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A Sweet Christmas Inspiration | Santa & Presents Card with Elena Salo
Hello dear Spellbinders friends! Elena Salo is here with another project featuring A Sweet Christmas collection by Sharyn Sowell. If you missed my previous project, you can find it here. I like all the Christmas scenes in this collection. There are so many ways to use them in different Christmas projects. And today I’d like to show you how I’ve used one of those dies in my greeting card. I created 6 ½ x4” top folding card base and covered the front with patterned paper. I added light brown ink to the edges of the card. I created a panel out of light grey cardstock of the same size as…
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A Sweet Christmas Inspiration | Love & Joy Card with Virginia
Hello friends! This is Virginia Lu here! Thank you for joining me for my 3rd (and last) guest post today. You can see my previous guest post here and here. I hope that you check out “Sweet Christmas” Collection by Sharyn Sowell if you have not already. This Christmas collection evoke sweet and homespun feelings and is perfect for creating your own Christmas projects. Today I am featuring this lovely die set called Santa Parade. Creating Christmas projects can be a bit daunting and time-consuming. Pattern paper really come in handy when you want to put together a card in a jiffy. I hope today’s post inspires you to look…
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A Charming Christmas Inspiration | Merry Christmas Card with Elena Salo
Hello everybody! Thank you for joining us again! Elena Salo is here again. If you missed my previous post devoted to A Charming Christmas collection, you can read it here. Here is the card I made for today’s post. I created 6×4’ top folding card base out of light grey cardstock. I find Snowflake Toppers set of dies one of the most beautiful from this collection. I adore these fragile and gorgeous patterns which add so much charm to the project. I die cut two arched toppers from Snowflake Toppers set out of white cardstock and adhered them on the both sides onto the card base. I die cut a…
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Video Friday | Blue and White Christmas with Olga
Good morning everyone. Do you love blue and white color combo, probably with the touch of silver or gold? Have some blue and white china? Then what about going all blue and white this Christmas? I have used three die sets from the latest collection by Sharyn Sowell called A Sweet Christmas to create a place card plus a matching favor bag (it is in fact a chocolate bar holder) to be placed on each plate. Mistletoe Gatefold die is meant to create see-through tabs on a card BUT it also makes lovely intricate placement cards. This strip at the bottom (see the picture below) is supposed to be adhered…
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A Charming Christmas Inspiration | Versatile Use of Collection with Hussena
Hello everyone! This is Hussena from Quill and Punch Works, and I am super stoked to be a guest blogger on the Spellbinders blog. I have four projects to share today featuring the ever elegant A Charming Christmas collection by Amazing Paper Grace. Non Traditional Christmas Card I wanted to create a non traditional Christmas card using this collection and here’s what I came up with: To create this card, I first started by die-cutting my card panel using the largest die from the 5 X 7 Matting Basics A Card Creator die set. Next, I die-cut the second largest die from the same die set from gold foil cardstock and layered it on…
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A Sweet Christmas Inspiration | Love & Joy Card with Virginia
Hello friends! This is Virginia Lu. Thank you for joining me for my 2nd guest design project. You can find my 1st post here. The new “Sweet Christmas” Collection by Sharyn Sowell offers so many designs, from sweet and homey to elegant and detailed. Today’s card features this dainty and beautiful Mistletoe Gatefold Die set. Let’s get started! Instructions: The following are the step-by-step instructions and a few tips about this card “Love & Joy”. Create an interesting and colorful background: blend soft pink and yellow with any dye ink. Start from the folded area (top) to avoid smudges. Stamp a text background by using only part of the cling…
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A Charming Christmas Inspiration | Embossed Christmas Card with Elena Salo
Hi dear friends! Elena Salo is here again with another portion of inspiration. I’m honored to play with A Charming Christmas collection by my favorite designer Becca Feeken. I adore every single die from her collections and this time I was so really shocked with the beauty that every set shows. So here is my first project featuring A Charming Christmas collection. To create this card first of all I dry embossed 5×5” piece of brown cardstock using Bough Frame from Charming Christmas Boughs set of dies. Then I adhered it onto the gold cardstock panel that is slightly larger than the brown embossed square. I adhered the panel onto…
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A Sweet Christmas Inspiration | Die Cut & Colored Christmas Card with Elena Salo
Hello dear Spellbinders’ fans! So glad to be with you again and to introduce you to the new collection of dies and stamps – A Sweet Christmas by Sharyn Sowell. It contains a lot of beautiful shapes of Christmas scenes and many other useful dies for holiday greeting cards. For today’s post I created Merry Christmas card using non-traditional color scheme. I created 4 ½ x5 ¾ ‘ top folding card base out of white cardstock. Then I cut out a panel out of yellow cardstock that is slightly smaller than the card base, covered edges with white ink and adhered it onto the card base. I die-cut two branches…
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A Sweet Christmas Inspiration | Christmas Lanterns and Cards with Anna
Hello crafty friends. My name is Anna and I am so happy I can be a guest designer with awesome “A Sweet Christmas” collection by Sharyn Sowell. If you want to know me better, you can visit my blog or Instagram. I also have a YouTube channel, where I post a lot of video tutorials. If you follow me on social media, you may noticed that I am not a cardmaker. I love making layouts and OTP projects and I always try to find some new ways to use dies in my designs. This time I was much inspired by the dies that look like silhouettes. I thought they would…
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A Sweet Christmas Inspiration | Merry Christmas Card with Virginia
Hello friends! This is Virginia Lu here! Thank you for joining me today. I have been a fan of Spellbinders in my early card-making days (circa 2009) and I am absolutely honored to be the guest designer for Spellbinders. Let’s get right to the project. It is never too early to start creating Christmas projects now that the Fall is in the air. The latest Christmas Die “Hanging Stockings” will help you get into the creating mood with Christmas projects. Instructions: I am sharing the step-by-step instructions in the following: Create a colorful background: With Distress Oxide Ink, I blended a mix of green, red and yellow onto a piece…