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  • Be Bold Color Block Collection – Adding Touches of Gold with Annie Williams
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    Be Bold Color Block Collection – Adding Touches of Gold with Annie Williams

    January 26, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m thrilled to be back on the blog today to share a couple of projects using the new Be Bold Color Block Collection from Spellbinders.  The eye-catching sentiment designs in this collection inspired me to create three fun cards with touches of gold perfect for sending special greetings. Happy Birthday Card I love having a variety of birthday cards on hand for when I’m short on time at different times during the year.  The Be Bold Colorblock Happy Birthday Die Set is perfect for creating fast cards, but also really easy to personalize for the recipient.  Here I’ve used lots of pink and…

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  • Be Bold Color Block Slimline Cards with Marie Nicole
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    January 25, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Hey, crafty friends! It’s Marie here from Marie Nicole Designs. I always love sharing fun ways to use all the things from Spellbinders! In today’s post, I’ll be sharing three slimline cards that I made with the Be Bold Color Block dies. These are so much fun! You can use them just as they are for some bold cards, or switch them up a bit for alternative looks. Bold Birthday! My first card features the Bold Birthday die. This cuts these really big letters and all the pieces that you can add right onto your slimline card base. I used this die and cut it out of several colors of…

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    November 26, 2021 / 3 Comments

    Join Kim Kesti in the Creative Classroom as she creates a festive slimline Christmas card with a cool snowy technique. Today’s card features the Color Block Merry Christmas Dies which cuts the exact size of a slimline card. It also includes the Merry accent dies. In today’s video, Kim shares a beautiful card that is paper pieced together in gold, green, and red. This card includes both the positive and negative pieces cut from the die and it’s all about the contrast of traditional Christmas colors. Watch video below or on our Youtube channel: Another way to use the Color Block Merry Christmas die is to add each die cut letter onto a card…

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  • Handmade Cards using Be Bold Color Block Collection by Hussena Calcuttawala
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    November 6, 2021 / No Comments

    Hello, crafty friends! This is Hussena from Quill and Punch Works and I’m so honoured to be guest posting today on the Spellbinders blog! I’m sharing a set of two cards today using dies from the new Be Bold Color Block Collection. I have made my cards in two different sizes – Slimline and Square and used varied colour schemes for making them too! The large letters from the Be Bold Color Block Collection stand out and add color for a fabulous colour block design. These dies are truly one a kind and so fun to create a variety of card designs! I LOVE Slimline Cards and it’s been a while since I…

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  • Hot Foiling the Be Bold Color Block Collection
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    November 4, 2021 / No Comments

    Hello! My name is Jen Kotas and I’m so happy to be on the Spellbinders blog today. I’ve got two cards to share with you made using the new Be Bold Color Block Collection. What a fun collection with so many ways to use them creatively! I decided not to add any embellishments since there was so much shiny hot foil there already. If you don’t do hot foiling (though I highly recommend it), you could use stamps instead. For the Christmas card, you could foil the cardstock first and then die cut but I wasn’t sure what I was doing when I cut it ahead of time. Make sure…

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  • Color Block Merry Christmas – Two Takes
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    Hello fellow crafters. It’s Jean sharing slimline holiday cards created with the Be Bold Color Block Merry Christmas die set, part of the Be Bold Color Block Collection. As a fan of pop art, such as Robert Indiana’s Love Sculpture in New York, (which first appeared as a Christmas card for The Museum of Modern Art), I was immediately drawn to this collection. Let’s see how I changed the look of the card with construction method, as well as cardstock and patterned paper choices. My first card features glitter cardstock letters in non-traditional Christmas colors. Create a white glitter cardstock base 3 ½ x 8 ½ inches. Die-cut letters from…

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