Spellbinders™ is pleased to announce the addition of three new Nesties™!  Nesties™ are the sets of Nestabilities® die templates sold in a package of four for $79.99.  Buying Nesties™ saves you 20% off the individual retail price. 

Our newest Nesties™ are:

Nesties™-008 Octagons including S4-185 Large Octagons, S4-186 Small Octagons, S4-187 Large Scalloped Octagons, and S4-188 Small Scalloped Octagons.

Nesties™-009 Flower including S4-193 Peony, S4-191 Dahlia, S4-232 Blossom Two, S4-192 Blossom

Nesties™-010 Label including S4-162 Labels Two, S4-168 Large Labels, S4-169 Small Labels, S4-190 Labels Four

In honor of Black Friday, the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season, we are giving away 12 sets of Nesties™! You can win a set of Nesties™ by commenting on the Black Friday Blog Posts, once every 6 hours, starting at 12:00am Eastern Standard Time, November 27, 2009. We will give away 3 sets every 6 hours in the time slots as follows:

• 12:00-5:59 am EST: Ultra Early Bird Give-Away
• 6:00-11:59 am EST: Early Bird Give-Away
• 12:00-5:59 pm EST: Sleepin’ In Special
• 6:00-12:00 midnight EST: Gettin’ Back from the Mall Specials

Enter by posting a comment, on November 27, here on our Spellbinders™ Blog, only once in each time slot, for a total of 4 times.  Entrants are eligible for the time slot they enter in, and for the future drawings. For example, if you enter between 12:01 and 5:59 am, you will be entered in all four drawings. You may enter again after 6:00 am to double your chance of winning, enter again after 12:00pm to triple your odds, and again after 6:00pm to for a total of four entries.

Spellbinders™ will draw three prize winner names from Random.org for each time slot. Each individual winner will receive one new Nesties™ set as announced, retail value of $80. A total of 12 winners will be announced on November 27-28, 2009. The total retail value of all prizes is $960.00.

A few details to remember:

• You may enter once per time slot.
• Entries are time stamped and will be considered for the drawings according to the time stamp.
• A valid email address is required to enter.  Emails will not be used for any purpose other than to contact winners.
• By entering this contest, entrants give Spellbinders Paper Arts permission to post winner’s name on the Spellbinders™ Blog and in promotional material.
• Winners will be announced here, on the Spellbinders™ Blog throughout the day on November 27, 2009.
• Winners may only win once throught the course of the contest.
• Winner must respond to winner email notification by Tuesday, December 1, 2009, or forfeit their prize.
• All comments are moderated. Your comment will not be visible until our Blog Team approves it. We will approve all comments, but reserve the right to delete those pesky spammers that ocassionaly visit.
• Middle of the night comments will be approved before the 6:00 am drawing, please allow us some beauty sleep!

Do you love these money saving Nesties™? Here are the other sets available:

Nesties™-001 Classic Ovals Nestabilities® Set
Nesties™-002 Classic Squares Nestabilities® Set
Nesties™-003 Classic Rectangles Nestabilities® Set
Nesties™-004 Standard & Petite Circles Nestabilities® Set
Nesties™-005 Classic & Standard Circles Nestabilities® Set
Nesties™-006 Petite Ovals Nestabilities® Set
Nesties™-007 Long Classic Rectangles Nestabilities® Set

All 10 sets are now available at retailers and Spellbinders™ Paper Arts.

Mark your calendars!

Beth

Have you heard?  We’re doing a blog hop with Tattered Angels, makers of Glimmer Mist and much more. Today, Design Team Member Julie Overby  has blogged a project, go check it out! You can also check out the Tattered Angels Blog for even more ideas.

Did you love Margie’s Savvy Saturday, where she cut apart the S4-227 Pumpkins Nestabilities®?  That got me thinking about the S4-220 Nested Pine Trees.  I wanted to give them some dimension. 

I pulled together some supplies: Spellbinders™ S4-220 Nested Pine Trees, S4-142 Long Classic Rectangles LG #4 and 5; Spellbinders™ Impressabilities™ I2-1006 Floral and Stone, I2-1009 Flourish, I2-1002 Paisley.  I also included 7gypsies, Gypsy Market Paper; SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES by 3L, 3D Foam Squares; Tattered Angels, Pearl Glimmer Mist; Clearsnap, Colorbox Chestnut Roam and Dark Moss Fluid Chalk Ink; Stampers Anonymous, Mini Ornates Stamps; Core’dinations Color Core Cardstock; tan and brown cardstock; sanding block.

