A Purple Patch (Feb GOM)

   Hello

and welcome  to my little crafting place! 

 There are little shoots of daffodils and tulips and beautiful hellebores in flowerin the garden which is very brave, because so far February  has been wet, cold and pretty miserable! I've even wrapped a pashmina around my shoulders this morning for extra warmth

Still, getting busy with some craft projects is a good way to take one's mind off the dreariness, and I enjoyed making this two layered flapped card with the Spellbinders Glimmer of the Month for February and the lovely Lavender foil that comes too

  

 As seeing pots of winter pansies braving the weather always cheers the spirits,  I made some to add to this card as I thoughrt they'd work well with the sentiment I'd chosen

 

I used:

  February Glimmer of the Month 

2x leafy design plate and sentiment

Pansies cut using dies from

 Vivid Blooms Etched Dies 

Deep Purple card blank and extra for the upper flap

Scraps of white card inked in shades of lilac and yellow for the flowers and green for the leaves

Purple and yellow twine 

 

 Sentiment from  February Glimmer of the Month 

 

Pansies in the making:

   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,

 

 Kathy xx

Thanks for being a friend

 

Hello!

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

This time I've another little card for the Daring Cardmakers Monthly Sentimental Challenge

 

Be My VALENTINE

 (or celebrate enduring friendship with a GALENTINE)

I've used another of the seals I made using the December 2024 Wax Seal of the Month club kit from Spellbinders. 

 

 

This one is just for sending a hug  to a lovely friend!
The seal has an indented heart shape in the centre of a scalloped oval and is really pretty - especially when filled with tiny beads in pretty colours!

The sentiment is from a Glimmer set of useful sentiments, but unfortunatley doesn't seem to be available any longer

To make the the frame I used a scalloped rectangle die and a plain square one, and cut 3 layers.  These were glued together and adhered over my card, on which I'd first applied pale blue mousse to show in the aperture.

Lastly I strung a few small beads on silver thread and tied the ends of the thread on the reverse

 

If you are interested in any of the past monthly kits I've used, use my link to Spellbinders below and look in the Clubs section for 'Past Clubs' and you may be lucky enough to find them still available.

 I'll let you in on a secret - this section is a real treasure trove, and definitely worth hunting through for past gems!

 

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 c 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,

Kathy xx

  

For My Valentine

Hello!

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

This week the Daring Cardmakers are back with a new kind of monthly challenge in the First Friday spot.

This year, on the first Friday of each month 
there will be a
Monthly Sentimental Challenge
We all find ourselves needing a card for a particular 
or special reason, don't we? And sometimes it would 
be good to have just the thing ready to send. 
So once a month we'll concentrate on a specific sentiment.

With it being the first friday oif February there was only 
one sentiment to choose, don't you think?

 

Be My VALENTINE

 (or celebrate enduring friendship with a GALENTINE)

As usual, we'll share our ideas and we'd love you
to join in and keep the inspiration going. 

 

Back in November I was sent what would be the December Wax Seal iof the Month club kit from Spellbinders.  I made a bunch of seals using it but didn't get round to using many of them on projects, It was the run up to Christmas and life was hectic!

But I knew I'd revisit this fab seal as it was going to be really useful for all those romantic occasions and even just for sending a hug  

 

The seal has an indented heart shape in the centre of a scalloped oval and is sooo pretty! 

I remembered that an earlier Glimmer of the Month Club had a 'cross stitch' plate and thought I could put these two things together and make a Valentine for my hubby

 

I made a tassel from gold thread and used an alphabet set from Sweet Dixie that he'd added to my Christmas Stocking.  Its such a lovely font, but oh my, is it fiddly!

 I matted the red fancy panel onto gold card, then onto a card blank of the same red card.

If you are interested in the monthly kits I've used, use my link to Spellbinders below and look in the Clubs section for 'Past Clubs' and you may be lucky enough to find them still available.

 I'll let you in on a secret - this section is a real treasure trove, and definitely worth hunting through for past gems!

 

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 c use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by.

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

Kathy xx

  

 

Hello!

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

This week the Daring Cardmakers are back with a new kind of monthly challenge in the First Friday spot.

This year, on the first Friday of each month 
there will be a
Monthly Sentimental Challenge
We all find ourselves needing a card for a particular 
or special reason, don't we? And sometimes it would 
be good to have just the thing ready to send. 
So once a month we'll concentrate on a specific sentiment.

With it being the first friday oif February there was only 
one sentiment to choose, don't you think?

 

Be My VALENTINE

 (or celebrate enduring friendship with a GALENTINE)

As usual, we'll share our ideas and we'd love you
to join in and keep the inspiration going. 

 

Back in November I was sent what would be the December Wax Seal iof the Month club kit from Spellbinders.  I made a bunch of seals using itbut didn't get round to using many of them on projects, It was the run up to Christmas and life was hectic!

But I knew I'd revisit this fab seal as it was going to be really useful for all those romantic occasions and even just for sending a hug 
The seal has an indented heart shape in the centre of a scalloped oval and is sooo pretty! 

I remembered that an earlier Glimmer of the Month Club had a 'cross stitch' plate and thought I could put these two things together and make a Valentine for my hubby

I made a tassel from gold thread and used an alphabet set from Sweet Dixie that he'd added to my Christmas Stocking.  Its such a lovely font, but oh my, is it fiddly!

 

I matted the red fancy panel onto gold card, then onto a card blank of the same red card.

If you are interested in the monthly kits I've used, use my link to Spellbinders below and look in the Clubs section for 'Past Clubs' and you may be lucky enough to find them still available.

 I'll let you in on a secret - this section is a real treasure trove, and definitely worth hunting through for past gems!

