Sweet Blog Friends, I’m back again today! Thanks so much for your kind words and prayers – as soon as our situation is resolved I’ll share what I learned, in the meantime I know to be patient. Today I wanted to share a subtle vintage card I created. It uses one of the new A Gilded Life Dies by Spellbinders called Belgian Lace and was a great opportunity for me to get a little bit techniquey. This die is a long textured border that you can either use for texture or it can be wholly cut out. What I did is construct a card using four of the cut out borders, which when reassembled made the card look like a frame. You can’t really tell it’s a frame because I simply covered the opening of the frame with my stamped sentiment. The aged color in the crevices were put there by an ink pad. I swiped my ink pad across the surfaces before running through my Grand Calibur and it embeds the color into the crevices. I tried all sorts of inks and depending on the look you want, most any ink will work although pigmented inks and some chalks work better. The absolute hero for this card is Imagine/Crafts – Tsukineko’s Delicata Ink. Every time I ran the die through with ‘this‘ ink, I found myself audibly oooohing when I uncovered the results.
The sentiment that I used was a from my Kit Club that is no more. It’s one of my very favorites and it was meant for this card :-) Although the stamp set is not currently available, popular items seem to wing their way back from the attic so let me know if it’s something you didn’t get and would like to see. I used Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles to frame up the sentiment.
| CRAFT SUPPLIES I USED |
| Rubber Stamps: Amazing Paper Grace Kit Club – It’s Sew Vintage Craft Paper: Papertrey Fine Linen Paper, Gold Poster Board Ink: Imagine/Crafts – Tsukineko’s Delicata Ink Accessories: Belgian Lace, Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles, Recollection Pearls, Paper Source Satin Ribbon, May Arts Silk Ribbon, A Gilded Life Lace, jeweled button and corsage pin, Grand Calibur Die Cut Machine |
Thanks friends! You sure make crafting fun!!
Love the new Spellbinders Belgian Lace look. Beautiful card Becca!
WAYW this is just soooo gorgeous again becca, I just so love these gorgeous lace cards, you makes, they´re soooooo beautiful.
Don´t you worry hun, you don´t owe any of us any explanation to anything hun, just take things one day a time and do what you havae to and know, we´re all here for you, if YOU need us okay.
Biiiig warm hugs over the pond from here.
Beautiful! Things will work out, they always do. As you said, patience and faith is the key.
This is to die for! I don’t know how you do it. I think the card from the day before is stunning and then you come up with another beauty. Does it every stop? Heavens please don’t. Thanks for sharing. It is lovely!!
WOW stunning…..I love it Becca!! :)
Each day you are adding another marvelous card. I am really lovin’ these new S/B. The Gold Delicata is my favorite of the gold inks…better than the Brillance gold. Your picture frame is absolutely lovely and that sentiment is so right with this frame. The gold made it appear so very dimensional. TFS & Hugs
Hi Becca,
This is stunning, love it. So vintage and elegant looking. Love these new dies you are showing us, I do hope they become available soon.
Love & Hugs
Jacquie J xxx
Nice die and fab bow again – love the focal element.
Again and again Becca, you give us such wonderful cards to inspire us. LOL, also break us! always want those dies. Thanks for sharing your wonderful talent!!!!!
Fabulous frame made from the lace die, and the sentiment is great. Christine x
Like always just beautiful …keeping you in my prayers….
Beautiful Card Becca this Die will have to go on a wish list just bought loads of SB dies While C & C was broadcasting from CHA thanks for sharing Melanie (UK)
The talent in you is just never-ending, Becca. I look at your creations and go “Awwww”. They aren’t just crafty cards…they are works of art.
Beautiful Card Becca, Love that Vintage Look with the Belgian Lace Die and your sentiment is perfect !! Vintage Elegance at it’s finest !!
Absolutely Gorgeous card! I just love how you “construct” your cards with all the dies! I had a problem with your link for the Delicata Ink
Imagine/Crafts – Tsukineko’s Delicata Ink
I couldn’t find any mention of Delicata Ink???
This is just STUNNING.
WOW tfs
As always, your card is beautiful. I love your work.
Beautiful in every way. Edna
Beautiful Becca, that ink truly sets it off nicely. After looking at the Belgian
Lace on Spellbinders its hard to tell for me that this is a die and not just an embossing plate, confusing. I dont see any cut lines like the regular Spellbinder dies in the photos.
Trusting the Lord will see you through whatever you and yours are dealing with. Another lovely card Becca, can’t wait for the new dies to be available.
Hi Becca
I can’t think of a time when I have looked I have looked at your cards and thought I don’t like this one, and this is’nt the day either. Your cards are beautiful little works of art, and the sentiments are also beautiful. I may not comment every time, but i am in awe of your work.
Kind regards :-)
Tina X
Awesome card!
GIRL, You must never sleep! All of your ideas constantly going through your head, YOU absolutely never cease to “AMAZE” me. Each day you come out with something more beautiful. Unbelievable, such a God-given talent. Thank you and Bless you, Becca.
Hugs
Mstgane
Ann
Beautiful card as always, you really are a true inspiration, I am hoping that some of your inspiration will rub off on me as my ‘mojo’ has still not returned to me. Please if you can, give me some advice to help me get it to return as I am being driven insane by it now. lol. Hugs, Jen xx
Lovely card with a beautiful bow! As I looked at it I wondered how you backed the front so you don’t see the opening of the four dies together when opening it. And also the other half front and back, are they covered as well? You can see we do have technical questions too! LOL
Becca, Love this card and all your creations. I used to belong to your kit club and just used one of the dies just the other day. So loved that club. Hope 2014 is a great year for you and your family. Thanks so much for sharing your talents.
Love the card and the verse!
Hello Becca
I look at the Die, and think that’s beautiful!
Then I look at what you have done with it, and think that’s really beautiful!
You have such imagination Becca I really love this Belgian Lace Die!
Take care
Love Marg
Such a lovely card! The lacey appearance outshines any other.
Gorgeous
So chic, Becca. And what a lovely sentiment.
You are in my prayers.
Hugs
Anne (UK) x
This is absolutely stuning!!!!
Hugs
Debbi (UK) xxxx
I love the sentiment, and I missed out on that one. If it ever becomes available, I will surely buy it. Beautiful card.
I love the sentiment on this beautiful card. Bring it back, please?
I just adore this card and I have the Delicata ink but not used it yet but will real soon. My wish list is growing fast with all the lovely new dies and thank you for sharing your talent with us and giving us inspiration and courage to give it a go. You are just amazing how you put the dies to such fabulous cards. Praying for you and your daughter and trusting God for a good outcome.
another fab ,lacey looking card ,Laura O
This is another elegant card, and what a wonderful new Belgian Lace die/embossing folder. Still keeping you both in our prayers.
L, from down under
VERY BEAUTIFUL BECCA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:) I’m OOOooooing & Awwwwwing!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
Another beautiful card! I have a love-hate relationship with this time of year. All the wonderful new things being shown at CHA and introduced to us crafters make me want to buy buy, buy. But, alas! I MUST be practical and set a budget! I will make room for that Belgian lace right away though! Prayers still going up for you, dear friend.
Gorgeous card!!! But yet again, just my luck! By the time I discover something (like this sentiment stamp) it has already been discontinued.
Hi Becca,
Lovely card – such a beautiful sentiment .
Thank you.
Christian love, Myra.
the Delicata ink pad lives on my desk!
Lovely, thanks
Oooohh Darling Girl!! You have done it again! You know I love lace and just can’t get enough of it. Also, there are several products that are new to me in this card, so I appreciate seeing what can be done with them. Thanks so much for a brilliant post!
What a wonderful card absolutely beautiful and the die is so aptly named Belgium lace anyone who has seen real lace from Belgium will know exactly what I am talking about. I am blessed to have a friend who lives there and she has on occasions sent me some, just like the card it is so beautiful.
Take care Becca you are in my thoughts.
With love
Margaret x
Gorgeous!
You are such an inspiration Becca. Not just for the stunning creations you share with us but for the life you live and faith you share. This card reflects who you are. I was blessed to have purchased each of your kits but I wish you would start another kit club. I know I would sign up.
Thank you for your commitment to your blog and to all of those who follow you.
This is just beautifully done. I like the vintage look with the ink and Belgian die you used. :D
Deborah
Absolutely stunning! I always look forward to receiving your emails. Becca you definitely have been blessed with a very special talent. Our prayers and thoughts are with you and your family. God’s Blessings.
I absolutely love this card, but all of your cards are beautiful. I don’t know how you can come up with so many amazing ideas. Every day I check in and just love seeing your creations. I pray that everything turns out well for you and your precious daughter, you are a very dear person and it shows so well in your blog, how much you care for your family. Hugs to you and yours!
So perfect. Every day you share your talent with us is such a treat. Thank you and hope that the bump in roads life becomes straight again soon.
Hi Becca. Beautiful, love the sentiment too. Take care.
Morning Becca, Absolutely loving this card, I would never have known it was a border style, thought it was a full die. I have heard of inking embossing folders, but have never heard of inking the dies too, I will have to give this a try, your card is stunning, as always it is so, so, pretty.
Lots of love from Patricia xx
Beautiful. It’s nice to see you get techniquey as you said.
Beautiful card Becca.
Wow stunning Becca at first I thought it was a full background die but being a border die makes it much more versatile I love it . All the elements on the card are so beautiful than you for sharing
Hugs Lynda xx
So beautiful that I had to post again. Such lovely, lovely cards you make. Thank you for all your inspirations!
….just beautiful!!!!
Becca just love the die and how you used it. Did you make a hinged card? I would love to see how you did the back. Thanks
Beautiful card
Beautiful, thanks for showing this die , I have been real curious how it works and looks!
Me encantan sus trabajos muy bien elaborados y especiales todo un arte, admiro este blog desde Venezuela.
What a lovely card! It’s pure magic they way you intermingled the dies and the ink. Beautifully done!
This card is another beautiful creation that I would love to try to make. Could you possibly explain a bit more about how you did the card base? I know others have had the same question. Thank you for sharing all your amazing ideas.
Thank you for all your daily inspirations and wonderful talents. carol
YOU are AMAZING !! Please continue to be an inspiration to us all. You are truly gifted !! Thank you.
My favorite color is PURPLE! Love your site and get so much inspiration from your sharing your live as well as sharing your art. Keep up the great work.
Becca your site is daily inspiration, you never cease to amaze me with the beautiful creations you share with us…xx
So beautiful!
Loved the very over the top lace card. I would love to know what set of the card kits that stamp came in. I want to buy if I don’t have it already.lol
May God hear and answer your prayers quickly.
Much love