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Colorful Rare Bloom Watercolor Cards by Deborah Hellman
Hello crafty friends! My name is Deborah Hellman, and I am thrilled to be a guest designer for Spellbinders this month. Today, I am sharing with you some colorful, Spring watercolor cards that I created using the newest House-Mouse Collection: Rare Bloom. I love House-Mouse and watercoloring, so for me it is a perfect pairing. Another option, these beautiful stamped images could easily be colored with colored pencils or markers to suit your personal preferences. In addition to being adorable, all of the House-Mouse stamps have great details and shading which is a big plus. I stamped all of the images on a 4¼ x 5½ inch piece of Spellbinders’…
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Quick and Easy Christmas Cards Featuring the Oh Joyful Day Card Making Kit by Rosie’s Studio
Hello, crafty friends! This is Emily Leiphart and I’m thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog, featuring the Oh Joyful Day Card Making Kit by Rosie’s Studio. The holidays are always such a busy time and fabulous kits like this one help me make lots of beautiful Christmas cards in no time at all! The Oh Joyful Day Card Making Kit includes the Oh Joyful Day 6×6” Designer Paper Pad, Oh Joyful Day Chipboard Embellishments, Oh Joyful Day Clear Sticker Pack, and Oh Joyful Day Button Embellishments. All of these products are also available individually, which means you can purchase extras when you run out. My three cards feature…
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October 2024 Stencil of the Month Preview & Tutorials – Baubles & Festive Background
Our October 2024 Stencil of the Month Club preview & tutorials are here! Here’s a look at the October 2024 Stencil of the Month – Baubles & Festive Background: October 2024 Stencil of the Month – Video Tutorial Watch video tutorial using this month kit below or on Youtube: Additional inspiration Here’s a closer look at the projects we created using our October 2024 Stencil of the Month: Spellbinders 2024 Value Clubs – Join & Save! Join the Deluxe Caboodle Value Club and receive expertly designed kits, complete with inspiration each month. Plus, members get store savings, extra deals, gifts, and more. The Deluxe Caboodle Club Value Club Membership includes ALL TEN…
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Let’s Celebrate with Simon Hurley’s Birthday Bash Collection
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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Creating With the Bayfair Card Maker’s Kit and Add-ons With Emily Leiphart
Hello, crafty friends! This is Emily Leiphart and I’m thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog, featuring Bayfair by Rosie’s Studio Card Maker’s Kit and add-ons. It’s been a while since I’ve had this much fun playing with a card kit! I absolutely love the color palette and various elements included in the card kit, as well as the add-ons, which all provide so much elegance and texture to the cards. This first card features patterned paper, ephemera, button embellishments, and puffy stickers from the Bayfair Card Maker’s Kit. All of these elements are sold separately, too. I used the coordinating Bayfair 12” x 12” Cardstock Pack but you…
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Incorporating Patterned Paper Into The Fair Winds Collection With Emily Leiphart
Hello, crafty friends! This is Emily Leiphart and I’m thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog, featuring the Fair Winds Collection by Dawn Woleslagle. This is such a fun coastal and nautical collection, perfect for summertime cards of all occasions. I wanted to create my cards with a non-traditional color palette and I was inspired by the colors from the Simple Stories Just Beachy 6×8” Paper Pad. Each card features the patterned paper in a different way — the border, a small selection of die cuts, and a centerpiece background. This first card features the Uncharted Waters Stencil, Guiding Light Dies, Set Sail Dies, and the Fair Winds Sentiments.…
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Autumn Garden & Foliage Cards
Hello and welcome, creative friends! It’s Dilay here from JustCallMeDee.com, and I’m thrilled to return for another guest post on the Spellbinders blog! Today, I’ll be showcasing a few projects featuring the beautiful Birds & Bees Garden collection. I hope you find my creations inspiring and feel motivated to get crafty. Let’s dive right in! Autumn Foliage Hugs For the first card, I created a subtle yet dimensional background by die-cutting a frame using two of the largest Precision A2 Layering dies. Then, I die-cut another piece of white cardstock with the third largest of the Essential Four Petal Labels dies and embossed it using the Basket of Sunflowers 3D…
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Swirling Foliage Tree 3 Ways
Hello, dear friends! It’s Leica, and today I want to share three fun ways to use the Swirling Foliage Tree from the Glimmer for the Holidays collection. This hot foil plate creates a beautiful swirling foliage design that’s perfect for making stunning Christmas cards. Let’s dive in! For my first card, I cut up strips of colorful cardstock and glued them onto white A2-sized paper. Then, I hot-foiled the Swirling Foliage Tree in gorgeous gold foil and trimmed it down, adding a gold border around it. The result was absolutely stunning! To complete the look, I added some white foliage, red berries, and topped it off with a pink Merry…
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Crafting With Doodlebug – Cardmaking Ideas You Need To Try
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a bunch of cards made with some of the beautiful Doodlebug products available in the Spellbinders shop. I paired many of the brightly colored cards and envelopes, sweet patterned papers, and fun washi tapes and embellishments with some of my favorite Spellbinders dies to create cards for many different kinds of occasions. Mailbox Thank You Card I hear a lot of crafters say that they love patterned paper, but struggle to use it on their projects sometimes, especially those with bolder colors and patterns. Here I turned a bright stripe pattern into…
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Easy Interactive Halloween Cards with Dancin’ Halloween Dies
Hey there, my crafty pals! It’s Leica here, and today I have a step-by-step photo tutorial to show you how to make three awesome cards using the Dancin’ Halloween collection. Trust me, they’re super fun to create! Don’t worry if you feel a bit overwhelmed by all the different parts in this collection. Putting them together is actually quite easy. The packaging even includes a picture of the final product, which makes it really simple to follow along. To start, I picked out a bunch of colors for the cardstock: Lilac Blossom, Peridot, Persimmon, and Sunkissed. I also used Alabaster and Onyx cardstocks. To save time and make things easier,…
