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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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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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

CCC August

     

Hello,

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

This time I've sent my card to Alice in Austria

 

 

 

The beautiful card I received came from Imke in Germany - the photo doesn't really do it justice (sorry Imke)

 

For my card I chose to use the Sketch and the theme.of Friendship 

   

I taped off a rough rectangular shape on my white base card and filled it in with a few shades of light blue and aqua inks to make a blue sky background

The 'round' elements on the sketch were originally going to be flowers but I had a change of direction (I'd cut everything out ready so will have to make something with them eventually!) and decided to make those elements into more of a picture, with the balloon as the large one and the two clouds for the others.

The cute hot air balloon is one of the dies from Spellbinders' 2024 Advent Calendar, the clouds and birds are also from Spellbinders die sets - I just happened to have the dies on my desk from another project

 The Thinking of You sentiment is also from Spellbinders - its from a new Betterpress set, but I hot-foiled it using black foil on white card and cut it out wity the matching die

 

 T

 

o join in the chain for September 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

from Spellbinders;

 

Balloon from Spellbinders 2024 Advent calendar

 

clouds, birds and sentiment from various BP and die sets

 

Various coloured card from

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

White card

Versa cube ink pads 

Washi tape for masking 

 

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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

 

 

Baby Blocks

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 welcome to my little crafting place

We had some lovely family news earlier this month when our third Great-niece arrived in the world.  She was a bit late so her mum had all that heat-wave business to deal with while waiting for arrival! Now, I was hot and bothered at that time, and never having had a baby I can only imagine how much worse it was for an expectant mum!

Such a good reason to have some fun with card-making and all the cute and kiddy die sets I've accumulated - see! I knew they were worth buying/keeping!

 

As you can see in the top photo the card is folded to created a 'Baby Blocks' shape when it's opened, though it's fairly flat for putting in an envelope for posting

 

 

 

 

This is the back: 

All the surfaces are decorated with die-cut images or pretty paper from 12x12, or 6x6 paper packs

Most of the dies are by Spellbinders

but there are a few Hunkydory ones and some really old Quickutz ones! 

  

  

 

I dipped into the Spellbinders 2024 Advent Calendar for some of these motifs - like the hot air balloon and the cute bee,  Some Small die of the month dies got an airing, and some I bought because they were cute, but haven't actually used till now - likw the rabbit on a swing and the sweet dinosaur

 

I won't give a list of everything used because it would be too long and a lot of it won't be available any-more! 

 

I started this a few weeks before the baby was due, and kept adding more to it so it took ages to make and wasn't even finished when she arrived! 

 

Anyway. I hope you like it 

 

 

 

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