Barn Star Ornament

 Hello

Wishing you a Happy New Year and a big vwelcome to my little crafting place!

It's been a tricky start to the year for me in several ways so I'm just hoping things will improve from now 

This time I'm sharing a 3D project made using the lovely

Barn Star Wreath die set.

 

I made this dimensional star with back to back layers of the plain star cut in turquoise glitter card and 2 of the fancy stars cut in silver and folded to make the dimensions, I glued one silver shaped star to each side of the turquoise star

 

 I added a few poinsettias, some holly and a die cut bow to each side so that if it swings around it still looks decorated! 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

Barn Star Wreath die set

Poinsettias and leaves from several Spellbinders sets 

 Other

Turquoise card glitter

Silver card 

Various scraps to make embellishments

 

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

December Clubs

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

I've been a bit out of the loop recently, It's been a difficult time for me and keeping up with craft blogging has taken a back seat to other issues.  So this time I'm going to try to do a quick post to share some of my December Spellbinders projects

For 2026 the clubs have been reorganised and will look rather different, with content and name changes, so do pop over to the Spellbinders Clubs Intro on the website to find out everything you need to know

  

Owl Love You Always

Small Die of the Month 

Background circle cut from October's Glimmer of the Month 

Fancy Sentiment Strips Press Plate & Die Set 

 

 

Felt Like Saying Hello

 

December Wax Seal of the Month 

Pink foil 

December Glimmer of the Month (plate and sentiment)

Black organza ribbon

Pink and Black waxed twine

Pink and Black Wax 

Pink and Black  card

Glad We're Friends

December Glimmer of the Month (plate and sentiment)

 Small Die of the Month 

Torn Paper Edges Etched Dies

Pink ribbon

Purple and Pink card 

 

My Wax Seal set for December

 

 

 

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

More Barn Star

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place!

This time I'm sharing a couple more Christmas cards using the gorgeous

Barn Star Wreath die set.

For making a bunch of cards it's perfect - I spent a while cutting lots of the elements from the die set in differecnt colours and types of card.  I used shiny, textured, matte and glitter card, lots of gold and silver as well as my other favourite Christmas colours. 

 

I added a few more holly and pine stem dies from other die sets so I could cut lots of foliage at the same time,  I've quite a nice collection of poinsettia dies so I did the same with those. Then it was easy to put several cards together fairly quickly.

I buy most of my card, card blanks and envelopes from PDA Card and Craft - they may not be the cheapest, but the quality, variety and speedy service is just brilliant  - I just adore the beautiful deep coloured creased card blanks I've been using a lot this year. They make a fabulous backdrop for all the pretty bits!

I also buy my smooth white card blanks from them 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

Barn Star Wreath die set

July 2024 Small Die of the Month club

 

Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set
Silver foil 

 

 

 Other

Turquoise card blank from PDA Card and Craft 

 Coloured card in various finishes

 

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

Because Red is Her Favourite

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welcome to my little crafting place!

My wonderful Aunt has spent the last few weeks in hospital so I wanted to make her a card to say we are thinking of her.  Red has always been her favourite colour, so it was definitely getting used on this card.

To begin I made the slatted square background, using a piece of glossy red card as the backing square then cutting the slatted square twice so I could lay one vertically and the other horizontally to make a chequerboard. 

After gluing those two layers together I used a circle die to cut a hole of about 2.5cms in the centre, I made a frame to secure the raw slatted edges with a couple of circle dies. The finished layered square was then adhered to a large custom-sized card blank.

 

Next I made the rose.  My plan had been to make a spray of different sized roses but I decided to make just one large one.  I used a large flower punch to cut the petals, then a leaf die set from Spellbinders to cut the leaves

The sentiment is also from an old Spellbinders set, it was cut in gold and matted onto white and red card. To complete this card I tied a red organza bow, and added some gold twine loops to match the gold sentiment

 My aunt isn't well, and if you read this, maybe you could send a prayer, or some get better wishes for her, I'd be so grateful

 

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

Snow People revisited

  Hello

welcome to my crafting world - it doesn't always work the way I'd hoped, but its good to share anyway, isn't it?

This time I'm making a return visit to the wonderful October Small Die of the Month club set from Spellbinders. I still have a few of the little figures made up and ready to go so here are a couple more cards using them.  This time I decided to set them on Wintry backgrounds using some digital designs.

I love using dies, hot foil and other crafting treasures, but digital papers are another of my go-to supplies and they often get me out of a crafting 'hole'

I chose a couple of rather 'soft' snowy backgrounds for these so the die cuts are the main focus  

 

For the first card I thought I'd arrange the little child and the snowman in a cute Snowy Hug!

