Susanbcards: Spellbinders City Holiday Collection by Yana Smakula

This card is so elegant to me. Yana Smakula designed this collection for Spellbinders. You can see the entire collection HERE. I don't have the BetterPress pieces, but they look gorgeous.

I used the City Holiday dieset. I watched Yana's YouTube video and she said this building was patterned after her apartiment building, the large window on the first floor is a shop. When I saw it, I though of those grand Boston buildings that are single family homes. So I made all the windows with the same drapes. The dieset contains different window treatments so you can make each look different. I'm going to do that next!

In Yana's style, I used a dark cardstock for my background. I also used the Spellbinders Holiday DIY Color Deck Expansion Pack to help me with a color palette. If you don't know about the Color Deck System, it's a boxed set of cards that give examples of colors that go together. You can attach cardstock you used to help you in the future with color palettes that work. In the photo below you can see the one I used. If you look below under supplies you can see the all the cards. I used the one that looks like a snowy village with different colored houses.

For the snow I used some Spellbinders Treasured cardstock for the snow, everything else is scraps from my stash.

I didn't receive the sentiments from this collection, so I used last year's and used white Glimmer hot foil. I was excited to see that I actually got it on straight! Use mint tape and create a hinge! Under supplies you can see both sets, old and new sentiments.

Yes, it took a bit of time to put this card together, but I love it. Now that I know how each piece works, I've got it down. I use a black Sharpie marker and write on the back of my dies, "Drapes" "Window Shade" etc. It makes it so much easier! Also FYI Spellbinders has a page that shows which dies go to which image on their page (Go to the product and you can see samples of cards, it's there. I saved it to my computer and then printed it out to keep with the dieset. It looks like this:

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You can see the entire collection HERE.