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November 2017 Release Collections Blog Hop. (Giveaway Closed)

Nov 20, 2017

Hello and welcome! We are happy you are joining us for our November 2017 Release Collections Blog Hop! We are excited to show you our new products, share inspiration and of course host a few fun giveaways! This month we are featuring: Chantilly Paper Lace by Becca Feeken, Four Seasons by Lene Lok, Cool Vibes by Stephanie Low and of course Love Set Match by Debi Adams. Take a few minutes to browse the new products we have in the store for you! Click the images below to visit our store.

Our in house creative designer Yana Smakula has created a project to share with you. At the end of the post we have details on a fun blog hop to inspire you featuring our designers and some amazing guest artists! And of course a chance to enter our giveaway! Yana says: It was so fun to make this "Super Fancy Handmade Birthday Card" using Stephanie's Feathers stamp & die set. She's a fantastic tattoo artist and has some awesome ideas that Spellbinders translated into stamps and dies. If you look closely you'll spot a ton of interesting detail to these feathers (and all of her images, really). I stamped feathers in Hero Arts Intense Black ink (use any alcohol marker friendly ink) and colored 2 feathers using Copic markers. I also used a white gel pen and added white dot details for some interest. Coordinating dies came very handy and I cut my images out in Platinum 6 machine. Coordinating dies in this collection create a wider edge along the stamped line, this is something different and rather fun!

I also stamped identical feathers in Versamark Watermark ink onto light gray panel to create a background for this card. I love using this trick - stamp same image in pale ink color and in black to let the black one pop.

The sentiment you see on this card is a sneak peek of a new set, also from Stephanie! Stay tuned for it in January! I stamped sentiment in both gray and black onto a white cardstock panel and foam mounted the panel onto the card. Next, I adhered my feathers and embellished this project using Sparkling clear Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

Hop along!

We've got tons of inspiration waiting for you created by the collection designers themselves and fabulous guest designers! Be sure to visit each one of their blogs and leave them some love!

Spellbinders Jennifer Mcguire Becca Feeken May Sukyong Park Yana Smakula Jenn Shurkus Debi Adams Taheerah Atchia Stephanie Low Laurie Willison Keeway Tsao Simon Hurley Erum Tasneem Laurie Schmidlin Tiffany Solorio Nicole Picadura

Giveaway (Now Closed)

To celebrate this release, we are giving away a $50 gift certificate to FIVE lucky winners. Please leave a comment on Spellbinders blog by Sunday, November 26th 11:59 pm EDT for a chance to win. The winners will be announced in this post on Spellbinders blog the following day.

Winners

Thank you everyone for entering our giveaway.

The winners are:

Linda Cannon

Carla Hundley

Pennie Glasser

Pai

Donna Goggin

Winners have been contacted.

Thank you for stopping by! Have fun crafting!

Christmas Presents Scrapbook Layout with Elena

Nov 19, 2017

Hello This is Elena and I have one more scrapbook layout to share today. I like to look through the photographs I have made several years ago and pick some of the best ones to use for my scrapbook pages.

For my Layout I started with the Presents die by Sharyn Sowell. I really love the collections with the silhouette she creates. I die-cut kids silhouettes from pearlescent white cardstock.

I also wanted to maintain the idea of giftwrapping so I added the Strip of Swirls die cut that I cut out of silver glitter cardstock. I complemented it with a stripped ribbon, that I pulled through the die cut and made a bow on top.

Then I focused on the frame. I like adding frames to my layouts, they help to create layers around the photo and always add sophisticated look to them. I die-cut a large frame from A2 Swirls Frame set and layered it a behind of my photo.

This time I also wanted to create a few embellishments for my project. So I stamped several images using stamps from the Cool Vibes collection by Stephanie Low – Mandals Set and the wreath from Light Shine set, that I heat embossed in silver and red embossing powders and colored slightly with watercolors.

Using the same Light Shine Set I heat embossed a title my Layout and put it in a little frame made using Swirls Frame set.

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I had some much fun making this layout and enjoyed coloring and layering.