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On today’s Tuesday Tutorial, it’s Spike playing with the brand spankin’ new Spellbinders Pendants and Borderabilities! WAHOO!!

I was just sooo super excited when Kate received these super quick and I drove as fast as I could to get there!
I’ll be showing you how to stencil with Spellbinders as it’s easily forgotten after you’ve cut and embossed with your dies.
I’ll also show you have versatile these new Pendant Spellbinders are to give you a lot of creative flexibility and dimension! Oh it’s lots of fun!
Let’s begin! The Spellbinders Pendant and Borderabilities Set that I’ll be using are both called In Spades. When you crack open the any of the pendant sets, you’ll see 4 different dies all meant to work well and compliment each other. Any of those smaller 3 pendants can easily be used in the center of the larger die.

See how well they all fit?

If you decide to use them in this way, I suggest you use them with the Spellbinders Magnetic Placement Mat to keep the center die from sliding around.

To make the card in this tutorial you’ll need:

-Big Shot or Cuttlebug
-Spellbinders Shapeabilites Pendants In Spades
-Spellbinders Borderabilities In Spades
-Memento Inks (Angel Pink, Lilac Posies, Rose Bud)
-Core’dinations Cardstock from the So Mod! Assortment
-Rhinestones (Hot Pink and Soft Pink)
-Sanding Block
-Piercer
-Ranger Cut n Dry Stamp Pad Foam
-3D Squares

For this tutorial, I’ll just be using the dies singly starting with the largest die.
First cut and emboss using the large die on white cardstock.

After embossing, keep the piece of paper in the die. You may need to grab a piece or two of Scotch Removable tape to secure it into place (keep in mind you need to keep the holes clear).

Flip it over so you have the die on top.

(I then placed it on some scrap white paper to protect the surface) Grab a piece of foam. I like to use Ranger’s Cut-n-Dry Stamp Pad Foam, that I cut into 1×2″ pieces for sponging. I like to use it because it sponges ink on smoothly and evenly. Grip the sides of the sponge and ink it on the ink pad using a circular motion.

Apply the ink to the “holes” in the stencil using a circular motion.

After using the Angel Pink ink, I added an additional colour (Rose Bud) for accent in some areas. After the entire stencil is inked up, this is what you’ll get.

I then cut out some dark pink Core’dinations cardstock using the 3 dies to see what they looked like. As these dies are smaller, I suggest to have a tool handy (such as the Tweezer Bee as it’s got a sharp tip) to help poke it out.

And don’t they all just look cool? I decided not to use the piece on the right.

Because they’re Core’dinations cardstock, they’re screaming to be sanded!

Here’s the piece fully sanded.

For the background mat, I embossed the large pendant (to create extra dimension) on the dark Pink Core’dinations cardstock and then used the In Spades Borderablities to cut, emboss and paper pierce.

Then to finish it off stenciled with Lilac Posies.

Putting it all together using some 3D Dots and some rhinestones. Voila!

Here’s a close up of the detail. (click on the image to enlarge)

I’m totally into pink and bling today as I became an aunt yesterday to a healthy baby girl!  Be on the lookout for more pink cards! LOL!

Thanks for checking out the tutorial for today. Please leave us a comment below as we enjoy hearing from you! Happy stamping and see you next time!

Love,