Friday, October 30, 2026

City Holiday Shadow Box Picture

   Hello, 

welcome to my little crafting place
 
I've been having some fun making cards using various die sets in Yana's wonderful Everyday City Holiday range but this time although this was intended to be a card it took on a life of its own and eventually became a shadow box picture!
 
Most of the dies used are from the City Holiday collection but once I'd made the house I added a few extras, such as some larger trees, the snowman and Santa’s Sleigh
There's a fair amount of white glitter card in here too, some of which is just hand-cut to make the snowy humps and bumps.
The snowy night background is some of the sheet of black card I attacked with Splatter White - mentioned in an earlier post.
 
 
 
On this card:
 
 
Everyday City Holiday Die Bundle  
includes
Everyday Awnings S3-579
 Everyday Windows, Curtains and Flower Boxes  S4-1537  
 
 
 
Other:
Bazzill Black and White card 
Gold card
White and Red Glitter card 
 
 FYI
 
You might also be interested in these matching sets for Yana's City Holiday:
 
 
 Mansard Roof  S4-1575


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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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 Kathy xx

 

 

 



 

S4-1574  Wrapped Up City Holiday
https://spellbinders.com/en-gb/products/wrapped-up-city-holiday-etched-dies-by-yana-smakula?_pos=1&_sid=92b858fff&_ss=r

S4-1575  Mansard Roof
https://spellbinders.com/en-gb/products/mansard-roof-etched-dies-by-yana-smakula?_pos=1&_sid=9dacdf7d9&_ss=r

BP-386   Holiday Hugs Sentiments
https://spellbinders.com/en-gb/products/holiday-hugs-sentiments-press-foil-plate-die-set-by-yana-smakula?_pos=1&_psq=BP-386&_psid=55043ea7a&_ss=e

S7-277  City Holiday Etched Dies by Yana Smakula 
https://spellbinders.com/en-gb/products/city-holiday-etched-dies-from-the-city-holiday-collection-by-yana-smakula?_pos=2&_sid=2e40f6e69&_ss=r

BD-1075  Everyday City Holiday Die Bundle
https://spellbinders.com/en-gb/products/everyday-city-holiday-die-bundle-by-yana-smakula?_ S4-1574 pos=3&_psq=city+holiday&_psid=6563fe44f&_ss=e


 

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Friday, October 23, 2026

Pooh and Friends Birthday

 

 

    Hello!

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

A few weeks ago it was my Great Niece's 4th birthday and the perfect excuse to get out all the Winnie the Pooh dies that Spellbinders and Simple Stories have brought out in the last year or so. These sets are based on the 'real' Winnie the Pooh - wonderful line drawings by E.H. Shephard, so much better than the Disney ones!

 

I decided to make a pop out card that folds flat to go in an envelope.

All the character are in here, even little Roo - though he's very small and I should probably have put him nearer the front, if you look closely at the next picture you'll see him with his bib on and holding out his cup ready for his 'Strengthening Medicine'!
 
Tigger is there chasing butterflies, and lovely Eeyore looking glum, but no doubt putting a positive spin on a burst balloon and and empty honey pot. 
I love the little extras you get in the Classic Pooh Birthday Accessories
die set. There are banners, cakes, little gifts, party hats and streamers all perfect for a birthday celebration.  
The only dies not in this wonderful collection is the little cloud (actually left over from another project)  and the 'Happy Birthday' sentiment, which is also Spellbinders but one of those ancient ones which is the perfect fit for so many cards! 

The last photo shows how it folds flat enough to go in a normal envelope.

The background papers are from a delightful digital collection: Honey Digital Paper, by Butterfly Graphics



I used:
Pooh & Piglet Etched Dies from the Say Cheese Classic Pooh Collection 
  
 
Card from the 




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It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.
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Friday, October 16, 2026

Snow Problem

 

 

    Hello, 

Thank you for visiting my crafting place.
Yet more cards using Spellbinders' Lolli and Grace  Festive Snowman (S7-305) and Festive Snowlady    (S7-306) dies - they are easy to use and really versatile.
 This time a couple of shaped Snowlady cards - see earlier posts for more info
 
Items from Spellbinders
 
 Lolli & Grace Festive Felt Christmas

 Festive Snowman (S7-305)

Festive Snowlady    (S7-306)
 

 
Other:
 

Blue Glitter card 
Black, Gold and White card 
 
Anne Oliver's Video Tutorials:
 


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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 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!
 
 Kathy xx
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Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Hello Mr Snowman

 

    Hello, 

Thank you for visiting my crafting place.
This time I've more cards to share using Spellbinders' Lolli and Grace  Festive Snowman (S7-305) and Festive Snowlady    (S7-306) dies - they are easy to use and really versatile.
 
