Christmas in July

 

Hello! 

Welcome to my little crafting place! Here's where I share the things I've been making, and sometimes other bits of waffle!

Friday is Daring Cardmakers Day and this week it's my super-talented crafty friend Nat setting the challenge!

 

Nat's challenge is...

 

 Christmas in July

If you want to get ahead with your Christmas cards and be done in good time before December, this challenge could be the perfect opportunity.

I know Christmas won't be on everyone's agenda, but you can still play along by featuring a festive colour palette on a card celebrating another occasion, or by giving your Christmas supplies a new lease of life on something non-festive.

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As I said last time if you know me making Christmas cards before my birthday (September) and even then it's usually with reluctance!

However, I was nudged into thoughts of Christmas when I recieved my Affiliate package for the July club kits from Spellbinders which have a Christmas vibe! There was holly, poinsettias and lovely foliage and I just love using that sort of stuff on my cards!

So Nat's challenge had a flying start really!

There was a piece of corrugated card sticking out of the pile of cereal packet and other recycled bits of card I keep for adding dimension etc. 

 I love this stuff as the ripples are really small and its very easy ti removethe paper layer with a quick squirt of water and a pointy tool to lift it off!

It comes from Tesco Finest croissants if you're interested🤣😆

So I used the pael of card matted onto a piece of gold paper (gold envelopes that were useless for writing on!)

I used the lovely July Glimmer of the Month plate  foiled onto inked card for the large holly sprig, and also made the JOY sentiment from the same set. Next I added the poinsettia and foliage cut using dies from July's Small Die of the Month  

Rge wax seal was a bit of an experiment.  I used an old die set with small hollu leaves to die vut the holly from some thinky spread wax then made the seal in the usual way gluing the leaves in place  trying to add a tiny amount of red wax for the berries - that bit was a step too far for my abilities so I popped so,e red gems on instead!  

 

Anyway, I hope you like it and if you have any tips for easy ways to add 'extras' to wax seals then please help me out!

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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