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Colorful Floral Cards with the Wildflowers Collection by Lisa Horton
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of colorful springtime cards made with the new Wildflowers Collection by Lisa Horton. The gorgeous floral dies, versatile background images, and customizable sentiments in this collection inspired me to create three bright and pretty cards for a variety of occasions. Gladiolus Birthday Card The Layered Gladiolus Die Set creates a beautiful focal point perfect for all kinds of cards. Here, I chose shades of coral to contrast with an aqua background for this colorful birthday card for a friend. Die cut Bellini, Coral, and Rainforest Cardstock using the Layered Gladiolus…
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Create a Colorful Birthday Card with the Take Note Collection
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and today I’m excited to take you step-by-step through creating this bright and colorful birthday card made with the new Take Note Collection from Spellbinders. With fun memo-inspired die sets, versatile background designs, and unique sentiments, this collection is perfect for creating memorable cards and projects for all kinds of occasions. Start by applying Verdigris Metallic Ink to the Memo Splatter BetterPress Plate and press it onto a piece of Seaside Cardstock using the BetterPress Letterpress System. (Adhere your cardstock to the BetterPress Platen with Best Ever Craft Tape, but be sure to only tape the corners where the inked design won’t be pressed!)…
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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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Easy and Inky Cards with the Collaged Birds Collection
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of fun cards made with the new Collaged Birds Collection by Dina Wakley. The beautiful BetterPress plates and versatile embossing folders in this collection inspired me to create three easy and inky cards for a variety of occasions. Hello Friend Card I love a good embossing folder and never hesitate to make it the star of the show. When I saw the Soaring 3D Embossing Folder, I knew I couldn’t cover up any of the gorgeous detail so I played with some inky techniques and added only minimal embellishments for…
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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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Ideas For Creating A Homemade Calendar
Hello crafty friends! Lisa Tilson is here with you today on the Spellbinders blog. I’m so thrilled to be here to share some ways to use the Florals Through the Year Collection with you. This is a very pretty collection that includes 12 floral press plates, a 2025 DIY Calendar set of press plates, along with a die that you can use to create an easel stand for your completed homemade calendar. I am sharing a couple of ways to create the actual calendar cards as well as simply using one of the floral plates on a standard A2 card. Calendar Cards With Die Cuts For my first couple of…
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Three Ways to Use Bold Color Mix Numbers
Hello! Jen Kotas is here today with three cards featuring the Color Mix Celebrations Collection. This collection features two BetterPress sets, one with large numbers and a die set with numbers that can cut out the BetterPress numbers or be used on their own. Separating the numbers worked for the 2025 card but with the other cards or most with fewer numbers, I think they look great when overlapped. I also enjoyed placing one higher than the other. On Porcelain BetterPress A2 Cotton Card, impress first number from Bold Color Mix Numbers Press Plates with Cosmic BetterPress Ink. Do not remove the number. Using the first number as a guide,…
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Clean and Simple BetterPress Christmas Cards
Hi everyone! It’s Cassie Trask and I’m happy to be back sharing some new card ideas featuring the Simon Hurley – Glad Tidings BetterPress Plates! The elegance of the results from the BetterPress have me reaching for it time and time again, and the Glad Tidings BetterPress Plates definitely have me feeling some serious nostalgia. Santa’s Sleigh I was really wanting some simple Christmas cards with a lot of white space, so when I saw Santa’s Sleigh, I knew I needed to add a pop of color on the background to really make him pop! Using some Porcelain BetterPress Cotton Card Panels, ink up the Santa’s Sleigh BetterPress Plates with…
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Holiday Tags with Lisa Horton Essential Holiday Collection
Hello! Jen Kotas here today with three tags featuring the Lisa Horton Essential Holiday Collection. What an amazing collection where you can create many different tags for all of your holiday gifts. My color palette was simple but I love gray, red and white together for holiday tags. While I had my BetterPress System out, I created backgrounds in several colors that I may want to use at some point in the future. Always nice to have extras ready to go. Press the Holiday Background Panels Press Plates using Thunder BetterPress Ink on Porcelain BetterPress A2 Cotton Card Panel. You can fit two plates per A2 panel. Cut out with…
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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…
