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Step by Step Tutorial: A Buon Natale Christmas Card
Hello, crafty friends! This is Silvia. I’m so excited to be a guest designer on the Spellbinders blog today, and I just can’t wait to share with you a step-by-step tutorial for a festive card featuring the new Italian Holiday Sentiments Etched die set from the International Holiday Sentiments Collection. I love making Christmas cards, and I really enjoy using sentiments in my own language for those for my friends and family, and this new die set is absolutely perfect for this. I also like mixing and matching different collections, so here I also used the Cocoa Greetings and the Scallop and Stitched Edge Ovals die sets, and I opted…
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How to Make Stitched Felt Pooh Bear and Hunny Pot Ornaments
Hello, crafty friends! I’m Adrienne Boese, better known online as Alice Scraps Wonderland. Today, I’m taking you through how to create ornaments using the Stitched Pooh collection from Spellbinders. I’m laying out each step to make it super easy for you to stitch together a Pooh Bear and a honey pot, so you can turn them into ornaments or sweet little bag charms! I highly recommend getting the Classic Pooh Collection Merino Wool Felt Sheets from Spellbinders for this project. The felt is high quality and cuts nicely with dies. Plus, it contains the perfect colors to create your Pooh Bear and honey pot. Creating Your Stitched Pooh Bear and…
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Hitting the Slopes with Simon Hurley’s Ski-Son’s Greetings
Hello Crafters! Nancy Leppek here from Scrapper at Heart.com. I am delighted to be back as a guest on the Spellbinder’s Blog. Today, I am sharing three different cards using the recently released Ski-Son’s Greetings Collection from Simon Hurley. Fun fact, I have never been on snow skis before, but that certainly didn’t stop me from having some fun with this collection. Let’s get to it, shall we! Dashing Through the Snow For my first card, I am hitting the slopes and using all of the items in this collection. That is me, at the base of the card, more than likely, wiping out in the trees! LOL I took…
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Let’s Hit the Slopes!
Hello there, Michelle Short here, and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog sharing three cards using the Ski-son’s Greetings collection by Simon Hurley. This wonderful collection is perfect for Christmas and the holidays, but also all year round for those that like to ski and snowboard! I kept the cards simple, featuring lots of white space! DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW My first card uses Hit the Slopes Etched Dies, along with the fabulous Streamline 3D Embossing Folder. This folder is perfect for skiers but also anything that you want to show movement like sleds, snowballs, etc! To make this card: Die cut faces of skiers from…
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Scenic Light Up Card With Pear Blossom Press One Light
Hello everyone! Rachel Alvarado here with a holiday scenic light-up card using a Pear Blossom Press One Light combined with the Woodland Scene Etched Dies. I absolutely adore interactive cards, so I had a lot of fun creating this light-up card. The One Lights are super easy to use, so I tried to keep my card basic so that the steps would be simple to follow if you have never made a card like this before. DIE-CUT IMAGES Die cut all the pieces from colored cardstock. Assemble the trees and deer together with liquid adhesive Set aside the images to work on the background. EMBOSS CARD BASE Trim a piece…
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How to Create Light Up Cards in an Easy Way
Hello there, Michelle Short here, and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog today, sharing two cards using the Pear Blossom Press One Light- 2 Pack. These lights make adding fun light-up elements to your cards easy. No circuits involved! The first thing to know when using these lights is that you do need to do a little forward planning for your card design. Since the light and switch are on the same piece, you need to work out where both will be placed on your card. MERRY + BRIGHT STAR I started off by die cutting the star (on my card panel) that I want lit…
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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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How To Create A Guitar Shaped Card
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial using the Majestic Guitar Etched Dies from Bibi’s Musical Notes Collection. This set creates a 7-inch-tall guitar that fits perfectly on an A7 card base. There is also an add-on die set for side panels, so that you can create a 3D guitar too, but for today, I thought it would be fun to create a guitar-shaped card! You can use any colour combination here, but purples are my favourite, so that’s what I went with! STEP 1 – DIE CUTTING THE GUITAR Die cut dies from Majestic Guitar: Cut pieces of cardstock slightly larger than the size of the…
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Step By Step Tutorial: Boo! – How To Create A Clean And Simple Halloween Card
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial using the Spooktacular Collection by Simon Hurley. I love the ghosts in the Boo Crew set! You can dress up the ghosts with hats, glasses, ties, etc. – so cute! For today, I thought it would be fun to take the witch’s hat from the Bewitched set to add on to my ghost! STEP 1 – DIE-CUTTING THE GHOST + WITCH’S HAT Cut pieces of cardstock slightly larger than the size of the dies. Place the main body of the ghost from Boo Crew onto Classic White ColorWheel Cardstock and hold in place with Best Ever Craft Tape. Place bottom…
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Meet Fergus, The Cutest Handmade Gnome for the Holidays
Hi friends! I’m Lorena Wakefield, and I’m delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog with a cozy felt project featuring Fergus the Gnome by Sandi MacIver. He’s sweet, sturdy, and surprisingly simple, perfect as a tree ornament, a bottle topper, or a little shelf sitter. Below you’ll find a clear, photo-matched walkthrough. Step 1 Some of the dies are numbered; this shows how many pieces you’ll need to cut from each shape. Step 2 Arrange the felt and dies on your cutting plate, and run them through your Platinum 6 Step 3 Die cut all the gnome parts from your chosen felt colors (body, hat, beard, hands, feet, etc.).…
