Sandi MacIver, Paper Craft Artist - SandiMaciver.com
hand made mint green and pink christmas card with a white snowflake background and a tiny die cut snowman with a pink and green sweater and hat
2 | Cardmaking Videos

Die-Cut Snowflake Cards

Today’s Card-Making Video features two Die-Cut Snowflake Cards, created with new and old snowflake dies from Waffle Flowers. Pink and Mint Green are on trend this holiday season, so I incorporated both colors into my design. I added a little background noise with some stenciling and completed my cards with a fabulously adorable little die-cut snowman and some bling, of course.

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November 18, 2024 8 Comments
Felt Reindeer Spellbinders Felt Stitch and Create
STITCHING PROJECTS

Felt Reindeer from Spellbinders Felt Stitch and Create

I have a new crafting video for you today, but it’s not a card.  It’s a Felt Reindeer from Spellbinders Felt Stitch and Create.  Spellbinders has released an entire collection of Felt Dies, and today’s introductory video walks you through how to cut the felt and assemble the felt stitching dies. 

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November 15, 2024 7 Comments
Spellbinders Hooray It's Your birthday
CARDS | BACKGROUNDS

Spellbinders Hooray! It’s Your Birthday

Well today we are playing with frogs and slots.  Bet you never thought you’d hear that from me, haha.  Spellbinders Hooray! It’s Your Birthday is the name of this months Large Die of the Month Club Kit and that’s where the adorable convertible driving froggy is from. 

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November 13, 2024 7 Comments
His and Hers Birthday CaKe Cards
CARDS | Birthday Cards

His and Hers Birthday Cake Cards

For today’s card-making post, I thought I would create his and hers Birthday Cake Cards from the same products. I’m working with more of the Spellbinders November Club Kits, this time the Party Time Cake Die Set that you get as a bonus this month with your Deluxe Caboodle membership. It’s adorable, and so much fun and these cards are both quick and easy to create.

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November 10, 2024 10 Comments
CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Easy Santa Shaker Card

This is the Simon Hurley Sketched Santa Stamp and Die set that came out in July, with it’s adorable Santa Images, lots of parcels and bobbles to help decorate your cards, and a great selection of sentiments too.  I love it when everything you need is in one stamp set, don’t you?

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November 1, 2024 9 Comments
Botanical Wreath Blackout Technique
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NEW Card Making Video – Botanical Wreath Blackout Technique

Today I have Botanical Wreath Blackout Technique to share with you.  The Nature’s Botanical Release from Spellbinders and Susan Tierney-Cockburn is beautiful, and I chose the Botanical Wreath and Nature’s Botanical Garden BetterPress Sentiments to create with today.  This is a super fast and easy inking technique and you are going to LOVE the results.

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October 30, 2024 9 Comments
3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

3 Quick and Easy Christmas Cards

Today, I have 3 Quick and Easy Christmas Cards to share with you. I’m finishing my Spellbinders Club Kits for the Month and creating backgrounds with the Stencil Club and BetterPress Club, so I made these cards quick, easy, and mass-produced. We all need those when the holiday crunch is upon us, right? I’m just curious:  How many Christmas Cards do you mail out each year?

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October 26, 2024 7 Comments
hand made friendship card with blue and green flowers with purple leaves on a white embossed background
CARDS | cards for friends

Purple and Blue Grateful For You Card

Today, we have Purple and Blue Grateful For You Card using new products from Alex Syberia Designs.  This is the same stamp and die set as the last card, done with completely different colors and layered over an embossed background using a NEW Tiny Autumn Leaves Hot Foil Plate.

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October 24, 2024 13 Comments
Grateful for You hand made card
CARDS | Everyday Cards

Grateful For You Stenciled Card

I’m sharing a Grateful For You Stenciled Card created with three new Grateful For You products from this release.  The 6 x 8 stamp set, the coordinating dies and the stencil.

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October 22, 2024 24 Comments
Stitched Christmas Tree Card
CARDS | cards for friends

Stitched Christmas Tree Card

Hey card-making friends, welcome back. Yesterday, I decided it was time to dig out the Stitched Die Set of the Month from Spellbinders. This is

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October 20, 2024 10 Comments
Heartfelt Snowflakes and Distress Oxide Sprays
CARDS | cards for friends

Heartfelt Snowflakes and Distress Oxide Sprays

Today I’m sharing Heartfelt Snowflakes and Distress Oxide Sprays.  When combined, make FABULOUS Christmas cards, and it’s SO EASY.  It’s a emboss resist technique:  Just white heat emboss the snowflakes all over a watercolor paper card front.  Then Spritz the heck out of it with Distress Oxide Sprays and then Distress Spritz to add a beautiful glimmer to the finish.

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October 18, 2024 8 Comments
Trying to Win the Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest
3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

Trying to Win the Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest

I had fun with this one, Trying to Win the Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest.  It started with this month’s Embossing Folder Club, the lovely Checkered Argyle, which is quite conservative and lovely.  Then I decided our little Festive Friends needed to be included (Small Die of the Month Club), and after I got his sweater all argyled to match the background, I thought, “Ugly Christmas Sweater.” So I grabbed the reindeer dies from the Large Die of the Month Club, Cozy Toes Slippers. 

