It was a Hot Summer's Day

 

Hello, 

welcome to my little crafting place

Today I have the first of two cards for July Wedding Anniversaries to share. The second I still need to make - for our own anniversary - but I'm still thinking about that one.

If I'd thought of it, I'd have looked up what kind of 'symbols' there are for a 5th anniversary, but I didn't - until I started to write this!  I could have used wood,  silverware. daisies, sapphire or rose quartz, but never mind!

Their wedding day was boiling hot, rather like the weather we're having now,  and I wanted to make something sunny and bright to reflect that. I chose hot colours; bright yellow, orange and red for this bunch of gorgeous flowers  and arranged them on an apple green and white striped paper

The flowers are from a couple of the die sets in the Spellbinders Just Add Cake Birthday Card Box  which I seem to have open on my desk all the time just now! The card is all from the Colourwheel collection., also Spellbinders

I added a few small punched hearts and a pc generated sentiment 

 I used

from Spellbinders

  

Die sets: 

all from Just Add Cake Birthday Cardmaking Kit

 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11" 

 Other

 white linen card blank 

+ more for the printed background piece (from a digital download)

 

Just a Note

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-  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, please do leave a message if you can!

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

 

 Kathy xx

'I Feel Dizzy' Flower card

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welcome to my little crafting place

I've been having loads of fun with card spinners - a new Spellbinders product little metal gadgets that you stick between your card and the item you want to spin,  then when you 'flick' the item with your finger it spins like crazy!

I managed to get my hands on the fabulous Just Add Cake Birthday Card Box (also Spellbinders) which contains several die sets, stamps, and embossing folder, cardstock and various other items too. I've used the beautiful flower die set on this card

To start with I chose my colour theme, then inked around the edge of some white linen cardstock with a pale aqua ink pad. I also inked around the front of a card blank with the same ink pad, but making the colour deeper.  Next I had a die-cutting and assembling session to make loads of the smaller flowers and stems etc. 

Once I'd decided on my arrangement and also where my large 'dizzy' flower would go, they were glued down.  I made the sentiment (also from the Just Add Cake box) and added that too, so that all the 'flatter' bits were done.  

Next I cut and assembled the large flower, added the spinner to the back of it with a glue dots and worked out where to place it before adding the second glue dot and pressing down

Here's the latest of my terrible videos showing the flower in action to show just how fast these spinners are!

 

 I just love these spinners, they are made of metal and come in two sizes, I have a mixed pack which has some about 1cm diameter and some about half that. You stick one side to your moving element and the other to the card - I tried glue dots and double sided tape, both worked really well - you can also use glue if you prefer

 

Finally as I needed to send this in the mail, I decided to make a box for it using the WRM shadow-box punch, which also allows you to make a cover for the box. 

 

 I used

from Spellbinders

 

Card Spinners Assortment Pack    

 

Die sets: 

all from Just Add Cake Birthday Cardmaking Kit

 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11" 

 Other

 white linen card blank and background piece

 

 

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, please do leave a message if you can!

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

 

 Kathy xx

Spinning Pizza

 

Hello, 

welcome to my little crafting place

I do love making cards and other projects that have a little 'something extra'.  It could be a new card fold, something hidden, or some kind of interactive element. So this week I've been having loads of fun with a new Spellbinders product that means you can add something that spins like crazy when you tweak it with your finger.

Not sure why but the first thing that came to mind was pizza so I made this

I started by making the pizza using a couple of nested circle dies, which were hand cut around the edges for a more random pizza crust and topping vibe, plus a regular circle for the plate.

I used some of the dies from the fabulous Just Add Cake box of goodies. 

The chef's arm is from Birthday Brew die set, the pepperoni slices from Chompster die set (there is a pizza slice in this set, but I wanted it to be the whole pizza) and the sentiment is from Make It Count Sentiments die set

I made a gingham 'tablecloth' background piece on the pc  

Here's the latest of my terrible videos showing the pizza in action, at least it gives you the idea and shows just how fast these spinners are!

