Heaney Hong - Winner

 Hi Everybody,

There is a strange object in the sky today and its one we haven't seen much of this summer. It's called the sun and today it shines bright mixed in with the wind. But maybe it will stay dry enough for Ruby and I to go out somewhere later on.

I have done the draw for the beautiful Spellbinders on offer and the winner today is 

Heaney Hong

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

I hope you like it when it arrives and please let me know that you have it safely.
Have fun

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Friday Freebie - Spellbinders Set 3

 Hi Everybody,   

This is the third Spellbinders set to be offered on the blog and this week it is the Doily Art Embossing Folder with a beautiful die and stamp to go with it. 

Spellbinders has been at the front of die cutting for years and their dies are so incredible and a pleasure to work with creating beautiful shapes for all your projects.

So would you like this one ? 

Then all you need to do is leave me a comment at the end of this post with your 

FULL NAME 

to be in with a chance to win.

I am happy to send this to you wherever you are and it doesn’t matter if you have won before.

Just be sure to come back and check if it is your name that is shown over the weekend as the winner.

More tomorrow…

Hugs xx

Parchment & Embossing Folders

HI Everybody,

So here is another old video that is now in the YouTube Playlist and this is colouring the flowers that have been created with an embossing folder.

It is another video that has ben added to the playlist on YouTube and is an older video done in 2021.

It fits in with all the others that are in that
 Parchment Ideas Playlist
and I hope you enjoy watching it.

Parchment & Embossing Folders

I still have a little bit more to go with the parchment but at present I am practising with some bottles of alcohol inks that I bought ages ago and have never used. 

So watch this space and they will  be along shortly and I am still using the heavy weight parchment that I have in my stash.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Parchment Ideas - Butterflies

 Hi Everybody,.

Today I am adding a video from the Parchment Ideas Playlist in YouTube and this one is six years old.

It shows how I made the butterflies and added them to a card then created the matching box.

It uses the 5x7 Complete Card & Box set from the original Christina Collection so if you have this set then you are good to go, but I don't think it is available any more.

 You can use use any butterfly dies that you have and make beautiful embellishments for your designs.

Parchment Butterflies

My apologies for adding an older video but I have been out most of the day with Pauline Hickey who was visiting me from her home town. 

It has been a lovely day and we went out to Lytham Hall and looked around the garden centre then we had a tasty lunch and a good natter.

So that is my excuse for no new video today ....

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx 

Parchment & Gelli Plate

 Hi Everybody,     

I am still with the parchment theme and this time I have dragged out my Gelli Plate. 

I haven't used this much and so I am relatively new to it but I thought I would give it a go with some of my parchment and I am quite happy with the results.

The top card has had some stripes torn from the coloured parchment and I used a large silver flourish that I had on my desktop.

The video 
Parchment & Gelli Plate  
will show you how I got the look and maybe you would like to try it also.

I always use a heavier weight parchment as it stands up better to being used as a card base or a shaker pocket and it can be heat embossed too as I have shown in previous videos.

I have used lots of silver mirror card to highlight my designs and it adds richness to the card.

I hope you enjoy the video and please leave me a comment and subscribe to my channel for lots more videos in the future.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx