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

Hello

 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

Hello!

See what the DT made here

 

My main choices were the pastel colours, the houses and the tree, and I made a couple of cards

 

Card 1

 

 The dies used on the card above are from Simon Hurley Spellbinders sets.

Mantel Village - Timeless Trees Collection

 
Mantel Decoration  - Timeless Trees Collection

 

I inked some pieces of card with pastel shades and used these to cut the various pieces. For a bit of Christmas glitz I added in some gold card for the deer, and a few pieces of glitter card too

 

Card 2

Again, most of the dies used on the card above are from Simon Hurley Spellbinders sets. However the little houses and the church are from an old die set - I've lost the original packaging, so I don't know who made them

Mantel Village - Timeless Trees Collection

 
Mantel Decoration  - Timeless Trees Collection

 

In both cases I decided to mount all the pieces onto dark blue card blanks and I'm really happy at how the pastels look on the deep colour

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 c 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,

Kathy xx

 Hello!

 Welcome to my little crafting place!

This month the Spellbinders club kits will help you on the way with your Christmas crafting, and I've shared a few of the things I've made using my three club kits.

Today I've used the Glimmer of the Month club set and made something a bit different, at least for me! 

So I thought I'd share a quick post to see what you thought of this one.

 This time I coloured the foiled piece with metallic pens from my wax seal highlighting stuff, and gave the lights a coat of Glossy Accents for extra shine. Then I cut the foiled panel in half and added one piece to the top of the card and the other to the lower edge.

To finish there's a wax thread bow with a glitter card dot in the middle

Hello!

 Welcome to my little crafting place!

This month the Spellbinders club kits will help you on the way with your Christmas crafting!  I'm concentrating on the Wax Seal of the Month today, but the Glimmer of the Month club will also feature - as I can't stop using it!

First, here's a quick photo of the seals I've made so far - not all perfect as you can see!  In the photo you'll also see the wax bead mix which is part of the club kit, and the seal itself - albeit upside down (oops!)

I recently 'upgraded' my melting spoons to these non-stick ones and they are a game changer! If you just let unused wax cool in them for a while, you can just lever the 'blob' out - like the green, white and gold blobs beside the spoon. So much easier than having to clean out the metal ones, and the wax blobs are easy to keep ready for next time

So, I thought I'd make a box to feature this seal on.  This box is made with a (very) old Spellbinders die set, but there are newer ones still available which would be perfect.  I just haven't got round to grabbing the die sets yet!  Plus these dies just don't go out of fashion, do they>

I'd already made some seals so I chose the red and gold one and made my box to match. I cut more ot the gold card for the decorative panels and foiled them with red foil and the Glimmer of the Month plate. 

I made a tassel from gold thread, added a length of red ribbon across the top of the box, then the wax seal and tassel and ribbon bow at the top.

 Hello!

 Welcome to my little crafting place!

This month the Spellbinders club kits will help you on the way with your Christmas crafting, and I've shared a few of the things I've made using my three club kits.

Today I thought I'd just share a quick post showing some cards made using the Glimmer of the Month club - as I can't stop using it!

 These three just use the plate in the same way - I've already blogged the Turquoise one and the red one, but I've also made a black one, and I've a feeling there may be others still to be made!