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Elegant Layered Swan Card with BetterPress Details | Buttons & Bows Collection
Hi everyone! My name is Melissa Phillips. I’m delighted to join you today with a card tutorial using the new Buttons & Bows Collection from Frank Garcia Studios. This new Collection is dreamy, fresh, ethereal, and full of beautiful possibilities. In the Buttons & Bows Collection, you’ll find lovely layered swans complete with bows, a vintage dress form die set and Impression Plate, and of course a buttons and bows embossing folder. Each element is thoughtfully designed to work together and create the most meaningful of cards, scrapbook pages, tags, and more. Let’s get started! Begin with a block of white cardstock and swan dies. Run cardstock and dies through…
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Spellbinders Turns 23! Party Time Dragon Inspiration & Exclusive Free Gift with Purchase
Hello, crafty friends! This June, Spellbinders is celebrating an exciting milestone – our 23rd birthday! To mark the occasion, we’ve created something extra special for our crafting community: the adorable Party Time Dragon Etched Dies, an exclusive gift with purchase available only during our anniversary celebration. From June 1–30, 2026, customers who spend $150 or more on the Spellbinders website (after discounts and coupons, before shipping and taxes) will receive the Party Time Dragon Etched Dies (S3-570) absolutely free while supplies last. This cheerful little dragon is ready to party with balloons, birthday wishes, and endless creative possibilities. To celebrate, we’ve invited several talented designers to create projects featuring this…
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Summer Fishing Card Tutorial: Deer and Boat Die Cutting Project
Hello crafty friends! It’s Rachel here with a fun card featuring some adorable new products from the new Summer Camp Collection by Allison Frazier. This card is geared toward beginners with some easy step-by-step instructions to follow. One of my favorite things to do as a family is to go fishing on the weekends. Because of this, I absolutely adore this entire collection and was thrilled to feature the Splash Days Etched Dies for my project today. Step 1: Use the featured four dies from the Woodland Trio Etched Dies to die cut the main pieces of the deer’s body from some Fawn ColorWheel Cardstock. Use the Woodland Trio Etched…
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Jubilee Hello Card Tutorial: Layered Die Cutting and Patterned Paper Design
Hi everyone! I’m Stephanie Dang, and I am the guest designer for this beautiful collection called Jubilee by Rosie’s Studio. If you would like to see more of my work or follow me, please find me on Instagram and my blog. The inspiration for my projects is inspired by You will find all supplies to recreate these projects at the bottom of my blog post. Shine Layout This layout was created using the Jubilee collection by Rosie’s Studio, along with Propagation Garden Frames Etched Dies and Blooming Pomegranate. Hello Card Step 1: Start with an 8.5” x 5.5” white card base folded in half. Step 2: Take the heart-patterned paper and…
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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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Craft & Unwind With Happier Hour!
Hello crafty friends, Rachel Alvarado here, and I’m thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders Blog sharing some festive cards using products from the new Happier Hour Collection. I absolutely love this collection because it covers a variety of occasions with a bunch of coordinating sentiments to choose from. ICE CREAM SHAKER CARD My first card features the adorable Fountain Wishes Etched Dies. My inspiration for this card came from my sweet little blue Parakeet (aka Blueberry), who spends many hours a day sitting on my shoulder, chatting away. When I first saw the bird in this set, I knew that I had to add him to my project. Because…
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Scenic Light Up Card With Pear Blossom Press One Light
Hello everyone! Rachel Alvarado here with a holiday scenic light-up card using a Pear Blossom Press One Light combined with the Woodland Scene Etched Dies. I absolutely adore interactive cards, so I had a lot of fun creating this light-up card. The One Lights are super easy to use, so I tried to keep my card basic so that the steps would be simple to follow if you have never made a card like this before. DIE-CUT IMAGES Die cut all the pieces from colored cardstock. Assemble the trees and deer together with liquid adhesive Set aside the images to work on the background. EMBOSS CARD BASE Trim a piece…
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Memorykeeping About Ourselves: Scrapbooking With Hello It’s Me
Hello crafty friends! My name is Suzanna Lee. I am absolutely thrilled to be a guest on the Spellbinders blog again, and today I am sharing a couple of layouts that feature Rosie’s Studio – Hello It’s Me collection. For this layout, I used a tall, skinny photo of myself with bits and pieces of the collection to document current bits and pieces of my life. There is lots of layering and dimension in the loose grid thanks to the chipboard pieces, puffy stickers, and dimensional Butterfly stickers. I used an older metal die from the Flea Market Finds collection to create two different-sized envelopes that have bits of Diecut…
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Create a Colorful Birthday Card with the Take Note Collection
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and today I’m excited to take you step-by-step through creating this bright and colorful birthday card made with the new Take Note Collection from Spellbinders. With fun memo-inspired die sets, versatile background designs, and unique sentiments, this collection is perfect for creating memorable cards and projects for all kinds of occasions. Start by applying Verdigris Metallic Ink to the Memo Splatter BetterPress Plate and press it onto a piece of Seaside Cardstock using the BetterPress Letterpress System. (Adhere your cardstock to the BetterPress Platen with Best Ever Craft Tape, but be sure to only tape the corners where the inked design won’t be pressed!)…
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Filmstrips and Florals: Scrapbooking With Golden Afternoon
Hello crafty friends! My name is Suzanna Lee. I am absolutely thrilled to be a guest on the Spellbinders blog again and today I am sharing a couple of layouts that feature the Rosie’s Studio – Golden Afternoon collection along with the coordinating Dies and Press Plates. For this layout, I used one of the darker 12×12 patterned papers to frame the layout as I needed the dark contrast of the paper to minimize the stark contrast with the lighter papers and product in the collection and my dark main photo. We were dining inside in a dark alcove and there was just no “improving” the photo. Not even balck…
