Trimming the Tree

 

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

Just how cute are the little figures from the Spellbinders October Small Die of the Month club? Add in a lovely layered Christmas Tree and a roly-poly snowman and this is one wonderful set of dies.

Last time I showed how I made a whole bunch of well-wrapped-up kids ready to go out and build a snowman (check back for that one), so it's only right to use the tree dies along with more of my ready-made figures this time. 

Process:

Deep teal coloured card blank plus extra of the same for hot-foiling

Use the plate and sentiments from the October Glimmer of the Month and hot-foil with gold foil onto the spare teal card  (save the spare sentiments for later makes!)

Trim down and mat the panel on to gold card and adhere in place

Make up the tree - I added white glitter glue to the top pieces but you could cut them in glitter card.

Arrange the tree and figures and partially afix so you can still wind the gold twine into place under their hands and the edges of the tree.

I used 2 strands of gold twine twisted together with gluey fingers!  Arrange it on the tree and under the figures to look as though they are adding lights to the tree.

Add a punched star to the top of the tree 

Add small gems over the twine for the lights

Mat the sentiment onto gold card and add to the bottom of the card 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Small Die of the Month club 

 

October Glimmer of the Month club

  kit includes Polished Brass foil, but I used gold

 

card for die cutting from 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

 

Teal card blank plus extra for hot-foiling

Gold card for matting

Gold twine 

Coloured gems 

 

Just a Note

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

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

 

 Kathy xx

Make a Glitter Wax Seal

 

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

I love the Spellbinders clubs for October!

I've barely started making my Christmas cards and I'm sure these sets are going to get me motivated.  It's good to find something I can use to make a lot of cards quickly and I think this month's gorgeous Glimmer of the Month club with it's starry background plate and 4 really usable sentiments will help no end! It really doesn't need much more added to make a super-stylish card - you can even hot-foil directly onto your card blank then just add one of the sentiments and  it will look great! Though of course it's always hard to just stop there!

 

The Wax Seal of the Month club has something really special this time - the Wax Seal itself is cool with a lovely scripty  'Merry & Bright' message, but this month there's a little tub of Silver Bullion powder and an applicator which I've really enjoyed working with.  It goes onto the wax easily and it really shines - I'm just sorry that the shine doesn't show up on the photos so well - you'll just have to take my word for it!

As ever I set aside an hour or two to just experiment with the seal, different colours and different techniques.  This time I also hunted out other things I might be able to add - so there's glitter, tiny beads and mini sequins included on the picture.  

There's even one I made upside down...😁😁

 

I used the first seal on the bottom row for this card.

To make it I poured quite a large squarish blob of wax (any colour will do - you can use those weird leftover bits of wax!) onto my silicone mat  and immediately covered it with purple glitter.  I put a scrap of wax paper over it and gently pressed the glitter over the wax to make sure it got plenty of coverage.

Next I heated and poured white wax on top of the wax 'blob' and this time stamped the 'Merry & Bright' Seal into it, making sure it was adhered to the base layer.

I used the Silver Bullion powder to highlight the letters 

  

As the glittery layer is purple I went with a rich purply-blue colour for the card blank and hot-foiled layer and some lovely Lavender foil from a past club kit.

I criss-crossed some silvery baker's twine around the foiled panel before adding to the front of the card, then added the wax seal on top. 

With hindsight, and probably more bravery, I could have made the card, added the twine, then poured the wax directly into the centre of the card

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Wax Seal of the Month

includes Silver Bullion powder 

White Wax beads

 

October Glimmer of the Month club

  kit includes Polished Brass foil, but I used Lavendar

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seals

 Other

 

Purple card blank plus extra for hot-foiling

re-melted leftover wax 

Silver baker's twine 

 

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

Snowman Sparkle

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

The Spellbinders clubs for October are ready to go and there's a fab Christmas and Winter vibe this month - perfect timing to kick-start Christmas crafting!

I absolutely love all the clubs I've been working with but I'm going to start sharing my projects with a card using the Small Die of the Month club, and if you look closely the background circle is hot-foiled with this month's Glimmer of the Month plate and I've added one of the sentiments too

There are quite a lot of small pieces making up the snowman builders and I thought batch making was the easiest way to go - especially as it works really well if you want to make a good lot of cards in a similar style. 

So I taped all the pieces that make up the children together with washi tape, chose a few colours from the ColorWheel Cardstock Pack then cut all of the pieces from all my chosen card colours.  Now I had a lot of pieces to work with, so I sorted them into one of my divided boxes to make life a bit easier when I set about building the little characters! 

