Enjoy the Journey ...

Hi Everybody,

The title of todays blog post is the stamp and die set that is free with this months Die Cutting Essentials 25

It consists of dies to create the car, foliage and flowers and stamps to compliment the items and help you to create your own scene

It was a lot of fun to play with and there are many more ideas within the magazine itself.  Plenty for you to get your teeth into.

It will be on sale on the 8th June so keep a look out for it on the shelves.

For this card I have teamed it with the Happy Hooves die set that was the free gift with Papercraft Essentials mag on the 1st June

All the free gifts with these magazines are quality items and they will help you to build up your "stash" quite quickly and give you a good read at the same time.

So grab a brew and settle down to watch the video featuring this kit and 

DCE 25 - Enjoy the Journey

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Tuesday Tutorial - Celebration Banners

Hi Everybody,

Todays card is a fun celebrations one that would suit childrens parties or events. 

Make it in bright and bold colours and get the kids to help create invitations for their own parties to give to their friends. 

 Really easy to do and with supervision from you they will be something that children can be proud to make and happy to give.

Spellbinders Supplies

• SCD-004 Day Dreams 
• SCD-019 Banner Trio 
• SCD-029 Celebrations Fun Sentiments
• S5-131 A2 Matting Basics A
• S5-132 A2 Matting Basics B
• PL-001 Platinum Die Cutting Machine

Other Supplies.

• Coloured Card
• Fun Foam Sheets

Instructions:

With the largest rectangle die from the A set cut two panels in deep turquoise for the base card

With the largest die from the B set cut one panel in a paler turquoise for the layer

Wrap thie layer with turquoise twine for the banners to attach to and then add to the base card

Cut the banners in the colours of your choice and layer them onto another colour. 

Carefully cut around the outside edge to give you a two colour banner

Cut the sun and clouds and ink lightly to give some shading to the shapes

Cut Celebrate from white card and again from fun foam and stack together for dimension

Arrange the banners along the twine and add foam pads underneath to raise them up.

Arrange the clouds and sun as you like on the card

Add the sentiment to the top of the banners

Quick and easy 

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

A-2 Matting Basics A Card Creator Etched Dies	A-2 Matting Basics B Card Creator Etched Dies	Shapeabilities Celebrations Day Dreams Etched Dies	Shapeabilities Celebrations Banner Trio Etched Dies
Shapeabilities Celebrations Fun Sentiments Etched Dies	A4 Adhesive Foam	Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue	Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine

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Circles Rainbow Card

Hi Everybody,

For todays card I have used just one circle die and cut seven of them.

Then I coloured them in with Spectrum Noir Pens in rainbow shades.

I added them to a cloud embossed panel with varying thicknesses of foam underneath some of them.

If you don't have a cloud die then roughly cut some by hand and add a little shading with some pale grey ink.

I added them in an arc to the embossed panel and placed a cloud at each end. The sentiment is from Crafters Companion and it was stamped and heat embossed on to the lower cloud

Quick and easy to do with just a few circles and could be for any occasion ... male or female, young or old.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Nestabilities Standard Circles LG Etched Dies	Spectrum Noir - 24 Pen Set	Clouds embossing folder	A4 Adhesive Foam
Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue	Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine	Shapeabilities Inspire Rainy Day Etched Dies

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Card Winner

Hi Everybody,

It's a lovely day here this morning so I am hoping it will stick around for some time. Can you believe that half the year has gone already. I have lots of new and exciting things coming up for the rest of the year and I am really looking forward to it.

Busy day today and I have lots of filming to do in readiness for my summer break that is coming up soon.  I will be scheduling posts to go out while I am away and my "Give Aways" will be there as usual.

But today Winner has been chosen at random and the name this week is you ...

Terrie ...

Would you email me with your postal address please to 

christina@card-making-magic.com

and the card will be on its way to you

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Friday Freebie 21 - Shabby Chic

Hi Everybody,

Todays FF is another of the Shabby Chic ones that seem to be going so well.

And this one is really pretty in the hand as the picture does not show the full extent of the sparkle in this card

There is a lot going on and I am sure that you will like it once you have it with you.

So if this is a card that you would like to have then all you need to do is leave me a comment at the end of the post.

One name will be chosen at random and added to tomorrows blog post.

And as I always say .... PLEASE come back and check if it is you.

The name will also be added to the Winners Page in the sidebar to your left.

I cannot chase you up because until you send me your details as the winner I don't know where you are.

I am happy to send the card to you wherever you live ... YOU just need to claim it if yours is the name shown

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx