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Tips To Enhance Your Die Cuts From Colored Cardstock
Hi everyone, it’s Nora from @nonniscards here. I’m excited to Guest Design in Spellbinders Blog today, sharing three fun tags showcasing the new Say Cheese Classic Mouse Christmas Collection! Large tags are a great option for traditional Christmas cards; not only can you decorate your gift with the beautiful, handmade tag you’ve made, but the recipient can even hang the tag on their Christmas tree, where it will delight their whole holiday season! Below, I’m also sharing three fun tips on how to make your die cuts pop and how you can get varied looks while only using a couple of shades of colored cardstock. I just adore the mice…
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SPOILERS! 13 Days of Craft-o-Ween Day 3. Step by Step Tutorial
SPOILER ALERT: Welcome the 13 Days of Craftoween 2025 Advent Calendar — and we can’t wait to show you what’s inside! If you love spooky season as much as we do, you’re in for a real treat (no tricks here). Whether you’re into cute and quirky or dark and dramatic, the 13 Days of Craftoween is packed with creative potential. Each day unveils a new mini crafting treasure designed to help you conjure up cards and more — all perfect for October makes and haunted happenings. Ready to peek behind Door 3? Today we’re featuring a project by Heejung Hunsberger, who’s bringing the boo-tiful magic! Let the hauntingly creative countdown begin!…
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Let’s Create Some Pretty Packaging!
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog using the Sealed 3D Christmas Collection. This beautiful collection features two press plates, a box die, 3 wax seal stamps and lots of beautiful wax beads! I thought for my blog post today that I would focus on creating pretty packaging. I love gift-giving and making things look pretty, so for today, I have some boxes, tags, and envelopes to share with you. RED & GOLD CHRISTMAS For my first project, I created a box using the new Ribbon Box Etched Dies. Not only is this box beautiful, but it is also really easy…
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Pink & Aqua Christmas
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog using the Lisa Horton Essential Holiday collection. This beautiful collection is like the name suggests, perfect for essentials! There are frames/layers, tags, backgrounds plus lots more! MERRY & BRIGHT For my first card, I wanted to show how you can utilise little die cuts on a card but for them to still be the focus. These trees are pretty small but absolutely adorable! To make this card: Cut two trees from Nested Tree Frame Etched Dies using Waterfall & Teal Topaz Cut another tree from Pink Sand and Fruit Punch Cut snow pieces three…
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Holiday Tags with Lisa Horton Essential Holiday Collection
Hello! Jen Kotas here today with three tags featuring the Lisa Horton Essential Holiday Collection. What an amazing collection where you can create many different tags for all of your holiday gifts. My color palette was simple but I love gray, red and white together for holiday tags. While I had my BetterPress System out, I created backgrounds in several colors that I may want to use at some point in the future. Always nice to have extras ready to go. Press the Holiday Background Panels Press Plates using Thunder BetterPress Ink on Porcelain BetterPress A2 Cotton Card Panel. You can fit two plates per A2 panel. Cut out with…
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Two Simple Ways to Wrap Your Gifts with Style
Hello everyone! It’s Galina with you today. Gift-giving is a joyous act that brings smiles to both the giver and the recipient. But have you ever thought about turning the gift-wrapping process itself into a delightful experience? In this post, I’m excited to share some creative and enjoyable tips to add an extra layer of fun to the art of gift wrapping. Whether it’s for a special occasion or just to surprise a loved one, these ideas will help you turn the wrapping process into a memorable part of the gift-giving journey. So, let’s dive into the world of creative gift wrapping and make each present a work of art.…
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Gift Wrapping with Vivant and Pepin Press
Hello there, crafty friends! Marie here again from Marie Nicole Designs. I have a fun post to share today, featuring the papers and ribbons from Vivant and Pepin Press! I’ll be creating a few projects with these items and paring them with some glimmering and wax seals from Spellbinders. Let’s get started! FOILING ON RIBBON Did you know that you could foil on ribbon? Some of this satin ribbon from Pepin is perfect for this technique! I grabbed a roll of my copper foil and some of the Dark Green Vivant ribbon and started to heat up my Glimmer machine. This is easy to do and it adds so much…
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Bloom Into Spring with the Victorian Garden Collection and Bonnie Crane
Hello, fellow cardmakers! Bonnie here from Bonniecarollee Makes Cards. If you haven’t started thinking about Spring, this post should get you in the mood! The theme for my projects is a Spring Birthday Celebration. The Victorian Collection is perfect for making a birthday or any occasion extra special! BIRTHDAY PRESENT TOPPER The largest die and the detail die from Nestabilities Essential Ovals was used to cut Fern Card Stock. This will form the base for the floral arrangement and make it easy for the recipient to remove it from the gift. All of the flower components have a number etched on the dies to indicate the number of die cuts…
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Flea Market Finds by Cathe Holden with Sheri Holt
Hello! It’s Sheri here again from My Sheri Cards and I am sharing 3 different cards, a bookmark and a treat holder created using papers, die cuts and ephemera from the Cathe Holden Flea Market Finds Collection. Mixing patterned papers is a favorite of mine and these florals and vintage patterns are gorgeous. Card #1 For this card, I started by laying out some of my favorite papers and then picked the accessories to go with them. The mini envelope die is perfect for stuffing with ephemera or little notes. I even added a few stamped images to a few of the pieces to make them, unique. Card #2 I…
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Vintage Christmas Inspirations
Hello Spellbinders friends! It’s Angela Tombari here and today I would love to show you what I created with the new release Christmas Flea Market Finds, made by Spellbinders in cooperation with Cathe Holden. Christmas Treat Bags Since it’s a Christmas-themed collection, I thought its papers were perfect for making some treat bags. I used papers from both paper pads, Christmas Velvet, and Home For The Holidays. I chose papers with delicate tone on tone design, one blue with small tiny flowers, one red with delicate embroidery, and the last, my preferred, with a fluffy boutis. Boutis is an old French type of embroidery. The treat bags are cut with…
