Small Die of the Month - Right as Rain

Spellbinders April Clubs Blog Hop

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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Special Celebrations – April 2020 Spellbinders Small Die of the Month

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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Art Studio Botanicals – February 2020 Spellbinders Small Die of the Month

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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Bold Love – January 2020 Spellbinders Small Die of the Month

Happy New Year! Today, I am sharing two Valentine’s Day cards created with the January Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Bold Love.”

I’ve created cards of the same design in two different color combinations to illustrate the variety obtained simply by changing colors. For example, including metallic cardstock creates a more formal card.

The red background card incorporates brushed gold letters, a white background for the letters, gold hearts, and purple flowers. The LOVE letters were added to the background assembly with foam adhesive.

The turquoise/teal background card incorporates red letters, a white background for the letters, red hearts, and yellow and blue flowers.

I’m already thinking of additional color schemes for the card. Black background? Gold background for the letters? Brushed and shiny metallic for the hearts and flowers?

Wishing you all the best in 2020!

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Spellbinders Small Die of the Month Kit – Our Favorite Font Sentiment Set

Hello! Today, I am sharing two cards created with the December Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Our Favorite Font Sentiment Set.”The set includes fourteen word dies, in a versatile font, with which you can create a variety of expressions for a number of occasions such as: “Thinking of You,” “With Sympathy,” “Birthday Wishes to You,” and “Congrats to You,” as well as the more obvious “Thank You,” “Love You,” and “Happy Birthday.”

My first card is a Valentine, which includes several other Spellbinders sets, on which I used the “Love You” sentiment.

I’ve combined the Tux set (he’s still wearing a scarf but I removed his ear muffs) with the First Crush die set (balloon). I created the heart panel with the largest die in the Nestabilities Class Heart set. The card measures 4 1/2″ square.

My second card is a Thank You note on which I combined the sentiment with the Butterfly Frame-A-Long die set.

I dry-embossed the background (measuring 4 1/4″ square) with the Pretty Plaid embossing folder. I created a frame by adhering the butterfly/flower strips together at the corners; I then added the flower overlays, cut from yellow cardstock. I glued pearls to the centers of the flowers for embellishment.