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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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Celebrate You Collection – Cards & Gifts For Special Occasions with Annie Williams
Hi 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. Apply…
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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…
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How to Make Personalized Graduation Crafts
Graduation season is just about upon us! Don’t worry, even if it’s snuck up on you we can help. Our Hats Off Die Set makes it incredibly easy to personalize every single detail for the proud grad. Often, you want to create decorations are really special and can be done exactly how you want them. Maybe you’re not a cake decorator but you CAN create with paper. Enter the Hats Off Die Set! Simply choose your cardstock colors, (we used Lemon Drop and Catalina Splash) and run the dies through your Journey Platinum Machine! You could even do these in batches. Cut them all at once and then later attach…