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  • Spellbinders Yana's Foiled Basics collection by Yana Smakula | Feminine Foiled Card Set with Lea Lawson | Video tutorial #YSFoiledBasics #GlimmerHotFoilSystem #Spellbinders #HotFoiling
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    Yana’s Foiled Basics | Feminine Foiled Card Set with Lea Lawson | Video

    February 10, 2020 / No Comments

    Yana’s Foiled Basics collection from designer Yana Smakula is here! Yana says: I adore everything Glimmer. Foiling adds such gorgeous, exquisite effects to handmade cards, it is impossible to resist. When designing my Foiled Basics collection I wanted to create a set of plates to be used together that would allow us, cardmakers, to easily and quickly build beautiful, one-of-a-kind cards. I hope you’ll enjoy creating with Foiled Basics collection. Join designer Lea Lawson as she shares 3 beautiful hot foil cards created using this collection. Watch Lea’s video below or on Youtube:  Best Wishes Card Featuring: Foliage Border, Organic Foliage, Yana’s Sentiments & Polka Dot Strip Thank You…

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  • Spellbinders Yana's Foiled Basics collection by Yana Smakula | Foiled Card Ideas with Marie Heiderscheit | Video tutorial #YSFoiledBasics #GlimmerHotFoilSystem #Spellbinders #HotFoiling
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    Yana’s Foiled Basics | Foiled Card Ideas with Marie Heiderscheit | Video

    February 10, 2020 / No Comments

    Yana’s Foiled Basics collection from designer Yana Smakula is here! Yana says: I adore everything Glimmer. Foiling adds such gorgeous, exquisite effects to handmade cards, it is impossible to resist. When designing my Foiled Basics collection I wanted to create a set of plates to be used together that would allow us, cardmakers, to easily and quickly build beautiful, one-of-a-kind cards. I hope you’ll enjoy creating with Foiled Basics collection. Join designer Marie Heiderscheit as she shares 3 beautiful hot foil cards created using this collection. Watch Marie’s video below or on Youtube: Greetings Card Featuring: Foliage Border, Organic Foliage & Yana’s Sentiments Sending My Love Card Featuring: Foliage Border,…

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    Yana’s Foiled Basics | Clean & Simple Foiled Cardmaking with Michelle Short | Video

    February 10, 2020 / 1 Comment

    Yana’s Foiled Basics collection from designer Yana Smakula is here! Yana says: I adore everything Glimmer. Foiling adds such gorgeous, exquisite effects to handmade cards, it is impossible to resist. When designing my Foiled Basics collection I wanted to create a set of plates to be used together that would allow us, cardmakers, to easily and quickly build beautiful, one-of-a-kind cards. I hope you’ll enjoy creating with Foiled Basics collection. Join designer Michelle Short as she shares 3 beautiful hot foil cards created using this collection. Watch Michelle’s video below or on Youtube:  Happy Birthday Foiled Card Featuring: Foliage Border & Yana’s Sentiments Thank You Foiled Card: Featuring: Organic…

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  • Spellbinders Yana's Foiled Basics Collection - Inspiration | Feminine Cards with Yasmin Diaz #YSFoiledBasics #GlimmerHotFoilSystem #Spellbinders #HotFoil #Cardmaking
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    Yana’s Foiled Basics Inspiration | Feminine Cards with Yasmin

    February 7, 2020 / 2 Comments

    Hello Spelbinders’ and FSJ friends! Yasmin, here sharing with you 3 inspiration projects featuring the new; Yana’s Foiled Basics Project Kit. This kit comes with four gorgeous Glimmer Hot Foil Plate sets along with four rolls of foil. Which means that you’ll be ready and set to create beautiful cards just, like these 3 that I’m about to share with you. Gate Fold Card with Foliage Border To create this Gate Fold with a Foliage Border card, I started by scoring and folding the card base. The card base measurements were; W 8 1/4’’ x H 5 1/2’’ in. Once, I had the large white card base, I placed it…

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    Foil Basics Inspiration | Clean & Simple Cards with Jung AhSang

    February 6, 2020 / No Comments

    Hello friends! My name is Jung AhSang, and I am so excited to be returning with another guest post on the Spellbinders blog. If you’d like to follow my crafty projects, my blog is jungahsang.wordpress.com. When I saw the products in the new Foil Basics collection by Yana Smakula I immediately knew I had to make a polka dot card; I love polka dots! Today, I’m working with all the products from this collection. I am using the Polka Dot Strip, Yana’s Sentiments set, the Foliage Border set, and the Organic Foliage set. For my first card, I wanted to showcase the polka dot strip. On a piece of light…

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    Yana’s Foiled Basics Inspiration | Simple Foiled Cards with Bibi Cameron

    February 5, 2020 / 3 Comments

    Hi from Scotland, I hope you are doing well. This is Bibi Cameron and today I’m sharing three simple card ideas using Foiled Basics Collection designed by Yana Smakula for Spellbinders. Yana is not only a very talented and skilled papercraft artist and I’m thankful for her as she introduced me to the word of glimmer! This was a whole brand new thing to me and the first time I used the hot foil system I glimmered everything except the cardstock lol. I guess I was impatient and distracted. Soon I realized that this is way easier than we might with just a bit of practice you will be able…

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    February 4, 2020 / No Comments

    Hello, crafty friends! Its Marie here again from Marie Nicole Designs. I had the pleasure of creating with the new Foil Basics Glimmer plates and I have two cards to show you today! These Glimmer plates are full of lovely foliage and scripty fonts. Perfect for building a foiled wreath and adding the perfect sentiment to your cards. For my first card today, I filled a little envelope with the foliage pieces that I foiled and die cut with these new glimmer plates. Foliage Envelope I began by foiling all my pieces with gold foil, and then die cutting them with the coordinating dies. I used the foliage pieces from…

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    Yana’s Foiled Basics Inspiration | Classy Card Set Featuring Foiled Basics with Lea Lawson

    February 3, 2020 / No Comments

    Hi Spellbinder’s friends! This is Lea Lawson, and I’m excited to be sharing a couple of cards I’ve made featuring the new Foiled Basics Collection by Yana Smakula. When Yana shared these new foiling products with me, the first thing that came to mind was the classy & bold colors that are often used in Kate Spade collections. So that was the jumping off point for my inspiration for my card set. Instructions: Create (2) A2 top folding card base out of white cardstock. Foil light pink cardstock in Polished Brass using Polka Dot Strip, then cut into two strips Foil navy blue & light pink cardstock in Rose Gold…

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    Yana Smakula Foiled Basics Project Kit is Here!

    January 20, 2020 / No Comments

    Hello Spellbinders’ and FSJ fans! Our Yana Smakula Foiled Basics Project Kit is here! Yana’s Foil Basics Project Kit is the perfect way to get your hands on early product of the Yana’s Foiled Basics Collection by Yana Smakula. This kit comes with an assortment of new product alone with a kit to assemble four beautiful cards. You will receive four gorgeous Glimmer Hot Foil Plate sets along with four rolls of foil. This kit requires the Glimmer Hot Foil System along with a compatible die cutting machine. Click Here to learn more about Glimmer Hot Foil. Also included are full color instructions and an online Video Tutorial. Watch as Yana guides you through every…

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