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Numbers Count! | 3 Ways to Personalize Cards With Numbers
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog today sharing three cards using the Color Mix Celebrations Collection. This collection can be used in so many different ways! It can be combined with the Florals Through the Year Collection to add numbers to calendar pages or the numbers can be used to create personalized cards, like I am creating today (plus lots more!). FORTY For my first card, I wanted to create a personalized number card for a 40th birthday. I love being able to create these types of cards for friends and family. You can really match the design to the…
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Gilded Blooms: Crafting Floral Cards with Elegance
Hi there my Spellbinders’ friends! My name is Jaycee Gaspar and I’m so excited to share three cards featuring Yana’s Poppies by Yana Smakula. This collection features gorgeous poppy images in Yana’s signature die-cut outline style. Ever since I saw Yana’s Anemone Blooms, I have been hooked by the distinguished look. Speaking of distinguished looks, the set of BetterPress Plates, coordinating etched dies, stencils, and sentiments make for easy elegant cards. I decided to go bold with gold accents to complement these poppy designs. Up first, I used both the Yana’s Poppy die set and Poppy Background BetterPress Press Plate for this black and gold statement card. I used the…
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Can Poppies Be Blue?
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog today sharing three projects using Yana’s Poppies Collection. This beautiful collection features a poppy die, as well as a poppy background press plate (with or without a coordinating stencil). Poppies are generally red in color, maybe yellow or orange, but blue is quite rare. I did, however, base mine off the Himalayan blue poppy, which I think is absolutely beautiful! HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES For my first card, I am using the Poppy Background Press Plate. This is such a stunning background! You can color the poppies with lots of different coloring mediums or use…
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Fabulous Florals with the Fresh Picked Collection
Hello Crafters! It’s Melody Rupple here and I’m excited to be on the blog today to share a few cards I have created with the new Fresh Picked Collection. I love the modern, contemporary feel of this collection. The Fresh Picked Collection includes 4 floral dies, a sentiment die set, and an embossing folder. I have created three cards with the collection. So let’s get started. My first card features the Fresh Picked Anemones Etched Dies. You can create four different Anemones with the die set and you can use them separately or together for different looks. I die-cut the flowers from Pink Sand, Dahlia, and Wild Berry Cardstocks and…
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3 Simple Karin Brushmarker PRO Techniques for Card Making
Hi there my Spellbinders’ friends, welcome back to the Spellbinders Blog! My name is Jaycee Gaspar and I’m back again to bring you some creative inspiration using the Karin Brushmarker PRO markers with Spellbinders products. In this blog post, I’ll be sharing three simple techniques to create your own stunning and vibrant watercolor-like cards. The Karin Brushmarker PRO markers are dye ink, water-based markers with intense saturation. The color vibrancy is surprisingly consistent even when diluted with water. This saved me from having to apply layers of color. The springy marker nib is great for brush lettering, fine line work, or bold washes of color. I could quickly work up two…
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The Victorian Garden Collection – Spring Card Inspiration with Annie Williams
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of projects using the new Victorian Garden Collection by Susan Tierney-Cockburn. The beautiful new floral designs and fun containers in this collection inspired me to create three bright springtime cards for different occasions. Lavender Slimline Card I love the look and smell of real lavender so I wanted to try to make my own paper versions with this set first. Here I added a few floral stems to a pretty blue mason jar along with some leafy fillers for this pretty slimline card for a friend. I wanted to give…
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Stitched Fan Cardfront Dies – All, Some, and One Die
Welcome! Joan Bardee is here today. I’m so happy to share 3 completely different ways to use the beautiful Stitched Fan Cardfront Etched Dies. I’m also going to share some tips for using stitching dies for those of you with little to no experience with them (that’s me!). Warning: it’s addictive. All the Dies This card uses all 5 Stitched Fan Cardfront dies – they cover an A2 card perfectly. Die cut in blue cardstock and stitched each of them with blue embroidery floss. I like the tone on tone for this card. Hot foiled “thank you” from Mini Everyday Sentiments Glimmer Hot Foil Plate & Die using opaque white…
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Wax Seal Cards Ideas with Sealed For Spring and Marie Heiderscheit
Hello, crafty friends! I’m Marie Heiderscheit and I blog and share my creations at Marie Nicole Designs. Today I’m sharing three ways to use the new Sealed For Spring collection in your own cardmaking. I absolutely love wax seals, and these new ones are so pretty! You can use wax seals to seal your envelopes as well as making fun embellishments to add right to your cards. Let’s take a look! WONDERFUL FLORALS For my first card, I used some inks to ink blend a pinkish background. Then, I cut the Sealed Birds die from white cardstock and glued it over my ink-blended background, creating a pattern. I wanted my…
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Painter’s Garden Inspiration with Jennifer Kotas
Hello! I’m Jen Kotas from Who Stole My Glitter and I’m happy to be here today to share three cards featuring the Painter’s Garden Collection from Susan Tierney Cockburn. There are five new flower Dies in this collection along with a 3D Embossing Folder. Susan typically colors her flowers with Copic Markers and uses a special cardstock from Spellbinders. I prefer to cut my flower pieces from heavy-weight colored cardstock from Spellbinders. I added detail to the flowers with ink. It’s a time saver but I also love how the cardstock softens as I shape it but doesn’t tear. For detailed instructions on creating the flowers, please visit the Spellbinders…
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Anemone Blooms with Marie Nicole
Hello there, craft friends! Marie here from Marie Nicole Designs. I am in love with this new Anemone Blooms collection from Spellbinders and I have a few cards to share with you in today’s post. This collection has a great variety of dies, Glimmer plates, gorgeous bloom images, and sweet and snarky sentiments. There is so much variety in this collection that allows you to create so many beautiful cards. Let me share what I’ve created! A GLIMMERED GARDEN First of all, how gorgeous is this large Glimmer plate with these Anemones? They are a perfect size for creating a simple focal point or glimmering a number of them to…
