Spellbinders January 2025 Club Blog Hop & Giveaways!

I'm thrilled to be part of a Spellbinders Blog Hop celebrating their January Clubs, Nature's Dance. 

I'm sharing the January Stitching Die of the Month called Stitched LadyBug. I made 2 cards. While I prefer the first more dramatic card, the second one was a lot quicker to make. You choose! I only have a few of the January club sets so I used other Spellbinders products as well.

Dramatic Stitched Ladybug

Love this fun colorful card! 

• Embossed Brushed Black cardstock with the Lush Leaves 3D Embossing Folder
• Die cut and stitched the ladybug in black and red and adhered together as shown. Set it aside to work on the flowers.
• Used my latest favorite floral dies, Vivid Blooms Etched Dies, to find a resting spot for the ladybug.
• Die cut quite a few flowers in various warm colors and played around with them until I had a bouquet that worked under the ladybug. Added a few more leaves here and there to fill in. 
• Once I was satisfied, I glued all the flowers together onto the embossed cardstock and secured the Stitched LadyBug with foam tape over the flowers. 
• Added a sentiment (hot foiled white onto black cardstock) from You are Everything Pressed Plate & Die Set
• Finished it off with a few pearls and some Onyx Color Essential Gems
• Adhered to an A2 Brushed Black Cardstock card.

Simple Stitched Ladybug

Next up is a much simpler card using the both the ladybug and the sentiments from the January Stitching Die of the Month Club. 

This was a snap to make - 

• Embossed Brushed White cardstock with the Lush Leaves 3D Embossing Folder and trimmed to 5.25" x 4".
• Die cut the ladybug twice in white and black as shown. I like stitched elements to be sturdier so I stitched or glued two layers of each die cut.
• Stitched the wings and head in white on white and adhered all the pieces together onto the main body of the ladybug.
• Added a few Onyx Color Essential Gems with Bearly Arts Glue.
• Die cut a few of the sentiments that come with the January Die of the Month Stitching Kit in Mirror Metallic Gold Cardstock from the Gold Assortment Treasured Cardstock Pack. 
• Adhered everything to the panel with foam tape. 
• Added a few black enamel dots to the ladybug.
• Adhered the panel with more foam tape to an A2 Brushed White card.

MOOD WHEN DONE: EXCELLENT!

GIVEAWAY

To celebrate this release, Spellbinders is giving away a $25 gift certificate to 3 lucky blog readers – selected from the comments on our blog. Giveaway closes Sunday, January 26^th, 11:59 pm MST. The winner will be announced in the Spellbinders blog hop post the following Wednesday. The winner is responsible for shipping costs, duties, and taxes.

  

Please note, store credit (gift certificate) cannot be applied to Club Subscriptions. Store credit can be applied to shop past Club products, Club extras and regular releases.

We've got lots of inspiration to share. Please visit each of these talented card makers and see the fun and beautiful cards you can make withe the January Clubs!

BLOGHOP

  

Spellbinders Blog

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DOM - Michelle Short
DOML - Lien Leysen
DOMST - Joan Bardee
GOM - Angela Brennan
CDOM - Tina Smith
EOM - Yana Smakula
3EOM - Sandi MacIver
WSOM - Nichol Spohr
BPOM - Cheryl Penner
SOM - Bonnie Crane
BONUS - Lisa Tilson
DOM - Michelle Short
DOML - Lien Leysen
DOMST - Joan Bardee <----- this is me!
GOM - Angela Brennan
CDOM - Tina Smith
EOM - Yana Smakula
3EOM - Sandi MacIver
WSOM - Nichol Spohr
BPOM - Cheryl Penner
SOM - Lisa Tilson
BONUS - Bonnie Crane

Floral Cards

 

MOOD WHEN DONE: Great! It's spring and it's pretty outside. 

Sharing a Few Cards

These are all on my IG account but I know some of you don't visit there. All products from Spellbinders.

FYI: I quit all my design work, paid and unpaid so I'm adjusting! These were all made with the Spellbinders Kits of the Month. 

MOOD WHEN DONE: It's February 1st, sunny and warm. I have no complaints

Cards With Friends! Playing With Michele Ferguson

 

Welcome! I was so excited when Michele reached out to me to play along with her. My "assignment" was to make a Halloween card. As I write this, I haven't see Michele's card yet, but you can find it here. I can't wait to see it, and I'm going out on a limb and predicting that she uses gray and that it will be a wow. 

I used the following to make my card:  Build-A-Wreath and Halloween Wreath Add-Ons dies by Spellbinders. I love this collection!

If you are interested, I did a blog post for Spellbinders using the Beautiful Wreaths (without making a wreath) collection here. 

MOOD WHEN DONE: Good! We've had a lot of house guests recently, which I love, and I've done a bit of traveling myself. So no complaints.

Thanks, Michele. This was fun!

Concord & 9th October Release

Guest designed for Concord & 9th for its October release and it was a doozy. Here are (some) of the cards and other items I made. 

Picture Perfect

Sweet as Pie

Build-a-Bloom Dies

Basketweave Cover Plate

Build-a-Bloom Calendar Bundle

Build-a-Bloom dies

Tweet Life

MOOD WHEN DONE: Excellent! Had a great time working with these awesome products.