Mum's Birthday Card and Woodland Walk

Hello Friends

Yesterday was a very special birthday - my Mum's.
Thankfully Mum has similar taste in cards to me so it was easy to
create one that would be her cup of tea.
I went with pastel tones, the paper is My Mind's Eye - Fancy That,
the dies are Marisa's Bouquet flowers,
5 x 7 Matting Basics, Sentiments 3 and Baby Buntings.

The Baby Buntings dies are not as long as pictured so it's two joined together
with the flowers covering up the join!
Baby Buntings is available here.

To celebrate Mum's birthday we enjoyed tea at a local tearoom and in
the evening a takeaway - Bella always enjoys those and no-one should cook
on their birthday!

Another thing Bella enjoys...her walks! Elliott came with me and took some photos.
Mushroom thingies growing on trees!
(Bella in the background)

And the Bullaces are back...

And some cobnuts - Squirrels will be advancing on them soon!

I'm back in my City job today, not so much scenery sitting in an office but needs must!

Take care friends and please stop by tomorrow...

it's a very special FDD!

The International Ambassadors are blog hopping!

Hello friends

  The Spellbinders International Ambassadors are having an informal blog hop again
and this time we have chosen the theme of 'Anything But A Card'!
 We have been having so much fun with these blog hops and delighted at how many of you
visit, play along and leave such lovely comments.  
I hope you are getting to know us and seeing our different styles,
each one of us is unique in our creative styles - so there is something for everyone!

For my 'Anything But A Card' I've chosen a gift box featuring the beautiful
Victorian Bow Corner die.

Firstly I created my gift box using Square Petal Top Box

My other die cuts are Sprigs, Classic Ovals LG and Pretty Petals D
all cut from white cardstock.

Using the two die cut pieces from Victorian Bow Corner I hooked these over the box flaps

and affixed them underneath with some liquid glue.

Threaded through some silver ribbon and affixed Classic Ovals LG die cut on top.

I lightly inked the Sprigs and Pretty Petals D,
and finished with a stamped hand cut banner sentiment.

A couple of pearls to the flower middles and all done!

For more inspiration of projects - 'Anything But A Card'

here is the list of blogs to visit, have fun!

 

Christine Emberson (You are here)

 Christina Griffiths

Linda Lucas

Yvonne van de Grijp

 

Thanks so much for stopping by - we hope you enjoy your time with us.

We will be back with more!

Romantic Blooms!

Hello friends

Timings of my blog posts have been a little erratic,
my evenings have got a little busy lately so I've been typing the posts
in the mornings, tomorrow's will definitely be scheduled as I'm working on two right now!

Thank you for the comments yesterday,
Mitchell and Abbi make a lovely couple, Abbi is from Cambridge (bit of a trek from Kent!)
so she often stays with us, feels nice to have a girl in the house.

Back to today, sharing with you a vintage/mildly distressed (!) card
using Romantic Blooms One.

The papers I used are Cosmo Cricket Sweet Disposition.

The music piece is created with a background stamp.

The Just a Note sentiment is Sentiments 5.

I particularly like the foliage in this die set, I can see it's another die that will 

not leave my craft desk!

Thank you to all those who have placed pre-orders, as soon as they arrive

I will be rushing them to you.

And in between don't forget to check out the pre-loved section - great bargains.

Take care friends, stop by tomorrow.

Calling Number 317

Hello friends

Just stopping by to shout out number 317!

Please check your July Charity Kit to see if you have the lucky number.

I have lots of goodies waiting to be posted out :)

STOP PRESS!

NEWS JUST IN....

Congratulations Beverley - goodies are on their way to you!

I hope you all had a great weekend, I donned my chauffeur hat mostly as both

boys needed lifts - Elliott out drinking, (oh yes he's certainly grown up now!)

and Mitchell and his girlfriend attended Hyper Japan at the O2 Arena.

So this is all new to me - an incredible craze for all things Japanese including

their animated films and apparently you dress up as the characters...

here they are as Kuroko and Momoi...(whoever they may be!)

Mitchell had to look as young as possible for his character and I think

he achieved it well!

You certainly get a few glances from other drivers when you've got these two in the back!

And back home, this is the happy pair without the outfits and wigs!

I was treated to a Japanese Mochi cake (chocolate rice cake) - 

absolutely delicious, no photos - I ate it too quickly! 

So a non craft post today but back soon with something definitely crafty.

Have a great start to the week.

Take care friends.

Winner, Storage, Models and More!

Hello friends

It's one of those blog posts with bits, bobs and a video so pop that kettle on!

First off announcing the winner number of July's Charity Kit.

Goodness this is seriously organised it's still early July and all the kits are

sold, posted and now the winning ticket!

Not sure I can sustain this level of speediness each month!

Please check your kits and if you have the ticket below then please email me at

hope-chances@live.co.uk with your address details.

A bag of crafty goodies will be on their way to you.

Next up storage...

Spellbinders have introduced Storage Organisers.

Rather lovely boxes that can store up to 62 S4 dies!

I appreciate not everyone has 62 die sets (!) so the beauty of these boxes is that they 

can be used for other items too...take a peek at the fun video.

I am expecting these in stock by the end of the month so if you would like

to pre-order please pop along to the website here.

Also feel free to browse the other pre-orders, Party and Christmas dies.

I'm just beginning to play with these so featuring some posts soon.

Now what else?

Did I mention videos?

Still a delay on my videos I'm afraid, we are working out the best equipment -

my top techy man is on it (aka Elliott).

And finally - my models for yesterday's blog post..

I haven't told Mitchell and Bella the extent of their popularity (heads would swell)

but I've taken on board the suggestions that they should help out more often :)

Head is buzzing now with other participants - the cats, parents, neighbours - passers-by!

Today I'm back in my cabin working on more samples for my 

Ambassador demos and perhaps fitting in a little bit of shopping, sadly just for food!

Take care friends - enjoy your weekend.

Friday Die Day

Hello friends

It's Friday and in my blogosphere that means...Friday Die Day!
This week I am featuring Decorative Curved Square.

The approximate measurements are:

Leaf 1: ½ x ½”
Leaf 2: ⅝ x ⅝”
Accent: 1⅝ x 1”
Square 1: 2½ x 2⅝”
Square 2: 4⅛ x 4¾”

This is how it looks cut/embossed.

For my card design I chose to use the largest square die #2.

I cut/embossed Curved Square die #4 from kraft card to place in the centre. 

I also used Flower Play to create two flowers and leaves.

My card base is 6 x 6 Matting Basics.

6 x 6 Matting Basics A #7 for cream card and 6 x 6 Matting Basics B #7 for the kraft.

I began to layer my card, adhering the cream Decorative Curved Square die cut

with Crafty Foam Tape.  I added some twine and a hand cut stamped banner.

The Flower Play flowers in place, Wild Honey distress ink on the edges.

The finished card.

A close up pic.

And a different view!

Mitchell 'modelling' my card with a non interested Bella!

All the dies used today are available on the website.

Each one is highlighted with a link to take you straight there :)

 

Wishing you all a wonderful sunny weekend.

I'm at home this weekend and intending to craft...loads!

 

Take care friends.