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Holiday Cards Featuring the Winter Wonderland Collection with Carol Hintermeier
Hello! Carol Hintermeier here, and I’m thrilled to be invited to guest blog today! I’ve been card-making for close to 20 years and a fun fact about me is that my very first die-cutting machine and dies were from Spellbinders! That’s another reason why I’m so honored to be invited to Spellbinders’ blog! I have created three cards to share with you using the beautiful Winter Wonderland Collection—one stepped-up card, and two quick and easy cards! I love how the Winter Wonderland die cuts make easy, and yet such beautiful cards! My first card is my stepped-up card where I’ve added some dimensional flowers to create a card for that…
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Delicate & Feminine Handmade Cards with Hussena Calcuttawala
Hello, crafty friends! This is Hussena from Quill and Punch Works and I’m excited and honored to be guest designing on the Spellbinders blog today to share a couple of projects using the new The Right Words Collection by Amazing Paper Grace. The fabulous sentiments, sweet embellishments to accent, and unique motifs in this collection inspired me to create three cards perfect for a variety of occasions. Thank You for Your Kindness The Thank You for Your Kindness Etched Dies makes it so easy to create eye-catching cards fast. Here I’ve used the Layered Cherry Blossoms Etched Dies along with a simple greeting for this ornate thank-you card. To begin,…
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Wedding Season Inspiration | Cardmaking Ideas with Jenny
Hi there all you beautiful crafty people, it’s Jenny from JCCards here! I’m excited to be guesting here on the Spellbinders blog, sharing three card projects I created using the wonderful Wedding Season Collection by Nichol Spohr. This collection was so much fun to play with – the sky really is the limit for color coordinating with any forthcoming wedding theme, and it can easily be tailored for other occasions as well such as birthdays or anniversaries! I spent so much time choosing colors for my cards – running through my cardstock stash and seeing which colors paired well together, and also looking at weddings on Pinterest for inspiration. It…
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Kaleidoscope Patterns with Jean Manis
Hello crafty friends! I’m Jean, a papercrafter blogging at Right as Rain. I am thrilled to be on the blog today sharing two cards created with the Shapeabilities Kaleidoscope Tile Dies. I am a big fan of trying different designs with the same die set. On the cards I’m showing today, I’ve varied how the tiles are placed, as well as the cardstock colors and card sizes. Let’s take a look! On my first card, I have arranged four tiles in a square on a card measuring 5” x 5”. The Kaleidoscope Tile Dies set contains three dies with which to build the layers – bottom, middle, and top. I…
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Die D-Lites Inspiration | Elephant Festival Cards with Jean Manis
Hello! I’m Jean Manis, a papercrafter blogging at Right as Rain. I am delighted to be on the blog today sharing projects created with supplies from the November Die D-Lites release. On all three cards, the focal point is the Elephant Festival set. One of my favorite things to do as a designer is to explore the different ways in which the same image can be portrayed. On the cards I’m showing today, I’ve varied the color schemes and added elements from other sets in the November Die D-Lites release; I’ve also introduced gold on two of the cards and added texture with a dry-embossed background on one. On the…
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Advanced, Cardmaking, Die Cutting Inspiration, Embossing Inspiration, FSJ, Mixed Media, Step by Step Tutorials
Hello Summer Inspiration | Make Waves with Jean Manis
Hello crafty friends! I’m Jean, a papercrafter blogging at Right as Rain. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and I’m a big fan of anything ocean-themed! I’m fascinated by all of the different takes on the ocean theme in papercrafting. I’m sharing three ocean-themed projects, along with instructions, crafted with the Hello Summer – Splash Zone Collection products. Let’s take a look. Make Waves Card My first card, showcasing the Sparkle Mermaid Tail Die Set, incorporates mixed media techniques. To begin, I heat-embossed the Make Waves Stamp Set sentiment with gold powder on a Whip Cream cardstock A-2 card base. For the mermaid tail, I used both the detailed and…
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Video: Just Add Color Inspiration | Pencil Coloring on Kraft with Debby Hughes
Hi, Debby here from Lime Doodle Design and I’m delighted to be here at Spellbinders today. In my video below I’m using the beautiful new Peonies Blossoms set from Stephanie Low and one of my most favourite ways to colour – pencils on kraft. The Peonies Blossoms set has four lovely floral clusters set on a red rubber, cling mount system which means you are going to get that beautiful fine line detail from the red rubber for these delicate blooms. I paired the stamp set with the Strathmore Toned Gray paper. I love the cooler grey tone of the paper, and its smooth surface makes stamping and colouring a…
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Video Friday | Pop-Up Card with Frame Dies with Olga
Hello crafty friends and thank you for joining me on Spellbinders blog! Today I am going to create a pop up card with some ornate frame dies from Special Moments collection by Marisa Job. I will only be using white and ivory cardstocks to create a very subtle variation of color plus some gold mirror cardstock for sentiments. The dimensional pop-up circle card is created with Miss You Swirl die set and I have “love you” written on the one side and “miss you” on the other. There is also some additional space at the horizontal part of the card to write or stamp the message to the recipient. Although…
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Video Friday | Watercoloured Die Cut Wreath with Debby
Hello, and thank you for joining me. My name is Debby Hughes, and you can find me blogging at Lime Doodle Design. I have been paper crafting for a while now, since 2006. Spellbinders dies were some of the first I bought, and so I’m delighted to be sharing this video tutorial with you today. My project concentrates on creating a classic wreath with lots of layers and dimension. I love to watercolour, and so I painted panels of watercolour to use with my die cuts. However, this wreath would look lovely cut from patterned paper or cardstock too. In the video, I show a quick unboxing of the Platinum…
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Be Kind Card Tutorial with Rebel Rose Collection by Stacey Caron
We are showcasing how to use white negative die cut and inlay with a beautiful dark pink intricate die cut piece for a stunning effect. Featuring the Untamed Fleur Etched Dies set from the Rebel Rose Collection by Stacey Caron, we share a step-by-step tutorial on how it’s done! Instructions: Create 5 x 7” card base out of white cardstock. Die-cut black cardstock panel and patterned paper panel using dies from A-2 Matting Basics A and Basics B sets. Adhere patterned paper panel onto black panel. Wrap purple ribbon around panels, secure from the back. Foam mount panels onto card base. Die-cut Untamed Fleur Etched Die in light pink and…