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Create a colorful floral card featuring the Must-Have Sentiments Press + Foil Plate + Die Set and Petal Fresh Etched Dies. Learn how to build layered flowers, press a coordinating sentiment, and arrange everything on a bold embossed background.

Create a colorful Christmas card while learning how to apply multiple ink colors to BetterPress registration plates. In this detailed tutorial, you’ll use the Festive Evergreens Registration Press + Foil Plate & Die Set to press a holiday doorway scene in three colors, combining the built-in registration system with a simple masking technique. The registration template positions the coordinating plates so each layer aligns with...

Combine hot foiling, alcohol-marker coloring, ink blending, and dimensional shaping to create a colorful butterfly card that sparkles from every angle. In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn how to foil detailed butterflies and a floral background with the Glimmer II Hot Foil System, add bold color, and shape the butterfly wings for a realistic raised effect. The Bright Butterflies and Thanks In Bloom Press +...

Learn how to create a clean and simple Christmas card featuring the Mug Friends Etched Dies and Snow Joy Stencil Set. This step-by-step tutorial shows how to make a soft tone-on-tone ombré background with a single ink color, allowing the adorable penguin mugs to become the focal point of your festive design.

Create a beautiful shaped angel card using the Divine Arch Card Creator and Blessing Angels Etched Dies from Bibi's Little Blessings Collection. This step-by-step tutorial shows how to build a clean and simple layered design with vellum wings, soft pastel cardstock, and a dimensional arch card base.

Create a playful Halloween ghost card using the Halloween City Holiday Decorations Etched Dies from Yana Smakula's Halloween City Collection. This step-by-step tutorial features ink-blended purple clouds, hot foiled sentiments, dimensional ghost die cuts, and creative ways to use the decoration dies without the City Holiday building.

Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial using the Snowflake Background Etched Dies from the Lisa Horton Snowflake Kisses Collection. The Snowflake Background Etched Dies are two layers which you can cut as a base layer and a top layer. For my card today, instead of having die cut layers, I thought that I would deboss the design. DEBOSSING THE DIE Place...

Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial with you using the House-Mouse Sweet Twist Cling Rubber Stamp Set from the new Holiday Dreams collection. This adorable stamp set is perfect for Christmas and the holidays. I am colouring the image using Copic Markers, which are alcohol based, but any colouring medium will work here – pencils, paints, etc. If you are a...

Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial with you using the new Upright Italic Happy Holidays Press + Foil Plate by Paul Antonio. This sentiment is a large plate, so perfect to act as the focal point on a card. All you need is a few elements to bring the card together! I chose foliage and a bird. I chose to press...

Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial with you using the new Spectacular Santa Etched Dies. This wonderful die creates a large-sized Santa that can take centre stage on a card. I kept to a traditional colour palette today for Santa, adding in a little pink for the background, but you can definitely experiment with different colour combinations! DIE CUTTING SANTA PLEASE...

Hello there, Michelle Short here to share a step-by-step tutorial with you using the Simon Hurley Cascading Coneflowers collection. My focus today is sharing how to add interest to die cuts in an easy way, whether that be adding ink blending, layering, or simply by adding interest to the background of a clean and simple card. These easy steps really help to make die cuts...

Welcome to day 11 of our 12 Days of Stitchmas 2025 Advent Calendar class! Join us and stitch your way through the season! We invited 12 guest artists to share inspiration with the 12 stitching surprises. Let’s welcome Michelle Short as she shares inspiration with the Day 11 surprise! Don’t miss the other video tutorials from our free Youtube Class: Day 1 with Kim Kesti; Day...

Hi there, this is Annie Williams, and I’m thrilled to create this pretty autumn birthday card step-by-step with you today using the new Texture & Foliage Collection by Suzanne Hue. The beautiful sentiments and versatile embossing folders in this collection are the perfect addition to some of Suzanne’s previously released wreath dies.  Here I’m creating an easy wreath card made for a loved one’s autumn...

Hello crafty friends! I am Lorena Wakefield. I’m so thrilled to be back as a guest designer on the Spellbinders Blog. Today, I’m sharing a festive trio of handmade cards using the absolutely delightful Lisa Horton All About Christmas Collection. These designs are brimming with charm, texture, and holiday cheer, perfect for sending love this season! Each card features a unique scene, brought to life...

SPOILER ALERT: Welcome the 13 Days of Craftoween 2025 Advent Calendar — and we can’t wait to show you what’s inside! If you love spooky season as much as we do, you’re in for a real treat (no tricks here). Whether you’re into cute and quirky or dark and dramatic, the 13 Days of Craftoween is packed with creative potential. Each day unveils a new mini...

SPOILER ALERT: Welcome the 13 Days of Craftoween 2025 Advent Calendar — and we can’t wait to show you what’s inside! If you love spooky season as much as we do, you’re in for a real treat (no tricks here). Whether you’re into cute and quirky or dark and dramatic, the 13 Days of Craftoween is packed with creative potential. Each day unveils a new mini...

SPOILER ALERT: Welcome the 13 Days of Craftoween 2025 Advent Calendar — and we can’t wait to show you what’s inside! If you love spooky season as much as we do, you’re in for a real treat (no tricks here). Whether you’re into cute and quirky or dark and dramatic, the 13 Days of Craftoween is packed with creative potential. Each day unveils a new mini...

Hi there, this is Annie Williams, and I’m excited to share step-by-step instructions to create this adorable Halloween card made with the exclusive Pupkin Die Set from Spellbinders. This little guy is so sweet and perfect for sending a cute Halloween hello to any dog lover on your list! Die cut the pup and his costume out of white, Anchor, Raven, Carrot, Rainforest, and Violet...

Hi crafty friends! This is Lorena Wakefield. I’m so excited to be back as a guest designer on the Spellbinders blog; it’s always such a joy to create alongside this amazing community. Today, I’m sharing a step-by-step tutorial featuring the adorable new Pupkin die set, because who can resist a pup in a Halloween pumpkin costume? Whether you’re a Halloween lover, a dog person, or...

Hey Crafty Friends, it’s Amy Tsuruta, and I’m thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog featuring the gorgeous Holiday Magic - Rub Ons.  This collection of images come in various sizes with plenty of sentiments to create many cards, tags, and gift giving papercrafting projects. Take a peek at how to create this sweet card with a simple tutorial, starting with a look at...

Hey Crafty Friends, it’s Amy Tsuruta, and I’m thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog featuring the gorgeous Holiday Magic - Rub Ons.  This collection of images come in various sizes with plenty of sentiments to create many cards, tags, and gift giving papercrafting projects. Take a peek at how to create this sweet card with a simple tutorial, starting with a look at...

Hello, my craft friends! I’m so excited and honoured to be joining you today as a guest designer on the Spellbinders blog! June is such a joyful month, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to share a special step-by-step photo tutorial featuring the utterly charming Say Cheese Classic Pooh Birthday collection by Simple Stories. If you’re a fan of sweet nostalgia, soft colors, and all...

Hi there, crafty friends! I’m Rebecca Keppel, and I adore the new Country Christmas Collection designed by Annie Williams for Spellbinders. I am sharing a tutorial today on how to create a Christmas card with three different supplies from this collection. Starting with the Barn Star Wreath Etched Dies, die cut a full star with the outline die out of two colors of cardstock. I chose...

Hi there, this is Annie Williams, and today I’m thrilled to create this fun friendship card step-by-step with you made with the new Say Cheese Classic Mouse Collection from Spellbinders and Simple Stories.  With adorable die sets, sweet sentiments, and colorful papers and stickers, this collection is perfect for creating cute cards for a variety of occasions. Trim two pieces of patterned paper from the...

Hi there crafty friends! I’m Rebecca Keppel and today I have a step-by-step tutorial for mixing and matching colors and patterns on cards using the Rosie’s Studio Hello It’s Me! collection. This pretty collection has a variety of available supplies that are great for cardmaking including a 6x6 patterned paper pad and an embellishment kit packed with everything from die cuts to chipboard stickers and more....

Hi there crafty friends! I’m Rebecca Keppel. Today I am sharing a step by step tutorial of how I made a floral card with the Lisa Horton Wildflowers collection. Start by creating the background of the card. Use Best Ever Craft Tape to tape the corners of a piece of A2 BetterPress cardstock onto the clear plate of the BetterPress. Place the Script Text BetterPress Plate...

Hi there crafty friends! I’m Rebecca Keppel. Today I am sharing a step-by-step tutorial using some of the Crafty Babe dies and Simple Stories supplies to create a card. When working with papercrafting supplies, I like to choose a sentiment for my card first and build out the rest of the card around it. Here, I started by checking out the Crafty Babe Bits & Pieces...

Hi there, this is Annie Williams and today I’m excited to take you step-by-step through creating this bright and colorful birthday card made with the new Take Note Collection from Spellbinders. With fun memo-inspired die sets, versatile background designs, and unique sentiments, this collection is perfect for creating memorable cards and projects for all kinds of occasions. Start by applying Verdigris Metallic Ink to the...

Hi there crafty friends! I’m Rebecca Keppel and I am so thrilled to be back on the Spellbinders blog. Whether you are a scrapbooker or a cardmaker, I know you will love the new Rosie’s Studio Golden Afternoon collection! This is a stunning, versatile collection with butterfly images, leaves, flowers, woodgrain, gold elements, and a variety of embellishments and patterned paper that make it a...

Hello, friends! Mindy Eggen here, and I’m thrilled to share a fun and vibrant Spring project with you today! In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use layering stencils step by step, making it easy to add depth, color, and dimension to your handmade cards. For today’s project, I’m using the Layering Twirling Tulips stencil - a beautiful design that also coordinates with the...

Hi crafty friends! I’m Rebecca Keppel and I am super excited to be here today to share some projects using the latest Spellbinders and Simple Stories Say Cheese Classic Pooh Collection! This collection is filled with the most adorable classic Winnie the Pooh characters in different forms from dies to patterned paper, embellishments, and more! The best thing about this collection is how everything coordinates...

Our October 2024 Glimmer Hot Foil Kit of the Month Club preview & tutorials are here! The Glimmer Hot Foil membership subscription includes an exclusive Glimmer Hot Foil Plate Set + One Roll of Foil (colors may vary). Please note, new Subscription Sign-Up Window will now open on the 6th of each month and close on the 27th (once existing club members subscriptions have been...

Our October 2024 BetterPress Plate of the Month preview & tutorials are here! Change the way you create with the NEW BetterPress Letter Press System, which provides an innovative way to achieve the elegant look of letterpress without all the mess. It’s an easy-to-use system that produces professional stationery style with detailed impressions that can be felt to the touch. The BetterPress System works with...

Hello friends! This is Mindy Eggen and I’m excited to be on the Spellbinders blog to share with you some inspiration using the House-Mouse Spring Has Sprung collection. These are such great sets where you can stamp out a bunch of images, pack a handful of markers, and color on the go! You don’t even need to do a lot of coloring as these are...

Welcome to day 8 of our 12 Days of Stitchmas 2023 Advent Calendar class! Join us and stitch your way through the season! We invited 12 guest artists to share inspiration with the 12 stitching surprises. Let’s welcome Tina Smith as she shares inspiration with the Day 8 surprise! Don't miss the other video tutorials from our free Youtube Class: Day 1 with Mindy Eggen...

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...