Anniversary

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I'm sharing my card for the new Daring Cardmakers challenge:

June's Monthly Sentimental:  

Anniversary

 On the first Friday of each month we concentrate on a specific sentiment.  as usual, we'll create, and share our ideas and we'd love you to join us keep the inspiration going

Create anything you like cards, tags, postcards or 3D project, and don't forget ot share them with us

Our wedding anniversary is coming up in a few weeks time so I thought I'd make a card for hubby.  I'm nopt sure if this is the one I will give him though  - there are some things I like, and some things I'm not so pleased with. I've time to come up with another idea though! 

I love the navy, soft blue and gold colour combo

All the sentiment phrases I've used to make my own little messages are from the  March Glimmer of the Month.  I used gold foil on the lighter blue card then chopped them up to make the messages

I used:

 

from Spellbinders 

2 shades blue card from Colourwheel collection

Indigo and Celestial

 

 All messages created using sentiments from March Glimmer of the Month 

Gold Glimmer foil

Heart dies 

LOVE die 

(I don't have the labels from either set, sorry) 

White card base

Matte Gold card 

   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 visiting

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself and please come by again soon

 

 Kathy xx

 

Anchors Aweigh

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again!

for this card I've used June's Wax Seal of the Month and Glimmer of the Month sets

I've been wanting to get my hands on an anchor seal for a while, so I was really happy when this one arrived! Plus the 'ink' wax that comes in this set is really, really beautiful.

 After playing around with the seal stamp and making a batch of seals I decided to keep it simple and made this card, which I think has a masculine kind of feel

Here's the first batch of seals I made using this one. I made most of these using the pour and scrape method and most worked really well.  I did have a couple of mishaps but that's the way it goes.  The weird mishapen seal was a 'cobbled together' one - the anchor section came out well in my initial pour and scrape step, but the letters went very wrong.  I thought I could add just the anchor to a plain blob of wax but I was a bit 'fingers and thumbs' and it went a bit wrong.  I liked the colours though so thought I'd share it anyway!

 

I love the fishing net plate that along with a couple of sentiment strips and some pretty opal foil makes up the Glimmer of the Month kit. Perfect for lovers of the seaside and cards for fishing enthusiasts!  Oh and maybe it could be used to hint at net bags - those used for oranges maybe!

Anyway, I wanted a Navy theme so used white foil on Cosmic Sky cardstock from the colourwheel collection for the background.

 I tied a few strands of white twine down the card just in from the edge, then made the horizontal panel with strips of  

 smooth white card, made the bunting with handcut triangles of the blue and red card on a length of red twine, then adhered the seal in place.

I might add the 'Happy Birthday' foil sentiment to this one before I send it.

This is my Colourwheel swatch set

 

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

June Glimmer of the Month

White and Black foil duo 

June Wax Seal of the Month 

Blue wax from kit, plus white wax beads

   

ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

Cosmic Sky and Cranberry

 

 Other:

 

Waxed 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  

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Thank you so much for coming by

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

 

 Kathy xx

He is the Walrus, goo-goo g'joob!

  Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again!

First up I've this card using the June's Small Die of the Month and Glimmer of the Month sets

The walrus is so cute - well as far as a walrus can be called 'cute'!

I used a fishy digital paper for the background, which I foiled with the fab fishing net Glimmer plate using some blue foil.  I then adhered the background to a turquoise card base to match the fishy colours.

The kit actually comes with a beautiful Opal foil this time, which I'll use on a later project.

Next I made up the Walrus 

Most of the card I've used for the walrus is from the fabulous ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11" - his striped t-shirt is a scrap of digi paper I made a while back.  Stripes are always useful to have at hand and for a seafarer's t-shirt they're perfect!

I added a box hinge behind him before fixing him to the card.  This way he folds flat to fit into an envelope but stands out from the card base 

Next I made up the seagul, again using card from the colourwheel collection, this time I inked some of the smaller pueces.  I couldn't resist adding a wire wobbler behind the seagull so he does a rather manic dance when you give him a flick.

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

June Small Die of the Month

June Glimmer of the Month

Blue foil 
  

Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

Thin wire to make 'wobbler' 

   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

Tiny Home

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

This is the second of the cards I made using the OXO grid on this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge:

Let's Play...

Whether you call it TicTacToe, Noughts and Crosses or OXO we'd love you to play along and use our game card to craft with!
Just choose any straight line from the grid, it can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal and use those 3 prompts on your projects this week
Create anything you like; cards, tags, postcards or 3D project, and don't forget ot share them with us

For this one I chose to use the bottom horizontal line, though I stuck with the Clean & Simple design theme! So from the grid the details are:

New; New Home card

Heart; tiny heart smoke puffs

Orange; 2 shades of orange card

 

I chose 2 shades of orange card from the fab new Colourwheel Collection by Spellbinders and added one of the white card rectangles that were left over from the other OXO card I shared last time

 

I used:

 

from Spellbinders 

Simon's Snow Globe

Little house

 

2 shades orange card from Colourwheel collection

Tiny Heart craft punch

Rectangle die by Tonic 

Homemade decal 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 visiting

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself and please come by again soon

 

 Kathy xx

Let's Play...

 

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I'm sharing the first of 2 cards I've made for this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge:

Let's Play...

Whether you call it TicTacToe, Noughts and Crosses or OXO we'd love you to play along and use our game card to craft with!
Just choose any straight line from the grid, it can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal and use those 3 prompts on your projects this week
Create anything you like; cards, tags, postcards or 3D project, and don't forget ot share them with us

For this card I chose the centre vertical line and used a Clean & Simple design, Flowers for my 'Free Choice' and a heart waz seal

The design seemed to need a frame so I used a couple of rectangluar dies to make one.  I *think* it still qualifies as CAS - but all things are relative aren't they, and for me this is super-CAS! 

Okay, the wax seal may not be super simple as its made in 3 layers

 

I used:

 

from Spellbinders

   Little Blooms Die set

from the Out and About Collection

Red and Green card from Colourwheel collection

I picked up the Intertwined circles die in a sale of loose dies

Rectangle dies by Tonic

Heart and flowers wax seal is by Craspire 

The sentiment was created on the pc 

Tiny red gems for centres of white flowers

 

   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 visiting

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself and please come by again soon

 

 Kathy xx

Cheers Mate!

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

I'm sharing my card for the Daring Cardmakers today and this one is not what I intended to make! 

Masculine Mayhem
Fathers Day is coming...but this week it's not just about dad, we'd like to celebrate all the males in our lives  Let's see cards for the little boys,the big boys and all the other males in your life.

Create anything you like cards, tags, postcards or 3D project, and don't forget ot share them with us

 

A couple of months ago I made some wax seals using a Spellbinders WSOM club which I thought would be great for sporting themed cards - always handy for masculine cards!  However, when I came to use them I just couldn't find the darned things could I!

So instead I chose another favourite of most menfolk and got outr one of my old favourite Spellbinders die sets to make a wine imspired card

 

I used:

    

 Scribbled Letter Embossing Folder

 

All dies are from past sets by Spellbinders

 Wine card Blank

Extra white card for inking the die cuts

Gold card

Gold Pen

   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 visiting

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself and please come by again soon

 

 Kathy xx

Don't Scroll Past!

 

  Hello

a big welcome to my little crafting place!  

I've just one more May club project for Spellbinders to share today, and its another wax seal idea.

 

When I saw the May Wax Seal of the Month seal it reminded me of those really scrolls you see which always feature the seal of whoever was signing it.  OH and I were married by Special License and I'm pretty sure the license document features a seal at the bottom.

So I found a digital image of an unfurling scroll and used it to create this little card.

 The scroll section is adhered only as far as the fold, so that when the card is displayed the scroll stands above the rest of the card. 

Here's how it looks when flat

Lying down when the card is folded it looks like this

 The club kit includes the wax seal and what is probably my favourite of Spellbinders' wax bead mixes.  I made the seal on this card using blue wax for the wording and a mix of the turquoise shades in the bag for the base of the seal.  I highlighted 'proud' with a gold pen

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

May Wax Seal of the Month

Blue plus May bead mix wax beads

 

May Small Die of the Month  

Grad cap

 

Navy Blue card blank 

digital image for scroll

Gold and turquoise card scraps

gold and blue ribbon

   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