Barn Star

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place!

I'd like to say my Christmas card-making is in full swing, but while I've started, the pace is more of a stutter than a swing. Still i gave it a bit of a kick start with  help of the lovely Barn Star Wreath die set.

For making a bunch of cards it's perfect - I spent a while cutting lots of the elements from the die set in differecnt colours and types of card.  I used shiny, textured, matte and glitter card, lots of gold and silver as well as my other favourite Christmas colours. 

I added a few more holly and pine stem dies from other die sets so I could cut lots of foliage at the same time,  I've quite a nice collection of poinsettia dies so I did the same with those. Then it was easy to put several cards together fairly quickly.

 

I buy most of my card, card blanks and envelopes from PDA Card and Craft - they may not be the cheapest, but the quality, variety and speedy service is second to none and I just adore these beautiful deep coloured creased card blanks. They make a fabulous backdrop for all the pretty bits!

The card was ledt plain on the first one but  I added a few spots of glitter (Glamour Dust) to the second and I think it was a mistake

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

Barn Star Wreath die set

July 2024 Small Die of the Month club

 

Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set
Silver foil 

 

 

 Other

Turquoise card blank from PDA Card and Craft 

 Coloured card in various finishes

 

Just a Note

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It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

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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 Build a Snowman (with video)

 

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

Just how cute are the little figures,  Christmas Tree and roly-poly snowman in the Spellbinders October Small Die of the Month club? I couldn't resist using them all to make a pop up card.

Here's the front - I will add a sentiment to it but I've not decided which yet. The ribbon goes under the hot-foiled upper panel and slides through a holder at the back to keep it in place and hold the card closed for mailing. 

 I added a white panel to the inside back of the card and a hot-foiled arch shaped piece to the inside front.

I used white glitter card for the snowy landscape - these 3 pieces are fixed in place with 'box hinges' - imagine the sliding cover of a matchbox. There are many videos and tutorials on the web about making pop ups, and I'd say that it's worth doing a search and looking at a few because you'll find the ones that work for you - some are way too complicated for me!

I made a little video to show it - it's not great but it gives the idea! I'm completely in the dark when it comes to editing videos so what you see is the whole thing,  'warts and all' 

A couple of close ups

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Small Die of the Month club 

 

October Glimmer of the Month club

  kit includes Polished Brass foil, but I used silver

 

Essential Arches die set 

 

card for die cutting from 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

Red card blank plus extra for front panel

White card

Blue card 

White Glitter card

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, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

Wax Seal Christmas Tree

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

I'm having such afun time working with some of Spellbinders October club kits and this time I'm finally getting round to sharing what I made using the tree shaped seal I made while experimenting with the Wax Seal of the Month club

I got a bit carried away this month and tried all sorts o ways to use and add to the lovely 'Merry & Bright' Wax Seal. This one kind of grew into a Christmas Tree! I can't remember my thought process but then I rarely can!  I think I'd already made one regular seal with green wax when the idea of trying to make the seal part of a tree.  Maybe I was already thinking about adding it on top of the tree die in the Small Die of the Month set... 

Anyway, I did a pour and scrape with white wax for the lettering, then had two ovens each with green wax in their spoons.  The first spoonful was used to stamp the seal into, then with the second lot I made the rest of the tree shape by pouring carefully freehand.

 If you try this, it's best to leave the stamp in place while you do the second pour, so remove the handle of the stamp and just use the stamp itself when you stamp into the green wax (if it's too hot to hold wrap the screw end in a folded piece of kitchen towel - or use heat proof gloves if you have them) - it's much   easier to see and pour the shape you want without the handle in the way

 

I wanted to keep the card simple and let the seal be the star so I matted it onto some fine corrugated card, then gold glitter card before adhering to a fern green card. I'd trimmed a couple of cms off the side to make a fat rectangle rather than square card, so used the bit I'd trimmed off to foil some of the sentiments from October's Glimmer of the Month club

To complete the card I added a small red bow below the tree and a 2 layer star at the top 

 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Wax Seal of the Month

includes Silver Bullion powder

 

October Glimmer of the Month club 

sentiment with gold foil

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seals

 Other

White Wax beads 

Mix of green Wax beads 

Fern Green 14x14cm card blank

Fine ribbed corrugated card 

Gold Glitter card card for matting 

Matte Gold card and star punches 

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, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

Simply Glimmering

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

The Spellbinders clubs for October are simply wonderful!

