Elegant Christmas

  Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and as it's July it must be Christmas!

This time I'm sharing a stylish card using the July Wax Seal of the Month and the Glimmer of the Month

This seal is a real beauty, and I'm loving using it so much! 

I had a bit of fun turning it into a motif for a fairisle jumper and then making it the central motif for a collage,  and tnow I've a more complicated, 3 layer seal in gold, white and black, which is always a stylish colour palette!

 

This time I made the seal in white, then cut out the central section with scissors.  Step 2 is to use the 'pour and scrape' method, heating the stamp a little, popping the white motif back into it then stamping into gold wax and scraping away the excess with a heated spatula. The 3rd stage is to stamp the whole thing into black wax then remove the spare wax from around the square brass seal.  Sometimes just bending it brings the excess off, but I usually use a craft knife for this bit.  Alternately, I use scissors to cut around the finished item when it comes away from the seal.

 I hot foiled a piece of matte gold card with the Glimmer plate and shiny gold foil, then cut off a strip to use on the card (I can use the rest on more cards)

 

The front of my card blank was embossed with the lovely Lined Corners 3D Folder, then the gold strip adhered in place. I added the wax seal and finished off with a twine bow.

The sentiment is from a new BetterPress set, but I hot-foiled it on a strip of black card with gold foil. BetterPress plates work beautifully with hot foil machines!

I used

 

from Spellbinders;

July Wax Seal of the Month

 

Must-Have Wax Beads Mix (black, gold, ahite, silver)

Glimmer of the Month
 

Gold Foil

Lined Corners 3D Embossing Folder  

 

Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set
  

 

Other:

Smooth white card blank

Scrap of black card

Gold card for foiling

Waxed Twine; black, white

Gold thread 

  

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

Gingerbread Gift Bag

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and we're still having fun with 'Christmas in July' crafting. This time I've made a gift bag, and used the Gingerbread man Deluxe Caboodle club gift to make a tag to decorate it

 

The actual gift bag is made from a sheet of A4 80gsm card printed with one of the designs from my ever-increasing collection of digital downloads. The bag is about 15cms high, 10cms across and about 4cms deep, so a good size for a smallgift, like a bag of nice chocolates or a set of mini toiletries etc

For the tag I cut the middlesized scalloped circle from Scallop Journal Cards and trimmed to leave 5 scallops and a bit of extra card to stick to the back of a simple rectangle. At the lower edge I added a cut-down piece from one of the borders in the  Stitch & Dots Scallop Borders set. I used ribbon to conceal the joins

The gingerbread man is made the same way as on an earlier post, and I added candy canes from the July Small Die of the Monthand the little hat from last month's Walrus set (I punched a circle to use for the bobble)) and added a spring 'wobbler' between him and the tag base

 

 Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

July Deluxe Caboodle club gift

 

July Small Die of the Month

 

Vintage Flower Shoppe collection
  Scallop Journal Cards dies

Stitch & Dots Scallop Borders
   

Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

June Small Die of the Month

 

Other 

80gsm white card aprinted with digital download design

Spotty ribbon

narrow satin ribbon 

 

Gift Bag tutorial is HERE

  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 Centrepiece

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and as it's July it must be Christmas!

The July Wax Seal of the Monthis a real beauty, and I've enjoyed using it so much! I had a bit of fun turning it into a motif for a fairisle jumper and this time I've used it as the centrepiece of a Christmas card and combined it with elements from one of the brand new Christmas releases from Spellbinders

This seal has the same aqua and white colourway as the one I s I used on the jumper, but this time I didn't cut out the square but left it as it was - more like a traditional wax seal.. As before it's made using the 'pour and scrape' method, heating the stamp a little, pouring the white wax and scraping away the excess with a heated spatula, then pouring the aqua wax and placing the stamp (with the white pattern still in it) into it.

