Creating a Valentine’s Day Favor for Someone Special
Valentine’s Day. Just those two words can play on your emotions or your pocketbook and, for some of us, both. Ha! Hi, I’m Debi Adams and I love Valentine’s Day! Though some insist the day is all tied to commercialism, I don’t see it that way at all. I look at it as an opportunity to shower people with kindness and love. It can be done on any day really and it doesn’t have to be over the top. Just a token of thoughtfulness is appreciated. So this brings us to today’s project. Created with my Match Book, Just Chillin and Reaction Sets, this Valentine’s favor (or with the right…
Take Two: Creating Two Cards Using the Latest Collection, “Love, Set, Match” by Debi Adams
Hi everyone! I’m Debi Adams and today I am bringing you two new cards featuring stamps and dies from my latest collection, “Love, Set, Match”. Both of these cards are from the set, “Wink Wink” and are intended to be quick and easy, as is the entire collection. As I often do, I wanted something clean and trendy and I believe this line is exactly that. On a personal level, I feel it’s important to lift others up so I created these designs with that in mind. It’s Your Time to Shine Card This is a quick tutorial on how to create this super simple card, though I surmise you…
Quick Technique | Twinkle All The Way Card with Fa La La Die
Hello friends and welcome back for another episode from our brand new Quick Technique series! Quick Technique is all about sharing simple projects using our products and showcasing fun and fresh techniques! We hope you’ll love this new installment on our blog and will give some (or possibly all?) of these techniques a try! Today we are sharing a card created using S4-828 Fa La La dies from the Joyous Celebrations collection from Sharyn Sowell (you can find more inspiration using dies from Sharyn here)! Project created by Yana Smakula Quick Technique – Shaker! Cut white cardstock panel 4 ½” x 6”. Die-cut circle in the panel. Adhere clear acetate from…
Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #2 – Teacher Card
Hello everyone. This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video is a part of new monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting”. I hope you’ve enjoyed the first episode, in case you missed it you can find it here! What is “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting Series”? Once a month I’m sharing a card project along with a detailed video tutorial showcasing traditional Spellbinders style with lots of die-cut layers and dimension! For my today’s blog post, since school starts very soon, I thought it would be appropriate to create a World’s Best Teacher card. …
Adorable Birthday Card Ft. Half Hex Quilt & Bear Scout
Hi everyone! I’m Laura Sterckx from makingcardsisfun.com and I’m excited to be sharing my first card and video on the Spellbinders blog as a Spellblogger! 🙂 For today’s blog post I made a cute birthday card for kids featuring the Half Hex Quilt dies from the Quilt It collection by Lene Lok along with the Bear Scout die from the My Little Red Wagon collection by Debi Adams. First I used the Half Hex Quilt dies from the Quilt It collection by Lene Lok to create my own patterned paper. To be honest with you, I have zero experience when it comes to quilting so I had to some research…
Sunflower Shaker Card
Hello Friends! Today I would like to show you how to make this card using Spellbinders Sunflower Photo Holder die set from my Special Occasions Collection. This die set is also great for shaker cards. For the sentiment inside the card I used Spellbinders Happy Birthday Pop-Up and for the flowers I used Lattice Floral Basket die set. Hover over the image below to see what I used to create this card: Instructions: 1. Create a 6” x 6” card base from natural white cardstock. Cover front of card with designer cardstock. 2. Cut 3 more square layers measuring 4”, 4 ¾” and 5 ½”. Distress edges and…
Create a Watercolor Floral Trellis Birthday Card
Watercolor is such a huge part of card making these days! Today Yana is sharing a birthday card using this trend in her background layered with Floral Trellis Etched Dies set from one of our Card Creator series. Read her quick step outs to achieve your own background… Instructions: Blend several colors of Distress ink (Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, Wild Honey and Peacock Feathers) onto a piece of 4¼ x 5½ “ white cardstock. Add drops of water to activate the ink. Let dry and adhere onto an A2 top folding card base. Nest Floral Trellis Insert and Frame Dies together and secure with washi tape. Then cut and emboss…
Mixed Media Memory Pieces from the Spring Love Collection
Since I am not a crafter “by trade” I worry about my crafting content when compared to these magnificent crafting geniuses that dominate this industry. I guess I am the girl next door crafter! Can’t be mad at that… I have come away with a unique kind of inspiration after looking at so many unique ways to craft… I am inspired to create in my own way and am wiling to risk my projects not being at a professional standard in order to do so. While I would love to learn so many of the techniques out there and replicate amazing projects, I find my own style and process to…
Easy Decorated Valentine’s Day Treat Bottles Video Tutorial
Hello there! This is Yana Smakula, today I would like to show you how to quickly decorate little treat containers for Valentine’s Day using our dies and fun foam. Hover over the image below to see what I used in creating this project: To create this project I used a few inexpensive bottle from Target, white fun foam, double sided adhesive sheets and one of the new dies from the Joyous Celebrations collection by Sharyn Sowell. I love to use fun foam to add additional dimension to my projects. I especially love using it with dies and die-cutting it in my Platinum machine. To make it easier to adhere fun foam…
Kids Birthday Party Card – Video Tutorial
Hello everyone, This is Yana Smakula here at Spellbinders and thank you for joining me! Today I’m going to show you how to create Underwater Birthday Party card. I’ll share 3 different card layout ideas using the same supplies. Keep in mind you can also turn any of those projects into a shaker by adding a layer of acetate and some sequins or beads in front of the window area to shake inside the card and make it interactive. Hover over the image below to see what I used in creating this card: You’ll notice that one of my cards uses a light gray cardstock for the front panel and others…
