{"id":725,"date":"2026-02-06T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:58:34","slug":"spellbinders-say-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Spellbinders – Say Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Spellbinders Say Cheese Large Die of the Month from April 2022 was the cutest camera die I have seen, I finally had some time to play with in and see if I could make a couple cards with the visions I had in my head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the Spellbinders Blog<\/a>, you can see some inspiration of cards made by the Spellbinders team, but I went searching for a real camera example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandmother was a camera buff and had several antique cameras. I remember she took lots of pictures of the family and the outdoors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This die seems to be modeled after a Kodak Brownie model camera. This one pictured is actually a toy model rather than the real thing but it is so close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flash isn’t directly above but I think I may try to build the flash attachment someday.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This is the first attempt at recreating a look similar to the original. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used dark brown and vanilla cream papers for the body and matt silver for the strap holders and view finder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also covered the lens with a clear plastic (from the packaging) to give it a glass look. I used a dark brown ribbon for the strap instead of the dies provided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is hard to see the knobs on the top, but they are tan, matching the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mounted the camera on some heritage paper from my stash and label with the sentiment. I cut the “SMILE” from the die that comes with the set.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Next, I wanted to get creative and was inspired by the patterned paper used by Zsoka Marko, A pocket full of scrap: April 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used some antique tropical paper by Authentique called Utopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mounted the finished camera and flash on some white coastal wood paper and neutral grey cardstock from my stash. Rather than the flowers that comes with the die set, I used dies from the Happy Hour collection, Tropical Flair.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The Spellbinders Say Cheese Large Die of the Month from April 2022 was the cutest camera die I have seen, I finally had some time to play with in and see if I could make a couple cards with the visions I had in my head. From the Spellbinders Blog, you can see some inspiration of cards made by the Spellbinders team, but I went searching for a real camera example. My grandmother was a camera buff and had several antique cameras. I remember she took lots of pictures of the family and the outdoors. This die seems to be modeled after a Kodak Brownie model camera. This one pictured is actually a toy model rather than the real thing but it is so close. The flash isn’t directly above but I think I may try to build the flash attachment someday. This is the first attempt at recreating a look similar to the original. I used dark brown and vanilla cream papers for the body and matt silver for the strap holders and view finder. I also covered the lens with a clear plastic (from the packaging) to give it a glass look. I used a dark brown ribbon for the strap instead of the dies provided. It is hard to see the knobs on the top, but they are tan, matching the original. I mounted the camera on some heritage paper from my stash and label with the sentiment. I cut the “SMILE” from the die that comes with the set. Next, I wanted to get creative and was inspired by the patterned paper used by Zsoka Marko, A pocket full of scrap: April 2022. I used some antique tropical paper by Authentique called Utopia. I mounted the finished camera and flash on some white coastal wood paper and neutral grey cardstock from my stash. Rather than the flowers that comes with the die set, I used dies from the Happy Hour collection, Tropical Flair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-occasion","tag-spellbinders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1605-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}