Cut & Emboss Folders Inspiration | Blessings Card with Ilina
Hello everyone. Ilina Crouse here today. I am honored to be guest designing for Spellbinders and showing you a project using the new Cut & Emboss Folders. If you are not familiar with these, they are amazing. They cut and emboss at the same time!!!! (hence their name). I was very intrigued when I saw them and had to play with them immediately. They give very nice and crisp embossed image and at the same time cut parts of it. It’s like a multitasking embossing folder. For my card today I used the Floret Cluster Cut and Emboss folder to emboss (and cut) piece of shimmer navy card stock. I…
Thoughtful Expressions Inspiration | Watercolour Blessings Card with Erum
Hello everyone! This is Erum Tasneem here and I am excited to be back at the Spellbinders blog. Today I have a messy watercolour card to share with you. My card features the gorgeous Blessings Vine Frame by Marisa Job. This is from Marisa’s Thoughtful Expressions Collection. I started by die cutting the frame on ivory cardstock. Next I used Gansai Tambi watercolours to add colour to the die cut. I did not watercolour this piece carefully, in fact I just had fun and was super carefree while adding colour. I used a couple of shades of brown for the “wood” part. You can also colour this green or the…
Thoughtful Expressions Inspiration | Decorative Boxes with Elena
Hello dear readers, Elena Salo is here. I’m sure, all of you have already seen beautiful collection by Marisa Job for Spellbinders – Thoughtful Expressions. I love every single die from this release and want to show you my first project with some of the dies. I really liked delicate lace frames and so I decorated boxes to share with you today. Here they are: I used a plain white box as the base for my project. I applied grey ink and added some shading to the box. You can make your own boxes using Spellbinders dies (there are plenty different designs to chose from) or use pre-made ones. Instructions:…
