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House-Mouse Sweet Twist Christmas Card Tutorial with Copic Coloring
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial with you using the House-Mouse Sweet Twist Cling Rubber Stamp Set from the new Holiday Dreams collection. This adorable stamp set is perfect for Christmas and the holidays. I am colouring the image using Copic Markers, which are alcohol based, but any colouring medium will work here – pencils, paints, etc. If you are a beginner colourist, this image is perfect for you as the stamped image already has shading on it, so a lot of the work is already done by the stamp! STAMPING THE IMAGE & SENTIMENT Remove foam insert from Mini MISTI. Place a panel of white…
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Classic Car Card with Stenciled Desert Scene | Highway Horizons Tutorial
Hi, crafty friends! Lea Lawson here with you today, creating a card featuring the beautiful new Highway Horizons stencils from the Classic Road Legends collection by Mindy Eggen. I’m sharing my step-by-step process in easy-to-follow photos and instructions! To start, we are going to ink blend the stencils in numbered order. Align stencil 1 over top of an A2-sized (4.25” x 5.5”) Classic White cardstock panel, then ink blend in dark gray ink. I prefer to use a grip mat when ink blending, but you can also adhere them in place with low-tack tape! Align stencil 2 to the panel, then ink blend the dunes in sand brown and the…
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Easy Patriotic Card Tutorial with the Stars & Stripes Stamp & Die Set
Hi, crafty friends! Lea Lawson here with you today, creating a patriotic card featuring the beautiful new Stars & Stripes stamp & die set. I’m sharing my step-by-step process in easy-to-follow photos and instructions! To start, die-cut the flag background from Classic White cardstock. Die-cut the stripe dies from Ruby Glitter Metallic cardstock and the stars from Cosmic Sky cardstock. Adhere the stars & stripe layers to the white background layer with liquid glue. The background die leaves embossed lines as a guideline for layering. Stamp the sentiment in black ink directly to the lower right section of an A2-sized card base cut & folded from classic white cardstock. Glue…
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We All Have Baggage Collection Introduction With Sheri Ballantyne
Hi crafty friends! I’m Sheri Ballantyne, creator and long-time craft store owner of The Papercrafter’s Workshop in Whitby, Ontario in Canada. I’m so excited to get to share my new collection, We All Have Baggage, with you. Life is not simple. We all have things that we carry around with us, things we face every day. Studies report that 1 in 4 women will experience symptoms of anxiety or depression in their lifetime. The challenges are real, and as a papercrafting retail store owner, I have seen it firsthand with many customers in our crafting community. That’s why my first collection with Spellbinders was created around “baggage” – the emotional…
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How to Make a House-Mouse Party Parade Birthday Card Step-by-Step
Hello, crafty friends! I’m Melody Rupple, and today I’m excited to share a fun project using the House-Mouse Party Parade Stamps Set. I documented my creative process step-by-step, so you can follow along and recreate this card for your own celebrations! Let’s get started! Start by creating your card base. I used an A2 card base (4.25” x 5.5”) using Kraft Cardstock. Score and fold the cardstock in half to create your card base. Cut a piece of white cardstock to 4” x 5.25. Select the main image from the House-Mouse Party Parade Stamps Set and stamp with Brown Pigment Ink. If you plan to use alcohol markers or watercolors,…
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How to Color the House-Mouse Party Parade Stamp with Copic Markers – Step-by-Step Birthday Card Tutorial
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial with you using the House-Mouse Party Parade Cling Stamp Set. This adorable stamp set is perfect for birthday cards, but any celebration would work too. I am colouring the image using Copic Markers, which are alcohol based, but any colouring medium will work here – pencils, paints, etc. If you are a beginner colourist, this image is perfect for you, as the stamped image already has shading lines on it, so a lot of the work is already done by the stamp! STAMPING THE IMAGE & SENTIMENT Remove foam insert from Mini MISTI. Place panel of white alcohol marker-friendly cardstock…
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Watercolor Fun With The New House Mouse Heart And Soul Collection
Hello fellow crafters! Deborah Hellman here to share with you some cards that I created using the new House-Mouse Designs Heart and Soul Collection. I love House-Mouse, and this new rubber stamp collection does not disappoint. They are sweet, beautifully drawn, and easy to color with all the purposeful detail. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, these stamp sets include some great sentiments that can be used to express love, caring, and encouragement. For my card set, I decided to use watercolor to my stamped images, but you could easily use colored pencils or alcohol ink markers to add a little color to your stamped images. They could even…
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How to Tint Papers and Die-cuts to Suit Your Color Palette
Hello there, Michelle Short here, and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog using the Beautifully Imperfect Collection. This is such a beautiful collection for all sorts of papercrafts – cards, scrapbooks, mixed media, etc., filled with dies, embossing folders, papers, rub-ons, die-cut shapes, plus lots more! Whilst this isn’t my go-to style for card making, I tend to prefer clean and simple designs, I loved playing with this collection to fit it into my own style! JUST BECAUSE My first card uses the Beautifully Imperfect Die Cut Shapes. Whilst I love the colours in this collection, I wanted to bump up the pinks and aquas with…
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House-Mouse Tree-mendous Christmas with Dina Kowal
Hi, Dina Kowal here! I love the sweetness of House Mouse stamps – they are so fun to bring to life with any coloring medium! This month’s Tree-mendous Christmas collection is full of delightful fall and winter images featuring Ellen Jareckie’s endearing little characters. I use a mixed-media approach to these images when I color, so I wanted to share my process with you today. I hope you learn something new! I chose to color the Hats Off to You image – isn’t this little mouse so sweet in his acorn cap? I stamped the image on one of Spellbinders’ Cotton Card Panels. This was my first time using this…
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Step By Step Tutorial: House Mouse Tree-mendous Christmas Collection Christmas Card
Hello, crafty friends! Brenda Noelke here from My PaperCut Creations! I’m super excited to be back on the Spellbinders blog today sharing this step-by-step tutorial featuring the Tree-mendous Christmas Stamp Set from the House Mouse Tree-mendous Collection! These sweet mice are decking the halls, and each of the stamps in the collection showcases the House Mouse mice involved in holiday activities!! Let’s get started!! I started by stamping the image in the Tree-mendous Christmas Stamp Set onto an A2 panel of Neenah Solar White 80 lb. cardstock with Copic-friendly black ink using my MISTI. Be sure to remove the foam pad or grip mat from the MISTI before stamping, as…
