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Spellbinders Shiny New Day Collection featuring Squeaky Clean, Petal Fresh and Suds & Buds 3D Embossing Folder

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There’s something extra special about a class that blends playful design with meaningful messages—and that’s exactly what we got in the “Shiny New Day” workshop at CROP & CREATE Spring 2026, led by the incredibly talented Kim Kesti for Spellbinders.

This class was all about turning everyday cleaning supplies into bright, cheerful works of art. Think mops, buckets, sprays, and scrub brushes—brought to life in the happiest spring color palette. The combination of layered die cuts and textured embossing created so much depth, while still keeping everything light, fun, and totally uplifting.

What I loved most about this set was the messaging. These aren’t just cute cards—they’re encouraging, relatable, and honestly kind of perfect for real life.

“Life is messy. You’ve got this.” “You can do hard things.” “I’m here for you no matter what.”

It’s such a clever way to pair the theme with sentiments that truly resonate.

All in all, this workshop was a perfect reminder that even the messiest days can turn into something beautiful—with a little creativity (and maybe a cute mop die cut 😉).

This last card was a bonus card, weren’t provided instructions so I used the image shared in the group as an example and made a couple changes making the floor a checkerboard typical ttile looking floor maybe just the colours add a bit more greenery and also the sentiment is with a bonus extra add-on that I purchased as another early sneak peek I can’t wait for you guys to get this collection and see what you do with it!

Colotwheer Cardstock Colours used:

  • Orchid
  • Mulberry
  • Rainforest
  • Peridot
  • Seaside
  • Waterfall
  • Teal Topez
  • Beeswax
  • Saffron
  • Bellini
  • Coral
  • Sicily

If you try your own version of these cards, I’d love to see what you create 🧽🫧🧼🧹

Lawn Fawn Shello Friends & Stitched Seashells Card Set

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Another Crop & Create set, this Lawn Fawn Shello Friends stamp, die & coordinating stencil was so much fun to create with!

This was the first time I have actually used colouring stencils and it was surprisingly easy to get a great result. I can especially see colouring stencils being very handy for mass producing batches of cards. Our ‘homework’ was to stamp and cut for each example card, but I went a little bananas and created enough for multiples of each since it was so easy.

For all cards, these are the Lawn Fawn ink colors used:

  • Bubblegum
  • Moonstone
  • Fresh Lavender
  • Peach Fuzz
  • Merman
  • Butter
  • Celery Stick

Here are the cards I made – I have enough completed components to make a few more of each card left, all I really need to do is the background and then assemble.

If you’re on the fence about the coloring stencils, they’re great when you want to create but don’t want to pull out all of your markers – it makes for an easy card with a great result!

Taylored Expressions Create In Quads Flit & Flutter

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Another amazing hit from TE, these create in quads are really a must have staple in every craft room. It takes more time to choose your ink colors than it does to make four ready to go card fronts!

The workshop from Crop & Create led by Taylor was instructed with the blue palette; I pulled this back out and created the warmer palette using Concord & 9th inks from previous events.

I didn’t have all the inks Taylor used, so I substituted from my Lawn Fawn collection – not shown is kiddie pool which I used for the lightest color in the blues palette.

Spellbinders Cheerful Chirps Collection: Flying High & Pretty Birds

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I attended the Crop & Create Spring 2025 event, and kicking off my series of posts showcasing all of the amazing brands and product we did is the Spellbinders Cheerful Chirps collection using Pretty Birds & Flying High die sets, along with the Bamboo screen 3D embossing folder.

All cardstock used for these cards are from the new color wheel cardstock collection. The colors in my projects included:

  • Tutu / Dahlia / Bellini / Coral / Sicily / Carrot / Saffron / peridot / Rainforest/ Waterfall/ Teal Topaz / Breeze / Malibu / Oceanside / orchid / Mulberry / Violet / Acorn / Fog / Raven

Spellbinders Cheerful Chirps Flying High & Pretty Birds
Spellbinders Cheerful Chirps Flying High & Pretty Birds
Spellbinders Cheerful Chirps Flying High & Pretty Birds Cards