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Three Ways To Use Cosmic Shimmer
Hello everyone! I’m Mindy Eggen from Mindy Eggen Design and I’m excited to be back on the Spellbinders blog to share with you three different ways to use cosmic shimmer in your card projects. Before I begin, if you haven’t worked with Cosmic Shimmer Polish before it is kind of like a creamy paste that has tons of shimmer and shine. The top of the lid contains a flat sponge applicator and the jar contains the polish. TECHNIQUE 1: Backgrounds One of the easiest ways to use the polish is to apply it directly to your cardstock. You can use colored cardstock or white for this technique. One thing to…
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Simple and Sweet Love Cards with the House Mouse Winter Collection
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of sweet love cards made with the new House Mouse Winter Collection. With such detailed and adorable images in this collection, you can keep the other elements of your card pretty simple and still create eye-catching projects! I started by stamping the image and one of the sentiments from the Snuggle Up Stamp Set onto white cardstock using black alcohol-friendly ink. After coloring the image with Copic markers, I fussy-cut it out with scissors and trimmed the sentiment out into a strip. To create the background, I trimmed a piece…
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Kaleidoscope Arch – Versatile Products Rock!
Hello crafters! Joan Bardee here. Today I’m sharing a few cards using the Kaleidoscope Arch Collection. This collection has a little bit of everything – beautiful dies, a coordinating clear stamp set, and a gorgeous BetterPress LetterPress plate. I love products that can be used in different ways. Versatility keeps us from getting bored and stretches our crafty dollars. Here are a few ideas. Quick and Elegant Sympathy Card Confession: I rarely make sympathy cards. My cards seemed too “crafty” for such a solemn occasion. But the BetterPress LetterPress produces professional quality results – one that is worthy of a sympathy card. Ink up the Kaleidoscope Flowers Press Plate with…
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Autumn Interactive Card Ideas
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of interactive cards made with some of the latest autumn-themed collections from Spellbinders. I love sending cards that incorporate some kind of surprise element for the recipient and I hope to inspire you to create your own shaker, scratch-off, and light-up cards too! Autumn Woods Shaker Card If you’re new to interactive cards, shaker cards are a good place to start because they’re relatively easy to put together and the recipient can usually figure out how to work them. Here I created a shaker that looks like the hole of…
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Hurrah! Celebrate Game Day!
Hello, cardmakers and friends! Pam Sparks here from Expressions With Heart. I’m so excited to be sharing cards from the Game Day Die and Stamp collection by Justine Dvorak! Tim and I have a lot of grandsons and when I saw this collection I was thrilled! Everything you need to make Sports cards! YAY! I have three A2 size cards to share and some cute little sports pennants that would work to stick in cupcakes or whatever you can think of! The first card I made…You’re in a league of your own! Bowling! I die cut and glued up the images from the Sporting Goods die set, heat embossed the…
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House Mouse Holiday Card Ideas
Hello, crafty friends! Brenda Noelke here from My PaperCut Creations! I’m excited to be guest posting on the Spellbinders blog again today! I’m sharing three cards using the House Mouse – Holiday Collection! This collection includes six seasonal and holiday House-Mouse scenes with the adorable mice that we have all come to love! If you love these precious mice as much as I do, there is also a bundle that includes all six stamp sets! MERRY & BRIGHT CHRISTMAS For my first card, I stamped the darling mouse and sentiment from the Merry & Bright stamp set onto white cardstock with Copic-friendly black ink. I colored it with Copic markers,…
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Crafting With Doodlebug – Cardmaking Ideas You Need To Try
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a bunch of cards made with some of the beautiful Doodlebug products available in the Spellbinders shop. I paired many of the brightly colored cards and envelopes, sweet patterned papers, and fun washi tapes and embellishments with some of my favorite Spellbinders dies to create cards for many different kinds of occasions. Mailbox Thank You Card I hear a lot of crafters say that they love patterned paper, but struggle to use it on their projects sometimes, especially those with bolder colors and patterns. Here I turned a bright stripe pattern into…
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Seasonal Card Ideas with Gnome Drive Collection
Hey there, crafty friends! It’s Leica, and I’m super excited to share three adorable cards using products from the fantastic new Gnome Drive collection. Trust me, this collection is loads of fun! To create these cards, you’ll need the main die set called Gnome Drive Holiday Etched Dies. It’s a set of 13 thin metal cutting dies featuring everything you need, from the charming Gnome himself to a super cute convertible to take him around town in style! Plus, you’ll find iconic Christmas shapes like Christmas trees, presents, bows, and more. As Christmas is my absolute favorite holiday, my first card showcases the Gnome Drive Holiday Etched Dies. I used…
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Card Assortment Featuring the New Simon Hurley Collection with Leica Palma
Hey crafty friends! It’s Leica here, and I’m thrilled to be sharing three fantastic cards with you on the Spellbinders Blog. Today, I’ve got some brand-new goodies from the Simon Hurley collection to show you. Each card has its own unique style, and I can’t wait to share them with you. Let’s kick things off with the first card. I started by using an A2-sized Glacier cardstock for the base, and to add some texture, I ran it through a machine using the Floating Balloons 3D Embossing Folder. It gave the card panel such a cool texture! I then stamped, colored, and cut the images from the Hot Diggity Dog…
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Hexi-Gems Card Ideas with Lisa Tilson
Hello everyone, this is Lisa Tilson from My Card Trip and I am thrilled to be a guest on the Spellbinders blog today. I will be featuring the gorgeous new Hexi-Gems Collection and have three cards to share with you. This collection consists of a beautiful floral glimmer hot foil plate, a simple and fun stitching die, some new nesting hexi-gem etched dies, a solid hot foil plate and some fabulous sentiments which are suitable for many different occasions. Hello Friend Card My first card is the “busiest” of all of my three cards but I love how it turned out. I started with the stitching element and for this,…
