Playtime with inks

 Hi Everybody,

It has been playtime again in my craft room and I have made some more papers to be backgrounds for my cards.

I did one in blues and purples with text on it in black ink.

The other is brown and turquoise and

I have stencilled some home made texture paste on the top.

 I have sprinkled this with some glittery embossing powder and heated.it.

That one has butterflies stamped on to it.

The card has been created with the first paper and I cut two large butterflies from it .
 Each butterfly has a diamante shape added to the top of it and the wings shaped with a pencil to give them some curve.

I used the same stencil to add ink to the background and added both the butterflies to the front.
The sentiment says A Big Thank You and I dotted the rest of the panel with black pearls.
It looks very pretty in the hand and making your own background papers is so satisfying.

I will show you what I make with the second peice of paper when it is used. 
Hope you like ...

Bye for now ...

Hugs xx

Denise Bryant - Winner

 Hi Everybody,

Ruby and I set off the other day to go for a walk to St Annes, while it was dry and fine. 
We dropped some stuff off at the charity shop on the way there and by the time we got to St Annes it was that very fine drizzle.
Still  undeterred we set off for our walk along the sea front and onto the beach, and by the time we got half way round it poured down and we both got soaked.

Neither of us was having a good time so we came back to the car and then home again.
We looked like drowned rats the pair of us. 

We had the game with the towel as I tried to dry her off, she likes to steal it and run away with it, but eventually she was dry.
Then I had to go and get changed out of my wet clothes before we could settle down for the rest of the day. I lit the log burner and that always makes me feel cozy. 
So much for our nice walk !!!

The draw has been done for the beautiful paper pack that was on offer and this time the name is
Denise Bryant

Would you send me your postal address please to 
christina@card-making-magic.com
and I will post if off to you straight away.

I hope you enjoy playing with it as it really is a lovely pack, and please be sure to let me know that you have it safely.

Bye for now ...

Hugs xx

Friday Freebies - Opulent Ornaments

 Hi Everybody,

This beautiful paper pack is full of bright jewel colours and some of them are foiled.

There are foiled toppers sheets and sentiments to compliment your designs.

It may be designed with Christmas in mind but I am sue that this would work all year round for various occasions

It comes with Simply Cards & Papercraft  and the pages are always inspiring for this gift and other techniques to help you on your crafting journey.

So would you like this in your crafting stash ??

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

  FULL NAME

Be sure to come back and check if your name is shown as the winner over the weekend as I have no way to contact you if your are.

Good luck 

Bye for now ...

Hugs xx

Cards from the Videos

 Hi Everybody,

I am so happy to read the comments that the videos have gone down quite well and that some of the ideas have been taken on board and used for your own designs

These are some of the cards that are in the videos and it is good to know that some of you have the dies too.

I have so many Spellbinders from my time on their DT and many more that I designed for Craft Stash and it is time they got an airing again.

The card to the right is from the rectangles video and the one below is from the squares and I still have lots of ideas on how to use just one set of dies to make different cards.

I have incorporated all the videos into one playlist on YouTube and titled it

  Using Older Dies

and it has other vidoes in the list that you may find useful, plus I will be adding more to it as I go along.

I have some really old sets of matching Spellbinders that I would like to video and you may have them as well.

Plus I am open to suggestions if there is something you would like to see and if I have the dies, or something similar, then I will oblige

Thank you for the comments that you have left for me it gives me a lot of pleasure to read them.

Bye for now ...

Hugs xx

Time for Rectangles

 Hi Everybody,

I have worked my way through some Squares and Circles and the last video was with Ovals but for todays video I thought I would use some Rectangles.

I was going to name the video 5x7's but rectangles come in many sizes from A5 down to the smaller A6 and you can of course cut these down to any size you want.

In todays video I am using a really old set from my own range of Card Making Magic but they are no longer available to purchase

So as I always advise you,  look at what you have and make them work for you and maybe you already have this set

These two cards are both 5x7 but one has the die cut added to the card base front and the other has used the shape die cut to create the full card.

I hope you have enjoyed the little series and have now started to use the dies that you have more in your card making.

I make seven cards and hopefully they have given you some ideas of your own to build on.

Using Rectangles for Stunning Effects

I have added the links at the top of the page to all the videos in this series just in case you missed them and by clicking the link you will open a new window to view them.

I would love it if you would give me the "Thumbs Up" leave me a comment as that really does help my YouTube Channel to grow, and then YouTube will recommend my videos to other like minded crafters.

And it you became a subscriber both here and on YouTube that would be fantastic.

The flowers I have used are from Wild Orchid Crafts and they no longer ship to the UK , 

but you can get the same flowers at a similar price from Carroway Cottage the the link is below if you need to get some more

Bye for now ...

Hugs xx