 Here are the first set I made, there's still a few more to build, but I may add in some more colours when I'm ready to do that

I did the same kind of thing with the tree and snowman dies - it's quicker in the long run to cut out a batch of all the pieces first then make them up as you want them. For the card I chose a pale blue colour from from the  ColorWheel Cardstock Pack then used the Glimmer plate with some white foil to get a snowy background, and built up my picture

 

To finish I foiled the 4 sentiments in the kit using black foil onto white card and chose one to use on this card.  The others I'll keep for later use. I added a loop of blue twine to match the background

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Small Die of the Month club 

 

October Glimmer of the Month club

  kit includes Polished Brass foil, but I used white foil (on the blue circle) and black (sentiment) 

 

card from 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

for die cutting

 

 Other

 

White Linen card blank

Smooth White cardstock

Circle punches for snowballs

Pale blue twine 

 

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 Spooky Forest

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

I've another card using the new Spellbinders clubs for September.  This time it's a knetic card using the little ghosties and skulls from the Small Die of the Month club

This is a card that folds almost flat for posting but pops out into more of a box shape to display.  I used a square die to cut the aperture in the front, and added a piece of 'spooky forest' printed paper to the back

There's a couple of simple folded hinges, rather like the cover of a match box inside the top and bottom of the main box and the ghost and skull elements are suspended between those.  This gives you the front, back, and two levels between to use for your moving elements or scenery

 

 The two white skulls on the right of the front have a 'wobbler' behind them for a bit of extra movement

 

 The letters come from Pooh’s Alphabet Numbers & More 

 

 

 

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

September Small Die of the Month 

 

Pooh’s Alphabet Numbers & More

 Other

 

Black card 

White and coloured cardstock for die cutting

Black thread

Wire to make the wobbler element 

 

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

Black and White

 

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I'm sharing the card I've made for our nephew's birthday.  As a Newcastle United fan its been an exciting year - what with them actually winning something at last!  Oh, how happy my dad would have been to see that!

Anyway - to echo their famous black and white striped kit I used 2 different sized slatted squares dies from Craft Addictionuk plus a couple of dies from their Tiny Tags set too. The little sentiment was also from the tag set but I hot-foiled it in silver. The other elements are a bit of a random mix of dies I've accumulated over the years.  Years ago when I used my Silhouette Cameo more often I cut a whole bunch of footballer silhouettes in different colours and put the spares in a bag, which I actually remembered about because CA also have  die sets of sporting silhouettes.  Amazingly I found them in one of the drawers so was able to add one to the mix.

 

There's also blue and yellow in the kit and badge so a good excuse to use a little of those colours too.

 

Materials

 

from Craft Aaddiction uk

Slatted Squares die set

Tiny Tags die set 

 

 Other:

White card blank 

Black and Silver card, plus extra white card

Green, yellow and blue card scraps

White, Black, yellow and blue waxed twine

Various football themed dies

Silhouette Cameo cut footballer 

 

 

   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 visiting

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself and please come by again soon

 

Kathy xx

 

Another card with Silhouette Cameo footballers on 

Autumn Owl

 

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

This time I'm sharing a very simple card using the fab owl seal from the Wax Seal of the Month club from Spellbinders.  I found a lovely Autumnal digital paper to use for the background and cut a narrow panel, matted it onto light brown and gold, 

As usualwhen I get a new seal I started by having a bit of a play session. I use different techniques and wax bead colours and find out what works best, 

. This kit comes with the Must-Have Wax Beads Mix Basic which has  a really useful mix of black, white, silver and gold beads.  Here's my first batch of seals; you'll see some are simple pour and stamp, some are two layer pour and scrape, and some I tried to use a couple of coloursfor the feathers. I tried a bit of colour-mixing for the feathers

I chose to use a simple gold stamped seal for this card, but I added more shading with copper and gold glass pens and some green on the twig. 

I fixed some lengths of waxed twine and gold thread to the back of the seal, then tucked the ends under one side of the upper panel, then glued this to the dark brown card blank.  The other ends were trimmed and left loose.

 

 Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

 

September Wax Seal of the Month

includes

 Must-Have Wax Beads Mix Basic 

 

 Other

 

Dark Brown card blank

Light Brown and Gold card for matting

Digital paper by Abroutique via Etsy

Glass Pens

Waxed Twine, Gold Thread

 

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