It’s been many months in the making, but the new version of BlendCreations.com is now up and running. With this new design, we hope to make shopping for our contemporary jewelry designs that much easier!

Some of the new site features include:

1. Shopping by Occasion or by Recipient

We’ve had feedback that it would be helpful to shoppers looking for modern jewelry gift ideas to have curated collections of items that would make appropriate gifts.  So now, if you’re looking for recommendations for birthday gifts, gifts for him or gifts for your wedding party, we’ve selected some popular items that are sure to please!

2. We now accept credit card payments in both US and Canadian Dollars directly through our website

In the past, Canadians had to be e-invoiced to pay in CAD.  Canadians can now pay for orders directly through our secure website with Visa or Mastercard.  Just make sure that you’ve selected CAD as your currency before checking out!

3. Reorganized the site to show more contemporary jewelry items per page

You’ll notice that the new site also groups related items together. For example, all the Cherry blossoms necklaces can be ordered from the same page. We’ve also added a “You May Also Like” column to show you related items to every product.

4. Other contemporary jewelry gift-giving options

Our Sweet Surprises with our paper-inlay pendants proved to be popular enough that we’ve expanded the Sweet Surprises line-up to include Torus necklace surprises and Engraved Wood pendant surprises. We’ve also added the option to send gift certificates by mail in addition to sending them by e-mail. Each gift certificate is accompanied by a greeting card with your message.

5. You can leave a Customer Review

Our new website now has the option for you to let us know what you think of your modern necklace, pendant or other jewelry piece.  Just click on any item, and you’ll notice an area at the bottom of the page where you can rate it out of 5 stars and leave a little write-up.  Your feedback will then help prospective customers to decide on their next purchase!

And Finally… The May-June giveaway!

And here’s where this month’s giveaway comes in! Because of all the website updating, we’ve been tardy in announcing the May giveaway. For this month’s giveaway, we’re giving away a Sweet Surprise of the winner’s choice.

To enter this month’s giveaway, we’d like you to test-drive our Customer Review feature and leave us a product review for an item you own or an item you covet. You’ll get one entry per product review and you can submit a maximum of five reviews per person.

We’ll draw from all the customer reviews we receive from now until June 30, 2010 at noon EDT. Good luck!