Spellbinders May 2024 Club Kits

Hello again friends!  The May 2024 Club Kits from Spellbinders have been revealed and there are tons of beautiful tropical and summertime designs this month!  Today I’m sharing ten card projects featuring the Large Die of the Month, Small Die of the Month, Stitching Die of the Month, Glimmer Kit of the Month, Clear Stamp of the Month Kit, Embossing Folder of the Month, 3D Embossing Folder of the Month, Clear Stamp & Die of the Month Kits, BetterPress of the Month Kit, and the Stencil of the Month Kit!

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LARGE DIE OF THE MONTH

This month’s Large Die of the Month Kit, “Grand Tropical Flamingos“, is a huge set of 21 dies that can be used to build a beautiful tropical scene with an oversized flower, two big flamingos, and tons of tropical leaf options.  I used all of the dies in the set to make this bright love card with a pretty ink-blended background, but many of the dies work great separately as well.  I cut all of the shapes out of brightly-colored cardstock and shaded them a bit with Distress Inks.

The background was created by inking a piece of Waterfall Cardstock with Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers, and Blueprint Sketch Distress Inks before embossing it with this month’s Embossing Folder of the Month.  After adding all of my die-cut elements, I finished off the card with a fun greeting from the Tropical Sentiments BetterPress Plate Set…this set is free when you subscribe to the Deluxe Caboodle Club this month!

SMALL DIE OF THE MONTH

This month’s Small Die of the Month Kit, “Tropical Friends“, is another great one for summertime cards.  The kit contains 19 cutting dies that allow you to cut a toucan, parrot, and branches for them to sit on along with tons of leafy elements to embellish.   I used the dies in the kit to create a blue macaw and his toucan friend and added some bright ink-blended details with Distress Inks to really make them pop.

To keep the focus on the beautiful birds, I just embossed some white cardstock with this month’s 3D Embossing Folder of the Month for a bit of texture.  After gluing all of the die-cuts to the front of the card, I trimmed off any overhanging parts with scissors.  To finish off the card, I added a couple of Silver Mix Gems to the flower centers and another fun greeting from the Tropical Sentiments BetterPress Plate Set.

STITCHING DIE OF THE MONTH

This month’s Stitching Die of the Month continues with the beautiful tropical theme of course!  “Stitched Pineapple“, is a set of 6 dies that cuts a fun layered pineapple design you can stitch as well as a many-layered leafy crown for him to wear.  I cut the pineapple body out of Sunkissed and Tuscan Cardstocks, shaded them with Distress Inks around the edges, and then stitched the whole thing up with gold metallic thread.

The leaves were cut from several different green cardstocks and inked before layering as well.  After assembling the pineapple, I added Gold Mix Gems to the center of the stitched areas for even more interest.  The rest of the card is simple – a background made from Dune Cardstock embossed with this month’s Embossing Folder of the Month and a sentiment from the Tropical Sentiments BetterPress Plate Set.

CLEAR STAMP & DIE OF THE MONTH KIT

For those of you who like to stamp (and maybe even color?), this month’s Clear Stamp of the Month Kit, “Let’s Get Together” is a set of 6 stamps with two large tropical bird and leafy images as well as four pretty sentiments.  If your subscription includes the coordinating dies, you’ll also get 6 dies to cut the edge of the large images as shown and all four sentiments.  I stamped the images from the kit onto white cardstock and colored them with Copic markers before cutting them out using the coordinating dies to create this bright card for a friend.

The way that the images come out from the corners and the dies cut the outer edges makes them perfect for a fun gate-fold card, but I chose to just mount them on top of my card base with foam adhesive instead.  The background was created by inking a piece of white cardstock with Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers, and Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide Ink before embossing with this month’s 3D Embossing Folder of the Month.  To complete the card, I stamped a sentiment from the set, cut it out with the coordinating die, and popped it up in the top corner with foam adhesive.

GLIMMER KIT OF THE MONTH

This month’s Glimmer Kit of the Month, “Tropical Bloom” contains 3 Glimmer plates that can be used to foil a huge floral image as well as two sweet sentiments and their coordinating dies.  I applied Fuchsia Flower Hot Foil to white cardstock using the flower image from the kit and added some pink and purple ink to the bloom using the coordinating Tropical Bloom Stencil (ALSO FREE with the Deluxe Caboodle Membership this month) before fussycutting it out for this easy card.

The background was created by blending Distress Oxide Inks down a panel of white cardstock again before embossing it with this month’s Embossing Folder of the Month.  After I popped the large floral off to one side, I trimmed off any overhanging bits with scissors.  To finish off the card, I added a foiled sentiment from the kit as well as some Crystal Mix Gems.

EMBOSSING FOLDER OF THE MONTH

And here (again!) is this month’s beautiful Embossing Folder of the Month, “Latticework“.  It embosses a crosshatch pattern that is super versatile and perfect for just about any kind of card.  To get the effect shown here, I embossed a piece of Latte Cardstock using the folder, rubbed a white inkpad over the raised design, and then applied Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink over top of the white ink with a brayer.

A lot of the sentiments from my recently-released Propagation Garden Sentiments Stamp & Die Set go perfectly with this month’s theme, so I pulled it out and stamped a thank you greeting in brown ink before cutting it out with the coordinating die.  To frame the sentiment, I added some of the leaves from this month’s Large Die of the Month Kit and flowers from the Small Die of the Month Kit.  Crystal Mix Gems were used as flower centers.

3D EMBOSSING FOLDER OF THE MONTH

This month’s 3D Embossing Folder of the Month, “Scattered Tropics” might be my favorite of all time and is perfect for all of your summer cards.  I blended Cracked Pistachio, Evergreen Bough, Pine Needles, and Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink down a piece of white cardstock before embossing it with this month’s folder.  After rubbing a gold metallic ink pad over just the very top of the design to bring out the details more, I trimmed it down to 4″ x 5.25″ and mounted it on a top-folding A2-sized white card base.

I stamped another greeting from my Propagation Garden Sentiments Stamp & Die Set in Versamark Ink and embossed it in gold before cutting it out with the coordinating die.  To embellish, I added some leaves and flowers cut from Forest, Mirror Gold, and white cardstock using the Small Die of the Month Kit.

BETTERPRESS OF THE MONTH

This month’s BetterPress of the Month Kit, “Wild & Free“, contains 2 press plates that create a beautiful tropical frame as well as a fun sentiment for the center.  This image looks amazing colored in, but I wasn’t feeling much like coloring this time, so I used my Glimmer Hot Foil System to apply the image to white cardstock using Gold Hot Foil instead.

Once foiled I blended a pretty sunset over top using Salty Ocean, Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Inks and then cut the center out of the panel using a new die set that will be coming soon (you got a sneak peek!).  I popped the colorful panel up on top of an A2-sized white card base that I had foiled the sentiment from the set onto in Gold Hot Foil as well.

STENCIL OF THE MONTH

This month’s Stencil of the Month, “Tropical Spray” is a set of 2 6″ x 6″ layering stencils that creates a fun background perfect for summertime or anytime cards.  I used the stencils to apply Salvaged Patina and Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to white cardstock for this colorful birthday card.

For my focal image, this time I created a Scarlet Macaw with the Small Die of the Month Kit and perched him on a leafy branch.  My background was a little busy, so I added him on top of a piece of white cardstock cut with one of the Mirrored Arch Labels Dies.  To finish off the card, I used another fun sentiment from the Tropical Sentiments BetterPress Plate Set (free with the Deluxe Caboodle Membership this month).

WAX SEAL OF THE MONTH

Lastly, here is a look at this month’s Wax Seal of the Month Kit.  The “Tropical Hi” Wax Seal Kit contains one pretty wax seal stamp as well as a bag of coordinating wax beads.  My kit came with the Teal Wax Bead Mix, so I melted one of each color included before pressing it with the stamp to create this pretty marbled seal.  To bring out the design more, I added gold metallic marker to the raised design of the seal.

The background is made from Fruit Punch Cardstock embossed with this month’s Embossing Folder of the Month before inking around the edges with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink.  To frame the wax seal (I’ve used this layout several times this month because I love the look!), I cut lots of leaves and flowers using the Large Die of the Month Kit.  I love how bright and pretty this turned out!

I hope you enjoyed these fun summertime card projects and thanks so much for stopping by today.  You can subscribe to any of the Spellbinders Clubs starting on the 6th of the month and never miss a great kit like these again!

And don’t miss the Sparkle & Shine Sale with up to 40% select embellishments from now until Sunday, May 19th!

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