Hi Spellbinders Friends!  Just like the kids write a “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” essay, I want to share with you what’s going on at Spellbinders Paper Arts this season.

Following a successful show at the Craft and Hobby Association Trade Show in Orlando in July, our new Die Templates and Impressabilities have been shipped to retailers and are available now.  But don’t wait, several of our products are limited edition!  They will only be shipping through November 30, 2009.  Don’t miss the chance to get them!  The limited edition products are:

• S4-220 Nested Pine Tree
• S4-228 Nested Maple Leaf
• S4-227 Pumpkins Nestabilities™
• S4-226 Harvest Borderabilities® Petite
• S7-017 On the Vine Borderabilities® Grand
• S4-222 Create A Flake 1
• S4-223 Create A Flake 2
• S4-219 Nested Poinsettia
• S4-225 Holiday Cheer
• S7-016 Poinsettia Borderabilities® Grand
• S7-015 Holiday Lights Borderabilities® Grand
• S4-221 Poinsettia and Stars Borderabilities® Petite
• S4-224 Snowflake Borderabilities® Petite
•  S5-017 Snowflake Frameabilities®
• S5-018 Poinsettia Frameabilities®

Education Director Kim Hupke and Design Team Member Heidi Blankenship were thrilled to meet throngs of ladies and a few gentlemen at Scrapfest 2009 last week!  They had a wonderful time introducing many new customers to Spellbinders™ products through demonstrations and some super cool make and take projects. Thank you for stopping by to say hi, to snag a tote bag, and to participate in the make and takes!

A huge thank you to my wonderful Spellbinders™ staff!  We welcomed our Marketing Team, including Education Director Kim Hupke, Design Team Coordinator Cathy Chlebana, Beth Pingry, and Eli Harlan to join Tobi Hall, Terre Fry and me in Phoenix this week for planning meetings.  We are well on our way to 2010, which will be bringing more of the new and innovative products you’ve come to expect from Spellbinders™ Paper Arts, as well as the fun and creative ways we reveal them to you.  We have some super exciting things in store and I’m sure you will love them, but that’s all I can say right now…

I especially want to send out a big THANK YOU for supporting us on the Great Crafters Tool Hunt on When Creativity Knocks!  We love our Impressabilities™ Templates and we love that you love them too!  Have you enjoyed the month of Impressabilities™ ideas, art and techniques on the blog? 

And we wanted to follow up with, Margarita, the Grand Prize Winner from the Pendant Project Contest. She received her prizes from not only Spellbinders™, but from our generous Coordinating Partners: My Mind’s Eye, JustRite, Core’dinations, SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES by 3L, and Clearsnap!  Enjoy those fabulous prizes Margarita, and be sure to show us what you create!

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As you can see, things are always on the move at Spellbinders™!  Thank you again for all of your support!

Love,
Stacey

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

Spellbinders™ wants to say THANK YOU to all the participants of the Pendant Project Contest!  We were overwhelmed by your response to our contest.   What an amazing collection of Pendant and Borderabilities® artwork!  You can see all the entries in the Inspiration Alley Pendant Project Gallery.The Top 5 winners will be announced August 17 right here!

Today I have a fun little card to show off.  I was playing around, inspired by some of the beautiful Pendant Projects and the set that is becoming my favorite, the S4-208 In Spades Pendant and S4-217 In Spades Borderabilities®, and F-001 Red Premium Craft Foil.

I started out with those die templates, and added the S4-234 Ribbon Tags Trio 2, S4-112 Classic Oval Small, #2 (with the smallest being #1).

My white card is 5×7″. I cut a piece of black cardstock to 5×6″. I lined up the cut edge of the S4-217 In Spades Borderabilities® die template along one 5″ edge and cut/embossed in my Wizard™. Then I repeated that on the opposite edge, however when I embossed, I made sure not to cover the previously embossed areas with the Tan Embossing Pad, so they didn’t flatten out.

I cut/embossed the F-001Red Premium Craft Foil with the S4-208 In Spades Pendant and sanded the embossed areas.

I love the S4-234 Ribbon Tags Trio 2 set, particularly the oval tag.  But this time I wanted an opening in it, so I pulled out my ovals to see if they were compatible. Voila!  The #2 oval in the S4-112 Classic Oval Small set fits perfectly inside the Oval Ribbon Tag!  Who knew this was a “Nestabilities®”?  Just remember, you can nest any two die templates as long as there is no overlap.

I cut another oval slightly larger from white paper to stamp my Hero Arts “Thanks!” and Clearsnap Black Pigment ink, adhered it to the back of the Oval Tag, and attached some white ribbon.

Here is my finished card!  And thanks for the inspiration!

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!

With all this talk about Pendants and using them with their coordinating Borderabilities®, I figured today I would pair up two different Pendant pieces to make one project.

Since I have the S4-209 Tulips Pendant and the S4-204 Fleur de Lis Pendant, I used a combination of the Tulips Pendant and the Fleur de Lis Center pieces. With these components along with the Cosmo Cricket Early Bird Collection, I did an altered home decor for a friend’s retro themed kitchen - a perfect combination!

The base is a 4″x 8″ canvas panel that I purchased from an art supply store. I inked the edges with red acrylic paint on both the canvas and the background paper which was cut to cover the canvas. Then set aside to dry.

I cut and embossed my S4-209 Tulip Pendant (with its center in place). After embossing, I took out the center piece (for another use) and left my cut piece in the template. With Clearsnap Queue, I inked to contrast the cream cardstock. I also cut and embossed with Core’dinations red cardstock another Tulip Pendant piece. The red Tulip Pendant will be saved for another project but I wanted the tulips to fill in the gaps in the cream Tulip Pendant by popping them up with Scrapbook Adhesives’ foam tape.

