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Creating Sweet Love Cards with the Heartfelt Cardmakers Kit
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m thrilled to be back on the blog today to share a couple of sweet love cards made with the Heartfelt Cardmakers Kit. The beautiful patterned papers and pretty embellishments in this kit inspired me to create three easy cards perfect for sending love this spring. Love & Hugs Card The gorgeous floral chipboard ampersand and pretty matching patterned paper in the kit caught my eye immediately. Here I paired them with some die-cuts and stickers to create this soft and pretty love card. Trim a piece of patterned paper from the paper pad to 4” x 5.25”, mat it with Onyx Cardstock,…
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12 Days of Stitchmas Advent Calendar | Day 9 with Annie Williams
Welcome to day 8 of our 12 Days of Stitchmas 2023 Advent Calendar class! Join us and stitch your way through the season! We invited 12 guest artists to share inspiration with the 12 stitching surprises. Let’s welcome Tina Smith as she shares inspiration with the Day 8 surprise! Don’t miss the other video tutorials from our free Youtube Class: Day 1 with Mindy Eggen | Day 2 with Sandi MacIver | Day 3 with Laura Bassen | Day 4 with Jaycee Gaspar | Day 5 with Yana Smakula | Day 6 Michelle Short | Day 7 with Nichol Spohr | Day 8 with Tina Smith. Welcome to Day 9…
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Snowflake Card Ideas
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share three cards with you using Bibi’s Snowflakes collection by Bibi Cameron. This beautiful collection features lots of snowflakes that can be used for different occasions. They are perfect for winter and Christmas cards especially! WISHING YOU My first card uses the Snowflake Card Creator Etched Dies. This 6” large snowflake is perfect to add onto cards or can be used as the card itself, which is what I have done today. I cut the outer layer from white cardstock twice, made a hinge on one piece, and adhered it to the back of the other, to create a card base. I cut the…
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Crafting With Doodlebug – Cardmaking Ideas You Need To Try
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a bunch of cards made with some of the beautiful Doodlebug products available in the Spellbinders shop. I paired many of the brightly colored cards and envelopes, sweet patterned papers, and fun washi tapes and embellishments with some of my favorite Spellbinders dies to create cards for many different kinds of occasions. Mailbox Thank You Card I hear a lot of crafters say that they love patterned paper, but struggle to use it on their projects sometimes, especially those with bolder colors and patterns. Here I turned a bright stripe pattern into…
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Enhance Die Cuts With Ink Blending With Michelle Short
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share three projects with you using the new Photosynthesis Collection. This beautiful collection features lots of florals, which I love! Since it also features mainly die cutting, I wanted to show how you can enhance die cuts by adding ink blending. This really adds interest and dimension to clean and simple cards! My first card uses Floral Stems Etched Dies. I cut the cone flower top petal layer from Snowdrift cardstock and the bottom ones from Purple Mist. I then cut the flower centers from Chamomile and the stems and leaves from Peridot. Using Blending Brushes, I blended on Distress Oxide Inks, focusing the…
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Bloom Into Spring with the Victorian Garden Collection and Bonnie Crane
Hello, fellow cardmakers! Bonnie here from Bonniecarollee Makes Cards. If you haven’t started thinking about Spring, this post should get you in the mood! The theme for my projects is a Spring Birthday Celebration. The Victorian Collection is perfect for making a birthday or any occasion extra special! BIRTHDAY PRESENT TOPPER The largest die and the detail die from Nestabilities Essential Ovals was used to cut Fern Card Stock. This will form the base for the floral arrangement and make it easy for the recipient to remove it from the gift. All of the flower components have a number etched on the dies to indicate the number of die cuts…
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Metamorphosis Collection Cards & Tag Ideas
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share some inspiration using the Metamorphosis Collection by Simon Hurley. This is a wonderful collection that is perfect for cards, tags, scrapbook/art journals and so much more! I have two cards to share with you today, as well as a tag. HELLO I am using the In Bloom set for my first card, which is such a pretty layering floral die set. I die-cut the flower petals from Glacier, Raindrop, and Cosmic Sky Cardstock. I then cut the centers from Chamomile and the leaves and stem from Peridot Cardstock. All of the layers were ink blended on the edges using Distress Inks and then…
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Showered With Love Clean & Simple Card Ideas
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share some inspiration using the Showered With Love Collection by Vicky Papaioannou. This is such a fun collection that can be used for lots of different occasions – love, get well, thinking of you, encouragement, and lots more! THINKING OF YOU I am using Umbrella Bloom for my first card, which is such a beautiful set! I cut the umbrella from Waterfall and Brushed Silver Cardstock and added a little ink blending to the aqua pieces with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink for added interest. I then cut the leaves from Peridot and Rainforest Cardstock. The flowers were cut from Pink Sand, Wild Berry, and…
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Wax Seal Collection on Handmade Cards with Jung AhSang
Hello crafty friends! It’s Jung here, and I am back with another guest post on the Spellbinders blog. For my projects today, I’m working with some products from the new Wax Seal collection. This was such a fun collection to work with! There are a couple methods to work with the wax seals. You can pour the wax, and seal them directly on your project. You can also make the wax seals on the silicone mat that comes with the wax seal kit, and then adhere them to your project. I am a bit of a perfectionist, so I made my wax seals on the silicone mat. That way, I…
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Holiday Floral Swag 3 Ways – Christmas Inspiration With Michelle Short
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share some inspiration using the Christmas Collection. My post today focuses on using Holiday Floral Swag in three different ways. WHITE-ON-WHITE ORNAMENT For my first project, I wanted to go with a simple white-on-white card. I love the look of white on white and the embossing really enhances it! I started off by running a panel of white cardstock through my Platinum 6 inside the Holiday Floral Swag 3D Embossing Folder. It was then adhered to the front of an A2 white card base. For my focal point, I die-cut the Nordic Ornament from white and gold glitter cardstock (for the topper) and adhered…
