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Handmade Christmas card created with the Spellbinders All About Christmas dies, featuring non-traditional colors. The design showcases layered poinsettia flowers in pink with yellow centers, surrounded by teal and green die-cut foliage arranged in a wreath. A scalloped teal frame highlights the sentiment "So Very Merry" in bold red and white lettering with a gold shadow. Sparkling blue gem embellishments add festive shine, set against a clean white card base with a pink and teal background layer
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Spellbinders All About Christmas

Hi cardmaking friends, Happy Friday.  Today I’m excited to share two cards created with the NEW Spellbinders All About Christmas release designed by Lisa Horton.

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August 22, 2025 8 Comments
Handmade holiday card created with Spellbinders Yana’s City Holiday Collection dies, featuring a festive building facade with arched and square windows decorated with green wreaths and pink bows, playful black cat and dog silhouettes, layered Christmas trees, and a sentiment reading ‘My greatest present is having you by my side,’ set against a winter-themed background.
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Spellbinders Yana’s City Holiday Collection

Today I’m excited to share the brand-new Spellbinders Yana’s City Holiday Collection and three festive Christmas cards I created with it. This collection launches today, and I have to say, the detail in these dies is absolutely incredible

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August 10, 2025 5 Comments
Handmade Christmas card featuring two teal die-cut birds from the Spellbinders Lisa Horton "Little Birdies" Die Set, perched on snow-covered branches with red and green leaves. The birds wear red Santa hats, and the card is framed with layered stitched and scalloped rectangles in white, red, and aqua. A bold sentiment reading “MERRY CHRISTMAS” is stacked vertically in red and green on the right side of the card.
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Spellbinders Little Birdies Christmas

Today I’m excited to share a cheerful holiday card featuring the Little Birdies Die Set from Spellbinders’ new “All About Christmas” release by Lisa Horton.

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August 7, 2025 8 Comments
Handmade holiday card featuring a pink stenciled background with bold red heart patterns, three die-cut hot cocoa mugs topped with white snowflake embellishments, and a sentiment reading 'sending a dash of magic,' accented by festive greenery and berries
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Spellbinders Warm and Woven Stencil Cards

Welcome back, cardmaking friends! Today, I’m sharing two cozy Spellbinders Warm and Woven Stencil Cards, featuring this month’s stencil club duo and the beautiful Wax Seal of the Month

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July 25, 2025 7 Comments
Close-up of a handmade Christmas card featuring Spellbinders North Pole Friends die cuts by Simon Hurley. The card showcases two smiling die-cut snowmen in pastel winter accessories, holding a red-and-white striped North Pole signpost with dimensional banners reading "NORTH POLE," "TOY SHOP," and "LET IT SNOW." The background is a soft aqua blue, embossed with the Starry Snowflakes 3D folder from the July 2025 Spellbinders release, adding festive texture and depth. Accents of glitter and white ink splatters enhance the whimsical, frosty holiday look.
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Spellbinders North Pole Friends

Today, I’m sharing two festive holiday cards featuring the Spellbinders North Pole Friends die set, designed by the talented Simon Hurley.

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July 21, 2025 8 Comments
Handmade winter-themed card created using Spellbinders July Club dies, featuring layered die-cut elements including red mittens holding a hot chocolate mug with a snowflake design, textured turquoise sweater, and a sentiment reading "stay warm & sip happily" on a black background with bold white snowflake patterns.
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Spellbinders More July Club Cards

Today I’m excited to share more Spellbinders July Club Cards with you. I’ve been having a blast combining elements from the BetterPress and Glimmer Clubs—yes, I foiled them both!

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July 18, 2025 3 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

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January 2, 2025 4 Comments
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Ho Ho Ho Die-Cut Rudolph Card Video

The cuteness level on this card is over-the-top, with the three little reindeer creating the “O” for the Ho Ho Ho…watch today’s videos for detailed instructions to create this card.

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November 28, 2024 12 Comments
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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
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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
Heartfelt Snowflakes and Distress Oxide Sprays
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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
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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
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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
Spellbinders Cozy Toes Slippers Card
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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
4 New Christmas Card Ideas
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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
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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
6 hand made Christmas tags and cards with stitched details
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Spellbinders Stitchmas SPOILERS Day 1 – 6

Hey card making friends.  Today I have Spellbinders Stitchmas SPOILERS Day 1 – 6…THAT MEANS – if you don’t want to see what is in the first six days of the Spellbinders 12 Days of Stitchmas Kit, Then, don’t scroll down any further.  LOL, I don’t want to spoil your fun if you are planning on ordering the kit.

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September 5, 2024 8 Comments
Christmas cards in purple, teal and green with little penguins dressed up for winter in sweaters and touques
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Playful Penguins Twofre Christmas Cards

Today I’m sharing the Playful Penguins Twofre Christmas Cards.  These are from the Simon Hurley Let It Snow release and the Twofre part is I created one background and with the help of one background die, made two cards with it.  All the details are below, so let’s dig in shall we.

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August 19, 2024 10 Comments
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My Top 10 Favorite Christmas Card Makes

visit the blog for a listing of my My Top 10 Favorite Christmas Card Makes, and links to the posts and products used to help you get your cards done early this year.

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July 24, 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
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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.

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July 23, 2024 8 Comments
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