A Dark Snowy Night

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and as it's July it must be Christmas!

For years and years, sometime around the end of September,  I'd start to *think* about Christmas. Then I'd have a little panic as I had no idea what to do for my festive greetings cards!  
So after harrumphing a bit about the whole Christmas in July thing, now I realise it's not such a bad idea for me to do a few seasonal things, plant the Festive Seeds and let ideas germinate in the back of my mind for a while longer!

The snowflake Glimmer of the Month plate is so beautiful - and perfect for quick, simple and stylish cards. You don't really need to add much at all to this design to have some beautiful cards made in double quick time.  And that has to be a good thing!

This one is super-simple, as I foiled the plate directly onto my black card blank!

You don't even need to add a shim as the back of the card provides that.  I Used the silver foil that comes in the club kit and it looks fabulous on black.

 

You need to be careful about getting the allignment of the plate along the fold line. I line up the plate with the fold and fix it in place with strips of washi tape that make a kind of hinge that goes to the back of the card.  This means you can now lift the plate to add the foil between plate and card.

I also foiled one of the snowy sentiments from the Glimmer set onto black card and matted onto a scrap of silver card

To finish I just added a few silver gems in different sizes 

 

I used

 

from Spellbinders;

July Glimmer of the Month

Silver foil 

  

 Silver Assortment Treasured Cardstock
 

Other:

Black card blank

SilverGems 

 

 

Just a Note

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  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

The Secret of Ginger and Chocolate

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and as it's July it must be Christmas. Obviously!

 If you've come by in the last couple of weeks you'll know how July's Small Die of the Month club has inspired me to make a few small gifts using the dies to make them look fun and more exciting.

In the main Die of the Month club die set you'll get dies to make 3 super-cute character 'mugs'.  A reindeer, a penguin and a cute Santa. 

Do you know that if you buy the Deluxe Caboodle club you get ALL the different club sets (stencils, Betterpress die sets, embossing folders, etc. etc) - but there's always something else included.  This month's gift is another little character to use as a mug, or however you like - its a super-cute Gimgerbread figure and it's adorable!

Time for some more gift wrapping I though!

What could be more perfect than some ginger chocolate? Well, it's my hubby's favourite anyway!

This wrapper is made using two lengths of card to wrap around the chocolate bar, then two sizes of the Scallop Journal Cards from the Vintage Flower Shoppe collection.

Next I made up a Gingerbread Man and aded a wobbler spring behind him before attaching to the scalloped wrap.  To finish I gave him a hat (its the walrus's hat from last month's club kit) and added a pc generated sentiment

I'll tell you a secret - I made this in the middle of a heatwave and when I picked it up to do my photos it was more than a little 'bendy', maybe more liquid than solid even.  oops!

 It went into the fridge for a while and seems solid enough, but I'm going to have to test it, aren't I? 

Oh dear, Poor me! 🤣🤣

 

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

July Deluxe Caboodle club gift

 

July Small Die of the Month

 
  Scallop Journal Cards dies

Vintage Flower Shoppe collection
   

Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

Other 

Ginger coloured waxed twine

Chocoalte bar with Ginger bits

  Just a Note

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  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

Silver Snowflakes

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and as it's July it must be Christmas. Obviously!

 I struggle to even *think* about Christmas till the end of September, and then I panic as I've no idea what to do for my festive greetings cards!  So it does me no harm to do a few seasonal things and then let the whole idea of it stew away in the back of my mind for a while longer!

The snowflake Glimmer of the Month plate is so beautiful - and will be perfect for making simple but striking cards. You don't really need to add much at all to this design to have some beautiful cards made in double quick time.  And that's an idea I like!

This was a bit of an experiment as I'd found some semi-gloss cardstock and wondered how well it would foil.  The answer was "beautifully" and it looks even better in real life!  The colour is a lovely pale turquoise and the silver foil that comes with the Club kit was absolutely perfect with the glossy card and the colour of the card

I added a die cut silver glitter snowflake from last year's Layering Snowflakes set by Simon Hurley, but with hindsight it didn't need it and might have looked better without

To finish it off I foiled one of the snowy sentiments from the Glimmer set into the same gloss card and added various types and shade of turquoise gems in the centres of the snowflakes

I used

 

from Spellbinders;

July Glimmer of the Month

Silver foil 

  

Layering Snowflakes by Simon Hurley 

 

 Silver Assortment Treasured Cardstock
 

Other:

 

Semi-gloss cardstock

White card blank

Gems and Pearls 

 

 

Just a Note

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

Penguin Mini Gift Bag

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and as it's July it must be Christmas. Obviously!

 In July's Small Die of the Month club set you'll get dies to make 3 super-cute character 'mugs'.  A reindeer, a penguin and the Father Christmas one I shared on my firt Clubs post, plus the froth for the top of the mug and the handle.  You'll also find a couple of cute extras like the scarf, snowflake and a teeny heart.  

In an earlier post I shared a simple 'wrapper' for a sachet of hot chocolate using the reindeer mug dies. This time I've used the adorable little penguin and made a sachet sized gfit bag.

I think these are perfect for sending 'warm wishes' to send as a little "Feel Better Soon" wish to someone feeling under the weather, or as a small Christmas gift, or even to hang on the tree when Christmas comes along

To make it I used a piece of thin card, printed with a digital design. I like using digis because I can crop, or just resize them to be perfect for my project.  You could also use a ready made patterned paper, or just make it in coloured card.

This bag is really simple and easy to adapt for whatever you want to put in it.  I've made a couple of very rough plans to show how it works.  You just need to adjust the measurements to make sure your item will fit inside.

The two 6cm sections are the front and back, so measure across your gift and adjust acordingly

The three 1cm sections relate to how 'thick' the gift is, so change those if necessary

The 2.5 section is where you add the glue to form the bag

The 1.5cm is the piece that is glued and tucked in at the bottom.

Dashed lines are fold lines

Red wedges should be cut off before sticking anything to make the overlaps neater

Punch holes and add ribbon to close thee bag 

The picture below shows the main dimensions  without the fold lines etc

 

These die sets are just fab, they go together really easily and are so cute

For the penguin you just need to cut the main body and the wings in black and the face and tummy in white, then add the extra bits you want.  The dies already have holes so the black shows through for the eyes, and the die cuts you make will have the marks on them for the features and to indicate where to add other pieces

I made a small error and forgot to add the handle to this one, oops! 

 I made a tag by printing the 'A Warm Wish for You' on card via the pc and bakcing in silver glitter card to make a tag and sealed the bag with some blue ribbon 

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

July Small Die of the Month

 

Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

Other 

Snowflake digi printed onto thin white card

Blue Ribbon

hot chocolate sachet 

pc generated sentiment for tag 

  Just a Note

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  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

 

A Hug in a Mug

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and as it's July it must be Christmas. Obviously!

 In July's Small Die of the Month club set you'll get dies to make 3 super-cute character 'mugs'.  A reindeer, a penguin and the Father Christmas one I shared on my firt Clubs post, plus the froth for the top of the mug and the handle.  You'll also find a couple of cute extras like the scarf, snowflake and a teeny heart.  

 

I couldn't help being inspired by the frothy mug theme of this collection - possibly because I love hot chocolate (and I love my Velvetiser that makes it so scrummy!) 

I thought these dies were perfect for sending 'warm wishes'  - so have made a couple of wrappers for prettying up a simple sachet of hot chocolate to send as a little Christmas gift, to hang on the tree or just as a Feel Better Soon wish to someone who's feeling a bit under par

 

This one is a simple band of red card wrapped and fixed around the sachet and topped with the adorable reindeer mug.  I just added a red ribbon on the handle and printed the 'a hug in a mug' on the pc to make a tag 

So, as you can see, this collection is great fun and offers plenty of opportunity to use for different projects.

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

July Small Die of the Month

 

Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

Other 

Red Ribbon

hot chocoalte sachet 

  Just a Note

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

 

Santa Baby!

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and as it's July it must be Christmas. Obviously!

When did this Christmas in July thing become 'a thing'? 😵😵 

Anyway, it does no harm and can be fun to make a few festive bits when the pressure is off and the enormity of the task can still be put off for a few months (well, in my case anyway!)

First up I've this card using the July's Small Die of the Month and Glimmer of the Month sets

The snowflake Glimmer of the month plate is just gorgeous!  I foiled some light grey card from the colourwheel collection (info below). with the silver foil that you'll also get in this club kit.  I decided to just use half of the resulting foiled piece on my card

 

 In July's Small Die of the Month club set you'll get dies to make 3 super-cute character 'mugs'.  A reindeer, a penguin and this Father Christmas, plus the froth for the top of the mug and the handle.  Plus a couple of cute extras like the scarf, snowflake and a teeny heart. I'll share thoss other cuties later, but for now here's the Father Christmas mug which I've added to the card on a pop up hinge so he stands out from the card.

To finish I foiled one of the snowy sentiments from the Glimmer set, a snowflake from the Die set cut in silver glitter card and just one tiny red gem! 

 I've used card from the fabulous ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11" for this card, plus silver glitter card from 
  Silver Assortment Treasured Cardstock collection for the buttons and snowflake

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

July Small Die of the Month

July Glimmer of the Month

Silver foil  

 

Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 Silver Assortment Treasured Cardstock
  

 

Just a Note

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx