Without Change… | Card Recipe

Hello! Quick post today just to share a card that I created using a pretty Spellbinders die set that features a large butterfly. I always have liked to use butterflies as the focal point for cards. They are so much fun!

Without Change…

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This die set in particular is fun because it helps assemble and create an interactive butterfly. You can make the butterfly pop-up when you open the card or you can simply use it as a regular die.

The butterfly of my card has three layers. The first one was die cut from white card stock and then I applied color using a sponge dauber and a couple of ink colors. I also sprinkled some sparkle silk over it. The second layer was die cut from black cardstock and adhered to the colored layer with craft glue. The third layer is the body of the butterfly and it was die cut from brushed silver cardstock.

The backgrounds of this card is very simple. I used a sponge dauber and ink directly from the ink pad to create it. I like that you can see a bit of the cardstock texture on the card. A sentiment and a few silver sequins were the final touches for this card.
Below you can watch a video of how I did a similar background using liquid colors.


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I want to point out that the Spellbinders store has different choices of butterflies stamps and dies to choose from, so please don’t forget to visit the SB store. This is the current sale…

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marianasignat

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Thank You | Card Recipe

Hi! I am back today just to share another card that I made using almost the same supplies of my previous card. Once again, the highlight of this card is the background that I created using the Ranger Stamping Foam. For this card, I used a few different colors of Distress Oxide Inks and after I applied them over the foam, I spritzed a bit of water over it… the unpredictable results always amaze me!

Thank You

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To color the pretty butterfly I used my Copic markers and to give the image a bit of a shine I used my Wink of Stella Pen. I know is hard to see in the picture, but it looks really pretty in real life😉.

Another product that I love to use instead of gemstones is the Nuvo Glitter Drops White Blizzard. With this product you can simply put some drops here and there and then just wait a bit until it dries. The results are always fantastc!

Anyway, please don’t forget to watch this fun Spellbinders video where is shown how the Ranger Stamping Foam is used: https://youtu.be/wpxh3d5SZYs


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Please be sure to visit the Spellbinders store to check out the Spring Cleaning Warehouse Sale…

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marianasignat

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A Note of Thanks | Card Recipe

Hello! Time flies when you are busy. It has been a while since my last post, but I finally had the chance to sit for a little bit to post a card that I made a few weeks ago using some great products that you can find at the Spellbinder store. The highlight of this card is the background that I created using something really new for me, the Ranger Stamping Foam.

With the Ranger Stamping Foam, you can create unique backgrounds using different things like die cuts, stamps or any other object with dimension or texture that can be embossed on the foam. The process is simple, you only need a heat craft tool, a stamping foam and some objects that can create an embossed image. For this technique, you can experiment using different type of inks, colors, etc. The sky is the limit!

A Note of Thanks

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To create the background you start by heating the foam with a heat craft tool for about 15-30 seconds. Then, you press the foam onto a textured surface for about 15 seconds ( You can previously arrange dies, stamps or other objects over a flat surface). After that, you can ink it up and use it as a stamp. What I love the most about this foam is that you can re-use it. You just re-heat it and the texture will disappear; this awesome foam, will be ready to use again.

Please be sure to watch this fun Spellbinders video where the process is visually explained: https://youtu.be/wpxh3d5SZYs


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Please be sure to visit the Spellbinders store to check out the Spring Cleaning Warehouse Sale…

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marianasignat

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Rejoice | Card Recipe

Hello! I have another card that features a beautiful Spellbinders die set perfect for Christmas. I am adding the main products below the card pictures 🙂

Rejoice

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Featured Products:


Rejoice Nativity Etched Dies from the Christmas Traditions Collection
Rejoice Nativity Etched Dies from the Christmas Traditions Collection

Striped Slimline Embossing Folder from the Slimline Collection
Striped Slimline Embossing Folder from the Slimline Collection


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Please be sure to visit the Spellbinders store to check out all the new products they have as well as their clearance section…

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marianasignat

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Season’s Greetings | Card Recipe

Hello! Quick post today just to share a card featuring a wonderful Spellbinder products: a die set, a glimmer hot foil plate and patterned paper. I am just adding the main featured products below the card pictures 🙂

Season’s Greetings

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Featured Products:

Poinsettia Etched Dies from Susan's Holiday Flora Collection by Susan Tierney-Cockburn
Poinsettia Etched Dies from Susan’s Holiday Flora Collection by Susan Tierney-Cockburn

Essential Christmas Greetings Glimmer Hot Foil Plate from the Christmas Traditions Collection
Essential Christmas Greetings Glimmer Hot Foil Plate from the Christmas Traditions Collection

Christmas Traditions Paper Pad from the Christmas Traditions Collection
Christmas Traditions Paper Pad from the Christmas Traditions Collection


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Please be sure to visit the Spellbinders store to check out all the new products they have as well as their clearance section…

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marianasignat

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Happy Halloween | Card Recipe

Hey there! Just a quick post to share a couple of Halloween cards that I made a couple days ago. I used one of my favorite die sets for both cards and this time I am just adding the main featured products below the card pictures 🙂

Happy Halloween

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Happy Halloween


Featured Products:

Let's Be Frank Etched Dies from the Halloween Collection
Let’s Be Frank Etched Dies from the Halloween Collection

Nestabilities Essential Circles Etched Dies
Nestabilities Essential Circles Etched Dies

Annual Celebration Stamp Set
Annual Celebration Stamp Set


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Please be sure to visit the Spellbinders store to check out all the new products they have as well as their clearance section…

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marianasignat

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Blooming Floral and Heart Swans | Card Recipe

Hey there! Today I have a couple cards that I want to share with you. Both of these cards feature some of the recent Spellbinders additions to the Glimmer Hot Foil Plates section and the Thin Metal Etched Dies section, that you might want to get and have in your stash. As always, product details are shared underneath the pictures…

Where The Flowers Bloom

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Materials:


Directions

  1. Create a folded card from cardstock.
  2. Apply Aura Hot Foil to card front panel to create floral pattern. Repeat to complete the whole panel.
  3. Color the flowers details with markers.
  4. Apply Aura Hot Foil to a piece of cardstock to create oval frame. Die cut oval with oval die. Adhere to card front with foam squares.
  5. Apply Expresso Bean Hot foil to a piece of cardstock to create sentiment. Die cut with matching die.
  6. Die cut flowers and leaves. Arrange over oval along with the sentiment. Adhere with foam squares and adhesive.
  7. Embellish card with gems.

Featured Products:

Blooming Floral Background Glimmer Hot Foil Plate & Die Set from Yana's Blooming Birthday Collection

Simply Perfect Layered Blooms Etched Dies from Simply Perfect Collection

Essential Duo Lines Glimmer Ovals Glimmer Hot Foil Plate from Glimmer Essentials Collection

Nestabilities Essential Ovals Etched Dies

Hello Friend


Materials:

Direcctions:

  1. Create a folded card from cardstock.
  2. Emboss a white cardstock panel with Sun Rays embossing folder. Adhere to card front.
  3. Apply Moondust Hot Foil to a piece of white cardstock to create circle frame. Die cut with Rings Around the Circle die. Adhere to card front with foam squares.
  4. Die cut the swan, swan details, flowers, leaves and crown from different colors of cardstock. Arrange the shapes and adhere them to card using adhesive, and foam squares.
  5. Apply Silver Hot Foil to a black cardstock strip to create sentiment. Adhere to card front with foam squares.
  6. Embellish card with gems.

Featured Products:

Heart Swans Etched Dies from Truly Yours Collection

Rings Around the Circle Etched Dies from Truly Yours Collection

Essential Duo Lines Glimmer Circles Glimmer Hot Foil Plate from Glimmer Essentials Collection

Sun Rays Embossing Folder

Everyday Sentiments II Glimmer Hot Foil Plate


Please be sure to visit the Spellbinders store to check out the current promotion they have…

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marianasignat

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Darlings Card Set | Card Recipe

Hi there! Today I am sharing a set of cards that I created using a new collection called Delightful Darlings by Mayline Jung. The collection includes four photopolymer stamp sets that you can get as a bundle or you can also get individually: Darling Hello, Darling Bouquet, Darling Celebration, and Darling Hugs. The images included feature four adorable girls that are so fun to color. I used markers to do so, but you can use any coloring technique that you prefer. I created a set of four cards with a simple easy to make design. The stamp sets have different sentiments and images that you can easily mix and match… the idea is to have fun with them!

Darlings Card Set

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Materials:


Directions

  1. Create a folded card from cardstock.
  2. Create a panel from white cardstock 4″x 5.25″
  3. Using a foam dauber and an ink pad apply color to create a subtle background.
  4. Stamp girl image with black ink over a piece of white cardstock. Color the image. Fussy-cut the image with detail scissors.
  5. Adhere image over background panel with foam squares.
  6. Stamp sentiment and small images around main image. Color images if needed.
  7. Die cut small flowers or hearts from white cardstock. Adhere with foam squares.
  8. Embellish card with pearls if needed and add Journey Glaze details.

Featured products:

Darling Hello Clear Stamp Set from Delightful Darlings Collection by Mayline Jung

Darling Bouquet Clear Stamp Set from Delightful Darlings Collection by Mayline Jung

Darling Celebration Clear Stamp Set from Delightful Darlings Collection by Mayline Jung

Darling Hugs Clear Stamp Set from Delightful Darlings Collection by Mayline Jung


Please be sure to visit the Spellbinders store to check out all the wonderful products that currently are on sale…

Spring Cleaning Warehouse Sale

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marianasignat

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Happy Easter! | Card Recipe

Hello friends! Today I am happy to share a card that I made featuring one of the products included in the new Expressions of Faith collection by Spellbinders. This product is called: Gleaming Cross Glimmer Hot Foil Plate & Die Set and I created an Easter card with it. This pretty cross is ideal for holidays cards, but can also be used for baptisms, sympathy cards, and more!

Happy Easter Card

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Materials:


Directions

  1. Create a folded card from cardstock.
  2. Create a panel from white cardstock and using the embossing folder create the sun rays pattern.
  3. Using a foam dauber and a yellow ink apply color to create a subtle background. Adhere panel to card front.
  4. Apply Aura Hot Foil to cardstock to create cross pieces. Die cut pieces. Assemble with precision glue and foam squares.
  5. Create a strip of cardstock and apply Aura Hot Foil to it to create complementary sentiment. Adhere to card front and affix it with staples.
  6. Adhere Cross to card front with foam squares.
  7. Die Cut the word “Easter” from Mirror Gold cardstock. Adhere to cardstock strip using precision glue.
  8. Die cut the tiny flowers from corrugated cardstock. Arrange them and adhere them with foam squares.
  9. Embellish card with Gold Fashion pearls.

Featured products:

Gleaming Cross Glimmer Hot Foil Plate & Die Set from Expressions of FaithExpressions of Spring Sentiments Etched Dies from Expressions of Spring Collection


Please be sure to visit the Spellbinders store to check out all the wonderful Easter products they have.

Photo credit for the following Easter cards: Spellbinders Paper Arts

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marianasignat

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Hero Arts 2021 Catalog Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

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Today, I am very happy to be participating in the Hero Arts Catalog Blog Hop. Hero as we all know, always brings us amazing new products that will keep us inspired and creative. Please click >>>HERE<<< so you can see the whole catalog and start making your wishlist.

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I created three cards using four of the products included in the catalog: Happy Thanks Stamp & Cut XL, Envelope Accessories Fancy Dies, Sending Love Mail and the Hexagons Infinity Dies.

For this card, I used Happy Thanks Stamp & Cut XL along with the Hexagons Infinity dies, take a look: The design of this card is quite simple, and I only played with different colors and sizes of hexagons to create a background for the main sentiment. I die cut the word “thanks” from white cardstock and black foam. I like to do this to add dimension to the word and avoid having a bunch of little pieces of foam tape behind the words. I placed the white slightly off center over the black to make it look like a drop shadow. The sentiment was simply white-embossed over black cardstock and I embellished the card with some colorful sequins.


For this card I used Envelope Accessories Fancy Dies and Sending Love Mail stamp set. I have to say that I love that little envelope. It is the perfect size to put some flowers in it…or hearts, or whatever you wish. Of course, the flower and leaf dies were super fun to color with Chameleon Markers. The background was created with Distress ink and a sponge dauber. Then I stamped the words block included in the stamp set. I finished up this card with a white-embossed sentiment, decorative tape, Sparkle silk and some sequins.


The third card was a mix of products. I used the Happy Thanks Stamp & Cut XL to die cut the word “happy” from white cardstock and then, I gave it color with two ddifferent colors of Distress Inks. I also die cut the word from black foam to add dimension, just like card #1. I created a bouquet of flowers using the dies from the Envelope Accessories Fancy Dies. I Colored the shapes with watercolors. For the background, just like card #2, I used the Sending Love Mail stamp set and Distress inks. I sprinkled a bit of water to create the water marks over the DI background and I also stamped the words block over it. I complemented the card with a strip of vellum, decorative tape and some crystal blue and green dots.


Supplies Card 1, 2 & 3: Happy Thanks Stamp & Cut XL | Envelope Accessories Fancy Dies | Sending Love Mail | Hexagons Infinity Dies | Hero Arts Inks | Hero Arts Cardstock | Misti Regular Hero Black |

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Hero will give away one $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Wednesday, February 24th at 11:59pm pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.

Please be sure to visit all the participants blogs in order to increase your chances of winning:
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marianasignat

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Other Supplies:  Journey Glaze | Journey Craft Glue | Sparkle Silk | Sparkle Dust Glitter |