Yana Smakula
Hi! I'm Yana Smakula (pronounced Sma-coo-la)! I love all things handmade. My passion is cardmaking featuring some fun and simple die-cutting and stamping techniques!
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July 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month Preview & Tutorials – Christmas Haul
Our July 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month preview & tutorials are here! Change the way you create with the NEW BetterPress Letter Press System, which provides an innovative way to achieve the elegant look of letterpress without all the mess. It’s an easy-to-use system that produces professional stationery style with detailed impressions that can be felt to the touch. The BetterPress System works with your manual die-cutting machine to create beautiful, effortless, and detailed letterpress effects. Here’s a look at the June 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month – Christmas Haul: BetterPress Letterpress system is needed to use this BetterPress Plate. Sold separately. JOIN THE CLUB July 2024 BetterPress…
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Let’s Celebrate Collection Inspiration Round-Up
Hey there, Spellbinders fans! We’re thrilled to welcome you back on our blog for another edition of “Inspiration Round-Up” series. We hope to fuel your creative juices with handmade projects, and showcase the stunning ideas our talented community created with our products. Get ready for an unbelievable lineup of beautiful inspiration featuring the Let’s Celebrate Collection. We’re hoping this will be a valuable source of inspiration for all of your card-making and paper crafting! You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter But that’s not all! We invite you to dive even deeper into the festive magic by exploring the incredible projects and ideas featured on…
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Spellbinders 2023 12 Days of Stitchmas Advent Calendar Inspiration Round-Up
Hey there, crafty pals! Do you feel that magical chill in the air? Well, it’s not just winter creeping in; it’s the holiday season approaching! And what’s better than the holiday season, you ask? A crafty-filled holiday season, of course! If you’re like us and adore crafts, surprises, and crafty surprises, then you’re in for a real treat. It’s time to unveil our 12 Days of Stitchmas Advent Calendar, and trust us, it’s a delightful journey that we can’t wait to share with you, even if the calendar itself is sold out (but hey, there’s always next year!). So, grab your hot cocoa, cozy up by the fire, and let’s…
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Spellbinders 2023 Crafty Advent Calendar Inspiration Round-Up
Do you love crafts? And surprises? And crafty surprises? Of course you do! It’s time to open the Spellbinders Crafty Advent Calendar for 2023 and take a peek at the treats and surprises that are waiting for us (even though this advent calendar is sold out we are still here to inspire you!). The advent calendar is packed with dies, stamps, stencils, embossing folders, and embellishments that you’ll love crafting with all year long. We can hardly wait to share inspiration with you for each of the 24 surprises you’ll find inside. Are you ready for Day 1? Day 1 Today is the day! Have you already peeked? We’re ZOOMING…
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December 2023 Clear Stamp + Die of the Month Preview & Tutorials – Big Love
Our December 2023 Clear Stamp of the Month preview & tutorials are here! This “Big Love” stamp set features made in the USA stamps from high-quality photopolymer for clear, crisp impressions. Our stamps create one of the best impressions on the market giving you a perfect stamped image every time! Please note, new Subscription Sign-Up Window will now open on the 6th of each month and close on the 27th (once existing club members subscriptions have been processed.) If there is additional inventory remaining, then they will be made available for new subscriptions and will have limited availability. Continuing Subscriptions will charge on the 5th of each month. This means…
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Stitched For Christmas Collection Inspiration Round-Up
Hey there, Spellbinders fans! We’re thrilled to welcome you back on our blog for another edition of “Inspiration Round-Up” series. We hope to fuel your creative juices with handmade projects, and showcase the stunning ideas our talented community created with our products. Get your needles and thread ready as we are sharing an amazing lineup of inspiration featuring our Stitched For Christmas Collection. Get ready to be inspired! You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter But that’s not all! We invite you to dive even deeper into the festive magic by exploring the incredible projects and ideas featured on our blog. We can’t wait for…
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Make It Merry Collection Inspiration Round-Up
Hey there, Spellbinders fans! We’re absolutely thrilled to have you back for another edition of our “Inspiration Round-Up” series. Our aim is to fill your creative well with inspiration, impart knowledge, and showcase the stunning projects our talented community creates with our products. Are you ready for a Christmas crafting extravaganza? Buckle up because we’ve got an extraordinary lineup of inspiration in store, all shining a spotlight on the incredible Make It Merry Collection. We’re confident this treasure trove of ideas will be your go-to source for crafting inspiration, particularly when it comes to making beautiful Christmas cards and diving into the world of paper crafting. You are invited to…
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October 2023 Clubs Inspiration Roundup!
Hello Spellbinders’ fans! We hope you are excited to receive or maybe have already received your October 2023 Club packages in the mail! To bring you even more inspiration and spark your creativity using products from our Small Die of the Month, Large Die of the Month, Quick & Easy Card Kit of the Month, Stitching Die of the Month, Glimmer Hot Foil Kit of the Month, Clear Stamp of the Month, Embossing Folder of the Month, 3D Embossing Folder of the Month, BetterPress of the Month and Wax Seals Kit of the Month for October 2023 we put together this post linking to inspirational projects by our guest designers!…
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May 2023 Clubs Inspiration Blog Hop + Giveaways (Now Closed)
Hello, and welcome! Thank you for joining us for our May 2023 Clubs Inspiration Blog Hop! We are excited to have amazingly talented designers joining us sharing beautiful projects created featuring our Quick & Easy Card Kit, Small Die, Large Die, Stitching Die, Glimmer Hot Foil, Clear Stamp & Die, Embossing Folder, and 3D Embossing Folder of the Month Clubs! We have several giveaways for you, we hope you will join us. Join the Club! The Spellbinders Monthly Membership Clubs are designed for die cutting, cardmaking, stamping, hot foiling aficionados, crafty DIY’ers, and beginner crafters alike. Each month, members will receive expertly designed dies, stamps, hot foil kits, or card…
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Introducing Anemone Blooms Collection by Yana Smakula
I’m very excited to introduce you to my new collection with Spellbinders called Anemone Blooms. Similar to the collection I did last year, Yana’s Blooms, I designed Anemone Blooms with elegant floral card-making in mind. The theme for this collection is Birthday and Friendships and all of the sentiments in this line center around that. This is a smaller collection featuring just 5 products, some of which are dies and some glimmer plates. All of these work with my previously released products, especially Yana’s Blooms collection. So if you already have some of Yana’s Blooms and you pick up products from Anemone Blooms you can mix the products, especially the…
