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hand made die cut card with a vintage teal blue mailbox with gold trim, a pink and white envelope in the slot and decorated with pink and yellow roses
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Spellbinders April Club Kick Off

Today, I’m sharing Spellbinders April Club Kick Off, and I’m starting with my four favorite kits for this month.  The Large Die of the Month, the BetterPress of the Month, the 3D Embossing Folder of the month and the Embossing Club.

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April 6, 2025 7 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
turquoise and white arched shaped card with a cascade of pink flowers and green leaves down the left side and the number 15 in gold in the center with congrats across the center
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Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms Celebration Card

The Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms is my favorite floral die set from Spellbinders. The set of 21 thin metal dies creates a fabulous spray of big and bold blooms! Use some or all of them; they go well with any project that calls for a wonderful floral motif.  Watch today’s card-making video to learn how to make this uniquely shaped Spellbinders Be Bold Celebration Card.

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December 9, 2024 17 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
His and Hers Birthday CaKe Cards
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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
hand made friendship card with blue and green flowers with purple leaves on a white embossed background
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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
Stitched Christmas Tree Card
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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
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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
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
Mint Green Halloween Card Intro
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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
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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
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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
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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
New Falling Hearts Embossing Folder card Intro
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New Falling Hearts Embossing Folder

Today I have a New Falling Hearts Embossing Folder card to share with you.  The Falling Hearts Embossing Folder is new this month as part of the main Stamptember release from Simon Says Stamps.  It is a beautiful, deeply etched folder which allowed me to color all the individual hearts and then do the swiping technique to add ink to the background.  Keep reading to get all the details on how to create this card.

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September 12, 2024 8 Comments
The blingiest Birthday Card Ever
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The Blingiest Birthday Card Ever

Today I have the Blingiest Birthday Card Ever, haha…..I’m playing with Simon Says Stamp Sparkling Candles Dies.  They are part of this month’s regular release over at Simon, and they are super cool.  They cut out the candle and the overlay at the same time, making it super quick and easy to put these candles together.  Let’s jump in with the Card Tutorial.

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September 11, 2024 9 Comments
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3D Pumpkin Embossing Folder Cards

It’s the 6th and that means that the Spellbinders September Clubs are live and you can subscribe.  Today I’m sharing 3D Pumpkin Embossing Folder Cards created with this month’s 3D Embossing Folder Club – Pumpkin Patch.  This embossing folder has DEEP embossing and I was able to get fabulous results with some Distress Oxide Ink blending on them.

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September 6, 2024 10 Comments
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