Spellbinders | Hydrangea

Hello there, today I have a card to share using the Spellbinders Hydrangea Dies from The Nature's Botanical Garden collection, which was released earlier this year. If you are not familiar with the dies by Susan Tierney-Cockburn, they are made to be realistic and she shares videos on how to shape the flowers to get that look. 

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I started off my card by die cutting the Spellbinders Hydrangea Etched Dies from 80lb white cardstock (I usually always use 110lb cardstock for die cuts but with these, having a thinner cardstock is slightly easier with the shaping). I added ink blending on top using Altenew Fresh Dye Inks. I used Eastern Sky & Hydrangea inks for one set of petals and Pinkalicous & Razzleberry for the other set. I used Altenew Green Valley Fresh Dye Inks for the leaves and base layers. 

I then shaped the petals using Susan's Garden Ultimate Tool Kit, following her video for the process. I adhered the base layers and leaves of the hydrangeas to a US A2 sized card base first. I then added the hydrangea petals on top with Bearly Art Glue. I added a teeny gem to each of the flowers - Prism AB Gems for the blue/purple ones, and Pink Gems for the pink ones. 

I pressed a sentiment from the Spellbinders Always & Forever Sentiment Strips Press Plate & Die Set onto Spellbinders Porcelain BetterPress Cotton Card using Spellbinders BetterPress Black Ink and the Spellbinders Betterpress Letterpress System. It was cut into a strip and the edges cut down using a guillotine. It was adhered to the card with thin foam tape. To finish, I embellished with Spellbinders Fashion Oyster Color Essentials Pearls. 

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I absolutely love how these flowers look and hydrangeas are one of my favourite flowers. The only downside to these dies is that they are very dimensional, so these are definitely had-deliver type cards! Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas Eve Eve!