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  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;

May Wax Seal of the Month

Blue plus May bead mix wax beads

 

May Small Die of the Month  

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

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:

May Glimmer of the Month

Satin Pewter foil (in kit)

    

 Scribbled Letter Embossing Folder

 

 Be Bold Blooms

 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

 

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;

May Wax Seal of the Month

White and Blue wax beads

 

Scribbled Letter Embossing Folder

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

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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  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

Celebrate!

 

  Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

 I've another of my May club projects for Spellbinders to share today and this time I'm using dies from the May Small Die of the Month 

This time I'm sharing a card featuring the book and garuation cap dies from the May Small Die of the Month club. I wantef to try and echo the traditional after ceremony habit of everyone throwing their caps into the air 

I started by making a sky-blue background using aone of my new favourite embossing folders with shades of blue ink and mousse, this piece was then matted onto a black card blank

Using the die set I put together 4 books using and the 'congrats' word for one of them.  The others I decorated with small swirl shaped punch outs and some washi tape

Th caps were then cut from black card with gold for the tassels. I arranged everything in place then glued down using some scraps of cardboard under the caps for a bit more dimension and added some gold stars in the ciorner to finish

 

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

 

May Small Die of the Month

Card scrapBlack and gold card for caps

 

Cross My Heart 3D Embossing folder
White card coloured woth inks and mousse    

Star punch, Swirl punch,washi tape

   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

Dancing Apple Pencil Pot

 

  Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

 I've another of my May club projects for Spellbinders to share today and this time I'm using the May Glimmer of the Month as well as some of the dies from dies the May Small Die of the Month 

 I created a Teacher Thank You shaped like a 'pencil pot'

Last week I made my little swatch set of the new 'Colorwheel' cardstock that Spellbinders released recently.  Mine is very simple; I cut a narrow strip from each colour in the pack and then a 6cm piece from each of them. These I mounted on slightly longer strips of white card, wrote the name and colour number on the reverse and put them all on a book ring, with a loop of twine so I can hang them on the knob of one of my craft cupboards

 

I kept all the remaining card strips clipped together so they can be used when the opportunity arises - like making the striped pencil pot for this little card! The pot is actually made using a die from the Arch Labels and Tag die set

To make the base for the shaped card I folded the card stock, placed the top of the die so it hung over the fold then ran it through my die cutter a couple of times, this way the top edge doesn't cut.  I then decided how tall the pot shoud be and cut the curved lower edge off too - so the card would stand up!  I also cut a plain piece of card to the same shape and used this to glue some of those leftover strips too.  

 

Once I'd trimmed the spare from around the edge I added the 'pencils'  to look as though they are in the pot.

The pencils are also  made using some of thoes card strips; this time I used the plate from the Glimmer of the Month, this comes with a cutting die to cut out individual pencil shapes and also some handy sentiment strips

I foiled the strips of coloured card, and also a set in wood coloured card with black foil, then trimmed down the coloured sections to mat onto the wood ones, cutting the pencil points free hand to stick in place!

 

I made the apple using dies from the Small Die of the Month and now I know how to make them, I couldn't resist making the apple dance on a 'wobbler'

Dancing Apple Pencil Pot video:

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

May Glimmer of the Month

Black Foil

 

May Small Die of the Month

 

Arch Labels and Tag die set
 

Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"
 

Brown card for base

 white and other card scraps

Glossy Accents 

Thin wire to make 'wobbler' 

   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

Well Done!

  Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I've the first of my May club projects for Spellbinders to share and as it ties in very nicely with the Daring Cardmakers theme this week I can share it there too

It's the first Friday of the month and time for our
Monthly Sentimental Challenge;

The theme for May is
    WELL DONE!
 it's all about giving a 'pat on the back' to those who've worked hard and deserve some praise
Graduations, the end of school year, exam results, and other reasons too.

Create anything you like cards, tags, postcards or 3D project and share them with us!

 I've used dies from the May Small Die of the Month to make this card

The cream background panel is embossed with the Scribbled Letter Embossing Folder which works well for a card with school/college theme, I think. The apple is super-cute! I cut it from plain white card then inked using green and red before giving it a coat of glaze to make it shine. I added the graduation cap from the die set and made a little scroll from vellum tied round with very narrow ribbon

I made a 'wobbler' attachment using thin wire  and punched circles glued it to the back of the apple and then to the card itself.

Here's a video of the apple in motion

I love the book dies. You get three book shapes and several word layers to use with them - but it would be easy enough  to make your own book titles with a set of tiny alphabet dies, stamps etc

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

 

May Small Die of the Month

 

Scribbled Letter Embossing Folder 

 
Red card blank 

Red and Green ink

Card: Light Blue, Cream, Red, Gold, Black 

Glossy Accents 

Gold Twine

Thin wire to make 'wobbler' 

Scrap of vellum to make certificate scroll, plus very narrow red 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,

 

 Kathy xx