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Layered Dimensional Die Cutting Series. Episode #1 – Birthday Card featuring Venise Lace collection
Hello everyone. This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video marks the start on a new monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting Series”. What is “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting Series”? Once a month I’ll be sharing a card project along with a detailed video tutorial in the showcasing traditional Spellbinders style with lots of die-cut layers and dimension! For my today’s blog post I made a birthday card using several dies from Becca Feeken’s Venise Lace collection. I started working on this card by doing all of my die cutting first. I decided to…
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What Is Die Cutting? A Beginner’s Guide for Cardmakers
Hello there cardmakers! Welcome back to the Beginners Guide to Cardmaking series. This is Lisa Tilson here with you, and today we are focusing on die cutting. One of my favourite things to do when making cards. The fabulous world of die cutting opens up so many creative options and is very popular amongst cardmakers and scrapbookers. Today, I am going to take you through the basics of die cutting and explain what die cutting is, what machine you might need, and what sorts of things you might die cut. You may well have heard the term “sandwich”. I’ll explain what that is, and it definitely isn’t something you eat!…
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Exclusive Indie Collection Inspiration | Layered Rose Cards with Zsoka
Hi there crafty friends, Zsoka back with you today with the third and last blog post in my Exclusive Indie collection inspiration series. If you missed my previous two posts, you can check them here and here. If you read my other posts you know that I love the layering dies in this collection. Surprise surprise, I picked layering dies for today’s projects as well! I can’t help myself! Here are the two cards I made for this post: The patterned papers I used are from the Maggie Holmes Chasing Dreams collection. This is still one of my favorites from her to date. I just love the colors! For my first card I picked the…
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Exclusive Indie Collection Inspiration | Layered Tulips Cards with Zsoka
Spellbinders works hard to support independent retailers. The Exclusives collection is an adorable assortment of Dies and Die & Stamp Sets, only available at select online and local independent retailers. Click here to find a list of online retailers who carry this product line. Hello there, Zsoka back with you today with another 3 cards I’ve created with the beautiful Exclusive Indie collection. If you’ve missed the first part of this series, you can find it here. Like I mentioned in my previous post, I love layering dies! So I picked another one today, the awesome Layered Tulip set. Tulips are one of my favorite flowers so I was particularly happy for this die!…
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Exclusive Indie Collection Inspiration | Beautiful Hugs Cards with Zsoka
Hi there crafty friends, Zsoka here with you today with the first installment of my 3-blog-post-series showcasing the gorgeous Exclusive Indie collection. There are so many different products in this collection, there’s something for everyone! I was especially drawn to the new layered dies, they are fabulous! Today I’m sharing three simple cards with you. Here they are: I’m obsessed with patterned paper, on my scrapbook pages I can’t handle white space either. On cards I like it more but if I can, I will always go with patterned paper. So I picked a collection I haven’t had a chance to work with yet (Pink Paislee – Auburn Lane) and chose a few papers I…
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Little Loves Collection Inspiration | Silhouette Series with Susie – Part 3
Join Susie as she shows off some amazing silhouette die-cuts on whimsical cards from our brand new Little Loves Collection by Sharyn Sowell. Susie loves how these silhouettes remind her of how precious our childhood really is.
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Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #5 – Christmas Balcony Card. Video
Hello everyone. This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video is a part of a monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting”. I hope you’ve enjoyed pervious episodes, in case you missed them you can find them here. What is “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting Series”? Once a month I’m sharing a card project along with a detailed video tutorial showcasing traditional Spellbinders style with lots of die-cut layers and dimension! I’m back with yet another Christmas card idea mixing and matching dies from 8 different Spellbinders die sets (I don’t think I’ve ever combined so many…
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Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #4 – Christmas Bicycle Card
Hello everyone. This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video is a part of a monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting”. I hope you’ve enjoyed pervious episodes, in case you missed them you can find them here. What is “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting Series”? Once a month I’m sharing a card project along with a detailed video tutorial showcasing traditional Spellbinders style with lots of die-cut layers and dimension! I’m back with another Christmas card idea mixing and matching dies from several Spellbinders’ die sets. Similar to a previous Holiday card I shared, by…
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Shaped Cards Video Series. Episode #1 – You Are A Blessing
Hello, everyone! This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video marks the start of yet another monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Shaped Cards with Spellbinders”. Once a month I will be posting a card and and video tutorial featuring a shaped card base using Spellbinders dies! I was happy to see you enjoy the first few episodes from my original video series, Layered Dimensional Die Cutting, so I decided to introduce additional series and share even more tutorials using Spellbinders dies. I hope you’ll enjoy these videos just as much! In the past I never cared much…
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Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #3 – Shaped Christmas Card
Hello everyone! This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video is a part of a monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting”. I hope you’ve enjoyed the first two episode, in case you missed them you can find them here and here. What is “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting Series”? Once a month I’m sharing a card project along with a detailed video tutorial showcasing traditional Spellbinders style with lots of die-cut layers and dimension! It’s never too early to start making Holiday projects so today I’m going to show you how to make a shaped…
