Kisses in the Rain

 

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Welcome to my little crafting place! 

 

This time I’m sharing my card for the new Daring Cardmakers challenge and it's our lovely Kirsty's first time as our host, and there must have been some magic in the air because I'd just got my hands on the perfect die set to use for her challenge!

 

It's Kirsty here, and my debut for hosting

This week's theme is

 'Whatever the Weather'

Don't we always love to chat about the weather? 

We've had a real mix lately from freezing cold, wind storms, 

rain and sunshine so I thought this would be a great theme! 

I would love to see your weather related card!

 Click Here for some ideas from the design team

This super-cute die set is called Sneaking a Kiss and of course its a Spellbinders set! 

As soon as I saw cards using this one appearing I knew I needed to own it and kept my fingers crossed that it was still in stock! I was so pleased when it arrived through my letterbox.

And then of course, Kirsty's challenge popped up with the perfect excuse to play with it too

If you compare the picture above with the one below you'll see that our girl's legs have moved!  That's because they are fixed with a clever but simple 'meachanism' that allows them to swing!  How cute is that?

I printed out some simple digital designs in pink and white, and black and white, making them quite small to get them the right size for my couple.  As usual I printed them onto white Bazzill card

The pink lines with 'love' and hearts were cut from matching pink card and are also from the  Sneaking a Kiss set

The clouds and raindrops were cut from a pale grey and white spotty paper - actually an old bag!

This set is also by Spellbinders, but about a hundred years old!

 So I had a look to see what similar but newer sets I could find and 

found this brand new one called Up in the Air View which I have to say is calling to me....

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Just a Note

If you buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty

 friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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

 

It's OK, There's No-one Watching

  

Hello

Welcome to my little crafting place! 

 

This time I’m sharing my card for the new Daring Cardmakers challenge and I've gone for something quite differneet to my usual stuff.  

Let me oknow what you think!

 

Let's Face the Music and Dance!

Hello crafters, Joanne here and for this week’s challenge,  I’m making a song and dance about things: make a card inspired by music and/or dance. 

Any kind of music, any kind of dance — serenade us or break out the boogie, however the mood takes you!

 Click Here for some ideas from the design team

I was checking out digitals on Etsy for some suitable papers to use for rhis challenge when I came across a fabulous set of Street Dance watercolours from

TheDigitalMuseShop  - and my ballet dancer idea was forgotten!
These images are so full of movement and colour that I knew I needed to keep my chosen image as the main feature and decided that an eclipse
card could work well.

 

Once resized and printed out (I always print two, just in case somehting goes wrong) I cut the word PARTY from the image (remember to keep all the little bits to glue back in later) and chose a mauve-grey colour od plain card to cut 5 more of each letter from.  There were all glued on top of each other with the top layer being those from the image.

I inked the base card where the letters would be just in case any of the white remeained visible, then adhered the printed image to the card. Next i used tape to fix the bits from the P, A and R to the back of the letters then glued them in the gaps on the image

 

 I have some musical die with notes on curlin staves so used the spare image to cut one of these out, and cut another in the coloured card to back it with so that it would stand out more.  This piece was adhwewd to the corner of the card. 

 Then, for once I resisted the urge to stick anything else on - its really hard, you know!

Thank you so much for coming by

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

Kathy xx

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Just a Note

If you buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty

 friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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  

Fabulous February Spellbinders Monthly Kits

 

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Welcome to my little crafting place! 

 

The fabulous February Spellbinders Monthly kits are ready to go so its time to share some of the projects I've been making using the following:

Wax Seal of the Month 

Glimmer of the Month   
Small Die if the Month   

 

 Today I'm sharing a main project for each of the kits and I'll be back on other days with more info about each and some other things made with them.

 

First up is my Blooming Boots card using the Small Die of the Month 

Anything goes as a vase these days! doesn't it!

This kit is just wonderful - I love daffodils and tulips and you get both in this die kit along with leaves, stems and of course this great pair of boots!

The sentiment is ine of two you get in February's Glimmer of the Month kit

 

There are more glorious daffodils to be found in the Glimmer of the Month kit. 

 I hot-foiled 3 copies on white card using the gold foil in the kit.  I fussy-cut out the whole of one and used inks to colour it for my base layer of daffodils, then use the other copies to make more layers of leaves and flowers.

 

 

My third kit is the Wax Seal of the Month and I'm very much a novice at using wax - but that said, I am absolutely loving it.  If you want to try something ytuly absorbing give it a try.  It doesn't matter if they don't turn out very well because you can just cut them up and re-melt!  There's something very soothing about this activity which I really didn't expect

Lily of the Valley were a favourite of my mum and she had them in her wedding bouquet.  I've tried growing them in the garden but haven't had much luck at all! I made a this card using February's wax seal and the wax you get with it - it's such a pretty soft green colour.

I'm not great at colouring or pen work - I've never had steady enough hands for fine work like that, but I coundn't resist trying to add some white to the flowers as well as gold on the stems.

I did buy a silicone mould for making perfect 'rounds' but actually I think I like the more organic shapes - and as I said before if they are a total mess I just put the bits of wax in a 'rejects' pot and save them to reuse another time

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If you ever buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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

Pink Roses

 

   Hello

Welcome to my little crafting place!  I'm sharing this week’s card for the Daring Cardmakers challenge today. 

Our host this time is Rizwana with the

February Elemental Inspiration Challenge 

It's Rizewana here to host this week and mymoodboard issuper pretty, with lots of lovely inspiration in there. 

Remember just choose at least 3 elements to use when you make your card.
Using pink is optional!

Click Here for some ideas from the design team

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Thank you so much for coming by

Just a Note

If you buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty

 friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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  

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

Kathy xx

 

Last Christmas!

