Bird's Nest Basket - Spellblogger for Spellbinders

Hello! 
Happy Monday to you
We didn't have as much snow as other parts of the UK, but thankfully even that has all gone now and things can get back to normal!  
Or what passes for normal, round here!
I had a sudden moment of inspiration a couple of days ago!  I'd used the gorgeous Spellbinders twiggy wreath die to make the card I posted on Friday when the lightbulb switched on, and I thought it would make a perfect project for my next Spellbloggers post

 Once again I'm using dies from Lene Lok's Four Seasons range from Spellbinders. This time I've used two die sets; the Twiggy wreath and the Wreath Elements die sets and made something a bit different, but totally in keeping as our thoughts turn to Spring

 Info:
I started off with a plain die cut circle of brown card adhered to a stronger chipboard circular base.  Then cut lots of the wreath shapes in different shades of brown card and loads of leaves from the various leaf shapes in the Wreath Elements die set.
Then it was just a case of layering up the wreaht shapes and adding a few leaves in as I went.  I made best use of the brown card by
cutting part-circles from the cut out centres left over when the wreaths were cut.  I just arranged them around  nest shape as I built it up
I used chipboard coloured with brown ink and cut into tiny pieces between the layers.  I glued the chipboard to the underside of the leaves to hide them.  You could use dimensional glue, or dark coloured foam pads instead.
I finished it off with a few real feathers inside the nest and poking through the sides.

Here are the Spellbinders die sets used this time 

Four Seasons Wreath by Lene Lok 

Shapeabilities Etched Dies
 

Wreath Elements;  Four Seasons by Lene Lok 

Shapeabilities Etched Dies

Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine
 

Obviously the real finishing touch is to fill the nest with chocolate eggs - and I promise that I only ate one in the making of this post!

here is the card I made using the same two die sets, you can read
 more about it HERE

That's it for this time,
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Happy Crafting

Spring Shades

Hello!

Today I'm sharing my latest project for Bubbly Funk Through the Letterbox, and this time I thought I'd use not on;y some of the trims from my "Seeing Stars" box, but also some other things from the shop. So I've used a stencil and one of the gorgeous new flowers.

If you are anything like me, you'll feel you should use your pretty Primas etc, but find yourself unable to use more than one,per project!

 You can find more info on how I made this card over on the Bubbly Blog.

When I use stencils I find it hard to resist using a lot of inks and stuff.  This was no exception and there's a lot of ink, a bit of wax and some gorgeous glitter paste involved.

One flower would have looked a bit mean, so I made some smaller, crocus-like ones using some of the 'flat' flowers I have gazillions of, in this case three daisies

Links:

  Basketweave stencil 

"Seeing Stars." Through the Letterbox craft box ( gold and silver jewelled trim, and silver jewels on the purple ribbon)

  Prima Flower from  HERE

That's all for this time. Thanks for popping by

Happy Crafting

March Elemental Inspiration

Hello!

I really hope you are staying warm and safe while Britain endures the Big Freeze!   We've not actually got much snow here, maybe only an inch or two, but its been bitterly cold.  The weather put paid to our plans to spend a few days of this week over at the flat in Southwold - it was supposed to be the final 'push' to getting it ready for the photographer and onto the website.  Knowing that it was worse further east and that a lot of the journey is via country roads we soon shelved that plan and decided to stay put! 

Definitely the right decision and a good excuse to stay in and do some crafting!  

I've made some little boxes (to share here later), and some cards and I have a few other projects ether 'on the go' or waiting for inspiration to strike as to what to do with them! 

 It was Miri's turn to choose the Daring Cardmakers' Elemental Inspiration Picture  for March and I don't think she was expecting most of Europe to be gripped by the "Beast from the East" - well, you wouldn't, would you?  

There's an old saying about the month of March; "In like a lion, out like a lamb" - we're certainly experiencing the roar of the first part, so lets just hope that the cute, fluffy, soft and cuddly lamb isn't too far behind!

I've got some more of the gorgeous Lene Lok 'Four Seasons' dies from Spellbinders and spotting the wreath on the door of the top left picture in Miri's mood board (you need to look closely!) it was time to use the twiggy wreath die, along with some pretty glowers and the all-over background design in the lower left picture

The pretty background paper is another of the latest digital paper collections I've found on Etsy.  I'd been looking for some tools and DIY papers to use for hubby's birthday card (scroll down to see that one on a recent post) and just  had to see what else was around while I was at it. When it comes to digi papers  Grepic is one of my favourites and this paper comes from the Pink and Grey Flowers set. I LOVE using digi downloads - you can have them there on your pc ready to use within minutes and it's easy to resize to exactly what you need, then print them out on whatever paper you want to use.

 Info:

Background paper from Pink and Grey Flowers paper set by Grepic

Scraps of pink, lemon and peach card for flowers, Green card for leaves and matting the pc printed sentiment, Light Brown for twiggy wreath

Star and stamen punches

Tiny silver gems, ready made flower stamens, Green organza ribbon tied in double bow

The Twiggy wreath and Wreath Elements die sets from Spellbinders

Four Seasons Wreath by Lene Lok 

Shapeabilities Etched Dies
 

Wreath Elements;  Four Seasons by Lene Lok 

Shapeabilities Etched Dies

I've got another pack of the Twiggy Wreath die set to give away, so I'll be back with the details on that soon.

I hope you like the card, and feel inspired by Miri's picture to join in with us this tiem.  You can check out all the gorgeous cards on
Daring Cardmakers' blog

Thank you for looking

Happy Crafting