I thought I'd have a bit of a play with the basic snowman shape this time so instead of using the whole snowman base, this time I cut a circle aperture in my  12x12cm card front and used the circular layer from the Snowlady set to make the body. I cut the body from white glitter card and tucked it inside the aperture, then added a gold card circle glued to the inside of the card.

 
I used a mix of glitter card and plain matte card to cut the remaining elements and arranged them to create a waving snowman.
I drew (you can tell!) his features and used black gems for the buttons
 
The second version  is similar, but I've used a teal coloured card and put the sentiment in his waving hand.

Both cards have  sentiments from Simon Hurley's Joyful Christmas (BP-389) Betterpress set. You can use them with ink and the Betterpress, or like I do with a hot foiling system.  I used white foil on black card for these. 
 


Items from Spellbinders
 
 Lolli & Grace Festive Felt Christmas

 Festive Snowman (S7-305)

Festive Snowlady    (S7-306)
 
 Joyful Christmas (BP-389) Betterpress set

 
Other:
 
Ink
Gems
Ink
White, Blue and Green Glitter card 
Black, Gold and White card 
 
Anne Oliver's Video Tutorials:
 


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
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Saturday, October 10, 2026

Festive Felt Christmas

    Hello, 

welcome to my little crafting place.
This time I've not only new goodies to show, but a new designer to introduce!
Anne Oliver (aka Lolli and Grace) is an embroidery designer and instructor with a lovely range of kits, with some using felt.  As Spellbinders already has a growing range of stitching goodies including dies able to cut felt for making cute stitched characters, Anne's creations fit in really nicely!
 
For her first Lolli and Grace collection at Spellbinders Anne created a fabulously Festive set including a rather Nordic Santa, a Christmas Stocking, a Snowman and a Snowlady.
I don't do much sewing these days but as the info we were given said "These designs can also translate into paper" I was  keen to see what I could do with them and was very happy to get my hands on the Snowman and Snowlady
 
 
 
 I was amazed at how easily these went together and because they are meant for adding embroidery, sequins, beads etc to there's plenty of scope to go wild with your favourite card and paper embellishments 
 
As I wasn't sure how they'd work in card I kept it fairly simple, but they are so easy to use I think there's a lot of fun to be had with these! 
  

My people are made into shaped greetings cards by cutting the base die with the fold part way down each head.  I then cut another plain piece with the same die to glue in top of the folded card. 
When complete they stand about 14.5 cm high by 10.8 wide
The other layers were built up  either in more white card or Spellbinders gorgeous red glitter card and plain lime green card from the colourwheel pack.  I embossed the top white layer of each with Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder E3D-166  
Once all the layers were in place I set about decorating and decided to go mainly with a couple of sizes of gems, plus a couple of tiny poinsettia flowers using some old dies, but I may well go back and add something like clear beads or some glitter glue to the swirly embossed 'snow'


The snowman stands up quite well due to his candy cane, but the snowlady needed some help so I used a sentiment from Simon Hurley's Joyful Christmas (BP-389) Betterpress set used with hot foil
 
Items used on these cards  
 
 Lolli & Grace Festive Felt Christmas

 Festive Snowman (S7-305)

Festive Snowlady    (S7-306)
 
 Joyful Christmas (BP-389) Betterpress set

Video Tutorials:
 
Other stuff:
 
Ink
Gems
Waxed twine for scarf fringe 


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
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Tuesday, October 06, 2026

September Card Chain, Beach Hut Bliss

 Hello,

Its reveal time for the September Card Chain Challenge. You can see them all HERE. 

This time I've sent my card to Jo here in the UK, and received this beautiful card from Gail in Canada
 
For my card I chose to use the Outdoors theme.- because it was the perfect excuse for another beach hut project, and I just couldn't resist!

A couple of months ago I made a similar scene in a shadow box frame and enjoyed it so much that I thought it would work for a card too.

  
 I do love using digital papers, I tend to buy via Etsy because its so quick and there's so much to choose from.  Using digital papers allows you to customise the sizes of the images you print or even crop them to a better ratio for your project.
You can also print more than one copy, so its easy to build dimension into certain parts of your picture.

As well as using the digis and hand-cutting various elements I added tiny shells, beads, wooden items and leaves etc to build up my picture, And of course some Glitter Glue for some bling.  
 
I've collected the ephemera from all over the place over the last few years, but in case you're interested here's the details for the papers, which I bought from FantasyaDigitals via Etsy
:
 I love these papers! They print really nicely - I just used some white textured Bazzill card to print on.
 
This is the framed picture I made a while back to try out the Shadow Box Punch 
 
To join in the chain for October 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  

 Materials

 FantasyaDigitals via Etsy
:
 
White Bazzill card for printing
Seaside ephemera from various sources 
Versa cube ink pads  
 
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Just a Note
 
If you buy paper craft goodies, such as dies, stencils, stamps etc you may like to use my Spellbinders link  

  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
 
 
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