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

 

Challenges:

Die Cut Divas October challenge: Shaped cards

Creative Girlz Adventures 

Items used on these cards  

from Spellbinders

 

 Lolli & Grace Festive Felt Christmas

 Festive Snowman (S7-305)

Festive Snowlady    (S7-306)

 

Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder E3D-166 

 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Joyful Christmas (BP-389) Betterpress set

Video Tutorials:

Introduction Video 

Snow Lady
Snowman

Stocking
Santa

 

Other stuff:

 

Ink

Gems

Waxed twine for scarf fringe 

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

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

:

Coastal Junk Journal Kit and Junk Journal Beach Kit

 

 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

:

Coastal Junk Journal Kit and Junk Journal Beach Kit

 

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

 

 

All Wrapped Up

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welcome to my little crafting place

 

I'm having some fun making cards using various die sets in Yana's wonderful Everyday City Holiday range.  

 

This year, Yana has added a Mansard Roof, some lovely new sentiments (for Glimmer or Betterpress) and a really cute set which allows you to 'wrap up' the whole building with ribbon, bow and garlands of ivy.  

 

Whilst all the dies are fantastic, and you can have a fab time mixing and matching and making projects thorough the year (they aren't just for Christmas!), Most of the die sets can be used on their own if you want something a bit simpler.  This is what I've done for today's card.  

I've just used the Wrapped Up City Holiday  S4-1574 along with one of the Holiday Hugs Sentiments   BP-386

After the last card which was more blizzard than flurry with the snowy stuff, I thought I'd better have a practice so I used a got out a 12x12" sheet of black card and the Splatter White and splattered away - it'll all come in handy as Christmas card making gets underway! 

I cut out a piece to fit on this bright green card base and then added green and gold ivy, ribbon and a bow using the dies, and one of the foiled sentiments. .  It's simple but I think its quite effective.  I should be able to make a few variations on this idea and get a little pike of cards ready to send.  

from Spellbinders

 

On this card:

 

Wrapped Up City Holiday  S4-1574  

 Holiday Hugs Sentiments   BP-386

Splatter White Opaque Watercolor  SCS-328

 

Check out these matching sets:

 

Christmas City Holiday Die set  S7-277 

 

 Mansard Roof  S4-1575

Everyday City Holiday Die Bundle  
includes
Everyday Awnings S3-579
 Everyday Windows, Curtains and Flower Boxes  S4-1537 

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

Snowy Rooftops

 

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welcome to my little crafting place

Have you got any of Yana Smakula's wonderful Everyday City Holiday dies ?  The one with the department store (or block of flats) plus windows and various other add-ons that help make the most of the basic idea?  This year, Yana has added a Mansard Roof, some lovely new sentiments (for Glimmer or Betterpress) and a really cute set which allows you to 'wrap up' the whole building with ribbon, bow and garlands of ivy.  The details are all in the info at the bottom of this post

 For my first card I thought I'd try just using the Mansard Roof as rooftops are always cute for Christmas cards - maybe on a starry background, or with Santa and his sleigh whooshing over the tops of the houses

As I've recently got a little pot of Splatter White, of course I had to try in out and make a show flurry background.a bit of a snowstorm!   

 I "may" have got carried away with the snow - I'd made the snowy background and glued the Mansard Roof in place before I realised that there would be snowflakes on that section too - so I had to add more.  I'll remember next time!

 

I used various blue inks directly onto my white card blank for the dark sky background and the rest of the card is from the Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"  

 

The sentiment is one from Holiday Hugs Sentiments   BP-386

from Spellbinders

 

On this card:

Mansard Roof  S4-1575

 Holiday Hugs Sentiments   BP-386

Christmas City Holiday Die set  S7-277 

 

Splatter White Opaque Watercolor  SCS-328

 

Check out these matching sets:
Wrapped Up City Holiday  S4-1574

Everyday City Holiday Die Bundle  
includes
Everyday Awnings S3-579
 Everyday Windows, Curtains and Flower Boxes  S4-1537 

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

Cottage Garden Harmony

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There is a lovely set of BetterPress sentiments in Susan Tierney-Cockburn's Cottage Garden collection which I think will be beautiful for journal pages, tags and scrapbook pages as well as cards and other projects.

I particularly liked the one about a cottage garden's special beauty being not in a well ordered space but in the harmony of all the plants and colours.  The sort of garden I would love to have - if only I had the energy and the skill to make it!  A few years ago we visited Vita Sackville-West's  fabulous Sissinghurst gardens +and I just adored the way parts of the garden seemed to be so wild, chaotic and free but still completely harmonious 

 

I wondered if I could put this sentiment into action! 

As I don't throw extras away when I make too many for a project I have a box of random flowers, petals and leaves in different styles, colours and sizes, so could I make a card just these?

There's quite the assortment  of flowers here, all Spellbinders, but from different collections, most recent because I've made a lot of flowery cards lately but some that have been waiting in the box for a long time! 

 

I was gong to make them into some kind of bouquet, but as I'd recently got Happy Post Envelope Etched Dies as part of the Dear Santa bundle I thought I'd use that instead.

I've used a digital paper design for the background and to create the envelope.  It was really just a case of arranging all the flowers into a way I liked and adding a few leaves then sticking them all down.

To complete I added a couple of gold thread bows and small pearls to add some extra glimmer and tie in with the gold foiled sentiment 

 I used

from Spellbinders

 

Die sets: 

 

From Susan Tierney Cockburn's

  Cottage Garden collection:

BP-388 The Cottage Garden Sentiments 

Happy Post Envelope Etched Dies 

 

Gold foil

Many different Spellbinders flower dies 

Colourwheel card pack 

  

 Other

Digital paper for background and envelope

black card 

Gold thread

Green pearls 

 

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

Helenium and Ladybugs

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welcome to my little crafting place

I've more lovely new goodies from Spellbinders to share with you.  This time its new flowery dies from Susan Tierney-Cockburn's Cottage Garden collection 

This one is called Helenium and Ladybugs

You'll find Susan's video on hoe to make these beauties  here though of course you can use them to make your very own version, its fun to get creative with flower shapes!

For my card I used a digital woodgrain design printed directly onto my card stock. I folded and cut the card down after printing.

I cut the various leaves and flowers from thin (80gsm) white card then inked them with small ink pads or pens

I also used some of the Poetic Foliage elements from Susan's last 'Serenity Garden' collection to add more interest and colour  

 

Finally I hot-foiled one of the sentiments from The Cottage Garden Sentiments BetterPress set that go perfectly with the theme of this collection.

  I used

from Spellbinders

 

Die sets: 

 

From Susan Tierney Cockburn's

  Cottage Garden collection:

S4-1571 Helenium and Ladybugs
BP-388 The Cottage Garden Sentiments 

  

 From her Serenity Garden collection: 

 

 Poetic Foliage  S3-558
 

Gold foil

  

 Other

Wood grain printed card for the card base 

Thin white card

Inks and pens

black 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, please do leave a message if you can!

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

 

 Kathy xx