Hello! Today I'm sharing the January 2025 Spellbinders Large Die of the Month, "Botanical Atrium". Isn't gorgeous??
Although it is a Club Kit, you can join the club for just this month and quit at any time, or wait until February 10 and buy it at a slightly higher price, if it's still available. There are many perks to joining the club, you can read about them HERE.
I often get questions about how I make my backgrounds, so I thought I'd do a quick tutorial for this card. I used a similar background a few months ago for a Sizzix sample, I show it in the video below:
This is a simple technique, you really only need to know a few tips to do it. As I went along and added different shades of green, I remembered to dry the layers, otherwise you are just mixing the paint together.
I wanted the center of the panel to be darker, I added dark blue paint and then added green to it, giving me a deep dark green. I added some gold spatters to highlight the gold atrium.
I think a background like this adds visual interest to a card. Test it out, take a solid piece of cardstock, put some diecuts on it, then move the diecuts to a painted or inked background and you'll probably prefer the painted one. Use colors that compliment the diecut colors, remember, it's a background, the diecuts should be the star.
I used vellum for the solid piece behind the diecuts. I wanted to be able to see a hint of the greens behind it. The vellum looked a bit stark, so I took some green Distress Oxide inks and blended it on the back of the vellum so it wouldn't appear white. To hide the adhesive foam behind the vellum, I placed it behind the diecuts.
The sentiment is from the BetterPress Club of the Month, I used some gold Glimmer foil on dark green cardstock.
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Spellbinders Large Die of the Month (Botanical Atrium)
Spellbinders BetterPress of the Month
---- https://tinyurl.com/33srrzsp [Spellbinders] Distress Watercolor Paper
---- http://shrsl.com/4t039 [Scrapbookcom]
Artis Glue
---- http://shrsl.com/4t03c [Scrapbookcom] Other products without links: Altenew Artist Pan Watercolors (I bought mine at Altenew) Finetec Gold Pearlescent Watercolors (I bought mine at Dick Blick} Gold metallic cardstock 65lb at Michaels 1" Flat Paintbrush (unsure where it's from)
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