Wrist Purse

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I'm sharing this card using Spellbinders Glimmer of the Month and Wax Seal of the Month  clubs for November. The pretty chain design reminded me of some of those posh designer bags, so I made this little wristlet purse card - the kind you might keep your phone in because they've all got too darned big for our pockets! 

And yes, that is me having another little rant!

I used gold foil on the white 'flap' section and the lovely Blush foil that comes with this month's club kit on (111) Sicily' card from the Colourwheel collection for the larger section.

 

 For the 'clasp' I used one of the seals I made with the November Wax Seal of the Month

along with the Coral mix Must Have Wax Beads that you get this time.

 I used white wax (with glitter as explained in my last post) for the upper layer and a couple of each colour from the Coral mix, plus a gold bead  for the lower marbled layer

To finish this seal I coloured the bow with  an Edding Gold Glass Pen 

 

The sentiment is also from the Glimmer set, and the little champagne flute charm is from the November Small Die of the Month club 

I attached the chain with a staple  

This card could easily be made into a pocket card, for enclossing a voucher or gift card 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

November Glimmer of the Month club 

sentiment with GLF-026 Blush foil

 

November Wax Seal of the Month

this month includes Must Have Wax Bead Mix - Coral

 

November Small Die of the Month club 

champagne flute

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seal

card for die cutting from 

 

Coloured card (111) 'Sicily'  from

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

White and gold wax beads 

Fine glitter 

White card + spare

Gold twine

Gold card scraps 

Gold chain 

 

 

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

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

Three Fishy Tails

  Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I've another project using the August Wax Seal of the Month and  Glimmer of the Month clubs from Spellbinders

For the bubbly background I printed off a piece of digital paper then hot-foiled it horizontally with the lovely Speckled Prism foil that is part pf the club kit.

I addded a shiny irridescent ribbon along the lower edge and added one of the Glimmer kit sentiments cut out with it's own wavy die 

The fish tail seal is adorable and you can see some of the seals I've made with it on the photo above. For this card though I made a few seals in different colours then cut out the fish sections.  The wax is easy to cut with scissors - I've bought some small ones with sharp points to save for this kind of job

As part of this month's club kit you get a packet of sticky circles that are especially for use with wax seals. To attach my fishy tails I cut up and folded a couple of them to the right shapes to fit the tails then adhered in place below the sentiment

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

 

August Wax Seal of the Month

August Glimmer of the Month

includes Speckled Prism foil  

 

   

 Other

 

White cardstock 

Digital paper

Irricescent 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

One Fishy Tail

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I'm sharing the first of my projects using the August Wax Seal of the Month from Spellbinders - it is soooo cute! 

 I've also used the beautiful Glimmer of the Month set - the background plate is fab, all shiny bubbles, perfect for undersea effects. This time I chose an irridescent turquoise foil aswell as turquoise card and I love the way it changes colour as the light catches it.

The fish tail seal is adorable and I had some fun playing with it, using different colours of wax, different techniques of making them and different finishing and highlighting methods

The photo below shows a bit of my desk after my first practise session.  It's not a beautiful sight but a full desk view would really shock you 😱

I used the top centre seal for this card, I added some gold pen to its tail and dotted different colours on the 'bubbles' too

 I decided not to use a sentiment at this point, but may add one later.  To finish the card I used 3 sea-shades of waxed twine together and tied knots randomly along until I had the right total length.

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

 

August Wax Seal of the Month

August Glimmer of the Month

Turquoise irridescent foil  

   

 Other

 

Turquoise cardstock 

Waxed Twine in sea colours

 

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

  Hello

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

Wax Seal Centrepiece

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

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

The July Wax Seal of the Monthis a real beauty, and I've enjoyed using it so much! I had a bit of fun turning it into a motif for a fairisle jumper and this time I've used it as the centrepiece of a Christmas card and combined it with elements from one of the brand new Christmas releases from Spellbinders

This seal has the same aqua and white colourway as the one I s I used on the jumper, but this time I didn't cut out the square but left it as it was - more like a traditional wax seal.. As before it's made using the 'pour and scrape' method, heating the stamp a little, pouring the white wax and scraping away the excess with a heated spatula, then pouring the aqua wax and placing the stamp (with the white pattern still in it) into it.

This time I made the white a little brighter by adding white glass pen ink to it 

I also made a couple of extras of parts of the seal's pattern, the smaller oneis all white, the other was another of the aqua and white ones, each were trimmed to leave just part of the design 

The sentiment is from a new BetterPress set, but I hot-foiled it on the same teal card with gold foil

 Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set 

I used

 

from Spellbinders;

July Wax Seal of the Month

 

White Wax Beads

Must-Have Wax Beads Mix Teal 

  

Barn Star Wreath Die set

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

 

Other:

Teal card blank

Red and white spotty ribbon

Scraps of card for die cut elements

  

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