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Creating Unique Backgrounds For Cards With Modeling Paste
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of cards using white modeling paste as a fun background element. White modeling paste can be used as-is, with stencils, or mixed with a variety of other mediums for endless possibilities in your paper crafting projects. Modeling Paste & Stencils There are lots of ways to alter modeling paste to suit your project, but with a thick and creamy consistency, it also looks great applied through stencils right from the jar. Here I created a pretty textured background for this soft spring flowers card. Apply white modeling paste through the…
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Every Occasion Floral Alphabet Cards
Hello crafty friends, I am Heejung Hunsberger and I am thrilled to be returning this month as a guest designer for Spellbinders. If you want to know me better, visit my blog or Instagram. I also have a YouTube channel where I post a lot of video tutorials. I enjoyed using the Every Occasion Floral Alphabet Collection. I created six different cards. I made three cards using the BetterPress system and three cards using the Hot Foil system. Better Pressed Cards Each Letter plate was printed using the BetterPress system with water-based color inks. I pressed the Floral E Plate onto the Bisque BP A2 Cotton Card panel using All That Jazz Ink and…
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Playing With Color and the Every Occasion Floral Alphabet
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m thrilled to be back on the blog today to share a couple of cards made with the new Every Occasion Floral Alphabet Collection from Spellbinders. The gorgeous floral letters and matching sentiments in this collection make such a statement on their own, I decided to play with different color schemes to create interesting backgrounds on these three fun cards for various occasions. Ombré Sending Love Card One of my very favorite types of cards to mail out are “sending love” cards, so I was excited to see the beautiful Floral S and Sentiment Press Plate. Pink might seem like an obvious choice…
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Summer Blooms Made Easy – Press To Impress!
Hello there! This is Lisa from My Card Trip and I am thrilled to be a guest here on the Spellbinders blog again today. I am sharing a couple of ideas using the gorgeous new BetterPress Place & Press Registration Collection along with some of the new colors of BetterPress Inks. When I first saw the new BetterPress Place & Press Registration line, I was not only intrigued but also super excited! What a great innovation to be able to use different colored inks to build your image. Not only that, the grid template makes these plates really simple to use and they create beautiful results. I’m sure you are…
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Adding Fun Details To Multi-Colored BetterPress Designs
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of cards made with the new Place & Press Registration Collection from Spellbinders. I love how easy this new system makes it to create gorgeous multi-colored pressed designs and I was inspired to create two colorful cards with a couple of added special touches. Foiled Floral Thank You Card The Thank You Blooms BetterPress Plate Set looks beautiful in different colors, but I wanted to add a touch of gold foiling to the design as well. Here I foiled the oversized sentiment in gold and added the flowers and leaves…
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Spring Has Sprung – 3 Ways To Create CAS and Contemporary Floral Designs
Hello there! This is Lisa from My Card Trip and I am delighted to be a guest here on the Spellbinders blog. Today I am sharing some ideas using the newly released Through The Arbor Garden Collection and I have three cards to show you. This is the latest collection from Susan Tierney-Cockburn and it includes five new floral etched die sets, along with a couple of embossing folders and a background die. As a keen amateur gardener, I was pleased to see a few of the die sets were for flowers we already have in our garden! So, let’s kick off with the first of my three cards. Bloom…
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Let’s Get Realistic … With a Modern Twist!
Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back on the Spellbinders blog to share three projects with you using the Through the Arbor Garden Collection by Susan Tierney-Cockburn. I love how realistic these flowers are. You can create them in a few different ways. I went with traditional, but with a modern twist! TAKE CARE DELPHINIUMS These delphiniums are so pretty! I love blue and purple tones, so have always loved these flowers! To make this card: I cut the Bamboo Trellis Background four times from Alabaster Cardstock. I added ink blending on top using Distress Inks and Blending Brushes. The pieces were assembled (two base…
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Through the Arbor Collection Introduction with Susan Tierney-Cockburn
Hello Paper Gardeners, I’m Susan Tierney-Cockburn and I’m excited to introduce my latest collection with Spellbinders, Through the Arbor. Since early civilization, gardeners have searched for ways to emphasize and delineate their garden spaces and arbors accomplish this by providing a dreamy entry into the garden. An arbor invites you in to a magical setting of different plants that enhance the senses and brings a relaxing atmosphere our hectic days. These covered shelters that were originally built to provide shade, now offer a way to punctuate the walk way into your garden! There are five (5) new flowers and shrubs, a 3-dimensional Arbor (of course) and a background embossing folder,…
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3 Expert Monochrome Techniques featuring Letter Pressed Cards
Hi there my Spellbinders’ friends! My name is Jaycee Gaspar and I’m so excited to share three cards featuring the Simon Hurley Spring Sampler Collection. This collection features three new crafting must-haves and Simon’s existing sentiment hot foil plates. Did you know you can use your BetterPress Press Plates in your hot foil machine? I loved using these new products to make three cards with spring themes. BetterPress Press Plates can be used in the Glimmer Hot Foil System in place of hot foil plates. This is a great way to stretch your products for other mediums if you have both the BetterPress and the Glimmer Hot Foil System. This does…
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Coloring BetterPress Images with Colored Pencils
Hello! I’m Jen Kotas from Who Stole My Glitter and I’m happy to be here today to share three cards featuring the Spring Sampler Collection from Simon Hurley. There are two BetterPress sets along with a 3D embossing folder. I’m not great with watercolor no matter what type I’m using. I’m most familiar and comfortable with alcohol markers but they don’t work well with the BetterPress ink or cardstock. My preferred medium for coloring BetterPress images is colored pencils. Before I got to work, I embossed three A2 panels using the Woven 3D Embossing Folder. I added ink later to customize the backgrounds. After impressing all of the Spring Magnolias…