Sealed Rose

 Hello

and welcome  to my little crafting place! 

I just love the January Wax seal of the Month from Spellbinders - it's so pretty and versatile.

 

For this card I used Seal no.2 from the set shown below. The seal was stamped into the copper-peach coloured wax and the image highlighted  with gold and green marker pens.  I actually used a couple of different gold pens on the flower

The card blank was inked with copper then the pale aqua panel added. 

 I used:
January Wax seal of the Month

Mix of peach and dark gold coloured wax to get the background colour

Gold and Green pens

Sentiment from  January Glimmer of the Month 

 Sealed Squiggles Etched Dies - cut in various scraps of gold and peach card

White card blank, edged with copper ink

Aqua pearlescent card for panel

Gold and copper twine

Gold and Copper gems 

Different ways with this seal

 

no.1 is the simplest version, just the seal stamped into the wax and left plain

no.2 & 3 the seal is stamped into the wax and the raised image coloured with pens

no.4 & 5 the stem sections stamped into green wax then cut out with scissors, the flower heads created in the same way.

the two sections are then reinserted into the warmed seal and stamped into another pouring of contrast wax

I then made an extra flower head for each, cut them out and glued on top of the flower head to add even more dimension

 

  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,

 

 Kathy xx

Roses All the Way

 

Hello

and welcome  to my little crafting place! 

I have to say that the January Wax seal of the Month from Spellbinders is one of the best yet!  I'm a sucker for a flower and this one is so pretty and offers plenty of scope for different ways to use it

 This little set of seals were the first few I made using it.  

no.1 is the simplest version, just the seal stamped into the wax and left plain

no.2 & 3 the seal is stamped into the wax and the raised image coloured with pens

no.4 & 5 the stem sections stamped into green wax then cut out with scissors, the flower heads created in the same way.

the two sections are then reinserted into the warmed seal and stamped into another pouring of contrast wax

I then made an extra flower head for each, cut them out and glued on top of the flower head to add even more dimension

I used seal no 4 on this card

 I used:
January Wax seal of the Month

Pink Wax Bead Mix 

Sentiment from  January Glimmer of the Month 

leftover pieces of silver wax melted together

White card blank

Stencilled background using pink and silver mousse

Clear, pink and silver gems

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,

 

 Kathy xx

Well HELLO!

 Hello, 

A warm welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I'm sharing this card using January's Glimmer of the Month background plate and a sentiment also from the set

I thought I'd try fopr a more unisex kind of card this time and chose black card for the base,  and the glorious 'Confetti' foil - its one of my favourites!

 The balloons are from an earlier Die of the Month set - you can often pick up these little treasures in the Past Club sets section of the shop - this one IS still available atm and I'll add the link below

I hot-foiled a piece of black card, cut down to size and made a gatefold card the same size. Then I cut the foiled piece in half and adhered the two sections to the 'legs' of the card base

I also hot-foiled the 'hello' sentiment from the set onto a scrap of black card and matted onto some shiny red card. Once I'd made up the balloons I fixed them to the back of the sentiment then glued the sentiment and balloons to the left side so that they would overlap the right side and also stick up over the top a little

I used:

January Glimmer of the Month 

'Confetti' foil

Birthday Bliss - November 2024 Small Die of the Month

Black card for the gatefold base card, extra for foiling

pearlescent card scraps card scrap

 

  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,

 

 Kathy xx

Glimmered Vellum and Wax Flowers

 

Hello, and Happy New Year

 Welcome back to my little crafting place! 

After a bit of a break over Christmas and New Year it's been good to get back to my craft desk.  It did take a while to clear all the Christmas 'stuff' away, but having new Spellbinders goodies to play with helps!  The sale there just before Christmas was very tempting and as well as a few dies etc I picked up the 2024 Advent calendar at a bargain price!  

I'd been checking out all the projects people had been sharing using things from this calendar and whilst I struggled to justify buying it when it first came out, it was extremely tempting in the sale - and I figured that a post-Christmas treat will help through the grim months of January and February, with all the little treats to cheer me up - not as a daily thing, but just when Ithe 'Winter Drearies' strike. Which they always do.

However, enough of the waffle! Today I'm sharing this card 

 

I used January's Glimmer of the Month and Wax Seal of the Month club kits for this one.  The  Glimmer plate makes a beautiful background and for a change I've used it on some patterned vellum.  You can hot-foil really well on vellum - you'll probably need an extra shim or tow to get a good result.  The sentiment is also in the club kit and is one of several really useful sentiments - and I love the font they've used this time.  You also get  'hello', 'smile', 'thanks' and 'for you'

I made a whole bunch of the flowers using the Wax Seal of the month, using various shades of pink wax from the Pink Mix set and mixing  a few different greens to use up some left-over bits of wax.  I made the heads and stems separately so that I could cut them out with scissors to use on this card

The base is a plain white card, I folded the top of the hot-foiled vellum over the fold and adhered with a very narrow redline tape.  Having checked that the tape didn't show through the vellum I was happy to use it to secure the lower edge also. For the sentiment I folded the vellum word over some pink card.  Tp complete I added some pink waxed twine around the top, and a matching bow.  I punched a circle from some left over gold wax to put at the bow's centre

 

I used:

January Glimmer of the Month

January Wax seal of the Month

Pink Wax Bead Mix 

Bits of green wax melted together

White card blank

Patterned Vellum from my stash

Pink card scrap

Pink 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,

 

 Kathy xx

Bright and Brighter

 

Hello!

Welcome to my little crafting place! Here's where I share the things I've been making, and sometimes other bits of waffle!

This time my card is another for the Daring Cardmakers

Jolly Crafty Christmas Time 2024

 

It's the first Friday of the month so we have a picture prompt

December Elemental Inspiration Challenge.  
What to make: Anything Goes! 

Christmas themed or not

Just choose a minimum of 3 elements to use when you make yourproject.

See what the DT made here

 

I made a couple of cards, one using the good old Festive colourway of bright red and gold and the econd you'll need your sunnies for! 

 

Card 1; The Traditional One

 

Lots of favourite Spellbincers goodis on here. Some still in the store but others are oldies. JOY is a Glimmer sentiment, foiled directly onto the card front.

The little holly corner is foiled with a Betterpress plate from one of this year's collections; the Essential Tag Accessories, from Lisa Horton

There's a mix of dies, mainly frpm the Sealed collection (love them!), but a couple of others found their way in

All in different finished of Gold and Red, so its certainly bright - especially when it catchres the light

Card 2; The Very Bright One

 

 

I inked some pieces of card with bright shades of Lime, Hot Pink and Turquoise.

While they were drying I used the Stars Glimmer plate and confetti foil to create the background of multi-coloured stars directly onto a black card blank.  

Then I die cut the letters (very old Spellbinders set!) from the inked card and gkued them in place. The stoclings are from

Mantel Decoration  - Timeless Trees Collection by Simon Hurley
 if you look closely you'll see each has a different embossed pattern!

I glued them together with a little overlap and their hanging loops roughly together, then usd waxed twine to hang them on the card as I wanted them to move around when the card itself is moved

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 c 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

 

Floral Cut-Away Card - December's Glimmer of the Month club

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 Welcome to my little crafting place! 

This time its the turn of December's  Glimmer of the Month club to take the starring role! This month theres an absolutely beautiful flowery panel with a shaped edge and a die that cuts it perfectly - along with some of my favourite matte gold foil

Because of the pretty shape, I just had to make a card to show if off, by making a cut-away front feature

I printed out some digital papers, an aqua watercolour pattered piece and a wood effect design in soft creamy beige shades as I thought the Glimmer design would work really nicely with them. 

My last posting was a HELLO card using some of the dies from  December's Small Die of the Month club and this card uses even more of them - don't ever think that the 'Small' in this club's name means you don't get many dies!  And there are still a couple I've not used yet!

I used:

December Small Die of the Month club 

December Glimmer of the Month club

White card blank

Digital papers printed onto white Bazzill card

Gold and Green Card scraps

Aqua 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,

 

 Kathy xx

Well, HELLO! (December Small Die of the Month club )

 

  Hello!

 Welcome to my little crafting place! 

The Small Die of the Month club from Spellbinders this Decemberhas a a beautiful 'HELLO' theme, with a fabulous giant 'H' entwined with leaves and smaller 'ELLO' capitals letters as you can see on my first card below

 

This was such fun to make - especially as it made such a change from all the Christmas stuff which still litters my desk!

I made a DL card from an A4 sheet of burgundy card. then used the remaing piece trimmed down slightly to bring more dimension to the card.  I cut one 'H' from each of gold and green card, and a couple of extras from other shades of green to use as accents

I cut all the leafy bits away from the gold 'H' to just leave theand the basic letter, then matted this onto the green cut-out.  The large letter and the smaller ones were then arranged onto my card.  

Using the extra green die cuts I'd made, I added in more trailing leaves, then cut the flowers from card inked with shades of pink, adding a few to the 'O' for balance

I used:

December Small Die of the Month club 

DL Burgundy card blank

White card, green and pink inks

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 coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

 Kathy xx

December Elemental Inspiration Challenge.

Hello!

Welcome to my little crafting place! Here's where I share the things I've been making, and sometimes other bits of waffle!

This time my card is another for the Daring Cardmakers

Jolly Crafty Christmas Time 2024

 

It's the first Friday of the month so we have a picture prompt

December Elemental Inspiration Challenge.  
What to make: Anything Goes! 

Christmas themed or not

Just choose a minimum of 3 elements to use when you make yourproject.

See what the DT made here

 

My main choices were the pastel colours, the houses and the tree, and I made a couple of cards

 

Card 1

 

 The dies used on the card above are from Simon Hurley Spellbinders sets.

Mantel Village - Timeless Trees Collection

 
Mantel Decoration  - Timeless Trees Collection

 

I inked some pieces of card with pastel shades and used these to cut the various pieces. For a bit of Christmas glitz I added in some gold card for the deer, and a few pieces of glitter card too

 

Card 2

Again, most of the dies used on the card above are from Simon Hurley Spellbinders sets. However the little houses and the church are from an old die set - I've lost the original packaging, so I don't know who made them

Mantel Village - Timeless Trees Collection

 
Mantel Decoration  - Timeless Trees Collection

 

In both cases I decided to mount all the pieces onto dark blue card blanks and I'm really happy at how the pastels look on the deep colour

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 c 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

 

Burgundy with Gold Bauble

    Hello!

Welcome to my little crafting place! Here's where I share the things I've been making, and sometimes other bits of waffle!

I found a photo of another of the bauble cards I've made that got missed out from my last post.

This one uses different finishes of gold card for the baubles and the card itself is a burgundy colour

As before I hot-foiled the sentiment directly ontop the card blank before adding the extras.  I've found the Spellbinders Glimmer sentiments and those intended for the Betterpress hot-foil really well onto my coloured cards - so much so that I've not had a single poor result (yet!)

 The bauble die is from Simon Hurley's Vintage Layered Ornaments set.  The Merry Christmas Glimmer sentiment plate is from October's Glimmer of the Month club. I added gold thread bows and some holly and berries from my box of saved die cuts!

I used:

Vintage Layered Ornaments by Simon Hurley

 

Glimmer of the Month club set

 

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 c 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,