January 7- 13, 2010
The ability to enter the contest through Amazing Paper Grace is now closed however if you look through the list of talented designers below, you may still enter on their blogs depending on the closing date and time listed on each blog. Happy surfing and good luck!
Commenting on this post is welcome but does NOT enter you into the contest. This contest is sponsored by Spellbinders™ Paper Arts. Directions on how to enter are in the Blog Post and Official Rules at http://spellbinderspaperarts.com/blog/spellbinders-suprise-partyspellbinders-suprise-party. If you have any questions, please e-mail ContestQuestions@Spellbinders.us
Welcome to the second day of the Spellbinders™ Surprise Party!!
Spellbinders™ Paper Arts is hosting Spellbinders™ Surprise Party!! We will introduce 25 new Die Templates and 2 Impressabilities™ templates! These sneak peeks are part of the collection that will be released at the Craft and Hobby Association Trade Show on January 24, 2010. We want to invite YOU, our greatest fans, to join the party from January 7-14, 2010! See the newest Spellbinders™ products, visit our Designers’ Blogs, and win fabulous Spellbinders™ prizes!
Today you have the opportunity to win a Spellbinders™ prize package (including all three Spellbinders™ Die Templates revealed today) through the contest entry email address listed below. Be sure to visit the other Designers’ Blogs participating today, and enter from those blogs for additional chances to win! You may enter once from each Blog! Each Spellbinders™ Surprise Party!! blog post is open to contest entries for 48 hours. You have until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time January 9, 2010 to enter this contest through my blog. Be sure to read the rules at http://spellbinderspaperarts.com/blog/spellbinders-suprise-partyspellbinders-suprise-party before entering so that your entry will be valid!
To see previous Spellbinders ™ Surprise Party!! posts or to go to any of the future blog posts, feel free to visit the following:
January 7
Debbie Olson
Julie Overby
Lesa Rapp
January 8
Becca Feeken (that’s me!!)
Janine Blackwelder
Debbie Seyer
January 9
Heidi Blankenship
Karen Taylor
Beth Pingry and Cathy Chlebana
January 10
Linda Duke
Jennifer Davis
Terre Fry
January 11
Keri Lee Sereika
Kazan Clark
Mary Pfaff
January 12
Karen Hunsaker
Christy Farneth Kerr
Holly Simoni
January 13
Sherry Cheever
Kimberly Crawford
Sharon Johnson
After the entry deadline is reached, Spellbinders™ Paper Arts will randomly pick one winner from each Spellbinders™ Surprise Party!! blog event as stated in the rules at http://spellbinderspaperarts.com/blog/spellbinders-suprise-partyspellbinders-suprise-party. Winner will be contacted by email within 24 hours of the contest deadline. The winner will have 72 hours to reply to that email to claim prize. If Winner fails to respond within 72 hours, a new winner will be drawn for said prize.
Entrants visiting all 21 Spellbinders™ Surprise Party!! events and correctly enter the drawing on each Blog will automatically be entered into the SPELLBINDERS™ SURPRISE PARTY!! GRAND PRIZE give away with a retail value of over $350.00. The GRAND PRIZE will be announced on January 24, 2010 on the Spellbinders Blog and consists of super secret products being released at the Craft and Hobby Association Trade Show. You WILL be excited!!
I’m thrilled to share my Spellbinders™ Surprise Party!! project with you! As I thought of the best way to showcase the wonderful designs I’m revealing my thoughts went to elegant gifts that can be given to bride and groom as a keepsake, mementos of a special wedding. The first item I’m showing is a . . .
Lacy Keepsake Bookmark
I love to give bibles as wedding gifts and what better to go with the gift than an elegantly handcrafted bookmark as a keepsake! I designed a double ended bookmark that can be made to a custom length for any size book or bible given as a gift. When you look below, you can see that the medallion on the bookmark hangs over the bottom edge and the crosses lay at the top without getting caught inside the pages.
These crosses are so elegant and beg to be stacked but that’s not all – they do double duty as embellishments – that’s what I used for my medallion. However they are used, they look regal and the texture is stunning.
This is a quick gift to make for a bride, a groom, anyone at your church or a friend in the hospital. Just so that you can see how I stacked the crosses and altered them to use as an embellishment, I’ve put together a step by step so that you can see the mechanics of assembling the stack and medallion in detail. Here we go!
Project Recipe:
Accessories: Spellbinders™ S4-265 Cross Collection, Lace, Ribbon, Pearls, Tassel, Jump Ring, Head Pin, Foam Tape, Glue Dots, Krylon Gold Leaf Pen
Stamps: None
Paper: TPC Studio – White Shimmer, Gartner Treasure Collection, Garnet Treasure – Shimmer
Ink: None
So now it is my pleasure to reveal the set I used to make the bookmark above.
This new set is called S4-265 Cross Collection. The MSRP for this collection is $19.99 and it is a Limited Edition set, available only through May 30, 2010. The set is made up of four elegant crosses in graduated sizes which I’ve listed below from smallest to largest.
1. 1 5/16 x 1 5/16”
2. 2 5/16 x 1 11/16”
3. 3 x 2 1/4”
4. 3 9/16 x 2 5/8”
Speaking of gifts, I wanted to put together another gift item for a bride and groom and this time created a Framed Wedding Triptych.
Using S4-265 Cross Collection as the focal point for the center panel, I wanted to draw balance in my creation so I added panels with verses on each side of the hanging cross medallion. The verses are my favorites – 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 and Amazing Grace.
Using shimmery and golden papers I created a frame from Spellbinders™ S5-006 Curved Rectangles. Again, the crosses do double duty as embellishments so over each of the verses I used the largest cross and extended it so it peeks up over the edge. The two notches on the inside of the largest cross makes a perfect tab to secure the cross as an embellishment. Behind that pairing, I used cross #3 to add height to the embellishment.
For the center panel, I decided to leave the backing out of my frame so that you could see though. To give some stability to the hanging crosses, I backed it with an oval frame created using using Spellbinders™ S4-110 Classic Ovals LG #4 and Spellbinders™ S4-110 Classic Ovals LG #5.
The design is finished off with ribbon and pearls. I hope this is a keeper for when you don’t know quite what to give for a wedding.
Project Recipe:
Accessories: Spellbinders™ S4-265 Cross Collection, Spellbinders™ S5-006 Curved Rectangles, Spellbinders™ S4-110 Classic Ovals LG, Pearls, Ribbon, Foam Tape, Glue Dots
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs – 1 Corinthians, Amazing Grace
Paper: ANW Crestwood Black Magic Metallic, ANW Crestwood Gold Mirror Paper, ANW Crestwood Gold Foil on Ivory, The Paper Company Ivory Cream
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
RULES
For the complete Spellbinders™ Surprise Party!! rules go to http://spellbinderspaperarts.com/blog/spellbinders-suprise-partyspellbinders-suprise-party .
If you have any questions regarding the contest, send an e-mail of inquiry to: ContestQuestions@Spellbinders.us
Thank you for visiting my blog and good luck!!
Lovely projects! I’m partial to the pearl card too. I don’t know about your Michaels store, but ours puts the bargin bins right at the front door…..where I always find something! that I know I can use! :-)
I like both cards but I think the pearls would be my choice also! I love bling and tend to over do it sometimes but hey! life only comes around once. I am a big bargin bin shopper also and I tend to leave the store with more than I came for! Thank you for sharing all your beautiful works with us.
Awesome Becca! You amaze me everyday!
Hugs, Helena
Those darned bins!!! I got a Michaels gift certificate for Christmas and spent most of it in the bargain bins.
I love the cards! I guess I’d better scoot BACK to M’s and grab up those coasters that I touched and admired then put back.
Thanks for all your beautiful ideas!! I’m a big fan!
I think we all know the one with the pearls is your favorite Becca, LOL! you have a style that we all love. These are so elegant looking. TFS!!!
This is just gorgeous Becca! And it is always a bonus when we can find embellishments so reasonably! I love the Dollar Bin too.
I think the name of the card style you made is called the Tent Topper. There is a resource for it on SCS!!
Thanks for sharing!
hoi Becca
what a beautyfull card!!
gretings anneke
Beautiful cards Becca – again!! Michaels must love you…. pity we don’t have them in UK. I too think the one with the pearls will be everyone’s favourite!!!
Hugs
HW(UK)
x
These are beautiful, my fav is the pearl one too :)
Love them, I too am addict to the Michael’s dollar bin. Thay are beautiful as usual. Thanks Becca for sharing!!!
These are absolutely beautiful! I love your work.
Isn’t this card called an Easel Card. I just made some and that is what it looks like from your photo. Love your cards. They are more like a gift than a card.
Hi Becca –
What lovely cards! So very pretty. I understand completely your addiction to the bargain bins. I share the same addiction. I’m on 1st name basis with the manager, since I’m there so often. I love the bargain bins and I also love hunting around the store for their clearance items (they never have them in just one spot). I’ve gotten some really neat things there.
Elaine Allen
Hi Becca,
I love this project. I found these at Michael’s also and I wasn’t quite sure what to do with them. (Michael’s is my second home too so to speak). I cut one apart and used it on a card but I like the idea of using the whole thing. Thanks once again for the inspiration. I’m partial to pearls too!
This is the difference between your creative mind and mine. I saw the felt coasters and thought they are different and then walked on. Didn’t see any possibility with them at all! Thank you for expanding my mind.
How beautiful these cards are!!
These cards are gorgeous!
Love the felt Becca!! So gorgeous and elegant!!
Becca, you make the most beautiful cards! My eyes went for the card with pearls first. My cards never seem complete without pearls or something along that line.
Love the cards Becca, Well done again. You are so good at puting things together.
Becca,
No I’m not surprised at all that the one with the pearls is your favorite.
I love both of them. I find you so amazing [ ;-) ] that you can look at something so plain and make it into an incredible creation. You are truely blessed. And we are all blessed that you choose share your talents with us. Thank You Becca, if I haven’t said it enough. Off to get some hot chocolate myself. It’s mighty cold up here in Michigan. BRRRRR
~~Diane~~
Good evening, Becca – two beautiful cards. I love them both although as with you I think I would lean more towards the pearls one.
Such simple beauty.
Pearls for me…Michaels – now that we have one 5 minutes from me – BAD news (for my purse). Actually I know just about all of the employees very well, we’re all on first name basis’, and when I had my surgery and mentioned I might be missing out on special deals, 50% , etc, the manager said no problem – just call and let him know and he’d take care of me. Needless to say, I’ve got craft friends, so I was able to get to the store in time to reap the bennies. They even seek me out from time to time to answer other customer’s questions…
Those are both gorgeous Becca! I love the pearls too! Those bargain bins sure are hard to stay away from….I usually end up buying more than I can use! I could probably open my own dollar store! LOL!!
Oh Becca these are wonderful – I too like the one covered in pearls the best! LOL
I guess all the ladies on the blog live in the States? I don’t live close to a Micheals but the odd time I get to one I never find delightful things like these coasters….. Either we don’t have the same items in Canada or I simply miss out by not living close to one.
Hugs, Candy
Becca, you could make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear! Imagine… what an eye you have. These are gorgeous!
I love what you did with the coasters. I have the same ones from last season still sitting in my stash. I think it’s time I put them on a card!
Beautiful….how do you attach those teenie pearls without the glue showing?? I find that sometimes the self-stick ones do not really stick for long!
A friend has taught me to see beyond the scrapbook aisles. See that you can rework almost any little tid bidy thing that you find into a work of art. How cool is that?! That is true creativity! Love your idea.
B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!!!!!!
Wow. I love the bling, but I probably would have made the non-bling. I just don’t have your flair.
I’ve seen these so many times in the $1 section and didn’t know what to do with them. I’ll keep my eye out for them now! :)
I recently saw the new coasters that are out and thought to myself, could I use these on cards? You’ve proven they they can indeed be used beautifully in a card. I guess I need to give those dollar bins another look!
Becca, You’ve done it again Girl! You have that creative eye that I wish for. I need those coasters! We don’t have a Michael’s near us either. I really wish we did. That store is like a playland for me when I do occasionally get to one. My honey’s probably happier though. Your card is just beautiful! Love the soft colors and the way you used the rings. And I wouldn’t have recognized the cross if you hadn’t pointed it out. I so look forward to your next card!!! Blessings! Patty W.
I have these coasters, too! Mine came in 4 pastel colors, and I planned to use them (one of each color) on a 12×12 scrapbook page as grid background for an Easter photo. I just haven’t had the right photo yet.
Gorgeous, luv! And I like the pearly one best, too, even though I generally like less bling rather than more. Bravo!
Love the cards, I also am addicted to the dollar bin @ Michaels. I see things like this and don’t get them, then later realize something I could have made with them and it’s too late. So have a lot of things I have to figure out what to do with.
Oh Becca, you are so creative, I looked at those too and thought, what can I do with them…now I know…now you have enabled me to go today and grab a few….thanks…LOL…..love how yours turned out, beautiful!
Today my Michael’s had the coasters – had to rush home and bring up your blog again for ideas…thanks!!!
I love everything you make. I am more impressed with everything I see. You are a genius!!!!