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Using Specialty Papers with Love on the Rocks
Hello crafters! Joan Bardee here and I’m excited to share with you the fantastic Love on the Rocks Collection. The collection consists of a gorgeous floral BetterPress Letterpress cover plate, a sentiment set, and one die set that focuses on a cut glass with ice cubes, hearts and strawberries. The collection is perfect for Valentine’s Day or any occasion where you want to send some love. The 3 cards I’m sharing today each use one of the many Spellbinders specialty papers. I’ve had these for quite some time and decided it was time to play with them. Two of my cards use specialty papers over the entire card front, and…
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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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The Versatility of Shape Dies Using Products from the Sealed for Summer Collection with Joan Bardee
Hello crafters! Joan Bardee here and I’m happy to be back on the blog. Spellbinders recently released the Sealed for Summer collection, which includes a variety of beautiful products, including another set of “essential” shape dies – Essential Modern Ovals. I’m featuring that product today, as well as the Glimmer Alphabet. In addition to the new Essential Modern Ovals dies, Spellbinders has a line of shape dies (as opposed to dies that cut out a coordinating image) that are so versatile. These dies, such as, Hexi-Gems, Hearts, and Circles, can be the starting point for making colorful, graphic, geometric designs, as well as more traditional cards. Today I’m sharing 3…
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Butterfly Kisses: 3 Ways – Complicated to Simple by Joan Bardee
Hello and welcome! I’m Joan Bardee and today I’m featuring 3 cards using the Butterfly Kisses stamp and die set designed by the amazing Simon Hurley. I’ve got something for everyone here; the first card has lots of layers and colors; the second repeats 2 images; and the third is clean and simple. Used a lot of purple on these cards, which is a color that I rarely use – but butterflies just seem to work with it! Floral Frame Card Used Yana Smakula’s “perfect cardmaking formula” to design this card. This was a stretch for me as I usually make much simpler cards. Yana’s formula is to place a…
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Parcel & Post Collection Inspiration Round-Up
Hello, Spellbinders fans! Welcome back to the “Inspiration Round-Up” series on our blog designed to inspire, educate and share beautiful projects created with our products. Get ready for an unbelievable lineup of beautiful inspiration featuring the Parcel & Post Collection. We’re hoping this will be a valuable source of inspiration for all of your card-making and paper crafting! And check out the inspiration on our blog featuring the Parcel & Post Collection! Share your projects on Instagram and tag us @teamspellbinders #neverstopmaking #glimmerhotfoilsystem.
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Glimmer Greetings Collection – Clean & Simple Card Inspiration with Annie Williams
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m thrilled to be back on the blog today to share a couple of projects using the new Glimmer Greetings Collection from Spellbinders. The gorgeous holiday designs, fun new solid shapes and backgrounds, and pretty sentiments in this collection inspired me to create four clean and simple cards in traditional Christmas colors. Blooming Tree Cards I loved the beautiful new Blooming Tree Glimmer Plate Set, so decided to use this design first. Here I used one of the new Glimmer Foil colors (coming soon!) to create this easy holiday card. Apply White Hot Foil to Fern Cardstock using the Blooming Tree Glimmer Plate…
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Mailbox Greeting Cards with Melody Rupple & Parcel & Post Collection
Hi Crafty Friends! This is Melody Rupple on the blog today to share a few projects I created using the new Parcel & Post Collection. The collection includes the cutest mailbox along with other Dies, Glimmer Plates, and stamps to fill the mailbox for different occasions. Big Thanks Mailbox Card My first card features the Parcel & Post Mailbox Etched Dies. This set included the dies to create the mailbox, floral accents, and a cute, little envelope. This set is the base of the collection and then you can add additional accents and sentiments. First I cut the base of the mailbox. To add some dimension, I die cut the door to the mailbox,…
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Parcel & Post Collection Three Ways with Brenda Noelke
Hello, crafty friends!! Brenda Noelke here from My PaperCut Creations! I’m super excited to be guest posting on the Spellbinders blog today! I have three cards to share with you featuring the fantastic Parcel & Post Collection. I absolutely love that this collection can be used for so many different occasions just by switching up the colors, sentiment and die-cuts!! Birthday Wishes Parcel & Post Mailbox It seems that I am always in need of birthday cards, so that’s what I created first using the Parcel & Post Mailbox Die Set! I started by die-cutting all of the components from Lagoon, Lilac Blossom, Royal Amethyst, Pink Sand, Rainforest, Beeswax, Chamomile,…
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Dimensional Mailbox Card & More Parcel & Post Inspiration with Rachel Alvarado
Hello crafty friends! This is Rachel Alvarado from rachelalvaradodesigns.com and @theunpamperedstamper. I am thrilled to be guest designing on the Spellbinders Blog today and am so excited to share three fun projects with you featuring products from the new Parcel & Post Collection. Fun 3D Mail Box Pop-up Card For my first card, I created a 3D mailbox using the Parcel & Post Mailbox Die Set combined with both the Parcel & Post Christmas Decorations Die Set and Christmas Mailbox Greetings Hot Foil Set. I love creating 3D cards and this mailbox is perfect for making fun pop-up cards to send to your recipients. Depending on how high you place…
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Parcel & Post Collection – Mailbox Cards Inspiration with Annie Williams
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of projects using the new Parcel & Post Collection from Spellbinders. The unique designs and fun sentiments in this collection inspired me to create three bright and cheery cards for a variety of occasions. Christmas Mailbox Card I have such fond memories of big red mailboxes around the holidays that I had to use the Parcel & Post Mailbox Die Set to recreate one of them first. Here I stuffed my mailbox full of Christmas goodies for this pretty holiday card for a friend. Die cut Phone Booth, Mirror Gold,…
