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House Mouse Sweet Moments Trio
Welcome friends! This is Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook. I’m excited to be on the Spellbinders blog today with a trio of cards featuring the new House Mouse Sweet Moments Collection. I love these images, especially watercoloring them in mini scenes. I often find that they are an odd shape and don’t conform to regular dies though, so today I have an idea to share with you using the awesome Spellbinders Notch Punch to create your own layered effect. I started by cutting pieces of Bristol Smooth Cardstock to fit each scene and then stamped my images and sentiments with VersaFine ink. I knew I was going to watercolor and this…
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Valentine Celebrations with Love on the Rocks
Hey there, crafty friends! Marie here again from Marie Nicole Designs. I’m having fun creating with this new collection, Love On The Rocks. The little tumbler and embellishments are so fun to mix and match with the sentiments for some sweet Valentine’s cards! I’m also a huge fan of the Better Press plate, My Heart Beats for You. It’s a gorgeous floral design with the heart in the middle that works well for not only a card in itself but as a background which is what I did with today’s cards! My first card features the little tumbler from the Love on the Rocks die set as a shaker. I…
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My Love Glows Valentine’s Day Cards
Hello Crafty Friends, Heejung Hunsberger here! I’m thrilled to be returning as a guest designer for Spellbinders this month again! If you’d like to get to know me better, visit my blog or follow me on Instagram. Additionally, I have a YouTube channel where I regularly post video tutorials. I created three Valentine’s cards featuring the Love on the Rocks collection, using black, pink, and red as a combination. My Love Glows First, I hot-foiled the My Heart Beats For You Betterpress plate with white foil on red cardstock. Also, I hot-foiled the sentiments from the My Heart Beats for You BP set on black cardstock with the opal hot…
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A Trio of Birthdays
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog today sharing three cards using the Florals Through the Year Collection. This collection is designed to be used to create a DIY calendar but as you will see from my projects, you can use the floral plates on their own for cards (and anything else!) too! SNOWDROPS For my first card, I used the beautiful January Snowdrops. Since snowdrops are winter flowers, I wanted to give a slight winter feel to the card with a little snowfall! To make this card: Place January Snowdrop Press Plate onto the Chase of the BetterPress Letterpress System.…
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Ideas For Creating A Homemade Calendar
Hello crafty friends! Lisa Tilson is here with you today on the Spellbinders blog. I’m so thrilled to be here to share some ways to use the Florals Through the Year Collection with you. This is a very pretty collection that includes 12 floral press plates, a 2025 DIY Calendar set of press plates, along with a die that you can use to create an easel stand for your completed homemade calendar. I am sharing a couple of ways to create the actual calendar cards as well as simply using one of the floral plates on a standard A2 card. Calendar Cards With Die Cuts For my first couple of…
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Black & White Plus One Color with Woodland Wildlife
Hello crafters! Joan Bardee here and I’m excited to share with you the fantastic Ranger Woodland Wildlife set of stamps and coordinating dies by Simon Hurley. Spellbinders released this gorgeous set with two other fun stamp and die pairings – Inspired and Everyday Wreaths. I chose to focus on Woodland Wildlife, but the color palette I’m using would work well with the other sets as well. Today’s color palette is a striking black and white plus one other color. Since Woodland Wildlife is packed with line art drawings (as opposed to solid stamps) this color formula is great if you don’t want to color in the images or just want…
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Three Ways to Use Bold Color Mix Numbers
Hello! Jen Kotas is here today with three cards featuring the Color Mix Celebrations Collection. This collection features two BetterPress sets, one with large numbers and a die set with numbers that can cut out the BetterPress numbers or be used on their own. Separating the numbers worked for the 2025 card but with the other cards or most with fewer numbers, I think they look great when overlapped. I also enjoyed placing one higher than the other. On Porcelain BetterPress A2 Cotton Card, impress first number from Bold Color Mix Numbers Press Plates with Cosmic BetterPress Ink. Do not remove the number. Using the first number as a guide,…
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Numbers Count! | 3 Ways to Personalize Cards With Numbers
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog today sharing three cards using the Color Mix Celebrations Collection. This collection can be used in so many different ways! It can be combined with the Florals Through the Year Collection to add numbers to calendar pages or the numbers can be used to create personalized cards, like I am creating today (plus lots more!). FORTY For my first card, I wanted to create a personalized number card for a 40th birthday. I love being able to create these types of cards for friends and family. You can really match the design to the…
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Three Interactive Cards With Rocky The Dancin’ Yeti
Hello! Jen Kotas is here today with three cards featuring the Rocky The Dancin’ Yeti Etched Die Set. This die set is absolutely adorable and comes with a variety of accessories. Each card I’ve created features a different interactive technique. No need to be intimidated by interactive cards! These three cards are simple to assemble. It’s what you add to the rest of the card where you can make it your own. On a piece of teal cardstock, trace the outer edge of the Arch Shaker Dome then blend navy ink in the outlined area, from top switching to a teal ink to end. Splatter with white acrylic paint. Die…
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Rocky Dancin’ Yeti, Monster Friends
Hello Crafty Friends, Heejung Hunsberger here! I’m thrilled to be returning as a guest designer for Spellbinders this month again! If you’d like to get to know me better, visit my blog or follow me on Instagram. Additionally, I have a YouTube channel where I regularly post video tutorials. I absolutely love the Monster Friends Collection, and this month, there’s a new release featuring a die set called “Rocky Dancin’ Yeti.” I created three cards using the Rocky Dancin’ Yeti die, coordinating it with other collections. A Reindeer Yeti I created a yeti with a custom reindeer design. First, I created the background by using two-toned gray ink to press…
