More Barn Star

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place!

This time I'm sharing a couple more Christmas cards using the gorgeous

Barn Star Wreath die set.

For making a bunch of cards it's perfect - I spent a while cutting lots of the elements from the die set in differecnt colours and types of card.  I used shiny, textured, matte and glitter card, lots of gold and silver as well as my other favourite Christmas colours. 

 

I added a few more holly and pine stem dies from other die sets so I could cut lots of foliage at the same time,  I've quite a nice collection of poinsettia dies so I did the same with those. Then it was easy to put several cards together fairly quickly.

I buy most of my card, card blanks and envelopes from PDA Card and Craft - they may not be the cheapest, but the quality, variety and speedy service is just brilliant  - I just adore the beautiful deep coloured creased card blanks I've been using a lot this year. They make a fabulous backdrop for all the pretty bits!

I also buy my smooth white card blanks from them 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

Barn Star Wreath die set

July 2024 Small Die of the Month club

 

Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set
Silver foil 

 

 

 Other

Turquoise card blank from PDA Card and Craft 

 Coloured card in various finishes

 

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

Because Red is Her Favourite

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place!

My wonderful Aunt has spent the last few weeks in hospital so I wanted to make her a card to say we are thinking of her.  Red has always been her favourite colour, so it was definitely getting used on this card.

To begin I made the slatted square background, using a piece of glossy red card as the backing square then cutting the slatted square twice so I could lay one vertically and the other horizontally to make a chequerboard. 

After gluing those two layers together I used a circle die to cut a hole of about 2.5cms in the centre, I made a frame to secure the raw slatted edges with a couple of circle dies. The finished layered square was then adhered to a large custom-sized card blank.

 

Next I made the rose.  My plan had been to make a spray of different sized roses but I decided to make just one large one.  I used a large flower punch to cut the petals, then a leaf die set from Spellbinders to cut the leaves

The sentiment is also from an old Spellbinders set, it was cut in gold and matted onto white and red card. To complete this card I tied a red organza bow, and added some gold twine loops to match the gold sentiment

 My aunt isn't well, and if you read this, maybe you could send a prayer, or some get better wishes for her, I'd be so grateful

 

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

Snow People revisited

  Hello

welcome to my crafting world - it doesn't always work the way I'd hoped, but its good to share anyway, isn't it?

This time I'm making a return visit to the wonderful October Small Die of the Month club set from Spellbinders. I still have a few of the little figures made up and ready to go so here are a couple more cards using them.  This time I decided to set them on Wintry backgrounds using some digital designs.

I love using dies, hot foil and other crafting treasures, but digital papers are another of my go-to supplies and they often get me out of a crafting 'hole'

I chose a couple of rather 'soft' snowy backgrounds for these so the die cuts are the main focus  

 

For the first card I thought I'd arrange the little child and the snowman in a cute Snowy Hug!

I gave each of the snowmen a different hat just free-cutting or using punches.  I think the bobble hat may have slipped a bit before I took the photo!

I finished them off with hot-foiled sentiments 

 

There are quite a lot of small pieces making up the little people so I taped all the pieces that make up the children together with washi tape, chose a selection of colours from the ColorWheel Cardstock Pack then cut all of the pieces from each of the colours.  Next I sorted the different shapes into a divided box to make it easier to put them all together

I made up a batch of the little guys - you can spot  the ones I've used for these cards among them.  That didn't use up all the die cuts so I could still make up some more

Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Small Die of the Month club 

 

Small Sentiments from

 Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set

 

Coloured card from 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

for die cutting

 

 Other

 

White card blank

Bazzill 'Diamond White' card for printing background

Digital backgrounds 

Circle and star punches

White Glitter glue (Tonic Studios)

Silver 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  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by

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

 

 Kathy xx