Wrist Purse

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I'm sharing this card using Spellbinders Glimmer of the Month and Wax Seal of the Month  clubs for November. The pretty chain design reminded me of some of those posh designer bags, so I made this little wristlet purse card - the kind you might keep your phone in because they've all got too darned big for our pockets! 

And yes, that is me having another little rant!

I used gold foil on the white 'flap' section and the lovely Blush foil that comes with this month's club kit on (111) Sicily' card from the Colourwheel collection for the larger section.

 

 For the 'clasp' I used one of the seals I made with the November Wax Seal of the Month

along with the Coral mix Must Have Wax Beads that you get this time.

 I used white wax (with glitter as explained in my last post) for the upper layer and a couple of each colour from the Coral mix, plus a gold bead  for the lower marbled layer

To finish this seal I coloured the bow with  an Edding Gold Glass Pen 

 

The sentiment is also from the Glimmer set, and the little champagne flute charm is from the November Small Die of the Month club 

I attached the chain with a staple  

This card could easily be made into a pocket card, for enclossing a voucher or gift card 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

November Glimmer of the Month club 

sentiment with GLF-026 Blush foil

 

November Wax Seal of the Month

this month includes Must Have Wax Bead Mix - Coral

 

November Small Die of the Month club 

champagne flute

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seal

card for die cutting from 

 

Coloured card (111) 'Sicily'  from

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

White and gold wax beads 

Fine glitter 

White card + spare

Gold twine

Gold card scraps 

Gold chain 

 

 

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

A Most Eggs-cellent Day (with video

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

November's Die of the Month from Spellbinders is all about Doing Brunch and features some very cute  characters! Although there are a few ready made sentimet dies, this set is definitely ripe for some imaginative puns of your own and I couldn't resist making one for a Dancing Fried Eggs card!

 

I used just the cute fried egg from the November Small Die of the Month club die set and added a little spiral wire spring behind each one before adding the my card. This simple mechanism means that if you flick one with your finger it will 'dance' merrilly!

My "Hoping your day is most eggs-cellent" message adds a pun to the fun!  It was created on my pc and just printed out in the size I needed and added to the card

 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

November Small Die of the Month club 

 Other

 

White linen card blank

White, blue, black and yellow card for die cutting 

Small springs made with very thin wire

 

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

Raising a Glass

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today's Spellbinders clubs project uses the lovely new November Wax Seal of the Month. I gelved into my ribbon and lace stash to find something to help show this one off!

Here's some of the seals I've made this time

The seal itself is created with a marbling of blue and teal wax beads, and to make the glass sparkle when it catches the light I filled the upper section with fine glitter then poured the wax into it while holding the seal face up (because the glitter would fall out if I didn't, obviously 😁 ). 

As the glitter odesn't show up on the still photos I had a go at videoing them.  The video is as bad as usual, but it does help show the glitter (and one with tiny silver beads in instead) better

 

 

 

You have to watch what you're doing and be careful not to pour too much wax when you do this as it will run off and end up on your fingers - which hurts! 

 

Essentially this is a 'pour and scrape' seal but with the added trick of pouring the wax into the mould while it's face up, pour a little wax over then turning it over quickly to 'swoosh' across your silicone mat to remove the main excess. Next use warmed scraper tools to remove the remaining unwanted wax

 

You need to have the different coloured wax beads for the main part of the seal already melted in the spoon  - but don't mix them, just let the different colours mingle during the pour, then press the seal with the glittered wax glass shape into it as normal 

 

I found this lovely white lacy ribbon and some satin ribbon in my stash to display the seal on. I added a loop of gold twine, under the seal and made a tassel with more of the twine to add some extra interest.

I hot-foiled one of the sentiments from November's Glimmer of the Month club on matching cardstock to complete the card

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

November Wax Seal of the Month

includes Silver Bullion powder

 

November Glimmer of the Month club 

sentiment with gold foil

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seals

 Other

White Wax beads 

Fine glitter 

Mix of blue and teal wax beads 

Teal card blank + spare

4cm wide white lacy ribbon

1cm wide satin 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

Let's do Brunch

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

November's Die of the Month from Spellbinders is all about Doing Brunch and features some very cute  characters! Although there are a few ready made sentimet dies, this set is definitely ripe for some imaginative puns of your own! For this first one though, I used the 'Let's do Brunch' sentiment from the die set along with the various ingredients you need to a good brunch!

