Card Making Magic is 4 today.....

Hi Everybody,

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Card  Making Magic has been my baby for quite some time now and the 12th of March means it is four years old today.

There have been many exciting things happen for me since I started this adventure and  this year has been brilliant .... and it's only March..

One of them was being made an Accredited Instructor for the Spectrum Noir Pens.

I am so happy ...  because to help me celebrate Spectrum Noir  have offered me the most fantastic prize to "Give Away"  to one lucky winner....

 This is the WHOLE collection of the six pens sets ....

 What an awesome Give Away and it will run for one week until the 19th.

The draw will as always  be done by random selection by  InLinkz and the  winner will get  all  72 pens.  That is all the colours in the collections.   And the prize is not shared it is all yours. 

So to be in with a chance of winning you will need to be a follower ... if you aren't already   (or have bought from "My Shop")    and leave me a comment.

Click the blue box and add your name and email to the list, but only once please as duplicate entries will be removed.   If you don't have a Blog then leave the URL Box BLANK...... 

Good luck to everyone and I know LOTS of you will want this amazing prize.

Hugs xx

Gilding Flakes

Hi Everybody,

First I would like to thank all of you who popped over to the website and clicked the Pink Ribbon logo for Breast cancer ... I am sure that a lot of women will be very glad  of your support.

 And I would  like to share with you a  short video that  I have added  on using     Gilding Flakes.

 I have had several emails telling me that you had  bought some  too and then didn't know what to do with them.

So this is just one way to use them and I will be adding in more videos on other ways to get the best from this product.

These are many colours in small pots and the effect is real luxury on your cards.

I used Flakes on a card a while ago and the video for that is Mosiac Card Tutorial

This is the effect using silver flakes and the video shows you how to get the birdcage look for your self.

This weekend sees me off to the GNPE show in Harogate and I am really looking forward to it.

We are going down on the Friday and staying at the Holiday Inn.

So if you happen to be staying in the same place please let me know ... it would be lovely to meet up on Friday.

The show is Saturday and then  home .... full of goodies I hope.

 Got my list all ready written and clutched in my hot little hand... along with all my pennies.

NEWS FLASH !!!!

Card Making Magic is four years old tomorrow .... and there is going to be a fantastic
 Birthday  "Give Away" for you.

Please pop back in the morning and see what the prize is and then enter your name in the blue box.  Leave your name and email address and leave me a comment too.....

If you don't have a blog leave the URL box BLANK and it doesn't matter where in the world you live you can still enter for the chance to win.

No duplicate entries please as they will be removed ... and the red cross at the side of your entry just means that you can delete it if you wish ... so if you accidently add your name twice then please remove one of them.

Hugs xx

Going, going ...

Hi Everybody,

Over the year I try out many products, techniques, materials and styles of cardmaking for Card Making Magic and as  result I end up with lots and lots of cards.... and I mean lots of cards.

I am sent some of the products by companies for me to try out,  and to see what I think of them,  and then to tell you about it if the product is a good one.

And I may need to make 6/10/12 cards from that one thing to give a valued opinion ... so you can see why I end up with so many.

I use many of my cards to send out to relatives and friends over the year and then at Christmas time I make decorated boxes,  and fill them with cards.

Each of our four girls is given one,  and then they have cards to send to their own friends through the next year.

Now yesterday was a dull and wet sort of a day and so I had a grand clear out of my craft room and sorted out all the cards.

 There are almost 200 hundred cards here.

60 of them in boxes, and the rest, complete with envelopes are in cellophane packets and they are all  going ... going ... gone to a local charity that I support.

They then sell them to raise money for their own charity which is
 Donnas' Dream House  in Blackpool
 and this gives a holiday to a sick child and their family.    

And Card Making Magic is proud to be a sponsor of this wonderful house and the work they do. 

Hugs xx

Breast Cancer Care...

 Hi Everybody,

I am very fortunate to be blessed with good health and my heart goes out to any body that is stricken with illness or disability.

I know that many people that visit the Website or here on the Blog are housebound for one reason or another ... and I am so happy to provide tutorials and instructions to help you with your cardmaking.

On lady wrote to me and told me that her doctor said that I should be prescribed on the National Health as I had helped her with her depression.

I had visions of me in little bottles or blister packs that could be pressed out as needed. .... oh my goodness!!

 Any way todays character is the free Boobie Love from Saturated Canary   ... and I hope you managed to get your copy of this delightful  image.

I have coloured  this in two different ways...but both highlight the pink ribbon that is the Breast Cancer Logo.

The first one is coloured with just ordinary everyday pencils with a tiny touch of pink on the ribbon on her T-shirt... and kept to the black and white theme.

The second one has been coloured in with Spectrum Noir  and added to a pink background.

But it just highlights the fact that you don't need a lot of pens or pencils to create a really pretty look.

And if you can spare the time please pop over to This Page   and scroll towards the bottom and click the Pink Ribbon Logo to give a FREE mammogram to another woman who may be facing this dreadful illness.

That's all you have to do ... click the ribbon and it will provide help for someone else ... and if you can do it whenever you have the time just think what can be achieved.

Hugs xx

Book Card Kit

Hi Everybody,

When I added this beautiful   Book card      tutorial it was very well received.

Then when I added the Die Cut Shapes to "My Shop" a few days ago they where also well received.

But the one thing that I have had quite a few emails about is this card ... and what many of you want are the die cuts to make this card for your self.

My card was made up with four of the pages and of course the corsage (in My Shop) added to one side.

Because of the requests I have put together a little kit that you can use to make your own.

I have kept it white so that it can be adapted to suit your recipient ... but to change the look just add inks, glitters, other paper or other shapes.

The kit will consist of all of the six pages of the Grand Labels 4 that can be added to your book.

Some of the pages I have embossed ready for you to add colour... and I have added in the two smaller panels from the Floral Ovals.

You can add flowers or a sentiment to these as I have done.

I have also thrown in the Card Stand so that the finished card can be displayed and it is all cut from good quality card

I have priced this for all nine elements  at £3.25 + P&P and if you click the photograph you will be able to see more clearly what is in the kit.

And if you buy one of these kits then use it to trace out templates and that way you can create your book from other card that you have in your "Stash"

And if you keep  the template safe you will always have it on hand if you want to make another book card in the future..... Just talked myself out of some repeat orders there ....

Hope it is what you want

Hugs xx