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Glimmer Hot Foil System | Birthday Hot Foil Card. Video
Hello Spellbinders’ fans! This is Yana and in this blog post & video I will show you how to create beautiful Birthday cards using our new Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil system. I also have a few tips and tricks for you up my sleeve so I hope you’ll enjoy this video. If you are new to the Glimmer Hot Foil system be sure to watch our Introductory video and Basics of Foiling video to learn more. I started making these projects by creating a beautiful background for my card. I used a regular Spellbinders die, Card Creator A2 Corner Cotillion etched die by Becca Feeken. You can do hot foiling…
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Glimmer Hot Foil System | Letterpress Techniques for Holiday Cards. Video
Hello Spellbinders’ fans! This is Yana Smakula and in this blog post & video tutorial I will show you how you can create a beautiful Letterpressed Holiday cards using our new Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil system. I’ll talk about best papers to use and will share several tips and tricks with you in this video. If you are new to the Glimmer Hot Foil system be sure to watch our Introductory video and Basics of Foiling video to learn more. Letterpress technique is very hard to show on camera or on photos, but it displays beautifully in real life, there’s nothing out there quite like it. Letterpress is different from…
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Cardmaking Inspiration | You Are Super Duper Card Featuring Tractors Dies
Hello Spellbinders’ fans! Welcome back to our Cardmaking Inspiration series! We hope you’ve been enjoying these mini posts sharing simple cardmaking ideas and step by step instructions on how to make them! Today we have a funny Supper Duper card created using our Die D-Lites dies! Project created by in-house designer Yana Smakula Step By Step Instructions: We have a full set of step by step instructions describing how to create this card. Create A2 top folding card base out of white cardstock. Cut patterned paper to 4 x 5 ¼”, foam mount onto the card. Die-cut hill out of white cardstock using Curved Borders One die. Stamp sentiment in black…
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Handmade Collection Inspiration | Made with Love Card with Yana
Hello friends, this is Yana Smakula, Spellbinders in-house creative designer. We continue to share inspiration using one of our newest collections – Handmade by Stephanie Low. See Stephanie’s post introducing her collection here as well as inspiration posts here and here. Like I mentioned in my previous post, I love to use my stamps to create the look of patterned paper. Yes, these days you can go and buy just about any patterned paper you want, but I enjoy the process of making my own design tremendously! To create this Handmade with Love card I stamped the image repeatedly onto a white cardstock panel. I was going for a linear pattern…
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Handmade Collection Inspiration | Handcrafted Card with Yana
Hello there! This is Yana Smakula, an in-house creative designer for Spellbinders! I feel like it’s been a long time since I last shared my projects or posted a blog post here! So let’s fix that! I have many projects to share created using the most beautiful Handmade collection by Stephanie Low. You might have already seen one of the cards shared here and also a collection introduction post by Stephanie herself. I love to use stamps for my handmade cards and I often use stamped sentiments to complete my die-cut cards. But I also adore using small individual stamp images to create unique, one of a kind backgrounds for…
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Shaped Cards Video Series. Episode #3 – Your Kindness Makes Such A Difference
Hello, everyone! This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video continues the monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Shaped Cards with Spellbinders”. Once a month I am posting a card and and video tutorial featuring a shaped card base using Spellbinders dies! You can catch previous episodes from this series HERE. Step By Step Instructions: We have a full set of step by step instructions describing how to create this card. Die-cut & emboss 2 Chemise Frames from the Coralene’s Chemise Layering Frame Large set out of white cardstock. Score one die cut about 1” – 1 1/2″ at…
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Video: Faux Watercolor Stamping with Poinsettia Holiday 3D Shading Stamp
Hello there! You all know Spellbinders for our dies, but we also have a big assortment of beautiful, unique stamps! This is Yana Smakula and today I have a Faux Watercolor Poinsettia Background video tutorial to share using our Poinsettia 3D Shading stamp. This really is a very easy card to make and the more you practice – the better your result will be. It might look intimidating at first, but believe me – this is an easy project to make and it doesn’t take more than 20 minutes to stamp. I started working on my project by stamping a sentiment in black ink. Pick one you like best and stamp…
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One Card Design 2 Ways – Sending You Strength Card
Hello everyone, this is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! Today I’d like to share a photo tutorial featuring one card design 2 ways. By changing up the papers and colors you can easily stretch a card design and get a completely different look. Here’s a look at the green/copper card: And here’s identical project done in pink/gold: This card was published in the Die-cutting Essentials Magazine Issue 25 along with a few other cards done in a similar style – check it out for more inspiration. Instead of filming a video for this project, I put together a simple photo tutorial describing every step of the cardmaking…
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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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Shaped Cards Video Series. Episode #2 – It’s Your Birthday
Hello, everyone! This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video continues the monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Shaped Cards with Spellbinders”. Once a month I am posting a card and and video tutorial featuring a shaped card base using Spellbinders dies! You can catch the first episode from this series HERE. I started working on this card by creating a card base. I decided to use the largest die from the Bella Rose Lattice Layering Frame Large set – this die measures 5×7” inches so it makes a full size 5×7” card. There are several ways to…