The project I'm sharing today is something to show how this month's gorgeous Glimmer of the Month club plate can make Christmas card-making really eye-catching but simple.

I hot foiled the plate directly onto a deep blue card blank using the Polished Brass foil from this month's club. Next I cut a narrow panel from the same card.  folded and adhrered a strip of the foil to make the border and glued the panel to the side of the card.  I taped all four of the sentiments together and foiled them too - one to use now, the rest to use later. 

The sentiment was matted onto gold-brass coloured card and adhered in place.  I found a small pieve of matching ribbon to use, but for mailing I'd probably use a die-cut ribbon bow instead, a maybe a twine bow. Next I cut a few of the tiny elements from the Barn Star Wreath die set released a couple of months ago and added them too.  I think I'll either punch some red berries to add to the holly, or use some tiny gems - I think an extra pop of colour would be good.

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Glimmer of the Month club

  kit includes Polished Brass foil. Plate and one of the sentiments 

 

Barn Star Wreath 

from Country Christmas Collection by Annie Williams  

leaves and pine cones

 Other

Deep Blue card blank, plus extra for panel and sentiment

scraps of coloured  card for die cutting

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

Sequined Wax Bauble

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

I love the Spellbinders clubs for October!

The project I'm sharing today is a cute bauble I made with  the Wax Seal of the Month and the lovely sparkly background is this month's gorgeous Glimmer of the Month club plate

I hot foiled a piece of deep blue card for the background using silver prism foil, added a length of narrow silver ribbon across the top, and suspended a silver die cut bauble with bow (from one of last year's Simon Hurley sets) on silver twine.

The 'Merry & Bright' Wax Seal was stamped into pale blue wax, and while still hot liberally sprinkkled with some tiny pastel coloured sequins I found in my stash.  I pressed them into the wax while the stamp was still in place using my finger. I'm not a great lover of sequins and I never buy them, but they seem to arrive here anyway!

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Wax Seal of the Month

includes Silver Bullion powder

  

Simon Hurley's Vintage Layered Ornaments 

 

October Glimmer of the Month club

  kit includes Polished Brass foil, but I used Prism Silver

Plate, and one of the sentiments 

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seals

 Other

Light Blue Wax beads 

Tiny pastel sequins 

White card blank 

Dark Blue for hot-foiling

Silver card for matting 

Silver ribbon

Silver baker's twine 

 

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

Trimming the Tree

 

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

Just how cute are the little figures from the Spellbinders October Small Die of the Month club? Add in a lovely layered Christmas Tree and a roly-poly snowman and this is one wonderful set of dies.

Last time I showed how I made a whole bunch of well-wrapped-up kids ready to go out and build a snowman (check back for that one), so it's only right to use the tree dies along with more of my ready-made figures this time. 

Process:

Deep teal coloured card blank plus extra of the same for hot-foiling

Use the plate and sentiments from the October Glimmer of the Month and hot-foil with gold foil onto the spare teal card  (save the spare sentiments for later makes!)

Trim down and mat the panel on to gold card and adhere in place

Make up the tree - I added white glitter glue to the top pieces but you could cut them in glitter card.

Arrange the tree and figures and partially afix so you can still wind the gold twine into place under their hands and the edges of the tree.

I used 2 strands of gold twine twisted together with gluey fingers!  Arrange it on the tree and under the figures to look as though they are adding lights to the tree.

Add a punched star to the top of the tree 

Add small gems over the twine for the lights

Mat the sentiment onto gold card and add to the bottom of the card 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Small Die of the Month club 

 

October Glimmer of the Month club

  kit includes Polished Brass foil, but I used gold

 

card for die cutting from 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

 

Teal card blank plus extra for hot-foiling

Gold card for matting

Gold twine 

Coloured gems 

 

Just a Note

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  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