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Glimmery Holidays with Jean Manis
Hello crafty friends! I’m Jean, a papercrafter living in the Pacific Northwest blogging at Right as Rain. I am delighted to share three winter holiday cards showcasing the Christmas Foiled Basics Collection by Yana Smakula at Spellbinders. With this collection, you’ll create gorgeous, on-trend foiled cards. Grab some cocoa, put on some holiday music, and let’s take a look! You may recall that I am relatively new to foiling with the Glimmer Hot Foil System. This time around, I tried many different color combinations of foil and cardstock. With more experience under my belt, I was willing to foil several times on the same cardstock with different foil colors. At…
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Yana’s Christmas Foiled Basics with Bibi Cameron
Hi from Scotland, this is Bibi Cameron here and I’m happy to be able to share five easy and simple ideas using glimmer plates from the new Christmas Foiled Basics collection designed by Yana Smakula for Spellbinders. This is a collection of 6 glimmer plates: Winter Village Christmas Foliage Background Yana’s Christmas Sentiments Gift Border Christmas Foliage Circle Border Christmas Organic Foliage To use any of these glimmers sets you will need the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System and hot foil. For all the projects below I used foiled sentiments made using “Yana’s Christmas Sentiments“, this set included 22 plates and 5 coordinating dies. Easy Christmas Foiled Cards, Tags and Mini…
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Christmas Cascade Collection by Becca Feeken – Kinetic Card with Hussena
Hello, crafty friends! This is Hussena, from Quill and Punch Works, and I’m so excited and honoured to be guesting on the Spellbinders blog today, sharing two card projects I created using the exquisite Christmas Cascade Collection by Becca Feeken. This collection is so versatile and I love that there’s an interactive card die included in it to help create some beautiful, one-of-a-kind projects! Christmas Joy Kinetic Card I am not someone who makes a lot of interactive cards, so I was really thrilled to work with the Christmas Cascade Card Base Die Set. This die set enables you to create a Cascading Card and is super easy and fun…
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Christmas Cascade Collection by Becca Feeken – Kinetic Cards with Jean Manis
Hello crafty friends! I’m Jean, a papercrafter living in the Pacific Northwest blogging at Right as Rain. I am delighted to be sharing two kinetic cards created with the Christmas Cascade Collection by Becca Feeken at Spellbinders. With the collection, you can make stunning and distinctive holiday cards. (Of course, kinetic cards can be created for any occasion using the Christmas Cascade Card Base). Once I started die-cutting the pieces for one card, I decided I wanted to try another with different elements and colors. Let’s take a look at both versions! Red, White & Green Kinetic Christmas Card The steps, in brief, to create the Cascade Card are as…
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Christmas Cascade Collection – A Mini Photo Flipbook and Card with Annie Williams
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m so excited to have the opportunity to share a couple of projects using the new Christmas Cascade Collection by Becca Feeken. Christmas is sometimes the only time of year I have a chance to catch up with distant relatives or faraway friends, so I often include pictures and updates in my greeting cards. Inspired by the elegant designs and unique cascade mechanism in this collection, I decided to find a way to elevate that yearly update. When I saw the Christmas Cascade Card Base set from this collection, I thought it would make the perfect mini photo flipbook to send this year. …
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CAS Holiday Cards with Carolyn Peeler
Hi there, my name is Carolyn Peeler. I’m a former scrapbooking product designer who now hosts creative women’s retreats in Tuscany, Italy. I love keeping my foot in the paper crafting world through cardmaking, so a huge thank you to the Spellbinders team for reaching out to me. I am excited to share my clean and simple (CAS) take on the beautiful Christmas Cascade collection by Becca Feeken. Happy Holidays Card My first card makes use of Depth and tone on tone. One of the highest impact things I think you can do to add visual interest to CAS cards is to add depth. On this card I did this…
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Sparkling Christmas Collection – Inspiration with Yasmin
Hello, Spellbinders and FSJ friends! Yasmin here, today I’m back with another Christmas season project so, I’ll be sharing with you these 2 inspiration projects showcasing the new: Sparkling Christmas Collection. Simple Landscape Christmas Card To begin with, these projects are assuming that you already know how-to-foil with the glimmer hot foil system but, if for some reason you’re not familiar you can find many tutorials on Spellbinders YouTube Channel so with that said, start by setting the Glimmer Hot Foil System Platform and the Platinum 6 Die Cutting and Embossing Machine on your craft table, and while the platform is heating up; Line up over an A2 size white…
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Sparkling Christmas Inspiration – Foiled Cardmaking Ideas with Jenny
Hi there fellow crafters, it’s Jenny from JCCards here! I’m excited to be guesting here on the Spellbinders blog, sharing two card projects I created using the gorgeous new Sparkling Christmas collection. Both of my projects today use Glimmer plates from the collection and I was inspired by some of the gorgeous colors of glimmer foils available that aren’t what you think of as traditional Christmas colors. For those of you who haven’t started a Glimmer collection, believe me the effect is stunning, and I’m addicted. If you haven’t used the Glimmer Hot Foil System before (or even if you have), I highly recommend you check out the Spellbinders YouTube…
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Sparkling Christmas Collection – Cardmaking Inspiration with Franci
Hi everyone! It’s Franci here with you today showcasing some of the products from the new Spellbinders Sparkling Christmas release! If you already enjoy my crafting adventures I’m so excited for you to see what I created with this collection and if I’m new to you.. Hello! My name is Francesca but I’m pretty much Franci all the time, I’m from Milan, Italy and I’m passionate about making cute things with stamps, dies and colors! I’m all in for cute Festive stuff and Christmas is my favorite so I’m over the moon for these new Spellbinders goodies! Pastel Christmas Cards Aww I love these cards so much! Here I was inspired…
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Sparkling Christmas Collection – Cardmaking Inspiration with Zsoka Marko
Hey there crafty peeps, Zsoka here with you today, sharing a few cards featuring some of the dies from the new Sparkling Christmas collection! It’s still so weird for me to share Christmas projects in summer, but hey, Christmas cards are my favorite so I could do them all year round ha! Fa La La Poinsettia Card Without further ado, here’s the first card! The dies I’ve used on this card are my absolute favorites from this beautiful collection! I love plaid and flowers so of course I’m a fan of these! The Kaleidoscope Plaid set consists of 3 dies that you can either layer up or use on their…