Little pictures

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place!

For this next set of Christmas cards I used a similar method to that in the last blogpost, but this time I've gone for coloured card blanks.  I forgot to order the same card in 'flat' sheets so had to sacrifice a couple of each colour to do the hot-foling for the backgrounds and sentiments.  However, that's not so bad as you can make quite a decent number of cards this way!

 

I love this deep teal coloured card, and how lush it looks when you add silver or gold!

The deep blue of the card below is almost purple and looks great with silver.

I used an old stars Glimmer plate for the Teal card above left and October's Glimmer of the Month club plate with gold for theteal card above right, and with silver foil on the blue one below

The houses, tiny trees and the sleigh are from a couple of Simon Hurley's Christmas die sets from 2024 and 2023 - all are still available (links below)

The sentiments of the three cards are from 

 Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set

 

I had a stroke of luck and found a pile of coloured cards I'd added Glimmer sentiments  directly  to last year, and I also unearthed quite a lot of leftover hot-foiled sentiments. So these red cards are some of these, with the same kind of focus pieces added to finish them off

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

Glimmer plates. large sentiments and foils, most dies, plus some basic shapes

 

October 2025 Glimmer of the Month club

 

Mantel Village and Decorations Die Bundle 

 

Simon’s Snow Globe Etched Dies  

 

Small Sentiments from

 Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set

 

 Other

Coloured card blanks; PDA Card and Craft 

Gold, silver, white , red card,  (various finishes)

Twine, Gems 

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

Snowy Trees

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welcome to my little crafting place!

I have some Christmas cards to share. I made this batch with a similar theme to try and get my card box a little more ready for the Christmas mailbox!

I started by getting out suitable Glimmer plates, those with snow and stars on to make the backgrounds.  The plates are all big enough for the resulting hot-foiled pieces to be cut down and made into several cards.  I started with dark blue card, white foil and a snowflake plate from a few years ago

 

I cut squares and circles from the same white card as the card blanks. 

 Some were made into frames, some just  cut larger than the foiled shapes. Next I matted them onto something shiny and added them to the cards.

I then had a die cutting seeion and cut loads of different smaller trees and holly. Its amazing just how many there are in my die collection! They were added to the little backgrounds, hot-foiled sentiments were added and whatever other trims to jolly them up; twine, gems, punched stars

The card below is slightly different as I spied a scrap of black card on my desk the perfect size to use with this frame.  I hadn't done and foiling on black, but my white pen was handy so I just covered the black with tiny white dots instead.

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

Glimmer plates and foils, most dies, plus some basic shapes

 

Sentiments from

 Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set

 

 Other

White card blank and A4 card for cutting from PDA Card and Craft 

Blue and black Bazzill

Gold, silver, red card, 

Twine, Gems 

 

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

Wrist Purse

 

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I'm sharing this card using Spellbinders Glimmer of the Month and Wax Seal of the Month  clubs for November. The pretty chain design reminded me of some of those posh designer bags, so I made this little wristlet purse card - the kind you might keep your phone in because they've all got too darned big for our pockets! 

And yes, that is me having another little rant!

I used gold foil on the white 'flap' section and the lovely Blush foil that comes with this month's club kit on (111) Sicily' card from the Colourwheel collection for the larger section.

 

 For the 'clasp' I used one of the seals I made with the November Wax Seal of the Month

along with the Coral mix Must Have Wax Beads that you get this time.

