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Video: Silhouetted Images Against Inked and Stenciled Backgrounds with Nichol
Hello everyone. This is Nichol Spohr and I’m so thrilled to be sharing a set of four Christmas cards with dies from the A Sweet Christmas Collection by Sharyn Sowell. Simple inking and stenciling provides the perfect backdrop for these detailed silhouette dies! Die cut greetings paired with a stamped sentiment provides the perfect accompaniment to the design. The backgrounds for the first two cards were created by applying Lucky Clover and Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide Inks to Bristol Smooth Cardstock with Ink Blending Tools. Stenciling was applied over the inked backgrounds with white pigment ink and allowed to air dry. You can speed up this step with a heat…
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A Sweet Christmas Inspiration | A Merry Christmas Card with Elena
Hi, dear friends! Today I’m sharing a Clean & Simple Holiday project featuring A Sweet Christmas collection by Sharyn Sowell. Christmas is coming soon and it’s always very busy time for us. Everything has to be done perfectly and very often there is no time to create Christmas cards for all relatives and friends. So today I’d like to show you very quick and easy Christmas card. To make this card I created 4×5 3⁄4″ top folding card base and applied soft green ink onto the background. Then I die-cut a panel using die from Recipe Card Set out of white cardstock. I stamped some leaves and berries on the…
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A Sweet Christmas by Sharyn Sowell – Inspiration Roundup!
Hello Spellbinders’ fans! Christmas is just 35 days away! If you haven’t yet started (or perhaps finished) your Holiday projects – now is the time! In this post you’ll find Inspiration Roundup featuring beautiful creations using A Sweet Christmas collection by Sharyn Sowell to help you jump start your creativity! Click the images to visit the designer’s blog and find even more inspiration! You can also find additional inspiration featuring this collection on our blog HERE. Spellbinders Supplies:
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Video Friday | Blue and White Christmas with Olga
Good morning everyone. Do you love blue and white color combo, probably with the touch of silver or gold? Have some blue and white china? Then what about going all blue and white this Christmas? I have used three die sets from the latest collection by Sharyn Sowell called A Sweet Christmas to create a place card plus a matching favor bag (it is in fact a chocolate bar holder) to be placed on each plate. Mistletoe Gatefold die is meant to create see-through tabs on a card BUT it also makes lovely intricate placement cards. This strip at the bottom (see the picture below) is supposed to be adhered…
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A Sweet Christmas Inspiration | Die Cut & Colored Christmas Card with Elena Salo
Hello dear Spellbinders’ fans! So glad to be with you again and to introduce you to the new collection of dies and stamps – A Sweet Christmas by Sharyn Sowell. It contains a lot of beautiful shapes of Christmas scenes and many other useful dies for holiday greeting cards. For today’s post I created Merry Christmas card using non-traditional color scheme. I created 4 ½ x5 ¾ ‘ top folding card base out of white cardstock. Then I cut out a panel out of yellow cardstock that is slightly smaller than the card base, covered edges with white ink and adhered it onto the card base. I die-cut two branches…
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A Sweet Christmas Inspiration | Christmas Lanterns and Cards with Anna
Hello crafty friends. My name is Anna and I am so happy I can be a guest designer with awesome “A Sweet Christmas” collection by Sharyn Sowell. If you want to know me better, you can visit my blog or Instagram. I also have a YouTube channel, where I post a lot of video tutorials. If you follow me on social media, you may noticed that I am not a cardmaker. I love making layouts and OTP projects and I always try to find some new ways to use dies in my designs. This time I was much inspired by the dies that look like silhouettes. I thought they would…
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A Sweet Christmas Inspiration | Collection Introduction by Sharyn Sowell
Hi, I’m Sharyn Sowell, sharing my new holiday die cuts. Home made is the essence of holiday joy, right? My inspiration for these dies was my own holiday strategy: slow down and make it simple and authentic. I embrace the happy memory-making creativity and refuse the myth of the superwoman perfectionist. I designed these dies for relaxed crafting. Let’s make the holidays stress free this year! Baking is my favorite holiday treat. Yours, too? Pick up the Recipe Card Stamp & Die set. And by the way, this set isn’t specifically holiday so you can use it all year just by picking the right colors! The scallop edged recipe card…