I added a fancy plate to put my brunch on, then decided to ech the shape by making the card base into a 'rocker' - nudge it and the card rocks from side to side.

All the card used here, apart from the white card base is from the 

 Full 48 ColourWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"Spellbinders 

 

The circle and scalloped circle dies I used for the plate are from sets I've had for so long I can't remember where they came from - I think either Spellbinders or TonicI think this would make a cute little invitation card, maybe for taking your Bestie for a Birthday Brunch

 

 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

November Small Die of the Month club 

 

card for die cutting from 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

 

Circle and scalloped circle dies for card blank and 'brunch plate'

White card 

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

Whatever Rocks Your Boat

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welcome to my little crafting place!

The Christmas card making is not going very well so I wasn't too upset to have a couple of birthdays to make cards for.  Not that idaes for those were forthcoming either!

 

In the end I made this rocker card for someone who's really not bothered about birthdays at all. He takes the week of work and does as little as possible! So I put together a few of his favourite things to use on this card - after all, you should be able to do what ever makes you happy on your birthday!

This has a mix of techniques and materials; 

the background is a digital paper, 

the sofa, lamp and big TV are clipart

 the 'bottle carrier and cola bottles are die cuts

 and the pizza box is back to basics - pencil, ruler, card, scoreboard and scissors, plus a digi image for the top of the box!

The maltesers carton is an image from google 

The box for the cola bottles is made using a very old toolbox die (no longer available), I added extra layers to make it 3D.  

The cola bottles are from a more recent set; Spell It Out Fridge Staples

 

 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

Cola Bottle from Spell It Out Fridge Staples

Toolbox die

 (no longer available)

 

 

 Other

White card for roacker base, plus extra for front and for printing

Grey 'linen' patterned digi for background

Kraft, green and red card 

 

Lamp, TV, Sofa 

from Movie Night Clipart by Scrapbook Gems

via Etsy 

 

Pizza Box, simple and made by me! Pizza is a mini version of one I made a couple of years ago, Maltesers tub is a google image resized for printing 

 

Letters on TV are from a set of small captial letters, I think it might have been a Sizzix die 

 

 

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

Tree Trio

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place, where Christmas cardmaking should be going full speed ahead but is just limping along in fits and starts!

A few weeks back I bought some lovely new dies from Craft Aaddiction uk and today I'm sharing the first three I've made using the Slatted Christmas Tree set

This first one is my favourite, I think the white, silver and red colourway works well but what really lifts it is the large foiled sentiment across the tree. This was a stroke of luck - one of several sentiments I made last year and saved in case they'd work for something I made this year.  This one is the Merry Christmas Glimmer sentiment plate from Spellbinders October 2024's Glimmer of the Month club - which I've checked and found still available in both in the UK and US shops. Look under the 'Clubs' tab for the "shop past clubs" section - it's the one with the Christmas lights background plate

 

You get three sizes of tree with this die set and for the first 2 cards I've used the middle sized one.

The one above has silver glitter card for the lowest layer and this next one has gold mirror card and is matted onto blue,   

 

I used one of the dies from Spellbinders Essential Arches die set to cut the background from blue card that has glitter inbedded in it.

The sentiment is one of many made on the pc laid over some loops of gold thread

 

For card 3 I changed to a coloured card blank but used the same blue card for the arch - slightly small er than the last, and this time I've used the smallest of the tree die sets.  The, bottom laer of the tree is silver glitter card and the pc generated sentiment is matted onto the same. I've added silver thread and some punched silver stars

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

October 2024 Small Die of the Month club

Red foil 

 

Essential Arches Die Set 

 

 from Craft Aaddiction uk

Slatted Trees die set

 

 Other:

White and blue card blanks

 Extra white card plus silver and gold for die cutting and matting

Punched silver stars

A few red gems 

Red, silver and gold threads 

 

   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  

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Thank you so much for visiting

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

 

Kathy xx