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Pattern Play with the Color Block Mini Shapes Collection
Hello fellow crafters. It’s Jean sharing A2-size cards created with the Color Block Mini Shapes Collection at Spellbinders. This collection, consisting of geometric die sets, can be used to craft for a variety of occasions. With the sets, countless patterns can be designed, whether simple or complicated. It’s fun to experiment with the shapes! Let’s look at the three cards I made with die sets in the collection. For my first card, I used the Color Block Mini Hexagons set, keeping the colors the same for the hexagons. Create card base: Create an A2-size card base covered with textured white cardstock. Cut a mat from red cardstock with the 4…
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Reverse Foiling Ideas with Michelle Short and Essential Glimmer Solid Shapes Collection
Hello there, Michelle Short here with some inspiration using the new Essential Glimmer Solid Shapes Collection. This is such a fun collection as you get to use up all of your scraps after foiling. There are so many different designs that work with reverse foiling. I love that these are shapes, but you can also cut your own shapes too! I have used the circle, rectangle (in a slightly different way!), and square today but there is also an oval. I found that I got great results by heating up the Glimmer Hot Foil System platform twice and also using the hinge method for foiling – by taping down the…
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Celebrate You Collection – Cards & Gifts For Special Occasions with Annie Williams
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m thrilled to be back on the blog today to share several projects using the new Celebrate You Collection from Spellbinders. The gorgeous sentiments, unique 3D dies, and pretty tag designs in this collection inspired me to create a ton of cards and bags for all different occasions. Baby Card I thought the Venetian Wallpaper Stencil was so beautiful and would make the perfect background for this soft and pretty baby card. Trim white cardstock to 4” x 5.25” and apply Tumbled Glass, Spun Sugar, and silver pigment ink through the Venetian Wallpaper Stencil with a blending tool to create the background. Apply…
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Beginner, Cardmaking, Die Cutting Inspiration, Embossing Inspiration, Gift Tags, Step by Step Tutorials
Let’s Celebrate! Custom Cards & Easy Gift Bags How-To!
Hello fellow crafters. It’s Jean sharing projects created with the Celebrate You Collection at Spellbinders. This versatile collection is chock-full of products – dies, stamps, glimmer plates, embossing folders – designed to make projects for a wide range of occasions including graduation, birthday, new baby, and get well. Let’s look at the cards and gift bags that I made for graduation and birthday celebrations. Graduation Cards Nothing says graduation like the iconic mortarboard. Use the Hats Off to You die set to create a stand-alone focal point with a sentiment or a focal point paired with a sentiment in the Celebrate You set. Dry-emboss Brushed Gold panel sized 4 x…
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Glimmer Essentials Collection – Springtime Card Inspiration with Annie Williams
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m so happy to have the opportunity to share a couple of projects using the new Glimmer Essentials Collection from Spellbinders. The Essential Duo Line Glimmer plates create the perfect accent border for any background, sentiment, or focal image and I was inspired to create two bright springtime cards combining all of the different shapes. Simple circle borders are always the perfect backdrop for a rustic wreath, so I created this cheerful floral birthday card using both the Essential Duo Line Glimmer Circles and Squares. Apply Gold Hot Foil to navy blue cardstock using the two largest plates from the Essential Duo Line…
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Foiled Halloween and Thanksgiving Cards with Jean
Hello crafty friends! I’m Jean, a paper crafter living in the Pacific Northwest blogging at Right as Rain. I am delighted to be on the Spellbinders blog today sharing colorful, foiled cards created with products in the Fall/Halloween Collection. No matter what your style–fun or elegant–the collection has something to offer for fall holiday cardmaking. Happy Halloween Card The design of the Halloween card makes for quick construction as the individual images are foiled separately and cut with a circle die. As one image was heating up, I prepared the next to be foiled. Foil bat from the Spooky Greetings set in Black on lime green cardstock. Foil ghost from…
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5 Alternative Projects with 3D Vignette Mini Album Collection by Becca Feeken with Bibi Cameron
Hello from Scotland! It is Bibi Cameron here and I’m happy to be able to share ideas and inspiration using some of the dies from the latest 3D Vignette Mini Album collection by Becca Feeken. I’m all about gold but I choose silver and holographic cardstock for the 3 main projects today. I thought this stunning neutral color will allow me to show you the true beauty of the die cuts. Wrinkled Flowers Using Sweet Cottage Flowers Dies to die cut a piece of barely grey cardstock. Spray the floral die cuts with water and allow the paper to absorb it. Next, gently crush the die cuts like if you…
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Cardmaking, Die Cutting Inspiration, Glimmer Hot Foil System, Intermediate, Platinum, Video Tutorials
Video: PA Scribe by Paul Antonio Foiled Cards with Nichol Spohr
Hi there! This is Nichol Spohr with three elegant hot foiled and die cut cards featuring new Hot Foil Glimmer Plates and Dies from the PA Scribe by Paul Antonio Collection. The new dies ans glimmer plates are made to work together seamlessly as well as be combined with any embellishments you like to make them your own! Let’s get started with the designs. The Monogram Laurel Glimmer Hot Foil Plate was foiled onto FSJ Huckleberry Fusion Cardsotck with Cobalt Blue Hot Foil. The “hey” and “handsome” Hey Beautiful Glimmer Hot Foil Plates were foiled in the center of the design with Matte Silver Hot Foil for a beautiful, layered…
