All Is Calm Quick & Easy BetterPress Christmas Cards

Remember my quick and easy BetterPress cards earlier this month? I had some questions about my backgrounds so I am making more Christmas cards with Spellbinders BetterPress today. I'm sharing how I made my inky backgrounds and how I stepped up these cards just a bit with die cuts. I have two different looks but using the same BetterPress sentiment plate.

My backgrounds were inked with Distress Oxides and splattered with Distress Ink as well as some Distress Mica Sprays. For the traditional green and red card, I added in some leafy die cuts from the July 2023 Large Die of the Month, while my blue and pink card had some hot foiled snowflakes in silver. I also added some Glitter Pops of Color to finish off the cards. I hope this helps with how I made my backgrounds and how to step up BetterPress impressions on cards!

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Speeding By to Say Happy Birthday with Kindred Stamps

I hate when I have an idea for a card and it just doesn't turn out exactly how you imagined. Now, I like this card a lot. But I'm not thrilled about my sentiment reveal when you pull on the slider tab... It's fine, but definitely let me know in the comments if you have any ideas to step up my reveal. It's totally great as is, but I think it just feels a little anti-climactic. But, we're going with it and I think the card still looks great!

In my video today, I'm sharing how I made my background, colored my Kindred Stamps Vroom image and assembled my card including using the Kindred Stamps Pull and Slide Die Set! I hope it gives you some tips on coloring this fandom character as well as assembling a pull tab slider card. Let me know if there are any other interactive dies I can show how to assemble or maybe any fandom sets you would like to see colored in the future!

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Fandom Witch Sisters Box Card with The Sassy Club

SISTAAAAHS! I am in love with these trio of fandom characters dressed up as the three witch sisters for Halloween from The Sassy Club! I stamped and colored them out with my Ohuhu Art Markers and fussy cut them out. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with them as I just really wanted to color them... But I figured why not a box card! I used the Pretty Pink Posh dies out of purple cardstock to build my box card base.

For the "shelves" inside the box card, I used some black and orange Halloween patterned paper with a stitched hill die and trimmed them to fit on the box card "shelves" (trimmed to just fit on the 3.25" panels). The back and side pieces of the box card were hot foiled with purple foil with an upcoming hot foil plate with mouse balloons! I die cut those pieces and assembled the box together. 

I added my cute characters with my head witch in the middle, but I'm loving all three of them! For the front and back panels, I used another sneak of a new product which is a mouse balloon layering stencil. You guys are going to need these new products if you're a magical theme park fan and they'll be out next month! I layered the stencils with orange and purple inks and used the scalloped dies from the box card set to cut them out.

For my sentiments, I used some banner die cuts from PopsicleSticks and stamped my sentiments in purple ink. I hope you like this fun, birthday box card and it's inspires you to create today! I can't wait to see these sisters when I go the parks this season. YAY!

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Pretty Pink Posh for STAMPtember! Peace on Earth Christmas Card

I'm so excited to share with you the adorable Pretty Pink Posh exclusive collaboration stamp set for STAMPtember over at Simon Says Stamp! It is called Peace on Earth and has a beautiful, big globe to stamp along with doves, sprigs, a heart and a banner with different sentiments you can stamp that will fit perfectly in the banner. My card turned out a bit more US patriotic that I intended, but still cute nonetheless.

I started with stamping my images and coloring them with my Ohuhu Art Markers. There is a coordinating die set, but I was only gifted the stamp set and ahead of the release so my images were fussy cut out. Next I ink blended red and pink Distress Oxide through the Sunburst stencil and used the second largest Stitched Torn Rectangle to cut it out.

One of my Christmas paper packs had a pretty blue and white starry background so I glued the A2 sheet to my card base. Then I glued down a sparkly silver piece of cardstock that was trimmed to 3.25x4.5" to the center, followed by my stenciled sunburst background. I popped up my images and added my heart to the center of the Earth. For some final touches, I added a few of the new Matte Silver Confetti Mix sequins around the card.

I'm so excited to use this set for more Christmas cards and even other Earth pun sentiments! Make sure to shop the set before it sells out... Once it's gone, it's gone!

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Quick & Easy Glimmer Foil Grateful Cards with September Kit of the Month

Not sure if you remember, but I made some quick and easy cards earlier this month with leftover backgrounds I had made with my Spellbinders September BetterPress Plate of the Month (it's here if you don't recall). Well, I'm doing it again but this time with the September Glimmer Hot Foil Kit of the Month! I just love the beautiful flowers in this set and I decided to just play around with the plates on some white cardstock as well as some leftover Distress Paint Gel Prints.

I started with white cardstock, but then dug through my folders of extra backgrounds and picked some purple, blue/green and yellow backgrounds that foiled so well! I kept the colorful prints with a white cardstock background and the white impression with a fun, floral background. I added all of them to a blush cardstock to match the Blush Glimmer Foil. Now, these are SUPER SIMPLE, but I wanted quick cards that are going to be perfect if you need a thank you card or maybe for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

I'll definitely be making more of these with more backgrounds and I hope it inspires you to grab those left over backgrounds you've been hoarding and just run them through your Glimmer Hot Foil System! Below is an ASMR video of my process and you can find a quicker version on my YouTube channel today, too. Let me know which color combination is your favorite in the comments!

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@laurentaylormade Quick hot foil cards. I got a new mic for ASMR but now it seems like I’m not picking up enough sound? #asmr #crafttok #diy #handmadecard ♬ original sound - Lauren

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