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Adding Color to Better Press with Inks, Foils, and Pencils!
Hi friends! Emily Midgett from Sixth Street Sundries is here with you today on the Spellbinders blog, and Iβm so excited to be featuring these beautiful new images from the Simon Hurley Spring Sampler Better Press collection! These images are classic and utterly reminiscent of springtime, featuring some storybook bunnies that are channeling Beatrix Potterβs Peter Rabbit illustrations, an embossing folder that adds beautifully subtle and neutral basket texture, and some elegant magnolia images that are gorgeous with or without coloring. I have three projects to share with you today upon which I have added lots of color with both inks and colored pencils, so letβs get started with the…
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3 Expert Monochrome Techniques featuring Letter Pressed Cards
Hi there my Spellbindersβ friends!Β My name is Jaycee GasparΒ and Iβm so excited to share three cards featuring the Simon Hurley Spring Sampler Collection.Β This collection features three new crafting must-haves and Simonβs existing sentiment hot foil plates.Β Did you know you can use your BetterPress Press Plates in your hot foil machine? I loved using these new products to make three cards with spring themes. BetterPress Press Plates can be used in the Glimmer Hot Foil System in place of hot foil plates. This is a great way to stretch your products for other mediums if you have both the BetterPress and the Glimmer Hot Foil System.Β This does…
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Coloring BetterPress Images with Colored Pencils
Hello! Iβm Jen Kotas from Who Stole My Glitter and Iβm happy to be here today to share three cards featuring the Spring Sampler Collection from Simon Hurley. There are two BetterPress sets along with a 3D embossing folder. Iβm not great with watercolor no matter what type Iβm using. Iβm most familiar and comfortable with alcohol markers but they donβt work well with the BetterPress ink or cardstock. My preferred medium for coloring BetterPress images is colored pencils. Before I got to work, I embossed three A2 panels using the Woven 3D Embossing Folder. I added ink later to customize the backgrounds. After impressing all of the Spring Magnolias…