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Say Cheese Classic Pooh Birthday Collection Cards
Hello, crafters! I’m thrilled to be a guest designer on the Spellbinders blog today, showcasing the Say Cheese Classic Pooh Birthday Collection. For these cards, I also incorporated Pooh and Piglet. If you’d like to get to know me better, visit my blog or follow me on Instagram. Additionally, I have a YouTube channel where I regularly post video tutorials. Winnie the Pooh and Presents card For my first card, I created this cheerful design featuring Winnie the Pooh surrounded by gifts, perfect for celebrating a very happy birthday! Products Used: Pooh & Piglet Etched Dies Birthday Bash Press Plate & Die Set (from Simon’s Birthday Bash Collection) – used…
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Step by Step: Country Barn Inspired Star Wreath Card
Hi there, crafty friends! I’m Rebecca Keppel, and I adore the new Country Christmas Collection designed by Annie Williams for Spellbinders. I am sharing a tutorial today on how to create a Christmas card with three different supplies from this collection. Starting with the Barn Star Wreath Etched Dies, die cut a full star with the outline die out of two colors of cardstock. I chose Waterfall Cardstock and some silver foil cardstock. Then place the decorative dies for each of the star points on top of one of the die-cut stars and hold them in place with Spellbinders Best Ever Craft Tape. Run that star with all of its decorative…
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Beyond the Sentiment: Copperplate & BetterPress Backdrops
Hello, crafters! I’m thrilled to be a guest designer on the Spellbinders blog today, showcasing the beautiful new Copperplate Happy Everything Collection, releasing this June! This collection is versatile, featuring elegant sentiments perfect for various occasions. The Copperplate Happy Everything Collection includes: Copperplate Happy Birthday Everything Plate & Die Set Copperplate Hope You’re Feeling Better Copperplate Happy Anniversary Copperplate Heartfelt Sympathy If you’d like to get to know me better, visit my blog or follow me on Instagram. Additionally, I have a YouTube channel where I regularly post video tutorials. For today’s post, I’ve created three cards, each highlighting a different sentiment from the collection and utilizing BetterPress plates for…
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Colorful Rare Bloom Watercolor Cards by Deborah Hellman
Hello crafty friends! My name is Deborah Hellman, and I am thrilled to be a guest designer for Spellbinders this month. Today, I am sharing with you some colorful, Spring watercolor cards that I created using the newest House-Mouse Collection: Rare Bloom. I love House-Mouse and watercoloring, so for me it is a perfect pairing. Another option, these beautiful stamped images could easily be colored with colored pencils or markers to suit your personal preferences. In addition to being adorable, all of the House-Mouse stamps have great details and shading which is a big plus. I stamped all of the images on a 4¼ x 5½ inch piece of Spellbinders’…
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Kyoto’s Sakura Season
Hey Crafty Friends, it’s Amy Tsuruta, and I’m thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog featuring the gorgeous Spring in Kyoto Collection by Alex Syberia Designs. I am so excited for this collection. My favorite international vacation place is Japan. The food, the culture, and overall natural beauty is amazing. Spring in Japan is beautiful, especially if you can catch the cherry blossoms [sakura in Japanese]. My first card is almost an all white card, which is definitely a challenge to photograph. The Floral Fans 3D Embossing Folder is absolutely gorgeous. I used it with a BetterPress Porcelain card panel. The Cherry Blossoms BetterPress Plate & Die Set were…
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In Reel Color
Hello Crafty Friends, it’s Amy Tsuruta and I’m thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog featuring the amazing Take Note Collection. I wanted to incorporate a rainbow palette with my projects but also keep it to a handful of colors. For my first project, I designed a mini composition book. I combined the Memo Splatter BetterPress Plate along with the Reel Color Sentiment BetterPress Plate & Die Set. This is when I tell you that I love working with BetterPress products! The Memo Splatter was inked in Azalea – BetterPress Ink, and the sentiment in Black – BetterPress ink. All the white paper I used is the BetterPress Porcelain…
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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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GET YOUR SWEET SURPRISES READY FOR EASTER!
Hi Crafters! Celes Gonzalo, also known as GuiadeManualidades, is here to share new, lovely, and fun ideas for Easter. Spring is here, and I couldn’t love it more! Flowers, color, butterflies, and fresh air… Today I’m inviting you to create with the Spring Felt Stitch & Create collection by Nichol Spohr – but in a different way! We’re setting felt aside for a bit and bringing these beautiful designs to life with paper! Yes, paper! You’ll see how easy and stunning it turns out. Are you ready? Let’s get started! BUNNY MILK CARTON BOXES For this first idea, let’s create some milk carton boxes featuring the sweetest, cutest bunnies from…
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You Are All Kinds of Amazing
Hello crafty friends! Lisa Tilson here with you today on the Spellbinders blog. I’m excited to be here to share some ways to use the Gorgeous You Collection with you. This is a very pretty collection that includes four sets of dies, a 3D embossing folder and a press plate sentiment set and it is all about making yourself look and feel gorgeous! There is a lovely perfume bottle die set, a pretty cosmetic bag die set along with some dies for you to create items of make up! There is also a beautiful floral set which you can use on its own or you can add the flowers as…
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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…
