the Sealed 3D Botanical Collection and a thin frame was created with two of the labels in this set.  The cute little flowers were from Spellbinders Small die of the month Feb 2024.    The sentiment is from Smooth Lines Mix & Match Sentiments Etched Dies from the Be Bold Collection cut from Tim Holtz Silver paper.

This second card is a gate fold card first ink blended with Blue Horizon and Teal Tempest Altenew Inks.  To make the gatefold:

• simply start with a 10”x7” piece of white cardstock.
• Score 2.5” from each side on the long ends and fold inward

The silver die cuts come from Tim Holtz silver paper as well as Spellbinders Timeless 5X7 Cardfront dies.

I made a mistake in cutting my card base so my measurements we slightly off – so the two “gates” didn’t meet as they should have.  To compensate for this, I added a strip of paper along the edge of the left side, matching it with the paper behind the center Oval of the Timeless 5X7 cardfront dies.

The sentiment is from Always You Timeless Sentiments Press Plates from the Timeless Collection, glimmered with silver foil.

This is such a pretty collection of fine dies. They really make a Timeless classy display. I’d love to see what you would do with these dies. Please tag me on Facebook or IG if you create with these.

Thanks for visiting. Hope to see you again soon!

Hugs, Penny

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