Friday Freebie - Seasonal Scene

Hi Everybody,

Back to a Christmas theme for this weeks freebie but it is one that can be used all year round with some imagination.

The magazine is Die Cutting Essentials and in the pages you will find lots of ideas and inspiration for you to try.

So would you like to have this come and live at your house for you to play with ???

If you would then all you need to do is leave me a comment at the end of the post with your
 FULL NAME

 Then be sure to come back and see if your name is listed as the winner, as one comment will be chosen at random each week for the Friday Freebie on offer, which is different every week.

It doesn't matter if you have won before you can still enter and I am happy to send the package to you wherever you live. So go on give it a go !!

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx 

Deal Of The Day

Hi Everybody,

Todays special offer over on Craft Stash is to get this

  Mindful Words die set with 50% off.

So instead of the price being £14.99 you can now get it for just £7.49 The words in are quite a good size to make a focal point on your cards, and you can build up the sentences as you like.

They also work well with other words die sets in other collections so that you can build  names, dates, relationships or even deeper sentences for you to add to your designs 

For this card I have added them to the Tapis Builder die set on top of a inked stencilled background.

Each of the frames has parchment added to it and this could of course be the start of a shaker card if you wished. 

There are lots of combinations that can be achieved with this set ... Sending Healing, Love You, Thankful For You, Hello Friend and many more.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Craft Stash VIP Blog Hop

 Hi Everybody,

Today it is my turn to add a video to announce the launch of the new VIP Club where you can get special offers and deals every week. Membership means early bird deals and notification of any new collections as well as better prices over non members. 

Today I am showing you a way in which you can 2-4-1 cards from one make. In the coming months I will be sharing techniques and ideas with you regularly.
Other design team members will be adding their videos too, and there will be lots more for you to join in with as the club develops.  

                     

Please join in with the Blog Hop and be in with the chance to win a £25 voucher.
You will need to leave a comment on the YouTube video and subscribe to my YT channel. 

Join the Craft Stash Channel also.
The more comments you leave the better your chances, and click the links to the next designer to join in with the hop. 

Find out all about VIP Membership and watch some fab craft tutorials every day this week from our cobrands. Sign Up here - https://www.craftstash.co.uk/vip VLOG HOP - Chance to win £25 vouch each day just by following Craft Stash and commenting on the video!   

Saturday 11th - Helen Griffin - https://www.youtube.com/@HelenGriffinUK

 

Sunday 12th - Lou Collins - https://www.youtube.com/@LouCollins/video

Monday 13th - Sam Calcott https://youtu.be/vGo6iVFRI8I

Tuesday 14th - Katie Skilton - https://www.youtube.com/@KatieSkilton/videos 

Wednesday 15th - Christina Griffith - https://www.youtube.com/@ChristinaGriffiths/videos  YOU ARE HERE

Thursday 16th - Ruth Mackie-McCartan - https://www.youtube.com/@CraftStashcoukTV/videos

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Happy Valentines Day

Hi Everybody,

I hope you are having a good day and maybe celebrating with the ones you love. 

Perhaps you are going out to dinner this evening with your partner, I know that is what Griff and I would be doing.

The featured card has a matching envelope to it and that has also been stamped with the hearts background. 

I used the Love & Marriage die set from Card Making Magic, and the stencil from the same set. Sadly it is no longer on the Craft Stash website.

It is a card I made for Griff many Valentines days ago but for some reason I cannot part with it. I still think it is a pretty card even now years later.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

 

Old and New mix ...

 Hi Everybody,

We are all guilty of this and that is buying crafting items , using them just a few times and that putting them in cupboard and forgetting about them.

So today I am sharing a video that uses quite a few older dies and teaming it with the circular sentiments from the new A6 collection.

This card is very easy to create but gives and unusual affect to your backgrounds and gives you yet another way to use those Clever Cuts Offset Background dies.

        

Use your favourite colours to ink up the card and for mine I used the easy to blend Distress Oxides but you can use any that you have in your own collections.

I really like this look and it is one I will be doing again with other shapes to add to my cards.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx