Spellbinders | Glimmering Peonies Duo + Christmas in July Sale!

Hello again, crafty friends! You may recall my Glimmering Buttercups POST featuring the Glimmering Flowers Collection from Spellbinders. Today, I'm sharing two clean and simple, same-but-different cards I whipped up featuring the Glimmering Peonies Glimmer Plate and Stencil Bundle.

I needed a couple of quick cards and love having coordinating stencils to colour large, floral images such as this one. Even though I have quite a collection of birthday and thank you cards in my stash, none of them are ever quite right. Do you ever feel that way or is it just an excuse to make more cards? ;)

I started by heat foiling the Glimmering Peonies with Aura Hot Foil on Neenah 80lb White cardstock. Then I used Catherine Pooler's Color Wheel Download to select my colour palette and the ink colours I used are Be Mine, Do-Si-Do, Bellini, Frosted, Serenade, Garden Party and Lime Rickey.

If you don't have the coordinating stencils, you can colour these peonies with your favourite medium or simply heat foil them on dark cardstock and leave them uncoloured as I did in the past.

I loved mixing Be Mine with Do-Si-Do and Bellini on the larger flower petals. I love the way Frosted and Serenade work with the other colours. I went as light as possible with Garden Party and Lime Rickey, but I think I could've gone lighter or perhaps even left the foliage uncoloured for something different.

For the sentiments, I heat foiled the Curved Everyday Sentiments with Polished Brass Hot Foil on Simon Says Stamp Lavender cardstock. I actually tried two other foil colours before choosing this version.

I cut the sentiment banners again from both Brushed Metallic cardstock and Gingham Lilac patterned paper. These were layered behind both sentiments to complement the foiling and the bits of purple in the buds.

As you can see, the Glimmering Peonies Glimmer Plate is significantly bigger than an A2 panel so I decided to leave some of it off the bottom edge. You'll also notice that I flipped the thank you panel upside down for a bit of variation between the two cards.

I almost adhered the banners flat to the ink blended panel to make it super easy to mail but I decided to foam mount it for a tiny bit of dimension. I just couldn't resist! Again, I almost stopped there but I decided to use some flat sequins to add visual interest.

The sequins I used are from Studio Katia's Pastel Rainbow Confetti but you can find similar sequins in the Spellbinders store, available in Aura, Pink and Purple. Aura is a great colour that fills in the gaps nicely when you don't have matching sequins for every colour.

Do you like to make batches of cards using the same design and colour palette? I only thought to flip one of the panels at the last minute. Otherwise, I would've had both designs exactly the same but with different sentiments. What other ideas do you have for same-but-different card designs?

Please check out the NEW Christmas in July Sale, on now through July 28, 2024. You can save up to 50% select products. Prices are as marked. The sale also features discounts on select Clearance items. 

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