Hey there friends! We were hit by a little bit of a cold snap . . . I kept thinking, really? Where is winter? I live in a very mild area but have enjoyed the crisp air the last couple of days – when you walk outside you can practically drink it in! I even had to turn the heater on briefly. If it’s this cold here, I know it must be freezing every where else. What better excuse to sip on yet another cup of yummy coffee!! Snuggle up and read your stamp magazines, okay?
This is a card I worked on earlier this week and I guess I was in the same clean and simple mode. I used Spellbinders™ Crosses Two and layered on Spellbinders™ Picot Edged Circles followed by another layer using on the center part of the cross. Since the the overall look is one of filigree or ornateness, I selected Spellbinders™ Damask Accents to frame the corners on one of the layers. So often someone leaves a comment that they don’t think they can duplicate the card, but I assure you, you can!! The filigree look of the dies makes it look complicated, but these are simple layers that give the illusion of being complicated. I hope you’ll give it a try.
| SUPPLIES I USED |
| Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs – It Is Well With My Soul Paper: Bazzill, DCWV Ink: Colorbox Chalk Ink – Prussian Blue Accessories: Spellbinders™ Crosses Two, Spellbinders™ Picot Edged Circles, Spellbinders™ Damask Accents, seam binding, Recollections Pearls, Prima Flowers, |
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The clean and simple look is really so elegant – not too busy, just right! You are amazing!
The colors and design are so beautiful!
Beautiful as usual. I love your inspirational cards. We are also having a cold snap here in Georgia. I am not a person who enjoys the cold so it won’t hurt my feelings when it goes along it’s merry little way. : ) Smile Smile……God bless to all…… Denice
Gorgeous Becca and yes it’s cold in NW IL!!
You’re RIGHT Becca, it DOES look complicated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST LOVELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The blue, lace, dies!!!!!!!! sigh! GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) P.S. If this is CAS, then I need to REDEFINE CAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
Wow — so stunning. You make those dies really work for you Becca. Love the vintage lace and sentiment too. Thanks for always inspiring me.
Just beautiful!!!! And you are so right….but it’s getting the right dies and putting them together that’s the hardest…..
How aboth -13 during the day and with a good win tomorrow it will be winter here in Montreal. We cannot complain because we have such an easy winter this year.
I like this card to for the design but it is not the color I prefer.
Thank it is always a nice surprise to receive your beautiful work.
Merci
Francine
I like what you have done with that die. You are fantastic at seeing different applications on the same die. Lovely card.
BECCA NICE CARD BUT IT IS NOT A BECCA CARD. CYNTHIA
Another beautiful card!
Everything about this card is perfect….especially the blues and cremes. I have been following your blog for a while now and can definitely say this is a Becca card. The only die I don’t have that you used is the Crosses. But as soon as I buy the set, I only hope I can come close to making this gorgeous card. TFS!!
A beauty Becca. Delicate yet complicated and colors are so stunning together. Love your dies you chose and the ribbon and lace, touching quote!!
Becca, that is absolutely lovely! Gorgeous color combo. The layers add so much interest to the card. But anyone who knows the words to the hymn will know that is the best part of the entire card. Blessings to you!
This is brilliant! I love the blue and the lace.
Blessings Bernie
Becca, this is absolutely gorgeous. Simple and elegant. You inspire me everyday, to reach a little higher. thank you for sharing, Hugs and blessings.
Yep it’s cold in FL too! Your beautiful card warms my heart! CAS…I like your version of CAS! Love the colors they’re so warm and inviting.
Beautiful card. The sentiment on the card “It is well with my soul” really gives me the warm fuzzies.
Guess it’s cold everywhere. It certainly is here. Your card is awesome. I love the way you’ve done the filligree, and you explained it so well. The Crosses 2 set is definitely on my wish list. I’ll be singing that hymn now, but maybe I need to. Things aren’t really well with my soul right now, but they will be. Thanks for your continued inspiration.
Another beautiful card Becca! I look forward to your daily inspiration along with the wonderful ideas. You do a magnificent job on any and all of your cards!
Thanks for sharing!
Becca, the colors are perfect together. Very serene & elegant, fit so well with the sentiment also. Love how you have layered the dies to achieve this lovely effect. Can’t wait to get my set of Crosses 2…that will be my first of the CHA S/Binders, once they are shipping. I have a set preordered, then will look at the other new that you used. I have the picot circles, but somehow, your effects are so much prettier than mine! TFS. Cold in Upstate SC tonight as well, very windy today.
I love the size of this card…and the sentiment is one that I have been dwelling on lately….and of course this card is beautiful….every time I come and visit you I am amazed…and when I leave I am filled with warm fuzzy feelings….you and your blogging truly blesses me….:)
Becca, I’m so sorry but this is not a card I care for. I think it is the bow. Whatever is in the middle of the bow just takes the beauty out of the rest of the card for me. Also it is the same color wave as the last card you just made. I love seeing your work Becca and often “copy” it, but this one is not a keeper for me. A loyal follower.
It’s really beautiful Becca! You have a special knack of putting the Spellbinders dies together and the result is always so pretty
I like your card Becca – it’ very elegant. Thank you for sharing.. Keep those fingers warm!
This is gorgeous..Gorgeous colors.. If I had these dies I would try this one myself :).
Hi Becca
well i have looked at all 380 pages of your blog and learnt so much along the way. Feel like i come to know u. It has taken me 3 days to complete and stopped and made one or two cards along the way. I too am getting a fetish for ribbons but not got quite as much as you lol. I didn’t know there was so many ways to tie a bow. But have had a play and getting there. Best to start on wide ribbons you say , lol my widest is 15 mm. Want to try the crape flowers and bows with the stitching on the edge. (I have a sewing machine).
A wonderful blog and will keep coming back to learn more.
Todays card another grand design. Your a very clever woman.
Becca, this card is gorgeous!!! I recently ordered this stamp from ODBD. I love how you used the crosses and the lace is so beautiful. Please don’t let the “less than kind” words discourage you at all. I will pray that “It is well with their soul.”
Hugs,
Cindy
I do love how you put different dies together in unusual ways. Perhaps you could share with us sometime how you do that?
Cold here in western New York. We’re expecting wind chills at or below zero. Plus, it’s been snowing since Friday night, and it’s not expected to let up until early Monday. Not sure how much we’ve had – probably not more than a few inches, yet the snowplow has been here twice already to clear the driveway. Not looking forward to driving to church Sunday evening, but I have to be there! We knew winter would arrive sometime!
Hi Becca,
This is a delightful card and I love the lace you have used it is stunning.
We are having extremely cold weather and it is starting to get me down if I am honest- bones and joints are aching. Thank goodness for central heating and slipper socks I say.
Logs hugs needed to keep warm. Linda x
So pretty! That lace is such a nice compliment to the card!
Love, love, love the card! That sentiment is exactly how I feel.
We’ve had such a mild winter that today’s frigid temp and wind was unbearable.
I do LOVE the “clean and simple” design!!! Beautiful!!!
This is so very elegant and beautiful.
Beautiful. I always leave your blog singing for the rest of the day. Here in the UK we are also enduring a “cold spell”. Snow ice and freezing temperatures. I’m not a fan of the white stuff. It looks beautiful but that’s about all. I won’t be unhappy to see it go.
Becca just beautiful. I have not heard of the Spellbinders crosses before. must look it up. because it makes a wonderful card.
Hugs Trish.
Absolutely beautiful, so elegant and the colour combo is so serene somehow.
I had to laugh when I read you even had to turn the heater on… I live in an area of the world where we hardly ever switch the heating off! You are so lucky!
Hi Becca it has been/is very cold in my part of the UK. Still lots time for staying indoors and crafting. A lovely card. Anne x
Your cards are simply amazing…your blog is aptly named!
Brrrr….Becca, I live in SW FL, and it is f-f-r-r-e-e-z-zing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beautiful card, what a great way to use the crosses!!!!!!!! TFS!
Cheri
Becca I would give anything to see your creations in person. Your cards just have such a warmth and depth to them that I cannot achieve.
