Hey card-making friends, welcome back.  Today, I have Spellbinders Little Smiles Hand Made Cards to share with you.  I created three of them covering all the elements of the new release.  This newly released collection of dies is so much fun to create with.  You can make baby cards, birthday cards for small children, and birth announcements (love the stork).  Each set has a great variety of dies, and you can mix and match them, too.

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Products Used:

• Little Smiles Go Kart
• Wishing Stars Embossing Folder
• Little Smiles Sentiments BetterPress Plate
•  Arches Dies
• Little Smiles Swinging Among the Stars
• Falling Stars BetterPress Plate
• Little Smiles Bundle of Joy

Spellbinders Little Smiles – Bundle of Joy

Two of the three cards are A2 top folding white card bases 4-1/4″ x 11″, score and fold at 5-1/2″.  The middle one is an easel card.

I’m also using the Arches Dies in each of my cards today.  I love how they frame out the die cuts and still allow the embossed backgrounds to peek through.

Next, a card front in FOG – my new favorite color of cardstock:  4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″

Then, a piece of white 4″ x 5-1/4″ embossed with the Wishing Stars Embossing Folder before attaching to the card front.

Next, using the largest Arches dies, cut the larger one from Fog, the other from white.  Emboss the white one with the Wishing Stars embossing folder and then gently ink blend some Broken China Distress Oxide Ink.

Then, using the cloud die, cut one each in blue, white and fog.  Ink blend a bit of Broken China Ink to the edges of the blue one before gluing them to the bottom of the arches and trimming off any excess.

Die cut the stork and baby, glue all the pieces together before adding foam squares to the back and attaching them to the arch.

Finally, die cut some stars from pale yellow cardstock and sprinkle them throughout the sky.  Use the Little Smiles Sentiments BetterPress Plate, and black glimmer foil the sentiments onto a white piece of cardstock.  Use the coordinating die set to cut them out (all at once which is awesome), and attach one at the center bottom of the card.

Spellbinders Little Smiles – Swinging Among the Stars.

For some reason, this card just wanted to be an easel card, LOL .  I used the larger of the Arches dies to make that front panel as large as I could while still maintaining the arch, and it allowed me to have the star pop outside the arch which I really like.  The card still folds flat and fits inside an a2 sized envelope.

Start by creating the A2 sized waterfall colored card base, 4-1/4″ x 11″, score at 5″ and 2.75″ to create the easel fold.

Score and Fold so it stands this way:

 

Next, die cut the arches in Fog and Waterfall.  Using the Little Smiles Falling Stars BetterPress plate, white glimmer foil  the waterfall arch before attaching it to the Fog colored one, then attach it to the 2-3/4″ folded panel on the base.

Then, cut panels for the bottom of the easel card as the “door stop”,

The Fog piece is 2-1/2 x 4″, the Waterfall piece is 2-1/4″ x 3-3/4″, and this one is also white glimmer foiled with the Falling Stars BetterPress Plate.

Glue them together and attach them to the bottom front of the card base.

Finally, cut all the pieces for the art piece, gluing them all together, add foam squares to the back and attach it on an angle to the card.  Cut out some additional clouds and stars and glue them on as well.

Black Glimmer foil the Little Smiles Sentiments onto a piece of pale yellow cardstock.  Die cut the sentiments out and add one to the “doorstop”, at the bottom of the card along with more yellow stars.

If you need instructions on making Easel Cards, I shared a recent video on how to make them here:

 

Spellbinders Little Smiles – Go Kart.

Instructions for this card are basically the same as the first card, with these changes.

For the white arched panel, I die cut the long cloud die (from the Bundle of Joy Die Set),  from a scrap of white and used that as a stencil, and ink blended clouds using the Broken China Distress Oxide Ink.

Next, I added a strip of grass at the bottom of the arch, made by clipping it with my scissors.

Then, die cut and glue together the bunny driving the go kart and the balloon and use foam squares to attach them to the card to add dimension.

Finally, the sentiment is black glimmer foiled onto white cardstock.

You can find the entire Spellbinders LITTLE SMILES release here, and it’s also listed in the thumbnails at the end of this blog post.

 

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