Friday, May 30, 2025

Tiny Home

 

 



 Hello


welcome to my little crafting place! 

This is the second of the cards I made using the OXO grid on this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge:

Let's Play...

Whether you call it TicTacToe, Noughts and Crosses or OXO we'd love you to play along and use our game card to craft with!
Just choose any straight line from the grid, it can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal and use those 3 prompts on your projects this week
Create anything you like; cards, tags, postcards or 3D project, and don't forget ot share them with us
For this one I chose to use the bottom horizontal line, though I stuck with the Clean & Simple design theme! So from the grid the details are:
New; New Home card
Heart; tiny heart smoke puffs
Orange; 2 shades of orange card
 


I chose 2 shades of orange card from the fab new Colourwheel Collection by Spellbinders and added one of the white card rectangles that were left over from the other OXO card I shared last time
 

I used:
 
from Spellbinders 
Little house
 
2 shades orange card from Colourwheel collection

Tiny Heart craft punch
Rectangle die by Tonic 
Homemade decal sentiment

   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 visiting

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself and please come by again soon
 
 Kathy xx

Let's Play...

 

 Hello


welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I'm sharing the first of 2 cards I've made for this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge:

Let's Play...

Whether you call it TicTacToe, Noughts and Crosses or OXO we'd love you to play along and use our game card to craft with!
Just choose any straight line from the grid, it can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal and use those 3 prompts on your projects this week
Create anything you like; cards, tags, postcards or 3D project, and don't forget ot share them with us


For this card I chose the centre vertical line and used a Clean & Simple design, Flowers for my 'Free Choice' and a heart waz seal

The design seemed to need a frame so I used a couple of rectangluar dies to make one.  I *think* it still qualifies as CAS - but all things are relative aren't they, and for me this is super-CAS! 
Okay, the wax seal may not be super simple as its made in 3 layers

 
I used:
 
from Spellbinders
from the Out and About Collection
Red and Green card from Colourwheel collection

I picked up the Intertwined circles die in a sale of loose dies
Rectangle dies by Tonic

Heart and flowers wax seal is by Craspire 
The sentiment was created on the pc 
Tiny red gems for centres of white flowers
 
   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 visiting

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself and please come by again soon
 
 Kathy xx

Friday, May 23, 2025

Cheers Mate!

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

I'm sharing my card for the Daring Cardmakers today and this one is not what I intended to make! 

Masculine Mayhem
Fathers Day is coming...but this week it's not just about dad, we'd like to celebrate all the males in our lives  Let's see cards for the little boys,the big boys and all the other males in your life.

Create anything you like cards, tags, postcards or 3D project, and don't forget ot share them with us

 

A couple of months ago I made some wax seals using a Spellbinders WSOM club which I thought would be great for sporting themed cards - always handy for masculine cards!  However, when I came to use them I just couldn't find the darned things could I!

So instead I chose another favourite of most menfolk and got outr one of my old favourite Spellbinders die sets to make a wine imspired card

 

I used:
    
 
All dies are from past sets by Spellbinders
 Wine card Blank
Extra white card for inking the die cuts
Gold card
Gold Pen

   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 visiting

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself and please come by again soon
 
 Kathy xx

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Don't Scroll Past!

 

  Hello


a big welcome to my little crafting place!  

I've just one more May club project for Spellbinders to share today, and its another wax seal idea.

 

When I saw the May Wax Seal of the Month seal it reminded me of those really scrolls you see which always feature the seal of whoever was signing it.  OH and I were married by Special License and I'm pretty sure the license document features a seal at the bottom.

So I found a digital image of an unfurling scroll and used it to create this little card.

 The scroll section is adhered only as far as the fold, so that when the card is displayed the scroll stands above the rest of the card. 

Here's how it looks when flat

Lying down when the card is folded it looks like this

 The club kit includes the wax seal and what is probably my favourite of Spellbinders' wax bead mixes.  I made the seal on this card using blue wax for the wording and a mix of the turquoise shades in the bag for the base of the seal.  I highlighted 'proud' with a gold pen


Materials
 
from Spellbinders;
Blue plus May bead mix wax beads
 
Grad cap
 
Navy Blue card blank 
digital image for scroll
Gold and turquoise card scraps
gold and blue ribbon

   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

Friday, May 16, 2025

Emerald

 

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

This time I've managed to double up again and made my card for the Daring Cardmakers' challenge using goodies from Spellbinders' May Glimmer of the Month - well, when they are sitting on your desk already it would be rude not to, wouldn't it?  Same goes for using the fabulous Scribbled Letter Embossing Folder, at the moment its just there at my fingertips!

