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

 

I used:

January Glimmer of the Month

January Wax seal of the Month

Pink Wax Bead Mix 

Bits of green wax melted together

White card blank

Patterned Vellum from my stash

Pink card scrap

Pink waxed twine

 

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

 Kathy xx