An Eclipse Card? A Spotlight Card?

I'm not really sure of the name of this card, maybe it's an Eclipse Card, maybe a Spotlight Card. Either way it's a cool effect. I a similar one on Aptil 27, using a different stamp from Scrapbookcom, if you're interested in seeing a step by step process and description.

After I posted the card on Instagram @Susanbcards,  someone asked me to make a video on how to create it, I hesitated a bit because even a 1 min IG reel can take a few hours to make. It's really shocking how hard it is to cut something down to a minute and still make sense. Anyway, I made it, it's much easier to make a long video than a short one. The voiceover was another story. 

If you are a visual learner, you can see the video here, if you like a step out, check my post on 4/27. 

As always, I appreciate you looking, please leave me a thumbs up and/or a comment, it's the little things that make me happy.

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 Thanks! I post several times a week on IG @Susanbcards

Simon Hurley Photosynthesis Collection for Spellbinders

Simon Hurley has a new collection for Spellbinders called, "Photosynthesis". For this card I used 2 diesets, the "Ceramic Vases" etched dies and the "Daffodil Frame" etched dies. There are more dies in this collection and some Glimmer dies, I'll link the entire collection below, scroll down to see the photos of the products.

I started by using Simon Hurley's Lunar Paste in "Slippery When Wet" (gold), "Prom Queen" (fuchsia) and "Crown Me" (purple). I used the Scrapbookcom Craft Scraper to spread out the pastes.

I let these air dry, it was a thin coat so it took maybe 45 min to fully dry. You can use a heat tool to dry them but only if it's a thin coat. A thicker coat will only dry the top layer. 

If you look closely at the vases and daffodils, you can see the texture the etching creates in the diecuts. The vases can be diecut without the texture if you choose, the etching is on a seperate die. I taped the 2 dies together to get the texture on the vase and ran it through at the same time.

This is a reinactment of what I did, in reality I spread the lunar paste on a larger piece of cardstock and cut all the vases out at once. Much easier!

I cut the Daffodil Frames 4x from black cardstock. I cut the frames off by free hand cutting the petals, leaves, etc into the frame. I glued the 4 daffodil plants onto a black cardstock panel sized 4.75" x 6.25". (This is 1/4" smaller than the 5 x 6.5" card I placed it on, leaving a white border around the card panel). 

I then arranged the 6 vases under the daffodils, overlapping a few. You can see in the photo that I cut the tall vase 2x in different colors to fit the card.

There are seperate daffodil dies so you could cut different colors of flowers and attach them to the plants, I thought about gold flowers to match the vases but in the end I like the dramatic look of the black on black.

That's it. I will be sharing more cards using the Simon Hurley Photosynthesis collection on Instagram @Susanbcards over the next few days.

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Link to all the colors available at Spellbinders

Other items in the Photosynthesis Collection:

A bundle including the Ceramic Vases and Floral Stems

Glimmer Hot Foil Sentiment dies

Modern Strips Glimmer Hot Foil Plate

Available at Scrapbookcom:

All Purpose Craft Scraper Tool

Low tack tape, great for keeping dies in place and for stenciling, etc.

Lunar Paste also available at Scrapbookcom