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Kites & Dreams: A Look at the Sky’s the Limit Collection with Simon Hurley
Hi, friends! I’m Lauren Taylor Made and I’m thrilled to be guest blogging today to share my excitement for the brand new Sky’s the Limit collection from Spellbinders and Simon Hurley! This collection is bursting with adorable kites and cheerful sentiments that are perfect for creating uplifting handmade cards. I’ve had so much fun playing with the etched dies, the stunning 3D embossing folder and coordinating layering stencils, and the beautiful BetterPress sentiments. Get ready to send your creativity soaring! For my first card, I wanted to capture the feeling of kites flying high in a breezy sky. I started by embossing a piece of Waterfall cardstock with the Flying Kites…
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Rocky Dancin’ Yeti, Monster Friends
Hello Crafty Friends, Heejung Hunsberger here! I’m thrilled to be returning as a guest designer for Spellbinders this month again! If you’d like to get to know me better, visit my blog or follow me on Instagram. Additionally, I have a YouTube channel where I regularly post video tutorials. I absolutely love the Monster Friends Collection, and this month, there’s a new release featuring a die set called “Rocky Dancin’ Yeti.” I created three cards using the Rocky Dancin’ Yeti die, coordinating it with other collections. A Reindeer Yeti I created a yeti with a custom reindeer design. First, I created the background by using two-toned gray ink to press…
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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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A Fresh Look At Your Dies Using Old Techniques
Hello, friends! It’s Savannah O’Gwynn from Savannahland2. I’m honored to be sharing some of my ideas using the Spellbinders Monster Birthday collection die sets. #SAVfact: If you know me, then I have MORE ideas to share than I can fit in one blog post!! In hopes to keep this post short, I have decided to use some OLD craft/cardmaking techniques to create FRESH card designs. We will see how “short” this post will be! Either way- be sure to scroll and read through for lots of inspiration, several tutorials, and lots of tips and tricks! Grab this collection and join me in making some interactive and fun cards for just…
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Christmas Gnomes with Jyoti Adhikari
Hello crafty friends! This is Jyoti Adhikari here today sharing my love for gnomes and of course some cards I have created featuring Gnome for Christmas collection. This collection is full of varieties of stamps, dies, glimmer foil plates, and even an embossing folder. I get jubilant about creating cards with gnomes, so I ended up making three cards with, you guessed it, gnomes. Without any further babbling, let’s get to the cards. WISHING YOU PEACE AND JOY/GNOME TREE CARD This card features the Gnome Tree die set. I started by die-cutting the gnomes. I used Spellbinders cardstocks to cut out pieces of the gnome tree. I used Copic markers…
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Celestial Zodiacs Collection – Clean and Simple Card Inspiration with Annie Williams
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m so excited to have the opportunity to share a couple of projects using the new Celestial Zodiacs Collection. The twinkling star patterns, majestic moon image, and gorgeous sentiments inspired me to create three clean and simple cards for a variety of occasions. XOXO Zodiac Card The twelve zodiac foil plate sets in the collection are perfect for birthday cards and tags, but I thought they could also be used to make a fun and unique wedding or love card for a stargazing friend. Trim a piece of white cardstock to 4.125” x 5.375”. Apply Speckled Prism Hot Foil to the panel using…
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Glimmer Background Collection – Not Just for Backgrounds with Jean Manis
Hello crafty friends! I’m Jean, a papercrafter living in the Pacific Northwest blogging at Right as Rain. I am thrilled to be on the Spellbinders blog today sharing projects created with the Glimmer Background Collection. I am relatively new to foiling with the Glimmer Hot Foil System and had a blast trying out the four plates in the collection. I foiled with different colors of foil, including Rainbow Foil, foiled on different colors of cardstock, and I tried dry-embossing with the plates. My number one piece of advice is to experiment! The plates, measuring 2 ½” x 6″, create gorgeous backgrounds (as the collection name implies) and the variations are…
