Category: Small Die of the Month

Hello and Happy May!  Today I am sharing two CAS “Thank You” cards created with the May Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Stacked Decorative Edges.”

• For the first card, I cut Whip Cream cardstock with one of the detailed dies which I refer to as latticework. The detail die does not cut an edge.
• I used the Thank You die to cut four frame pieces, twice per panel for extra depth. I trimmed the latticework strip and framed it with the border piece. I repeated this four times.
• I used the Thank You die to cut the sentiment, which I framed in the same manner as the latticework strips. The five strips formed a 4 1/4″ square which I added to a 4 1/2″ card base.

On the second card I used one of the set’s edge borders to cut cardstock from six different shades of blue-green. This just happens to be the cardstock color of which I have this many shades.

• After cutting the six cardstock colors with the edge border die, I trimmed the panels and adhered them together on a base in the darkest shade.
• I cut the Thank You from Whip Cream cardstock and backed it with cardstock in the next-to-darkest shade and adhered it to the card front.

There are dozens of ways to use the dies in the set to create elegant CAS cards.

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Hello and Happy April!  Today I am sharing three cards created with the April Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Special Celebrations.” The set includes dies with which you can create unique cards for engagements, weddings, anniversaries, and Christmas, to name a few. The set is designed to work with the Trucking Through the Seasons set; the dies can also be used on their own.

I created three cards – “Just Married,” “Happy Holidays,” anniversary/engagement – using the Special Celebrations set along with Truckin Through the Seasons.

I used silver foil, gold foil, gliiter paper, and brushed gold cardstock, along with colored cardstock to create the trucks, the license plates, and the accessories. I used patterned paper for the card bases.

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Hello and Happy February! Today, I am sharing two friendship cards created with the February Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Art Studio Botanicals.” The set includes seven dies with which you can create fun abstract art – three circle shapes feature botanical images, three circle shapes feature geometrical images, and a circle die (to cut the outline on the images and to cut a solid circle).

My first card features the assembled circles placed around a “hello” sentiment on an A2-sized card.

I cut the botanical images from Whip Cream cardstock. I cut the geometrical pieces from green, blue, and teal cardstock. I cut the bottom circles from black. I assembled the circle stacks and added them to the card front. I added enamel dots to help fill the “white space.”

My second card is sized 6  1/2″ x 3  1/2″ and features the assembled circles in a row.

I cut the botanical images from Whip Cream cardstock. I cut the geometrical pieces from teal, blue, and red cardstock. I cut the bottom circles from black. I assembled the circle stacks and added them to a yellow cardstock rectangle. I heat-embossed the sentiment on to dark grey cardstock.

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