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  • SPOILERS! 12 Days of Stitchmas 2025 Advent Calendar – Day 8 with Lisa Tilson
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    SPOILERS! 12 Days of Stitchmas 2025 Advent Calendar – Day 8 with Lisa Tilson

    September 30, 2025 / No Comments

    Welcome to day 8 of our 12 Days of Stitchmas 2025 Advent Calendar class! Join us and stitch your way through the season! We invited 12 guest artists to share inspiration with the 12 stitching surprises. Let’s welcome Lisa Tilson as she shares inspiration with the Day 8 surprise! Don’t miss the other video tutorials from our free Youtube Class: Day 1 with Kim Kesti; Day 2 with Jaycee Gaspar; Day 3 with Rebecca Keppel; Day 4 with Nichol Spohr; Day 5 with Tina Smith; Day 6 with Mindy Eggen; Day 7 with Carissa Wiley. Hello crafty friends! It’s Lisa Tilson here today, and I am so excited to be sharing…

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    August 24, 2025 / 3 Comments

    SPOILER ALERT: Welcome the 13 Days of Craftoween 2025 Advent Calendar — and we can’t wait to show you what’s inside! If you love spooky season as much as we do, you’re in for a real treat (no tricks here). Whether you’re into cute and quirky or dark and dramatic, the 13 Days of Craftoween is packed with creative potential. Each day unveils a new mini crafting treasure designed to help you conjure up cards and more — all perfect for October makes and haunted happenings. Ready to peek behind Door 6? Today we’re featuring a project by Jean Manis. Catch up on all the spooky surprises and creative inspiration from…

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    August 19, 2025 / 10 Comments

    SPOILER ALERT: We’re kicking off the 13 Days of Craftoween 2025 Advent Calendar today — and we can’t wait to show you what’s inside! If you love spooky season as much as we do, you’re in for a real treat (no tricks here). Starting today and continuing for the next 13 days, we’ll be sharing daily project inspiration featuring the surprise die set. It’s a frightfully fun way to celebrate Halloween — Spellbinders style! Whether you’re into cute and quirky or dark and dramatic, the 13 Days of Craftoween is packed with creative potential. Each day unveils a new mini crafting treasure designed to help you conjure up cards, tags,…

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    Fresh NEW Holiday Color Combos

    July 29, 2025 / 1 Comment

    Hi there, crafty friends! I’m Rebecca Keppel and I LOVE colorful cardmaking! I am a huge fan of the Spellbinders DIY Color Deck System because it helps me get out of my comfort zone as far as using the same colors for every single card. The Color Deck provides cards with beautiful images and a space to add swatches of whatever medium you are using. So, I am thrilled to share the new Holiday DIY Color Deck Expansion Pack with you today! This new expansion pack includes 12 DIY Color Deck cards with holiday-inspired artwork, fun facts, and helpful information to assist you in creating throughout the season! Of course, these…

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    Hello there, friends! It’s Lisa Tilson here with you today on the Spellbinders blog. I’m so excited to be here to share a step-by-step tutorial using a set from the new release from Simon Hurley called North Pole Friends. I think this might be my favourite release from Simon so far! I love Christmas crafting, and Simon has released four die sets in this collection that are simply adorable. You have the set I am using today which is called North Pole Sentiments Etched Dies, and then you have a set featuring the Clauses, one featuring some adorable polar bears, and finally a set with Santa’s cheeky elves! I had…

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    Hello Crafters! Nancy Leppek here from Scrapper at Heart.com and I could not be more excited to be a guest here on the Spellbinder’s Blog. Today I am sharing three different cards using the recently released Lisa Horton Wildflowers Collection. There are so many items that I fell in love with in this release, and are totally worth checking out! Let’s get to it, shall we! SENDING LOVE AND BEST WISHES Some of my favorite new cardstock colors are Seaside and Waterfall, and I think they look beautiful foiled in gold. First, I foiled the background in Matte Gold onto the Seaside Cardstock using the gorgeous Script Text BP Plate.…

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