Beautiful Card Designs Made Easy

August 07, 2023

More Butterfly Ideas

Hi Everybody,

Here are some more ideas for using the beautiful Butterfly Blossoms Collection.

This is such an easy and enjoyable way to make quick cards and is perfect for those that are new to card making.

The papers in the pack are gorgeous and many of them have the addition of foiling to them.

Plus there is a great selection of sentiments, toppers and ribbon strips for you to decorate your creations anyway you would like. 

There are also separate sentiment strips that are self adhesive and they can be used on any of your cards and not just with this paper pack>

You have lots of choice with this collection to make bright and cheerful projects that will not disappoint you.

Use the shapes to create Easel or Shaker cards or simply add them to your designs.

And don't be afraid to cut them up and use portions of each butterfly for another look.

And they can be adapted to suit different sized cards too.

For this one I have added the shape and a filigree overlay to an A5 card that I have used in Landscape.

But whatever you decide to do with the collection the main thing is to have fun.
More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx



August 06, 2023

Tina Zapusek - Winner

 Hi Everybody,

Well what a surprise to day ... the sun is shining and it really is very pleasant, after all that rain yesterday. 
Ruby and I will be going out later for a little walk, though it will be too muddy in the woods.
We will stay on the promenade this time where it will be clean and dry.

I have done the draw for the quirky Shine Bright Stamp and Die Set from Sheena Douglass and the winner today is 

Tina Zapusek 

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

I would be pleased if you could let me know that you have it safely and I rally hope that you will enjoy playing and designing with it.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

August 04, 2023

Friday Freebie - Shine Bright

 Hi Everybody,

Today sees the opportunity for you to own this fabulous stamp and die set called Shine Bright from Sheena Douglas

It is an A4 stamp set with lots of light bulb images for you to adapt to suit your designs as well as sentiments for many occasions that will fit also.

The four piece die set will also cut out the bulb images so that you can add them separately to your cards.

The magazine is Simply Cards & Papercraft and is guaranteed to be a good read with our morning coffee .... or afternoon tea !!

Now if this is something that you would like then all you need to do is leave me a comment at the end of this post with your FULL NAME

Be sure to come back and see if you are the winner on Sunday as I have no way of contacting you if you don't.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

August 03, 2023

Charity Box ...

 Hi Everybody,

I have been creating cards and adding wax seals to them and these are now ready for my charity box. 

All of these are now in cellophane packets and complete with envelope ready to go.

I know the lady in the shop will pleased with all of these and I now have over a hundred to take to her. 

Not all with seals on them I hasten to add.

This butterfly card seal is made for a Birthday.


These are some that were very easy to create and I used up many left over die cuts that are on my desk.

So I had a good clean up in the process.

This card seal says Made With Love

I have now bought another burner ready to do my next creation and I will explain all that I have learned in the next video.

I hope that you will join me for that and it will be with you in a day or two.


For the yellow one I added it to an embossed panel with some die cut flower and leaves underneath.

I dotted it with sequins and the seal says Thank You.

These photos are of the easy ones that I made and I have some more elaborate ones to show you too.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx



August 02, 2023

Butterfly Blossom Card Creator

 Hi Everybody,

Today sees the launch of a brand new pack called Butterfly Blossoms and it has beautiful filigree butterflies in there for you to add to your cards.

There are also some solid shaped butterflies, in colours and just white,  that can be turned into easel cards, shaker cards or simply used as the shape to the card itself.

It is designed to help those that are new to card making as well as the more seasoned one of us that likes to make a quick but beautiful card

There is so much you can do with this pack and the papers are really pretty. 

Some of them are foiled and there are many many sentiments for you to add.

For this card I have added the filigree butterfly to the top of a shaped plain one that has been covered in the paper.

Each portion of the pack can be bought individually

Here I have tried to give you some ideas on how to use the pack but I am sure that you will come up with many more as you start to play

For this card I have added the plain shape to a card front and then topped it with silver one from the paper pack and a sentiment.

Alter the size of the card too and create DL or Slimline cards as well as the larger sizes.

The world is your oyster ... so they say.

And you don't have to use the whole shape. Trim it down to fit your design and see what a difference that makes.
For this DL card I have used the papers from the pack and added the filigree shape to a plain one. I have allowed the wings to be free to give some movement to them

Have fun and you will be amazed at just how many cards you can create from this collection

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx