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Classic Paper Quilt Cards
Hi crafty friends! I’m Michelle Woerner from Stop and Stamp the Roses and I’m super excited to be guest blogging today. I’ll be sharing 3 cards I made with the brand-new Home Sweet Quilt Collection. The Home Sweet Quilt Collection is designed by Becca Feeken and features six die sets, one 3D embossing folder, and one clear stamp set. It was inspired by beautiful homemade quilt designs that can be adapted to many crafting styles. Let’s take a look at what I made. YOU ARE A WONDERFUL FRIEND CARD For my first card, I used the Layered Windmill die set. To create the octagon shaped card base take 8.5”x11” white…
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Retro Christmas Cards with Laurie Willison
Hello crafty friends! It’s Laurie Willison here today with some retro-style cards using the new Joyful Christmas Collection from Simon Hurley and Spellbinders. These new dies and hot plates are so much fun to work with and are sure to add some serious shine to your cards. Geo Snowflakes Merry Christmas Card For my first card, I used the new Geo Snowflakes Hot Foil Plate to create the silver foiled background. I layered the card panel onto a piece of Red Glitter Foam Sheets for some extra sparkle and dimension. Using the dies from the Floral Stag Die Set, I created a little bunch of poinsettias for the centerpiece of…
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Susan’s Garden Favorites Collection – Card Inspiration with Alanna Moses
Hi friends. Alanna here and I’m super excited to be guesting on the Spellbinders blog today. You can find me blogging at www.embellishcraftlove.com. I will be using stamps and dies from Susan’s Garden Favorites collection. I just love the dimensional looks you can get from all of Susan’s florals and these new dies are no exception. To get the most out of these dies, I highly recommend using Susan’s Garden Ultimate Tool Kit. This set of tools makes creating your dimensional florals so easy. Trillium Card For my first card, I used the gorgeous Trillium die set. To create my card, I started by following the tutorial on the Spellbinders…
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Glimmering Peony 3 Ways with Bibi Cameron
Hi there, this is Bibi Cameron and I’m happy to be able to share ideas and inspiration using gorgeous new hot plates from the Blooming Birthday Collection designed by Yana Smakula. Today I’m featuring: Glimmering Peony Skinny Stripe Background Yana’s Special Sentiments hot plates Polished Brass Hot Foil To use hot plates, I use the Spellbinders Hot Foil System and the Spellbinders Die Cutting Machine. Glimmer Peony on Dark Background I love the look and feel of gold foil on dark backgrounds as this also allow me to apply easy colouring with coloured pencils. So to make this C6 card, I applied Polished Brass Hot Foil over Navy Blue Cardstock…
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Glimmer Essentials Collection – CAS and Colorful Geometrics
Hello crafty friends! It’s Jean here sharing two CAS cards created with the Glimmer Essentials Collection. This collection can be used for any number of occasions and was designed to work with the Essential die sets in the same shapes: circles, squares, rectangles, and ovals. I couldn’t resist playing with bright colors to create a circle art card featuring tone-on-tone, glimmer-foiled circles in two sizes. Create A2-size card base from gray cardstock. Glimmer-foil the Essential Duo Lines Glimmer Circles in two sizes (1.77 in. and 0.77 in.) as follows: Red on red cardstock; Teal on teal cardstock; Citrine on yellow-green cardstock; Cobalt Blue on royal blue cardstock; and Tangerine on…
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Sparkling Christmas Inspiration – Foiled Cardmaking Ideas with Jenny
Hi there fellow crafters, it’s Jenny from JCCards here! I’m excited to be guesting here on the Spellbinders blog, sharing two card projects I created using the gorgeous new Sparkling Christmas collection. Both of my projects today use Glimmer plates from the collection and I was inspired by some of the gorgeous colors of glimmer foils available that aren’t what you think of as traditional Christmas colors. For those of you who haven’t started a Glimmer collection, believe me the effect is stunning, and I’m addicted. If you haven’t used the Glimmer Hot Foil System before (or even if you have), I highly recommend you check out the Spellbinders YouTube…
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Video: The Gilded Age Collection Inspiration | Foiling on Acetate with Tina Smith
Hello and Happy Wednesday Crafty Friends! Tina here from Cards and Coffee Time, I am super excited to be a guest designer on the Spellbinders Blog today! I created a few projects with the New Gilded Age Glimmer Collection by Becca Feeken. The Glimmer Hot Foil System can be used with so many different backgrounds, not just paper. I used acetate to foil with the beautiful Vintage Frame Glimmer Plate the outcome was just stunning! I encourage you to give this a try, you will love it!! I used two different foils for each of my projects. A Teal Glimmer Foil and also a New Foil to the Spellbinders Shop…
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Spellbinders Glimmer Plates Inspiration | Clean & Simple Foiled Cards with Kaja
Hi there, It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and I am honored to be guest designing for Spellbinders! Today I will show you some cards I made using the Glimmer Hot Foil system and some glimmer plates. I made four cards and they all feature some great sayings that I foiled on a card using the Glimmer hot foil system. First two cards are practically the same, the only thing different is the color of the foil. On the first one I used Teal and on the other one I used Rose gold foil that comes with the Glimmer machine. I used a gray patterned paper that I cut down to…
