More Glimmer of the Month cards

 Hello!

 Welcome to my little crafting place!

This month the Spellbinders club kits will help you on the way with your Christmas crafting, and I've shared a few of the things I've made using my three club kits.

Today I thought I'd just share a quick post showing some cards made using the Glimmer of the Month club - as I can't stop using it!

 These three just use the plate in the same way - I've already blogged the Turquoise one and the red one, but I've also made a black one, and I've a feeling there may be others still to be made!

And here's something a bit different!

 

 This time I coloured the foiled piece with metallic pens from my wax seal highlighting stuff, and gave the lights a coat of Glossy Accents for extra shine. Then I cut the foiled panel in half and added one piece to the top of the card and the other to the lower edge.

I added gold and white strips between them and decorated with narrow shiny red strips and the sentiment from the Glimmer set foiled in red

To finish there's a wax thread bow with a glitter card dot in the middle

  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

Card; Wax Seal of the Month - October

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 Welcome to my little crafting place!

This month the Spellbinders club kits will help you on the way with your Christmas crafting!  I mentioned on an earlier how fab the Glimmer of the Month plate is, so here's another card - similar to the turquoise one I've already shared, but this time using the Wax Seal of the Month to make the sentiment

The red card was foiled with the Aura Gold foil from October's Glmmer club, then the lower edge trimmed around with scissors as before.

Before adding the panel to the card I adhered some strands of gold thread to the top.

The red wax for the seal is from the Christmas Mix wax Seal Beads bag you get with the "Most Wonderful Time of the Year" seal this month

More thread was added to the seal and tied to the upper threads.  The seal was fixed in place with one of the special double-sided sticky circles (also available at Spellbinders) and a gold bow added just above it.

Simple, but striking, I think

Here's a photo of the seals I've made so far - not all perfect as you can see!  In the photo you'll also see the wax bead mix which is part of the club kit, and the seal itself - albeit upside down (oops!)

 

  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

Box; Wax Seal of the Month - October

 

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 Welcome to my little crafting place!

This month the Spellbinders club kits will help you on the way with your Christmas crafting!  I'm concentrating on the Wax Seal of the Month today, but the Glimmer of the Month club will also feature - as I can't stop using it!

First, here's a quick photo of the seals I've made so far - not all perfect as you can see!  In the photo you'll also see the wax bead mix which is part of the club kit, and the seal itself - albeit upside down (oops!)

I recently 'upgraded' my melting spoons to these non-stick ones and they are a game changer! If you just let unused wax cool in them for a while, you can just lever the 'blob' out - like the green, white and gold blobs beside the spoon. So much easier than having to clean out the metal ones, and the wax blobs are easy to keep ready for next time

So, I thought I'd make a box to feature this seal on.  This box is made with a (very) old Spellbinders die set, but there are newer ones still available which would be perfect.  I just haven't got round to grabbing the die sets yet!  Plus these dies just don't go out of fashion, do they>

 

I'd already made some seals so I chose the red and gold one and made my box to match. I cut more ot the gold card for the decorative panels and foiled them with red foil and the Glimmer of the Month plate. 

I made a tassel from gold thread, added a length of red ribbon across the top of the box, then the wax seal and tassel and ribbon bow at the top.

 

Now I just need to buy someone a gift that will fit inside!

 

  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

Furry Friends

 

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

Today I'm sharing the card I've made for Rizwana's challenge to the Daring Cardmakers challenge this week:

 

Furry Pet Friends

Our host Rizwana says;
Create a card featuring your favourite pet if you have one or the one you'd choose if you had the chance!
Let’s celebrate all our furry friends this week.
You could even add their photos to your cards!

We don't have any pets, but I think if we did, it would be a dog. 

I was absolutely terrified of dogs when I was a child, but my brother always wanted to have one, and eventually got his way. We got a little brown puppy who was just adorable, but was always trying to make a break for freedom.  He might be the only dog who escaped and ran back to the kennels where he'd been staying while we were away!  

Anyway, as usual I've gone off on a trip down Memory Lane, so back to the challenge!

This seemed like a good excuse to get Gromit out again - did you recognise him? 

I then used some bits that were already out on my desk to give him a background and hunted around for some kind of sentiment to use, settling on a simple 'hello' wax seal made for a past Spellbinders Wax Seal of the Month club

 

Thank you so much for coming by.

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

Kathy xx

Glimmer of the month - October

 

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This month the Spellbinders club kits will help you on the way with your Christmas crafting! Possibly my favourite of the October club kits I have is the Glimmer of the Month. The main plate features a twirling string of fairy lights which is great to use as a background or the main focus.  You also get a lovely sentiment and corresponding die to cut it out if you want to.

My first card shows off the plate as the main element of my design, and I've already made a few cards on this same theme as it works so well!

 

I chose some turquoise card and used the Aura gold foil that comes with this club set. Once foiled I just used scissors to cut around the lower edge of the design. I glued a few strips of card onto the back to get just a small amount of dimension then added it to my card blank.

