Tuesday Tutorial - Fleur de Elegance with Diamond Essence

Hi Everybody,

Todays card uses several sets of dies that will all play well together and all are still available to purchase. To make this card a little different I have offset the main focal point and add in my floral display along the other side.

The sunny yellow color is there to remind us that spring is on the way and we can look forward to warmer days and being outside more.

 Spellbinders Supplies:

• S4-475 Fleur de Elegance
• S4-491 Diamond Essence
• S6-001 5x7 Matting Basics A
• S6-002 5x7 Matting Basics B 
• El-009 Flora
• SCD-026 All You
• PL-001 Platinum Die Cutting Machine

Other Supplies:

• Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Glitter from Glitter Magic
• White Yellow card from Papermill Direct
• Ribbon from Mei Flower
• Pearls from Want2Scrap
• Yellow craft foam
• Lace from my "Stash"

Instructions:

Using die #7 from Matting Baiscs A cut two panels and  create a hinged card  and lay to one side

Using die 7 from Matting Basics B cut another panel in yellow

With die #6 from Matting Basics A cut another white panel and emboss using one side of the folder.

(Please member that die #1 is always the smallest)

Glue the white embossed panel flat onto the yellow one

With die  #3 from Fleur de Elegance cut one panel in yellow

With die #2 cut one panel in white 

Add foam tape to the back of each of these shapes

Place the yellow panel onto the embossed layer from the previous step

Offset them over to the left and then trim the left edge flush with the side of the card

Wrap the ribbon and lace around these layers

With die #4 from Diamond Essence cut one panel in white and emboss it with the other pattern in the folder and add foam tape to the back

Layer this onto the shapes and lace from the previous step

Cut the chosen words from yellow craft foam

Leave the top white shape in tact and add the words to the top of it

Dress the card with beautiful flowers and sprinkle them with glitter

Add little yellow pearls along the top and bottom right hand edges.

The foam tape raises the layers to add interest to the card

Pretty Card for any occasion

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Coloring colored card

Hi Everybody,

The card for today is  Neenah Desert Storm  and I was really happy with the way this one turned out and this was also a try to see what it would look like using colored card

The stamp I used is Peony Scrolls  from Altenew and there is a matching die   set that you can buy also.

I buy mine from Sevenhills Crafts  Leave your name on their website to be notified when the stamp is back in stock if it is out when you visit

The little sentiment is one of many on the sheet called Sentiments and Quotes  also from Sevenhills Crafts

The Spectrum Noir pencils are lovely to work with and I was really happy with the way they worked on this card and I will be trying more with different stamps in the future

This card was colored in the same way as I did the Black card from a few days ago that was featured in my YouTube video on the 3 rd March

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Card Winner today ...

Hi Everybody,

Yesterday we had a little snow here in Blackpool but an hour later it was all gone and today the sun is shining.  It's cold but really quite pleasant.

The weekly trip to Slimming World has been done and this week I have maintained my weight loss.  I am quite happy with that when I think of the food we had while in a lovely hotel in Edinburgh. I thought I would have gained some ... so I consider myself lucky to have stayed the same.

I will try to stay on track again but tomorrow is Mothers Day here in the UK plus it is also my Birthday so who knows what may happen !!

The draw has been done for the cards on offer this week which is the two orange ones in the picture.   They are going to live with you

Anne Owens

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The black Brusho cards from last week have not been claimed and I have been back to the comments and re drawn another name

They are yours 

Cathie Weary

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please email me ladies

christina@card-making-magic.com 

with your postal addresses and the cards will be on their way to you

Friday Freebie 108

Hi Everybody,

Both of these cards are up for grabs to one winner and both are done with the Brusho Crystal Colours.

They are created from one coloured piece and added to black card with the feathers to decorate the front.

The orange is very bright and it makes for a really cheerful card that could be used for any occasion.

The vidoe on how they were created is here ... One Background - Two Cards

They can be on their way to you if you leave me a comment at the end of the post.  Then my "Film Crew" will draw a name from the hat and the winner announced in tomorrows blog post

You will need to come back and check if it you who has won and then oyu will have 48 hours in which to claim the card.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx 

Colouring Black Card

Hi Everybody,

When I added this card to a  blog post  I said I didn't know if it was really my cup of tea. Though I did enjoy colouring it.

I was absolutely amazed at how many of you liked it and wrote to ask me for a video.  So I was happy to oblige and it will be "Live" on YouTube today. It was a real crowd pleaser !!

You can pop over to my channel  Christina 1716   and it will be there.  Thank you for your encouragement and I  hope you enjoy it

Please become a subscriber while you are there and then you will be alerted whenever I add a new video ... which I have done weekly so far.

The video takes you step by step on how I did it and so you can colour along with me

I tell you which pencils I have used and the black cardstock is from Papermill Direct   The gold embossing powder is from Wow  and it melts so easy with the heat tool

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx