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Cardmaking, Die Cutting Inspiration, Platinum 6, Project Kits, Step by Step Tutorials, Video Tutorials
Wedding Season Project Kit is Here!
Hello Spellbinders’ and FSJ fans! Our Wedding Season Project Kit is here! This Wedding Season Project Kit is the perfect way to get your hands on early products from one of the upcoming May Collections “Wedding Season Collection by Nichol Spohr.” This kit comes with an assortment of FOUR die sets and a card making project kit to make FOUR cards. Also included are full color instructions and an online Video Tutorial. You will be guided through every step of the way as your create die cut projects. BUY KIT NOW Included in Project Kit: Wedding Dress & Tux S4 -1057 Bride & Groom Sentiment S2-307 Happily Ever After Sentiment S2-308 Mr…
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Don’t Forget the Envelope!
Hello, Fun friends! We love creating handmade cards and we know you do, too. We thought it might be fun to remind you of how you can really dress up your cards by dressing up the envelopes you send your cards in. Want to see what we came up with? Keep reading if you love beautiful projects! Pretty, right? Not only is the card just perfect for the weddings you might be invited to this spring. But, the envelope is equally gorgeous! You know what else? This isn’t any ordinary envelope, it’s our Envelo-Box! Did you add bulky embellishments to your card? Then this envelope that acts like a box…
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Try These Helpful PanPastel Coloring Tips
You know how we love our Try Day Friday series! Each Friday afternoon on our Facebook page, our concept designer Shannon Smith shares a new technique with you LIVE. Isn’t that so fun? This week Shannon used our PanPastels to add elegant color to a handmade card. This week, Shannon wanted to give you some basic tips to get started with your PanPastels! They are such a fun way to color and really have some amazing results. Fun Stampers Journey sells four sets of the PanPastels and several single colors, as well. Shannon takes care to show how to blend, build and highlight in this week’s Try Day Friday. The…
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Elegant 3D Vignettes Inspiration | Gift Bag & Happily Ever After Card with Hussena
Hi everyone, this is Hussena from Quill and Punch Works, and I am super thrilled to be a Guest Blogger this month at the Spellbinders blog. I will be showcasing the new range of 3D Vignettes Die Collection by Amazing Paper Grace. I have two projects to share today. First up, I have a very intricate and detailed layered card, while the second project is a favor bag. I will start with the card first. I have used the Grand Arch 3D Card dies for creating the background for my card. I die-cut it out of some white, heavy-weight cardstock and coloured it using a teal colored ink. The elegance of these dies is…
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DIY Party Decor Series – Decorating Packages with Felt Flowers – Finale
Hi friends! Welcome to my final DIY Party Décor series post. I’m Debi Adams, an in-house designer at Spellbinders and celebrations are my favorite. Today I thought it might be fun to work a different party angle by focusing on the gifts rather than the actual decorations. Who wouldn’t be drawn to pretty packaging and embellished presents? It doesn’t need to be fancy or expensive to be expressive and personal. There are truly numerous ways to make a gift sparkle but for today, I have three different designs or embellishments that you can create using felt and only three dies. Jar Topper The first project is a jar topper where…
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On Your Wedding Day Card: Timeless Heart Collection by Marisa Job
Hello Friends! Today I would like to share my On Your Wedding Day card using several die sets from my Timeless Heart Collection. I have been having so much fun creating flowers with Textured Flowers Etched Dies. By adding Heart Leaf Frame, Layered Leaf Vines and Double Heart Gatefold Card Etched Dies, makes this card come together so beautiful! Instructions: 1. Create a 5 ½” x 7 ½” card base from silver foil cardstock. Cut a 5 ¼” x 7 ¼” piece from designer cardstock, adhere to card base. 2. Die cut Heart Leaf Frame from silver foil cardstock. 3. Cut a 4 1/2” x 6…
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Trendy Flower and Leaf Garland Headband Tutorial
With garland headpieces so on trend, I thought I would use Bitty Posies Etched Dies from Happy Grams #4 Collection by Tammy Tutterow to try and create one. I can honestly say that I was very happy with the results. The versatility and possibilities of this set makes it a “must have”. Wait until you see how easy it is to make this project. Die-cut approximately 35 Sprigs from various shades of green paper, using Bitty Posies Etched Dies and Platinum or Platinum 6 Machine. Attach two pieces of floral wire together to make headband form, overlapping by several inches. (It will take two pieces of the wire to make…
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Wedding Gift Box with Positively Peony Contour Steel Rule Die
Hi, it’s Elena here with you today. The wedding season is here and each time I think what can be done more for the special day other than just cards. I thought that a cute little box would be a perfect alternative to making a present. I created a box and made a peony flowers using the SR-038 Positively Peony Contour™ Steel Rule Die To create my flower I used fabric – white tulle and mauve rayon. I colored them myself several years ago when I enjoyed batik and made some paintings on the silk. It was a good time to recycle something that has been kept for so long!…
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Take Your Borders to the Edge of Beautiful
Hi there, Becca Feeken with Amazing Paper Grace here to spread my love of borders. Seriously, borders are normally where my inspiration starts on a card because I’m thinking about the framing or what special element I’m going to use to draw your eye in to the center. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been showing different frames to give your card that unique something. I’d be remiss if I didn’t tell you there are tons of other ways and places you can use the same borders, in fact, today we’re going to take them to the edge. Taking one of the borders and simply cutting it from each…
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Embellished Gift Box Video Tutorial
Becca Feeken here sharing a new die from my Amazing Paper Grace Collection because you never know when the next gift giving occasion is around the corner. I am going to show you how to embellish a bag box for any occasion using a couple of dies: the Favorably Simple Gift Box, the Swirling Grace and also the Tiered Multi-Loop Bows. This box can be used for casual to dressy to a teacher’s gift all the way up to a bridesmaid’s gifts! Spellbinders Supplies: S5-259 Favorably Simple Gift Box S6-077 Swirling Grace S6-048 Tiered Multi-Loop Bows
