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Video Friday | Inlay Sketched Blooms with Nichol
Hello everyone. This is Nichol Spohr and I’m thrilled to be back with another guest designer card for Spellbinders this month. I love the look of inlay die cuts and the brand new Die D-Lites Sketched Blooms and Sketched Blooms 2 are fantastic dies to use with this technique. I started my design by stamping a text background stamp on Bristol smooth cardstock with Versamark Ink, heat embossing with white embossing powder and then inking over the text with Distress Oxide Inks in Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio, and Twisted Citron. I buffed the ink off the embossing and trimmed the background panel to 5 1/4” x 4”. I die cut…
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Die D-Lites Inspiration | Floral Thinking Of You Card with Brenda
Hello everyone!! This is Brenda Noelke from My PaperCut Creations. I am happy to be here for my second guest post for Spellbinders!! I will be using the fabulous February Die D-Lites Release for all of my projects. You can find my first project here. Today, I have combined three sets for a spring-inspired card… I began by die-cutting the grass & fence with Die D-Lites Picket Fence Dies from white cardstock. I also die-cut the flowers with Die D-Lites Sketched Blooms 2 Dies, as well as one flower with the Die D-Lites Sketched Blooms Dies from Bristol smooth paper. I used a couple of gray Copic markers to add…
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Die D-Lites Inspiration | Dainty Florals Congratulations Cards with Laurie
Hi there! This is Laurie Schmidlin from Just Give Me Stamps and I’m excited to be guest posting here! I’m always amazed at how much just tweaking the colors of a project can completely alter the look. Today I will be sharing two cards with you, both the same in design but in different colors. For both of my cards, I am using dies from the new February Die D-Lites release. I chose two dies from the Dainty Florals die set, one for the background and one for the focal image. I die cut the the seven petal bloom multiple times out of light gray cardstock and adhered them on…
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Die D-Lites Inspiration | Floral Card with Brenda
Hello everyone!! This is Brenda Noelke from My PaperCut Creations. I am over-the-moon excited to be guest posting for Spellbinders over the next couple of weeks!! I will be using the fabulous February Die D-Lites Release. Seriously, something for everyone!! The project I have for you today uses the Sketched Blooms Dies. I usually gravitate toward floral stamps & dies. Here in the Midwest, we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of spring, so I definitely wanted to create something spring-like. I began by masking off the top & bottom of a panel of smooth cardstock and blended some Distress Oxide Inks for the background. I trimmed the panel down slightly and…
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Die D-Lites Inspiration | Dinosaur Pop Up Card. Video
Hello everyone. This is Nichol Spohr and I’m thrilled to be guest designing for Spellbinders this month. Interactive cards are one of my favorite things. And pop up cards? They take the cake! The pop up cards I’ve mailed to friends and family are always a huge hit. Today I’m going to share how I created this prehistoric pop up scene with the new Die D-Lites Dinosaurs and lots and lots of other Spellbinders dies. Four panels and four inserts were die cut from brown cardstock using the Heart & Home Scalloped Pop Up Box dies. On the box panels, I stenciled and stamped the panels of the box to…
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Video Friday | Watercoloured Die Cut Wreath with Debby
Hello, and thank you for joining me. My name is Debby Hughes, and you can find me blogging at Lime Doodle Design. I have been paper crafting for a while now, since 2006. Spellbinders dies were some of the first I bought, and so I’m delighted to be sharing this video tutorial with you today. My project concentrates on creating a classic wreath with lots of layers and dimension. I love to watercolour, and so I painted panels of watercolour to use with my die cuts. However, this wreath would look lovely cut from patterned paper or cardstock too. In the video, I show a quick unboxing of the Platinum…
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Die D-Lites Inspiration | Pizza My Heart Party Food. Video
Hello everyone. This is Nichol Spohr and I’m thrilled to be guest designing for Spellbinders! Today I’m sharing how to die cut multiples of an image to create a larger overall element for your design with the new Party Food Dies! I started my card by stamping a plaid “tablecloth” background for my pizza using Fired Brick and Black Soot Distress Oxide Inks with the Concord & 9th Plaid Background Stamp. The Party Food Dies were die cut seven times from ivory, yellow, and pumpkin cardstock and inked with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. Each pizza slice was assembled and adhered to the tablecloth background as shown. By combining multiple pizza…
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Cardmaking Inspiration | You’ve Got Game Card
Hello Spellbinders’ fans! Welcome back to our Cardmaking Inspiration series! We hope you’ve been enjoying these mini posts sharing simple cardmaking ideas and step by step instructions on how to make them! Today we’re sharing a card suitable for a gamer created with the help of our Die-Lite dies. Project created by in-house designer Yana Smakula Step By Step Instructions: We have a full set of step by step instructions describing how to create this card. Create A2 top folding card base out of white cardstock. Cut patterned paper to 4 x 5 ¼”, foam mount onto the card. Die-cut computer screen and “You’ve Got Game” out of black cardstock. Die-cut…
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Cardmaking Inspiration | You Sexy Beast Card
Hello Spellbinders’ fans! Welcome back to our Cardmaking Inspiration series! We hope you’ve been enjoying these mini posts sharing simple cardmaking ideas and step by step instructions on how to make them! Today we’re sharing a masculine Robot card created with a touch of humor using our Die D-Lite dies. Project created by in-house designer Yana Smakula Step By Step Instructions: We have a full set of step by step instructions describing how to create this card. Create A2 top folding card base out of white cardstock. Cut patterned paper to 4 x 5 ¼”, foam mount onto the card. Die-cut circle out of patterned paper, foam mount onto the card. Die-cut…
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Video Friday | Stenciled Scene Shaker Backgrounds
Hello everyone. This is Nichol Spohr and thank you for joining me! Today I’m sharing how to layer stencils to create a seasonal background scene for a die cut image. I’m layering inking and stenciling with embossing paste and stencils and finishing it all with an interactive shaker element! Creating a scene card is one of my very favorite styles of card to create. The Deer dies are the perfect focal point of these love-themed shaker cards. The grass die from the Picket Fence set gives the deer something to stand in and the Pierced Rectangles make a great frame and shaker background. For the background of both cards, I…
