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Tips To Enhance Your Die Cuts From Colored Cardstock
Hi everyone, it’s Nora from @nonniscards here. I’m excited to Guest Design in Spellbinders Blog today, sharing three fun tags showcasing the new Say Cheese Classic Mouse Christmas Collection! Large tags are a great option for traditional Christmas cards; not only can you decorate your gift with the beautiful, handmade tag you’ve made, but the recipient can even hang the tag on their Christmas tree, where it will delight their whole holiday season! Below, I’m also sharing three fun tips on how to make your die cuts pop and how you can get varied looks while only using a couple of shades of colored cardstock. I just adore the mice…
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Simple & Sweet: Watercolored Critter Cards
Hello, crafty friends! It’s TaeEun here today, excited to showcase the adorable House Mouse Creative Day critter stamp collection. You may know me from my blog, Rainbow in November, and also that I absolutely love coloring with all kinds of mediums. So, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to create some watercolor cards with this collection! The House Mouse Creative Day collection includes four cling stamp sets featuring sweet house mouse images that can be used for various occasions. For today’s post, I created three cards using three of the sets: Creative Day, Top Notch Birthday, and Healing Thoughts. I stamped the Creative Day image in black pigment ink,…
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Ideas for Using Pre-Printed Paper in Cardmaking
Hello crafters! Karen Brown here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders Blog with some ideas for streamlining your creative cardmaking process. Lately, I have been incorporating a lot of pre-printed elements into my cardmaking and I love how this allows me to focus on the joy of designing. I have two other recent posts that feature printed paper that you can read HERE and HERE. Layering with Beautiful Papers My first card features a simple die-cut element, Skateboarding Terry, and I used Maya’s Garden printed paper for my color inspiration. My background uses two patterns plus I used a third paper for the skateboard. For Terry, I…
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Creating Beautiful Texture and Adding Fun Shapes To Your Cards
Hello there Spellbinders friends! Lisa Tilson is here with you today on the Spellbinders blog. I’m delighted to be here to show you some fun simple ways to add texture to your cards using embossing folders and I am also using shaped dies to create layers and extra interest to your card designs. The collection in the spotlight today is the beautiful Sealed 3D Botanical Collection. This release features a couple of 3D embossing folders which you can emboss and cut in one pass, two new wax seal stamps along with three sets of nesting dies which are always a fabulous addition to any craft room. There are no tricky…
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Mixing Embossed Layers for Unique and Elegant Cards
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of cards with tons of texture thanks to the new Sealed 3D Botanical Collection from Spellbinders. The beautiful 3D Emboss & Cut folders, new 3D wax seal stamp designs, and unique nested shape die sets in the collection inspired me to create three cards with tons of color and texture. Colorful Floral Congrats Card When embossed panels serve as my focal point on a card, one of the easiest ways to make them pop is to get a little inky. Here I combined a beautifully detailed (and inked) vignette made…
