Tag Archives: Spellbinders Design Team

Oct 02

Some Spellbinders projects…

Hi, gang!
I don’t have anything new to share tonight, but I thought I’d quickly chime in, with a couple of projects that I did for Spellbinders a few months’ back while on their DT, and which can now be accessed through their Idea Gallery.
One of them is this recipe book:

…and another, a scrapbook page :)

You can find the detailed description for each of these pieces, including list of supplies, HERE for the recipe book and HERE for the layout.
Thanks for looking! Don’t forget about my big Sale too, you can find the link to the page under the blog header :)

Jun 26

Sneak Peek: Spellbinders Summer Spectacular Day 6

Hello friends, and welcome to Spellbinders™ Blog Frenzy! I hope you enjoyed the posts done by the other Design Team members so far; perhaps you were the lucky ones to win some goodies! There are still lots of chances to join us, and I’m happy to share my bit with you today!

Spellbinders™ products used:

Cross Promotional Partners:

Preferred Partner Companies:

  • Waltzingmouse - Sewing Box Christmas; Say It Loud Winter Holiday clear stamp sets

Here are the brand new dies and embossing folder!

EL-013 Winter Wonders M-Bossabilities™
MSRP US $9.99
Approximate Die Templates Sizes: 5 x 7″

S4-377 Fancy Framed Tags One
MSRP US $24.99
Approximate Die Templates Sizes:
Oval Tag: 4 1/8 x 1 ½” (Insert: 1 ¾ x 1 1/8″)
Rectangle Tag SM: 4 ¼ x ¾” (Insert: 2 3/8 x ½”)
Rectangle Tag LG: 4 1/8 x 7/8″ (Insert: 2 ½ x ½”)

The project that I’m presenting, is a Christmas gift set that consists of a CD case with a matching card. Below you can find the step-by-step instructions on how to recreate the card.

Begin by embossing a piece of vellum cardstock, with the Winter Wonders M-Bossabilities™.

Trim the vellum cardstock to 12.5 x 12.5 cm (4.9 x 4.9 in), keeping all of the bottom scene. Sponge carefully with Color Box Whisper Grey ink. Pressing the ink pad too much against the vellum will cause the ink smudge the non-embossed areas. You will want to lighten the embossed parts only.

Mat the vellum first with Teal cardstock, then with Black cardstock. Sew around the edges. Don’t mind the nasty fold that was created by sewing, this part will be covered with a label.

You can now create your card base from white cardstock. By trimming it to 14 x 28 cm (5.5 x 11 in), you’re left with just enough border around the panel, and you only have to trim on one side, because the cardstock length is just right.
After you cut it, you can score the card and set it aside.

Now we can proceed to the label! Cut and emboss the oval/scalloped oval, and sponge with an aqua ink of your choice. I used Versa Magic Sea Breeze.

Assemble the oval by adhering the pieces together. Stamp the snowflakes with teal ink (I used Versa Magic Turquoise Gem) and sentiment with Wicked Black ink as shown. You don’t have to stamp in the immediate left and right corners, these parts will be covered.

Die cut and emboss the tag from Fancy Framed Tags One, using the insert so that you’re cutting out the “window” too. Sponge through the die with aqua ink, like you did with the ovals.

Adhere 3D Foam Squares to the back, and attach the tag to the oval as shown.

You can now tie the ribbon across the panel, and attach the label over it, using foam tape. Once that’s done, you can adhere your panel to the card base.

Die cut/emboss/sponge another tag from Fancy Framed Tags One, this time without using the insert. Stamp the sentiment and attach the tag to the bottom of the card.

Lastly it’s time for the finishing touches, like adding some Liquid Pearls in Pewter to the label and tag. You can also use pearls or rhinestones.

Voila! We got ourselves a nice Christmas card :)
The matching CD holder is meant to hold a recorded Christmas message (perhaps from the kids taking center stage??) that you can then send to the family that lives far away. You can also put a CD with your favourite Christmas carols in.

This time I embossed the Winter Wonders M-Bossabilities on white cardstock, and sponged it carefully with aqua ink. The embossing folder happens to be just the right size for the holder, so all I needed to do is take an A2 card, emboss it with the two different patterns, trim slightly and fold in the middle.

The Sneak Peek: Spellbinders™ Summer Spectacular! Begins on June 21st and will end on June 28th, 2012. It consists of 24 individual prizes and one grand prize drawing. Enter the Sneak Peek: Spellbinders™ Summer Spectacular! by visiting the participating blogs each day.
At the end of each blog post, click on the “Enter HERE” to open the entry form. You may only enter once from each blog each day.

Spellbinders™ will randomly draw one winner from each participating blog to receive that blog’s newly revealed dies. The Grand Prize Winner will be randomly drawn from the pool of entrants who sent entry forms from each and every participating blog during the 48 hours each blog was open. For the full list of official rules please click RULES.

**THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED**
**Enter the contest by clicking HERE**

Thank you for joining me today, friends! There’s more goodness to see and more changes to win, on two other blogs today. Please stop by to see what Linda Duke and Julianna Hudgins have in store!!

Questions? [email protected] No entries will be accepted at this email address.

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May 01

Spellbinders Spring Blog Hop and Giveaway Day 2

This contest is now closed. Please visit the Spellbinders Blog to see the remaining open contests! Thank you!

Hello, friends! I’m so glad you joined us today for the Spellbinders Spring Blog Hop! Each day of the week, the Design Team is sharing inspiring tutorials using some of our favorite 2012 dies.

Here’s the card that I’m sharing:

Spellbinders™ Paper Arts Supplies:

Preferred Partner Companies:

Cross Promotional Partners:

Begin by embossing a piece of white cardstock, with Sea Flowers Grand Impressabilities™. Make it slightly smaller than your card base.

Distress the edges slightly, mat with a larger piece of white cardstock and sew together.

Cut and emboss more white cardstock, with the second largest of the Labels Eighteen dies. Clear emboss the Just Rite label stamp.

Once the label is wet embossed, stamp the sentiment.
Cut a matching pair of butterflies from Wonderful Wings.

Emboss the upper, lacey part, and emboss the solid part with Sea Flowers Grand Impressabilities.

You can now join the two parts together in the middle, using strong glue, and set aside to dry.
Wrap a double bow around your embossed panel with an organza ribbon, and adhere it to the standard A5 card base.

Adhere the label over the ribbon using foam squares. Add the butterfly and embellish it with two pearls.

The Spellbinders™ Spring Blog Hop will begin April 30th, and will end on May 5th, 2012. It consists of 16 individual and one grand prize drawings. Enter the Spellbinders™ Spring Blog Hop by visiting the participating blogs each day.

From each Blog Hop post, click on the Blog Hop “Enter HERE” at the end of each blog to open the entry form. You may only enter once from each blog each day.

Spellbinders™ will randomly draw one winner from each participating blog to receive all of that day’s products. The Grand Prize Winner will be randomly drawn from the pool of entrants that sent entry forms from each and every participating blog during the 48 hours each blog was open. For the full list of official rules please click RULES.

**Enter the Contest by Clicking HERE**

Please stop by the other blogs participating in the Blop Hop, today and on the rest of the days, for more chances to win! Judy Hayes is another gal who shares a post with us today.

Questions? [email protected]
No entries will be accepted at this email address.

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Apr 24

Butterfly card tutorial

Long time no see, inkers! I’ve been busy working behind the scenes, but I do have a little treat for you today. I haven’t done a tutorial in what seems like ages, and I happen to have one handy now. Ha!
Let’s call it a foretaste of the Spellbinders Mini Spring Blog Hop, that begins next Monday, April 30th and wraps up on Saturday, May 5th.

You can read upon the details IN THIS POST. I hope you’ll join us, for a chance to win some fabulous prizes and for some prime inspiration!!

It’s a long and photo-laden post, so go grab a cuppa while it’s loading :)
Here’s a card that I want to show you how to make:

Start by die cutting black cardstock with the second biggest label from Spellbinders™ Nestabilities® LF-246 Grand Labels Eleven.
I used black cardstock from World Win Papers.

Score in the middle.
Now for the fun part. Take a sheet of Engraving Art copper foil from Royal & Langnickel, and die cut a half of the same Grand Labels Eleven die, with your Grand Calibur®. You can do it by leaving the other half of the die uncovered by medium. Copper foil is a great stuff, and you don’t want to waste it :)

(the sheet is shown face down, prepared for the proper sandwich. The part we’re interested in is black)

Emboss the die cut, with GI-003 Sea Flowers Grand Impressabilities™. Again, make sure that the front is facing down.

Once you’ve got your die cut embossed, sand it to reveal the copper underlayer.

Now, take the big solid butterfly from LF-006 Wonderful Wings Shapeabilities®, and repeat the same steps as with the label: cut, emboss and sand:

Take the “Study” patterned paper from Bo Bunny‘s Weekend Market line, and die cut/emboss the matching top layer for the butterfly and half of the next smaller label.

You can see now that when you layer the butterfly, the embossed solid part peeks out from underneath the lacey wings.

Adhere the embossed layer to the card base, and trim the excess from the top. I let the black base show through a bit at the bottom, but you may wish to cover the whole card.

Now add a layer of patterned paper (I also sanded it lightly), the butterfly (I secured mine to the card with a button), and create the wording with S5-084 Girlie Grunge Labels Shapeabilities® and using the same exact techniques as for the other embossed parts.

Voila! Here are a few close-ups of the finished card…

I hope you enjoyed :) See you soon, thanks for looking :) xxx
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