I cut S4-220 Nested Pine Trees #3 with Core’dinations Cardstock, then embossed with one of the Impressabilities™ templates.  I repeated this step 2 more times, with a different tone of green, so that I had 3 large Nested Pine Treea die cuts, each embossed with a different Impressabilities™ template.  I trimmed the lightest green tone for the top section of the tree, then the medium tone for the center, and left the darkest tone full size. I cut a trunk from dark brown cardstock.  I inked the edges of the tree with Dark Moss ink.

I sanded the embossed areas that would show, then spritzed with Pearl Glimmer Mist.  I cut/embossed 2 tones of tan cardstock with S4-142 Long Classic Rectangles LG # 4 and 5, then inked the edges with Chestnut Roan ink.  I stamped a Mini Ornates sentiment with Chestnut Roan onto the smaller rectangle.

To give the tree depth, I lined the lower curved edges with 3D Foam Squares, but used normal flat adhesive at the top of the tree.

I assembled the card as shown below. The “lift” and inked edges give dimension and shadow.

Enjoy the day!

Beth

Spellbinders™ has partnered with Tattered Angels for a Designer Blog Hop!  You can let your fingers do the hopping, we’ll tell you where to see some fabulous projects using the Spellbinders™ Wizard™, our versatile Die Templates, and Tattered Angels’ products. 

To get us started, Design Team Member Heidi Blankenship has done a fabulous job embossing with her Wizard and Tattered Angels’ Glimmer Screens and Glimmer Mist.  Visit Heidi at Embellished Dreams.

We’ll direct you to each featured blog from here, so be sure you are subscribed!

Enjoy!

Beth

Impressabilities™ Rules! We Won!  If I can quote Stacey Caron, “Yeahhhhh!!!!! Yippee!!!!! Yahoo!!!!!!” We owe our faithful readers a huge thank you for supporting us and for loving our Impressabilities™ templates!  Don’t forget to check in over at When Creativity Knocks, a lucky entrant will win a prize package of one of all the nominated tools featured in the contest!  

Spellbinders™ wins a full-length episode featuring the Spellbinders™ Impressabilities™ and will be featured on the When Creativity Knocks website as the When Creativity Knocks Best Tool and receive a trophy! We’ll let you know when that episode is ready to view, and show off our trophy too!

So thank you again, from the bottom of our hearts! We really appreciate your support!

Are you planning on attending the ScrapFest 2009 at the Mall of America in Minnesota?!

We will be there too, so come by and join in on the fun. Our two lovely Designers (Pictured top: Kim Hupke - Education Director and pictured second: Heidi Blankenship - ‘08 & ‘09 Design Team Member) will be there to show off our Spellbinders™ products with some wonderful make and take projects…you don’t want to miss it!

The dates and times that Kim and Heidi will be there to help you create the following:

Friday (9/18) 9:00AM - 6:00PM
Make a quick and easy Holiday Photo Card with Spellbinders™ and 3M. Using the newly released S5-017 Snowflake Frame set, it looks like it took hours to make! Learn the technique on how to make a window card and display your favorite photo! (FREE make’n take)

Saturday (9/19) 9:00AM - 6:00PM
Make a darling holiday triangle ornament or a gift embellishment with Spellbinders™ and Making Memories. They will show you how to use the newly released S4-220 Nested Pine Trees die template to bring your tree to 3-Dimensional “life”. (FREE make’n take)

Sunday (9/20) 10:00AM - 4:00PM
Make a “Spooktacular” goodie bag for your trick or treaters with Spellbinders™ and Teresa Collins. Using the newly released S4-227 Pumpkins Nestabilities®, learn how to make this peek-a-”boo” treat bag in minutes! What a cute and easy way to present goodies to your favorite goul! (FREE make’n take)

The first 50 crafters participating each day in the make’n take will receive a FREE Spellbinders™ shopping bag.

Making it a long weekend?
Spellbinders™ will be at Scrapbooks Too in Bloomington, MN on Thursday, Sept 17th!! It’s all about Spellbinders™ all night long (well, until midnight!). Come join Kim and Heidi - they will offer make and takes during this special crop. Make a “spooky” treat bag and a cutting edge layout! They will have all the new release dies for you to see up close and personal!

See you there!!

This is an adventure sponsored by When Creativity Knocks! It’s a chance for you to participate with us by voting for the Spellbinders Impressabilities as your favorite craft tool!  Voting begins August 28 at midnight (PST) and ends on September 8, 2009 at midnight (PST).

Just register and log in at the When Creativity Knocks homepage, go to the Creativity Forum. Select Categories, and then scroll down to the Great Crafter’s Tool Hunt section, select Spellbinders Impressabilities, and leave a brief message in the forum. You can even watch a short video of the Impressabilities in action!

Why should you vote? Everyone who votes will be put into a drawing to win the big prize package including one of each nominated tool!  We know you love prizes!

What does Spellbinders get? When the Impressabilities win the most votes (thanks to you all!), Spellbinders will win a full-length episode featuring the Spellbinders Impressabilities and be featured on the When Creativity Knocks website as the When Creativity Knocks Best Tool and receive a trophy! Wahoo! We love trophies!

So go ahead and join us in voting for the Spellbinders Impressabilities, and we can both win!

I thought I would share what Margarita, our Grand Prize Winner in the Pendant Project Contest had to say when she realized she was the winner of $500 in Spellbinders’™ Products and these fabulous prizes from our generous Partners:

A sampling of our product line sure to fulfill the winner’s needs for a loooong time to come! Some of the contents include: E-Z Runners®, Mounting Squares, Photo Corners, 3D Foam Squares and PLENTY of Adhesive Sheets to use with your products! The retail value of this package is over $200.

A “one of” our entire Abbey Road line. It has a retail value of over $130.00.

A set of 8 Smooch colors, a retail value of $36.00

Core’dinations prize valued at over $68.00 including:
Black Magic assorted pack - 20 sheets
Vintage assorted pack - 20 sheets
WhiteWash assorted pack - 20 sheets
Super Assortment pack - 80 sheets

The entire JustRite Christmas Release with coordinating blocks:
JB 08765 Old Fashioned Christmas Borders & Centers
JB 08760 Christmas Treasures Borders & Centers
JB 08117 3 ¼” Wooden Stamper
JB 08770 Christmas Joy Borders & Centers
JB 08420 1 ¾” x 2 5/16” Oval Wooden Stamper
JB 08650 Round 2” Stamper with Bonus 15 pt Font
JB 08780 A Merry Little Christmas
JB 08785 Holiday Demi Phrases
JB 08115 1 5/8” wooden stamper
Total Retail Value- $117.55

And this is the note from our winner, Margarita:

I love it! She made me promise to include the smilies! LOL! Thank you again to everyone that participated! That was so much fun, we should do it again!
Happy Friday!
Beth

Hi Everyone! Its Stacey here, and I am so excited to announce the winner of our Pendant Project Contest. The new and innovative line of Spellbinders’™ Pendants and Borderabilities® are going to take your artwork to the next level! These detailed designs are quick and effortless, but so beautiful, and with 8 timeless designs to embellish your cards, scrapbook pages and decor.

Did you see the Pendant Project Gallery?  Wow, I am so inspired by the artwork there! Each and every project is beautiful and creative. It was so hard to choose the Top 5 Winners. Our judging panel agreed on these projects (in alphabetical order):

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1. Diane of Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA! Diane’s creative card using acetate and S4-204 Fleur de Lis Pendant with vellum caught our attention.

2. Margarita, of Grand Junction, Colorado, USA! Her entry was an elegant mini heritage album using S4-207 Kaleidoscope Pendant and S4-216 Kaleidoscope Borderabilities®.

3. Marion of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia! Marion’s adorable Baby card incorporated S4-208 In Spades Pendant, and S4-217 In Spades Borderabilities® (both pieces!).

4. Monica of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada! Monica wowed us with her Queen’s Necklace. Monica used S4-204 Fleur de Lis Pendant, shrink plastic and a copper leafing pen to achieve these results!

5. Nicole of Wateford, Pennsylvania, USA! Nicole’s Framed Butterfly Quilt is just stunning. She used the S4-204 Fleur de Lis Pendant on this 12 x 12″ framed home decor piece.

