Spellbinders Explore Beyond Blog Frenzy, Day 6

It's Designer's Day at Spellbinders and the PageMaps design team has been very busy creating some amazing samples using the newest sets of PageMaps dies! In addition to all this eye candy, we have a fantastic give-away, where you'll have a chance to win all of the new die sets. Woot!

Here are the six new sets that released at CHA this past January:

On The Border

Address Book

Charmed, I'm Sure

Say What?

That's The Ticket

You Are Here
 

 

Kelly Goree is here to kick off this soiree, and her adorable, very pink (and very boy!) layout features the Charmed, I'm Sure collection of dies. She die cut several of the charms and hung them across her title block in a bunting fashion. How cute!

 

Lynn Ghahary had some fun with the That's The Ticket set, layering and hanging them on this super cool, all-boy page.

 

 

 

Stephanie Perdue combined That's the Ticket with the Address Book dies, and threw in a few Office Supplies dies from last year for good measure!

 

 

Marla Kress took a bold, simple approach with the Address Book dies and created a double-cut tab that holds her date. The notebook die, from the Office Supplies set, holds her jouraling.

 

 

 

 

 

And last, but not least, Summer Fullerton pulled out all the stops with the You Are Here, Address Book and That's the Ticket sets!

 

 

 

What's your favorite set? I'm still finding new ways to play with the Charmed, I'm Sure set, and when you combine them with the new coordinating Penny Black stamps, it's a match made in heaven! The Address Book dies also have a Penny Black coordinating stamp, perfect for tab titles, upcycled rolodexes and so much more.

 

For your chance to win a set of these new PageMaps dies, read the official rules and then enter here.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Becky

Spellbinders Explore Beyond: Sneak Peek and Giveaway Day 4

Hello all and happy 2013! I hope you had a fantastic holiday season. The new year is off to a great start and I am so excited to share a sneak peek of two brand new PageMaps die sets that will be premiering at the CHA Winter Show next week (along with four others)!  Four of my favorite designers have joined me to test drive these dies, and we have the most wonderful layouts and cards to share with you today.

First up is the “Say What?” speech bubbles. I think everyone loved playing with this fun set of dies! Marla used all five die shapes on this layout to capture all of the funny things her kids said during a road trip:

layout by Marla Kress featuring Say What? And Charmed, I’m Sure dies

Stephanie had the same idea in mind, but clustered the speech bubbles together to showcase lyrics to a song that her son made up, and included die cuts from two other previous PageMaps sets:

layout by Stephanie Perdue featuring Say What?, Office Supplies, and Labels & Tags dies

 

I thought these speech bubbles would be great on a card and had some {quirky} fun with this little gem, perfect for Valentine’s Day:

card by Becky Fleck featuring Say What? Dies; stamp by Mo’s Digitals

To round out the Say What? collection, here is one of my favorite layouts Kelly has ever created. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s such a sweet story about her little one, or how she used the dies, but it is so darn cute!

layout by Kelly Goree featuring Say What? dies

Next up, is our second sneak peek reveal called “Charmed, I’m Sure” and it’s filled with itty, bitty charm tags. One thing I love about this set is that they are the perfect size to top off a layout or add a small sentiment to a card. Here, Lynn Ghahary created a baker’s twine pennant and used all of the charms in the set:

layout by Lynn Ghahary featuring Charmed, I’m Sure dies

Summer used a combination of both new die sets and created a hilarious page about her son and all the ways he is “cool” (or so he thinks):

layout by Summer Fullerton featuring Say What? And Charmed, I’m Sure dies

Marla mixed up both sets, too, and I love how she double matted the charm tags:

layout by Marla Kress featuring Say What? And Charmed, I’m Sure dies

As I mentioned earlier, these charm dies are great for cards! I used two of them to write my sentiment on for this card:

card by Becky Fleck featuring Charmed, I’m Sure dies

The creative possibilities are endless with both of these new die sets, and they also work well with many other previous PageMaps dies, too.

Official Contest Rules can be found HERE.

**this contest is closed**

The fun doesn’t stop here! Please click on the link below to visit Beate Johns and Debbie Olson’s blogs for more creativity and another chance to win!

Beate Johns

Debbie Olson


A big thanks to Stephanie Perdue, Kelly Goree, Summer Fullerton, Marla Kress and Lynn Ghahary for their wonderful projects. I hope you like these new PageMaps die sets, along with the other four that will be premiering at CHA next week!

Happy scrapping,

Becky

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