Beautiful Card Designs Made Easy

December 12, 2022

Lacey Octagon Mandala

Hi Everybody,

I have been getting out older dies to play with and making sure I put them to good creative use in my designs

This one is the Lacey Octagon Mandala but it is no longer available. It was designed to work with the Octagon Box, but as with all things,  new designs come out and older ones are removed.

But here I have shown the versatility of this die set and added it to a 6x6 card base with the beautiful shade of Marine Blue from Papermill Direct.

The parchment flowers are left over from another project I did a while ago and for those I silver embossed the stamped image and used the
  Clever Cuts Collection.

The sentiment strips are from the craft show from a few weeks ago and so far have come in very handy.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx
 

December 10, 2022

Winner

 Hi Everybody,

Here we are at the end of another week and not long to go before Christmas. I have been invited to my grandsons for dinner on that day and Ruby can go with me. We will also be with Vickie and Dougal so I am quite looking forward to it. I have done my share of Christmas Day Dinners for all the family in the past ... it's now my turn to be pampered. 

In the meantime the draw has been done for the beautiful stencil set on offer yesterday and the name this week is ....

Doris Shawcross

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

Please let me know that you have it safely and I hope you enjoy playing with it. 

Blog Hop

There will be no Friday Freebie next week as the Craft Stash team are organising a YouTube Blog Hop and you are cordially invited to join in.

On offer for you to win is a £25 gift voucher, to spend at Craft Stash, that each participant is offering at the end of their video.

All you need to do is like, comment and subscribe to the channel of the video maker. 

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

December 09, 2022

Friday Freebie - Mega Stencil Set

Hi Everybody,

Todays gift is not one ... but three beautiful stencils for you to use.

They come complete with the stencil brush for you to add the colours of your choice.

There is also a little ring clip for you to bind your stencils together so that you will not lose them.

The designs on the stencils can be used for Christmas and winter birthdays and the stencil brush will be so handy to help you colour neatly.

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

From those comments one will be chosen as the winner and that is why your full name is needed

Good Luck everybody 

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

December 08, 2022

Birthday cards ...

Hi Everybody,

I have been looking back at some of the cards that I have made over the years and there are many that are my favourite ones.

As we are coming to the end of another year I thought it an ideal opportunity to re visit some of them here.

They are all cards that I enjoyed making, and as you can see most of them are pink and floral as that is my style of card making. 

Making this style gives me an immense amount of pleasure and many of these cards have been given away to family and friends either for the occasion shown or for them to  give to someone else.

Some of them have been sent to my readers, both here in the UK and abroad, and some have gone to the Charity shops I support.

I love adding all the embellishments to them. The flowers, ribbons and pearls.

Some of the flowers are bought and Mulberry ones like those to the left, and others , like the ones here above are handmade by me.

But all add that certain grace to a design that I cannot resist.

I know that my style is not for everybody as to them it is too fussy. 


But it is something I enjoy doing and will continue to do in the future.

I used to give away one of my cards each week on a Friday before I started to give away the magazines.

Many people who got them wrote to me to say that they had framed the card to keep it safe, and that was always a wonderful compliment to me and my cards.

And finally, here is one with lots of  Mulberry flowers that is not pink !!
But it does feature the beautiful a rectangle die  from the Perfect Panels & Lovely Layer Collection that was out a few years ago and which at present is no longer available.

I hope you enjoyed this little look back in time and there is of course a lot more to come in the future.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx



December 07, 2022

Perfectly Matched

Hi Everybody,

Today I am sharing the short video that was on Facebook Live a few weeks ago. It uses the Perfectly Matched die sets.

There are four designs in this collection and all are really pretty for the card front. 

You can turn these into gatefold Cards if you prefer or simply trim them down as I have done for these designs.

Whichever way you decide to use them the cards will be really pretty once completed.

In this video I have used inks to vary the look and the cards are quick and easy to copy.

                    

I hope you enjoy the short video and will give this inking technique a try, with whatever dies you have in your crafty stash.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx