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How many years of crafting?
I’ve been crafting in one or another since I was about 8 years old. I remember weaving pot holders and selling them to the neighbors for pennies (I guess you can say that was my first paying job too). That would mean, that I’ve been crafting for 42 years now.
How long have you been blogging?
I started my own website in November of 2005 with daily posts. When Splitcoaststampers offered blogs to the Daily Dozen Alumni, I jumped on the bandwagon and my first blog post there was February 24, 2007.
Favorite food/beverage for crafting?
I always have coffee or Diet Coke (and sometimes chocolate) close at hand.
One thing you get inspiration from and why?
Most times I draw inspiration from art work of wallpaper that I see in different places that I go. I also like to browse the Kohl’s Sunday ads for pictures of any art they might have on sale.
Here are some of Sherry’s recent works of art!
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How many years of crafting?
I have always been a crafty person. Even in my childhood I was always making something or remaking something
How long have you been blogging?
I began my blog July 4th 2006…so wow, almost three years!!!
Your favorite Spellbinders™ technique?
I love to leave my die on my cut cardstock or paper and use it as a mask/stencil with my Copic Air Brushing System.
Your favorite Spellbinders™ die?
Seriously??? There is NO WAY I could choose!!!
Favorite food/beverage for crafting?
I don’t really eat or drink while I am crafting…except when it is deadline crunch time…then Dr Pepper is usually near at hand
One thing you get inspiration from and why?
One way I get inspired is by paying attention to details from everyday life, there is something to be learned from each day…
Keri Lee has some wonderful projects to share!
So go on over to Keri Lee’s Blog and enter for those die templates!
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***Due to the linking difficulties in Michelle’s Blog, Spellbinders™ will extend her Blog Frenzy entry deadline to June 26th (08:30AM EST)! This will give everyone a chance to enter to win these sweet Tulips die templates!!***
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How many years of crafting?
I’ve been a life-long crafter. I started out by helping my mom with Bible School crafts. After my daughters were born, I started scrapbooking and really got serious about the craft.
How long have you been blogging?
Two years.
Your favorite Spellbinders™ technique?
I love to airbrush an image with the Copic Airbrush System while leaving the die template in place. It creates a wonderful, white border. I also like to make my Clam Shell type cards by folding a piece of cardstock to leave a little bit on top for the fold.
Favorite food/beverage for crafting?
Chocolate and Diet Cola
One thing you get inspiration from and why?
My Inspiration File contains clippings from my favorite magazines. It provides a visual to refer to for instant inspiration such as colors, themes, etc.
Here are some of Michelle’s wonderful projects to share!
So go visit Michelle’s Blog and enter your chance to win those new die templates!
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How many years of crafting?
I have always been crafty. But I became interested in (quickly progressing to infaturated with) paper crafting at a stamping workshop in November 2000.
How long have you been blogging?
I have been blogging for three years (in August).
Your favorite Spellbinders™ technique?
I like to use the dies as masks when I’m airbrushing with my Copic markers.
Your favorite Spellbinder™ die?
I mostly use the Standard Circles, followed by the small tag dies.
Favorite food/beverage for crafting?
Hmmm…I’m pretty boring! I generally craft with water by my side, and an occasional Diet Cherry Pepsi. I don’t keep food in my studio but I do keep sugarless gum!
One thing you get inspiration from and why?
I am inspired by every beautiful thing I see…whether it is out my window, in a magazine or in a blog.
We like to share some of Debbie’s beautiful work!
So go visit Debbie’s Blog and enter your chance to win those new die templates!
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How many years of crafting?
I’ve been crafting since I was a young girl. With a crafty mother who was the leader of my brownie troop - there was always something crafty going on at home.
How long have you been blogging?
I’ve been blogging for a little over a year. I celebrated my blog anniversary back in February.
Your favorite Spellbinder™ technique?
My favorite Spellbinder™ technique is framing. I love to cut our frame shapes and elevate them while recessing other elements to lower layers. It’s easy to do using Nestibilities®, their staggered sizes make them perfect for cutting two templates at once to make a frame.
Your favorite Spellbinders™ die?
Oh, it would be difficult to name just one…but S4-190 Labels Four is a shape I lean to all the time. Beyond that, I love all the frames.
Favorite food/beverage for crafting?
Coffee because if I’m crafting, it’s probably late at night!
One thing you get inspiration from and why?
I get inspiration from browsing through stores and looking through magazines. I’m usually looking for shapes, colors and a “feel.” When I can focus and just browse not buy, the quiet time is very restorative. I’m usually able to come away with a couple of ideas.
Here are some of Becca’s recent creations made with Spellbinders products! Just beautiful!
So what are you waiting for?!
Go to Becca’s Blog and see what we’ve been excited about!
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The Blog Frenzy will be starting tomorrow and we wanted to get some “housekeeping” issues (aka the Rules) out of the way now and kick off the Frenzy right away on Monday!
This Frenzy is an opportunity to win the Pendants and corresponding border dies introduced each day.
When the entry deadline is reached, Spellbinders™ will randomly pick one entry from each Blog Frenzy reveal as stated in the “Rules.” The winner will be contacted by email within 24 hours of the contest deadline. The winner will have 72 hours to reply to that email to claim the prize. If the winner fails to respond within 72 hours, a new name will be drawn for said prize. The winner will receive the new die templates being revealed on the specific daily blog post they are entering.
Entrants visiting all eight (8) Spellbinders™ Pendants Reveals and correctly entering their information into the separate drawings, as described below, will automatically be entered into a GRAND PRIZE giveaway of a full set of eight (8) Pendants die templates and eight (8) matching Petite Borderabilities® die templates being revealed.
Rules
Any participants wishing to be included in the daily drawing for the Spellbinders™ Pendants die templates in the Blog Frenzy giveaway must adhere to all the following rules. U.S. and international blog guests are welcome to participate in this Frenzy.
To enter each drawing of the sneak peeks between June 22 and June 29, visit the reveal blog and click on the contest link to reveal an email window.
In the subject line of the email, enter the die template name being revealed. Each blog reveal will remain open for 48 hours. Only one entry per blog is allowed and participants must use the same email address daily to be considered for Grand Prize entry, no exceptions. Please consider whether you will have access to the same email address from June 22nd through June 29th and plan accordingly.
Spellbinders™ Design Team members and employees are not eligible for drawings.
Any participants wishing to be automatically entered into the drawing for the Pendants Frenzy Grand Prize must enter all eight (8) blog reveals and follow all the above rules.
Please note:
*Spellbinders™ will only use email information to contact the winner.
*Spellbinders™ will not share this email address with any other parties.
*Spellbinders™ will not use this email information for advertisements or communications other than to contact the winner.
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Hey all, it’s Eli here with a very special announcement to make. We have a fabulous friend of Spellbinders™ who is joining us for the summer to help educate, entertain and inspire those of you who frequent the Spellbinders blog…YEAH. We needed someone to support Beth’s blogging efforts because I am taking the summer off to do some traveling with my family. So we thought of Margie Higuchi, who has been a fan/user of Spellbinders products almost since the beginning. She is known as MargieH on the boards so some of you probably already know her. I interviewed Margie a couple of weeks ago and this is what she had to say about her life as a crafter and the summer ahead.
ELI: Hi Margie, Welcome to Spellbinders™.
MARGIE: Thanks, Eli. I couldn’t be more thrilled to begin a summer of fun, hanging out with my good friend Beth and all the folks who visit the blog. I love to share my artwork and teach as I go along.
ELI: So how long have you been crafting? MARGIE: It seems like I have crafted all my life…from when I was old enough to hold a crayon to what I do now which is paper crafting! I started paper crafting in the mid-70s. My father’s job took us all over the east coast, the south and the Midwest. So in order to remember each “hometown,” I would make a few pages of friends, neighborhood, school, etc. and add some memorabilia in my scrapbooks. That was the start of my scrapbooking! LOL!!
ELI: Like several of us around here, you’ve been crafting “forever”, but when and how did you “meet” the Wizard™.
MARGIE: A very dear friend was hooked on the Wizard™ and she had shown me the “PURPLE” side (the Wizard™ was purple at the time)…I was hooked! What can’t you do on this wonderful machine? OK…it can’t clean house for me or cook but it comes close! LOL!! Seriously, the die templates are so detailed and you can’t get that anywhere else! So many ways to enhance a page or project (cutting, embossing and stenciling).
