Spellbinders Trailside Birthday Raccoon

Hello Friends, and thanks for joining me! My friend, Allison Frazier, has a brand new collection with Spellbinders, and I was super excited to get to play with this Trailside Trio set! There are lots of products and add-ons for this set, but for today, I’m just playing with the trio. Let’s go through the details.

NOTE: all supplies are linked to multiple sources in the thumbnails at the end of this blog post.

I love this set because my friend designed it, but I also love this set because I live on several acres of land, and we see these same animals on our property every day! I chose to play with the raccoon, because there is a raccoon that comes to visit me almost daily! She came the first time as a baby with her Mom back in 2021, and just last year, she brought her very own baby to visit me as well. She does allow me to pet her and hang out with her on the deck. So there you have it, a little glimpse into my life! I’ll add a pic of her at the bottom of this post, if you’re interested in seeing my raccoon friend!

I first die cut all of the pieces of the raccoon from different gray colors, white and black cardstock. On the white portions, I did some light ink blending using Flannel ink before assembling the raccoon with liquid glue. The design of this card came about because I actually had all of these flowers already assembled, so I thought a flower field could be super cute.

I used an older DOML set to cut the hills from green cardstock, and did some ink blending on the tops of those using Pearfection ink. Before adhering those to the card base, I did some blue ink blending to create a sky using Cadette ink. The flowers were adhered using glue, while the raccoon was adhered using foam tape. The sentiment was gold foiled onto black cardstock and adhered with liquid glue as well. To finish up, I added a few gold metallic pearls to some of the flower centers to tie in the gold sentiment.

That does it for this project! I hope you like it, and I hope you’ll swing over and check out Allison’s collection on the Spellbinders website. Thanks again for joining me, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

This is my friend, Gimpy. She got this name because when she was much younger, she had a hurt foot for quite a while, and the name Gimpy just stuck. It’s silly, I know! She’s a very sweet girl, and I enjoy her visits!

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Hello Friends, and welcome back! Today’s post is featuring the new Crocus Duo from Simon’s latest release. This ended up being a twofer project, but I’m only writing about one of them today, so let’s go ahead and go through the details.

NOTE: all supplies are linked in the thumbnails at the end of this blog post.

I knew that I wanted my Crocus flowers to be purple, so I die cut the flowers several times from three different colors of purple cardstock. Once I had cut all of the flowers, I did some ink blending on them using Crocus and Lilac inks, and assembled them. The flowers are only two layers, but I cut an additional layer to be adhered to the back. While I was cutting, I did cut the stems and grass from green cardstock.

My background was created using a very old Simon background stamped onto a very pale blue cardstock using VersaMark Ink and heat embossing it with white powder. This is where the twofer part comes in to play. I die cut that blue panel using the Whirl Diamond Plate, but only used the inner circles for this project. I also die cut a panel of Moonflower cardstock using that same plate. Before assembling this part, I decided that I wanted those inner circles black splattered.

This background ended up being a little bit of work, but I think it was worth it in the end. I went ahead and glued the Moonflower panel to the card base, and inlaid the splattered blue circles. After playing with the flower arrangement, I decided that it might be pretty to add some grass pieces that were similar to the other cardstock colors that I was using.

The flowers were adhered using foam tape, while the stems and various leaves were secured with liquid glue. The sentiment was stamped, white heat embossed, trimmed out and adhered to the panel with glue as well. To finish up, I added some dew drops for added interest.

That does it for this project. I hope you like it! I’ll post the other project using the rest of the background at some later date. Thanks again for stopping by, and I hope you have an awesome day!