Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Well HELLO!

Hello,

A warm welcome to my little crafting place!

Today I'm sharing this card using January's Glimmer of the Month background plate and a sentiment also from the set

I thought I'd try fopr a more unisex kind of card this time and chose black card for the base, and the glorious 'Confetti' foil - its one of my favourites!

The balloons are from an earlier Die of the Month set - you can often pick up these little treasures in the Past Club sets section of the shop - this one IS still available atm and I'll add the link below

I hot-foiled a piece of black card, cut down to size and made a gatefold card the same size. Then I cut the foiled piece in half and adhered the two sections to the 'legs' of the card base

I also hot-foiled the 'hello' sentiment from the set onto a scrap of black card and matted onto some shiny red card. Once I'd made up the balloons I fixed them to the back of the sentiment then glued the sentiment and balloons to the left side so that they would overlap the right side and also stick up over the top a little

I used:

January Glimmer of the Month

'Confetti' foil

Birthday Bliss - November 2024 Small Die of the Month

Black card for the gatefold base card, extra for foiling

pearlescent card scraps card scrap

Just a Note

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Thank you so much for coming by

Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

Kathy xx

Glimmered Vellum and Wax Flowers

Hello, and Happy New Year

Welcome back to my little crafting place!

After a bit of a break over Christmas and New Year it's been good to get back to my craft desk. It did take a while to clear all the Christmas 'stuff' away, but having new Spellbinders goodies to play with helps! The sale there just before Christmas was very tempting and as well as a few dies etc I picked up the 2024 Advent calendar at a bargain price!

I'd been checking out all the projects people had been sharing using things from this calendar and whilst I struggled to justify buying it when it first came out, it was extremely tempting in the sale - and I figured that a post-Christmas treat will help through the grim months of January and February, with all the little treats to cheer me up - not as a daily thing, but just when Ithe 'Winter Drearies' strike. Which they always do.

However, enough of the waffle! Today I'm sharing this card

I used January's Glimmer of the Month and Wax Seal of the Month club kits for this one. The Glimmer plate makes a beautiful background and for a change I've used it on some patterned vellum. You can hot-foil really well on vellum - you'll probably need an extra shim or tow to get a good result. The sentiment is also in the club kit and is one of several really useful sentiments - and I love the font they've used this time. You also get 'hello', 'smile', 'thanks' and 'for you'

I made a whole bunch of the flowers using the Wax Seal of the month, using various shades of pink wax from the Pink Mix set and mixing a few different greens to use up some left-over bits of wax. I made the heads and stems separately so that I could cut them out with scissors to use on this card

The base is a plain white card, I folded the top of the hot-foiled vellum over the fold and adhered with a very narrow redline tape. Having checked that the tape didn't show through the vellum I was happy to use it to secure the lower edge also. For the sentiment I folded the vellum word over some pink card. Tp complete I added some pink waxed twine around the top, and a matching bow. I punched a circle from some left over gold wax to put at the bow's centre