One Word Prompt: SONG

 

  Hello!

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

Today  my card is inspired by this week's One Word Prompt at the Daring Cardmakers

Jolly  Crafty Christmas Time

One Word Prompt.

SONG
What do you think of when you read that word?
What will you make inspired by SONG
Remember, anything goes -  make Tags, Bags, Cards, Décor, Boxes... whatever  takes your fancy and fits the theme - Christmas themed or not - it's up to you

See what the DT made here

 

I made a couple of cards this time, one inspired by a Christmas song the other by the good old 'Happy Birthday' song - but no matter how loudly I sang it no-one came in carrying a cake lit up with candles

While I was making a batch of wax seals using November's Wax Seal of the Month club seal from Spellbinders it was hard NOT to sing the Happy Birthday song, and it made me think why not do several seals and add a printed sentiment for the 'Dear Xxxx' line of the song!

I made the three seals in varying peachy shades, highlighted them in gold and displayed them on a strip of gold card and a length of pretty cotton lace

My second card was inspired by one of those old songs  that still pop up on Christmas collections - actually,. I love them even if they are a bit kitsch - they remind me of being a little 'un!  About the only time my mum played actual records was at Christmas, and the radio would be tuned to Radio 2 and this osrt of stuff would get you in the mood for the festivities!

Oh, the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

 

 

I used:

Layering Snowflakes by Simon Hurley 

 

All Seasons Winter Press Plate & Die Set

 

I can't remember where the dies die set with the musical notes are from 

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 c 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,

 

Shiny and Sparkly

 

  Hello!

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

I've a few cards made on the same theme to share this time.

The card I shared recently for the Daring Cardmakers got me into the mood for making more bauble cards so here are a few more!

 These gorgeous bauble dies are from Simon Hurley's Vintage Layered Ornaments set. I've used various colours and finsihes of card; all the lovely shiny, glittery, textured card I love to use at Christmas, and my favourite jewel colours. 

 

I used:

Vintage Layered Ornaments by Simon Hurley

 

Copperplate Merry Christmas Press Plate 

BetterPress plate, but hot-foiled rather than inked

 

JOY - Glimmer plate by Spellbinders (sorry, this one has been discontinued) 

Gold and silver twine, holly leaves and berries from assorted die sets

 

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 c 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,

Christmas SPARKLE

  Hello!

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

Today  my card is inspired by this week's One Word Prompt at the Daring Cardmakers

Jolly  Crafty Christmas Time

One Word Prompt.

SPARKLE
What do you think of when you read that word?
What will you make inspired by SPARKLE
Remember, anything goes -  make Tags, Bags, Cards, Décor, Boxes... whatever  takes your fancy and fits the theme - Christmas themed or not - it's up to you

See what the DT made here

 

i don't think I've made any bauble cards for the last couple of Christmasses, but this year I have a new die set to play with and this challenge was just perfect to wallow in sparkle and shine of those beautiful baubles I remember from childhood. So I made this....

 

 

These gorgeous dies are from Simon Hurley's Vintage Layered Ornaments and I love them! There are so many possibilities for putting them together, and I think they look amazing when cut in all the lovely shiny, glittery, textured card I love to use at Christmas. 

I'm also really 'into' using coloured card this year and a bit of glitz and glimmer really works on them

Here I've used different finishes of silver and turquoise card; there's mirror, glitter, pearlescent and matte card to make each bauble different.

The die set also has dies to make the finials, hanging string and a pretty bow, but as I like to have a bit of added texture  I tied my bows from silver thread

 To finish this card I made a foiled sentiment using a Lisa Horton BetterPress set. added some extra loops of silver thread and some punched glitter card stars

 

I used:

Vintage Layered Ornaments by Simon Hurley

BP-214 Essential Tag Accessories

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 c 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,

Keeping Cosy

 Hello!

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

Today I've a couple of cards inspired by this week's One Word Prompt at the Daring Cardmakers

Jolly  Crafty Christmas Time

One Word Prompt.

WARM
What do you think of when you read that word?
What will you make inspired by WARM
Remember, anything goes -  make Tags, Bags, Cards, Décor, Boxes... whatever  takes your fancy and fits the theme - Christmas themed or not - it's up to you

See what the DT made here

 

 

 

 While I had the October Small Die of the Month club set from Spellbinders out again I made a second Polar Bear in a scarf card.  This time I made up some of the string of lights from the same set to crate a background, and gave him a rather inadegately sized bobble hat!  This comes from one of the Simon Hurley die sets I bought last Christmas and I thought it looked really cute even if it's not going to keep his head warm!

