Monday, March 18, 2024

Easy and Elegant BetterPress Letterpress Anyone Can Do PLUS A GIVEAWAY!


What is easier than hot foiling and stamping (even with a MISTI!) and results in gorgeous letter pressed images and sentiments? The Spellbinders BetterPress Letterpress System, and in my newest video here I share many cards I made in just minutes but look like they were made with a professional letterpress. I just received my BetterPress and many of the new BetterPress plates from Spellbinders, but this system is fool-proof and you would think I had been using it for years! 

GIVEAWAY ALERT - Watch the video to find out out how you can win TWO BetterPress Plates valued at $33 and several of the cards I share in the video. You need a USA mailing address and to comment on the video per instructions before 3/31/24 at midnight CDT. Comments here are appreciated but do not qualify for the giveaway. 


This is one of the cards I show how to make in the new video. It features the gorgeous Peony Background Press Plate from Yana Smakula's new collection at Spellbinders and the elegant Copperplate Congratulations Press Plate from Paul Antonio. I pressed the s Copperplate sentiment onto vellum before layering over the bright Peony Background I inked with Distress Oxide ink. I also added some punched flowers and gems to highlight that gorgeous sentiment. Here is another card I made with two colors of the Peony Background and some sentiments from the A Little Message Sentiments Press Plate Set also from Spellbinders.




I also show in the new video how quick and easy it is to press an elegant Happy Birthday onto a stenciled background. It really is easier than stamping or hot foiling in my opinion. The whole set of Copperplate Sentiments from Paul Antonio are beautiful and here are a couple more cards I made with them:



My nephew is getting married this year and I volunteered to make the wedding thank you notes. I think the Thank You Betterpress plate would be perfect and I did one with a stenciled background and one on iridescent mirror card. 


On this card I combined the Copperplate Hello with the Mirror Arch Blooms Press Plates and inked with different colors of BetterPress inks. I had so much fun creating easy elegant cards with all the new Betterpress plates in the March release and you can see many more and how to win two by watching the new video here. 

1 comment:

Whitney Babash said...

Thank you for the information on using vellum. I have a BetterPress, but hadn't yet experimented with vellum. It's so elegant!