Winner

 Hi Everybody                                                                                    

It's very windy here this morning and Ruby has just gone out for a walk with Vickie and her best friend Dougal.

This evening Vickie and I are going out for a meal to my Grandsons restaurant as he has opened again this week for the first time since Lock-down and I am really looking forward to that.

So I got busy this morning and tidied around and I have now done the draw for yesterdays box kit.

These kits are such good value and have everything you need to get started.
 And they seem to be popular with all of you too.

There are several more on offer yet so please do come back and see if you can win one of those coming up over the next few weeks

The winner today is ...

Betty McAllister

would you email me your postal address please to
christina@card-making-magic.com
and it will be in the post to you straight away.

I hope you enjoy playing with it and please let me know that you have it safely

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Friday Freebie - Creative Stamping

 Hi Everybody,

Another fabulous box kit is on offer this week and this one is from Creative Stamping and is full of goodies for you to create wonderful cards.
 It consist of Magazine, Papers, Stamps, Dies and an Embossing Folder, everything you need to start making cards the minute you get the pack

This was also a Special Edition Box Kit and is centred around a Christmas theme.
 But having said that it can be used all year round to create some lovely spring or summer designs.
It will be yours to use however you wish if  you are the lucky winner.

All you have to do is leave me a comment at the end of the post with your FULL NAME and from those comments one will  be chosen as the winner.
 Be sure to come back and check over the weekend if your name is the one shown

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Bell Bauble Easel Card

Hi Everybody

Making Easel Cards can be a lot of fun as long as you don't let the making of them cause you stress. They really are easy to do and this die set makes them even easier as all the cutting and measuring is done for you.

In the new collection there are several designs for you to try but this Bell Bauble has to be my favourite.

I think it is so pretty and the ivy in the set can be used on any project that you want to try

I coloured my Ivy with two shades of green ink  and I used blue and white card to create the card itself  

This pretty bell can be added to larger cards if you wanted. Here I have cut two to add to the front of the card and added them to an embossed panel.

The ivy trials down the shape and I have dotted the bell with small pearls. They have been raised with foam tape underneath

The inside to this card has been decorated the same with a bell and ivy and I have used the new paper inserts in the collection to cover front and inside, and the Verses to add a lovely greeting.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Beautiful Easel Cards

Hi Everybody,

In the time that I have been away from crafting there has been a release of new dies from Card making Magic featuring Easel Cards and I was in no position to do them justice

The new release consisted of dies, stamps and embossing folders and the cards that they can create are really lovely

I have made very few cards to show case this collection but I hope to rectify that now that I am feeling a little better.

These two I did to show on the Craft World Live that I did with Lou Collins

The panel from the Poinsettias folder has been cut in half and each one coloured in differently.

For the top one I used Arteza Water Real Brush Pens and left the background white. Then I added it to another panel that I have embossed with the second folder  and silver card.

For the bottom card I have used alcohol markers to colour the flowers and a black one to colour the background separately.

Each gives a totally different look and the black background is so dramatic.

The verses on both are from the Christmas Verse Stamp Set 

Both have been decorated extra with Diamante from Card Making Magic  flourishes

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Ruby and Christina Update

 Hi Everybody,

First of all I want to wish  a really special greeting to my beautiful Cocker Spaniel Ruby who is celebrating being four years old today. She has been wonderful while I have been out of action

She has willingly gone for walks with Vickie and Dougal and been such a good girl. I would be lost without her especially since Griff died

Happy Birthday Ruby !!!
My little furry treasure

Thank you for staying with me during the past few weeks when I have been unable to blog every day. It has been very difficult to get up to the craft room to work.

To bring you up to date with what has been happening to me and where I am up to now. As you know I have had problems with right knee and left hip.

I had X-ray on left hip and my doctors surgery told me there was nothing that they could find.

I also had scan on right knee. I went through a private scheme, that I have been with since I went out to work, and they sent me to see a consultant, who had the scan pictures there in front of him.

He took the time to explain to me exactly what was wrong with my knee and he told me that I had arthritis and that I had also damaged the cartilage.
(That's what you get when you climb on chairs)

When I told him about the hip he sent me straight away for another X-ray and then told me what he had found in that picture too.  That too has arthritis in it and is causing the pain when I walk.

He said that before diving in to surgery he wanted to try injecting steroids into the joint of my knee and see if that helped, and he did that straight away. That was well over a week ago and now that it has had time to settle down it does feel less painful. I still hurts to weight bear  when I stand still for any length of time but at least I can walk around better

If this is OK then when I go back to see  him again he will discuss the same procedure into the hip, but that is more invasive. Then if the injections don't work, we can discuss surgery.

At the moment I am feeling more cheerful and positive about the outcome.
I am having a "Perching Stool" delivered which, will allows you to sort of perch on the edge, to help with support while standing, and will be very helpful if I have pain in the knee. And with this I am hoping to get back to work and doing some videos again.

Fingers Crossed Everybody 

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx