Card Winner ...

Hi Everybody,

It is 4.30 am and I am too excited to sleep. I feel like a child at Christmas waiting for Santa to visit. And the reason for this excitement .... Today I am going to see six puppies and one of them will end up as mine when they are old enough to leave mum.

One of my favorite dogs is a Blue Roan Cocker Spaniel  and these were offered for sale yesterday. I think the ladies fingers must still have been hot from typing her advert when I rang her. It's going to be a long day and drive but I don't mind. I will take pictures and keep you posted as to how I go on.

So because I can't sleep I thought I would do the draw for yesterdays card. And the name this week is

Pattyb

So if you would email me your ppetal address to

christina@card-making-magic.com

the card will be on its way to you and I hope you will like it.

Please let me know when it arrives with you.

The  card from last week has not been claimed and so I will offer it again soon.

And now I will try to get som sleep ... though I doubt it very much

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Friday Freebie 140

Hi Everybody,

Todays FF card was featured the Tuesday Tutorial Floral card way back in May

All the instructions to make the card where given in that  post and today I am offering it as a gift to one lucky winner.

So if this is a card that you would like to have then all you need to do is leave me a comment

A name will be chosen from them and the winner announced in tomorrows blog post.

But you need to come back and check if it is you as the card will be offered to someone else at a later date if you don't claim it.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Festive Elegance ...

Hi Everybody,

There is a new video today on YouTube that you may like to view and it features Festive Elegance that comes free with Papercraft Essentials 139

For this card I have used both the outline and the solid parts to the stamped Poinsettia and this is the one that is shown in the video.

I make two cards from one stamped and inked panel which has to be a time saver in the run up to the holiday

The video is Festive Elegance




Although this is primarily a Christmas themed gift you can make it work for you all year round

Here I have used the same stamp set but in brighter colours for a more summer themed look

In the gift pack there will be the stamps and an embossing folder as well as a stencil for you to use with your inks or embossing paste

On this card I have used the EF and then coloured and cut out the flowers to add to another card.

You can just make out the embossing paste used with the stencil in the top left corner

A really useful gift and an excellent magazine full of ideas and inspiration to go with it.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Water Colour Wednesday - Robins !!

Hi Everybody,

These three cards are really easy to do and I have used Distress Inks to colour them all.

I have simply sponged the background on to the card making the circle wider as I worked my way out from the centre.

Spritz it with water to get the mottled look and then with a darker shade of ink stamp the snowflakes 

I added in the sentiment in black ink and embossed it with clear powder then with a black pen I added in two lines above it.

The robins have been stamped in Tea Dye and Festive Berries and cut out with the matching die and both were from Clearly Besotted.


The third card is done in the same way for the background but I have added in the Musical Border from Craft Stash to the top.

I cut it three times and I glued them together.

I have sprinkled them with glitter and added them at an angle on my card.

Really easy to do especially if you make lots of cards for charity

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Tuesday Tutorial - Ravenna

Hi Everybody,

Kraft Card takes centre stage for todays tutorial and I have teamed this with cream for a really easy card. Touches of soft yellow bring it to life and the flowers are always that little bit extra. Kraft card is really inexpensive and very under used but if you use a pretty die you can turn it into some thing you can be pleased with.

Spellbinders Supplies:

• S6-001 5x7 Matting Basics A
• S6-002 5x7 Matting Basics B
• S6-095 Ravenna
• PL-001 Platinum Die Cutting Machine

Other Supplies:

• Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Card from Papermill Direct
• Glitter from Glitter Magic
• Pearls from Want2Scrap
• Ribbon from my stash

Instructions:

With die #7 from Matting Basics A cut two pieces in Kraft Card and Create A Hinged Card

With die #7 Matting Basics B cut another panel in cream

From  the largest die #3 Ravenna cut in Kraft Card and layer onto the cream panel

With #2 cut a layer in cream and layer onto a hand cut Kraft panel

With #1 cut this in cream and layer onto a hand cut Kraft panel

Add them altogether with foam pads between the layers and wrap with the ribbon before adding it to the base card

Stamp the sentiment and layer it onto more Kraft card and place across the centre panel

Arrange the flowers on the centre panel also and sprinkle with glitter

Change the colour scheme, flowers  and the sentiment  for another look to your design.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx