Layered Windmill Shaped Card for Spellbinders

I'm featuring a shaped card today, created with products from the Spellbinders new release "Home Sweet Quilt". If you love detailing, then this project is for you. I'll share an option for a little less detailing as well, so no worries if patience is not your thing, haha. Scroll down for a few creative details!

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First, you'll need to fold an 8.5x11 inch piece of white cardstock in half and burnish the fold with a scoring tool. Place the outline frame just above the fold and run through your Platinum 6 die cut machine or other manual die cut machine.

Trim white cardstock for a coordinating card panel and apply an adhesive sheet to the top. After running through your die cut machine, peel off the top layer of your adhesive sheet.

Next, place your insert dies inside the frame and cut on your desired colors of cardstock or paper, depending on how many colors you want to use. I chose white, kraft, dark green and navy ( Jewel Paper Pad from Scrapbookcom).

It's best to work with one color at a time. I lightly adhered my entire white cardstock cuts to my card panel, then cut one color at a time, using the sharp point of my Tool N One to remove the white pieces that I wanted to swap with other colors. The adhesive sheet is tacky but not too tacky, so removing the pieces and replacing with other colors was a breeze.

Here's your bonus tip: If you prefer not to inlay the pieces to save time, you can simply pop out the bits and pieces and back your frame outline with colored cardstock.

 

Make sure you keep up with all those itty bitty pieces while you're working as they can easily get lost. I'll admit, this took a good bit of time but it was well worth it!

I created my sentiment using pieces from the Glimmering Just For You set, part of the Floral Reflections collection. I used black hot foil with my Glimmer Hot Foil system and Specialty Glimmer cardstock. 

The center "flower" was created by hand trimming a circle from a section of adhesive foam. Once I peeled off  the top, I applied DMC variegated floss to the top in a circular pattern, working my way from the outside in to the center. I topped it with a Buttons Galore half pearl, adhering with my hot glue gun.

The leaf stems are from the Sealed Wildflowers die set, cut on green cardstock and tucked under my adhesive foam center, after peeling the bottom layer off.

I hope this inspires you to take a little time for yourself, relax and get some detailing done. The recipient of your work will love that you put so much effort into your creation! Check out the Home Sweet Quilt collection here. You can click on any of the highlighted text to go directly to the products through my affiliate links. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Terri

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