New Year Offer!

 

Hi everyone

 

Happy New Year to you all!

 

 

 

To celebrate I've organised a New Year sale -

a huge 50% off all Christmas items!

 

 

You can find the category here on the website and

don't forget to insert the coupon code on the shopping bag page which is:

 

newyear

 

 

The sale will finish on 4 January so don't forget to take a look.

 

Happy shopping and very best wishes.

 

 



Just Arrived - Sweet Dixie Dies!

Hi everyone

On the website now is a whole new collection of Sweet Dixie dies -

there is a great selection from flowers, foliage, hearts to sentiments.

Daisy Pattern

Leafy Scroll 2

With Thanks

Floral Bunting

Hearts are always popular for any time of year and today featuring

a card using Filigree Floral Heart.

It's a detailed and intricate die with a pretty floral centre.

To achieve the look of a thicker heart,

die cut two and stick together.

With adding some silk flowers and ribbon it is a nice simple card to make.

Please check out the other Sweet Dixie dies that have just arrived and 

ready to be dispatched on the website here.

By for now - I'm back soon with a New Year offer.

A Very Merry Christmas

Hi everyone

I wanted to wish you all a very merry Christmas
and thank you for all your custom.

If you subscribe to the website newsletter you will know that
2016 will be bringing big changes to Hope and Chances -
one of the changes will be lots of different die brands!

Before that - have a great Christmas
and visit again soon to find out about the New Year offer!

All the best

It's a Wrap with Carole!

Hello everyone

Today Angel Carole is back with another brilliant project using the
Etched Alphabet die set.

Mr and Mrs Chocolate Wrappers!

Carole is sharing with us her thoughts on making her projects.

I learned how to make these chocolate wrappers at the beginning of the year and, 

goodness me, they’ve come in handy!

I made these as a fun gift when we had lunch with some friends who 

were recently married and think they’d make nice wedding favours too.

The paper is Gilded Winter by First Edition and I chose a slightly more 

masculine-style paper and buttons as embelishments for 

Mr with a more feminine paper and flowers for Mrs.

I’m loving this Etched Alphabet die so much. 

It has so many potential uses!

The cellophane presentation bags are from Lakeland and a 

chocolate bar just fits into them perfectly!

Happy crafting! C : ) xx

Ingredients used:

Etched Alphabet

Pierced Rectangles

Jewel Flowers and Flourishes

Variety of cardstock

Cosmic Shimmer Adhesive
Crafty Foam Tape
Extreme Double Sided Tape

Buttons, gemstones

Etched Alphabet is still in the Winter Sale!

And please check out the other products used - just click on the names
to take you there.

Thank you Carole, you can read more about Carole and visit her blog here.

Back with more inspiration very soon.

Festive Cube by Teresa

Hello everyone

Today sharing a project by
Angel Teresa who has been using Victorian Letters.

 

These are lovely letters with a deep patterned embossed

measuring up to 1" so great for cards and more.
The set also include punctuation, very useful -
a total of 29 dies in the set.

Teresa previously featured these cube boxes with a 'home' theme.

This time she has gone for a Christmas theme.

She has combined 6 x 6 Matting Basics for
the side panels and then added the Victorian Letters.
Lovely decor piece for the mantelpiece. 

As usual, please click on the die names to take you to the dies on the website.

Ingredients used:

6 x 6 Matting Basics
Victorian Letters (on sale on the website!)

Also Victorian Numbers have been added to the sale.

Thank you Teresa and please check out Teresa's blog here.

Back with more Angel inspiration soon.

My Sunshine!

Hi everyone

Pleased to have Yvonne van de Grijp back as a guest on my blog today.

Yvonne is a Spellbinders Ambassador for the Netherlands.

Yvonne has created a beautiful card using one of the Spellbinders card front dies

My Sunshine.

This is a decorative card front die so a lot of the work is done for you.

And Yvonne has kindly provided all the instructions.

Materials:

• Spellbinders: My Sunshine, Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine • Cardstock: white, gold, brown glitter • Heart shaped rhinestone • Ranger: Distress inkpad Vintage Photo, ink blending tool • Paper trimmer, scissors, removable tape, gold marker • Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: 3D foam squares, Crafty Power Tape

Instructions:
• Stack both My Sunshine dies and use removable for exact positioning the dies • Cut/emboss from white cardstock. Leave the dies on the paper and stencil using brown ink and and an ink blending tool. • Glue upon brown glitter cardstock (or glitter foam) using 3D foam squares. • Mat upon gold cardstock and a white card base. • Cut the text "Sunshine from a piece of gold cardstock and glue the pieces around the die-cut text onto the card. • Accent the text "my" using a gold marker

Thank you Yvonne.

My Sunshine is available on the website here - discounted too!

Bye for now.