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Create Gorgeous Christmas Cards with Susan’s Holiday Flora Collection with Carol Hintermeier
Hello Spellbinders’ friends! I’m Carol Hintermeier, and I’m so very thrilled and honored to be invited to be your Guest Designer today! I’m from Texas and it’s always so hot in the summer and it’s the perfect time to get started on your holiday cards. I’ve always loved creating cards using flower shaping dies, but never have I worked with such beautiful, detailed floral dies as these from Susan’s Holiday Flora Collection by Susan Tierney-Cockburn! My first card features the gorgeous Poinsettia die set. For each of my cards I watched Susan’s wonderful videos where she shows (in real time) how to create the gorgeous florals and greenery. These videos…
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Jane Davenport Stamp Camp | 4 Ways to Use Beautiful Images on Cards with Therese Calvird
Hi there, it’s Therese Calvird here and you usually will find me at my blog Lostinpaper. I was thrilled to be asked to share some inspiration using these fabulous stamps designed by Jane Davenport. These images have the most wonderful sketchy style and would be perfect for many types of papercraft, I could definitely see them on a scrapbook layout, but if you know me then you already know that I’m all about the cards. And today I have 4 to share! I thought it would be easier to share the process in a video and you can find that linked below (you can also watch it on Youtube). But…
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Dimensional Doilies Inspiration | Easter Doilies with Jennifer Snyder
Hello crafty friends. I’m Jennifer Snyder, a papercrafter and creator of Scrap Escape Blog. I’d like to thank Spellbinders for providing this opportunity to showcase their newest addition to the Amazing Paper Grace family, the Dimensional Doily Collection by Becca Feeken. I’ve long been a fan of APG dies made famous for their delicate scroll-like designs. As a dimensional papercrafter, these dies are particularly fascinating because they add beautiful jaw dropping dimension to projects. Today I’m featuring three cards crafted with the Dimensional Doily collection. I made the first card and couldn’t put the dies down. Stop after one card? No way, impossible. The interlinking designs are so incredibly easy and super fun to use.…
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Glorious Glimmer Inspiration | Elegant Cards with Desiree
Hello Everyone! My name is Desiree Kuemmerle and I am very excited to be a Guest Designer on the Spellbinders Blog today showcasing the Hot Foil Glimmer plates by Becca Feeken – Amazing Paper Grace! The Amazing Paper Grace collection is absolutely beautiful and you will see why so many of these products are titled as Elegant! These are a perfect companion for the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System and the more I create with this system, I find just how versatile it is in our paper crafting world. Hopefully you will see just how easy this system is with the help of a few tips and tricks I will show…
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Spring Flowers, April Showers
If you’re like me, I’m finding myself thankful to be putting away the Christmas Paper while reaching for something that harkens spring. I’m Becca Feeken with Amazing Paper Grace and spring is on my mind. Indeed, Spring Flowers, April Showers! A touch of vintage paper, lace and flowers was enough to get me dreaming of flower gardens beginning to bloom. For my card today I started with a 5 1/2″ x 7 – 1/2 base out of cream – this is my favorite size of card. I assemble the base from one 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheet of cardstock cut in half at 5 -1/2″. On one of the panels I score and…
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Adorable Holiday Character Gift Bags in under 10 Minutes
At holiday time, let’s be real; I always forget someone!!! It’s inevitable, but a fix is on the way! Hi, I’m I’m Becca Feeken with Amazing Paper Grace and as I march toward my final Christmas arrangements, I’m reaching for a familiar die to create Adorable Holiday Character Gift Bags to have at the door, at the ready, for the special people that somehow I missed in my earlier deliveries. It’s all in the cool cutting and if you follow my tutorial below, then I’m going to show you how! Besides being grateful that these cuties take less than 10 minutes — they can be made in batches, assembly is kid friendly and…
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Cardmaking Inspiration | Season’s Greetings Card
Hello Spellbinders’ fans! Have you been busy die-cutting and making stunning projects? We hope you have! Today we’d like to share a beautiful layered Christmas card created using several dies from from our latest collections. Project created by in-house designer Yana Smakula Step By Step Instructions: We have a full set of step by step instructions describing how to create this card. Create 5 ½ x 7” card base out of white cardstock. Set aside. Cut red cardstock panel to 5 ¼ x 6 ¾ “. Set aside. Cut patterned paper panel to 5 x 6 ½ “, adhere onto the red panel. Set aside. Die-cut frame out of pearlescent cardstock…
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Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #5 – Christmas Balcony Card. Video
Hello everyone. This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video is a part of a monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting”. I hope you’ve enjoyed pervious episodes, in case you missed them you can find them 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! I’m back with yet another Christmas card idea mixing and matching dies from 8 different Spellbinders die sets (I don’t think I’ve ever combined so many…
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Layered Dimensional Die Cutting. Episode #4 – Christmas Bicycle Card
Hello everyone. This is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me! This blog post and video is a part of a monthly feature I’m hosting on Spellbinders blog and Youtube channel called “Layered Dimensional Die Cutting”. I hope you’ve enjoyed pervious episodes, in case you missed them you can find them 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! I’m back with another Christmas card idea mixing and matching dies from several Spellbinders’ die sets. Similar to a previous Holiday card I shared, by…