This time I made the white a little brighter by adding white glass pen ink to it 

I also made a couple of extras of parts of the seal's pattern, the smaller oneis all white, the other was another of the aqua and white ones, each were trimmed to leave just part of the design 

The sentiment is from a new BetterPress set, but I hot-foiled it on the same teal card with gold foil

 Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set 

I used

 

from Spellbinders;

July Wax Seal of the Month

 

White Wax Beads

Must-Have Wax Beads Mix Teal 

  

Barn Star Wreath Die set

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

 

Other:

Teal card blank

Red and white spotty ribbon

Scraps of card for die cut elements

  

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

Pine Cones and Fairy Lights

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

This week sees the start of the Daring Cardmakers

Jolly Crafty Christmas Time 2024

For the challenges leading up to Christmas we'll give you either a picture or a word prompt each week and then the rest is up to you! 

Anything Goes - you're free to make anything that takes your fancy that fits the theme.
Tags, Bags, Cards, Décor, boxes, and all kinds of trimmings - whatever you want to make, Christmas themed or not - it's up to you 

 

It all starts off today with a picture prompt

November Elemental Inspiration Challenge.  
What to make: Anything Goes! 

Christmas themed or not

Just choose a minimum of 3 elements to use when you make your project.

See what the DT made here

 

My main choices were the colour palette. Baker's Twine, and Pine Cones, but there are other things from the picture wheich found their way in!

 

 

All the dies are from Spellbinders sets.  The sentiment is hot-foiled in white (I love the effect!) using the sentiment plate from October's Glimmer of the Month set, which is fabulous! I think the pine cone set and the tree light set were from last year or even earlier

I added in some extra leafy sprigs and holly cut in green and gold to fill out the design

 

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 c 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,

Kathy xx

 

 

Another Glimmer of the Month card

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 Welcome to my little crafting place!

This month the Spellbinders club kits will help you on the way with your Christmas crafting, and I've shared a few of the things I've made using my three club kits.

Today I've used the Glimmer of the Month club set and made something a bit different, at least for me! 

So I thought I'd share a quick post to see what you thought of this one.

 

 This time I coloured the foiled piece with metallic pens from my wax seal highlighting stuff, and gave the lights a coat of Glossy Accents for extra shine. Then I cut the foiled panel in half and added one piece to the top of the card and the other to the lower edge.

I added gold and white strips between them and decorated with narrow shiny red strips and the sentiment from the Glimmer set foiled in red

To finish there's a wax thread bow with a glitter card dot in the middle

  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,

 

 Kathy xx

Glimmering Threesome

 

 Hello!

 Welcome to my little crafting place!

This month the Spellbinders club kits will help you on the way with your Christmas crafting, and I've shared a few of the things I've made using my three club kits.

Today I thought I'd just share a quick post showing some cards made using the Glimmer of the Month club - as I can't stop using it!

 These three just use the plate in the same way - I've already blogged the Turquoise one and the red one, but I've also made a black one, and I've a feeling there may be others still to be made!

  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,

 

 Kathy xx

Mosaic Border - Spellblogger post for Spellbinders

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I'm here today with another Spellblogging post for Spellbinders
 This time it's another card, using the beautiful ornament dies - and some waste from another project!

 A couple of weeks ago I made this box for the weekly Daring Cardmakers Challenge, and used Stacey Caron's French Flair Card Creator die set to make a decorative panel for the top.  I saved the 'waste' from this project because I felt sure I could make use of it!
 

Click here for more info on this Poinsettia Gift box

I used all those little pieces of card that would otherwise have gone in the bin to created a mosaic border and I love how it turned out to be the perfect background for the beautiful ornament, and I think I'll be saving those waste pieces more often from now!

Info
White card blank
Patterned Centura card for the mosaic and the filigree bauble
Red Glitter card for the backing circle and the sentiment

Gold twine

All the info for the box and the Spellbinders dies I used to decorate it, including the poinsettia and the gorgeous label piece in the centre can be found HERE, but here are the Spellbinders die sets used on this card

French Flair Card Creator 
Etched Dies from the Rouge Royale Deux Collection by Stacey Caron

 

 Gilded Ornaments Holiday 2017 

 Shapeabilities  Etched Dies 

Ho Ho Ho Holiday 2017 
 Die D Lites Etched Dies 
 

I also used:

Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine

That's it for this time, This bauble die set, along with the Snowflake Snippets one are my favourites and the ones I've used most on this year's Christmas cards and projects!

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Happy Crafting