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2 Floral Birthday Card Ideas with the Just Add Cake Cardmaking Kit
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be sharing two cards today using the Just Add Cake Birthday Cardmaking Kit. Both cards feature the Garden Party Etched Dies. I combined them with the shaker domes and sequins on the first card, and for the second, combined them with the mug from Birthday Brew Etched Dies, as well as some extra colours of ColorWheel Cardstock and Gems. I love how you can mix and match the different sets in the kit! Watch the video below or on the Spellbinders YouTube channel: For my first card, I created a meadow of flowers using the pink tones of ColorWheel Cardstock…
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Happy Holidays BetterPress Card Tutorial with Upright Italic Press + Foil Plate
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial with you using the new Upright Italic Happy Holidays Press + Foil Plate by Paul Antonio. This sentiment is a large plate, so perfect to act as the focal point on a card. All you need is a few elements to bring the card together! I chose foliage and a bird. I chose to press the plate today, but it does foil beautifully too! There are other sentiments in the collection, and they will work for this card design too; you may just need to rearrange the foliage and bird to fit. PRESSING THE SENTIMENT Flip Platen of Betterpress Letterpress…
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Classic Car Card with Stenciled Desert Scene | Highway Horizons Tutorial
Hi, crafty friends! Lea Lawson here with you today, creating a card featuring the beautiful new Highway Horizons stencils from the Classic Road Legends collection by Mindy Eggen. I’m sharing my step-by-step process in easy-to-follow photos and instructions! To start, we are going to ink blend the stencils in numbered order. Align stencil 1 over top of an A2-sized (4.25” x 5.5”) Classic White cardstock panel, then ink blend in dark gray ink. I prefer to use a grip mat when ink blending, but you can also adhere them in place with low-tack tape! Align stencil 2 to the panel, then ink blend the dunes in sand brown and the…
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2 Cupcake Birthday Card Ideas with the Just Add Cake Cardmaking Kit
Hello friends! Nichol Spohr is here with a couple of birthday cards featuring the incredible Just Add Cake Box. If you’re like me, birthday cards are something that I always need a lot of and something I always like to have on hand! I love that with the Just Add Cake box you can mix and match to create incredible celebration cards whether you use just the kit or mix and match with your favorite Spellbinders products you have in your craft stash. Today I’m featuring the Light the Candles die set from the box for a couple of cupcake themed designs. First, we are going to showcase the components…
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Squeaky Clean Etched Dies Card Tutorial – Step-by-Step Scene Building Guide
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial with you using the Squeaky Clean Etched Dies from the Shiny New Day collection. Whilst cleaning is something a lot of us hate to do, making cards using cute die cuts is definitely something fun, and I loved putting all the die cuts together to create this scene! I kept to a minimal colour palette today – just aqua, yellow, and white, which helps the scene not look too busy. There are other dies in the set, though, so if you like more full scenes, you can do that too! DIE-CUTTING THE DIES Die cut the dies from Squeaky Clean…
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Step-by-Step Townhouse Card Tutorial with Everyday Awnings Dies
Hello crafters! It’s Lisa Tilson here with you today to share a card featuring the Everyday Awnings Dies from the Yana Smakula Everyday City Holiday Collection. I am going to be doing a step-by-step photo tutorial showing you how to create this pretty townhouse with its sunny striped awnings and window boxes full of flowers! The Everyday Awnings Dies and the Everyday Windows, Curtains and Flower Boxes Dies work in conjunction with the previously released City Holiday Dies from last year. The City Holiday Dies create the main part of the house, the door, and some parts of the windows. This new collection builds on last year’s release and is…
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“Sending Hugs” Open Lace Frame and Landscapes Diecutting Tutorial
Hi, crafty friends! Lea Lawson here with you today, creating a card featuring the Open Lace Frame and Landscapes die set, along with a couple of other sets, from the Lisa Horton Summertime collection. I’m sharing my step-by-step process in easy-to-follow photos and instructions! To start, we are going to cut the scalloped frame die from Pearl Metallic cardstock from the Treasured Cardstock: Antique Assorted Pack using a Platinum 6 die cutting machine. For reference, the plate sandwich I will use for all the die-cutting in this tutorial is Platform A, Platform B, Cutting Plate C, cardstock, die (face down), and Cutting Plate C. Next, we need to cut the…
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Step-by-Step Graduation Card Tutorial with Classic Mouse Dies
Hello cardmaking friends! It’s Lisa Tilson here with you today to share a card featuring the Classic Mouse Graduation Etched Dies from the Classic Mouse Graduation Collection. I am going to be taking you through making this card with a step-by-step photo tutorial. Although the design is simple, I’ve included plenty of steps to guide you through the process. With this die set, I found that the order really matters. There are so many lovely little details that bring the mouse to life — a front and back for the gown, plus sleeves, trims, and other accents — and assembling them in the right sequence makes everything come together much…
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Summer Fishing Card Tutorial: Deer and Boat Die Cutting Project
Hello crafty friends! It’s Rachel here with a fun card featuring some adorable new products from the new Summer Camp Collection by Allison Frazier. This card is geared toward beginners with some easy step-by-step instructions to follow. One of my favorite things to do as a family is to go fishing on the weekends. Because of this, I absolutely adore this entire collection and was thrilled to feature the Splash Days Etched Dies for my project today. Step 1: Use the featured four dies from the Woodland Trio Etched Dies to die cut the main pieces of the deer’s body from some Fawn ColorWheel Cardstock. Use the Woodland Trio Etched…
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How to Make a Summer Fox Card with Die Cuts: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial with you using the Trailside Trio Etched Dies from the Allison Frazier Summer Camp collection. The other sets in collection work perfectly with the Trailside Trio, so I have combined two of those as well! So much fun getting to dress up the critters for summer activities! DIE-CUTTING THE FOX + ASSEMBLY Die cut the fox from Trailside Trio Etched Dies: Please note: the dies are shown in the photo facing upwards, so that you can see which die is cut from which cardstock. When die cutting, you need to have the cut side facing down onto the cardstock. Place…
