WRMK 3d Printed Tool Holder

  Hello,

 Thank you so much for coming by, I hope you like what you see!

The inspiration for Hubby's birthday card recently shared here came from the 3d printer I got him for Christmas

So this time I thought I'd share something that he's made for me - a bespoke box to hold 3 of my most-used WRMK tools.  If you have the same kind of tools you'll knpw how heavy and awkward to keep handy they are.  Mine just ended up lying on top of other stuff.

 

As well as the 3 main tools and to make best use of the space there are small areas perfect for items like my jewellery pliers and wire cutters, a couple of types of glue and a slit to hold my rulers

Here's how it looks empty.

You can see the curved shape that keeps the multihole punch tidy 

The master plan is to get my craft desk more organised and less of an eyesore using the incredible Gridfinity system of 3d printed solutions. Basically you make a grid of squares that fits your space then add the boxes, containers, trays etc that you need for you 'stuff'.  It allows you to customise to the shapes you need for your items.

He's already sorted his desk drawer - check out the slot for his small screwdriver set, and the very organised battery area!

 

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

Tulip Time!

Hello,

I've loved the whole process of making wax-seals since I first tried it.  Mainly I make them just for the pleasure and maybe the mindfulness this craft brings.  There's something about working on something so small that concentrates the mind and brings peace.  It doesn't really matter if the seal you make isn't perfect, it's more about the act of making it.

Today, I'm sharing some wax seals I made recently - and was really happy with! 

Firstly a set of tiny tulip seals. These seals measure about 2cms in diameter so the tulips are quite tiny! The set were all made using the Pour and Scrape technique.  They are so cute!

The Instagram Wax Seal group I'm in has a weekly theme to inspire us, and a recent them was 'Frames'.

Now a lot of people do amazing mini works of art using frame seals, especially when used with clear wax (which is from glue sticks in reality). I do have a glue gun internded to be dedicated to using this technique but so far I've failed to whip up the courage to try it out.  To be honest, glue guns terrify me!

I do also have some frame stamps (you know, for when I pluck up the courage to try the clear seals)  so I decided to use one of these for the base of my seal then see if I could put something inside the frame separately.

Once the base seal was made I used a gold pen to highlight the frams pattern.

For the tulips I used the same stamp as above but made 3 separate ones again using the Pour and Scrape technique. Usually you'd then stamp them into the wax background but I managed to poke the tiny flowers out with a pointy tool. They're a bit fragile, but they were ok

I just used spots of superglue to fix them to the middle of the frame. I used tweezers to get them in place, and as I'm a bit cack-handed with tiny amouts of glue, I sprinkled some ultra fine glitter over the top to disguise any excess glue.

There's usually a way to get round these little problems, don't you find 😉 

I was so chuffed at how this went together! 

I think it may appear on an Easter card soon 

If you buy paper craft goodies, such as dies, stencils, stamps etc you may like toi use my Spellbinders link 

 

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

3d Printer Birthday Card

 

 Hello,

Thank you so much for visiting my crafting place, a warm welcome to you!

It was Hubby's birthday recently, and with only a few days to go I was still stuck for a card idea.  It was my dear friend Joanne  who said "Could you do something with a 3d printer theme?" 

I actually think it was this card that got me out of my card-making funk, so a double thank you Joanne for your help.

My plan was for a pop up card that would go in a regular envelope,  and it was working quite well until I tried to figure out how to make the filament reels on the top become 3d!  There may be a way to do it but it was completly beyond me and my  solution was to give up 

🤣🤣 

 

Instead I made the reels from circles of card with strips of coloured card between and fixed them to the top of the 'printer. 

 Then I made a box to present it in!

Pragmatism rules!

 

 

 As you can see, the door opens to reveal a 3d gift - it has a box hinge behind it so it pops out. The door is silver card and the window is a piece of acetate 

To finish I added a loopy sentiment - I thought that if you used a length of fila ment you could  bend it into a shape like this - like making words from wire

Maybe I should take a photo of the card inside the actual printer but perhaps that's just a bit too 'meta' - what do you think?

 

 

  

Materials

Black card

Various other colours of card, 

Acetate for window

Square die for gift, plus die cut bow

Hand cut tag 

Punched circles for filament reels

Loopy did cut sentiment 

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

Sundae Best

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place - today I'm sharing a birthday card made for a March birthday.

As the weather is beginning to improve I thought I'd wheel out a recent Spellbinders set I'd not used yet.  Even though I've not felt much like crafting I've still felt like acquiring new craft stash - funny, that! 

For this one I started by creating the wide striped background paper on the pc and printing to the size I wanted onto White Bazzill cardstock.

The main die set is Fountain Wishes which makes the sundae and the bits to add to the top, plus theres a couple of extra dies in the set which I didn't manage to use here.  I added some flowers from my pot of little flowers left over from a recent project. The 'happy' part of the sentiment is die cut.  you get a batch of message stamps to go with it in the set, but I chose to add a white on black 'birthday' instead.

I added Glossy Accents to the chocolate sauce and cherry, and tiny seed beads for the 'sprinkles' 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

Fountain Wishes die set

'Happy' die & stamp set

 

 

 Other

Striped paper  created on the pc

various colours and types of card 

Glossy Accents

Tiny seed beads 

 

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

Wax Seal Butterflies

 

 Hello

Wishing you a warm welcome to my little crafting place, thank you so much for coming by!

Just a quick post to share a couple of wax seals I've made recently, using the pour and scrape 

The white butterfly is a basic Pour and Scrape seal. I pooured the white eax into the seal then scraped away the excess with a warmed metal spatula (see earler pposts for more info). Once that was done I stamped the seal into some blue wax

For the pink and white butterfly I added another stage. This time I stamped my white butterfly into pink wax then cut around the edge of the butterfly with scissors.  As you can see, my cutting out is anything but perfect!

Finally I melted blue wax and with the cut-out placed into the seal head stamped it into the blue wax.

If you buy paper craft goodies, such as dies, stencils, stamps etc you may like toi use my Spellbinders link 

 

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