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How to Make a Windmills and Tulips Card with Spellbinders BetterPress (Step-by-Step Tutorial)
Hello crafty friends! It’s Lisa Tilson here with you today. I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog to share a card featuring the prettiest tulip field, set against a backdrop of windmills with a gorgeous pink sky! The Windmills and Tulips Press & Foil Plate is from Yana’s Tulips Collection, and it is lovely – it creates a beautiful, serene scene! I believe it is inspired by a recent trip that Yana took to the Netherlands, and the vibe is captured to perfection. Along with this press and foil plate, there is a set of layering stencils that you can use to add your colour to the…
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Spellbinders Block Print Zodiacs: Hot Foiling & BetterPress Birthday Cards
Hello and welcome. I’m Gaylynn Martling, a lover of card making. It is an honor to share my creations with you here on the Spellbinders blog. I enjoy the fun technique possibilities using amazing plates, dies, stamps and fabulous machines. For today, I share three cards using both hot foiling and Betterpress inks. Some of my favorite things to make are birthday cards. The Block Print Zodiacs Collection provides the most unique and unexpected birthday greetings, customized to each person. What I like most about each set is the ability to add hot foil shimmer or colorful ink. For today’s trio of projects, I am sharing process photos for each…
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Step by Step Tutorial: Create a Birthday Card with a 3D Embossing Folder Background
Hello! Jen Kotas here today with a step by step photo tutorial creating a card with the Lemon Fresco 3D Embossing Folder. I walk you through embossing with a 3D embossing folder, die cutting elements to add to the card, and creating BetterPress sentiments. Mist Classic White ColorWheel Cardstock with water before embossing to prevent cardstock from cracking. Line up Classic White ColorWheel Cardstock in the section you wish to emboss of the Lemon Fresco 3D Embossing Folder. When using the Universal Plate System with a Spellbinders 3D embossing folder, use only the A and D plates. Cut panel to 4 x 5 ¼”. Add liquid glue, ensuring you get…
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Step by Step Tutorial: Multicolor BetterPress Cards Made Easy
Hi there crafty friends! I’m Rebecca Keppel and today I am sharing the simplest way to create a multicolor BetterPress card using the Spellbinders Flourishing Betterpress Plates with a Registration Template. If you’ve never used a Spellbinders Registration template, don’t worry! I’ll share all the steps you need to follow, but essentially, the Registration template is an acetate sheet marked with each of the plates from the set. You will run the plates through in various passes and each pass is designated by a separate color on the acetate. So the first step is to tape the acetate to the BetterPress Chase (which is the magnetic platform that will hold the press…
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Combine BetterPress, Die Cutting and Stamping on One Simple Card
Hi there crafty friends! I’m Rebecca Keppel. Today I am sharing a step by step tutorial of how I made a floral card with the Lisa Horton Wildflowers collection. Start by creating the background of the card. Use Best Ever Craft Tape to tape the corners of a piece of A2 BetterPress cardstock onto the clear plate of the BetterPress. Place the Script Text BetterPress Plate on the magnetic platform and swipe Tuscan BetterPress Ink on the plate to ink it up. Place the clear plate on top of the magnetic platform and run it through a die-cut machine. Tape the scalloped oval from the Scallop and Stitched Edge Ovals Etched…
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Clean & Simple Pastel Floral Cards
Hello crafty friends! It’s Lisa Tilson here with you today on the Spellbinders blog. I’m excited to be here to share three ways to use Lisa Horton’s new Wildflowers Collection with you. This is such a pretty collection that includes a couple of BetterPress Plates, a BetterPress Registration Press Plate Set, a couple of floral etched die sets and a set of nesting ovals which feature stitching and scallops. There are also two clear stamp/die sets which have everyday sentiments to suit many occasions. So, let’s get started with my three cards for today. I love to play around with colour combinations and for a bold color-loving girl…. this was…
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Delightful Daisies
Hello crafters! It’s Lisa Tilson here with you again on the Spellbinders blog. I’m thrilled to be here to share some ways to use Yana’s Daisies Collection with you. This is a lovely collection by Yana Smakula that includes a couple of press plates with coordinating stencils, a set of etched dies, a 3D embossing folder and a set of BetterPress sentiments. I often talk about double the fun with press plates as they can be foiled as well as pressed and they give stunning results whatever technique you choose. There is also another way to use them and I cover that later in this post! There are so many…
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Filmstrips and Florals: Scrapbooking With Golden Afternoon
Hello crafty friends! My name is Suzanna Lee. I am absolutely thrilled to be a guest on the Spellbinders blog again and today I am sharing a couple of layouts that feature the Rosie’s Studio – Golden Afternoon collection along with the coordinating Dies and Press Plates. For this layout, I used one of the darker 12×12 patterned papers to frame the layout as I needed the dark contrast of the paper to minimize the stark contrast with the lighter papers and product in the collection and my dark main photo. We were dining inside in a dark alcove and there was just no “improving” the photo. Not even balck…
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Three Techniques Using Dina Wakley Collaged Birds
Hello! Jen Kotas is here today with three cards featuring the Dina Wakley Collaged Birds Collection. This collection includes two embossing folders, two registration press plates sets and a set with many press plate sentiments. I decided to combine hot foiling and impressing with the registration press plates and I love how they turned out. Remember to use BetterPress Cotton Card Panels for your foiling if you are combining it with the BetterPress System. I would also suggest hot foiling first because in my experience I’m more likely to need to redo foiling than impressing. Line up the registration template for the Collaged Birds Registration Plates over an A2 Porcelain…
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Through the Meadow Cards with Jennifer Kotas
Hello! Jen Kotas is here today with three cards featuring the Through the Meadow Collection by Susan Tierney-Cockburn. There are six die sets, a 3D embossing folder, and a sentiments press plate and die set. As always, these flowers are stunning! To learn how to assemble these flowers, you can find videos from Susan on the Spellbinders YouTube channel. Emboss a panel of teal cardstock with the Wildly Beautiful 3D Embossing Folder. Adhere to an A2 card base. Die cut and assemble the Lavender Mountain Daisy and Spiderwort Etched Dies. Impress the sentiment from Through the Meadow Sentiments Press Plate and Die Set with Teal Topaz BetterPress Ink. Cut out…
