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Ideas For Creating A Homemade Calendar
Hello crafty friends! Lisa Tilson is here with you today on the Spellbinders blog. I’m so thrilled to be here to share some ways to use the Florals Through the Year Collection with you. This is a very pretty collection that includes 12 floral press plates, a 2025 DIY Calendar set of press plates, along with a die that you can use to create an easel stand for your completed homemade calendar. I am sharing a couple of ways to create the actual calendar cards as well as simply using one of the floral plates on a standard A2 card. Calendar Cards With Die Cuts For my first couple of…
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Using Distress Oxide Inks To Add Tons of Color to Die Cut Scenes
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m thrilled to be back on the blog today to share some fun ways to use Distress Oxide Inks to enhance your die-cut scenes. Ink-blended backgrounds can add tons of color to your cards while coloring die-cuts with inks can really add dimension and realistic details. Here I used Distress Oxide Inks along with the Country Road Collection to create three colorful cards for different seasons. Sunset Scene Thank You Card Distress Oxide Inks are perfect for creating easy ink-blended backgrounds even between colors you might not normally try to mix. I thought a bright sunset-inspired sky would be beautifully paired with a…
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Dimensional Paper Flowers on Cards
Hello crafty friends! It’s Rachel Alvarado from RachelAlvaradoDesigns.com. I am thrilled to be back for another guest post on Spellbinder’s blog! I have three projects to share with you today that feature the gorgeous new Victorian Garden Collection by Susan Tierney-Cockburn. Southern Magnolia For my first card, I created an A2 sized card showcasing the beautiful Southern Magnolia Etched Dies. To start, I first die-cut my flower pieces from some of Susan’s Garden Specialty Card Stock. I love how easy it is to shape flowers with this card stock! Next, I used Susan’s Garden Ultimate Tool Kit to shape my flowers. I actually had never made paper flowers like these…
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Colorful Toolbox Essentials Cardmaking Ideas
Hello crafty friends! It’s Rachel Alvarado from RachelAlvaradoDesigns.com. I am so happy to be back for another guest post on the Spellbinder’s blog! I have three projects to share with you today that feature the new Toolbox Essentials Collection by Nancy McCabe. Toolbox Pop-up Card For my first card, I created a fun mini toolbox pop-up card. To start, I first created my toolbox base using some Kraft Card Stock, a paper trimmer, a scoring board, and some adhesive. Box Card Measurements: Cut 2 strips of kraft card stock to 6” x 1 ¾” Score each piece at 1.5” and 5.5” on the long side Adhere pieces together by adding…
