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From Inspiration to Creation with the DIY Color Deck by Jean Manis
Hello! Looking for a fresh approach to choosing colors for your crafts? Jean Manis here sharing three projects that showcase the DIY Color Deck from Spellbinders. Each of the 52 cards in the deck features an art piece alongside five blank spaces, inviting you to swatch custom color combinations. Draw inspiration from the overall style, mood, and/or the hues that resonate most with you. Let’s take a look! A PERCHED BIRD IN BOLD HUES For my first card, I used an image with a girl in a black top, surrounded by red and yellow floral elements. Drawing from this striking palette, I crafted a card featuring a bird perched on…
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Preserve Your Memories in Your Favorite Form With the Storytelling Collection
Hello Darlings! My name is Agnieszka and I am delighted to be here as a guest designer at Spellbinders’! I am an avid scrapbooker from Poland – my favorite way of preserving memories is making scrapbook pages, which I started in 2009. You can find my works on my blog or follow me on Instagram. Today I am happy to share two scrapbooking layouts created using the new Spellbinder’s collection Storytelling, on which I documented holiday adventures. In the collection, you will find a selection of different products that will help you document your memories, in a way that you can tailor to your taste, which I just love. MY…
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Colorful Cards for All Occasions using Stampendous Beautiful Backgrounds
Hi friends! Jen Shults with you today on the Spellbinders Blog and I am so excited to be sharing three projects with you using the new Stampendous Beautiful Backgrounds. This collection features four beautiful backgrounds that can be used to make super quick cards or more detailed colorful creations where the background is the star and I have a little of both to share with you today! You can mix and match these backgrounds and techniques for endless cards! My first card focuses on the Streamers background and it was definitely a fun one to make and would be easy to mass-produce if you need lots of birthday cards. Stamps…
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Die Cutting Dioramas With Tunnel Scapes
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog using the Tunnel Scapes collection. This is such a fun collection that focuses on creating scenes with dimension, kind of like mini dioramas but more on the 2D side, rather than the 3D side. These cards can get pretty dimensional if adding foam tape in between all the tunnel layers, but they would still look great without the foam tape, or with less layers if you didn’t want them to be so bulky. I used thin foam tape for mine so that I still got the dimension but with slightly less bulk. UNDERWATER TURTLE…
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House Mouse Summer Fun Card Ideas
Hello and welcome back to the Spellbinders blog. My name is Joy Wilson I and hope to inspire you to pull out your favorite markers and the new House Mouse red rubber cling stamps that have been introduced this month from the Summer Fun Collection. This collection is so enjoyable because it encompasses our favorite summer pastimes that will take you down memory lane. The Coloring What I personally love about coloring House Mouse stamps is that the shading is built in for you, taking the guess work out of it. I have heard people say that sometimes they don’t know where to start with their coloring because light source,…
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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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Softening BetterPress Backgrounds with Vellum
In the colorful world of paper crafting, where every hue and texture play a vital role in creating a masterpiece, one extra step can elevate your design to a whole new level of sophistication. Today, we’ll do that with the subtle elegance of vellum. For all our projects today, we’ll be the latest goodies from Spellbinders’ BetterPress. As a paper and stationery enthusiast, I’ve always been drawn to letterpress and BetterPress filled a huge need in our craft for truly achieving this look. The texture of the impression, the fine details of the images, and the growing versatility of the products now available make it an indispensable tool in my…
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The Envelope of Wonder Collection – Taming Overwhelm
Hello! Jean Manis is here to talk about feeling overwhelmed when faced with an abundance of choices, specifically with crafting projects that involve a lot of die-cutting. The secret to working with die sets containing dozens of pieces without getting lost? Set limits to enhance your creativity. Let us delve into this topic as we explore three projects created with the Spellbinders Envelope of Wonder Collection. The Envelope of Wonder Collection offers a multitude of design possibilities. Look at all of those incredible dies! The open envelope, as a card base, serves as a foundation for the themed die sets: Halloween, Autumn, and Christmas. So how will we conquer the…
