Wax Seal Christmas Tree

   Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

I'm having such afun time working with some of Spellbinders October club kits and this time I'm finally getting round to sharing what I made using the tree shaped seal I made while experimenting with the Wax Seal of the Month club

I got a bit carried away this month and tried all sorts o ways to use and add to the lovely 'Merry & Bright' Wax Seal. This one kind of grew into a Christmas Tree! I can't remember my thought process but then I rarely can!  I think I'd already made one regular seal with green wax when the idea of trying to make the seal part of a tree.  Maybe I was already thinking about adding it on top of the tree die in the Small Die of the Month set... 

Anyway, I did a pour and scrape with white wax for the lettering, then had two ovens each with green wax in their spoons.  The first spoonful was used to stamp the seal into, then with the second lot I made the rest of the tree shape by pouring carefully freehand.

 If you try this, it's best to leave the stamp in place while you do the second pour, so remove the handle of the stamp and just use the stamp itself when you stamp into the green wax (if it's too hot to hold wrap the screw end in a folded piece of kitchen towel - or use heat proof gloves if you have them) - it's much   easier to see and pour the shape you want without the handle in the way

 

I wanted to keep the card simple and let the seal be the star so I matted it onto some fine corrugated card, then gold glitter card before adhering to a fern green card. I'd trimmed a couple of cms off the side to make a fat rectangle rather than square card, so used the bit I'd trimmed off to foil some of the sentiments from October's Glimmer of the Month club

To complete the card I added a small red bow below the tree and a 2 layer star at the top 

 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Wax Seal of the Month

includes Silver Bullion powder

 

October Glimmer of the Month club 

sentiment with gold foil

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seals

 Other

White Wax beads 

Mix of green Wax beads 

Fern Green 14x14cm card blank

Fine ribbed corrugated card 

Gold Glitter card card for matting 

Matte Gold card and star punches 

Narrow red ribbon

 

Just a Note

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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

Simply Glimmering

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

The Spellbinders clubs for October are simply wonderful!

The project I'm sharing today is something to show how this month's gorgeous Glimmer of the Month club plate can make Christmas card-making really eye-catching but simple.

I hot foiled the plate directly onto a deep blue card blank using the Polished Brass foil from this month's club. Next I cut a narrow panel from the same card.  folded and adhrered a strip of the foil to make the border and glued the panel to the side of the card.  I taped all four of the sentiments together and foiled them too - one to use now, the rest to use later. 

The sentiment was matted onto gold-brass coloured card and adhered in place.  I found a small pieve of matching ribbon to use, but for mailing I'd probably use a die-cut ribbon bow instead, a maybe a twine bow. Next I cut a few of the tiny elements from the Barn Star Wreath die set released a couple of months ago and added them too.  I think I'll either punch some red berries to add to the holly, or use some tiny gems - I think an extra pop of colour would be good.

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Glimmer of the Month club

  kit includes Polished Brass foil. Plate and one of the sentiments 

 

Barn Star Wreath 

from Country Christmas Collection by Annie Williams  

leaves and pine cones

 Other

Deep Blue card blank, plus extra for panel and sentiment

scraps of coloured  card for die cutting

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

Sequined Wax Bauble

  Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

I love the Spellbinders clubs for October!

The project I'm sharing today is a cute bauble I made with  the Wax Seal of the Month and the lovely sparkly background is this month's gorgeous Glimmer of the Month club plate

I hot foiled a piece of deep blue card for the background using silver prism foil, added a length of narrow silver ribbon across the top, and suspended a silver die cut bauble with bow (from one of last year's Simon Hurley sets) on silver twine.

The 'Merry & Bright' Wax Seal was stamped into pale blue wax, and while still hot liberally sprinkkled with some tiny pastel coloured sequins I found in my stash.  I pressed them into the wax while the stamp was still in place using my finger. I'm not a great lover of sequins and I never buy them, but they seem to arrive here anyway!

