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SPOILERS! 12 Days of Stitchmas 2025 Advent Calendar – Day 5 with Tina Smith
Welcome to day 5 of our 12 Days of Stitchmas 2025 Advent Calendar class! Join us and stitch your way through the season! We invited 12 guest artists to share inspiration with the 12 stitching surprises. Let’s welcome Tina Smith as she shares inspiration with the Day 5 surprise! Don’t miss the other video tutorials from our free Youtube Class: Day 1 with Kim Kesti; Day 2 with Jaycee Gaspar; Day 3 with Rebecca Keppel; Day 4 with Nichol Spohr. I am truly thrilled to share some sweet and delightful stitched cards with Day 5 of the 12 Days of Stitchmas Advent Calendar for 2025. Cocoa and Christmas hold a special…
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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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Step By Step Tutorial: House Mouse Tree-mendous Christmas Collection Christmas Card
Hello, crafty friends! Brenda Noelke here from My PaperCut Creations! I’m super excited to be back on the Spellbinders blog today sharing this step-by-step tutorial featuring the Tree-mendous Christmas Stamp Set from the House Mouse Tree-mendous Collection! These sweet mice are decking the halls, and each of the stamps in the collection showcases the House Mouse mice involved in holiday activities!! Let’s get started!! I started by stamping the image in the Tree-mendous Christmas Stamp Set onto an A2 panel of Neenah Solar White 80 lb. cardstock with Copic-friendly black ink using my MISTI. Be sure to remove the foam pad or grip mat from the MISTI before stamping, as…
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Black & White Plus One Color with Woodland Wildlife
Hello crafters! Joan Bardee here and I’m excited to share with you the fantastic Ranger Woodland Wildlife set of stamps and coordinating dies by Simon Hurley. Spellbinders released this gorgeous set with two other fun stamp and die pairings – Inspired and Everyday Wreaths. I chose to focus on Woodland Wildlife, but the color palette I’m using would work well with the other sets as well. Today’s color palette is a striking black and white plus one other color. Since Woodland Wildlife is packed with line art drawings (as opposed to solid stamps) this color formula is great if you don’t want to color in the images or just want…
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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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Perfect Sentiments for Cardmaking
Hello crafty friends! It is Karen Brown here and I am so happy to be back on the Spellbinders Blog. Let’s start with the heart of every crafting project – the sentiments. Stampendous has unveiled an exquisite collection of sentiment sets that cater to every occasion, from birthdays to thank yous, and everything in between. With playful fonts and heartfelt messages, these sentiments add a personal touch to your creations. Versatile Sentiment Set Whether you’re expressing gratitude, spreading joy, or sending love, Sincere Sentiments has the perfect stamp for every occasion. I fell in love with the “You Are Fabulous” text and thought it would look adorable on one of…
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Adding Dimension to Cards with the Photosynthesis Collection with Joan Bardee
Hello crafters! Joan Bardee here and I’m delighted to share 3 cards chock full of color and dimension using the beautiful Photosynthesis Collection by Simon Hurley. If you love floral cards, you will love this collection. And adding dimension to these cards literally takes them to the next level! Rather than detail all the steps I took for each of these cards, I’m sharing several tips for adding dimension to cards. Sending Hugs This colorful bouquet of flowers uses Ceramic Vases, Floral Stems, and Must Have Sentiments, all part of the Photosynthesis Collection. I added dimension and heft to this card in 4 ways: Stacked die cuts – adhering multiple…
