Spellbinders All Aboard Card Kit Blog Hop!

(Please check out my A Jillian Vance Design blog post here.)

 Hello everyone!  Welcome to the Spellbinders All Aboard card kit blog hop!  You should have arrived from the blog of Jennifer Kotas.   If you want to start at the beginning please head to the Spellbinders blog.  As I indicated this is a blog hop to share more inspiration using the limited edition All Aboard card kit.   And since this is a blog hop there are prizes to be won!  Spellbinders will be picking three winners from all the comments left on the Spellbinder blog. Commenting ends on Sunday, October 3rd at 11:59 pm.   Each winner will receive a $25 gift certificate! 

For my card I wanted to show that you can definitely use this kit to create something other than a holiday type project.   I used the die set to create a card for my little nephew, Max.  He will be three soon and like a lot of little boys he loves Thomas the Tank Engine.  So I decided to create my little engine and the little car in the color way of Thomas the Tank Engine which is red and blue with some touches of black and gold.    It took me a while to figure out how I would do my background, but I finally settled on a some light blue cardstock from the kit that I very lightly stenciled with some clouds.   I have a photo below where you can see the clouds better.  For the track I used just as simple strip of black cardstock.   I die cut all the pieces from blue, red and black and then assembled the train and cart.  There are dies in the set to create trees so I die cut the parts from two shades of green cardstock (from the kit) and a scrap of brown and then assembled them.  They were adhered as you see.  I popped up Thomas on the card front with foam tape.  I finished off my Thomas with a gold glitter #1.   The one came from the sheet of foam glitter alpha stickers in the kit.  I simply trimmed it down to fit on the train.   Packages in green and dark blue with gold metallic bows were added to the cart.   The sentiment is from the Spellbinders May stamp of the month.  I personalized the card using the foam glitter alpha stickers from the kit.  

This photo shows the stenciled background.   I think Max will really love this Thomas the Tank Engine inspired card.   Your next stop on the hop is Jenny Colacicco.    You can pick up the All Aboard card kit here.   I hope you enjoyed my project today.  Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the hop!