Spellbinders Holiday Inspiration Hop

Hello there stamping friends and welcome to the Spellbinders Holiday Inspiration Hop! 

Today several designers have come together to bring you beautiful ideas using products from the latest Spellbinders release. You will see projects from Halloween to Christmas!  If you are already hopping a long with us then you will have arrived here from Nicole Spohr's blog. Welcome!!! I am Carrie Rhoades and I have been paper crafting for over 20 years. I am currently in love with making slimline cards!  I live in Eagle, Idaho with my hubby and our two teenage daughters. I am blessed to work from home doing what I love, paper crafting. I also love to go camping and am learning how to crochet. 

Now let's chat about my projects for this hop. 

I am using three products from the Be Merry Collection; Shopping Spree Die set, Chill Bear Die set, and the Gifts of Christmas Glimmer Hot Foil set. 

With these fun new things I have created two slimline cards as well as a full panel shaker tag. Let's take a look. 

 

As you can see each of these projects has the Shopping Spree girl on it, holding a large stack of presents. This die set is another of Spellbinders Kinetic sets. It is designed so that the legs swing back and forth. It is such an easy interactive element to add to a card and adds that little touch of wow and I LOVE it. Two of my projects have this kinetic feature, but on the polar bear cards I did not have the legs swing. Let's take a close up look at each of these projects. 

My first card finds this power shopper overloaded with packages and as she is slipping and sliding on the ice her packages are falling. 

The background of this card is embossed with the Big Dot Slimline folder. 

I added a foiled sentiment using the Gifts of Christmas Glimmer Hot Foil set and Viridian Green foil.  I love the classy look of a foiled sentiment! 

This die set is so much fun, I so enjoyed mixing matching the coat with different colors of tights and boots and gloves and presents. I loved it so much I had to make two more of these power shopping girls. Here's how I used the next one. 

For this card I made the girl a little shorter to fit on the slimline card that is horizontal. Because of that I decided not to make her legs swing. I love that I can easily adjust the height of this girl as the legs are a separate die from the coat. 

I think this girl was shopping for presents for her woodland friends and has finally arrived and is BEARing gifts!  

I added another hot foiled sentiment to this card, using the same Viridian Green foil. I am loving the font of this hot foil set, Gifts of Christmas. 

This polar bear is so dar cute! I just love his scarf. I added a bit of shading to the bear using a C0 Copic marker. This just helps him to stand out off the white background. The white background is embossed with the Diagonal Strips embossing folder. I was so excited to have some Slimline sized embossing folders and dots and stripes are the perfect two to use on all kinds of cards. 

For my last power shopper I created a tag, not just any tag, but a full panel shaker tag. 

Full panel shaker means that a piece of plastic sheeting was wrapped around the front panel of a project. The sides attached to the back on three sides. Then you add in your shaker elements before attaching the four side of the window.  The plastic I used was the plastic that the embossing folders came it. Wrapping like this is the perfect material for full panel shakers. 

Once the front panel was wrapped in plastic, I added it to a red card stock base. The power shopper was attached to the front of this with foam squares. And the legs DO swing back and forth.

There did not seem to be much room on this front of this tag for the sentiment I wanted to use. But there was plenty of room on the back! 

What a sweet sentiment!!! 

Do you like to make your own Christmas tags? I'd love to know, leave me a comment below and tell me. I'd also love to know if you'd like some ideas on making christmas tags. 

Now it is time to hop along, your next stop on the hop is: Susan Tierney-Cockburn. Included in this hop is a GIVEAWAY!  

Giveaway:
To celebrate this event, Spellbinders is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 3 lucky blog readers – who will be randomly selected from the comments on the Spellbinders blog.  Giveaway closes on Sunday, August 29th 11:59 pm EDT. The winners will be announced in the Spellbinders blog hop post the following Wednesday. Winner is responsible for shipping cost, duties and taxes.

In case you got lost along the hop, the entire list of hoppers is below for you. 

