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Celebrate treasured memories with a handmade vintage journal featuring interactive pages, pockets, vintage photos, and layered embellishments. This step-by-step tutorial showcases creative ideas for building meaningful double-page spreads with Esther Glas' Turn the Page collection.

Hello everyone, Mariusz Gierszewski here from ScrapBoys. This is my first post on this blog and a very exciting moment in my life. I have been involved in scrapbooking and cardmaking for 12 years, and for 5 years I have been successfully developing our ScrapBoys paper brand with my partner, whose products have just appeared in the Spellbinders store. On this occasion, I have prepared some interesting...

Hey there, Spellbinders artists and enthusiasts! Daniel West here, with some inspiration and a few tips for stenciling with TCW Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste and White Modeling Paste. Sometimes we see a simple product in basic white and wonder what we can do with it. But these pastes work like a blank canvas you can use as is or add in colors and glitter...

Texture pastes add dimension and tactile appeal to your projects, taking your paper crafting endeavors to new heights. In this blog post, we'll delve into the world of texture pastes, exploring how to use them properly, what is the difference between them, what tools to use, tips for cleaning up, and smart storage solutions to keep your supplies organized. In Spellbinders online shop you can...

ColorSparx are highly pigmented watercolor powders, and there are a ton of ways you can use them to create super vibrant projects. They can be mixed with other mediums to produce your own custom supplies for all your needs, mixed them with texture paste, or iridescent medium, make your own mists with them using water and a spray bottle, calligraphy, watercolor painting, and the list...

Hello crafty friends! Carol Hintermeier is here today. I’m totally thrilled to be a guest here today to share my three cards featuring the awesome Flea Market Finds Collection! As I was creating with all of the various elements included in this collection, I was very happy that I never got rid of my stash of ribbons, lace, and twine! For this first card, I...

Hello, crafty friends! Brenda Noelke here from My PaperCut Creations! I’m so excited to be guest posting on the Spellbinders blog again today! I’m sharing three cards using the Flea Market Finds Collection designed by Cathe Holden! This collection consists of two stamp sets, two die sets, two printed die-cut packs, one sticker pad, and two patterned paper pads!! This is a bit of a...

Hello Spellbinders friends! It’s Angela Tombari here, from I Need Confetti blog and today I would like to share with you my scrapbooking projects I created with the beautiful new release Flea Market Finds Collection by Cathe Holden. 12x12 Scrapbook Layout The collection consists of papers, stickers, die cuts, stamps, and fun metal dies too, all that I usually use for creating a scrapbook page....

Hello! It’s Sheri here again from My Sheri Cards and I am sharing 3 different cards, a bookmark and a treat holder created using papers, die cuts and ephemera from the Cathe Holden Flea Market Finds Collection. Mixing patterned papers is a favorite of mine and these florals and vintage patterns are gorgeous. Card #1 For this card, I started by laying out some of...

Hello Spellbinders friends! It's Angela Tombari here and today I would love to show you what I created with the new release Christmas Flea Market Finds, made by Spellbinders in cooperation with Cathe Holden. Christmas Treat Bags Since it's a Christmas-themed collection, I thought its papers were perfect for making some treat bags. I used papers from both paper pads, Christmas Velvet, and Home For...

Hello everyone! Rosemary Dennis here today on the Spellbinders blog. I am so excited to be sharing three projects using the brand new and oh so beautiful Christmas Flea Market Finds collection from Cathe Holden. If you love vintage and you loved Cathe’s first collection with Spellbinders, you are going to really love this new collection! Let’s take a look at my projects. Mini Décor...

Hello, friends!  My name is Melissa Phillips and I am so delighted to be here with you today, sharing the irresistible Spellbinders Flea Market Finds.  If you love all things vintage, found items, and things from times gone by, this new collection from Cathe Holden will win your heart. Let’s get started on my projects. My first card uses a darling flower basket, shabby green...

Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m thrilled to be back on the blog today to share a couple of projects using the new Flea Market Finds Collection by Cathe Holden.  The beautiful florals and bright vintage designs in this collection inspired me to create three pretty cards perfect for staying in touch with loved ones. Bright & Feminine I loved the vintage floral...

Join Kim Kesti in the Creative Classroom as she gets crafty with a fun new product that might be new to you! Spellbinders now carries Stamping Foam as well as the Heat It Craft Tool, both from Ranger. Simon Hurley’s Stamping Foam, is super fun to play with and pairs perfectly with your favorite stamps, dies, and embossing folders from Spellbinders. Stamping Foam are moldable foam pieces that allow...

Hello, and welcome! We are so glad you are joining us for the Jane Davenport Inspiration Blog Hop! New to Jane Davenport products? Explore all Jane Davenport collections HERE. Hop along! We’ve got lots of inspiration waiting for you created by our fabulous guest designers. Be sure to visit each one of their blogs and leave them some love! Spellbinders Blog - you are here!...

Join Kim Kesti in the Creative Classroom while she enjoys some fun playtime with her Gel Press, creating one of a kind DIY prints. If you have a Gel Press that hasn’t seen much action lately, or you’ve seen the Gel Press online and wonder what exactly it is, watch Kim’s video today for tips and ideas to inspire you! The magic of the Gel Press...

Hi, it’s Mona Toth here, in this post I have three happy and colorful card inspirations for you. In this project I am featuring various stamp sets from the Watercolor Florals collection by Sushma Hegde. For all the three cards I have used different watercolor washes. For these watercolor techniques I have used Art Essentials palettes by Jane Davenport to get this bright happy look....

Join Jane Davenport by (and in!) the sea with these beautiful and fun collection of clear stamps, dies, plus stamp and die sets. These are wonderful accompaniments to her new book, coincidentally also called Marvelous Mermaids! Welcome to the latest segment of What's New At Spellbinders. Join Product Development Director, Robin Beam, as she presents brand new Marvelous Mermaids Collection by Jane Davenport. Watch video...

Hello Darlings! My name is Agnieszka and I have an incredible honour to be inspiring you today as a guest designer at Spellbinders’. I am an avid scrapbooker from Poland - my favourite ways of preserving memories are making scrapbook pages and mini albums. You can find more of my works on my blog or follow me on Instagram. I am so in love with...

Hello crafty friends! I’m Jean, a papercrafter blogging at Right as Rain. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and I’m a big fan of anything ocean-themed! I’m fascinated by all of the different takes on the ocean theme in papercrafting. I’m sharing three ocean-themed projects, along with instructions, crafted with the Hello Summer - Splash Zone Collection products. Let’s take a look. Make Waves Card...

Hey crafty friends! Have you been loving the Easy Breezy Spring collection from Fun Stampers Journey? Today let's look at an absolutely darling card featuring the Loads of Love stamp set. Along the way, we'll teach you a simple mixed media technique for adding puffy painted clouds to the background of your cards. To begin the background, add Beach Ball and Cool Pool acrylic paint...

Hi, it’s Mona Toth here, with a step by step face coloring photo tutorial. In this post I am featuring the newest products by Jane Davenport. I hope you will enjoy my post. Let's see my creations. Step By Step Instructions: Check out the step by step instructions below for this project. Click images to enlarge. I prepared the face chart layout with sketch detailing....

Hi there Spellbinders and Davepeeps, Courtney Diaz here from Little Raven Ink, thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and see what I've created with the new Jane Davenport supplies. I wanted to show you a couple of ways to use some of the fun and whimsical supplies from the new collection. VIDEO TUTORIAL Watch the video tutorial below or on YouTube...

Hello everyone! This is Mayline and I am honoured to be guest designer for Spellbinders! Today I have three projects to share with you using the Jane Davenport NEW Artomology collection. As always, this collection is incredibly beautiful and amazing, so I truly enjoyed to make all projects. DREAM MIXED MEDIA PIECE It’s an 8.5x11 sized mixed media piece. It was a challenge for me...

Hello everyone, It is Bibi Cameron here. I had an exciting week trying for the very first time some of the new products from the new Artomology release by Jane Davenport. Love! For today, I made three projects using "Charisma Glimmer Plate" and as I was experimenting with the products I got something a little bit different every time. I found that colouring foiled images...

Hello beautiful people, I am so excited to show you what I have created with these gorgeous supplies from Jane Davenport and Spellbinders.  Today I'll be trying something a bit different and going subtle and frosty rather than using bright colors! I'm going to use the versatile ColorSticks and Palette Pastels to add color to my project. For those who don’t know me, I’m Kate...

Hello, my name is Dorota Kotowicz and I am from Poland. I have been doing scrapbooking for 12 years, and the very first dies on my desk were from Spellblinders. I am thankful with all my heart for invitation to share a project as a Guest Designer on the Spellbinders blog. Using the newest dies, I created an album which you can see on my...

Hello everyone, my name is Mallika Kejriwal and I am guest designing for Spellbinders this month using the beautiful Vintage Treasures Collection by Becca Feeken. I am from Chicago and I work full time as a coder for a tech company and part time as a crafter. I run a YouTube channel called Aola DIY where I teach shabby chic, vintage inspired mixed media crafts....

Have you been keeping up with FSJ's weekly video tutorials on YouTube? Each week we come to you live from the FSJ studio to share cardmaking ideas and tutorials that are sure to jumpstart your creativity - and we bet you'll learn something new too! Today, let's take a look at one of our recent Tips, Tools and Techniques videos which focuses on using stencils...

Hello everyone! My name is Nadya Drozdova, I am mixed media style crafter from Estonia. I love to mix paints and papers adding some embellishments to my projects. You may find my other creations in my Instagram. I am so honored to be a Guest designer on Spellbinders blog. I prepared for you Mixed media card with small step-by-step tutorial. To make background more complicated...

Hello crafty friends! Let's talk about letter stickers today. Letter stickers have long been a supply in our arsenal as paper crafters. Whether you're a scrapbooker, a cardmaker, or a mixed media artist - letter stickers come in handy for a variety of projects. Today let's take a look at two cardmaking ideas featuring our Big Alphabet Foam Letter Stickers, used in two very different...

Hello Spellbinders and Davenpeeps! It's Courtney Diaz again from Little Raven Ink to show you another way in which I create with the new Making Faces range. I love to add interactive items into my journals such a Tip-Ins. If you aren't familiar with what a Tip In is, in the book printing and binding business a Tip-in was to attach (an insert) in a book by gluing along the binding edge. For example to tip in a color plate.  So essentially it's adding another...

Hi there – thank you for joining me again to learn a little more about the stunningly versatile ColorSticks from Jane Davenport and Spellbinders.  Today I'm going to show you a few different techniques that you can use to make a bright and beautiful card just like this one. For those who don’t know me, I’m Kate Palmer, Aussie artist and devoted Davenpeep, though I’m...

Hello and thank you for stopping by today! This is Mayline and I am honoured to have been invited as Guest Designer for Jane Davenport Making Faces Collection by Spellbinders. It is my second time to create the project for the Jane Davenport Collection. If you haven’t checked my previous project for Artomology Collection by Jane Davenport you can go to the first project, second...

Hello Spellbinders and Davenpeeps! My Name is Courtney Diaz from Little Raven Ink and I've been asked to share a quirky little project using the new Jane Davenport Range Making Faces! I am so excited to be back on the blog today with this fun little project that you can quickly create for yourself or to send to a friend! Today we will be creating...

Hi there – I hope your all as excited about the new Spellbinders range of Jane Davenport Making Faces goodies as I am – gotta say I’m swooning over the yummy rainbow of offerings. For those who don’t know me, I’m Kate Palmer, Aussie artist and craft supply addict, though I’m better known as Sparkle Tart online because I love all things sparkly! You can...