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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Spellbinders Make It & Bake It Collection

Too cute! The new Spelbinders Make It & Bake It Collection by Tina Smith. You can see the entire colleciton by clicking HERE.

It makes adorable cards but would be great on scrapbook/journal pages, recipe cards or what I want to do, make a recipe book.

My family made a recipe book which was printed with photos, everyone submitted recipes which was great. I want to make a small one and insert recipe cards. Coming soon, visit again!

These cards are 5 x 6.5", the images are fairly large. They can fit on a standard A2 size card but I wanted to include a lot of images.

I used some scraps of glitter cardstock for the "icing" and the sentiment.

For this card I used some printed cardstock from Scrapbookcom in addition to some scraps. I used glossy accents on the cherries and chocolate chips.

Supplies are listed below with direct links to the stores that carry them. If you use my link to make a purchase, I receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you for using my links, it really helps and encourages me to continue providing creative content.

You can see the entire collection here:

---- https://tidd.ly/4aqzzwP [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tidd.ly/4rjNNXp [Simon Says Stamp]

---- https://tidd.ly/3OivGSZ [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tidd.ly/4rhmrRW [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tidd.ly/4qvkU9x [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tidd.ly/4atZWSB [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tidd.ly/4al44nB [Scrapbookcom]

Part of the collection I haven't used yet:

---- https://tidd.ly/4qyM5jR [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tidd.ly/4toJ1JL [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tidd.ly/4ab7Tgx [Scrapbookcom]

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Monday, February 9, 2026

Spellbinders February 2026 Small Die of the Month

I'm always surprised at the Spellbinders Small Die of the Month, it's never small! I used all the pieces included in this month's dieset, Spring Haul. What a great value at $17.50 if you join the club, you can quit at any time. You can wait until the 10th of the following month to see if it's still available for individual purchase but it will be $27!

You can learn more about the Spellbinders Clubs and the benefits of membership by clicking HERE.

I pulled out a background I had in my stash. I make these when the mood strikes and put them in a shoebox so I always have a background ready. This one is on watercolor paper and I used Brutus Monroe Aqua Tints, dipped and spattered.

The Spring Haul dieset includes all the dies I used for this card, the Happy Easter is a from an old BetterPress plate set by Simon Hurley.

I used lots of scraps to cut out all the little pieces of plants and eggs. The wheelbarrow is a piece of copper metallic cardstock that I aged with black acrylic paint. I love the design detail on the wheelbarrow.

That's it for today!

---- https://tinyurl.com/2hd97nuh [Spellbinders]

Your Paper Insider Watercolor Paper

---- https://tidd.ly/3LUx2SF [Your Paper Insider]

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Friday, February 6, 2026

Spellbinders Happy Spring by Simon Hurley

It's another cold day here but there's light at the end of the tunnel when Spring/Easter products are released!

Today I'm using Spellbinders Happy Spring by Simon Hurley. You can see the entire collection by clicking HERE. There's the adorable Bunny Buddies dieset, the gorgeous Bloom Egg dieset, the Ornate Eggs 3D embossing folder and the Layered Ornate Eggs stencil. I didn't receive the embossing folder or stencil but it's so cute, I have a pic of them in my supply list. There's also the cutest dieset called Spring Chicks only available at Scrapbookcom. I linked it below under the supply list.

My first card is with the gorgeous egg dieset. It's a 2 piece set (egg outline and egg with floral cutouts), here I've placed it on a 5 x 6.5" card. It would fit on an A2 size card but it would take up just about the entire card. I thought it looked better with a bit of space around it.

Sometimes I like quick inking, especially when so little of the color is going to show through. With the egg die, just the negative space shows through. I put Wilted Violet and Salvage Patina Distress Oxide ink pads on a gel plate, smoothed out the color using a brayer and pulled the print onto white paper. I used the egg outline to cut it out.

I took another piece of white cardstock and cut out the floral egg shape.

I took the flowers diecuts and quickly blended Spun Sugar Distress Oxide on them, leaving the centers white. I glued them back into the negative space.

The white panel background is embossed with the February 3D Embossing Folder of the Month, Shady Leaves. You can read more about Spellbinders Club Kits HERE. They have been very popular since they updated the kits, especially the Crate, which is all the clubs plus additional exclusive to the crate products.

I inked the edge of the mat with Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink so it would match the ink on the egg.

The sentiment is from the Bunny Buddies dieset which I use on my next card.

While the first dieset was elegant, this one is so cute! I used everything in the dieset for my card except for the basket die and the second sentiment which is "Happy Spring".

Most of the pieces are cut from scrap inked papers. The background is watercolor paper and Distress Paints. I made a video a long time ago on how I painted this which you can see HERE, if you're interested. Colors are listed below under supplies.

Supplies are listed below with direct links to the stores that carry them (where they were in stock at the time of this writing). If you use my link to make a purchase, I receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. This really helps me continue providing content. Thank you.

---- https://tinyurl.com/2bryjey2 [Spellbinders]

---- https://tidd.ly/4qFkjCp [Scrapbookcom]

Spring Chicks are only available at Scrapbookcom:

---- https://tidd.ly/4qFkjCp [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tinyurl.com/847we8kw [Spellbinders]

---- https://tidd.ly/45SzXTi [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tinyurl.com/4e469n3e [Spellbinders]

---- https://tidd.ly/46yiIqs [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tinyurl.com/ecp9dt38 [Spellbinders Exclusive]

Ranger Distress Paint in Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, Twisted Citron and Peacock Feathers

---- https://tidd.ly/4cdjEEo [Simon Says Stamp]

---- https://tidd.ly/4mw8qwr [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tidd.ly/4nFWol0 [Simon Says Stamp]

I use the 5x7 Gelli Plate other sizes available

---- https://tidd.ly/3LOWKs4 [Simon Says Stamp]

Distress Oxide Ink (Wilted Violet, Salvaged Patina, Spun Sugar

---- https://tidd.ly/46MtGZZ [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tidd.ly/49wDaus [Simon Says Stamp]

Your Paper Insider Watercolor Paper

---- https://tidd.ly/3LUx2SF [Your Paper Insider]

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Thursday, February 5, 2026

Your Paper Insider Design Team February 2026 Instagram Hop!

Today is the February Your Paper Insider Design Team Instagram Hop! Today we're using Box 14 which recently shipped! Click HERE to go to the Your Paper Insider Store.

The box is full of beautiful specialty papers, like this Dusty Rose Yuzenshi Chiyogami paper. This Japanese paper is soft yet durable, it has a raised design on the paper with gold metallic highlights. It served as the inspiration for my birthday card.

I made cream flowers using the Spellbinders Love in a Mist dieset. After I cut the petals from cream cardstock, I ink blended the edges with Victorian Velvet Distress Oxide ink. It was a close match! For the flower centers, I used an embossing pen to tip the stamen and gold heat emboss them. I cut the leaves from gold metallic paper.

I diecut an oval from cream cardstock and embossed it with an old (2022) Simon Says Stamp embossing folder, Blossom Field, I'll link it below if it's still available.

The sentiment is a favorite from Spellbinders, I BetterPress inked and Glimmer hot foil a bunch of these to have on hand.