 

Spellbinders Blog
Jennifer Mcguire
Yana Smakula
Becca Feeken
Jill Hilliard
Jackie Pasko
Becky Roberts
Nichol Spohr
Carrie Rhoades ------------ YOU ARE HERE! 
Annie Williams
Sandi MacIver
Jennifer Kotas
Virginia Lu
Joy Baldwin
Jenny Colacicco
Linda Parker
Rosemary Dennis
Betty Wright
Michelle Short
Norine Borys

Thank you so much for stopping by and hopping along with us! All the supplies I used are listed and linked for you below. 

 

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Comments

[Sharon Gullikson]

The bear is so cute. And I really like the traditional colors. Nice

[Sue D]

Cute and festive cards. Love the polar bear.

[MaryH]

Absolutely stunning work. You have honed your craft to the top degree. I loved each design and found them such fun and fresh!

[Debbie Doctorian]

Thanks for the inspiration!

[Mary]

I am falling in love with the Shopping Spree die! These cards are so cute and love the tag as well!

[Dorothy A]

Wonderful cards! I really like the colors and designs. I especially like the shaker tag- always so fun and interactive.

[Carrie V Arii]

So many fun ideas! A great way to use up all those patterned paper scraps! I love making tags for myself as well as friends! Love to see what other inspiration you have!

[Donna Walls]

Gorgeous Christmas Cards. Love the traditional color combos.

[Lauryne Cunningham]

These are the cutest cards! I love the falling gifts!

[MOLLY FAIRCLOTH]

Beautiful cards and I agree the foil add such a festive special touch! Thanks for the inspiration!

[Dawn Tooley]

Love the cute cards! I especially love the shaker tag! What a great idea! Thanks for sharing!

[Cyndi Morris]

I love those fun cards! So beautiful.

[Mary Holshouser]

Wonderful cards. Love the bear walking
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[Mary Ellen Guikema]

Such a cute release. Your cards are adorable.

[Wendy Peterson]

Your cards are absolutely gorgeous just love them.

[Emily Henry]

I love all of your cards and thanks for showing me how I could use one die set in so many different ways. I hate to buy one set that can only be used for one type of card.

[Lisa Manderachia]

Your cards are very charming and sweet! :)

[PAMELA DALEY]

Love these cards.

[Jeanne Rice]

Great cards. Such a great release.

[Denise Bryant]

Fun cards! I love the girl with the big pile of presents! Awesome polar bear too!

[Bobbie Pearson]

Love those swinging legs. Delightful!

[Gloria R Mandery]

Darling cards. I like the look of plaid, so festive.

[CJ]

Carrie, I Love the shopping spree set and your use of the standard Christmas colors. It makes your cards so fun & cute.

[Connie Spector]

Really like the bear

[Mary Ann Reilly]

Beautiful cards! I love how you used traditional colors but the cards feel very modern. Lovely!

[Nelissa Winters]

Wonderful cards, lovin the traditional Christmas colors.

[Lisa Whiting]

Your cards and tags are so cute! I love making Christmas tags. They go together so quickly to give you a sense of accomplishment.

[Beth Merrill]

These are very fun and festive cards!

[Dixie Cochran]

Your projects are terrific! I love to make pretty tags too.

[Carol DuBois]

The shoppers are another favorite die of this season. Thank you for the adorable card ideas.

[Ginny K.]

What cute holiday cards

[Marisela Delgado]

Cute cards, Carrie! Warm hugs from San Antonio, Texas.

[Krysten Campbell]

I always love your cards, but I especially love the striped/printed paper on the packages! The colors really pop, cute designs. Thank you for sharing!

[Meghan Kennihan]

I LOVE that die with the presents! TOO CUTE! Great cards!

[Jessica Yoder-Jones]

That package holder is super cute! I want to get her so bad. Love your card

[Rebecca]

Lovely cards!

[Wendy Jean]

I love this cute card with the polar bear!! I sure hope he's friendly! hahaha
Thanks for sharing!

[BECCA YAHRLING]

These are all just adorable and cute.

[Jo Anna Grimsley]

Awesome projects - love the girl with the falling packages. Didn't realize until you said the legs swing; I love "moving" parts. Thanks for sharing

[Roxanne Tellini]

I think that is the best polar bear die I have ever seen. She is perfect.