 Hello!

Thanks for visiting my little crafty place - I hope you enjoy seeing what I've been making and sharing, if you have a minute, please leave a message!

As so often I'm  a little behind with my blogging.

 So this time I’m hoping its not too late to share one last Christmas card!

 This is the card I made for my Hubby, who opened it and said "Wow!"!

 

It's a box card, so although it looks a bit like an open box, it folds flat to fit in an envelope.  This one is BIG! I needed to find an A4 envelope to put it in - I'll admit to a slight miscalculation when I started making it!

 

The outside is plain gold card. the flaps were covered with royal blue Bazzill card and the extra bits of the mechanism were cut it plain white card

Once the box itself was made it was just a case of a LOT of die cutting, sticking all the different trees in place then making a few extra elements to add to the view

 

They are difficult to see in the photos, but there's a sleigh and Rudolf in there as well as Father Chrismasn with his sack. and a cheerful Snowman

  

 

 

It was my last Christmas 'make' of the season and I quite enjoyed creating it.  I've made a few box cards over the last few years but this is the biggest.  They look pretty impressive, but in fact they aren't too tricky and this one particularly so - it was just a bit time-consuming and I did almost run out of steam!

Thank you so much for coming by

Just a Note about my affiliate links

If you buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty

 friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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  

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

Kathy xx

Just Peachy

   Hello

Welcome to my little crafting place! 

 

I'm a little behind with my blogging so this time I’m sharing my card for a Daring Cardmakers challenge from a few weeks agp

Our host this time is Nat and her theme is

Peach Fuzz!

A new year also means a new Pantone colour of the year, and 2024 

is the year of Peach Fuzz!
So to celebrate this new focus colour, I want to see you use 

peach tones on your card in some way.

Click Here for some ideas from the design team

 

Small Die of the Month

 

 

Thank you so much for coming by

Just a Note

If you buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty

 friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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  

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

Kathy xx

 

All White - except for the Turquoise!

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Thanks for visiting my little crafty place - I hope you enjoy seeing what I've been making and sharing, if you have a minute, please leave a message!

 I'm sharing the second of the cards I made for this week’s Daring Cardmakers challenge - I used a different background and colour accent, but the dies are the same so its similar to the first one.

This was the challenge:

 "That's All White Then! 

Just go as white as you dare on your cards this week and use just a little colour if you really have to! We are excited to see what you come up with!"

 You can see what the team made HERE

I've used white and a deep turquoise colour for accent on this one
started by painting a piece of fine corrugated card using a white Posca pen
 

- as usual, I get this by damping one side of the tray from a Tesco's Finest Croissants pack with water, waiting a couple of minutes then peeling the paper layer off

The 'sprig' dies are all from the various 'Sealed' sets by Spellbinders and honestly, I love them so much, I want them all!

At the back of this arrangement I used 2 dies from the Sealed Squiggles  set - To get the 'stained glass window' effect you need to hang on to the pieces of the base (coloured) die cut - if you're lucky all the little 'bits' will stay in the die - the one time you actually want this to happen!

 I add a few tiny pieces of tape to the back to hold them in place before adhering it to the back of the fully cut out die cut

 I added the flower petals and centres then arranged them all on the corrugated panel.

To finisgh I used another of my butterfly wax seals, this time ina pale aqua wax with the butterfly highlighted with a deep turquoise-blue metallic pen from Edding

The dies are all by Spellbinders:

Sealed Blooms

Sealed Wildflowers  

Sealed Squiggles    

Thank you so much for coming by

Just a Note about my affiliate links

If you buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty

 friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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  

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

Kathy xx

That's All White Then!

 

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Thanks for visiting my little crafty place - I hope you enjoy seeing what I've been making and sharing, if you have a minute, please leave a message!

 I'm sharing this week’s card for the Daring Cardmakers challenge today.

 "Every now and then we find ourselves needing a 'substitute' challenge for one reason or another, and that's what happened ahead of this one.  At that time we had snow in some parts of the UK and there's bound to be plenty still over a lot of the world.  

So someone said "What about having an All White challenge?" 

and it seemed like a good idea at the time...

That's All White Then!

Just go as white as you dare on your cards this week and use just a little colour if you really have to! We are excited to see what you come up with!"

 You can see what the team made HERE

 I actually made two cards for this challenge, I thought maybe I'd added too much colour to the first one so made another similar card and I'll share that today and save the other for another day

I wasn't happy with my photosyesterday so have taken some more this morning and I think they are better.  White is sometimes really tricky to photograph, isn't it?

Anyway...

I've used white and silver for this card, There's a matte silver panel with an embossed white panel over the top, I used an old Spellbinders embossing folder, I'm sorry but I can't find the name or a link for it

I cut all the stems in both the plain white and the silver glitter card, then adhered them white on top of silver, but just slightly misaligned

I added the flower petals and centres then arranged them ontop of the embossed panel with the stems crossing

The dies are all by Spellbinders:

Sealed leaf sprigs  

Sealed Blooms

Sealed Wildflowers 

Next I glued 3 white waxed cord strands, adding  white and silver bows to where the stems crossed.  To complete I've used a wax seal - I'm still practising making these!  This one is white wax with the butterfly highlighted first with a deep turquoise metallic pen, then when that was dry I went over again with silver.

Thank you so much for coming by

Just a Note about my affiliate links

If you buy from Spellbinders and you're happy to help out a crafty

 friend with a stash addiction...

  HERE is my Affiliate Link to the Spellbinders store - you can use it to access the store any time, and I'd really appreciate it if you did, don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything!

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  

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

Kathy xx