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

Elegant Christmas

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and as it's July it must be Christmas!

This time I'm sharing a stylish card using the July Wax Seal of the Month and the Glimmer of the Month

This seal is a real beauty, and I'm loving using it so much! 

I had a bit of fun turning it into a motif for a fairisle jumper and then making it the central motif for a collage,  and tnow I've a more complicated, 3 layer seal in gold, white and black, which is always a stylish colour palette!

 

This time I made the seal in white, then cut out the central section with scissors.  Step 2 is to use the 'pour and scrape' method, heating the stamp a little, popping the white motif back into it then stamping into gold wax and scraping away the excess with a heated spatula. The 3rd stage is to stamp the whole thing into black wax then remove the spare wax from around the square brass seal.  Sometimes just bending it brings the excess off, but I usually use a craft knife for this bit.  Alternately, I use scissors to cut around the finished item when it comes away from the seal.

 I hot foiled a piece of matte gold card with the Glimmer plate and shiny gold foil, then cut off a strip to use on the card (I can use the rest on more cards)

 

The front of my card blank was embossed with the lovely Lined Corners 3D Folder, then the gold strip adhered in place. I added the wax seal and finished off with a twine bow.

The sentiment is from a new BetterPress set, but I hot-foiled it on a strip of black card with gold foil. BetterPress plates work beautifully with hot foil machines!

I used

 

from Spellbinders;

July Wax Seal of the Month

 

Must-Have Wax Beads Mix (black, gold, ahite, silver)

Glimmer of the Month
 

Gold Foil

Lined Corners 3D Embossing Folder  

 

Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set
  

 

Other:

Smooth white card blank

Scrap of black card

Gold card for foiling

Waxed Twine; black, white

Gold thread 

  

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

Gingerbread Gift Bag

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welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and we're still having fun with 'Christmas in July' crafting. This time I've made a gift bag, and used the Gingerbread man Deluxe Caboodle club gift to make a tag to decorate it

 

The actual gift bag is made from a sheet of A4 80gsm card printed with one of the designs from my ever-increasing collection of digital downloads. The bag is about 15cms high, 10cms across and about 4cms deep, so a good size for a smallgift, like a bag of nice chocolates or a set of mini toiletries etc

For the tag I cut the middlesized scalloped circle from Scallop Journal Cards and trimmed to leave 5 scallops and a bit of extra card to stick to the back of a simple rectangle. At the lower edge I added a cut-down piece from one of the borders in the  Stitch & Dots Scallop Borders set. I used ribbon to conceal the joins

The gingerbread man is made the same way as on an earlier post, and I added candy canes from the July Small Die of the Monthand the little hat from last month's Walrus set (I punched a circle to use for the bobble)) and added a spring 'wobbler' between him and the tag base

 

 Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

July Deluxe Caboodle club gift

 

July Small Die of the Month

 

Vintage Flower Shoppe collection
  Scallop Journal Cards dies

Stitch & Dots Scallop Borders
   

Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

June Small Die of the Month

 

Other 

80gsm white card aprinted with digital download design

Spotty ribbon

narrow satin ribbon 

 

Gift Bag tutorial is HERE

  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

Mad Wax!

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 Welcome to my little crafting place!

I've been having a lot of fun crafting using Spellbinders November club kits! This time they have a celebratory kind of theme, with cute dies, various sentiments, a wonderul confetti Glimmer plate and a fabulous Happy Birthday Wax Seal - which I'm going to start my project shares with!

 thought I'd have a bit of fun and do some mad stuff with wax this time

To get this 'streamers' effect, I used two wax furnaces at the same time, melting the green wax in one and the red in the second. 

 Pour the green onto the silicone mat quickly moving the spoon back and forth to get a kind of 'weave' pattern.  Add a couple more beads to the spoon and warm again

Wait till the green is again melted and ready

zigzagpattern over the top of the green pattern as before.

Now pour more green wax in the middle (as you normally would when making a seal) and apply the stamp. The colours will mix together a bit and hopefully you'll like the result! 

Slide a palette knife under the wax and carefully lift the whole thing up

Here's another, with a little less 'streamer' madness, this time in red and black wax

I used the balloons from the Small Die of the Month club and matched the colours of the seals to make these 2 card, I think they'll be perfect for some of the males in my life (I'm always short of cards for them)

I used:

Small Die of the Month club

 Wax Seal of the Month 

 

  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