 I used white wax (with glitter as explained in my last post) for the upper layer and a couple of each colour from the Coral mix, plus a gold bead  for the lower marbled layer

To finish this seal I coloured the bow with  an Edding Gold Glass Pen 

 

The sentiment is also from the Glimmer set, and the little champagne flute charm is from the November Small Die of the Month club 

I attached the chain with a staple  

This card could easily be made into a pocket card, for enclossing a voucher or gift card 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

November Glimmer of the Month club 

sentiment with GLF-026 Blush foil

 

November Wax Seal of the Month

this month includes Must Have Wax Bead Mix - Coral

 

November Small Die of the Month club 

champagne flute

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seal

card for die cutting from 

 

Coloured card (111) 'Sicily'  from

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

White and gold wax beads 

Fine glitter 

White card + spare

Gold twine

Gold card scraps 

Gold chain 

 

 

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

A Most Eggs-cellent Day (with video

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

November's Die of the Month from Spellbinders is all about Doing Brunch and features some very cute  characters! Although there are a few ready made sentimet dies, this set is definitely ripe for some imaginative puns of your own and I couldn't resist making one for a Dancing Fried Eggs card!

 

I used just the cute fried egg from the November Small Die of the Month club die set and added a little spiral wire spring behind each one before adding the my card. This simple mechanism means that if you flick one with your finger it will 'dance' merrilly!

My "Hoping your day is most eggs-cellent" message adds a pun to the fun!  It was created on my pc and just printed out in the size I needed and added to the card

 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

November Small Die of the Month club 

 Other

 

White linen card blank

White, blue, black and yellow card for die cutting 

Small springs made with very thin wire

 

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

Raising a Glass

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today's Spellbinders clubs project uses the lovely new November Wax Seal of the Month. I gelved into my ribbon and lace stash to find something to help show this one off!

Here's some of the seals I've made this time

The seal itself is created with a marbling of blue and teal wax beads, and to make the glass sparkle when it catches the light I filled the upper section with fine glitter then poured the wax into it while holding the seal face up (because the glitter would fall out if I didn't, obviously 😁 ). 

As the glitter odesn't show up on the still photos I had a go at videoing them.  The video is as bad as usual, but it does help show the glitter (and one with tiny silver beads in instead) better

 

 

 

You have to watch what you're doing and be careful not to pour too much wax when you do this as it will run off and end up on your fingers - which hurts! 

 

Essentially this is a 'pour and scrape' seal but with the added trick of pouring the wax into the mould while it's face up, pour a little wax over then turning it over quickly to 'swoosh' across your silicone mat to remove the main excess. Next use warmed scraper tools to remove the remaining unwanted wax

 

You need to have the different coloured wax beads for the main part of the seal already melted in the spoon  - but don't mix them, just let the different colours mingle during the pour, then press the seal with the glittered wax glass shape into it as normal 

 

I found this lovely white lacy ribbon and some satin ribbon in my stash to display the seal on. I added a loop of gold twine, under the seal and made a tassel with more of the twine to add some extra interest.

I hot-foiled one of the sentiments from November's Glimmer of the Month club on matching cardstock to complete the card

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

November Wax Seal of the Month

includes Silver Bullion powder

 

November Glimmer of the Month club 

sentiment with gold foil

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seals

 Other

White Wax beads 

Fine glitter 

Mix of blue and teal wax beads 

Teal card blank + spare

4cm wide white lacy ribbon

1cm wide 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

Let's do Brunch

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

November's Die of the Month from Spellbinders is all about Doing Brunch and features some very cute  characters! Although there are a few ready made sentimet dies, this set is definitely ripe for some imaginative puns of your own! For this first one though, I used the 'Let's do Brunch' sentiment from the die set along with the various ingredients you need to a good brunch!

I added a fancy plate to put my brunch on, then decided to ech the shape by making the card base into a 'rocker' - nudge it and the card rocks from side to side.

All the card used here, apart from the white card base is from the 

 Full 48 ColourWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"Spellbinders 

 

The circle and scalloped circle dies I used for the plate are from sets I've had for so long I can't remember where they came from - I think either Spellbinders or TonicI think this would make a cute little invitation card, maybe for taking your Bestie for a Birthday Brunch

 

 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

November Small Die of the Month club 

 

card for die cutting from 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

 

Circle and scalloped circle dies for card blank and 'brunch plate'

White card 

Gold card for matting

Gold twine 

Coloured gems 

 

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, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx