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hand made greeting card with two green and turquoise love birds sitting on a bronze perch, looking at each other, surrounded by green, blue and pink foliage and flowers.
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Spellbinders Cheerful Chirps Hand Made Cards

I have some Spellbinders Cheerful Chirps Hand-Made Cards to share with you today.   This release goes live today. If you are a Club Member, you had access to the new products on the 6th.  It consists of three sets of die-cut birds, foliage, and flowers to create with. 

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June 10, 2025 8 Comments
Embossed hand made card with a 3 tone blue background, a salty walrus with a seagull standing on his head
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More Nautical Club Cards

Today I’m playing with the Large Die of the Month, the Stencil of the Month, the Small Die of the Month, and the 3D embossing Folder, all rolled into two fun cards.  I’m having a blast with the nautical theme this month, and these adorable critters are so much fun to create.

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June 5, 2025 6 Comments
hand made birthday card with a rainbow of splatter and a script overlay in black with large die cut sentiment in black and white
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BetterPress Grunge Card

I still had a couple of items from the Lisa Horton Wildflowers release to work with, so I decided to combine them to create a Tim Holtz-inspired Grunge Card.

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May 27, 2025 10 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. 

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May 10, 2025 6 Comments
hand made birthday card with a little mouse perched on top of a green and pink party hat blowing out three candles on his pink and yellow cake.
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Spellbinders Spring House Mouse Cards

Today, I’m sharing 2 Spellbinders Spring House Mouse Cards, using new stamps from the Spellbinders line.  I just adore these little guys, and they are always so much fun to color

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April 23, 2025 6 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.

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April 10, 2025 9 Comments
blue card with a white embossed overlay with gold thread wrapped around it three times embellished with a blue rectangle wax seal
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Spellbinders Emboss Card with Wax Seal

I have another clean and simple card to share with you today, the Spellbinders Emboss Card with Wax Seal.  As I said yesterday, the 3D Embossing Folder Club for April is spectacular, so I decided to make an entire card front with it.

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April 9, 2025 8 Comments
hand made felt stitched chick in green yellow and orange Easter Colors
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Spellbinders Cozy Chick

Today, I have Spellbinders Cozy Chick to share with you.  This is my final felt stitching for the spring edition. 

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April 2, 2025 6 Comments
Green and Orange Glimmer Foiled Mosaic background hand made card with orange and green die cut flowers and leaves to celebrate St. Patrick's day
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St. Paddy’s Day Glimmer Cards

I have a couple of St. Paddy’s Day Glimmer Cards to share with you to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.  I combined a few of the new Spellbinders Clubs for these again.  The main focus is the BetterPress Club of the Month, Mosaic Quilted Memories.

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March 17, 2025 8 Comments
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Spellbinders Mini Wax Seals

Hi, card-making friends. Yesterday, Spellbinders released a pile of new products, which you can view here. Today, I’m sharing four projects created with the NEW

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March 11, 2025 10 Comments
pinky rust colored floral embossed hand made card with an overlay of die cut florals and a white and gold sentiment
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Spellbinders March 2025 3D Embossing Folder Card

Today I have a Spellbinders March 2025 3D Embossing Folder Card to share with you.  It’s the 6th of the month and that means all the clubs are open and ready for purchase and today’s card shares 3 of the new clubs.

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March 6, 2025 10 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
Spellbinders Hooray It's Your birthday
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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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
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
Spellbinders Autumn Scarecrow and Pumpkin Cards
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Spellbinders Autumn Scarecrow and Pumpkin Cards

I have two Spellbinders Autumn Scarecrow and Pumpkin Cards to share with you today created with the September Small Die of the Month and the second pumpkin card showcases the lovely and very elegant Autumn Chevron Embossing Folder.  This embossing folder creates a beautiful backdrop for more pink and orange pumpkins with a bit of added bling from the Friendly Thanks Glimmer of the Month Club.

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September 9, 2024 14 Comments
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