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Beginner Friendly Hot Foiling & Die-cutting Paul Antonio PAScribe Upright Italic Everyday Sentiments
Hi there. I’m Gaylynn Martling. I am delighted to share this photo tutorial as a guest designer here on the Spellbinders blog. This is a step-by-step process that is beginner-friendly. For today, I’ll step you through one card project from beginning to the end using both hot foiling and die-cuts. Simple techniques and clean layouts are always appealing to me. The Paul Antonio PAScribe Upright Italic Everyday Sentiments Collection provides the most elegant and eye-catching sentiments for card making. In today’s example, I focus on the Happy Birthday press + foil plate. There are other wonderful sentiments in the collection for different occasions You will see process photos along with…
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No Adventure Is Complete Without You
Hi everyone! Ilina Crouse here, and I am happy to be back on the Spellbinders blog, this time sharing a few cards using the Wonder of Oz collection. I loved watching the Wizard of Oz animated series when I was growing up, and this collection made me travel back in time to my childhood. There are several products in this collection, and they work so well together. No Adventure Is Complete Without You Card I love the Wonder of Oz Silhouette die from the collection, so I had to use it right away. To make a card: Step 1: Cut a piece of white cardstock measuring 5 ¾” x4 ½”.…
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Create Merry Mischief: 5 Ways to Add Texture to Your Christmas Cards
Are you ready for a little mischief? Do you feel like your Christmas cards are missing that extra something? It’s Therese Calvird here, and I have three Christmas cards to share using the fun Merry Mischief Collection. These cards feature adorable critters – a hedgehog, penguins, and a Christmas tree dog (literally!). And, while playing with these critters, it became clear that adding texture can turn a cute card into something truly magical. Let me show you how… I’ve got five fun ways to add texture to these cards, plus a bonus technique! Why Texture Matters: Textures give cards depth, invite the receiver to touch and explore, and make designs…
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Wildflowers with Nancy Leppek
Hello Crafters! Nancy Leppek here from Scrapper at Heart.com and I could not be more excited to be a guest here on the Spellbinder’s Blog. Today I am sharing three different cards using the recently released Lisa Horton Wildflowers Collection. There are so many items that I fell in love with in this release, and are totally worth checking out! Let’s get to it, shall we! SENDING LOVE AND BEST WISHES Some of my favorite new cardstock colors are Seaside and Waterfall, and I think they look beautiful foiled in gold. First, I foiled the background in Matte Gold onto the Seaside Cardstock using the gorgeous Script Text BP Plate.…
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Oh, Hello Gorgeous
Hi everyone, Ilina Crouse here, and I am thrilled to be on the Spellbinders blog again, this time around featuring the Gorgeous You Collection. Having two girls who are just getting into make-up and all things pretty, this collection was right down my alley, and I had so much fun playing and making cards using the products. All the products from this collection are amazing and I had such hard time choosing products for each card. I especially love the Make Up Bag die set, as it includes inserts to make it into a gift card holder and a connector piece to make a shaped card. I thought these additional…
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Deal Me Few Cards for Multiple Occasions
Hi everyone, Ilina Crouse here, and I am thrilled to be on the Spellbinders blog again. I spent a lot of my youth playing cards with friends and family. They were the days when social media didn’t exist, and we were “forced” to give each other undivided attention 😉 When I saw the Jack of All Trades Collection by Jacee Gaspar it brought a lot of fun memories from my childhood and had so much fun creating the cards I am sharing today. Jack of All Trades collection by Jaycee Gaspar is available on January 10th 2025. There are so many amazing products in the Jack of All Trades collection…
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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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Easy Interactive Halloween Cards with Dancin’ Halloween Dies
Hey there, my crafty pals! It’s Leica here, and today I have a step-by-step photo tutorial to show you how to make three awesome cards using the Dancin’ Halloween collection. Trust me, they’re super fun to create! Don’t worry if you feel a bit overwhelmed by all the different parts in this collection. Putting them together is actually quite easy. The packaging even includes a picture of the final product, which makes it really simple to follow along. To start, I picked out a bunch of colors for the cardstock: Lilac Blossom, Peridot, Persimmon, and Sunkissed. I also used Alabaster and Onyx cardstocks. To save time and make things easier,…
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Birthday Mini Album with Carissa Wiley’s collection It’s My Party with Angela Tombari
Hi crafty friends! It’s Angela Tombari from I Need Confetti blog. Today I would like to share the mini album I created with the fun It’s My Party collection signed by the amazing Carissa Wiley. I will show you how easy it is to create a beautiful memory-keeping project using this collection, It’s My Party, combined with some products from It’s My Party Too collection by Spellbinders. First thing first, the mini album cover measures 4,75 x 8,75 inches. The pages are 4,25 x 8,25 inches, about the size of a traveler’s notebook, so popular in scrapbooking. So, if you’d like to replicate this project and don’t want to create…
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Birthday Card Ideas With Leica Palma
Hi there, crafty friends! It’s Leica writing on the Spellbinders Blog. Today, I want to share with you three cards I made using the new Carissa Wiley – It’s My Party collection. I absolutely adore this collection because I’m always in need of birthday cards to send to my family and friends. For my first card, I created a shaker card using the Giant Party Balloon. I used Pastel Pink Hot Foil on Pink Sand Color Essentials Cardstock to hot foil the balloon. To make a fun background for the shaker balloon, I hot foiled the Starburst Glimmer Hot Foil Plate in Pastel Mint. Then, I hot-foiled the Happy Birthday sentiment…