The winner’s name was drawn thru Random.org. In addition to winning $500 in Spellbinders™ die templates of her choice, our Coordinating Partners have sweetened the prize with a few of their own products. Our lucky Grand Prize Winner will also receive the following:

A sampling of our product line sure to fulfill the winner’s needs for a loooong time to come! Some of the contents include: E-Z Runners®, Mounting Squares, Photo Corners, 3D Foam Squares and PLENTY of Adhesive Sheets to use with your products! The retail value of this package is over $200.

A “one of” our entire Abbey Road line. It has a retail value of over $130.00.

A set of 8 Smooch colors, a retail value of $36.00

Core’dinations prize valued at over $68.00 including:
Black Magic assorted pack - 20 sheets
Vintage assorted pack - 20 sheets
WhiteWash assorted pack - 20 sheets
Super Assortment pack - 80 sheets

The entire JustRite Christmas Release with coordinating blocks:
JB 08765 Old Fashioned Christmas Borders & Centers
JB 08760 Christmas Treasures Borders & Centers
JB 08117 3 ¼” Wooden Stamper
JB 08770 Christmas Joy Borders & Centers
JB 08420 1 ¾” x 2 5/16” Oval Wooden Stamper
JB 08650 Round 2” Stamper with Bonus 15 pt Font
JB 08780 A Merry Little Christmas
JB 08785 Holiday Demi Phrases
JB 08115 1 5/8” wooden stamper
Total Retail Value- $117.55

Here are the results from Random.org:

 And the winner is #2, Margarita! 

Congratulations Margarita! Have lots of fun with the Grand Prizes!  Another hearty congratulations to the other 4 ladies in the Top 5, and to all who participated!

Love, Stacey

Spellbinders™ is thrilled to announce the Top 5 Winners in the Pendant Project Contest!  It was a difficult decision, there were so many entries, and so much creativity!  Take a look at the Pendant Project Gallery!

Each of the Top 5 winners has already won $100 in Spellbinders™ die templates. One of these lucky ladies will be the Grand Prize Winner, and will be able to choose a total of $500 in Spellbinders™ die templates, as well as other prizes from our Coordinating Partners,

A big Spellbinders™ “Thank You” to our Coordinating Partners for their generous participation!

Before we go any further with our winners, we want to make an honorable mention of three projects. Did we say the competition was fierce?  We thought these three projects deserve some applause:

Baby Card by Kathy of New Plymouth, New Zealand.

Foil Pendant Card by Sandy of Canfield, Ohio, USA.

Purse by Jan of Garrison, Iowa, USA.

~Drumroll please!~

These are the Top 5 Winners in the Pendant Project Contest, in alphabetical order.

Congratulations!

1. Diane of Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA!  Diane’s creative card using acetate and S4-204 Fleur de Lis Pendant with vellum caught our attention.

2. Margarita, of Grand Junction, Colorado, USA!  Her entry was an elegant mini heritage album using S4-207 Kaleidoscope Pendant and S4-216 Kaleidoscope Borderabilities®.

3. Marion of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia!  Marion’s adorable Baby card incorporated S4-208 In Spades Pendant, and S4-217 In Spades Borderabilities® (both pieces!).

4. Monica of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada! Monica wowed us with her Queen’s Necklace.  Monica used S4-204 Fleur de Lis Pendant, shrink plastic and a copper leafing pen to achieve these results!

5. Nicole of Wateford, Pennsylvania, USA!  Nicole’s Framed Butterfly Quilt is just stunning.  She used the S4-204 Fleur de Lis Pendant on this 12 x 12″ framed home decor piece.

The Grand Prize Winner will be randomly drawn from these 5 names on Thursday, August 20.

Congratulations to our Top 5, Honorable Mentions, and everyone that participated!  You all did an awesome job!

Beth

is fast approaching the 11th hour! The deadline is tomorrow at 11:59 PM, Eastern Standard Time!! Who’s putting on their finishing touches on their project?

Better get those decided and ready to send in jpg attachment to PendantProjectCont@spellbinders.us Don’t forget to title your file with the entrant’s name and project name (example: JaneDoeThankYouCard.jpg).

Contest details are HERE…make sure to read all the details because it’s worth $500 plus! The “plus” is the generous partners that also are sweetening the pot!

Oh and for those of us who love eye candy and who doesn’t?! We have our Pendant entries in the gallery HERE! Thank you to those who have already entered so far…aren’t they talented? WOW!

Hope to see your entry in the gallery too!
Good luck to those who are entering!