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August 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month Preview & Tutorials – Colorful Bold Splatters
Our August 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month preview & tutorials are here! Change the way you create with the NEW BetterPress Letter Press System, which provides an innovative way to achieve the elegant look of letterpress without all the mess. It’s an easy-to-use system that produces professional stationery style with detailed impressions that can be felt to the touch. The BetterPress System works with your manual die-cutting machine to create beautiful, effortless, and detailed letterpress effects. Here’s a look at the August 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month – Colorful Bold Splatters: BetterPress Letterpress system is needed to use this BetterPress Plate. Sold separately. August 2024 BetterPress Plate of…
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Red, White & Blue Christmas Cards Featuring Home for the Holidays
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog today sharing three cards using the Home for the Holidays Collection. This collection features lots of dies and press plates and I am using a few on my cards today. All my cards feature the color blue today. I did not plan for that when I was making them, but I do like blue for the holidays, especially when combined with white and red! NICK For my first card, I have combined St. Nick Etched Dies with the Sprinkled Confetti Press Plate to make a mini slimline card. To make this card: Die cut…
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June 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month Preview & Tutorials – Summertime Palms
Our June 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month preview & tutorials are here! Change the way you create with the NEW BetterPress Letter Press System, which provides an innovative way to achieve the elegant look of letterpress without all the mess. It’s an easy-to-use system that produces professional stationery style with detailed impressions that can be felt to the touch. The BetterPress System works with your manual die-cutting machine to create beautiful, effortless, and detailed letterpress effects. Here’s a look at the June 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month – Summertime Palms: BetterPress Letterpress system is needed to use this BetterPress Plate. Sold separately. JOIN THE CLUB June 2024 BetterPress…
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May 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month Preview & Tutorials – Wild & Free
Our May 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month preview & tutorials are here! Change the way you create with the NEW BetterPress Letter Press System, which provides an innovative way to achieve the elegant look of letterpress without all the mess. It’s an easy-to-use system that produces professional stationery style with detailed impressions that can be felt to the touch. The BetterPress System works with your manual die-cutting machine to create beautiful, effortless, and detailed letterpress effects. Here’s a look at the May 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month – Wild & Free: BetterPress Letterpress system is needed to use this BetterPress Plate. Sold separately. JOIN THE CLUB May 2024…
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Softening BetterPress Backgrounds with Vellum
In the colorful world of paper crafting, where every hue and texture play a vital role in creating a masterpiece, one extra step can elevate your design to a whole new level of sophistication. Today, we’ll do that with the subtle elegance of vellum. For all our projects today, we’ll be the latest goodies from Spellbinders’ BetterPress. As a paper and stationery enthusiast, I’ve always been drawn to letterpress and BetterPress filled a huge need in our craft for truly achieving this look. The texture of the impression, the fine details of the images, and the growing versatility of the products now available make it an indispensable tool in my…
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Creating Multi-Color Letterpressed Designs with the Cheers To You Collection
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m thrilled to be back on the blog today to share a couple of colorful cards made with the new Cheers To You Collection from Spellbinders. The gorgeous new registration plate designs, versatile background, and classic sentiments in the collection inspired me to create three multi-color cards for various occasions. Peony Plaid Friendship Card Buffalo plaid holds a special place in my heart because my five year old, who refers to it as “squares”, will wear any and all clothing and accessories that boast this fun pattern. So naturally, the Buffalo Plaid Press Plate was the first piece in the collection I pulled…
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Playing With Color and the Every Occasion Floral Alphabet
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m thrilled to be back on the blog today to share a couple of cards made with the new Every Occasion Floral Alphabet Collection from Spellbinders. The gorgeous floral letters and matching sentiments in this collection make such a statement on their own, I decided to play with different color schemes to create interesting backgrounds on these three fun cards for various occasions. Ombré Sending Love Card One of my very favorite types of cards to mail out are “sending love” cards, so I was excited to see the beautiful Floral S and Sentiment Press Plate. Pink might seem like an obvious choice…
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Adding Fun Details To Multi-Colored BetterPress Designs
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of cards made with the new Place & Press Registration Collection from Spellbinders. I love how easy this new system makes it to create gorgeous multi-colored pressed designs and I was inspired to create two colorful cards with a couple of added special touches. Foiled Floral Thank You Card The Thank You Blooms BetterPress Plate Set looks beautiful in different colors, but I wanted to add a touch of gold foiling to the design as well. Here I foiled the oversized sentiment in gold and added the flowers and leaves…
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Merry & Bright for a Simply Festive Season of Cardmaking
Sending Christmas cards is a cherished tradition that brings joy and warmth to both the sender and the recipient. While traditional Christmas cards often feature reds, greens, and golds, there is no rule stating that we can’t add a festive twist with unique and non-traditional color palettes. By incorporating Spellbinders different colors and textures using their amazing dies, hot foil plates, embossing folders, and letterpress plates we can create truly one-of-a-kind greetings that stand out from the crowd. Come and join Lisa Mensing from Confetti and Cards as she presents five fun, festive card designs that are perfect for the upcoming Merry & Bright Season. I truly believe that there…
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BetterPress Christmas Collection – Card Inspiration with Annie Williams
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of projects using the BetterPress Christmas Collection from Spellbinders. The gorgeous plate designs and beautiful sentiments in the collection inspired me to create three easy holiday cards with an elegant letterpress effect. Festive Noel Card Something about the boldness and beauty of that Festive Noel Press Plate made me reach for this one first. I added some simple coloring to a basic black press of this gorgeous design for an easy and pretty Christmas card. I started by adding black BetterPress Ink to the Festive Noel Press Plate and pressed…
