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December 2018 Club Gift – Inspiration!
It’s that time again for the annual club member gift! We decided to offer this year’s gift to ALL active Club members in December as our thank you to current members and a big welcome to all our new members. Club members will receive one of three gorgeous new clear stamps in their December kits. Check out some project inspiration featuring these fun new sentiment stamps. Have an Awesome Day Card This card is very easy to make – it combines dies from both our December Small & Large die of the Month and uses a sentiment from the new Happy Sentiments stamp set. Curious how to make this card?…
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Zenspired Holidays Inspiration | Birthday Blessings Card
Hello and welcome back to our Cardmaking Inspiration series! We hope you’ve been enjoying these mini posts sharing simple cardmaking ideas and step by step instructions on how to make them! Today we welcome Elena Salo as a guest on our blog sharing a gorgeous “Birthday Blessings” handmade Christmas card using stamps from Zenspired Holidays collection by Joanne Fink. Even though Elena used Holiday stamps for her project she created a stunning Birthday card. This project was published in the Die-Cutting Essentials Magazine, Issue #43. Step By Step Instructions: We have a full set of step by step instructions describing how to create this card. Create 4 1⁄4 x6” top…
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Zenspired Holidays Inspiration | Joyful Season Christmas Card
Hello and welcome back to our Cardmaking Inspiration series! We hope you’ve been enjoying these mini posts sharing simple cardmaking ideas and step by step instructions on how to make them! Today we welcome Elena Salo as a guest on our blog sharing a fun “Joyful Season” handmade Christmas card using stamps from Zenspired Holidays collection by Joanne Fink. This project was published in the Die-Cutting Essentials Magazine, Issue #43. Step By Step Instructions: We have a full set of step by step instructions describing how to create this card. Create 5 x 5″ top folding card base out of dark orange cardstock. Cut a panel out of beige cardstock…
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Faux Stained-Glass Holiday Cards by Christine Smith as seen in Simply Cards and Papercraft Issue 183
Today we have a special guest – Christine Smith (visit Christine’s Blog and Youtube channel) sharing her Stained-Glass Holiday Cards Masterclass published in the Simply Cards and Papercraft Issue 183 (you can purchase this issue HERE). The faux-stained glass look is such an easy technique to master, and it’s so versatile too! Simply cut a couple of the same die-cut, stack them together, add colour (by any means you can think of!) then fill the ‘wells’ created by the stacked dies with Nuvo crystal glaze. Leave this base piece to dry overnight, then simply add another die-cut over the top to give a neat and finished look. For a really…
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NEW Clear Stamps | Flowers & Butterflies with Brenda Noelke
Hello crafty friends!! This is Brenda Noelke from My PaperCut Creations, back for my 2nd guest post this week (find my first post here)! I am featuring three new stamp sets today – Layered Rose and Sentimental Words! Two of which are on my first card. This floral layering set is so easy to line up and creates such dimension. I began by stamping the flowers with three shades of pink ink onto white cardstock. The leaves also have three layers, but I chose to only use two, stamping them in green. I fussy cut the stamped images. Next, I die-cut two circles from vellum and white heat embossed the…
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NEW Clear Stamps | Love You Floral Bunch Card
Hello and welcome back to our blog! This week we are introducing our new Clear Stamps collection and we’re hoping we’re enjoying all the new products and projects we have for you. Today I’d like to share a fun and easy to make “Love You” Floral Bunch card created with our Thanks a Bunch Clear Stamps. Instructions: Create A2 white side folding card base, cover front with white woodgrain paper. Cut white cardstock to 2 1⁄2 x 5 1⁄2“. Stamp floral arrangement in various colors of ink. Stamp additional flowers and leaves, cut out using scissors, foam mount. Foam mount stamped panel onto the card. White heat emboss “Love You”…
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NEW Clear Stamps | Gratitude Card with Brenda Noelke
Hello everyone & Happy Halloween! This is Brenda Noelke from My PaperCut Creations. I am super excited to be guest posting for Spellbinders a couple of times over the next week! When I think of Spellbinders, I usually think of dies & die-cutting. Did you know that they also offer clear stamps? I am using two beautiful new stamp sets today – STP-012 Floral Love and STP-005 Words are Not Enough. I absolutely love the floral image from the Floral Love set! Images like this are so easy so stamp, since all of the layering is done for you, there is no masking involved! One of my go-to designs for…
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NEW Clear Stamps | Collection Introduction | Let Your Dreams Take Flight Card
Hello-hello! Welcome back to the Spellbinders blog. Today we are thrilled to introduce something new & exciting – a collection of Clear Stamps! We’ve been wanting to release a line of stamps to give you more creative options and also to provide you with fun sentiments you could use on your cards! You can see the entire stamp collection in our store here or watch our introductory video below! Let Your Dreams Take Flight Card Ready to start creating with these? Catch a super simple card idea below (and be sure to stop by our blog later this week for more creative inspiration)! I used new Layered Butterflies stamp…
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Glimmer Hot Foil System | Stamping & Hot Foil – Easy Thank You Cards
Hello Spellbinders’ fans! We hope you are enjoying our Glimmer Hot Foil System inspiration and tutorials. Today I have two Clean & Simple Thank You cards to share featuring layered stamping and hot foiling! Remember, you can foil not only with the hot foil plates, but also with your other etched dies. Test each die as some might foil better than others. Instructions: Follow simple instructions to re-create Thank You handmade card: Hot foil Thank You from the Elegant Foil Seals set in Gold foil on white cardstock. Die-cut foiled element out using a coordinating die. Stamp layered roses and leaves using pink and green ink on white 4 1/4…
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Jane Davenport Artomology | Weekly Planning Spread with Cindy Guentert-Baldo
Hi everyone! Cindy here, sharing my second project using the Jane Davenport Artomology Collection. After doing the underwater cover page I was really excited to experiment with a similarly themed weekly layout. I decided to do a basic vertical weekly layout, using a technique my friend Michelle Baxter (@quirkyheart on Instagram) loves to use – masking off the days and then inking. I lay down masking tape to keep the days clean (ish – working with ink is rarely neat!) and then used the same technique I used yesterday to spread the Squid Ink Hybrid Inkpads all over the page. When I was done, I used some of the Jane…