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Trio Of Foiled Background Christmas Cards With Jung Ahsang
Hello crafty friends! My name is Jung AhSang, and I am so excited to be back for another guest post on the Spellbinders blog. I love to make handmade cards, I’m a scrapbooker, and I like to do crafts with my 3 girls. If you’d like to follow my crafty projects, my blog is jungahsang.wordpress.com. Today, I’m working with the new Christmas Foiled Basics collection by Yana Smakula. When I looked at all the pieces in this set, I realized that I could make some great foiled backgrounds, and include a simple, but elegant sentiment. Happy Holidays Foiled Card For my first card, I created a classic red card using…
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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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What’s New | Yana’s Christmas Foiled Basics by Yana Smakula
I’m delighted to introduce you to my second collection of Glimmer Hot Plates called Yana’s Christmas Foiled Basics. This collection was based on my first collection, Foiled Basics and many items in this new line have a very similar look and feel to them, but with a Holiday twist. Christmas is one of my favorite holidays and Christmas cards by far are my favorite to make. So I couldn’t resist the opportunity to design several Christmas glimmer plates to create elegant foiled Christmas cards. Welcome to the latest segment of What’s New At Spellbinders & FSJ. Join Creative Director, Kim Kesti, as she presents brand new Yana’s Christmas Foiled Basics…
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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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What’s New | Christmas Cascade Collection by Becca Feeken
Becca Feeken, of Amazing Paper Grace, has taken her graceful design aesthetic and transformed it into a kinetic waterfall slider card collection. There is a base die plus 3 different holiday themed die sets and 2 gorgeous Glimmer plate sets, all ready to be made into Cascade cards or traditional Christmas cards, tags and more! Welcome to the latest segment of What’s New At Spellbinders & FSJ. Welcome to the latest segment of What’s New At Spellbinders & FSJ. Join Director of Sales & Marketing, Nicole Westervelt, as she presents Christmas Cascade Collection by Becca Feeken. Watch video below or on our Youtube channel: Join us as we show how…
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Sparkling Christmas Collection – Cardmaking Inspiration with TaeEun Yoo
Hello crafty friends, I’m TaeEun from Rainbow in November! I’m so thrilled to be guest designing on the Spellbinders blog again! Today I’m sharing three Christmas cards I made using the Sparkling Christmas Collection! We all start making holiday cards early, right ? Better too early than too late! Festive Noel My first card is featuring S4-1062 Festive Noel die set. To start off I created a watercolored ombre panel which shows dark blue to dark green from the top towards the bottom. After the panel was dry I cut the panel to a 4 3/8 “ square and cut the letter NOEL from it using the dies included in…
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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…