Along the crease I added some gold thread, a bow and a turquoise gem. The lovely sentiment is also in the club kit as is the die for cutting it - in this instance I made 2 extra die cuts and glued them together. To finish a few small red gems were added

So, a simple design but one that I think works really well and looks good in many colours - I'll share some more another time!

 

 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

Die of the Month Club - October

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 Welcome to my little crafting place!

This month the Spellbinders club kits will help you on the way with your Christmas crafting!

The Small Die of the Month club is really cute, there's an adorbale polar bear warmly dressed in a jumper, with a string of lights to wind around him, and my favourite of this set - a sweet happy penguin with a string of lights just a little smaller than Mr Bear's!

 For my first card I just had to use the penguin

 I made up three little penguins, and four strings of lights, then arranged them on my card as though they were all helping to sort out the lights.

Before I glued them down I used the large plate from the Glimmer of the month club and some white foil to create the background driectly onto my card.  It doesn't show up well on the photo but its really deeply de-bossed 'in the real'

Once I'd arranged the penguins and glued them in place I chose the So Very Merry sentiment from Lisa Horton's BetterPress Essential Tag Accessories and hot-foiled it in shiny blue to complete the card

For my second card I made up the Polar Bear, and gave him a box hinge so that he stands right out ftom the card but folds flat for posting

I hot-foiled the golden lights background again using the large plate from the Glimmer of the month then added the hinged bear.  Next I added some strings of lights (my OH looks like this when the lights have got themselves in a knot!) 

He looked a bit lonely so I added a couple of trees cut using the little tree die from Lisa Horton's Nested Tree Frame

and to finish another sentiment from her BetterPress Essential Tag Accessories again hot-foiled it in shiny blue

 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

October Elemental Inspiration

 

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

Today I'm sharing the card I've made for this week's Daring Cardmakers, which was set by Nat. On the first Friday of each month one of us chooses a picture, or mood-board and then we choose a few (minimum 3) 'elements' from it to inspire the cards we make.  Those elements can be pretty much anything from the colours or layout to the smallest thing you spot in the picture!!

Here's what Nat said;

 October Elemental Inspiration

If you've been wanting to get your autumnal crafting into gear, or just fancy featuring some autumnal elements on a card for any occasion, then this challenge is for you.

The image I've chosen for us to work with features plenty of those:

All you need to do is pick three elements to use on your card (and remember, colours count as one combined element).

See what we made here

I used the rectangles, the colours, leaves and the Initial (typewriter keys)

After a bit of a false start (put it down to still having a bit of a 'Holiday Head') I decided to print some paper from a lovely digital download I bought a few weeks ago.  Ay first I was going to add a single panel for the background, but then I looked again at Nat's picture and thought it might be more interesting to use the rectangles as one of my elements so I cut some of my printed card and arranged them on a brown card blank.

My lovely cousin gave me a set of alphabet seals for my birthday so I thought this was a good opportunity to use one of them - and get ahead for a birthday later in the year. I melted a few colours of wax beads to get a nice Autumnal colour then after stamping the initial I highlighted it with gold pen

The leafy sprigs (die set by Spellbinders) were some I already had, saved from another project and I also hit lucky when I found the sentiment in my bag of ready-printed ones!
 

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

 

 

HoHoHo its Tree time!

 

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Welcome to my little crafting place! 

I've just come back from a couple of weeks in Greece, staying in a villa overlooking the stunning Navarino Bay.  It was still hot and sunny over there with temperatures around 29 degrees, so its been a bit of a shock to the system finding that here in the UK its only 14 degrees, and wet!

view from villa overlooking Navarino Bay

 

 Anyway, just before I went away and enjoyed that sunny, warm interlude thoughts were already turning to even chillier times as I'd been busy creating for the September Spellbinders releases

I've already blogged some cards made with lovely Autumnal wax seals but I also had some Christmas 'toys' to play with...

I'd made some of my projects but forgot to add them to draft blog posts to write up while I was away.  How weird would that be to be sitting sunning myself by the pool while writing up Christmas projects?

But, better late than never, and here are a couple of cards using

BP-214 Essential Tag Accessories

S4-1376 Nested Tree Frame 

Both from The Essential Holiday collection by Lisa Horton

  These collections were released on Sept 10th and you can find them in the store now

 

Card 1

 

 

I used the Better Press Tag Accessories set for the centrepiece of the blue card.

When I heard that you can use the Glimmer machine and foils with BetterPress plates I was thrilled as the plates are so beautiful! The picture below shows what you get in this gorgeous set of press plates and dies

 

 I used the HO HO HO and one of the gorgeous ornate corner plates for this, and then layered them using dies from the Nested Tree Die set

 Items used 

etterPress Essential Tag Accessories

Nested Tree Frame Die set

 

Layering Snowflakes Etched Dies 

 Card 2

 I decided on a classic red white and gold theme for this card - the layers and the trees are all in the die set and the sentiment comes from the BetterPress set shown above.

Here's a picture of the Nested Tree set contents

 

Items used:

 

Nested Tree Frame Die set

 

 BetterPress Essential Tag Accessories

 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