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Wax Seal of the Month

includes Silver Bullion powder

  

Simon Hurley's Vintage Layered Ornaments 

 

October Glimmer of the Month club

  kit includes Polished Brass foil, but I used Prism Silver

Plate, and one of the sentiments 

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seals

 Other

Light Blue Wax beads 

Tiny pastel sequins 

White card blank 

Dark Blue for hot-foiling

Silver card for matting 

Silver ribbon

Silver baker's 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

Trimming the Tree

 

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

Just how cute are the little figures from the Spellbinders October Small Die of the Month club? Add in a lovely layered Christmas Tree and a roly-poly snowman and this is one wonderful set of dies.

Last time I showed how I made a whole bunch of well-wrapped-up kids ready to go out and build a snowman (check back for that one), so it's only right to use the tree dies along with more of my ready-made figures this time. 

Process:

Deep teal coloured card blank plus extra of the same for hot-foiling

Use the plate and sentiments from the October Glimmer of the Month and hot-foil with gold foil onto the spare teal card  (save the spare sentiments for later makes!)

Trim down and mat the panel on to gold card and adhere in place

Make up the tree - I added white glitter glue to the top pieces but you could cut them in glitter card.

Arrange the tree and figures and partially afix so you can still wind the gold twine into place under their hands and the edges of the tree.

I used 2 strands of gold twine twisted together with gluey fingers!  Arrange it on the tree and under the figures to look as though they are adding lights to the tree.

Add a punched star to the top of the tree 

Add small gems over the twine for the lights

Mat the sentiment onto gold card and add to the bottom of the card 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Small Die of the Month club 

 

October Glimmer of the Month club

  kit includes Polished Brass foil, but I used gold

 

card for die cutting from 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

 

Teal card blank plus extra for hot-foiling

Gold card for matting

Gold twine 

Coloured gems 

 

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

Make a Glitter Wax Seal

 

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

I love the Spellbinders clubs for October!

I've barely started making my Christmas cards and I'm sure these sets are going to get me motivated.  It's good to find something I can use to make a lot of cards quickly and I think this month's gorgeous Glimmer of the Month club with it's starry background plate and 4 really usable sentiments will help no end! It really doesn't need much more added to make a super-stylish card - you can even hot-foil directly onto your card blank then just add one of the sentiments and  it will look great! Though of course it's always hard to just stop there!

 

The Wax Seal of the Month club has something really special this time - the Wax Seal itself is cool with a lovely scripty  'Merry & Bright' message, but this month there's a little tub of Silver Bullion powder and an applicator which I've really enjoyed working with.  It goes onto the wax easily and it really shines - I'm just sorry that the shine doesn't show up on the photos so well - you'll just have to take my word for it!

As ever I set aside an hour or two to just experiment with the seal, different colours and different techniques.  This time I also hunted out other things I might be able to add - so there's glitter, tiny beads and mini sequins included on the picture.  

There's even one I made upside down...😁😁

 

I used the first seal on the bottom row for this card.

To make it I poured quite a large squarish blob of wax (any colour will do - you can use those weird leftover bits of wax!) onto my silicone mat  and immediately covered it with purple glitter.  I put a scrap of wax paper over it and gently pressed the glitter over the wax to make sure it got plenty of coverage.

Next I heated and poured white wax on top of the wax 'blob' and this time stamped the 'Merry & Bright' Seal into it, making sure it was adhered to the base layer.

I used the Silver Bullion powder to highlight the letters 

  

As the glittery layer is purple I went with a rich purply-blue colour for the card blank and hot-foiled layer and some lovely Lavender foil from a past club kit.

I criss-crossed some silvery baker's twine around the foiled panel before adding to the front of the card, then added the wax seal on top. 

With hindsight, and probably more bravery, I could have made the card, added the twine, then poured the wax directly into the centre of the card

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Wax Seal of the Month

includes Silver Bullion powder 

White Wax beads

 

October Glimmer of the Month club

  kit includes Polished Brass foil, but I used Lavendar

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seals

 Other

 

Purple card blank plus extra for hot-foiling

re-melted leftover wax 

Silver baker's twine 

 

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