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Video: Creating a Spot Light for Holiday Card with Kelly Latevola
Hello Crafters! Normally, I’m all about the Copic coloring but today’s technique actually focuses on the background. With the holidays just around the corner I think you’re going to find this one pretty fun and useful! When I first saw the Joyful Season Angel from the Zenspired Holidays collection I though she looked like she was descending. That’s what gave me the idea to give her a bit of light to carry her. I started ink blending one layer of various blues. Since I wanted a night sky look I used medium to darker blues and a black. Once I had the first layer down I added a few splatters of…
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Video Friday | Copic Colored Holiday Die D-Lites with Nichol
Hello everyone. This is Nichol Spohr and I’m so excited to be sharing a set of three Christmas cards featuring dies from the 2018 Holiday Die D-Lites Collection. I die cut the Die D-Lites Reindeer, Santa, and Snowman Dies from smooth white cardstock and colored in the pieces with Copic Markers before assembling and adhering to a Fancy Edged Oval. The Copic coloring gives these die cuts so much depth and dimension and is a great way to customize your die cuts! The backgrounds for all three cards were created by stamping a plaid background builder stamp on smooth white cardstock with light gray ink and either red, green, or…
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Zenspired Holidays Inspiration | Season’s Greeting with Mona Toth
Hello everyone, it’s Mona Toth here, and I am excited to share with you my second post featuring Zenspired Holidays collection by Joanne Fink. Winter is my favorite holiday season and I love the Christmas themed cards very much. I hope you enjoyed my previous post, if you missed it you can find it here. I started working on my project by scoring. I Scored my card diagonally then I Stamped the Season’s Greeting sentiment from the Christmas Sentiment stamp set with Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide Ink and I made colored pencil detailing on it. Next I made the bow from the Christmas Candy Canes stamp set with the same technique,…
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Zenspired Holidays Inspiration | Beautiful Ornaments with Alexandra Suta
Hi everyone! My name is Alexandra and i blog at Made by Alexandra. Today i am going to share another card featuring the fabulous Zenspired Holidays collection by Joanne Fink. I started by cutting a cardstock panel and then ink blend it using Antique Linen, Cracked Pistachio and Peacock feathers distress inks. When I ink blend I always make sure to tap off the excess ink from my ink blending foam, and using a very light hand to add the ink to my panel. Once the ink blending was done I added some drops of water and let the panel dry. Till the background dries I went ahead and stamped…
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Die D-Lites Holiday Inspiration | Christmas Tree Cards with Kimberly Crawford
Hello everyone! Kimberly Crawford back again today to share another peek at the Holiday Die D-Lites. I don’t know about you, but when I get a brand-new set of dies, I cut them right away. That way I can see what they look like, see the size, see the details, see all the good stuff! So often I get so focused on the image (positive cut image) that I forget to take a look at the left-over pieces (negative image). Christmas Tree Die D-Lites are a perfect example of a set of dies that have incredible positive and negative images! The original die cut image is meant to layer together…
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Die D-Lites Holiday Inspiration | More Christmas Cards with Enza Gudor
Hello there! This is Enza Gudor, and today I’m back to share a new set of cards showcasing the adorable Holiday Die D-Lites Dies. You can find my first post here. I decided to go with a less traditional color scheme this time: pink and teal, with touches of red and green. For the first card, I used the Die D-Lites Christmas Dies and the Die D-Lites Snowflakes Dies. I started by adhering a 4×5.5” teal plaid patterned paper onto an A2 sized pink dotted paper. I then assembled the tree. I love that this set comes with two dies that allow you to create separate layers and have fun with colors and patterns!…
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Zenspired Holidays Inspiration | Christmas Wreath with Alexandra Suta
Hello everyone! My name is Alexandra Suta and i am the creator behind Made by Alexandra blog where i share my love for cardmaking. For the month of September I have the honor to guest design here on Spellbinders blog and i will share 3 different blog posts featuring the amazing Zenspired Holidays collection by Joanne Fink. Here is the first card that i am showing you and i have to admit that this collection is right at my alley as i am a huge fan of winter and holiday season. Because i really love the look of coloured pencils on kraft cardstock in combination with the traditional Christmas colours i…
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Zenspired Holidays Inspiration | Magic of the Holidays with Mona Toth
Hello everyone, it’s Mona Toth here, and I am excited to share with you my first post featuring Zenspired Holidays collection by Joanne Fink. Winter is my favorite holiday season and I love the Christmas themed cards very much. I started working on my project with coloring. I used the Wilted Violet, Mermaid Lagoon and Cracked Pistachio Distress Mini inks as watercolor on Distress Specialty Stamping Paper and while it was wet I salted it. That gave me a cool spotted effect. When it was done I stamped the text from the Christmas Sentiments stamp set with Watermark Ink and heat embossed with Gold Embossing Powder. Next, I stamped the…
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Die D-Lites Holiday Inspiration | Jumping into Christmas Cards with Laurie Willison
Hello Crafty Friends! It’s Laurie Willison here. I am so glad you are joining me today. If you are like me, you start your Christmas cards early. For me, I like to do a stack of 5-10 cards every so often so I don’t get overwhelmed in making all my Christmas cards at once. Today, I am here to share one clean and simple card and a tag using Holiday D-lites Dies. To create this card, I used the D-lites Snowflakes dies to create an dry embossed pattern on the card front. I attached the embossed panel to the aqua card base with fun foam for some dimension. Next, I…
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Die D-Lites Holiday Inspiration | Christmas Character Cards with Kimberly Crawford
Hello everyone! This is Kimberly Crawford and I am thrilled to be on the Spellbinders blog! Today I get to share the absolutely adorable new Holiday Die D-Lites! These cute images have details galore with basic die cutting, but add a few other special touches, and you can make these images come to life! Each of these sets of Die D-Lites contains so many details! This snowman makes me smile instantly. One of the features of Spellbinders dies that I have long-loved is the embossed details on the images. Take a look at the hat on the snowman. When I die cut it, the ribbon on his hat has a…