I gave each of the snowmen a different hat just free-cutting or using punches.  I think the bobble hat may have slipped a bit before I took the photo!

I finished them off with hot-foiled sentiments 

 

There are quite a lot of small pieces making up the little people so I taped all the pieces that make up the children together with washi tape, chose a selection of colours from the ColorWheel Cardstock Pack then cut all of the pieces from each of the colours.  Next I sorted the different shapes into a divided box to make it easier to put them all together

I made up a batch of the little guys - you can spot  the ones I've used for these cards among them.  That didn't use up all the die cuts so I could still make up some more

Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Small Die of the Month club 

 

Small Sentiments from

 Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set

 

Coloured card from 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

for die cutting

 

 Other

 

White card blank

Bazzill 'Diamond White' card for printing background

Digital backgrounds 

Circle and star punches

White Glitter glue (Tonic Studios)

Silver 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

Stars

  Hello

welcome to my little crafting place!

 I mentioned last time that I'd had a stroke of luck and found a pile of coloured cards from last year that Id already hot-foiled Glimmer sentiments directly onto.

 

The sentiments are so lovely that the cards don't need much more to make them ready to send.  I remembered this lovely little set of stars dies I got from Hunkydory a few years ago. I used them a lot that year so it's definitely time to give them another outing!

 I just layered them on different tyoes of gold and red card (mirror, glitter, matte) and used a couple on each card. I also bought a similar set of snowflakes so maybe I should get those out too!

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

Glimmer sentiments and foils

 

 Other

Hunkydory Stars die set 

Coloured card blanks; PDA Card and Craft 

Gold and red card,  (various finishes)

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

Little pictures

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welcome to my little crafting place!

For this next set of Christmas cards I used a similar method to that in the last blogpost, but this time I've gone for coloured card blanks.  I forgot to order the same card in 'flat' sheets so had to sacrifice a couple of each colour to do the hot-foling for the backgrounds and sentiments.  However, that's not so bad as you can make quite a decent number of cards this way!

 

I love this deep teal coloured card, and how lush it looks when you add silver or gold!

The deep blue of the card below is almost purple and looks great with silver.

I used an old stars Glimmer plate for the Teal card above left and October's Glimmer of the Month club plate with gold for theteal card above right, and with silver foil on the blue one below

The houses, tiny trees and the sleigh are from a couple of Simon Hurley's Christmas die sets from 2024 and 2023 - all are still available (links below)

The sentiments of the three cards are from 

 Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set

 

I had a stroke of luck and found a pile of coloured cards I'd added Glimmer sentiments  directly  to last year, and I also unearthed quite a lot of leftover hot-foiled sentiments. So these red cards are some of these, with the same kind of focus pieces added to finish them off

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

Glimmer plates. large sentiments and foils, most dies, plus some basic shapes

 

October 2025 Glimmer of the Month club

 

Mantel Village and Decorations Die Bundle 

 

Simon’s Snow Globe Etched Dies  

 

Small Sentiments from

 Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set

 

 Other

Coloured card blanks; PDA Card and Craft 

Gold, silver, white , red card,  (various finishes)

Twine, 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

Snowy Trees

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place!

I have some Christmas cards to share. I made this batch with a similar theme to try and get my card box a little more ready for the Christmas mailbox!

I started by getting out suitable Glimmer plates, those with snow and stars on to make the backgrounds.  The plates are all big enough for the resulting hot-foiled pieces to be cut down and made into several cards.  I started with dark blue card, white foil and a snowflake plate from a few years ago

 

I cut squares and circles from the same white card as the card blanks. 

 Some were made into frames, some just  cut larger than the foiled shapes. Next I matted them onto something shiny and added them to the cards.

I then had a die cutting seeion and cut loads of different smaller trees and holly. Its amazing just how many there are in my die collection! They were added to the little backgrounds, hot-foiled sentiments were added and whatever other trims to jolly them up; twine, gems, punched stars

The card below is slightly different as I spied a scrap of black card on my desk the perfect size to use with this frame.  I hadn't done and foiling on black, but my white pen was handy so I just covered the black with tiny white dots instead.

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

Glimmer plates and foils, most dies, plus some basic shapes

 

Sentiments from

 Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set

 

 Other

White card blank and A4 card for cutting from PDA Card and Craft 

Blue and black Bazzill

Gold, silver, red card, 

Twine, 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  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by

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

 

 Kathy xx