ELI: Do you have some favorite die templates? (I know there is no point in asking your precise favorite because no one can choose just one…)
ELI: I understand you are of Japanese descent and you teach in the Japanese community. Can you tell me about how that came about?
MARGIE: It started when I lived in NJ/NY area back in 2000. I was on the kindergarten yearbook committee for the Japanese Children’s Society (a Japanese international school) where my oldest son attended. The mothers saw my albums that I had brought as examples. I offered to teach them basics and it took off from there. In Chicago, I went to a series of Japanese card classes to make friends. When those classes were done, the students contacted me to see if I would teach them scrapbooking. Sure! LOL!! It has been going strong for about two years.
ELI: So what are you going to grace us with this summer?
MARGIE: I’m hoping to share the versatility of the Wizard™ and to show some “AHA” moments. Of course, we have CHA (Craft & Hobby Assoc.) trade show coming up in July, so we’ll have some postings on that (wink, wink!). In addition to some FUN!! It’s all good but I don’t want to share too much…gotta have the surprise element in there. So stay tuned!
ELI: Any other thoughts before I show off some of your artwork and sign us off?
MARGIE: I just want to say thank you to everyone at Spellbinders for the opportunity to express my enthusiasm for the Wizard™! For me, it is truly the machine I go to–time after time.
Margie’s layout features a chain of Classic Scalloped Hearts, featuring her oldest son with his first girlfriend! Look carefully and see the Shapeabilties® Nested Bird cut out of plastic (using leftover transparency) and edges with ink…a sneaky little surprise right near the title.
Now this canvas is the one I can’t resist: Margie created a darling house and sunny scene, almost exclusively with Spellbinders™ die templates…see if you can find them all…
I admit it. I can’t for the life of me cut a perfect square. That makes Spellbinders’ Square die templates perfect for me! Squares are so versatile in scrapbooking, card making and even multi-media, they’re something everyone should own. Lets explore some artwork and see why its so hip to be Square!
Toss aside those parkas and bask in the beautiful South Carolina sunshine, and grab yourself a tall glass of Pink Lemonade with Keri Lee Sereika.
Do you like to make cards or scrapbooks or altered? - I love to create Altered Items but find that I don’t have as much time as I would like right now…so I get more cards than anything else done these days!
Marital status/Kids/? I am married to a USAF Pilot and have three kids with the fourth expected in June
Aside from paper, what other materials have you used? I work with Clay, Fabric, Wood, Tile…you name it, I have probably used it at some point!
Where do you look for inspiration when you are about to start something new? I tend to just look around me…I love to go outside for fresh air and sunshine then I like to get a good magazine and scan for fresh color palettes and design ideas.
What kind of workspace do you have? I am blessed to have a 16 x 10 studio that is attached to my kids play room. I can keep an eye on them and work at the same time!
Is there anything you would like to add? Can’t think of anything! LOL Other than I write for two magazines - Crafts N Things and Scrap & Stamp Arts Magazine perhaps.
Visit Keri Lee’s blog, Pink Lemonade, for a refreshing new die template! Yes, there is another drawing for the ever increasing prize package, don’t forget to send in your entry!
Today we travel to the frozen tundra, um, I mean the Chicago Suburbs to meet Beth Pingry…hey, that’s me!
My experience in paper arts started as a child. “I kept scrapbooks for as long as I can remember and I always had a camera nearby,” (My first was a Brownie Hawkeye!). My four years in high school were filled with art classes and I earned a marketing degree in college. Until the births of my boys, she worked in the business world. As a stay at home mom, I reconnected with my creative muse when I discovered a scrapbook store. My college sweetheart and husband of 19 years supports my habits cheerfully (most of the time). I love heritage, timeless traditional styles in her crafts and at home. I started out as a scrapbooker, but have become passionate about altered art and digital designs. I’ve been designing with Spellbinders for 3 years, and will be co-writing this blog, along with some other fun stuff.
Here is sample of some of my favorite art.
Come visit my blog, Cookies for Breakfast, to see what I’ve cooked up today, and enter to win some fabulous die templates.