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October 17, 2024 8 Comments
Foiling with BetterPress Plates Intro
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Foiling with BetterPress Plates

Welcome back to my card making blog. Today, I’m sharing 4 cards I created with Foiling With BetterPress Plates. Yana has a new release over at Spellbinders; as usual, it’s lovely. I used Yana’s Festive Poinsettias and Home for Christmas Sentiments for today’s cards. The release also has Yana’s Amaryllis Etched Dies and Amaryllis Garden 3D embossing Folder, which are used in an upcoming post.

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October 15, 2024 12 Comments
Village Snowman Die Cut Christmas cards intro
3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

Village Snowman Die Cut Christmas Cards

I have a couple of fun and easy Village Snowman Die Cut Cards to share with you.  This adorable Village Snowman die is part of the new Simon Says Stamp Sweet Wishes Release going live at midnight tonight.  He’s a mighty 2 inches tall,  and super fun to die cut.  I’m sharing two different ways to create with him below.

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October 9, 2024 10 Comments
Tim Holtz Halloween Cards Intro
CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Tim Holtz Halloween Cards

Today, I had a little break from work, so I decided to grab all the Halloween Dies I keep buying and have some fun.  So today, I have 3 Tim Holtz Halloween cards to share with you.  I can’t resist Tim’s dies and every time I watch one of his lives, I’m in there buying (I’m sure you can relate, haha). I have had so many work commitments lately that there has been no time to play. That’s making me cranky, so it’s a play day.  hope you like them.

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October 9, 2024 12 Comments
Spellbinders Cozy Toes Slippers Card
CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders Cozy Toes Slippers Card

Today, I’m sharing the Spellbinders Cozy Toes Slippers Card.  This is created with the New October Large Die of the Month Club Kit from Spellbinders.  As today is the 6th, the clubs are open for purchase, and you don’t want to miss this month; they are fabulous!  I started with the Cozy Toes Slippers Dies because it reminded me of my own Christmas as a kid; my mom used to buy us funny slippers.  It was so much fun to see what we got each year, although some of them were kind of hard to walk in, haha

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October 6, 2024 10 Comments
Mint Green Halloween Card Intro
CARDS | BACKGROUNDS

Mint Green Halloween Card

The spooky season is almost upon us, so today’s project is a Mint Green Halloween card.  I’m using the Simon Says Stamp Halloween Friends stamp set for today’s card and a few other goodies.  It’s so much fun making greeting cards for this season, as you can be as silly or scary as you like.  I have so many Halloween card ideas that it’s tough to find a place to start, LOL, but today, I decided on Mint Green as my base color to challenge myself to create a cute Halloween card without a lot of black cardstock.

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October 4, 2024 10 Comments
4 New Christmas Card Ideas
CARDS | cards for friends

4 New Christmas Card Ideas

Today I have 4 New Christmas Card Ideas to share with you created with the Spellbinders Oh Joyful Day Collection from Rosie’s Studios.  I had so much fun creating with this set of stickers, buttons, chipboard embellishments and pattern paper.  I made myself stop of 4 cards because I had other deadlines, LOL, but I’m sure I could have made at least 10 more cards.

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October 1, 2024 7 Comments
CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Paper Rose Wedding Blooms Die Cut Card

Today I have a Paper Rose Wedding Blooms Die Cut Card to share.  Spellbinders are now carrying the lovely line of Paper Rose from Australia.  They have an amazing pattern paper selection and really lovely dies to compliment them

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September 30, 2024 8 Comments
CARDS | Christmas Cards

Arching Leaf Christmas Cards

My Arching Leaf Christmas Cards are created with the Big Holiday Words and Dies set released this month, and that beautiful foliage spray is Arching Leaf Border Dies from last month’s release. 

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September 27, 2024 12 Comments
Watercolor Orchid hand made card intro
CARDS | cards for friends

Watercolor Orchid hand made card

This die and embossing folder set are from Spellbinders and Susan Tierney Cockburn and are part of the Winter’s Grace release.  If you like making 3 dimensional flowers, you are going to love this release.

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September 25, 2024 10 Comments
Pocket gift card Holders
2 | Cardmaking Videos

New Card Making Video Pocket Gift Card Holders

Today’s new Card Making Video is Pocket Gift Card Holders.  Spellbinders recently sent me the new Wendy Vecchi “Not Your Ordinary Card Collection” die set and boy did I have fun with it.  I actually played with it for 2 entire days.

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September 23, 2024 8 Comments
CARDS | Die Cutting Cards

Simon Says Stamp Elegant Blossom Card

Today’s card uses the Elegant Blossoms Branch die set, the Lovely Stamp and Die Set and the Basket Weave Embossing Folder (LOVE THIS THING SO MUCH).  It’s a pretty simple card to put together but if you want to watch me do it, head over to my Instagram as I uploaded a reel this morning.

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September 20, 2024 12 Comments
Spellbinders Autumn Cards Intro
CARDS | BetterPress

Spellbinders Autumn Cards

visit today’s blog post for detailed instructions on how to create the Spellbinders Autumn Cards using the September club of the month kits

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September 19, 2024 12 Comments
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