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Minimal to More with Modern Botanicals
Hey Crafty Friends, it’s Amy Tsuruta, and I’m thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog featuring the beautiful Modern Botanicals Collection by Dina Wakley. If you love her Collaged Birds Collection, you’re going to love the new products! My first project features the Flourishing BetterPress Plates. I challenged myself to design a clean and simple card using Pebble panels. The inks I used are: Taffy – Jet Set BetterPress Ink Mini Set Leaf – Flower Garden Betterpress Ink Mini Set Thunder – Jet Set BetterPress Ink Mini Set I love how the Taffy and Leaf colors POP on the Pebble. The sentiment is from the Holding Your Heart Sentiments…
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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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Strikingly Simple Designs with Collaged Birds
Hey there, crafty friends! Marie here again from Marie Nicole Designs. I am thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog to bring you several card designs I created using the designs from the Dina Wakley Collaged Birds collection! In this collection is a few sets of Better Press plates that also include the coordinating dies. I also enjoyed using some coordinating sentiments and 3D embossing folders. I was very inspired to keep the designs simple and use just a few bold colors together. You can see that on all three cards I have black, white, red and gold. The first card I created features the COLLAGED BIRDS Better Press…
