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Make Sentiments the Star!
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog using the Copperplate Everyday Sentiments collection by Paul Antonio. These beautiful sentiments really pack a punch and are perfect to be the focal point on a card! THANK YOU Whilst I did cover up some of the flourish in the ‘Y’ on this card, I really love the simplicity of this card design. I think it makes the sentiment the star of the show! To make this card: I placed the Copperplate Thank You Press Plate onto the chase of the BetterPress Letterpress System. I added a Porcelain BetterPress A2 Cotton Card Panel on the…
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Sending Monster-ous and Playful Birthday Wishes
Hello Friends! It´s Raquel here again sharing some colorful fun ideas with the super adorable Monster Birthday Collection. The moment I saw these critters I couldn’t help but smile and think of fun and playful scenes with lots of color. These projects can be used for birthday celebrations or just for a fun surprise card for both children and adults. Some of these little whimsy and fun creatures even dance with its moving legs so there is also that additional surprise. My first project features the super cute Birthday Dinosaur Etched dies. This adorable lady dinosaur stole my heart with her captivating eyes and her gorgeous flower crown. One dinosaur…
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Balloon Bonanza With Michelle Short & Carissa Wiley It’s My Party Collection
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share some projects with you using the new Carissa Wiley – It’s My Party Collection. This beautiful collection features lots of balloons! Balloons are great for any type of celebration – birthday, new baby, congratulations, wedding, etc. I have made three projects that all feature balloons in some way. BRIDE TO BE My first card uses the Party Balloons Bouquet Glimmer Hot Foil Plate & Die Set. I foiled the balloons, as well as the balloon string (three times), onto white cardstock using Champagne Foil. They were then die cut out using the coordinating dies. I placed the Balloon Bouquet Designs Stencil on top…
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Mainly Monochrome With Michelle Short
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share three projects with you using the new Glimmer Cardfront Sentiments Collection. I don’t know about you, but I often struggle with picking out color combinations. Whilst there are different ways to combat this (like using a color wheel), I often like to forget about combinations and go monochrome instead. Or in this case mainly monochrome, as I did add in green for the leaves! FULL OF HUGS For my first card, I am using the This Card is Full of Hugs Glimmer Hot Foil Plate. I love the quirky font on these sentiments! It was foiled onto a panel of white cardstock using…
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Happy Dance Collection 3 Ways with Debby van Diepen
Hello all, this is Debby van Diepen from the Netherlands and I am excited to be on the blog today. I want to share three cards using the new Happy Dance Collection. This is a beautiful Collection full of die cuts, sentiment stamps, and hot foil sentiments. This collection is also perfect to create projects for Mother’s day or Fathers day. Let’s Dance Fathers Day Card The Happy Dance collection is full of dies that are perfect to create masculine cards with. When you think of a masculine card, you might think of blue color tones. I wanted to show that pastel colors can word great for a masculine card…
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Spring Into Stitching 3 Ways (and no stitching!) with Debby van Diepen
Hi all, Debby van Diepen here from The Netherlands! I am excited to be on the Spellbinders blog today. I am a paper crafter for a couple of years now and love to create cards and all sorts of papercrafts. Today I am sharing three cards I created with the new Spring Into Stitching Collection. This collection is perfect for those who like to stitch on paper. But the collection can also be used without any stitching. The details of the dies are beautiful to use on their own. And that’s what I did, no stitching on my three cards. Non Stitched Petal Frame Card Pink tones are definitely my…
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Bibi’s Butterflies Collection Inspiration with Hussena
Hello everyone! This is Hussena from Quill and Punch Works, and I am so excited to be guest designing on the Spellbinders blog today. I have three projects to share, highlighting the NEW Bibi’s Butterflies Collection by Bibi Cameron. The GORGEOUS butterflies and the wonderful sentiments in this Collection inspired me to create a set of three cards perfect for sending to your friends and family! The Delicate Butterflies Etched Dies is my favorite die set from the Collection and I couldn’t wait to use it for my card here. I cut and colored the butterflies and flowers and added them to a glitter stenciled background for this soft congratulations…
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Handmade Cards using Spellbinders Fluted Classics Collection | Guest Post by Hussena Calcuttawala
Hello, crafty friends! This is Hussena from Quill and Punch Works and I’m so honoured to be guest posting today on the Spellbinders blog! I’m sharing a set of four cards using dies from the new Fluted Classics Collection by Becca Feeken. The gorgeous classic nested design shapes can be used to create the perfect border for any background, sentiment, or focal image for a wide variety of projects. Season’s Greetings Card My first card features the Fluted Classics Rectangles Etched Dies, Fluted Classics Ovals Etched Dies, and the Pop Up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Die Set. The different nesting dies were simply perfect to create this pastel Christmas card. For my card, I first die cut Snowdrift…
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Beautiful Sentiment Vignettes Collection Inspiration with Sheri
Hello! It’s Sheri here from My Sheri Cards. I am so happy to be sharing with you some of the Beautiful Sentiment Vignettes Collection by Becca Feeken! This collection is designed to work with some of your previous favorite 3D Vignettes you may have collected but they are also beautiful on their own as you will see here. I love working with designer papers and usually start my cards by picking my papers and then cutting the focal die shapes to match. Happy Anniversary Vignette This square card is 5.75” x 5.75”. I chose a few Craft Consortium papers from Bright Blooms and a stripe from Echo Park Dots &…
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Beautiful Sentiment Vignettes Inspiration with Karen Brown
Hi there, Karen Brown here and I am so excited to be on The Spellbinders Blog today! I have three projects from The Beautiful Sentiment Vignettes Collection by Becca Feeken. This is a lovely set and each card makes such an elegant statement. The projects would be so pretty in gold and white, but I went a bit more bold with black and teal frames and then mixed in colorful floral die cuts. BIRTHDAY WISHES VIGNETTE For this first card, I wanted to use fun summery colors. I die cut the frame twice using Teal Topaz cardstock. I then stacked the die-cuts and glued them together to add a bit…
