Spellbinders | Hola Llama Cards. Die D-Lites Release Blog Hop. Video + Giveaway (Now Closed)

Hola amigas! No, I’ve not started to learn Spanish (although I’d love to one day!) but since I’m sharing fun Hola Llamas cards today I thought it would be fun to say Hola instead of Hello! Today I’m joining Spellbinders February Release Blog Hop #2 (catch blog hop #1 here) sharing fun cards created using Die D-Lites February 2018 cards.

As of September 2016 I work as an in-house creative designer at Spellbinders office in Phoenix. While I do a lot of work for them and create a number of different projects I am only sharing what I truly love made using their products here on my blog. I do not and never will share projects or mention products I not love.

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.

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CARDS DETAILS

I started working on these card by die-cutting circle and heart openings in A2 white card bases and kraft 4 x 5 1/4″ card front panels using my Spellbinders dies. I used a basic circle and heart dies for these. I taped the kraft panels onto card bases, taped the dies in the middle, opened card bases up and cut the openings in my Platinum die cutting machine.

Next, I die-cut and embossed Llamas and accessories to dress my llama guys up. My animals were cut out of Hero Arts 120 LB cardstock and colored using Copic markers – I used C1, C3 and R20. For the accessories I used Papertrey Ink Summer Sunrise, Raspberry Fizz, Classic Kraft and True Black cardstock as well as Simon Says Stamp Fog. I embossed all of these elements and inked the edges up using Distress ink in Wild Honey, Raspberry Fizz, Gathered Twigs.

To create scenes for my Llama cards I die-cut Saguaro and Fishhook cacti from the Cacti set out of Ripe Avocado and New Leaf PTI cardstock and inked them up with Peeled Paint and Crushed Olive distress ink. I also die-cut sentiments for these cards using the Hola Margarita set and Party Food – I cut out Hola and !Gracias!.

Along with the ink blending I also used a white gelly roll pen to add white details to the cacti, llama blankets and bow ties.

I also used some stamps to embellish the backgrounds of my cards. I didn’t decorate the heart window card, but for my circle cards I used Circle Saying stamp set from Simon Says stamp and white heat embossed Happy Birthday around the window opening and Sunburst Bold Prints background stamp from Hero Arts – stamped it in Barely Baige ink from Simon Says Stamp.

I added a white heat embossed on black sentiment that reads “You Are Literally The Best” to 2 of my cards. This stamp comes from tha YAY set by Cathy Zielske for Simon Says Stamp and finally I used clear droplets in small and medium size from Pretty Pink Posh to spice these cards ups.

I love how these projects turned out! I didn’t have any llama sentiments in my stash (like “You are a drama llama” or similar), but I was happy to find the Hola and Gracias dies from Spellbinders and used for those build my sentiments instead.

HOP ALONG WITH US!

Spellbinders
Stephanie Beck Low
Nichol Spohr
Yana Smakula – you are here
Vanessa Menhorn
Hussena Calcuttawala
Rebecca Luminarias
Emily Leiphart
Erum Tasneem
Michelle Short

GIVEAWAY! (NOW CLOSED)

To celebrate this release, Spellbinders is giving away a $50 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners. Please leave a comment on Spellbinders blog by Wednesday, February 21st 11:59 pm EDT for a chance to win. The winners will be announced in the blog hop post on Spellbinders blog the following day.

I also have a $25 gift certificate to Spellbinders blog to giveaway! Leave a comment below and let me know if you like to make window cards! Please leave a comment by Wednesday, February 21st 11:59 pm EDT for a chance to win. I’ll pick the winner, announce winner here and will email the winner on the 22nd.

The winner is: Megan Whitcher. Congratulation, Megan!

SUPPLIES

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

Spellbinders Hip Llama Dies Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL	Spellbinders Hola Margaritas Die Set Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL	Spellbinders Party Food Dies Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL	Spellbinders Cacti Stamp & Die Set Shop at: SSS | SPEL
Spellbinders Classic Heart S4-136 Shop at: SSS | SPEL | AZ	Spellbinders Standard Circles Small Dies Shop at: SSS | SPEL | AZ	Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL | AZ	Spellbinders Magnetic Handy Mat Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL | AZ
Spellbinders Tool ‘n One Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL | AZ	Spellbinders Main Attraction Magnetic Die Finder Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL	Hero Arts Radiant White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | HA	Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS
Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ	PTI Perfect Match Raspberry Fizz Cardstock Shop at: PTI	PTI Perfect Match Summer Sunrise Cardstock Shop at: PTI	PTI Perfect Match Ripe Avocado Cardstock Shop at: PTI
PTI Paper Basics – Kraft Cardstock (50 Sheets) Shop at: PTI	PTI Perfect Match New Leaf Cardstock (50 sheets) Shop at: PTI	Neenah Classic Crest 80 Lb Smooth Desert Storm Shop at: SSS | AZ	Hero Arts Cling Stamp Sunburst Bold Prints Shop at: SSS | HA
Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Simon Says Stamp Circle Sayings Stamp Set Shop at: SSS	Cz Design Clear Stamps Yay Cz09 Shop at: SSS
EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Simon Says Stamp Barely Beige Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Wild Honey Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Peeled Paint Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ
Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Picked Raspberry Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Gathered Twigs Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Crushed Olive Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Ranger Mini Round Foam Refils Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ
Ranger Mini Round Ink Blending Tools Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Scrapbook Adhesives Thin White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS | AZ	Copic Sketch Marker R20 Blush Pink Shop at: SSS | AZ	Copic Sketch Marker C1 Cool Gray Shop at: SSS | AZ
Copic Sketch Marker C3 Cool Gray Grey Shop at: SSS | AZ	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Stamp Platform Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS	White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS | AZ
Scrapbook Adhesives Adhesive Sheets Shop at: SSS | AZ	Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS | SC	Pretty Pink Posh 4MM Clear Droplets (small) Shop at: SSS
Pretty Pink Posh 6MM Clear Droplets (medium) Shop at: SSS	Sakura Classic White Bold Line 10 Gelly Roll Pen Shop at: SSS	Tonic Easy Clean Mat Shop at: SSS

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