Card Winners ...

Hi Everybody,

On Thursday I topped 40,000 followers on YouTube who have viewed my videos nearly 7 1/2 MILLION times and I am so happy about that.

 Here on the blog I have reached 1,400 with almost 2 million page views here and you really have no idea how happy this all makes me.

I enjoy writing my pages and making the videos that many of you seem to enjoy and I love it when you let me know that you do.

This is one of the reason why I decided to do the Friday Freebie as this is my way of showing you how much I appreciate ALL of you and each week there are new people joining my blog.

So this week I am adding  a video to my pages every day starting with tomorrow and going through until next weeks FF which will be another double card  "Give Away"

The two winners this week of the cards offered yesterday are ...

Marion & Lori 
so if you ladies could let me have your postal addresses please to
christina@card-making-magic.com
then the cards will be on their way to each of you.

Please let me know that you have them with you and I really hope you will like the one you receive 

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Friday Freebie 136

Hi Everybody,

Do you remember these cards done with the colourful backgrounds ??

Well I made six of these all as "Thank You" cards and over the next three weeks I am going to be giving them all away

That's two each week as a Friday Freebie to two lucky winners but I cannot guarantee which one you will get ... and these are the first two..

They all have flowers from  Wild Orchid Crafts  that have been sparkled with  Glitter Magic 

Each one has a Decorative Hatpin pushed into the petals 

They are in different colours but they are all US A2 size

Would you like to win one of these cards ??

Then all you need to do is leave me a comment at the end of this post. and a name will be drawn tomorrow and announced in the blog post for the day.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

International Ambassadors Informal Blog Hop

Hi Everybody,

Today is another chance for you to go blog hopping with the International Ambassadors and for our theme this month we have chosen Fall.

 I have created a card that is a million miles away from my style and this card was inspired by Christine Smith from CraftiPotential

I have used the  Fall Foliage  set from Spellbinders to make stamps with craft foam from the dies and this is a set that has been around for quite some time

I have used all the autumn colours of Distress inks to stamp the leaves onto some smooth white stamping card.

I used the border stamp from Clearly Besotted along the left side and I rounded the corner off at the bottom right

This panel has been raised on foam pads to give some dimension to the card.

So why not pop along and see what the other Ambassadors have come up with  and please leave us a comment to let us know that you visited....

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

Have fun 

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Water Colour Wednesday - Bear Hugs

Hi Everybody,

Just a quick and short post today as I have more videos coming with "Goodies" from Craft Stash that are sure to please you.

This cute Teddy Bear is the Bear Hugs stamp set from Clearly Besotted.

 It comes complete with several sentiments that will ring the changes for your designs.

There are matching dies to cut both the Teddy and the banner for you and several sentiments  to go inside it

I have used the Diagonal Stripes to create the side panels to my card and I used Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink

The card is a small A2 and I dotted it with some blue sequins as a little extra.

The bear has been water coloured with Gansai Tambi and it didn't take me long to make this simple little card

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Tuesday Tutorial - Elegant Ovals

Hi Everybody,

Today I have used several older dies and worked them all together. 

I have  used  a 5x7 background along with some ovals and vines to create a really pretty card that I hope you will like.

Spellbinders Supplies:

• S6-001 5x7 Matting Basics A
• S4-425 Elegant Ovals
• S6-008 Exquisite Labels Eleven (Retired)
• S4-531 Romantic Vine
• Pl-001 Platinum Die Cutting Machine

Other Supplies:

• Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Glitter from Glitter Magic
• Blue/ white/ green card from Papermill Direct
• White/Blue pearls from Want2Scrap

Instructions:

With die #7 from Matting Basics A create a hinged card

With #3 from Exquisite Labels 11 cut one panel in white

(Die #1 is always the smallest)

Using the largest die we are going to create frames from Elegant Ovals

 so with =4 cut once in white for the base layer

With #4 and 3 cut the frame in white and

With dies  #4  and #2 cut another in white and keep the extra centre piece

Add foam pads to the back of these trimming them to fit if needed so that they don't show at the front of the frame

Cut and emboss with pale green card as many vines as you would like to add to your floral display

Place all the layers on top of each other with the wider frame in the middle.

Flat glue into the centre the piece that was extra centre piece

Stamp and emboss a sentiment onto  the smallest die # 1 and add this to the top of the centre oval 

Fill this bottom part  with flowers and vines

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx