Paint Your World...

 Hello and happy Wednesday!  I'm popping in with two cards that I created with more new products from the Spellbinders March release.  The two cards were created with products from the Paint Your World collection by Vicky Papaionnou.  These new dies are just so much fun! (Affiliate links used where possible.  Using my links allows me to earn a small commission at no cost to you.  Thank you for your support.  I used my Platinum 6 for all the die cutting and my Glimmer for all foiling.) Take a look at what I made:

This first card was created with the Butterfly Burst die set and was inspired by the sketch at Sunday Stamp so I will be adding it to the gallery there.  I wanted to make the butterflies the focus of the card so I decided to keep things predominately white.  I also wanted bright spring colors so I went with orange and yellow.  I used Carved Pumpkin and Mustard Seed distress oxide inks to ink up white cardstock.  I die cut the butterflies and the ends of the brush bristles from the inked up pieces.  I die cut all the other parts of the card from white cardstock.  Then I got to assembling the card.  To add just a little bit more color I determined where the paintbrushes would be, and how the butterflies would cascade out and then added a little bit of the Carved Pumpkin and Mustard Seed behind where the butterflies will be.  I added all my elements to the card front.  I foiled the sentiments from an older Glimmer sentiments set and added those to the card.  

Both cards took me a while to create, but this second one took the longest!   However, I think the end results was definitely worth all the time it took.

For this card I was sort of thinking of the paintbrushes being the ground that the tulips are planted in.  They could also be viewed as pots, your choice!  This die set is called Artful Tulips and I die cut the brushes from kraft and the bristles of the brushes from two shades of green cardstock (Peridot and Rainforest from Spellbinders).   I had a "live and learn" situation arise as I was putting the paintbrushes together.  I decided to adhere the bristles first and then add the tulip leaves second (die cut from a darker green).  This was a mistake, but like I said it was a "live and learn" moment!  I made it work by figuring out how to tuck the leaves into the bristles.  The tulips were die cut from Spellbinders Pink Sand and Dahlia cardstocks, assembled and tucked into the bristles and leaves.  I finished with a little tag that is from another new die set called Assorted Tags.  I used an Essentials rectangle to die cut Raindrop cardstock and then added some stenciled clouds using white pigment ink.  I adhered the paintbrushes with foam tape and added the little butterfly (die cut using a butterfly die from Butterfly Burst set).   The sentiment is from a Spellbinders stamp of the month from May of last year and was stamped on the small tag.  I adhered the tag and the little twine bow.  Going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge as dies are a favorite thing.   I'm also going to add this to the new Card Concept challenge of spring garden.  I guess my card is clean and layered and uses the overall idea of a spring garden.  And looking at the color palette... I have all the colored represented in my card! 

I hope you will check out the new release.  Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!