Tuesday Tutorial - Decorative Fancy Diamonds

Hi Everybody,

Kraft card is often overlooked by the card maker simply because it is inexpensive and we often think that it is not fancy enough. But when it is teamed with white and some really pretty shapes it can make the most beautiful of designs for you and won't cost the earth to produce

Spellbinders Supplies:

• S4-526 Fancy Diamonds 
• S4-527 Decorative Fancy Diamonds
• S6-001 5x7 Matting Basics A
• S6-002 5x7 Matting Basics B
• EL-009 Flora 
• S2-139 Sentiments Three
• GC-200 Grand Calibur

Other Supplies:

• Wild Orchid Crafts
• Glitter Magic
• Want2Scrap
• AnnaMarie Designs  (Kraft Card)

Instructions:

From white card and #7 from Matting Basics A I have created my base card,

With the Kraft card and #7 from Matting Basics B 

Create another layer with white from #6 Matting Basics A and emboss this with any folder that you have in your "Stash"

Adhere the embossed piece to the Kraft layer and wrap ribbon around these two before adding them to the card base with foam tape for dimension

With the detailed dies #2 and #3 from Decorative Fancy Diamonds cut the shapes in Kraft Card

With dies #3 and #6 from Fancy Diamonds cut these panels in white and add foam pads to the backs of all these pieces

Layer these together alternating between the colors

With Kraft card I have cut the sentiment several times and glued them all together ... one on top of the other to create a thick solid wording to add to my card front

Arrange the flowers in a pleasing display and add in some pearls in the corners for the finishing touches.

And don't forget if you line the card to match the front then you will have really pretty card that is strong enough to stand all by itself without the back panel curving

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Fun Foam Flowers

Hi Everybody,

This  is one of the samples that I created from the Victorian Garden Collection from Spellbinders

The flowers are from  Romantic Blooms One   and the leaves are Romantic Vines

I have cut both the flowers and leaves from some inexpensive Craft Foam from Hobby Craft.

There are lots of sheets of foam in the pack in several colors and it is really easy to cut with any of your dies.

I have also used the die to simply emboss the background layer too.

Once matted and layered with the ribbon around them I added it to the base card

I used a hot glue gun to hold the flowers in place and then gently ... and I mean gently I heated the foam with a heat tool.

You need to be very careful with this as they will soon melt away and the card will then be ruined

The sentiment is stamped and added to the card and little embellishments are added to the centre of the bow and the flowers.

Just a little card with a difference and craft foam is good to use in other ways ... like creating your own stamps from your dies

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Birthday Girl ...

Hi Everybody,

A really pretty card created with Victorian Medallions Two  from Spellbinders Victorian Collection

I have used the smaller A2 Matting Basics A and B to make the base card and layers and kept the fold at the top

The finished card size is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" but these dies layer up in exactly the same way as the other Matting dies and I have a video to explain how the two sets work together .... Matting Basics 

The card is from AnnaMarie Designs  and I have used both the Dotty and Striped card and placed them together

The ribbon is from Mei Flower and the beautiful  flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts

I have curved them around the sentiment which has been stamped onto Labels Twenty

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

FF Card Winner ...

Hi Everybody,

As you know,  if you are a regular visitor to my blog, that each week I add a Tuesday Tutorial and I add them all to one page for your convenience.  There is a permanent link in the side bar to that page.

Not only do I add the links to the Tuesday Tutorials  but I also add the link to the other tutorial that I do each month for the Spellbinders Blog.  So that means that every month I am adding five new ways in which to use your beautiful Spellbinders.

Please take the time to check them out as I cover different dies in each tutorial and if there is anything you would particularly like to see then let me  know and if I have the die I will be happy to show you There are now approaching thirty step by step tutorials for you to see.

So now lets get on to the winner of these weeks Friday Freebie card and the pretty card in cream and white is going to ....

Joan Simpson ...

please send me your postal address to 

christina@card-making-magic.com

and I will get the card in the post to you straight away.

Let me know when it arrives with you and I hope that you will like it.

And now .... I am off to the Bolton Arena Craft Show to buy some goodies 

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Friday Freebie 061

Hi Everybody,

This card is a vision in white with flowers, ribbons and pearls.

The background sparkles as do the flowers and into the floral display I have added in a Hatpin that can be removed

It is a large card at just over 7" square and the inside is lined too.

Would you like to win this one ??

Then all you need to do is leave me a comment at the end of the post ... and join the group of followers please.  Then tell your friends about the blog and get them to join in the fun too.

In the morning the winner will be announced in the blog post so please come back and check if it's you.  You will have 48 hours in which to claim the card and I am more than happy to post it anywhere  you are.

I do not mean to upset anybody so I respectfully ask that if you are not going to check the winners then please don't add your name,  as you take the chance away from some one who does want the card,

And last weeks card has not been claimed and that isn't fair to everybody else. I make the cards and I am happy to pay the postage ... all you need to do is claim it and tell me where you are ... please !!

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx