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Step-by-Step Graduation Card Tutorial with Classic Mouse Dies
Hello cardmaking friends! It’s Lisa Tilson here with you today to share a card featuring the Classic Mouse Graduation Etched Dies from the Classic Mouse Graduation Collection. I am going to be taking you through making this card with a step-by-step photo tutorial. Although the design is simple, I’ve included plenty of steps to guide you through the process. With this die set, I found that the order really matters. There are so many lovely little details that bring the mouse to life — a front and back for the gown, plus sleeves, trims, and other accents — and assembling them in the right sequence makes everything come together much…
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Open Road Collection: Handmade Card Ideas with Hussena Calcuttawala
Hello everyone! This is Hussena from Quill and Punch Works, and I am so excited to be a guest designing on the Spellbinders Blog. I have three projects to share with you today highlighting the Open Road Collection. The wonderful and fun products in this collection inspired me to create a set of three cards perfect for sending to your friends and family! My first project features the Open Road Etched Dies, On Cloud Nine Etched Dies, Head in the Clouds Embossing Folder, and the Open Road Sentiments Clear Stamp Set. I LOVE the convertible die in the set and used it to create a soft pastel card for a…
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Celebrate You: Cards & Gift Bags How-To with Hussena Calcuttawala
Hello, crafty friends! This is Hussena from Quill and Punch Works, and I am so excited to be guest designing on the Spellbinders blog today featuring the Celebrate You Collection. This is a large collection with lots of great gifting and greeting cards goodies that pair beautifully with cardstock or patterned paper for a quick easy card, or something a little more stepped up with the addition of floral dies. Custom Gift Bags My first project is a set of Gift Bags made using the Gift Bag Etched Dies, Be Bold Blooms Etched Dies, the Mini Blooms and Sprigs Etched Dies, and the Geo Screen Embossing Folder. These are so…
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Open Road Collection – Card Inspiration with Annie Williams
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m thrilled to be back on the blog today to share a couple of projects using the new Open Road Collection from Spellbinders. The unique dies and versatile sentiments in this collection inspired me to create three fun cards perfect for birthdays and graduations. Graduation Card I love how the cute convertible in the Open Road Die Set can be customized with all of the little details included in the set. Here I added gold accents and kept it extra classy for an easy and fun graduation card. Die-cut gold shimmer, Mirror Gold, Snowdrift, and Onyx Cardstock using the car and tire dies…
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Graduation Card, Gift Bag & More with Celebrate You Collection and Lisa Mensing
Hello, crafty friends. Lisa Mensing here from Confetti and Card with Lisa Mensing. Today I am sharing three projects using the Celebrate You Collection. This collection has everything you need to celebrate all your family members and friends! It’s not often that I create graduation projects and cards for newlyweds, but this collection made that so easy. Let’s check it out. Mini Slimline Graduation Card This mini slimline graduation card is my first project. Earlier, I mentioned that I found the graduation cap to be so easy to assemble, and the reason for that is that the dies do all the work. I simply die cut turquoise, black, and silver cardstock using…
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Celebrate You Collection – Cards & Gifts For Special Occasions with Annie Williams
m en.UseHi 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.…
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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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The Simply Perfect Collection – Countless Combinations and Customizations
Hello crafty friends! It’s Jean here sharing three cards created with the Simply Perfect Collection. This versatile collection, which includes products to create backgrounds, die-cut and glimmer-foiled sentiments, and focal images, can be used to craft for any number of occasions. The collection’s products work together beautifully for countless variations. Floral Hello Cards The first two cards use the Florets Embossing Folder for the background, along with a “Hello” sentiment, from the Mix & Match Sentiments set, and focal images, created with the Layered Blooms set. I created two versions of similar design to highlight how easy it is to change the look. For the first card, the Layered Blooms…
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T3: Tools, Tips and Techniques for Festive Graduation Cards
Every Tuesday at 4pm (Arizona time) FSJ comes to you LIVE on Facebook and YouTube for our T3 video – that stands for Tools, Tips, and Techniques. Recently, Kim Kesti shared two creative (and simple) handmade cards for graduation. Tis the season, right? Today’s projects both begin with the Hats Off Die Set. On today’s video, Kim will show you step-by-step how to assemble this fun and festive graduation die set. The most fun part is that you can customize the mortarboard for whatever color you’d like. Use cardstock to match your graduate’s school colors, or just pick a color you love! Once Kim assembled the die, she began creating…
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3 Cards, 1 Sheet! | Tools, Tips and Techniques
Hello, Fun friends! We are so very excited to share with you today because we think you’re going to be so excited about what we’re sharing with you. You love to be creative, right? You probably also like to get the most bang for your buck, too. That’s what Creative Director Kim Kesti did by taking one single sheet of cardstock and creating 3 full size cards? Would you like to watch her do this? You can do so right here! Let’s not delay, lets take a look at Kim’s cards. Aren’t those beautiful? And they are so creative, you wouldn’t even guess they were from a single sheet of…