I love ink cubes and those cute little teardrop shaped ink pads.  I hardly ever use full size inkpads as I don't 'do' that stamping and colouring kind of cardmaking.  I prefer to have lots of little cubes to make backgrounds and add colour to card for die cutting etc.  As of my existing pads were getting a bit sad I've treated myself to a load of my favourite Versa ink cubes and as the box was handy - do you detect a theme here? - I went through and picked out some of the green ones to make a swooshy background for this card

Emerald
The traditional birthstone for May is the emerald. Known for their rich green hue, emeralds are often associated with renewal and happiness.
We'd like you to use 'Emerald' as your crafting inspiration this week.
Create anything you like cards, tags, postcards or 3D project, and don't forget ot share them with us

 After I'd made the green inky background I cut a square from the cetnre and embossed it with the Scribbled Letter Embossing folder.  I cut a few more plain square shapes and glued them together before adhering them to the embossed square. I added some gold card to my card blank to conceal any white that might show and positioned the frame over it, then glued the embossed panel into the hole
I made green ink stripes on scrap card and lined up the pencils Glimmer plate and Satin Pewter foil for foiling.  I also made a second sheet just on white card. On the white pencils I added brown and pink ink for the eraser and wood sections.

I cut these and the green ones out with scissors rather than the die you get in the kit and matted the coloured section of the pencuils over the bases. 
The flowers arefrom the die set Be Bold Blooms 
The sentiment is made using elements from those in the Glimmer club set


I used:
Satin Pewter foil (in kit)
    
 
 White card Blank
Extra white card for inking (background, flowers, pencils)
Gold card
Lots of ink pads


   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 visiting

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself and please come by again soon
 
 Kathy xx

 

Monday, May 12, 2025

Rosette

  Hello

a big welcome to my little crafting place!  I've another of my May club projects for Spellbinders to share today.

We're fast approaching the end of the academic year, with the school-leaving celebrations, uni graduations and lots of other courses reaching their conclusions, but there are lots of other reasons for saying 

"So Very Proud of You" 

like running or walking or cycling a 5K, taking part in a dance/stage/musical performance, doing something for a charity,  passing your driving test or facing up to a fear

So the message on the May Wax Seal of the Month will be very useful!

 

 The club kit includes the wax seal and what is probably my favourite of Spellbinders' wax bead mixes

I've been practising using 2 colours on various seal-stamps, including message ones and I'm really happy that these turned out so well, especially as adding highlights with pens isn't my greatest skill!

I'm not sure I ever won a rosette for anything, but they are fun to make and I thought perfect to show off the wax seal centrepiece
 

Materials
 
from Spellbinders;
White and Blue wax beads
 
Extra gold card for embossed panel 
 
Gold card blank 
Red card for matting
scoring board, thin red and white card for rosette 
Blue satin ribbon

   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

Friday, May 09, 2025

Europe Day

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I've something for this Daring Cardmakers' challenge to share:

Celebrating Europe !
This week we've been remembering wartime sacrifices whilst
celebrating the 80th anniversary of the formal surrender of
Hitler's forces and the end of WW2 in Europe on 8 May 1945

Today (9th May) is Europe Day, recognising and celebrating
the huge diversity of the continent.  

So celebrate VE Day OR pick any of the 44 European
countries to feature
in some way on your project this week

I watched some of the VE Day 80 parade in London on TV on Monday.  It;s sobering to think of the sacrifices so many people made to bring an end to WW2.

I was very moved by the presence in the parade of a group of soldiers from Ukraine reminding us that another tyrant is waging war and trying to claim a land he has no right to.  They represented Ukrainian soldiers currently training here in the UK, and I can only imagine what was going through their heads as they marched. 

So I made my card to say "Thinking of You" to Ukrainians everywhere and to say. You are not forgotten

Ive used the colours of the Ukrainian flag and the national flower of the country to create this card. Hopefully the sentiment (taken from Google translator) actually does read 'Thinking of You'
 The yellow and blue background was inked on a spare piece of white card, I used a piece of washi tape to keep the colours separate 
The sunflower has several layers of the petal section and I added extra length ot the stem by using two die cuts
To finish I added some matching twine and a few tiny punched hearts
 

 
I used:
 
White card
Blue and yellow ink
green and brown Bazzill cardstock
(very old!) Sunflower die from Joanna Sheen
Yellow and blue waxed twine
pc generated sentiment

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  If you ever buy from the Spellbinders store I have an Affliate 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,
 
 Kathy xx