Party On, and On

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I'm sharing another card for this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge 

Fête and Festival
 

It's the Fete and Festival season!
and among many other Summer favourites, this weekend the famous Glastonbury Festival will be in full swing. Will festival go-ers be knee-deep in mud this year or reaching for the suncream and suffering from heatstroke? 
This week get happy, sunny, and fete/festival-ready with colourful, celebratory flags, bunting and/or music on your projects.

Create anything you like - cards, tags, postcards, 3D projects this week 
- and don't forget to share them with us!

 

 This is a really simple card!

The background is stencilled with a music notes stencil using different vibrant ink colours. I cut it into 3 panels and matted these onto a piece of light gold card before adhering this to a purple card blank.

The sentiment is from a very old set by Spellbinders which has 4 different words each on a narrow line. I cut it from yellow card. Next I inked some scraps of white card and hand cut the bunting shapes, glueing the top of each piece to the reverse of the yellow line.

I thought it needed something extra so glued a length of pinky-red ricrac brais over the top. 

I used the stencilled piece because it was already on my desk, but really, this is about a simple layout and could be adapted to use other patterned or plain coloured paper.  Any word for a greeting could be used, sitting on a thin strip of card and decorated with bunting like I've done here - or use a piece of twine to make loops under the line and add hand-cut bunting to that instead.

I used:

Purple card blank

White and Yellow card  

Stencil and small ink pads

Old die set from Spellbinders

Ricrac braid 

   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

Party On!

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

I'm back after a lovely week away in the countryside near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire and all week we were blessed with beautiful weather!  We stayed in a lovely holiday let, where we had some rather beautiful big Shire horses as near neighbours!  You can see a picture at the end of this post. 

Today I'm sharing my card for this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge andI had a lot of fun making this one - and for a change the only dies I used were for the letters on the sentiment

Fête and Festival
 

It's the Fete and Festival season!
and among many other Summer favourites, this weekend the famous Glastonbury Festival will be in full swing. Will festival go-ers be knee-deep in mud this year or reaching for the suncream and suffering from heatstroke? 
This week get happy, sunny, and fete/festival-ready with colourful, celebratory flags, bunting and/or music on your projects.

Create anything you like - cards, tags, postcards, 3D projects this week 
- and don't forget to share them with us!

This is a really fun card, made with three squares of card, folded diagonally then glued together in such a way that they stand up like a pyramid, but can be folded flat to put in an envelope.

I used digital designs for this card, resized and printed onto white bazzill. When all the layers are folded together it becomes quite a thick card, so a lighter weight of cardstock helps it to fold more effectively.

As my starting point I chose one of the designs from this set by Wagara Boutique 

For the other two squares I used colours from the balloons paper and changed some of my exisitng digis to make one with diagonal stripes and one with dots.

I cihked some scraps of card with colourful inks to make the bunting.  It's so easy to create your own bunting just with card or paper and a pair of scissors.  You can make it exactly the right size for your project.

(folded flat 1)

 

I glued my bunting onto gold twine, which was a bit fiddly, but I needed it to look as though it was strung betwen the two poles that stand out from the dies and  the hat pin pole in the centre. 

The stripy poles were just made by folding some spare card in half for strength and cutting two narrow pieces. 

(folded flat 2)

I used a small (abt 1cm high) alphabet die to cut the sentiment letters from inked card, adhered them to some paler pink inked card and hand-cut the banner shape. This was matted onto gold card and again I hand cut around the shape before glueing in place.

To complete the card I went back to the pc and the balloon paper.  On the computer I cropped out a piece with a few different coloured balloons, then resized it so they'd be a bit bigger than those on 14 x 14cm square piece I used for the card itself. 

Once printed I cut out 4 of the balloons, arranged them on pieces of foam tape, added some gold twine strings and adhered them to the card with ome extra foam tape for added dimension

I used:

Digital download paper resized and printed onto Bazzill White Sianond cardstock 

gold. black and pink card 

Sentiment die cut letters; I think its an old Sizzix die

  Gold twine bow 

Decorative long hat pin 

 

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 And here's the photo of our neighhhhbours, taken from our little balcony

   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

 

Pink Roses

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I'm sharing my card for this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge and it's back to a favourite cardmaking component for this one!

Roses and Honeysuckle

June's birth flowers are roses and honeysuckle.

The rose is a classic symbol of love and romance, while honeysuckle is known for

its sweet, fragrant blooms.

We'd love to see your creations using one, or both on your cards, tags, postcards or 3D projects this week

- and don't forget to share them with us!

 My first attempt went very wrong, so I saved the fan and the roses and the rest went in the bin.  Thankfully my second try went better and I'm much happier with this one

 I went with an old favourite digi download for the background - when in doubt go with the tried and tested! My roses were made using a couple of shades of pink Bazzill card and my favourite die set for rose making.  It was a beautiful Spellbinders set with has 6 sizes of the same flower shape so is fantastic for something like this - sadly its no longer available and for some reason I didn't write its name down when I put it in my dies folder. 

The flower dies may be old but the fan is brand new - a beautiful May die release from the Spring in Kyoto collection.

I've not been feeling very chirpy over the last few weeks, but doing a spot of flower making is a gentle and calming activity and as its a long time since I made roses it was lovely to spend a few hours making these (and a few I didn't actually use here)

The leaves came from another old die set, the sentiment was pc generated and the finishing touches were the pink twine bow and some pink pearls 

I used:

 

from Spellbinders 

Fan & Bow Etched Dies (Spring in Kyoto)

Multi sized flower die set die set (currently unavailable) 

Leaves are also from an old set (currently unavailable) 

 

Other:

Digital download paper

gold. black and pink card 

pc generated sentiment

  pink waxed twine bow and a few pink pearls 

   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

Celebrate the Sun

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I'm sharing my card for the Daring Cardmakers challenge and I've made another creation with a wobbling element this week

Celebrate the Sun

We all like to see the sun, so whether its the summer solstice
in the Northern Hemisphere or the winter solstice where you are, 
make sure the sun features on your projects this week
Create anything you like - cards, tags, postcards, 3D projects
this week - and don't forget to share them with us! 

  

I used ink and water to create the blue background.  Fot the sun I used yellow card, adding deeper shades of yellow, orange and a little red to make it more fiery! there's another die layer between the face and the rest of the sun - I used a tonic fluted circle for this and inked it a bit darker 

I thought that as the finished sun is quite big (about 6cms diameter) I should used some slightly thicker wire to make the spring and slightly bigger wire circles to connect it to the base and the sun.

. Here you can see the wire spring that forms the wobbler

I inked a piece of white card with yellow, orange and red stripes, then blended them together before die cutting the word.  I also cut a further 3 layers from blue card before adhering them all together and gluein in place. 

 The clouds were die cut from thin white card and lightly inked on the lower edges with a very soft blue shade.

The largest cloud is mounted on a tiny white pop up mechanism, the others raised slightly on pieces of thick card

The flowers were left over from another project and made the perfect finishing touch

 

 

I used:

 

from Spellbinders 

 

The sun is from a Very old Sun die set!  (currently unavailable) 

'Hugs' is also from an old set (currently unavailable) 

 

Clouds from:

Up in the Air  from Windows with a View Collection 

 

Yellow card from Colourwheel collection

Tiny flowers from my leftovers box

Inks for background and adding to the sun and the sentiment

Homemade wire wobbler

   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

Seas the Day

  Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again and I've got another Wax Seal of the Month  card to share.

 

We sent out for Fish and Chips one night last week and they arrived in a paper carrier bag decorated with a pattern of waves and trawlers. Well. That wasn't going straight in the recycling was it?  I did check that there was no whiff of fish and chips though before chopping it up to add to my stash.

Anyway, I decided to use a piece for the background of this card straightaway! 

I then built up the bottom of the sea collage using the shell, waves, clouds and seaweed dies from one of last year's Spellbinders collections, and added in some silk leafy, seaweedy 'stuff'' for extra interest.  

 

Next I added the lovely wax seal and finished it all off with the Happy Birthday sentiment from the June Glimmer of the Month club kit

My wax seals using this month.s seal

 

 

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

June Wax Seal of the Month 

June Glimmer of the Month
sentiment

 

Shell, waves, clouds and seaweed dies from one of last year's die sets

 

 Other:

Chippy supper takeaway bag

bits of leafy stuff from my flower box 

   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

Regatta Season

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again!

for this card I've used June's  Deluxe Caboodle Bonus Item which is a die set to create the cutest little yacht  and the Wax Seal of the Month 

One yacht was just not enough so I made five!  And I decided to make them in pretty pink tomes of card from the ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

For all the background images I've used a variety of digital downloads from my ever-growing collection! 

To make the pop up waves I used box hinges behind all the different wave pieces. I strengthened the masts of the yachts with an extra die cut of black card, trimmed down so it's mainly just the mast and a little piece of the boat and sails,  This just gives enough extra strength to keep the yachts upright.

Once I'd created the scene and stuck everything in place I added the Happy Birthday sentiment from the June Glimmer of the Month club kit

 To keep it all closed and the surpise hidden I made a band using a couple of caard strips wrapped with twine that matches the colours of the boats, and a wax seal from the set I made a couple of weeks ago

I had a lot of fun making this one, and I hope you like it! 

  

 

My wax seals using this month.s seal

 

This is my Colourwheel swatch set

 

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

June Deluxe Caboodle Bonus item

June Wax Seal of the Month 

   

ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

June Glimmer of the Month
sentiment

 

 Other:

Digital papers 

Waxed 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