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    Setting the Stage with Your Card Backgrounds

    August 10, 2024 / No Comments

    Hello, crafty friends! I’m Adrienne Boese, better known as Alice Scraps Wonderland online. The Birthday Bash collection from Simon Hurley has several fun embossing folders, so for this set of cards, I wanted to create three different backgrounds using the embossing folders. The goal with each of these embossed backgrounds is to set the stage for all of the other elements on the card. I’ll be taking you from the simplest to the most complex embossing folder uses, but along the way, I’ll be giving you my design tips to create balanced cards that impress! Die Cut Balloons Card The simplest form of creating a background with an embossing folder…

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    Let’s Celebrate with Balloons and Simon Hurley’s new collection

    August 10, 2024 / No Comments

    Hi everyone, Ilina Crouse here, and I am thrilled to be on the Spellbinders blog. I always find myself in a need of Birthday card and you can never go wrong with Baloons!!! Which means you can never go wrong with Simon Hurley’s new collections with Spellbinders called Birthday bash. I am loving the mylar balloons and all of the coordinating products. It makes it really easy to combine products like the Mylar Balloons etched dies along with the Party Balloons 3D embossing folder and the Layered Party Ballons stencil. I had so much fun creating with all the products from Simon’s collection! For all of my cards, I tried…

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    Sparking Birthday Bash Cards

    August 9, 2024 / No Comments

    Hello Crafty Friends, Heejung Hunsberger here! I’m thrilled to be returning as a guest designer for Spellbinders this month. If you’d like to get to know me better, you can visit my blog or follow me on Instagram. Additionally, I have a YouTube channel where I regularly post video tutorials. Today, I’m sharing three birthday cards featuring the Birthday Bash Collection by Simon Hurley, using black and metallic card stock. Happy Birthday To You Cards I gold foiled on the black card stock with the Birthday Bash BetterPress Plate. I colored a few images with acrylic markers. I hot-foiled the “Happy Birthday to You” BetterPress Plate with Rainbow Foil on…

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    Let’s Celebrate with Simon Hurley’s Birthday Bash Collection

    August 8, 2024 / 4 Comments

    Hello Crafters! Nancy Leppek here from Scrapper at Heart.com and I could not be more delighted to be back as a guest here on the Spellbinder’s Blog today! I am sharing three different Celebratory cards using the brand new incredible Birthday Bash Collection by Simon Hurley. I love every piece in this collection and had a ball making these three cards to share with all of you. Let’s get to it, shall we! May All Your Wishes Come True Nothing says birthday more than balloons and let me just say that these balloons are the prettiest ones I have ever worked with. For my first card, I am using the …

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