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Three Ways To Use Cosmic Shimmer
Hello everyone! Iβm Mindy Eggen from Mindy Eggen Design and Iβm 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 havenβt 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 Iβm excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of sweet love cards made with the new House Mouse Winter Collection.Β 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.Β 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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Easy and Fun Handmade Advent Calendar with Kraft Pop & Lock Boxes
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and Iβm excited to be back on the blog today to share a fun handmade advent calendar made with Kraft Pop & Lock Boxes.Β These versatile boxes are easy to decorate and the perfect size for a little giftβ¦so why not customize and give twenty-five of them to someone who deserves a fun surprise every day until Christmas! I started by assembling all twenty-five boxes. Just as the name suggests, the boxes pop and lock into place very easily! Each box measures about 3β x 3β x 3β, plenty big enough for something like an average-sized ornament. Iβm making this advent calendar for my…
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4 Magical Snow Globe Die Cut Scenes for the Holidays
Hi there my Spellbindersβ friends, welcome back to the Spellbinders Blog! My name is Jaycee Gaspar and Iβm so excited to share four die-cut snow globe cards featuring the Simonβs Snow Globes collection. This beautiful collection features embossing folders, a hot foil plate sentiment set, and a collection of snow globe scenes. To create the following projects, you’ll need the ‘Simon’s Snow Globe‘ etched dies, which include the globe and base dies, as well as its own town scene, Santa, and sleigh. These dies provide endless versatility, allowing you to create a variety of snow globe scenes that are sure to be admired by your card recipient – just like…
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Simonβs Snow Globes Inspiration
Hello everyone! This is Jennifer Rustioni from @armieritagli! Iβm so happy to be here again as a guest on the Spellbinders Blog! Today I share with you three Christmas cards I created featuring the new beautiful Simonβs Snow Globes Collection! This collection is truly amazing and perfect for creating a lot of Christmas cards! HOLLY JOLLY The first card I realized is featuring the super fun Simonβs Snow Globe and Snowman Scene Etched Dies! I started die-cutting the snow globe. I colored the globe blending some Distress Ink in the shades of blue and then colored the base using Copic Markers. After that, I die-cut the different parts of the…