Water Colour Wednesday - Bon Voyage !!

Hi Everybody,

For todays water coloured card I thought I would have a little fun and dress these birds up in ways other than their intended.

And so out came the black fine liner and I added swimwear to both of them

I have turned one into a tall lady in a bikini and the other her short chubby companion.

Both have been coloured with suntans and both of them are carrying  a rolled up beach towel under their wings. Each one is sporting sun glasses. I created the sea and sky scene behind them with Distress Inks and added a flowery hat onto her head.

This card isn't going anywhere it was simply a little bit of playtime for me and I thoroughly enjoyed myself making this imaginary scene.

The stamps are Bird Crazy from Tim Holtz and they are a whole lot of fun to play with.  I hope they made you smile

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Tuesday Tutorial - Astoria Collection

Hi Everybody,

For todays tutorial I have moved to some of the newest dies from Spellbinders and these are from Stacey Caron Designs. They are part of her Art Deco Collection and these are Astoria  

Everyone of these dies is completely up my street as I simply love large and intricate dies that you can really get your imagination working with and I have enjoyed playing with them

Spellbinders Supplies:

• S5-250 Astoria Labels 
• S5-254 Astoria Decorative Elements
• PL-001 Platinum Die Cutting Machine
• T-001 Tool 'n one

Other Supplies:

• White/turquoise card Papermill Direct
• Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts
• Ribbon MeiFlower
• Glitter Glitter Magic

Instructions:

With die # 7 cut two white panels to make the base card

With #5 and #3 cut one of each in white

(Die #1 is always the smallest)

With the two largest panels score one of them along the long side about half an inch down

Keeping both pieces flat add glue along this scored part and attach the other card to the strip making sure that the shape of the card is level. Set aside as this is the base

With each of the dies to the Decorative Elements cut one of each in your chosen color.

Add the largest colored piece to the base card with foam tape in between, being careful to match the shapes together

Layer each of the colored panels onto the  corresponding white one with foam tape in between the layers

Wrap some white ribbon around the middle sized panel looping it through the fancy edges

Build up the layers now onto the base card and stamp and heat emboss your sentiment

Add in a small bow and glue a diamante embellishment over the knot.

Arrange the floral display in a pleasing way.

Sprinkle the flower with glitter for added sparkle

Thursdays YouTube Tutorial will feature another card made with this Art Deco Collection

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

International Ambassadors Informal Blog Hop

 Hi Everybody,

Here we are with another Informal Blog Hop and for this month we chose the  beautiful new Art Deco dies that have been designed by Stacey Caron. This is the Astoria Collection and I have linked to all three sets for you to view the shapes

The card shows the Astoria Decorative Accents  for the base card.  I have used  the Decorative Elements to go with it for the centre panel. The plain Astoria  creates the label for the sentiment and the mats underneath from gold mirror card. The tassel under the flowers is also cut from gold.

I have had emails asking for some ideas for the Art Deco Collection  dies and so tomorrows Tuesday Tutorial will feature them. They are also the subject of Thursdays YouTube video tutorial so I hope you will come back to see both of them

My flowers are as always from Wild Orchid Crafts and I have kept them all white to compliment the card.  They have been sprinkled with glitter from Glitter Magic and the tiny pearls are from  Want2Scrap 

We started these hops as a way for you to get to know our indivdual styles and to say "Thank You" to all our loyal supporters. so now it's time to pop over and visit the other ambassadors and see what they have to show you.

Linda Lucas  Australia
Yvonne van de Grijp  Netherlands
Christine Emberson  UK
Christina Griffiths ... You are here

Click the links to go to the next one and have fun as you skim round the world.  Please leave us a comment to say that you have been and we will see you all again next month

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Lily & Rose from Craft Stash

Hi Everybody,

This pretty card is one that I made for Craft Stash and the die is from their Apple Blossom Collection. Click the link to see more cards from me with this pretty little dies set

I have been asked by Craft Stash to make two videos per month and this card is featured in one of them,  So far I have done five for them and once they have it all up and running I will add the link to their video section so that you can take a look at all the Design Teams work

In the meantime this card is using the  Lily and Rose  die and their are two flower dies in the pack. I have added the white flowers to an embossed a panel for more interest and you can use any that you already have in your "Stash"   The top flower has been water coloured and then glazed and added with foam pads

The video will show you what I did and some other ways that you can use this die and it is a useful one to keep on hand to create those floral toppers for your cards

The verse is from  Clarity Stamp   and it will need to be  mounted on an acrylic block to use

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Card Winner is ...

Hi Everybody,

Bit of a change with the weather today and although not too cold it is dull.   We really need some sunshine now to brighten up the days and some warmth here in the UK.  Still I hope you all have a good weekend wherever you are in the world.

The draw for the card was done this morning and a name has been chosen to win both of the yellow cards from yesterday.  The winner is ...

Sue MacFall 

please would you email me

christina@card-making-magic.com

and the cards will be on their way to to you straight away.

Could you let me know when they arrive with you and I hope you will like them  both

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx