Valerija Jakolic - Winner

 Hi Everybody,

I hope you are all well and having some fine weather. It's not too bad here today and I will be going out later for a little walk with Ruby.

I have more videos coming up with ways to create the easel card and some of these may be well known to you. But there are always new people arriving on the scene and they may not know how to create this really lovely, but easy to make, card.
Hopefully these videos will help them to get the kook.

I have done the draw for Fridays offering and the name today is

Valerija Jakolic

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

Be sure to let me know when it arrives with you and I hope you enjoy playing with it all.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Friday Freebie -Typography

Hi Everybody,

Today I am offering you the chance to win this stamp and stencil set from Textures and it is called Typography. 

 

If you like mixed media then you will live this as it gives you everything you would need to create some beautiful design. 

It comes with the Creative Stamping magazine which il give you even more ideas on how to get the best from this set.

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

You will need to come back and see if it is your name that is shown as the winner over the weekend.

You will have 72 hours in which to claim the prize.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx 

Triple Easel Card

 Hi Everybody,    

Today I am moving on to the Triple Easel Card and this is another easy but beautiful card to add to your repertoire.

You can create this card from any Nesting shapes that you have in your stash, or indeed any dies that will give you three different sizes that will blend together, and it will look good with whatever you use.

It is another design I have covered in the past but this is the new version of an old favourite. 

Triple Easel Card

The background in the video is also created by hand with ink smooshing and some silver embossing to match the colour scheme.

You can use any flowers stamps you may have or anything else that takes your imagination to create the background.

The flowers on my easels are from Altenew and coloured with alcohol markers.

If you add the flowers carefully then the  whole card will fit into an A5 envelope ... or you could create a box to send it in, and I used the left over flowers to decorate it.

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I am also including the link to another Triple Easel video that was done using the Heart shaped  Dies that I released some time ago.

Heart Triple Easel

You will find several more variations of these Easel cards in my Playlist for Easels on YouTube

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

More Playtime Cards

Hi Everybody,

These two cards are completely different but both have used left over elements that are left on my worktop.

For this card I have cut the flowers from holographic card and added it to the to if a hand inked left over piece of card.

I rounded the corners off and added it to an embossed panel and card that have also been rounded. 

To the inside of the flower I have used blue water colour paint to bring it more to the fore front.

I dotted it with blue pearls and added the sentiment to the front with foam pads to raise it up.

The card to the left has a panel that has a stencilled background.

The sentient has been stamped to the top and the cupcake is cut from a really old Spellbinders die that I have had for years.

I coloured the die cuts with alcohol markers  and added them with foam tape at varying heights.

I lightly ran some yellow, before adding the candle, to give it a glow, and I think it would make a lovely children's card.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Playtime Cards

Hi Everybody,

Having made quite a few of my own background papers I had lots of pieces left over, and I couldn't throw them away.

So I decided to add them to extra panels and create some A6 cards  with them to re stock my charity box.

The card to the right has Washi Tape around the edges and the blue panel added to the centre.

The butterfly is cut from silver mirror and added to some parchment.

For this card  I added  two thin silver strips around the orange panel and placed the butterfly to the top.

I also added some silver dots to the front to blend it all in and the sentiment for both is from an older pack that I already have.

So  by using these pieces I have made two more cards and used up what would otherwise have gone in the trash can.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx