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Purple hand-made card with an oval cut in the center with three bachelor's buttons flowers on the left side with sentiments at the bottom center

CARDS | BetterPress

Spellbinders Layered Wildflowers

Lisa Horton designed this release from Spellbinders, and I love the details she has placed into the die-cuts to add such great depth and detail without additional work. They are truly amazing

May 22, 2025 4 Comments

hand-made card with pink die-cut gladiolus on an oval cut panel with a script text background and a postage stamp edge in black and white

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Layered Gladiolus Postage Card

Good morning, card-making friends. I’m playing with a new release from Spellbinders, designed by Lisa Horton, called Wildflowers, and I have created a Layered Gladiolus Postage Card to share with you today.

May 13, 2025 7 Comments

hand made japanese Kokeshi doll card colored in blues and pinks with an embossed background

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Spring in Kyoto

Today, I have a new release from Spellbinders to share with you. Alex Syberia of Alex Syberia Designs designed Spring in Kyoto. This beautiful look at Spring in Kyoto includes a creative selection of products, including a 3/D Floral Fans embossing Folder.

May 10, 2025 6 Comments

hand made teal card with a rainbow of die cut crayons across it

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Crayon Teacher Cards

Hey, card-making friends. Today, I have 3 cards to share with you all with a Crayon Teacher Cards theme. I’m working again with Spellbinders Monthly Club kits, and I had a blast combining them to create today’s card shares.

May 8, 2025 4 Comments

handmade cards with a yellow and pink backgrounds with white gerber daisies with pink highlights and green leaves

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New Spellbinders – Yana’s Daisies

Check out the New Spellbinders – Yana’s Daisies. Yes, the talented Yana has another new collection out consisting of Press Plates, coordinating stencils, and dies.

April 10, 2025 9 Comments

handmade greeting card with two background layers of die cut stamp shapes and a center embossed stamp shape with orange flowers and green leaves, matted in gold with three gold lines behind it and a black and white sentiment underneath

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Spellbinders Simple Postage Mosaic Card

I’m sharing Spellbinders Simple Postage Mosaic Card today, created with the 3D Embossing Club for April 2025, Postage Mosaic. This embossing folder is a WOW for sure.

April 8, 2025 8 Comments

dark blue embossed card with a purple and black colored flower

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New Card Making Videos 5 Ways to use BetterPress Plates

New Card Making Videos – 5 Ways to use BetterPress Plates

March 30, 2025 6 Comments

black hand made card with purple and blue flowers and gray leaves

CARDS | BACKGROUNDS

Alex Syberia Designs Charming Floral Background Cards

The cards I’m sharing today are Alex Syberia Designs’ Charming Floral Background Cards. This is a BetterPress Plate set with a matching 5-sheet layered Stencil set.

March 28, 2025 17 Comments

hand made card with a gold embossed flourish background and gold die cut leaf overlays with a gold glimmer foiled sentiment on black

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Alex Syberia Designs Press Plate and Stencils March Release Blog HOP and Giveaway

I’m participating in the Alex Syberia Designs Press Plate and Stencils March Release Blog HOP and Giveaway.

March 26, 2025 23 Comments

image of my top nine cards from Instagram.

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Top 9 Cards from 2024

Visit the blog post for details on my Top 9 Cards for 2024 with links to the individual posts for card instructions and supply lists

January 2, 2025 4 Comments

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.

November 13, 2024 7 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?

October 26, 2024 7 Comments

hand made christmas card with embossed Amaryllis flowers in pinks

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Amaryllis Garden Easy Embossing Folder Card

Today, I have an Amaryllis Garden Easy Embossing Folder Card to share with you. This is the Embossing Folder from Yana Smakula’s Amaryllis Christmas Collection, and it’s Beautiful.

October 24, 2024 11 Comments

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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.

October 15, 2024 12 Comments

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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

September 19, 2024 12 Comments

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BetterPress Windy Fall Leaves

VIsit the blog for instructions on how to create this Windy Fall Leaves card with the Painting with Embossing Powder Technique

September 17, 2024 8 Comments

hand made white card with black bats all over it decorated with pink and orange pumpkins and flowers

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Pink Pumpkin Cards and Spooktacular Backgrounds | New Card Making Video

I gathered up all the Nicol’s Needlework Dies from Spellbinders and decided to make these fun Pink Pumpkin Cards and Spooktacular backgrounds cards. Surfing the net, pink pumpkins seems to be a thing this year, so I embraced it, LOL.

August 29, 2024 11 Comments

hand made card with a white die cut martini glass on a pink and gold embossed background with a lime wedge and curl and a flamingo stir stick

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Spellbinders Happy Hour Martini Cards

Today I have some fun Spellbinders Happy Hour Martini Cards to share with you. This new release is full of cocktail fun from a cocktail glass BetterPress background plate, 2 different shapes of glasses, three different themes of decorative dies, a beautiful set of decorative rectangles dies and an amazing set of sentiments that all foil/BetterPress and cut out at once.

August 25, 2024 7 Comments

hand made slimline card with a rainbow of ink splatters and 9 rainbow paint brushes

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I Combined the BetterPress and Stitched Clubs for this Card

Ever had one of those moments when you see a couple of products and you just know you have to use them both on the same card? Well, this post is How I Combined the BetterPress and Stitched Clubs for this card.

August 17, 2024 8 Comments

New Card Making Video Yana's Sstenciled Poppies

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New Card Making Video Yana’s Stenciled Poppies

I’m over the moon for this new Poppy Background Press Plate and Stencil Bundle. It’s so fabulous and it makes card making so very easy. I decided to turn on the video camera while I was making this one so you could see just how easy it is.

August 10, 2024 10 Comments

hand made christmas card with a black background, shinny gold sentiment and gold outlined holly with blue berries and three tone green leaves created with new card making products from Spellbinders

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

More Spellbinders Club Christmas Cards

I’m a little behind in getting my last three projects done, but here they are, More Spellbinders Club Christmas Cards. I’m clearing out the Stencil of the Month, Springs and Bows, the glimmer of the month Joyful Holly and the BetterPress Club, Christmas Haul.

July 23, 2024 8 Comments

hand made cards with an ink blended background in pink blue and green and gold foiled palms created with new card making supplies from Spellbinders

CARDS | BetterPress

BetterPress Summertime Palms Greeting Cards

Visit the blog for details on how to create the BetterPress Summertime Palms Greeting Cards using card making products from Spellbinders

June 24, 2024 10 Comments

2 | Cardmaking Videos

NEW CARD MAKING VIDEO – My favorite Spellbinders 2024 Clubs

visit the blog and watch the new card making video My favorite Spellbinders 2024 Clubs showing all the cards I created for this months club kits

May 19, 2024 7 Comments

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Altenew Baroque Elegance BetterPress Plate

visit the blog for a detailed description on how to create this Altenew Baroque Elegance BetterPress Plate card using card making supplies from Altenew

May 8, 2024 8 Comments

Spellbinders Pins & Needles Jar Easel Card

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Spellbinders Pins and Needles Jar Easel Card

visit the blog for detailed instructions on how to create the Spellbinders Pins and Needles Jar Easel Card and two others using this months Club kits from Spellbinders

April 23, 2024 14 Comments

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Spellbinders Copperplate Sentiment Cards

Visit the blog for details on how to create the Spellbinders Copperplate Sentiment cards using new card making products from Spellbinders

March 28, 2024 13 Comments

hand made teal card with tiny gold branches inlaid, a gold framed center sentiment surrounded by pink and orange flowers created with new card making supplies from Spellbinders

CARDS | BetterPress

Spellbinders Mirrored Arch Collection

visit the blog for detailed instructions on how to create the Spellbinders Mirrored Arch Collection cards using new card making products from Spellbinders

March 15, 2024 15 Comments

Let's Celebrate orange and black floral birthday card created with new card making supplies from Spellbinders

CARDS | BetterPress

Let’s Celebrate BetterPress Birthday Cards

visit the blog for detailed instructions on how to create the Let’s Celebrate BetterPress Birthday Cards created with new card making supplies from Spellbinders

March 10, 2024 8 Comments

hand made card with a navy blue embossed background an oval center with blue watercolor magnolias and, and a happy mother's day sentiment created with card making supplies from Spellbinders

CARDS | BetterPress

Simon Hurley Spring Sampler Collection

Hi card making friends and Happy Friday. I love weekends, Ian is home and we get to do fun things together. This weekend we are

March 1, 2024 15 Comments

CARDS | BetterPress

Spellbinders February BetterPress Cards

Hi card making friends. Today I’m sharing two Spellbinders February BetterPress Cards. I’m also sneaking in the Clear Stamp and Die Set of the Month,

February 20, 2024 11 Comments

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