Winner

 Hi Everybody,

Have you been watching the Craft Store and looking at the new collection?
There are some fabulous die and stamp sets on offer and there are six to choose from.
Each set if dies has the stamps already inside the pack so you will not lose them  and they can be used alone of with the dies to make some lovely cards or backgrounds.

I will be showing you more idea on Friday the 9th July at 12/30 on Facebook Live with Lou and Pauline so I hope you can join us.  Make a note in your diary 

Here we are with another Saturday and the name of the winner for this weeks offering which is the Fabulous Foliage stamp and stencil set.  There are two sets of stamps along with the magazine in the collection, and they are from Chloe Endean

The name of the winner this week is ...

Valerie Steele

would you email me your postal address please to
christina@card-making-magic.com
and I will get it posted off to you straight away.

I would be happy if you could let me know when it arrives with you, and I hope you enjoy playing with it.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Friday Freebie - Fabulous Foliage

Hi Everybody,

Here is another chance for you to win this beautiful double stamp and stencil set by Chloe from Simply Cards & Papercraft.

There are endless possibilities for wonderful designs from this set and you will get lots of inspiration inside the pages of the magazine that comes with it. 

So would you like to win this one ?? 

If you would then leave me a comment at the end of the post with your
FULL NAME.

One name will be chosen at random from those comments and announced over the weekend as the winner so be sure to come back and check if it is your name that is shown.

I am happy to post it to you wherever you are in the world, at my expense and it doesn't matter if you have won before in the past. 

And don’t forget that you need to add your email address into the box on the left to subscribe and then be notified of any new blog posts 

Sets More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Parcels Filigree Frame

Hi Everybody,

This lovely die set can create many things

that you may need for your projects from frames to toppers  

In this video I have made two cards and one of them is a shaped card cut out with the largest die, and then layered with the others in the set.

I have done one as a Birthday Card and the other is just a general "For My Friend " card..

I have used a Happy Birthday embossing folder and I don't know if it is on the Craft Stash website at present. But if you don't have this particular one then any folder will add the texture to the back ground and make it much more interesting.

The video is not long but will show you how I made the two cards and both will fit inside an ordinary envelope of you could make a box if you preferred. 

I hope you enjoy the video and I hope you will give some of my ideas a try.

The dies and others items are all at Craft Stash just waiting for you to play

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

 

Leafy Decorative Corner

 Hi Everybody,

A bright and cheerful card for today that could be suitable for many occasions. I know that red is not everybody's cup of tea but if certainly cheers you up.

This card has used several of the dies sets from Card Making Magic ... some old, some new but they all work together which was always my intention.

The video will be long enough for you to relax with a cuppa, but not long enough to put you to sleep. I hope you enjoy it and will come back for more.

It is not a difficult card to make and yet the results are quite striking.. It would be just as good in any other colour and really pretty with more flowers added too if you preferred.  

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Please Read ...

Hi Everybody,

Over the past week I have been busy altering some vidoes that were done in 2015. 

The reason being YouTube have changed the way they do things and it would mean losing all this work if I didn't do something about it. 

I have added a new page to my website 
Card Making Magic
that will explain fully what has happened and what I have done about it and you will find the page here ...

Die Cutting

As I explained on that page these videos were originally made as classes that were sold on the website. 

As such they were UNLISTED and PASSWORD PROTECTED and not on public view.

 But as YouTube has changed the rules on unlisted videos I had to do something else with them.
Publishers had several choices - allow YouTube to make them private, which means no one would see them - take them off YouTube, and again no one would see them, or make them public

 I thought they were too  good to let disappear for ever, as many of the tips in them can be applied to any number of dies from any number of brands and they are still relevant today in 2021. 
So my choice was to make them all public for any one to view.

I have watched every one of them again, and had a little tear in my eye, as they were all filmed and edited by Griff. That was in the days when he would stand on a ladder and film over my shoulder and pull my hair if my head got in the way. 

We had many a good laugh doing those videos... and many a good argument too.

Anyway I have renamed all the videos  and I have moved them all to one playlist, so they can be identified and enjoyed,  they are all there now for you to view. 

There are fourteen videos altogether, with as many cards ideas shown in them.
 And even if I do say so myself the cards are lovely and well worth having a go at. 

They originally covered five separate classes and most have three videos in each section, so here are the links to all of them, and if you watch them in order as they are linked,  you will start with cards 123 and end up with cards 12, 13, and 14

 I hope you will enjoy seeing these vidoes and the cards that are made in them 

Spellbinders 123       (Cards 1/2/3)
Spellbinders Extra    (Cards 4/5/6)
Combining Dies   (Cards 7/8)
Floral Cards       (Cards 9/10/11)
Background Dies    (Cards 12/13/14)

The YouTube Playlist is here Spellbinders Tuition