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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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…
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Sealed by Spellbinders Collection Inspiration Round-Up
Hello, Spellbinders fans! Welcome back to the “Inspiration Round-Up” series on our blog designed to inspire, educate and share beautiful projects created with our products. Get ready for an unbelievable lineup of beautiful inspiration featuring the Sealed by Spellbinders Collection. We’re hoping this will be a valuable source of inspiration for all of your card-making and paper crafting! And check out the inspiration on our blog featuring the Sealed by Spellbinders Collection! Share your projects on Instagram and tag us @teamspellbinders #neverstopmaking #glimmerhotfoilsystem.
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December 2022 Clubs Inspiration Roundup!
Hello Spellbinders’ fans! We hope you are excited to receive or maybe have already received your December 2022 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, Card Kit of the Month, Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month, Glimmer Hot Foil Kit of the Month and Clear Stamp of the Month for December 2022 we put together this post linking to inspirational projects by our guest designers! Be sure to visit their blogs to see/read more about the projects they’ve created! Many of these include step by step videos…
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Spellbinders Crafty Advent Calendar Inspiration Round-Up
Hello sweet friends! Did you see our Spellbinders Crafty Advent Calendar? It is a paper crafter’s dream! Even thought this advent calendar is sold out, we are here to bring you a look inside each of the 24 windows. Day 1 Are you as excited as we are that Day 1 of the Spellbinders Crafty Advent Calendar is finally here? Now we’ve heard rumors that some of you have already peeked and that’s okay, but for those of you waiting for December 1st – the day has arrived! We opened our first window and created this adorable project! This special die reflects the theme of this year’s calendar – a…
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Tinsel Time Collection Inspiration Round-Up
Hello, Spellbinders fans! Welcome back to the “Inspiration Round-Up” series on our blog designed to inspire, educate and share beautiful projects created with our products. Get ready for an unbelievable lineup of beautiful inspiration featuring the Tinsel Time Collection. We’re hoping this will be a valuable source of inspiration for all of your card-making and paper crafting! And check out the inspiration on our blog featuring the Tinsel Time Collection! Share your projects on Instagram and tag us @teamspellbinders #neverstopmaking #glimmerhotfoilsystem.
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Warm Wishes Camper Collection Inspiration Round-Up
Hello, Spellbinders fans! Welcome back to the “Inspiration Round-Up” series on our blog designed to inspire, educate and share beautiful projects created with our products. Get ready for an unbelievable lineup of beautiful inspiration featuring the Warm Wishes Camper Collection. We’re hoping this will be a valuable source of inspiration for all of your card-making and paper crafting! And check out the inspiration on our blog featuring the Warm Wishes Camper Collection! Share your projects on Instagram and tag us @teamspellbinders #neverstopmaking #glimmerhotfoilsystem.
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Stitchmas Christmas Collection Inspiration Round-Up
Hello, Spellbinders fans! Welcome back to the “Inspiration Round-Up” series on our blog designed to inspire, educate and share beautiful projects created with our products. Get ready for an unbelievable lineup of beautiful inspiration featuring the Stitchmas Christmas Collection. We’re hoping this will be a valuable source of inspiration for all of your card-making and paper crafting! And check out the inspiration on our blog featuring the Celebrate the Season Collection! Share your projects on Instagram and tag us @teamspellbinders #neverstopmaking #glimmerhotfoilsystem.
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Celebrate the Season Collection Inspiration Round-Up
Hello, Spellbinders fans! Welcome back to the “Inspiration Round-Up” series on our blog designed to inspire, educate and share beautiful projects created with our products. Get ready for an unbelievable lineup of beautiful inspiration featuring the Celebrate the Season Collection. We’re hoping this will be a valuable source of inspiration for all of your card-making and paper crafting! And check out the inspiration on our blog featuring the Celebrate the Season Collection! Share your projects on Instagram and tag us @teamspellbinders #neverstopmaking #glimmerhotfoilsystem.
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Yana’s Blooms by Yana Smakula – Collection Introduction
Hello, crafters. This is Yana Smakula, I’m thrilled to introduce my new collection with Spellbinders called Yana’s Blooms. I designed this collection with elegant Spring Birthday card making in mind. I give a lot of Birthday cards and my friends and family always ask me to make and give them some birthday cards for them to gift to their friends, thus I never have any on hand and this is the one type of card I need the most. This collection includes 7 products, 5 of them – hot foil glimmer plates and 2 – dies. S4-1169 MAGNOLIA BLOOMS DIE SET Magnolia is the design around the entire collection. I…
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Glimmer Hot Foil Three Ways | Spellbinders Live
Join Kim Kesti in the Creative Classroom as she experiments with three different ways to use the Glimmer Hot Foil System to create beautiful Christmas cards featuring the Holiday Florals Hot Foil & Die Set. The Holiday Florals set is part of the new Christmas Traditions Collection. The set includes hot foil plates to create a poinsettia, sprig, berries, and leaves plus coordinating dies to cut out each shape. Kim’s first card features traditional hot foiling on Poppy Field cardstock. Kim uses a beautiful specialty foil called Starburst. It gives an extra sparkle on hot foiled projects and it looks stunning on this poinsettia! For today’s second card, Kim uses watercolor paper and Mermaid Markers. Mermaid Markers are dye-based watercolor…
