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October 2024 Small Die of the Month Preview & Tutorials – Festive Friends
Our October 2024 Small Die of the Month preview & tutorials are here! This “Festive Friends” die set features 17 cutting dies. Enjoy the step-by-step tutorial below as well as the video tutorial to get you started with this month’s kit. Make sure to show us what you create by tagging #SpellbindersClubKits on social media! Please note, new Subscription Sign-Up Window will now open on the 6th of each month and close on the 27th (once existing club members subscriptions have been processed.) If there is additional inventory remaining, then they will be made available for new subscriptions and will have limited availability. Continuing Subscriptions will charge on the 5th…
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Exploring the Not Your Ordinary Card Collection
Hi Spellbinders fans. Alanna Moses from EmbellishCraftLove.com and I am very excited to be guesting on the Spellbinders blog today. I have the honor of sharing the Not Your Ordinary Card Collection from Wendy Vecchi and Spellbinders. This is a fantastic collection of products which includes a stencil set and four die sets. Each of the products is available for separate purchase or there is a bundle for a limited time with savings. THANKS A MILLION Use Build a Plaid Layered stencil set and stencil with three shades of yellow ink. Use Golden Rose Paper Glaze for one layer Die cut floral and leaf images from the Essential Envelope die…
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Holiday Gift Boxes Featuring the Sealed 3d Christmas Collection
Hello, crafty friends! This is Emily Leiphart and I’m thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog, featuring the Sealed 3D Christmas Collection. I love gift wrap and the products in this new collection make it so easy to dress up a sweet little surprise at parties and for visitors who pop in during the holiday season. I absolutely adore the Ribbon Box so I decided to make an ombré set of boxes which will be perfect for candy or even some baked goods. During the holidays, I love baking cookies and sharing them with assorted chocolates so these boxes are the perfect way to surprise and delight friends and…
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Non-Traditional Holiday Cards with the Stitched Bright Collection
Hello crafters! Joan Bardee here sharing some fun holiday cards made with the Stitched Bright collection. It’s a fun collection of dies – Stitched Holiday Tree, Stitched String Lights, and Stitched Starfilled Background. I didn’t embroider with these dies, but that’s the beauty of stitching dies – you can use them with or without embroidery thread. These cards are boldly non-traditional, both in style and color. That works for me, but if you want to tone them down, substitute softer colors. Scalloped Tree First up is the Stitched Tree set of dies, with the fun scallop border. Die cut just the backer dies for the tree in all 3 sizes…
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Gilded Blooms: Crafting Floral Cards with Elegance
Hi there my Spellbinders’ friends! My name is Jaycee Gaspar and I’m so excited to share three cards featuring Yana’s Poppies by Yana Smakula. This collection features gorgeous poppy images in Yana’s signature die-cut outline style. Ever since I saw Yana’s Anemone Blooms, I have been hooked by the distinguished look. Speaking of distinguished looks, the set of BetterPress Plates, coordinating etched dies, stencils, and sentiments make for easy elegant cards. I decided to go bold with gold accents to complement these poppy designs. Up first, I used both the Yana’s Poppy die set and Poppy Background BetterPress Press Plate for this black and gold statement card. I used the…
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Setting the Stage with Your Card Backgrounds
Hello, crafty friends! I’m Adrienne Boese, better known as Alice Scraps Wonderland online. The Birthday Bash collection from Simon Hurley has several fun embossing folders, so for this set of cards, I wanted to create three different backgrounds using the embossing folders. The goal with each of these embossed backgrounds is to set the stage for all of the other elements on the card. I’ll be taking you from the simplest to the most complex embossing folder uses, but along the way, I’ll be giving you my design tips to create balanced cards that impress! Die Cut Balloons Card The simplest form of creating a background with an embossing folder…
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Let’s Celebrate with Balloons and Simon Hurley’s new collection
Hi everyone, Ilina Crouse here, and I am thrilled to be on the Spellbinders blog. I always find myself in a need of Birthday card and you can never go wrong with Baloons!!! Which means you can never go wrong with Simon Hurley’s new collections with Spellbinders called Birthday bash. I am loving the mylar balloons and all of the coordinating products. It makes it really easy to combine products like the Mylar Balloons etched dies along with the Party Balloons 3D embossing folder and the Layered Party Ballons stencil. I had so much fun creating with all the products from Simon’s collection! For all of my cards, I tried…
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Sparking Birthday Bash Cards
Hello Crafty Friends, Heejung Hunsberger here! I’m thrilled to be returning as a guest designer for Spellbinders this month. If you’d like to get to know me better, you can visit my blog or follow me on Instagram. Additionally, I have a YouTube channel where I regularly post video tutorials. Today, I’m sharing three birthday cards featuring the Birthday Bash Collection by Simon Hurley, using black and metallic card stock. Happy Birthday To You Cards I gold foiled on the black card stock with the Birthday Bash BetterPress Plate. I colored a few images with acrylic markers. I hot-foiled the “Happy Birthday to You” BetterPress Plate with Rainbow Foil on…
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Applying the 60/30/10 Color “Rule” to Nichol’s Needlework Collection
Hello crafters! Joan Bardee here sharing cards made with the darling Nichol’s Needlework collection. The highlight of this collection is a die that creates an embroidery hoop, screw, and “fabric.” Nichol Spohr combined her love of cardmaking and needlework in this collection and I think you are going to love it. For me, cardmaking is all about color! There is a design “rule” that uses color to help achieve a cohesive or balanced design. The rule is that the primary or dominant color should be 60% of the design, a secondary color 30%, and an accent color 10%. While I’ve been aware of this rule for a while, I find…
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3 Ways to Add Glimmer to Your Cards
Hello Crafters! It’s Sarah here from Sarah’s Stampin’ Retreat and I’m so excited be on the Spellbinders blog to share my makes with you today! I’m going to be sharing 3 cards that I created with the GORGEOUS Peacock Paradise collection by Dawn Bibby. This collection just screams opulence and elegance to me, so I decided to use it to showcase 3 different ways to add glimmer to your cards. The Heat Emboss Letterpress Technique How beautiful is this Feather Flourish embossing folder? One of my favorite techniques to add glimmer to embossed images is the Heat Emboss Letterpress Technique. It involves adding embossing powder to the background of the…
