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Creative Ways to Add Washi to Handmade Cards
Hello, Fun friends! We’re so glad to be back with you today — we hope you had a wonderful Christmas and are ready to get back to doing some wonderful crafting! We have a simple idea for you to use the fabulous washi tape we all know and love. It is such a beautiful and easy to supply but it’s always great to see different ways to use the lovely tapes, so let’s see a few ways to put the washi to use on cards! [Would you like to see how Kim Kesti put these together? Make sure to watch the video right here.] Isn’t that a total stunner?! And…
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Destinations China Inspiration | Beijing Layout & Cards with Zsoka
Hello crafty friends, Zsoka here with you today to share a few projects that I’ve created with the new Spellbinders/Lene Lok Destination China collection! Since my boyfriend had to travel to China on business a couple of times this year I actually have plenty of photos I could scrap using this collection! For now I only did one but I bet I’ll do more in the future. I actually found the perfect picture to use with the gorgeous Lanterns dies since the lanterns in the picture look like one of the lantern dies, ha! I went with a color combo that I never use for scrapbook pages but thought it…
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Spotlight Stamping | Tools, Tips & Techniques
Hello, Fun friends! We cannot wait to share with you today. We’re hoping that you’re going to have some free time to play with your favorite Fun Stampers Journey stamp sets in the coming days. And, we’re thinking that you might want to try the Spotlight Stamping technique that Creative Director Kim Kesti shared on our T3 series! Would you like to watch how Kim created these two cards with the Spotlight Stamping technique? You can do so right here! Let’s not delay, lets stamp! Isn’t that just beautiful? Not only are the colors just perfect together? Painting with Liquid Colors provides stunning results. So does that Spotlight Stamping Technique…
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Destinations China Inspiration | Intricate Die Ink Blending with Keeway
Hi crafty friends! Itβs Keeway from Kiwi Koncepts, and Iβm here to share some inspiration with the Destination China collection by Lene Lok. Last time I created some traditional lunar new year cards with strong red and gold colors, but today I decided to take a softer take using the Lucky Clouds dies from the collection. I love this die! Clouds often times symbolize the celestial realm, which is a setting that comes up a lot in the Chinese story tales Iβve read growing up, so seeing these iconic cloud shapes bring back a lot of memories. Although this die is also intricate, the cloud shapes were still easy to…
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Destination China Inspiration | Colorful Cards with Elena
Hello friends! Elena Salo is here again! Today I’m sharing a second post where I show how you can use new collection of dies from Lene Lok – Destination China. HereΒ you can find the first project. Many of my favorite dies are from Lene Lok’s collections, because I like all geometrical shapes she creates in her dies. And this collection is also full of such dies. Today I’d like to show you two more cards I created with these release. I created two card bases out of red cardstock. Then I die cut labels out of red, black and white cardstock usingΒ Chinese Knot Frame and Chinese Coin Window sets of…
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Destinations China Inspiration | Classic Lunar New Year Cards with Keeway
Hi crafty friends! Its Keeway from Kiwi Koncepts, and Iβm here to bring you some classic lunar new year inspiration with the Destination China collection by Lene Lok. Lunar New Year celebrates the new year of the traditional lunar calendar which often happens in February. This year it falls on February 5th and itβs the year of the pig! When it comes to Lunar New Year, the use of red and gold are not only prominent, but meaningful to represent good fortune and joy, so it meant a lot for me to use these traditional colors in my projects today. The Destination China collection by Lene Lok carries beautiful traditional…
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Destination China Inspiration | Floral Greeting Cards with Elena
Hi dear friends!Β Β Elena Salo is here today! I’m happy to introduce you the new collection from Spellbinders – Destinations China by Lene Lok. And for today’s post I created two cards using this beautiful release. Here I used several dies from Destination China Collection. The main set that I’ve use here was Lucky Clouds. When I die-cut it for the first time I noticed that with leftovers I can create very beautiful flowers. So I made them and embellished my cards. For the second card I used Chinese Coin Window die from the new collection to create a circle border. I partially die-cut Lucky Cloud Die using pink cardstock and…
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Using Just Stamps & Dies! December Winter Wishes 2018 Card Kit of the Month Edition
Hello Spellbindersβ fans! Are you ready for another dose of inspiration featuring our December Winter Wishes Card Kit of the Month? Weβre back with our new monthly series called βUsing Just Stamps & Diesβ. Just a reminder, these postsΒ feature quick and simple cardmaking tutorials using just the die set and/or stamp set from our Card Kits of the Month. We have Josie sharing this fun Winter Wishes card. Enjoy! Instructions: Die-cut the bear, snowflakes, sentiment and trees from colored and glittered cardstock. Trim card stock 5 Β½β x 5 Β½β, affix to card front. Trim patterned paper to 5 ΒΌβ x 5 ΒΌβ. Back with fun foam and add…
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Exquisite Splendor Inspiration | Watercolor Cards with Norine
Hello Spellbinder Friends! Norine Borys from The Velvet Lemon, back with you again today with a few more projects to share. A couple of days ago I showed you some βquiltedβ cards made with some of the beautiful dies in the Exquisite Splendor Collection by Marisa Job. Todayβs cards use more of the ExquisiteΒ Splendor Collection and Iβm excited to share them with you. I created each of these cards with the dies from the Exquisite SplendorΒ Collection,Β either die cutting from watercolor paper,Β or die-impressing onto watercolor paper. I used a common color palette forΒ each card, painting with blues and greens and varying the shades byΒ adding some yellow to the mix here…
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Buffalo Check Stencil + Card | TryDay Friday
You know how we love our Try Day Friday series!Β Each Friday afternoon on our Facebook page, we share a new technique with you LIVE.Β Isn’t that so fun?Β This week Training Manager Lynn Leusch is using a classic product, our Buffalo Check Stencil!Β This fun stencil feels so on trend right now, as the Buffalo Check pattern is everywhere. If you’d like to watch on our YouTube channel, you can see the video right here.Β Make sure you leave Lynn a comment and let her know how much you enjoyed her projects and appreciate her sharing fun ideas with all of us. Isn’t that just a gorgeous and oh…