Hello! Today, I am delighted to be participating in a blog hop along with other crafters sharing projects created with the various Spellbinders April 2020 Club Subscriptions. You should have reached me from the blog of Ilina Crouse. For the hop, I created three cards with the April Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Special Celebrations.”
Spellbinders is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 3 lucky blog readers, selected from the comments on the Spellbinders blog. Hop along for additional chances to win. Giveaway closes Sunday, April 26, 11:59 pm EDT. The winner will be announced in the Spellbinders blog hop post the following Tuesday. The winner is responsible for shipping cost, duties, and taxes. Please note, the gift certificate cannot be applied to Club Subscriptions; it can be applied to shop past Club products, Club extras, and regular releases.
Additionally, I will be drawing a winner to receive a $25 gift certificate from the comments on my blog. Deadline is Friday, April 24 at 11:59pm EDT. The winner is responsible for shipping cost, duties, and taxes.
I used the April Small Die of the Month kit to create cards to celebrate an anniversary, Christmas, and an engagement.
The April Small Die of the Month set is designed to work with the Trucking Through the Seasons set; the dies can also be used on their own. You can see additional cards I created with the kit here.
For the anniversary card, I created the sentiment using the “Forever” license plate. I added heart balloons and a heart cut from patterned paper for the background.
The balloons were tethered with strings from the Sunday Drive Hitched set.
On the Christmas card, I used the “Happy” ornament overlay and “Holidays” license plate included in the Small Die of the Month set.
I cut two additional ornaments, leaving them plain, and “tied” the three ornaments together with twine.
For the engagement congratulations, I cut a license plate using the Truckin Through the Seasons set and cut the ring and heart balloons using the April Small Die of the Month set. I tied gold twine to the balloons, pulled the twine through the ring, and adhered the ends under the license plate.
To add texture and visual interest, I dry-embossed the background with the Inspire embossing folder.
Now it’s time to head to the blog of Alicia Havranek.
Blog Hop Participants:
Spellbinders Blog
Yana Smakula
Nichol Spohr
Tina Smith
Desiree Kuemmerle
Jennifer Snyder
Laurie Willison
Bibi Cameron
Kathy Clement
Jill Hilliard
Ilina Crouse
Jean Manis
Alicia Havranek
Hussena Calcuttawala
Joy Baldwin
Marie Heiderscheit
Zsoka Marko
Dina Kowal
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These cards are cute. I LOVE heart balloons!
Heart balloons are adorable. Thanks for sharing.
I so love the heart balloons and how you used the license plates thanks for sharing
pretty cards – thanks for sharing them with us – very inspiring
Adorable cards, Jean. Love the balloons. Very uplifting during these stressful times. Thanks for sharing!
I just love the engagement ring card!
Very clever use of the dies. Your cards were so inspiring — thanks for sharing.
Thank you for taking the time to create multiple examples for all of us to use as inspiration!!
Love all the cards, especially the “HOORAY” card. Thanks for showing that the dies can make beautiful projects without the truck or car. Lovely inspiration.
You took the small die set of the month and really created 3 adorable cards. Love them all.
These are pretty cards, specially the one with the heart and hearts ballons.
I love the ideas of using the cute “extras” on different cards without the truck!!
I love your cards! Especially the way you used the heart balloons! Perfect! Thank you for the inspiration:)
Thank you for sharing your cute cards!
My favorite is the anniversary card, so lovely! I really like that while these work with the Large Truck die set, that they are so versatile on their own as well. Way to go Spellbinders! TFS!!
You’ve shared a wonderful showcase of these dies with your cards. Love the little touches you’ve added on each, thanks for the inspiration.
Great samples of how the small die kit can be used all year-round.
The anniversary card is cute! I love the ring too!
Fabulous cards! Thanks for the inspiration!
Love the card!
Great cards. I am looking forward to using my dies. Thank you for the inspiration!
All 3 designs are beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
All 3cards are amazing thank you for sharing and giving me inspiration.
I love the engagement card … the embossed background makes it
I love how you used the elements in the SDOM instead of with the truck. Very clever, great job!
I love these cards! I can’t wait to get my dies of the month! ❤😘
SO DARN CUTE!!!!!
These are so cute, can’t wait till mine get here so I can play.
The forever card with the hearts is so pretty!
Love the way you used the dies! Fabulous cards! Love the way the sentiments look!
How clever to use the add-on elements to make individual cards for so many occasions. Just shows that thinking outside the box can result in beautiful designs!
Great ideas for using the small dies
Adorable cards! Love the heart balloons with the engagement ring. Brilliant!!
The heart balloons are really cute. Why just use regular balloons when you can use hearts? Adorable.
Darling heart balloons and I love the way you used the sentiment licenses plates without the truck! So clever!
Love your cards! It’s so fun to be able to use those sentiments year round!
The hooray card is my favorite. Those are great balloon dies. You inspire me with these cards.
I think these dies look adorable with the large die, but you showed us how to make them more versatile. Thank you so much. Adorable cards!
Wonderful and festive cards! I love how you create elements that pop on your cards through color, dimension and scale. Fantastic!
Oh what fun!! I LOVE your cards that you created. My favorite is the one with the hearts and the ring. So cute!!
Darling collection of cards, Jean.
Great cards. Thanks for sharing about the small die of the month dies. Something new to me.
I just love those license plate dies and the way you combined different shapes and die sets makes this even more fun.
Thanks for the amazing inspiration! I am totally in love with the new products! Especially the April card kit!
Three cute and easy to make cards using Spellbinders small DOTM.
Great cards! My favorite is the first one.
what fun! love that these dies are so versatile … thanks for the inspiration!
Great cards! Nice way to use those license plate dies
Love your cards. Thanks for sharing.
Three happy cards! I love the bold pops of red on the hearts and ornaments. Great designs!
Love your cards. Especially the engagement card.
Cute cards! thanks for the chance to win!
I just received my small die of the month and was excited to see your designs and gave me good ideas. Loved your cards.
Such cute cards!
The very pretty cards.
Great examples for use of the cuts.
Love the cards, especially the forever card. We have a wedding coming up soon, and you provided inspiration for a card!
Lovely cards! specially the “hooray” card, stunning!
Such cuteness in these adorable cards! Luv’n the heart balloons! TFS, Suzy Q
Love how you used the hearts in
the cards. they are all beautiful
cards. thanks for sharing
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You are one impressive, inspired crafter that has the ability to think from a different perspective. Placing the focus on the decorative dies and not the main Truck die, on your multi-themed cards, is truly inventive and creative thinking!. You’ve found a unique way to make the sentiment the focal point with all the background elements being the “supportive cast”! Love it!!!
Beautiful cards. I love the colors and those sentiments are wonderful.
Love the adorable “small” dies that have a LARGE impact on these many cards!
Darling cards! So many fun details!
I like your cute celebration cards.
Lovely cards, thanks for showing different ways to use the heart balloons.
Beautiful cards- so festive! I love the heart balloons!
Such an original way to use the hearts. I’m entirely going to scraplift it.
I truly appreciate your simple but striking cards. Sometimes we need to show love, but can do so with simple. These cards encourage me. Thank you for that.