Good morning Becca – It’s been a basically snow-less winter up until the past few days and then it arrived! Becca, your card (as always) is so pretty, and the lace a beautiful feminine touch. Thanks for sharing! Jean.
Beautiful, as always Becca. You have taken layering to a whole new level with your uses of the lucious spellbinders dies. And It Is Well is one of my favorite hymns. TFS
Becca another beautiful card!!….you say it is simple and it probably is, but it has the look of being complicated because of the combination of the dies which are beautiful…and blue and cream/white are always so fresh looking.
I live in Bonnie Scotland and the weather here is definately cold brrrr! but not just as bad as last year when our roads were treacherous and our airports were closed due to bad weather ….well, not so far anyway!
LOL Eileen
Simple, yet very elegent. Thanks for sharing. I look forward to each and every one of your postings.
Beautiful as usual but somehow you just keep getting better and better…I really don’t know how you do it!!! :D
Hugs,
Beth P
You create magic with the Spellbinders dies! Such wonderful inspiration! I adore the intricacy of their dies, an innovative product that I don’t know what I did without! :)
Warm hugs
I wish I could win the lottery (but then again, that would require me to play the lottery, huh?) so that I could afford to buy every one of the Spellbinders die sets!!! Then I could try my hand at recreating your beautiful cards!
Thanks for sharing ~ I always look forward to your posts to get my fill of “beautiful” for the day!
Becca,
Thanks once again for showing me a different way to use a tool. I loved the patterns on the Spellbinders crosses, but could not think of a way to use them (other than as crosses). But, you did it !!!! I so look forward to your posts. Keep the creativity coming.
Hi Becca,
I love the cards you are making. I have not seen any of these spellbinders in my area. I guess they will be coming soon.
It is very cold here. It was about 10 degrees this morning.It is 20 now & the sun is shining. I am going to make my valentine card for my husband & then I am going to make a coffecake that I invented many years ago for my children christmas morning. I used my husband for some friends that were over & my daughter gave me what for so I am making another for him.
Love
Vicky
Becca, you get more out of a die, than anyone in the world. It’s truly amazing what you come up with. I’d love to have your brain for a couple of hours, just to see what we dull normals don’t. Your card is lovely, as usual. As far as weather, Francine (8th comment) described it perfectly. We’ve been spoiled this winter, but now it’s getting cold.
Have a wonderful rest of the weekend.
Goodmorning Becca ( from New Zealand that is). Your card is lovely again and isn’t it an encouragement to know ‘ it is well with our souls’. With very special blessings to you.
Hi Becca
Lovely card today and a little bit different.
Here in the South of Wales we have been experiencing temperatures as low as -7 and its been horrid. Like you say though it is an excuse to cuddle up with your favourite craft mag and a warm drink (tea for me, British through and through..LOL!!)
Have a good week Linda x
I am continually amazed by the inspiration in your projects, Becca! Such beauty and tranquility. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us!
Beautiful card Becca, love the symmetry of this one with pretty colors chosen. The die-cuts are very pretty love the strip of lace to soften the whole look. Beautiful work. As always Becca, TFS!!! :-D
I just bought a spellbinder grand caliber and of course am doing a lot of exploring when I happened onto your blog. OMG it is ssoooooooo wonderful. I subscribe to a bunch of blogs but yours is fantastic. Your creations are simply awesome. Hope someday am able to do something halfway close to yours. God bless you so far I am only gottenthru35 pages but am not stopping there.
Ann
What a lovely card Becca. The die-cuts look fabulous and I love the blue with the cream. So elegant.
Beautiful, you are the queen of layering, and that lace is just Gorgeous too!
Breath taking! I love this card, blue is my color.
Beautiful card ! Layering is great plus the lace add’s something else
My favorite hymn! I’ll have to look for this stamp! Thank you for posting!
I adore the colors on this card. So beautiful!
I just love all the cards that you make. I just would like to ask you….how do you adhere all the swirly spelbinders paper to your cards? The look is so professional and I would love to know. Thank you so very much for your help!