Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Spellbinders Blog Hop: Featuring Folk Art by Lene Lok





Hello friends! I'm excited to be joining Spellbinders today to showcase some of their new fabulous die designs! If you are following the hop you should have arrived here from the fabulous Debby Hughes!

 The cards I have made here were created with the new Folk Art Collection by Lene Lok.



My first card uses the Floral Mandala Die. I cut this out of Bristol Board card stock, then used Distress inks and a make up wedge to add the colors. I then spritzed it with water and added some splatters of the same colors.  I cut another one out of plain white card stock and layered them together before adhering to my card base, to create some dimension. 




I stamped the sentiments from Altenew on black card stock with Versa Mark ink, and heat embossed them with white embossing powder. I then adhered them on top of the Floral Mandala with foam tape.



For my second card, I used the Nordic Blooms Dies. I blended Distress inks onto some Bristol Board card stock in different colors, spritzed with water and sprinkled with some of the same diluted inks. I let this dry good, then cut the flowers and leaves out.  For the background I blended green Distress ink along the bottom for the grass and some blue along the top for the sky. 


I adhered the flowers to my card with foam tape. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things and was heat embossed with white embossing powder and adhered with foam tape. 

You can find the whole Folk Art Collection by Lene Lok HERE!

Giveaways
To celebrate this release, Spellbinders is giving away a $50 gift certificate to a lucky winner. Please leave a comment on Spellbinders blog by Sunday, April 22nd 11:59 pm EDT for a chance to win. The winner will be announced in the blog hop post on Spellbinders blog the following day. Winner is responsible for shipping cost, duties and taxes.

Your next stop on the hop is Julia Altermann

Thanks so much for stopping by!


Below is the complete hop order! Enjoy! :)


 Kay Miller <---- You are here :)







51 comments:

  1. The "Mandela" card is beautiful and I love
    those little flowers!

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  2. Beautiful dies and I love the inspiration cards. The colors are absolutely gorgeous!

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  3. Very pretty cards. Love all the bright colors especially on the Mandela card. Thanks for the beautiful inspiration.

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  4. Love the mandela card and how you did the little flowers. Aren't Spellbinder dies the bomb!!

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  5. Beautiful cards! Love the colors and the techniques you used! tfs Hugs, Christine Johnson

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  6. These cards are gorgeous. I love the coloring on the mandala die. Can’t wait to try. Thank you for the inspiration.

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  7. these cards are so beautiful - love the coloring:)

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  8. Love the colors of your amazing cards. Thanks so much for sharing....

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  9. Love how the B&W sentiments make the already vivid
    colors pop!

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  10. Gorgeous cards! Love Spellbinders!

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  11. Joyful and lovely cards, congrats :)

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  12. Fantastic look with the Distress inks combined with the white sentiments on black. The overall card really pops!

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  13. What an amazing display of colors! Simply fantastic.

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  14. What wonderful colors Kay. Especially love that Mandala die. Nicely done.

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  15. The speckled look is cool. I'm glad that I'm doing this blog hop so I can see new ways to use these Folk Art dies!

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  16. I love these new dies and love your inspirations too.

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  17. Such beautiful cards using the new folk art collection!

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  18. Beautiful cards! I love these dies!

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  19. Beautiful, rainbow of colors, cards! Am so enjoying all of your work!!

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  20. Oh Kay, this is surely Spring on a card. It has not been a very nice spring here and you just brought some sunshine and flowers to lighten my day. Love the Mandela die, so colorful. Thank you for sharing.

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  21. These are bright, happy and lots of fun!!

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  22. How pretty. I love the bright happy spring colors!

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  23. Terrific cards! Love the bold and happy colors. The distressing adds so much depth and interest.

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  24. Spring is here. I love those colors. So levely!!!

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  25. Great cards from this new release, bright and springie.

    Thanks for sharing.

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  26. Your cards are gorgeous!Loving the colors and layouts. Thanks for sharing your beautiful work!

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  27. Omg! I love your cards! These new dies from Spellbinders are great, too. TFS!

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  28. These cards looks amazing, Kay. They are so bright and colorful and the card designs are visually striking. Thank you so much for sharing! :) Hugs!

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  29. Both are bold and beautiful! I was intrigued by the first die when I first saw it in the collection. It's one of those that you want to cut about 100 of them and then just think of every way you know to add color! It is such a beautiful design that everything else can stay simple. Wouldn't it be beautiful on black...or navy...or deep teal...or metallic...See what I mean??? Thank you so much.

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  30. The Mandala die is beautiful. I love the way you colored the dies on both cards. Thanks

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  31. so bright and cheery-love it!

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  32. I especially like your pretty row of flowers.

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  33. I like your colors and the diluted ink spritz on both!

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  34. Love both of your cards. They are so bright and cheerful. WOW, the mandala is beautiful.

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  35. I love both cards but the mandala is just stunning!

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  36. Gorgeous cards Kay. Love the pretty folk art images and oh, the coloring! Such pretty hues. Love, love, love it!

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  37. These dies are beautiful and the way you colored them and the colors you chose are GORGEOUS!!

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  38. Beautiful cards! Your ink blending is phenomenal; I love the effect you achieved! The mandala die is gorgeous!

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  39. SQUEAL!! AMAZING New Release!! LOVING the Inspiration and THANKS for the chance to WIN!! Have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)

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  40. Very pretty and colorful cards!

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  41. Beautiful cards! Love the vivid colors, especially on the Mandela card!

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  42. This is a great release from Spellbinders. Their product looks to be of very high quality. I hope to try some out one day.

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  43. Super cute cards, Kay! I really love how you played with both sets of dies!

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  44. These are so pretty! Love the colors!

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  45. That mandala die is incredible !!
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  46. These cards are so bright and happy. Thanks for sharing.

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Thank you so much for leaving me a comment! I read and appreciate each and every one so much! Hugs :)