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What’s a Cardlet, pray tell?  A Cardlet is a small motif, complete with background, sentiment and character that combine to make small card or layers onto a larger card.  We’re delighted to introduce you to the Sweet Cardlets Collection.

Becca Feeken sent over these lovely dies and watercolors for me to try.

Sweet Cardlets show up in a Glimmer format with a matching die.   They are metal plates that are used in the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System to transfer foil to paper through a combination of heat and pressure.  The Glimmer machine base is rolled through your die cut machine to deliver that pressure.  As long as you have a machine that can accommodate thick dies – like steel rule dies, you’re all set. A word to the wise, it is very addicting.  (Compatibility charts on the Spellbinders website)

The Inspiration behind Sweet Cardlets

We gotta fess up here.  There’s no such word as cardlets, yep, Becca straight up made it up.  You have to agree though, it sounds really cute, right?  Well that was the inspiration behind sweet cardlets.  As you can imagine it has something to do with cards and moreover, little cards.

Always mindful of the budget, Becca wanted to create a collection where each set is all you need to make a little card.  Sweet Cardlets are small motifs with a 3″ x 3″ footprint.  Each has a background, a main character and several sentiments.

We found it the right size to fit on an A2 card and even to layer onto an A7 card.  In fact, the 3″ background can be repeated for a long background or a larger background.  Dies cut out each main character and three sentiments with each set give you lots of options.

Each of our Creative Team members will show you their take on cards made with the Sweet Cardlets Collection.  Today we’re all using Jane Davenport Watercolors in some technique to show off Sweet Cardlets.

My Projects For Today

First up is a mixed media canvas I made using GLP-237 glimmer hot foil plate Just Bee-cause that you can find here.   I have to confess that watercolors and mixed media are out of my comfort zone, but I had a good time using Jane Davenport’s watercolors for my projects today.  For this project, I used the watercolors “Best Friend,” “Ladybug,” “Fairy Tale,” “Unicorn,” “Raven,” and “Sand.”  I used diluted white “Unicorn” to place drops and splatters on the entire project and used the black “Raven” to do some stamping on the canvas.

 

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Here is what the dies look like:

For my second project, I made another mixed media project – a card that also highlights the Just-BeeCause gold foil honeycombs and sentiment.  I also used a sentiment from GLP-219 Heart-Felt Sentiments. The project uses an Amazing Paper Grace oval from the Picot Petite collection that you can find here.  The purple colors of “Mystic” and “Royal” from Jane Davenport’s watercolor paints were used along with highlights of “Ladybug.” I also used “Unicorn” again to add some white to the project and the black “Raven” for stamping on the card.

 

 

 

 

Designer Tip:  The Glimmer foil transfers act as a great resist for mixed media projects!

Here is the Spellbinders video link showing amazing new samples as well as a walkthrough of the entire collection.

 https://youtu.be/reAkX2HkGwY 

Sweet Cardlets Availability:

These dies and plates are available from Spellbinders right now! Click here: Sweet Cardlets Collection

Sweet Cardlets Collection Blog Hop!

Click on the links to each member, they’re waiting to inspire you to create something beautiful:

Visit Beatriz Jennings
Visit Patricia Manhire
Visit Agnieszka Posluszny
Visit Elena Olinevich
Visit Sathya Kala Sankaran
Visit Tara Brown
Visit Linda Parker
Visit Rajni Chawla
Visit Kate Skonieczna

Giveaway!  

You could win an Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month! Enter to win on our new Instagram Account https://www.instagram.com/amazingpapergrace_creates/. All  of the entry details are there, look for this image below:

I love your comments!  What do you think of mixed media projects?  Are you a fan?

Have a great day!

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Tara