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

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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

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

 

 Kathy xx

Serenity Garden Bouquet

Hello, 

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

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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, pleas do leave a message if you can!

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

 

 Kathy xx

Tassel Flower Picture

Hello, 

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 Serenity Garden collection.

You've probably realised that I am really enjoying making shadow box pictures just now, and these beautiful dies were a great opportunity to make another 3d project!

I made up the flowers with the help of Susan's wonderful videos - always worth checking out for her tips on how to make all the different flowers! 

I used Susan's Garden Specialty Cardstock, then inked the die cuts in my chosen shades

I made the layout, leaving room for the words, then created the box frame to fit, I prefer to do it that way rather than fit the 'image' to an already made frame.

I wasn't familiar with Tassel Flowers so did a bit of research: 

"Tassel flower commonly refers to Emilia sonchifolia var. javanica ('Irish Poet'), a delicate, half-hardy annual with vibrant orange flowers popular in UK gardens, often blooming from summer through autumn. These 30-40cm tall plants attract pollinators, enjoy full sun, and make excellent, long-lasting cut flowers."

 

I found that in the language of flowers the tasselflower symbolises beauty,        resilience and enduring love. words which I thought would be perfect to complete the picture

I also decided this picture wold look better with a darker frame so used a square die to cut an aperture in a piece of blue card then trimmed to be just a bit bigger than the original box frame to add an extra frame.

 I used

from Spellbinders

 

Die sets: 

 Poetic Foliage  S3-558
 

  Tassel Flower and Ladybugs  S4-1482

 

Susan's Garden Specialty Cardstock

  

 Other

card for shadow box

Blue pearlised card for the outer frame

Piece of wood grain printed paper for the background

pc printed wording 

 

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

Whimsical Shadow Box 2

  Hello, 

welcome to my little crafting place

I couldn't resist making a second shadow box collage picture using the Spellbinders' wonderful Whimsical Village collection designed by Vicky Papaioannou 

Last time I used pastel colours, but this time it's all much darker - with maybe a twilight kind of vibe

I chose 3 shades of deep pink and purple for the houses and flowers, plus a deep midnight blue for the background, all from the Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack  

Once I'd made some houses up, I embossed the background card and highlighted the swirls with a silver Faber Castel Gelato crayon and planned my layout.  Once I'd decided on that I cut the embossed piece to the right size and created my shadow-box accordingly. I use my phone to take a photo of the layout because I'll never get it right otherwise!

 Next I made the frame and adhered the background inside before starting to add the other elements, some are raised on scraps of thick cardboard, some have little matchbox cover type folded card behind them to give lots of dimension

 

The last touches were to add some stamped words from the lovely little stamp set plus a few 'bushes' made using one of the flower dies, and a little spotty dog! 

  

 I used

  

from Spellbinders

 

Whimsical Village collection by Vicky Papaioannou 

 

Whimsical Houses Etched Dies S5-746    

 

Whimsical Blooms Etched Dies S5-742   

Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder E3D-166 

 

Village Companions Etched Dies S2-456    

   
Whimsical Wishes Clear Stamp Set STP-270   

  

Or, if like me you love it maybe this is a better buy:

Whimsical Village I Want It All! Bundle BD-1061    

 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

White Linen card for shadow box

WRMK shadow box punch  

 

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, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx