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The Amazing Jack of All Trades Collection (and a Nod to Best Ever Craft Tape)
Joan Bardee here. I’m delighted to share the amazing and unique Jack of All Trades Collection. Designed by the talented Jaycee Gaspar, the theme of this collection is about playing cards. While each item in the collection can be used on its own, this is a collection where “having it all” makes sense as the products work beautifully together for both male and female-themed cards. As of the time I am writing this, Spellbinders is offering the entire collection in a discounted bundle. Please look at Jaycee’s samples with this collection. Truly breathtaking! Jack of All Trades Collection is available on January 10th While I was making these cards, I…
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Using Specialty Papers with Love on the Rocks
Hello crafters! Joan Bardee here and I’m excited to share with you the fantastic Love on the Rocks Collection. The collection consists of a gorgeous floral BetterPress Letterpress cover plate, a sentiment set, and one die set that focuses on a cut glass with ice cubes, hearts and strawberries. The collection is perfect for Valentine’s Day or any occasion where you want to send some love. The 3 cards I’m sharing today each use one of the many Spellbinders specialty papers. I’ve had these for quite some time and decided it was time to play with them. Two of my cards use specialty papers over the entire card front, and…
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My Love Glows Valentine’s Day Cards
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 created three Valentine’s cards featuring the Love on the Rocks collection, using black, pink, and red as a combination. My Love Glows First, I hot-foiled the My Heart Beats For You Betterpress plate with white foil on red cardstock. Also, I hot-foiled the sentiments from the My Heart Beats for You BP set on black cardstock with the opal hot…
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Use Your Press Plates 3 Ways
Hi Spellbinders fans. Alanna Moses from EmbellishCraftLove.com and I am very excited to be guesting on the Spellbinders blog today. I am super excited about the Glad Tidings collection from Simon Hurley and Spellbinders. It features three press plate sets, perfect for your holiday crafting needs. In this blog post, we will be using the Betterpress system and cotton cardstock to get a letterpress effect, we will be using regular inks on cardstock to get a similar yet different look, and lastly, we will be using the press plates with the Spellbinders Glimmer machine to foil them. SENDING HOLIDAY CHEER For my first card, I am using the Ornamental Press…
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Spooky Cute Cards Featuring the Happy Haunting Collection
Hello, crafty friends! This is Emily Leiphart and I’m thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog, featuring the Happy Haunting Collection. I love creating Halloween cards and, much like my cards for past collections like Boo Dance Party, I wanted to spark inspiration with a fun, non-traditional color palette. The Happy Haunting Collection includes so many fabulous products and I chose to feature Fiona the Dancin’ Witch, Woof-or-Treat and Witchin’ Heels. I may be sharing only three cards here but you’ll definitely see more from this collection. The color palette I’m using includes Pink Sand, Spiced Cider, Nectar, Pale Rose, Meadow, Peacock, Slate Gray, and Onyx cardstock. Also featured…
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Non-Traditional Christmas in July
Hi everyone, Ilina Crouse here, and I am thrilled to be on the Spellbinders blog. My favorite season for crafting and cardmaking is Christmas and I am thrilled to be working with the Home for the Holidays collection in the middle of super-hot July. There are so many amazing products in the Home for the Holidays collection that I had such a hard time choosing. Once I made my decision for the product I picked a color scheme and decided to go with a non-traditional palette. For the main colors I chose pinks, aquas, pale grays, greens, and accents of gold, but added other colors as I saw fit. Poinsettia…
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Red, White & Blue Christmas Cards Featuring Home for the Holidays
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog today sharing three cards using the Home for the Holidays Collection. This collection features lots of dies and press plates and I am using a few on my cards today. All my cards feature the color blue today. I did not plan for that when I was making them, but I do like blue for the holidays, especially when combined with white and red! NICK For my first card, I have combined St. Nick Etched Dies with the Sprinkled Confetti Press Plate to make a mini slimline card. To make this card: Die cut…
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Mini Slimnline Trio Featuring Copperplate Holiday Sentiments
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog today sharing three cards using the Copperplate Holiday Sentiments Collection by Paul Antonio. These beautiful script sentiments can be used in lots of different ways, and I love that they are large, so take center stage on the cards! These are Press Plates but can be foiled too, as you will see from my cards. I decided to make mini slimline cards today (3.5” x 6”) as I felt the sentiments fitted well with that design, but they work perfectly for all shapes and sizes of cards too! MERRY CHRISTMAS For my first card,…
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Creating Beautiful Texture and Adding Fun Shapes To Your Cards
Hello there Spellbinders friends! Lisa Tilson is here with you today on the Spellbinders blog. I’m delighted to be here to show you some fun simple ways to add texture to your cards using embossing folders and I am also using shaped dies to create layers and extra interest to your card designs. The collection in the spotlight today is the beautiful Sealed 3D Botanical Collection. This release features a couple of 3D embossing folders which you can emboss and cut in one pass, two new wax seal stamps along with three sets of nesting dies which are always a fabulous addition to any craft room. There are no tricky…
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Fun Ways to Use Patterned Paper in Your Cardmaking Projects
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of easy and fun ways to use patterned paper in your cardmaking projects. Patterned papers can be a little intimidating to some due to busy patterns or bright colors, but I hope these techniques can help to show how easily they can add texture and color to an otherwise plain card. Pretty Floral Hello Card I love buffalo plaid, but it can be a very bold look and draw too much attention away from your focal point sometimes. Here I toned this blue plaid pattern down a bit by splitting…