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 c 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,

Warm Wishes

Hello!

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

Today I've a couple of cards inspired by this week's One Word Prompt at the Daring Cardmakers

Jolly  Crafty Christmas Time

One Word Prompt.

WARM
What do you think of when you read that word?
What will you make inspired by WARM
Remember, anything goes -  make Tags, Bags, Cards, Décor, Boxes... whatever  takes your fancy and fits the theme - Christmas themed or not - it's up to you

See what the DT made here

 

 This gave me a good opportunity to use the October Small Die of the Month club set from Spellbinders again.  I decided to make the cosy roll neck of his sweater into a scarf this time, by making it up twice then cutting one piece into two sections, gluing inplace to look like the ends of a scarf.

For the background I used a very old die from Memory Box that I didn't recall using, even though its so pretty. Once I'd run it through my machine I realised why I've hardly ever used it - it is an absolutel nightmare to cut properly.  I think I ran it through 4 or 5 times in the end - and used a couple of paper shims AND it still took ages to get all the little bits out.  Even then one of the snowflakes hadn't cut properly.

It is so disppointing when a die turns out to be a duff one

 

Thankfully the Spellbinders ones worked without a hitch, I added a sentiment from one of last year's Glimmer sentiment sets: 

Christmas Die & Glimmer Sentiments

I added some red and white twine and thought one of my wax seals would be a great finishing touch

 

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 c 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,

Christmas Robin (One Word Prompt. BIRD)

 

Hello!

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

This time I've another card made for the Daring Cardmakers

Jolly Crafty Christmas Time 2024 and this time it was a One Word Prompt - which means there's just a single word to inspire your crafting and you can take it wherever the mood takes you.

One Word Prompt.

BIRD

How will you interpret the word BIRD on your project this week?
Remember it doesn't have to be Christmas themed, and you can share anything you make; Tags, Bags, Cards, Decor, Boxes - just as loing as its inspired by the theme

See what the DT made here

 

 

 

I've recently bought a cute little bird die set and this was the perfect opportunity to get it out of the packet.  One of the reasons I wanted this one is because it reminded me of the robins we see in the garden and I thought I'd only need to punch out a red circle to transform this birdie into a cute Christmas Robin.

Sweet Birdie

All the dies are from Spellbinders sets.  The sentiment is hot-foiled in goldusing the sentiment plate from October's Glimmer of the Month set, which is fabulous! I thought it needed a bit of sparkle so started with a square of white glitter paper, before arranging the snetiment, bird, poinsettia, pine cone and foliage on top and gluing in place

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 c 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

Turtle Birthday Balloons

  Hello!

 Welcome to my little crafting place! 

The Small Die of the Month club from Spellbinders this Novemberhas a couple of very cute critters (turtle and sloth), some clouds, a lovely and always useful bunch of balloons and a sweet Birthday Bliss banner sentiment

They call it 'Small' but it's not small in the quantity of dies you get! 

 I used the turtle (because he's the cutest!) and the balloons from the set for this one. I find balloons are my favourite go-to image for so many cards - often when I'm a bit stuck for an idea for men and boy cards! I  cut down one of the wax seals made with the Wax Seal of the Month to a simple square and added twine and a bow to make a gift, then hand-cut some more to go with it.

I used:

Small Die of the Month club 

  Wax Seal of the Month 

S4-1376 Nested Tree Frame
 

 

  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,

 

 Kathy xx

Birthday 'Confetti' on Black and White cards

 

 

 Hello!

 Welcome to my little crafting place!

This time I've a couple of cards using Spellbinders' fab Glimmer of the Month club kit for November.  You get a confetti background plate, a sentiment and die set plus some lovely multicolour 'confetti' foil  

The two cards I'm sharing today use the same foil and the same Glimmer plate, but I've done one on black card and the other on white.  

This one with the white background uses

Confetti plate from the Glimmer of the Month club

the balloons from the Small Die of the Month Club

and the sentiment seal from the Wax Seal of the Month club

 Now check out how it all looks on a black background!

 

Again the Confetti plate from the Glimmer of the Month club

and the balloons and sentiment banner from the Small Die of the Month Club

 I just love the way the design looks so different on the light and dark cardstock. This plate will be great for loads of different occasions just by changing the foil

  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,

 

 Kathy xx