BAUBLE

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Welcome to my little crafting place! 

its the last challenge of 2023 over at the Daring Cardmakers this week, and this time I've gone 3D and made something to hang over our hearth

Jolly Crafty Christmas Time 2023

 One Word Prompt:

BAUBLE

What to make?  Anything Goes!

Its not just cards and its not just Christmas!
This week share any crafty project - Tags, Bags, Cards, Décor, Boxes - whatever you want, Christmas themed or not
just be inspired by the word 'Bauble'

See what the team made HERE 

I cut two of the largest of my Nested Stars set from a soft gold glitter card, 

Next using a bone folder and a ruler to add the fold lines then folded the mountain and valley folds to make the stars 3d,

 To fix the two stars togeher and have a glittery one of each side I cut lenghts of scrap card and made hinges which were glued to the inside of the points and were much more fiddly than i'd hoped!

Before sticing ht top point and the opposite indent I added gold twine to use for the hanging cord and the decorative beads at the bottom.

I cut a coule of smaller stars in mirror card, folded in the same way and glued one to each side of the star. I added a glitter card snowflake and a pretty flat backed gem to each side,

The bead hangings are a randon selection of beads I had to hand threaded on gold twine and then attached to the twine I'd glued inside the star.  I added a gold ribbon bow that I think came from a cracker at some time!

A few more beads at the top and some knots along the length to give several choices for hanging up the star

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If you ever buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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,

 

Kathy xx

 

Light

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Welcome to my little crafting place! 

I've the card I made for the latest Daring Cardmakers Challenge to 

share this time. 

Jolly Crafty Christmas Time 2023

This week's One Word Prompt is
LIGHT
What should you make?
Anything you like!
Its not just cards and its not just Christmas!
This week share any crafty project - Tags, Bags, Cards,
Décor, Boxes - whatever you want, Christmas themed
or not just be inspired by the word 'Light'

See what the team made HERE 

 I'd planned to make some kind of decoration for this challenge rather than a card, but that didn't work out very well so at the last minute I needed to come up with somehting else!  I have a lot of Christmas greenery bits and bobs already cut out, so using that along with a candle seemed the solution.

The candle is part of a group of three candles on a very old Memory Box die.  I like it but hardly ever use it bcasue its really fiddly - its one of those which is just one die so you have to fit the candle into the outline 'melted wax' parts. It would have been so much better to make it in two pieces, with the outline section cutting separately so it could then be adhered on top of the candle base. 

In case you didn't realise it, this is one of my biggest die bugbears!

I really should look for a better candle die set! 

Anyway, the inner parts of the candle were cut in a glossy red card, the outer, edges and dripping wax from red glittler card. I hand cut the flame pieces because I just couldn't be bothered to run that die through again for those tiny pieces!

 

All of the 'greenery' pieces are cut with dies from this years Spellbinders Christmas sets - I love dies like this, they don't just come out at Christmas because I make a lot of cards with flowers on and usualy use some leafy die cuts with them.  I keep any extras I cut in a box so I can use them when I'm in a hurry!

 

The sentiment was made using one of the Christmas Die & Glimmer Sentiments Hot Foil Plate & Die Set

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If you ever buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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,

 

Kathy xx

 

 

 

Christmas 5

Hello!

 

Thanks for coming by.

Here is a round up of some of the Christmas cards I've been making

All of these use  a gnome die set I bought 2 or 3 years ago and have only just decided to give a try!

While I was making the last lot of cards I thought that it wouldn’t take much to get a Santa Claus instead of a Gnome so gave it a try and these cards are the result. 

I mixed in a few other dies and hand cut some other (like his hat) elements to give the basic gnome set more of a Santa look!!

 

 

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Just a Note

If you buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty

 friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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,

 

Kathy xx

 

December Elemental Inspiration Challenge

 

 

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Welcome to my little crafting place! 

I've made a box this time for the latest Daring Cardmakers Challenge.

Ots a [icture challenge this time and I just adore this picture!

 

 Jolly Crafty Christmas Time 2023

Ot's the first day (and the first Friday) of December, so as always on the first Friday of the month it's a picture prompt
December Elemental Inspiration Challenge
What to make? 

Anything Goes - Christmas themed or not
Just choose a minimum of 3 elements from this fabulous Home Decor picture 

to use when you make your project.
Remember that if you choose to use the colour scheme then that counts

 as one element

See what the team made HERE 

I chose the blue and gold colours from the picture, plus the big gold 3D star and the greenery as my elements

To add a bit of extra structure to the box I cut an extra piece to glue to the top. Next I cut a length of matte gold card; measured and punched holes for the fastening.  This was made with two lengths of blue waxed cord and one of thick gold thread, which were plaited together and knotted at the ends. The gold band was adhered in place around the box, I threaded the tie through the holes before adhering the band to the box

 

To decorate I made a 3D star, then tucked pieces of die cut greenery (some sprigs in white and gold too) under the star.  To complete I used some large red pearls for berries and added a few tiny gold stars

 

My box was made from a lovely deep blue Bazzill card using an old Spellbinders ide set.  Unfortunately its a set that's not available any more so I can't direct you to it in the shop, sorry

 

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If you ever buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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,

 

Kathy xx

 

 

Christmas 4

 

 

Hello!

 

Thanks for coming by.

Here is a round up of some of the Christmas cards I've been making

All of these use  a gnome die set I bought 2 or 3 years ago and have only just decided to give a try!

I mixed in a few tiny elements from a couple of the Spellbinders 'Dancin' sets from last year as the sizes were perfect!

 

Card 1

 

Card 2

Card 3

Card 4

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Just a Note

If you buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty

 friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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,

 

Kathy xx

 

Wishing on a Star

 Hello

Welcome to my little crafting place! 

I've the card I made for the latest Daring Cardmakers Challenge to share this time. 

Jolly Crafty Christmas Time 2023

It's another One Word Prompt:

WISH

What to make? Anything Goes

Its not just cards and its not just Christmas!
This week share any crafty project - Tags, Bags, Cards, Décor,  Boxes 

Whatever you want to make,  Christmas themed or not just be inspired by the word 'Wish' in some way

See what the team made HERE

I covered my card base with a dark blue-grey paper for the background. then useda few different star die sets and lots of different kinds of card in silver and gold to cut them from.

The sentiment was made by hot-foiling two of the small words from the Christmas Die & Glimmer Sentiments Hot Foil Plate & Die Set    

plus the die cut 'Happy' from the same set

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If you ever buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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,

 

Kathy xx

 

 

One Word Prompt: WOOD

Hello

Welcome to my little crafting place! 

This time I've something different to share, a little wall hanging made 

for the Daring Cardmakers Challenge Blog. 

Jolly Crafty Christmas Time 2023

This time it's another One Word Prompt:

WOOD

What to make: 

Anything Goes

Its not just cards and its not just Christmas!
This week share any crafty project - Tags, Bags, Cards, Décor,  Boxes 

Whatever you want to make,  Christmas themed or not just be inspired by the word 'Wood' in some way

See what the team made HERE

I decided this would be a good way to use some of the little wooden 'rounds' I bought a couple of years ago (do you notice a theme of me buying stuff and taking years to actually use it?) and I think have only used as photo props so far.

Each round is roughly 5-6 cms in diameter and has one drilled hole.  I wanted to hang mine in a set of three so I got Hubby to drill a hole at the bottom of a few of them (in case I needed spares).

 

I used a small piece of finely corrugated card as a background for each of the Christmassy elements, and dies from various sets to make them

The tree on the top circle is cut from glitter card and decorated with gold thread and a string of tiny brightly coloured beads - it was a bit fiddly but it does look cute!

 

For the stockings I used the smallset of an old Memory Box set and resized some digital papers so the printed designs would be really small. I printed them onto Bazzill white card and as well as the top layer I cut them in scrap card  glued together to give some extra dimension. The stocking tops are more white glitter card and they are 'hung' on a length of gold twine

 

 

I realised that I didn't have a Father Christmas is the perfect size but that the Gnome set I've been using to make a few Christmas cards this year could be adapted to be exactly what I needed, and I had the perfect sized sack in another set of dies.  His hat is trimmed white glitter card for brim and bobble and there's more on his cuffs

 

To complete the hanging I used a very narrow red satin ribbon to join the three circles together.

I threaded some gold jingle bells onto gold twine and hung them through the hole in the lowest circle. 

Next I tied a bow in wider ribbon for the top and attached it with gold twine. making a hanging loop at the same time. I tied another bow with some medium width ribbon to tidy up the bell section

 

All the ribbon was rescued from last year's Christmas Crackers!

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If you ever buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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,

 

Kathy xx

 

Big Burger!

 

Hello

Welcome to my little crafting place! 

 

Today I'm sharing another shaped card - I made this one for cousin's birthday at the start of November

As with the other shaped cards I've made recently I created my template by  gathering a few images from the internet and then using those as a guide for making my ownAs usual I resixed the image so that it would fit my envelope, saved it for future use (its really annoying if you forget this bit then need another copy or want to make it again!) then printed  3 copies.

 The fold for this one is at the top of the burger - the easiest way to do this is just to fold the printed image in a suitable place then line it up with the fold on your card.

The image doesn't have to be perfectly drawn as you'll be able to 'smooth out' the rough edges etc when you cut the various bits out

 

I used a lot more inking for this one, making the colours look more realistic than I'd get just using Bazzill card.  All the sections were  hand-cut with scissors and I couldn;t resist adding some real dedme seeds to the top and adding a bit of Glossy Accents for an authentic Brioche bun look!

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

Kathy xx

 

Christmas 3

 

Hello!

 

Thanks for coming by.

Here is a round up of some of the Christmas cards I've been making

 

Card 1

 Tree Die cuts:

Sealed Christmas Tree Squiggle Etched Dies from Sealed for the Holidays Collection

Merry Christmas Sentiment:

Christmas Die & Glimmer Sentiments Hot Foil Plate & Die Set from the Classic Christmas Collection 

 

Card 2

 

Poinsettia and foliage elements from

Christmas Bird Poinsettia die set

 

Making Spirits Bright Sentiment:

Christmas Die & Glimmer Sentiments Hot Foil Plate & Die Set from the Classic Christmas Collection 

 

Card 3

Hot-foiled silver trees in the bacground and die cut ones in the 

foreground all using

Sealed Christmas Tree Squiggle Etched Dies from Sealed for the Holidays Collection

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year sentiment from

Glimmering Snowflakes Hot Foil Plate & Die Set from the Bibi's Snowflakes Collection by Bibi Cameron   

 

Card 4

Holly cut in mirror and glitter gold card
Sealed Holly Sprigs Etched Dies

 

PEACE hot foiled sentiment  by Waffle Flower. 

berries cut from last years cracker card!

Gold thread

 

If you buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty

 friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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,

 

Kathy xx