 

 I just love these spinners, they are made of metal and come in two sizes, I have a mixed pack which has some about 1cm diameter and some about half that. You stick one side to your moving element and the other to the card - I tried glue dots and double sided tape, both worked really well - you can also use glue if you prefer

 I used

from Spellbinders

 

Card Spinners Assortment Pack    

 

Die sets: 

Birthday Brew,  Chompster and Make It Count Sentiments die set all from

Just Add Cake Birthday Cardmaking Kit

 Other

13 x 15cm white linen card blank

scraps of card, plus plain white card and inks for die vutting etc

Digitally made gingham background paper 

 

 

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 coming by, pleas do leave a message if you can!

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

 

 Kathy xx

Cafe Blackboard; CCC June

 

 

 Hello,

Its time for the reveal of the Card Chain Challenge cards that went around the world in June 2026 - they can all be seen HERE.

  

  All the cards exchanged in June used at least one of the following options:

 

Colour Palette Option

(Exact matching is not required.)

Sketch Option

(Orient as desired.)

Theme Options: Tea or Coffee / Safari / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Embossing / Shaped Card

 It's a worldwide chain and 25 people made up the chain this time.  I sent my card to Jo in UK and received this lovely card from Gail in Canada

 

 To join in the chain add your link to the list - you will send a card to the person who signed up before you. then wait to receive one from the person who signed up after you.  Don't worry, instructions are sent out to everyone who joins the chain  

 

My card for Jo

I chose the Tea or Coffee theme and Shaped Card from the Technique Options, 

and used one of my current favourite die sets to make a Cafe Blackboard card

I've used the chalkboard dies from Spellbinders' Pink Lemonade Die Bundle to make a shaped card for the Cafe Board, and various other old die sets (also Spellbinders) for the coffee pot, teapot, coffee beans and cup/saucer.  

The flowers are also in the Die Bundle and the swirly white 'chalked' pattern is a die from the 2024 Advent calendar.

The letters are (I think) from an old Sizzix alphabet set 

 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

Pink Lemonade Die Bundle from Spellbinders  including S4-1532 and S6-269

 

Various coloured card from

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

Other Spellbinders dies used are a few years old, Coffee Pots set, cup and saucer,  the foam and steam are from an old club set

 

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 Other

Black card for base

Brown card for 'wood'

White card

Digital paper scrap for teapot 

Alphabet die set (Sizzix?)

 

  

If you buy paper craft goodies, such as dies, stencils, stamps etc you may like to use my Spellbinders link 

  

 

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 coming by

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

 

 Kathy xx

Serenity Garden Bouquet

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welcome to my little crafting place

This time I've a card to share using the same Serenity Garden dies from Spellbinders as used for the shadow box picture.  

 Susan Tierney-Cockburn's Tassel Flower die set is lovely as it is - I'd made them according to her video for the last project but now I wanted to see what other flowery creations could be made with it.

Here's the card I created 

 

I still used Susan's Garden Specialty Cardstock, and inked the die cuts in pinky red shades.  Next I softened them with a ball tool, then sprayed them with water and crumpled each one in my hands. 

Once dry I opened them out just a little and adhered the layers together. 

Next I cut and made up the rest of the bouquet using the  Poetic Foliage set, I'm pretty sure this set will get a lot of use the leaf shapes are so good for bouquets and adding that bit of extra oomph to a flowery design.  I love the 'Berry Cluster' die especially - I punched loads of different sized circles to make the berries, but I'm pretty sure we have a similar flower shape in our garden, I just can't remember what it's called.

For the background I used yellow card from the  Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11" and an embossing folder bought in a recent Spellbinders clearance sale (always worth checking out!) I swiped a white ink pad over it to add a bit more shading and texture then arranged my bouquet.

I wanted to use the 'Hello' dies from the  A Little Hello Sentiments set so made that up before sticking anything down, just to check the positioning, then went ahead and completed the card, adding a double bow made with the cute Field Notes Twine Etched Dies

 I used

from Spellbinders

 

Die sets: 

 Poetic Foliage  S3-558  

                  
  Tassel Flower and Ladybugs  S4-1482

Susan's Garden Specialty Cardstock

  

A Little Hello Sentiments Clear Stamp and Die Set    SDS-191  

 

Field Notes Twine Etched Dies S2-410

 

 Other

14 x 14cm card blank

White and black card for sentiment layers

 

 

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 coming by, pleas do leave a message if you can!

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

 

 Kathy xx