Beautiful Card Designs Made Easy

July 20, 2016

Water Colour Wednesday - Happy !!

Hi Everybody,

These water colour words have been stamped from the designs by Tammy Tutterow for Spellbinders

This one is called Big Dose of Happy and it is quite a large stamp.

All I have done is water coloured the words and then added Glossy Accents to them to make them shine but it doesn't show up very well in the photograph.

I wrapped the layers with lace and ribbon and added in the flowers to the bow.

The background is a trimmed Naples Medallion and on top of that I have added the Labels 56 both from the new Renaissance Collection by Spellbinders

All the links are added below for you to see the products

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx





July 19, 2016

Tuesday Tutorial - Naples Medallion

Hi Everybody,

For this tutorial I am using the Naples Medallion and this is a large die set. 
You can make your base cards in this shape or just add it to a card but for this one I am taking my scissors to the shape and cutting it up.
The pictured card is 8x6"  because it is a baby card that will be signed by lots of workmates for their colleague 
Spellbinders Used:
Other Supplies:
Take one sheet of A4 card and fold in half along the short side, and keep the fold at the top to create the base card. 
With the pink card hand cut a panel that is slightly smaller then the base and leaves a small border around the edge
 Emboss this layer with any folder that you have
With the Naples Medallion cut the largest one in white and lay it onto some pink card and faux Nestie cut the pink layer that will sit underneath.  Cut this circle in half
Off set the two halves and add to your base card with foam pads to give some depth
Wrap the panel with ribbon to hide the join. I have used double ribbon for mine with white at the bottom and pink on top
Secure on the back and then add this panel to the base card
I decided to cut this chain circle from the Naples Medallion set and cut this in half and add to the cetnre circles. You can see this in the main photo  
I stamped a sentiment and used the Classic Circles to cut it out and then layered it onto the Scalloped Circle.
 I cut two of the smallest dies from the Naples Medallion and cut them both in half.
With some foam pads I added all four pieces to the back of my sentiment and added it to my card 
I dressed it with glittered flowers and added glitter balls to the centres
Notice the little pink butterfly nestled in with the flowers !!

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx


July 18, 2016

Labels 56 Decorative Accent

Hi Everybody,

Todays card is once again using the new Renaissance Collection from Spellbinders

These are from the same set as yesterdays card but this card done in black and gold looks completely different

Labels 56 is such a versatile collection and there are many ways to use them ... from creating shaped cards to adding beautiful decoration to the front

The links to the products used are below

The background panel is created by embossing black card with the  Arched Arrows  texture plate  and adding Versamark to the plate

Sprinkle with gold embossing powder and heat set for this gold look to your card

Cut the layers in gold and black and add with foam tape in between each layer for an elegant card

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

July 17, 2016

Roman Trellis Background

Hi Everybody,

If you have been watching Create and Craft this past week you will have seen the new collection from Spellbinders.

It is the Renaissance Collection and there are many really lovely dies for you to choose from.

Most of the cards that were shown on the shows are those that I have created and these are just two of them.

These use the Roman Trellis,  Labels 56 Deco Accents and Labels 56 Deco Elements

All are designed by Stacey Caron  who is the founder of Spellbinders.

Some of them are really large dies which are a pleasure to work with

I will show you some more samples over the weeks but these two pink ones are some of my favorites



The card that I use is from Papermill Direct  and the rest of my supplies are linked below for you to see

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx


July 16, 2016

Todays Winner is ...

Hi Everybody,

Hope you are all having a good day with the rest of the weekend stretching before you.  It is very warm here today even though the sun isn't out much.  We enjoyed a lovely family breakfast at the local bistro this morning and caught up with everybodies news from the past week.

We have done the draw fro yesterdays card and die set and the winner this week it you ....

Susan Manning
please could you email me with your postl address to
christina@card-making-magic.com
and the card will be on its way to your straight  away.

I hope you will like it and please let me know when it arrives with you

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

July 15, 2016

Friday Freebie - Card & Die 3

Hi Everybody,

I have added another page for you to visit and this one will take you to all the Videos that I have done for Craft Stash along with the Magazine Freebie card videos

It will be a permanent feature and is situated in the  side bar to the right  and I will add any new videos as they are added.   So you now have lots of places to visit for ideas and I really hope you will enjoy watching them.

Video Tutorials
Tuesday Tutorials
Craft Stash Tutorials

Another pretty water coloured card is on offer in this weeks Friday Freebie and the die set that will be with it is Enhanced Pennant

This  little set has four parts to it and will look really good when added to your own designs

The card is water coloured with Distress Inks and the flowers blend with the colour scheme

If this is a card that you would like to have then all you need to do is leave me a comment at the end of this post.

You know the rules by now and the main one is to come back and check if it is your name in tomorrows blog post as the winner

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx



July 14, 2016

International Ambassadors Informal Blog Hop

Hi Everybody,

Its that time of the month again when some of the Ambassadors go hopping around and we really hope that you will join us again.

This month we have chosen Tags for our theme and each one of us would like to show you what we have created

I made mine in the Shabby Chic Style that I really enjoy making and for this I created my tag from Labels 28

I cut this three times and glued them all together for extra strength.

Then I added different elements to create the background and added in some torn paper.

The die cut under the flowers is Victorian Medallion One

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and they have been sparkled with fine glitter

To see what my colleagues have designed please pop along to ...

Linda Lucas Australia
Yvonne van de Grijp  Netherlands
Christina Emberson  UK

Please leave us a comment so that we know you have visited and Thank You so much for taking part

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

July 13, 2016

Wednesday Water Colour - Sketched Elephants

Hi Everybody,

For this Water Colour Wednesday we have a video tutorial on YouTube showing you how I created this card.

This is  Sketched Elephants  from Whimsy Stamps and I have also used Spectrum Noir pens to create the hills

It is a delightful stamp set that has it's own matching dies but you could always just fussy cut the image out if you don't have them.

I have added the list of supplies at the bottom of the post  ... but shop around for them as you may find them cheaper.

I have done quite a few water colour videos lately and they will be added each week on YouTube and each will cover a different stamp and die set

Thank you if you have subscribed to my channel it is very much appreciated. I hope you enjoy the latest colouring videos

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx