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Card Assortment Featuring the New Simon Hurley Collection with Leica Palma
Hey crafty friends! It’s Leica here, and I’m thrilled to be sharing three fantastic cards with you on the Spellbinders Blog. Today, I’ve got some brand-new goodies from the Simon Hurley collection to show you. Each card has its own unique style, and I can’t wait to share them with you. Let’s kick things off with the first card. I started by using an A2-sized Glacier cardstock for the base, and to add some texture, I ran it through a machine using the Floating Balloons 3D Embossing Folder. It gave the card panel such a cool texture! I then stamped, colored, and cut the images from the Hot Diggity Dog…
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Shaped Christmas Cards Made Easy!
Hey there, crafty friends! It’s Leica here, and today I want to share three unique Christmas card ideas with you. These cards are different from the usual rectangular shape. Spellbinders has a great variety of shape dies, and the largest die from any set works perfectly as a card panel. Plus, they fit nicely inside an A2-sized envelope! For all three cards, I used the largest dies from each set. I cut the bigger shape out of colored cardstock and the smaller one out of white cardstock. To add some texture, I ran all the white panels through a die-cut machine using the Vintage Ornaments 3D Embossing Folder. As for…
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Christmas Florals Stencil How-to Step-by-step
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial with you using the Christmas Florals Stencil from the new Classic Christmas Collection. This is such a pretty stencil set (5 layering stencils) that creates a beautiful floral arrangement. They can be used alongside the Christmas Florals & Sentiments Etched Dies or can be used on their own. I am using both on my card today. STEP 1 Start off by placing the first Christmas Florals Stencil (they are numbered in the bottom left-hand corner) onto a panel of white cardstock and secure in place with Best Ever Craft Tape. Using Blending Brushes, blend red ink on top, with a…
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Making Clean and Simple Christmas Cards Special โ Joyful Glimmer Step-by-Step Tutorial with Joan Bardee
Hello crafters! Joan Bardee here and Iโm thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog featuring part of Yanaโs De-Light-Ful Christmas Collection. Itโs an amazing collection full of everything we love โ hot foil, dies, stencils, etc. I am focusing on Joyful Glimmer, which consists of 2 hot foil plates โ one sentiment plate and one holly plate that cleverly wraps around the sentiment. I love to go all out when I make Christmas cards and add those special elements that make the recipient go Wow. Even so, I love โclean and simpleโ cards. So, today Iโm sharing a few ideas to add special details to clean and simple Christmas…
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De-Light-Ful Christmas Card Ideas
Hello, dear friends! Marie here again from Marie Nicole Designs. I have a trio of festive, glimmery cards to share today. This new De-Light-Ful collection from Spellbinders has all the things for you to take your Christmas cards to the next level. Embossing folder, wax seal, and multiple glimmer plates. Iโll also walk you through a step-by-step process for our first card. Letโs get started! SEALED WITH JOY Hereโs our first card out of our trio. The background is glimmered and then stenciled, and a wax seal is added for the sentiment. As promised, I have a handy step-by-step ready for you! STEP 1- Glimmer the Background We need to…
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3 Ways to Use the ColorSparxยฎ Watercolor Powders with Tania Ahmed
ColorSparx are highly pigmented watercolor powders, and there are a ton of ways you can use them to create super vibrant projects. They can be mixed with other mediums to produce your own custom supplies for all your needs, mixed them with texture paste, or iridescent medium, make your own mists with them using water and a spray bottle, calligraphy, watercolor painting, and the list goes on! Here are three cards I have made, along with some extra backgrounds that you can use for other cards. Simply add your own sentiments. Congrats Card Place Picnic Checkerboard Stencil onto thick cardstock or watercolor paper. Tape down to the surface with low…
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Christmas Stitching in July!
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share some projects with you using the new Stitched for Christmas Collection. This beautiful collection features lots of stitching dies to create beautiful handmade stitched projects. Not into stitching? You can also use these dies without stitching, they still make beautiful projects! CHRISTMAS POINSETTIAS My first card uses the beautiful Stitched Poinsettia & Holly Etched Dies. I die-cut the poinsettias from Poppy Field Cardstock (both the stitching layer and back layer) and the holly from Peridot Cardstock. I then added ink blending to the layers using Distress Oxide Inks and blending brushes. I stitched the poinsettias and holly leaves using DMC Color Essentials Floss…
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Stitched for Christmas Card Inspiration with Jung AhSang
Hello crafty friends! Itโs Jung here, and I am back with another guest post on the Spellbinders blog. For my projects today, Iโm working with the Stitched for Christmas collection. STITCHED POINSETTIA For my first card, I used the Stitched Poinsettia & Holly set, along with the Stitched Starry Argyle background die. I started by die-cutting all of the pieces in the Poinsettia & Holly die set.ย Then, I added stitching to the die-cuts while I sat on the couch and watched a show.ย I used red metallic thread for the flowers and berries, and green metallic thread for the leaves.ย I also die-cut a panel of white cardstock using…
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Itโs Time to Get Stitching with Stitched for Christmas!
Hello crafters! Joan Bardee here and Iโm happy to be back on the Spellbinders blog sharing some holiday cards using the Stitched for Christmas collection. Yes, Christmas! Iโve been crafting long enough to remember when companies would release their Christmas products in November, which never left me enough time to use them. So, I am thrilled to see Christmas in July. Chose a slightly nontraditional Christmas color palette, substituting aqua or teal for green. Note: I made these cards before the sentiments in this collection were available, so I used sentiments from last yearโs collections. Warm & Cozy Sweater This card was inspired by all the sweaters my mom made…
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Stitched For Christmas Collection โ Inking Inspiration with Annie Williams
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and Iโm excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of projects using the new Stitched For Christmas Collection from Spellbinders.ย The beautiful new stitching designs in this collection inspired me to create three fun holiday cards with different inking techniques to create colorful die-cuts accented by more subtle stitched details. Poinsettia Window Card I naturally gravitated towards the beautiful florals in the Stitched Poinsettia and Holly Leaf Die Set first.ย Here I framed a window with my pretty poinsettias and added a foiled sentiment for this elegant square holiday card. I started by cutting white and Fern Cardstock using…