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  • Cardmaking,  Step by Step Tutorials,  Video Tutorials

    Layered Dimensional Die Cutting Series. Episode #1 – Birthday Card featuring Venise Lace collection

    July 6, 2017 / 4 Comments

    Hello everyone. This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video marks the start on a new monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting Series”. What is “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting Series”? Once a month I’ll be sharing a card project along with a detailed video tutorial in the showcasing traditional Spellbinders style with lots of die-cut layers and dimension! For my today’s blog post I made a birthday card using several dies from Becca Feeken’s Venise Lace collection. I started working on this card by doing all of my die cutting first. I decided to…

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    September 22, 2018
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    Exclusive Indie Collection Inspiration | Layered Rose Cards with Zsoka

    May 31, 2018 / 1 Comment

    Hi there crafty friends, Zsoka back with you today with the third and last blog post in my Exclusive Indie collection inspiration series. If you missed my previous two posts, you can check them here and here. If you read my other posts you know that I love the layering dies in this collection. Surprise surprise, I picked layering dies for today’s projects as well! I can’t help myself! Here are the two cards I made for this post: The patterned papers I used are from the Maggie Holmes Chasing Dreams collection. This is still one of my favorites from her to date. I just love the colors! For my first card I picked the…

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    Baby Girl Scrapbook Album Cover with Die-Cutting and Stitching by Elena Olinevich for Spellbinders

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    September 20, 2017
  • Exclusive Indie Collection Inspiration | Layered Tulips Cards by Zsoka for Spellbinders. Using: SDS-154 Hugs Expressions SDS-157 Wishing Expressions S4-923 Layered Tulip S4-920 Layered Monarch. #spellbinders #diecutting #handmadecard #neverstopmaking
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    Exclusive Indie Collection Inspiration | Layered Tulips Cards with Zsoka

    May 30, 2018 / 3 Comments

    Spellbinders works hard to support independent retailers. The Exclusives collection is an adorable assortment of Dies and Die & Stamp Sets, only available at select online and local independent retailers. Click here to find a list of online retailers who carry this product line. Hello there, Zsoka back with you today with another 3 cards I’ve created with the beautiful Exclusive Indie collection. If you’ve missed the first part of this series, you can find it here. Like I mentioned in my previous post, I love layering dies! So I picked another one today, the awesome Layered Tulip set. Tulips are one of my favorite flowers so I was particularly happy for this die!…

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    October 1, 2018
    Postage Edge Shapes Collection – Card Inspiration with Annie Williams

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    Spellbinders September 2020 Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month is Here – Lattice Quadrante #Spellbinders #NeverStopMaking #AmazingPaperGrace #Cardmaking

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    September 1, 2020
  • Exclusive Indie Collection Inspiration | Beautiful Hugs Cards by Zsoka for Spellbinders using SDS-154 Hugs Expressions, S5-360 Layered Butterfly #spellbinders #diecutting #neverstopmaking #handmadecard
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    Exclusive Indie Collection Inspiration | Beautiful Hugs Cards with Zsoka

    May 29, 2018 / No Comments

    Hi there crafty friends, Zsoka here with you today with the first installment of my 3-blog-post-series showcasing the gorgeous Exclusive Indie collection. There are so many different products in this collection, there’s something for everyone! I was especially drawn to the new layered dies, they are fabulous! Today I’m sharing three simple cards with you. Here they are: I’m obsessed with patterned paper, on my scrapbook pages I can’t handle white space either. On cards I like it more but if I can, I will always go with patterned paper. So I picked a collection I haven’t had a chance to work with yet (Pink Paislee – Auburn Lane) and chose a few papers I…

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    Little Loves Collection Inspiration | Silhouette Series with Susie – Part 3

    May 19, 2018 / No Comments

    Join Susie as she shows off some amazing silhouette die-cuts on whimsical cards from our brand new Little Loves Collection by Sharyn Sowell. Susie loves how these silhouettes remind her of how precious our childhood really is.

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    November 13, 2018

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    Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #3 – Shaped Christmas Card

    September 7, 2017
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    Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #5 – Christmas Balcony Card. Video

    November 6, 2017 / 5 Comments

    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…

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  • Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #4 - Christmas Bicycle Card by Yana Smakula for Spellbinders
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    Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #4 – Christmas Bicycle Card

    September 28, 2017 / 4 Comments

    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 another Christmas card idea mixing and matching dies from several Spellbinders’ die sets. Similar to a previous Holiday card I shared, by…

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    Shaped Cards Video Series. Episode #1 – You Are A Blessing

    September 14, 2017 / 18 Comments

    Hello, everyone! This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video marks the start of yet another monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Shaped Cards with Spellbinders”. Once a month I will be posting a card and and video tutorial featuring a shaped card base using Spellbinders dies! I was happy to see you enjoy the first few episodes from my original video series, Layered Dimensional Die Cutting, so I decided to introduce additional series and share even more tutorials using Spellbinders dies. I hope you’ll enjoy these videos just as much! In the past I never cared much…

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    Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #3 – Shaped Christmas Card

    September 7, 2017 / 3 Comments

    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 the first two episode, in case you missed them you can find them here and 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! It’s never too early to start making Holiday projects so today I’m going to show you how to make a shaped…

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    Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #2 – Teacher Card

    August 3, 2017 / 6 Comments

    Hello everyone. This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video is a part of new monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting”. I hope you’ve enjoyed the first episode, in case you missed it you can find it 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! For my today’s blog post, since school starts very soon, I thought it would be appropriate to create a World’s Best Teacher card.  …

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