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What’s New | Yana’s Christmas Foiled Basics by Yana Smakula
I’m delighted to introduce you to my second collection of Glimmer Hot Plates called Yana’s Christmas Foiled Basics. This collection was based on my first collection, Foiled Basics and many items in this new line have a very similar look and feel to them, but with a Holiday twist. Christmas is one of my favorite holidays and Christmas cards by far are my favorite to make. So I couldn’t resist the opportunity to design several Christmas glimmer plates to create elegant foiled Christmas cards. Welcome to the latest segment of What’s New At Spellbinders & FSJ. Join Creative Director, Kim Kesti, as she presents brand new Yana’s Christmas Foiled Basics…
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Two Easy Spooky Projects featuring Halloween Collection by Becca Feeken with Svitlana Shayevich
Hello crafty friends! It’s Svitlana Shayevich from Craftwalks and I’m super excited to be a guest designer today here on the Spellbinders blog. I will be sharing two easy and fun Halloween projects with you. Even though I live in the USA now I was born and raised in Ukraine and back there we don’t celebrate Halloween. It was an alien holiday for me when I just moved here but it took only a couple of years for me to start loving it. Now Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and I’m always excited to play with spooky products. Halloween House Goodie Box My first project is a cute…
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Shadowbox Inspiration | Collection Introduction by Becca Feeken
Is there anything more enchanting than a 3D Scene? I think not!! I’m Becca Feeken with Amazing Paper Grace and the passionate die designer behind the Shadowbox Vignettes Collection by Spellbinders; I wanted to introduce you to this sweet collection today. After sharing my 3D Vignettes collection with you in 2018, for 2019 I wanted to think of another way to add dimension and depth to card making. At the core of Shadowbox Vignettes is three sets of adjustable frames. By adjustable I mean that they can extend to any size, as long as you can find the paper to support it. It’s mind blowing that you can create a…
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Cardmaking Inspiration | Love You To The Moon & Back
Hello Spellbinders’ fans! Welcome back to our Cardmaking Inspiration series! We hope you’ve been enjoying these mini posts sharing simple cardmaking ideas and step by step instructions on how to make them! Today we’re sharing a dreamy Love You To The Moon & Back card created with the help of our Die D-Lite dies. Project created by in-house designer Yana Smakula Step By Step Instructions: We have a full set of step by step instructions describing how to create this card. Create A2 top folding card base out of white cardstock. Paint watercolor background. Add white splatter to the sky portion of the background to mimic stars. Foam mount watercolor panel…
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Sew Sweet Collection Inspiration | Simple Cards with Heather
Hello! My name is Heather Hoffman – and I’m thrilled to be guest designing several times this month to share cards using the brand new Sew Sweet Collection from Tammy Tutterow! This collection is full of fun elements for cards and projects celebrating the art of the handmade – my mind first went to handmade quilts and gifts! But I also saw possibilities for other creative uses for this collection, so I decided to start with a couple cards that use these products for perhaps a different use than they were originally intended! To start off, when I saw this sentiment from #Handmade stamps, my mind immediately thought of a very good friend of…
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Flower Garden Inspiration | Botanical Butterfly Card with Cynde. Video
Hey folks! This is Cynde Whitlow and I’m from The Pink Envelope. Thanks so much for stopping by! I’m here today to share a video, where I show you how I make two very easy cards using some lovely dies from the Flower Garden Collection by Sharyn Sowell. I simply adore the Botanical Butterfly dies. From the moment I saw it, I knew I had to use gold cardstock. I started by making shaped cards using the frame die from the Floral Panel Card Die Set. Then I die cut the butterfly from the Botanical Butterfly Die Set in gold cardstock. I used stamps to create my the “splatters” on…
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Video Friday | How to Make Paper Chest of Drawers / Flower Stand with Olga
Hi paper crafters, this is Olga Direktorenko and today I will be using Spellbinders dies to create something different from a card. The first time I saw the Baby Step Block Card die set it was not the building blocks that I thought of – it reminded me of a Japanese style chest of drawers and I got so excited to make my own one out of paper! This die is meant to create a 3D card base that can be folded and mailed in an envelope, but for this project I have combined the 2 bases to make one 3D piece – watch the video below to see how…
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Cardmaking Inspiration | Fun Robots Cards
Hello Spellbinders’ fans! Welcome back to our Cardmaking Inspiration series! We hope you’ve been enjoying these mini posts sharing simple cardmaking ideas and step by step instructions on how to make them! Today we have fun friendship cards to share using our Robots dies! They have separate heads, bodies as well as arms and legs to build any kind of robot you like! Project created by in-house designer Yana Smakula Step By Step Instructions: We have a full set of step by step instructions describing how to create this card. Cut colored cardstock to various size pieces, adhere onto thin white paper panel.. Die-cut robot’s bodies and legs out of the…
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Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #5 – Christmas Balcony Card. Video
Hello everyone. This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video is a part of a monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting”. I hope you’ve enjoyed pervious episodes, in case you missed them you can find them here. What is “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting Series”? Once a month I’m sharing a card project along with a detailed video tutorial showcasing traditional Spellbinders style with lots of die-cut layers and dimension! I’m back with yet another Christmas card idea mixing and matching dies from 8 different Spellbinders die sets (I don’t think I’ve ever combined so many…