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Hello and welcome! We are happy you are joining us for our April New Product Release Blog Hop! As always, we are thrilled to show you our new products, share inspiration and of course host a few fun giveaways! This month we are featuring the following collection: Little Loves by Sharyn Sowell, Blooming Garden by Marisa Job, Wine Country by Stacey Caron and Folk Art...

Hello Spellbinders’ fans! 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 have a Clean & Simple Birthday card created using dies from the Wine Country collection by Stacey Caron. Project created by Elena Salo Step By Step Instructions: We have a full...

Melissa Phillips here with one more card using more lovely dies from the Blooming Garden Collection designed by Marisa Job.  They are breathtakingly beautiful and loaded with possibilities. The Swirl Lattice Panel die reminds me of a hidden gate leading to a secret garden and I was so inspired by it as I was creating. I die cut my Swirl Lattice Panel from gold glitter...

Hi again everyone! Melissa Phillips here with you today sharing a couple of cards created with the gorgeous Blooming Garden Collection designed by Marisa Job. I’ve used the beautiful Side Floral Panel die on both of my cards.  On this first card, I die cut it from yellow cardstock and then added color to the flowers and vines by sponging on ink. After adding color...

Hi dear readers! Elena Salo is here again and I’m sharing the third and final post featuring Blooming Garden collection by Marisa Job. And for today’s post I created two cards using this beautiful collection. Here I used several sets including Blooming Rose. This is my favorite set from this collection and I have lots of ideas for different types of flowers I can create...

Hello! Melissa Phillips here today with a sweet little package created with some beautiful Blooming Garden Collection dies designed by Marisa Job. Creating special gift packages has been one of my most favorite ways to use my paper-crafting products, so the darling  Heart Flower Box Dies were first on my list to use when preparing my blog projects for you. This gift box comes together...

Hello friends! Elena Salo is here again! Today is the second post where I show how you can use new collection of the dies from Marisa Job -  Blooming Garden. You can find my first inspirational project here. Very often Marisa creates a lot of useful dies such as boxes and baskets in her collections. This time she made adorable hexagon petal box. I just...

Hi dear Spellbinders’ fans! This is Elena Salo. I’m so happy that spring is finally here and we can enjoy the warmth of sun rays the smell of fresh spring flowers. But you can’t take pleasure in Spring fully without new collection “Blooming Garden” from Marisa Job. It’s extremely hard to describe the beauty of all dies in this collection. Every of them is so...

Hi, everyone! It's Emily Leiphart here and I'm thrilled to be guest designer on the Spellbinders blog to help showcase the new Folk Art Collection by Lene Lok. I love using dies in unique ways and I'm here to share some ideas for the Kurbits 2 die. These dies are so intricate, there's so much you can do with them, whether you use the entire die or just part of it. I...

Hi, everyone! It's Emily Leiphart here again with another guest designer post featuring the new Folk Art Collection by Lene Lok. Today, I used the Nordic Blooms and Nordic Floral dies to create an oval wreath. I used five of the six flowers from Nordic Blooms set to create the main elements of the wreath. I die cut two to three of each flower and arranged them on a mock layout. Then I used daubers...

Hello again! This is Keeway Tsao and I’m thrilled to be be here today for another guest post with Spellbinders featuring the Folk Art Collection by Lene Lok. It has been such a joy working with this collection. In my first post, I started with just a plain white die cut and focused on creating a complimentary blended background. In my second post, I was...

Hello again! Emily Midgett here from Sixth Street Sundries with my last guest post for this series introducing the Lene Lok Folk Art Collection (you can see my previous posts here and here). For this final post, I wanted to do something a bit simpler. I wanted to show you how beautiful these dies are just on their own, no additions, no fancy techniques. Let’s...

Hi, everyone! It's Emily Leiphart here  with a guest designer post featuring the new Folk Art Collection by Lene Lok. Today, I used the Rosemal Heart and Nordic Tree dies on two cards with a shared colour theme. These are two of the largest dies in the collection and you can see that they fill up an entire 5.5" x 5.5" or 4.25" x 5.5" (A2) card, which makes it easy...

Hi there! Emily Midgett from Sixth Street Sundries back again today with another guest post featuring the Lene Lok Folk Art Collection (for my first post, click here). Today, I’ve decided to showcase how perfectly these dies work for masculine or gender-neutral cards. Combining a simple stamping trick with some ink blending creates that perfectly simple, no frills card that’s great to give that guy...

Hi crafty friends! This is Keeway Tsao and I’m thrilled to be returning today for another guest post with Spellbinders featuring the Folk Art Collection by Lene Lok. Folk Art as I familiar with is usually packed with tons of color. For this card, I decided to google “folk art” to get inspired by folk art itself, and this time color my die cuts. Given...

Good morning! This is Emily Midgett here with you today from Sixth Street Sundries. I am so excited to be a guest on the Spellbinders blog helping to showcase new Lene Lok Folk Art Collection. Using unique dies as a focal point is one of my favorite card making techniques, and over the next few posts, I will have a few tips on how to...

The all-new April Large Die of the Month is here! This kit features 6 dies that are perfect for handmade cards and more! Enjoy the step by step tutorial below as well as the video tutorial to get you started with this month’s kit! Make sure to show us what you create by tagging #SpellbindersClubKits on social media! This kit is available April 1st, 2018,...

Hi crafty friends! This is Keeway Tsao and I’m thrilled to be here guest blogging on the Spellbinders blog. Today I’d like to share some handmade card inspiration featuring the gorgeous Folk Art Collection by Lene Lok. This entire collection is so beautiful and easily adds so much elegance to a card. The large designs make it the perfect die to create quick and easy...

Our April 2018 Small Die of the Month is here! This kit features 13 dies that are perfect for creating your own flowers! Enjoy the step by step tutorial below as well as the video tutorial to get you started with this month’s kit! Make sure to show us what you create by tagging #SpellbindersClubKits on social media! This kit is available April 1st, 2018,...

Our April 2018 Card Kit of the Month is here! This kit, like any other of our Card Kits, gives you everything you need to create 10 unique cards and more. Enjoy the step by step tutorial below as well as the video tutorial to get you started with this month’s kit! Make sure to show us what you create by tagging #SpellbindersClubKits on social...

Hello everyone! This is Kay Miller and I am happy to be back again sharing some fun projects I created with the new Good Vibes Only Collection by Stephanie Low. I have two more cards to share with you today showing some fun ways to use bright colored card stock for that extra pop! You can catch cards I shared earlier using this collection here...

Hi, crafty friends! This is Rubeena from A Rare Ruby, and I’m so excited to be a guest on the Spellbinders Blog today. This post is part of a series featuring the Good Vibes Only Collection by Stephanie Low! You can find my firs​t two posts here and here. ​ For my first card, I used Rosy Summer Flowers Dies. I die-cut the both dies from...

Hello everyone! This is Kay Miller and I am excited to be back again sharing some more fun projects I created with the new Good Vibes Only Collection by Stephanie Low. You can catch my first post here. Distress inks are a good way to color up your die cuts if you don’t have a large selection of card stock. I have a couple of...

Hi, crafty friends! This is Rubeena from A Rare Ruby, and I’m so excited to be a guest on the Spellbinders Blog today. This post is part of a series featuring the Good Vibes Only Collection by Stephanie Low! You can find my first post here. I have a simple card to share with you today using only a sentiment die. I wanted to be able to...

Hello everyone! This is Kay Miller and I am excited to be guesting with Spellbinders this month and sharing some fun projects I created with the new Good Vibes Only Collection by Stephanie Low. I love creating cards with dies only. There are many fun ways to use them and I have a couple of cards to share with you today showing how you can...

Hi, crafty friends! This is Rubeena from A Rare Ruby, and I’m so excited to be a guest on the Spellbinders Blog today. This post is part of a series featuring the Good Vibes Only Collection by Stephanie Low! I have two cards to share with you that will focus on the Crystal Peaks dies. To begin, I die-cut the large crystal die and the...

Hello Spellbinders’ fans! To bring you even more inspiration and spark your creativity using products from our Small Die of the Month, Large Die of the Month and Card Kit of the Month for March 2018 we put together this post linking to inspirational projects by our guest designers! Be sure to visit their blogs to see/read more about the projects they’ve created! And let...

Hello everybody! This is Elena Salo, I’m back and want to share with you another project where I used dies from the new collection On The Wings Of Love. I played with Borders set of dies and created some intricate and funny backgrounds for the cards. First, I made A2 top folding card base and covered the front panel with double sided adhesive. Then I...

Hello Everyone, this is Joni Andaya from Papell With Love and thank you again for joining me on my 3rd post highlighting the products from On the Wings of Love Collection by Joanne Fink. For this post I used one of the border dies to create a background for the card. To begin I first die-cut white cardstock with Hearts and Butterflies Borders die. Then,...

Hi, it's Olga, today I am super excited to share 2 cards that I have created using Swirl Frame die from the latest On the Wings of Love collection by Joanne Fink. This die is perfect for creating framed cards and it can be both landscape or portrait oriented: The first card I've made is portrait oriented. I created a shaped frame card base first...

Hello crafty friends! First, I’d like to thank you for joining me today. It’s Elena from elenasalo.com. This is my second post with projects I made using dies from the On the Wings of Love Collection, catch my first post here. For today’s cards I’ve chosen a die from Love Dream Create set. It reminds me of fairytale cityscape where elves and fairies live. And...

Hello Everyone, this is Joni Andaya from Papell With Love and thank you for joining me on my 2nd post highlighting the products from On the Wings of Love Collection by Joanne Fink. See my first post here. For this post I created a card fitted for the upcoming Mother’s Day event. To begin I first die-cut the pale pink cardstock with Swirl Heart die...

Hello dear readers! Elena Salo is here again! I’ve got a chance to play with a new collection of the dies, which was created by Joanne Fink. It is On the Wings of Love.  It contains a lot of frequently used sentiments like “Thanks”, “Love “, “Create” and many others which, I think, can add beauty to every card. I also liked the gorgeous alphabet....

Hello everyone, this is Joni Andaya from Papell With Love and thank you for joining me today. This post is highlighting products from On the Wings of Love Collection by Joanne Fink, which I did a Thank you card mixing different colored cardstock and using Copic Marker as my color medium. To begin, I first cut my yellow card panel. Then, die-cut the frame from...

Hi there, it's Kaja from Kajcyika crafts here with you today and I am back at Spellbinders blog with my last post as a guest designer for this week. As already said in my previous posts (catch them here and here), I used dies from a brand new Classics March release for all of the cards I shared with you here. I decided to make...

Hello, there! It’s Marge here with you today again. Have you enjoyed my previous posts for Spellbinders New Classics March Collection? As the third theme for this week, I'm going to share how to use die cut layering to create dimensions on your card. Here are the examples that I made geometric blossoms using various nested circle-shaped dies. By doing this, you can also build...