Then I cut and embossed the S4-204 Fleur de Lis Pendant center piece which I lightly sanded to show the embossing. After gathering various embellishments to fit the theme, I adhered the pieces to the background paper and then on to the canvas to complete the altered home decor for my friend.

There you have it…two Pendants in one project! Does that give you more ideas for your Pendant Project Contest entries (hint! hint!!)?! Remember the deadline (Monday, August 10th) is around the corner but you still have time! There will be five (5) winners. Curious about the entries? Take a look HERE! There are a lot of talented people but you don’t know unless you enter so GOOD LUCK!

Who loved Margie’s Savvy Saturday Card?  Me!!  Here’s a quick one I put together using the same set of S4-205 Eyelets Pendant and S4-214 Eyelets Borderabilities®.  I used the Border, which is the die template that has one cut line, to cut/emboss the detailed edge of the paper.

I started with patterned paper from My Mind’s Eye’s Penny Lane collection, Clearsnap Colorbox Lemon Grass pigment ink and a Colorbox ink applicator tool.

The green “Beauty” background is 6 x 6″.  The cream “My Friend” mat is 5.5 x 5.5″.  To cut the detailed border, I placed the S4-215 Eyelets Borderabilities® die template along the edge of the paper and taped it in place with low tack tape.  The tape keeps the border from moving.  I cut/embossed in the Wizard™.  I removed the tape and applied Lemon Grass ink to the back side die template and just slightly along the embossed edge.

I cut/embossed the S4-205 Eyelets Pendant from the blue “Peace” paper, and the Center die from the “Beauty” paper.  I actually cut/embossed both pieces at the same time!  I inked the Pendant and Center pieces in the same way as above.

I assembled the card and added a button from my stash.  Yes, I actually sewed that button on!

Do you love the look of the Borderabilities®?  My next Savvy Saturday will be how to use the 5.5″ Borderabilities® on paper longer than 5.5″!  And don’t forget about the Pendant Project Contest, entries will be accepted through August 10!

Hello!
Hope everyone is recovering from all the CHA reveals especially our CHA Blog Frenzy winners! Again, congratulations!!

It’s Savvy Saturday!
Last month, we did a card using the S4-214 Eyelets Borderabilities®. Today, I thought I would show you how I make my favorite flower. A new twist for me is instead of using strips of paper, I am using this Borderabilities® to give it that extra humph!

This is what the flower looks like. I placed it on a small notebook that I covered with My Mind’s Eye paper and inked the edges with Clearsnap Queve ink. I love how it looks and hope you do too!

The Spellbinder™ die templates used are:
S4-205 Eyelets Pendant and accent piece
S4-214 Eyelets Borderabilities® #2 (this die template has a continuous cut line perfect for making coordinating accent pieces)
S4-195 Small Classic Inverted Scalloped Circles #4 & #5

First, we cut/emboss the S4-205 Eyelets Pendant and its accent piece using Core’dination cardstock. Set aside.
Take the S4-195 Small Classic Inverted Scalloped Circles #4 & #5 and place them both down on the Magnetic Spacer Plate in a nesting position. Cut/emboss with the Core’dination cardstock. Set aside.
Then cut/emboss three S4-214 Eyelets Borderabilities® #2: two with Core’dination cardstock and one with My Mind’s Eye paper (make sure to stencil the last one with Clearsnap ink to give it a beautiful embossed accent to the Borderabilities®).

With the two Core’dination cardstock S4-214 Eyelets Borderablities®, score every 1/4″ and accordion fold both. I am using a darker color cardstock in the picture instead of white so that you can see the creases better. Adhere the ends with wet adhesive to make a continuous strip (make sure you have each strip facing the same side) and let dry. When dried, adhere the other ends together to make a ring.

Spread wet adhesive to the center of the S4-205 Eyelets Pendant. Flatten the ring down to form a pleated circle (make sure its center is a small open circle - you may have work it as cardstock can be stiff) and place it on top of the wet adhesive on the Pendant. Hold for a few moments so that the adhesive sets and then place the White Master Mats on top and let dry flat.

After the flower is completely dry, adhere the S4-195 Small Classic Inverted Scalloped Circle onto the flower. Insert the decorative pins in between the pleats and adhere the Pendant accent piece to the center.

Then all you have to do is to adhere to your favorite card, layout or altered piece and you’re done. I hope you enjoy this flower technique.

How about trying it on one of your entries to our Pendant Project Contest (hint! hint!)?! You still have time…deadline is Monday, August 10th (11:59PM EST) - good luck!!

MargieH

“THANK YOU… THANK YOU… THANK YOU!!! I couldn’t be more thrilled… I’ve never won anything before! I’m trying to collect all of the beautiful Spellbinders nesting die sets and this prize brings me that much closer to my goal. Thank you Spellbinders and I look forward to more of these wonderful contest opportunities.” That is what Randy from Los Angeles, California, USA, replied when she got the winning email.  Randy, we like the way you think! Randy entered to win these beauties from Linda Duke’s CHA Blog Frenzy Reveal.

Joining Randy’s collection will be the following Spellbinders™ Die Templates:

S4-219 Nested Poinsettia

I2-1006 Impressabilities Floral Stones

S4-234 Ribbon Tag Trio 2

S4-229 Labels Five

S4-220 Nested Pine Tree

S5-019 Labels Eight

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You can win these dies and more, just by sending one email from the featured CHA Blog Frenzy Reveal.  Stop here daily to get introduced to the featured Designer and get linked to her blog.

What’s that?  You want to win even more Spellbinders™ products?  Enter your Spellbinders™ Pendant artwork into our Pendant Project Contest!  Your work will be featured on our website and there will be 5 lucky winners!