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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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Creating Personalized Note cards
Hello crafters! This is Flávia Cavaliéri and I’m so happy to be on Spellbinders blog sharing some fun scrapbooking-style note cards! I have recently been on a trip to Europe for the first time, and instead of sending postal cards to close family members, as I usually do, I decided this time to make personalized note cards using pictures of my favorite moments! And, of course, I will mail these note cards along with some fun souvenirs! I was highly inspired by many creative scrapbookers that I have been following on social media to create these note cards. All of today’s note cards have a lot of texture and many…
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Celebrate Summer with Fabulous Florals
Hello there! It’s Lisa Tilson here with you today on the Spellbinders blog. I’m delighted to be here to show you some ideas using the latest collection from Susan Tierney-Cockburn. This collection is called Nature’s Botanical Garden and it features five floral die sets, a beautiful 3D embossing folder, and a BetterPress Sentiment Set. I think the embossing folder may be my favorite embossing folder to date! All Susan’s collections are of course stunning and this one is no exception. Believe My first card is a shaker card. I love to make shakers and I thought that it would work well with the Nature’s Botanical Wreath 3D Embossing Folder. I…
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Vintage Layouts Using Rosie’s Studio Belleview With Suzanna Lee
Hello crafty friends! My name is Suzanna Lee. I am absolutely thrilled to be a guest on the Spellbinders blog again and today I am sharing a couple of layouts that feature the Rosie’s Studio – Belleview Scrapbooker’s Kit along with the coordinating Kaleidoscope Peacock Etched Dies. It is uncanny the number of peacocks that we encountered in our most recent trip. However, in retrospect, we have been to three zoos in a little over a week and all zoos seem to have peacocks! That said, this first layout features peacocks; both in photos, metal dies, and a piece of patterned paper from the collection that features a peacock. For…
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Fun Ways To Add Beautiful Sparkle To Your Cards
Hello there Spellbinders friends! Lisa Tilson is here with you today on the Spellbinders blog. Today we are going to be playing with glitter cardstock! I have lots of examples and ideas for you and some great tips to help you get the most out of your cardstock. I love to add glitter cardstock to my cards, often in fairly subtle ways, but there are also many ways of really showcasing the beautiful texture and sparkle. So first let’s take a look at the cardstock itself. Included in the picture are Champagne, Silver, Gold, followed by the five Spring Tones Glitter Cardstock colors, and then the five Jewel Tones Glitter…
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Colorful Layout Using Doodlebug Rainbow
Hello crafty friends! My name is Suzanna Lee. I am a memory keeper who likes to work on various canvases be it a memory planner, layout pages, or albums. I am absolutely thrilled to be a guest on the Spellbinders blog today sharing a couple of layouts that feature the Doodlebug Dot-Stripe Rainbow Petite Prints Paper Pack along with a Spellbinders BetterPress and Die sets. Texture and dimension are design features that are frequently on found on my projects; layered paper is one of many great ways to add such texture and dimension. For this colorful layout about my joy at having my husband home after 2 weeks of travel,…