 

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 c use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by.

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

Kathy xx

  

 

Flight of Fancy

 Hello!

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

This week the Daring Cardmakers are back after our break with this challenge:

IN FLIGHT

We would love to see your IN FLIGHT creations;
Flying things, Flights of Fancy, Time Flies... Birds,
Planes, Balloons, Magic carpets....
Create anything you like cards, tags,
or 3D project. Its up to you!
Here’s some inspiration to get you thinking.
Get in touch if you are interested in seeing your work on
our blog - we are always looking for guest designers
and new teamies who would love to...
Create - Inspire - Share!

So today I'm sharing the card I've made - and its my first project using something from the Spellbinders 2024Advent Calendar I picked up in the sale!

I think I managed to get it at an even lower price in the sale just before Christmas than it is now.  I thought it would be the perfect little helper for getting me through these nasty depressing winter months. The very first door opened to reveal a sweet little hot air balloon die set - perfect for this challenge!

  

I made up two of the balloons, then decided to make an aperture card with them.  The sunset or maybe sunris background is just made with various shades of ink, but I added some hand cut vellum 'clouds' before adding the balloons. The frame was cut from a piece of dark teal card and raised from the main card lauer using some offcuts of thick card'

 For the bunting I hand cut triangles of leftovers from when I cut the background down to size and some blue twine

Die set used:

Spellbinders 2024 Advent Calendar

 

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 c 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,

Kathy xx

 

Glimmering Sprigs of Spring (Feb GOM, WSOM)

   Hello

and welcome  to my little crafting place! 

Having just about survived January month, I'm trying hard to look forward, beyond the cold drary days of February towards my favourite time of the year - Spring

 

I've been using the Spellbinders Glimmer of the Month for February and it really lifts the spirits with its beautiful leafy sprigs design

For my first project with this set I decided to go for a dark green card blank and gold foil.  I simply used the beautiful glimmer plate for this card, but in the  set you also get a cutting die to cut round the tops of the leaves and some lovely sentiments - one of which I used on this card

The February Wax seal of the Month from Spellbinderslso has a Springtime feel, and decided to make one to use on this card.  

I poured gold wax into the warmed seal and used a heated scraping tool to scrape oiff the excess. Step 2 was to stamp the motif into a mid green mix of wax and step 3 was to highlight with shiny gold leafing pen

 I used:

  February Glimmer of the Month 

 leafy design plate and sentiment

February Wax seal of the Month

Dark Green card blank

Green and Gold twine and light green pearl

 

More examples of this seal

 

  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  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

 Kathy xx

Signs of Spring (Feb WSOM)

 

 

 Hello

and welcome  to my little crafting place! 

Well, we made it through January (just about) and althopugh not my favourite month, at leas in February the days are getting longer and there are little shoots of hope apopearing in the gardens

The February Wax seal of the Month from Spellbinders celebrates this hope, with a lovely, leafy seal to use on our projects.

I teamed it with dies from one of SB's January releases;

 'Vivid Expressions Collection'

For this card I used Seal no.2 from the set shown below. The seal was stamped into the copper-peach coloured wax and the image highlighted  with gold and green marker pens.  I actually used a couple of different gold pens on the flower

The card blank was inked with copper then the pale aqua panel added. 

 I used:

February Wax seal of the Month

Vivid Blooms Etched Dies 

from the Vivid Expressions Collection.

 

 Sentiment from  February Glimmer of the Month 

White card blank, plus extra card for panel

More  scraps of white card inked in shades of lilac and yellow for the flowers and green for the stems

Lilac twine and pearls

 

More exaamples of this seal

Some of these are simply the seal stamped into wax and colour added afterwards using pens

most are 2 layers, using the pour and scrape technique for the first (leafy) layer, with excess wax scraped off using a hot scraping tool.  The seal, with the leafy design still in it, is then stamped into another pouring of wax

Extra colours are added with pens

 

  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  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

 Kathy xx

Winnie the Pooh and the Blue Balloon

 

    Hello!

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

I've always loved the Winnie the Pooh stories by A.A. Milne, and the drawings by E.H. Shephard that are just perfect.  I have prints of several of them in the house, two just above my desk here in our study!

I was thrilled when I found that Spellbinders and Simple Stories have got together and created a beautiful range of crafting goodies using the original pictures as their inspiration - I really hate the Disney versions of Pooh and Co, and have avoided anything crafty using them like the plague!

 

Winnie the Pooh and the Blue Balloon

 I've used dies from the Pooh and Piglet set to make this card, based on one of my favourite Pooh tales "Winnie the Pooh and the Blue Balloon" in which Pooh rolls in a [puddle to disguise himself as a rain cloud and floats in the air on the string of a blue balloon as he tries to raid a bee hive for the yummy honey.

 I made a large card, coloured the outside and inside with shades opf blue ink and mousse, then cut an oval aperture in the front of the card. I cut sprig dies using Winter Evergreen Foliage die set in various shades of green card to make the overhanging tree branches then added Pooh and his balloon. 

I printed out the words from the story to add to the card, then assembled Piglet, some flowers and some honey pots at the ready to the lower edge, and a few extras to the inside  the card. The bees were cut out from some paper I had in my stash

I used:

Pooh & Piglet Etched Dies from the Say Cheese Classic Pooh Collection 

Winter Evergreen Foliage

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 c use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by.

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

I've used dies from the Pooh and Piglet set to make this card, based on one of my favourite Pooh tales "Winnie the Pooh and the Blue Balloon" in which Pooh rolls in a [puddle to disguise himself as a rain cloud and floats in the air on the string of a blue balloon as he tries to raid a bee hive for the yummy honey