I'll be back!

Hello friends

Please stop by the blog a little later today as I'll be back...

with a special blog hop.

In between a sneak peek!

Many thanks, take care.

Friday Die Day

Hello friends

It's Friday Die Day!
Did you recall me saying I was knee deep in Christmas?
Well, today's I'm talking about Stylized Trees.
A lovely die set with three styles of trees, skinny, chevron and curly tip,
you also receive two types of tree bases, a candy (a sweet to us!)
and the all important star for the top!

Here are the approximate sizes:
Star: ¾”
Round Candy: ¾”
Tree Base 1: 1⅛ x 1⅛”
Tree Base 2: 1⅛ x 1½”
Tree 1 (Skinny): 1⅞ x 3¾”
Tree 2 (Chevron): 2 ⅞ x 3¾”
Tree 3 (Curly Tip): 3⅛ x 3¾”

This is how they look cut/embossed.

The curly tip die has lovely embossed snowflakes so I inked through to highlight those.

My card base, textured cream cardstock cut using 6 x 6 Matting Basics A, 

a snow mound cut with A2 Scalloped Borders Two,

stamped sentiment and first tree in place.

Skinny tree adhered with 3D Foam Squares.

Curly tree added.

Stars cut/embossed from gold mirror card, then 6 x 6 Matting Basics for

more gold mirror card and a black card base.

It's a fun card and pretty good for batch making!

Take care friends and wishing you all a wonderful weekend,

I'm Peterborough bound at Sir Stampalot - car is packed, 

Mum is coming along too!

Green fingers?

Hello friends

So the weather continues to be lovely and truthfully I should be 

gardening but I'm always crafting!

Thankfully I've found a new plant variety, it does require some feeding,

a fair amount of attention but relatively stress free.

This is the upright specimen...

 or there is a dwarf curling variety, prefers shady areas!

Unfortunately no cuttings are available!

I hope your week is going well, as usual mine is flying by!

This Saturday I will be demoing at Sir Stampalot in Peterborough.

I do hope some of you live that way and can pop along. 

Take care friends...I'm back to crafting and non-gardening.

Pop Up!

Hello friends

A while ago I mentioned some new Spellbinders dies, these are the Pop-Ups. 

There are currently three designs in the range.

Today a little tutorial featuring Decorated Birthday.

This is the main die that creates the card. 

 Cut/embossed from ivory linen cardstock. 

The embossing gives you your fold lines.

Mountain fold the first pair of 1” score lines (closest to the edge) and valley fold 

the second pair of 1” score lines. Mountain fold the 3⅜” score line in the middle. 

Along with the main die you also have these decorative dies.

 I've chosen to use them all apart from the crown.

 I attached pink gingham paper to the card front panel.

 Adhered the Happy Birthday grid - easy done with Fine Tip applicator.

 And then attached the flowers - easy peasy!

 The finished card measures 5½ x 4⅛”.

 Decorated Birthday is due in stock within the next week and available 

to pre-order here.

Please also take a look at Gift of Happiness and Happy Days - 

the other two available Pop Up cards.

They are fun and quick to make.

Take care friends, it's not too late to leave a comment on Sunday's blog post 

if you would like to win a set of pre-loved dies.

Is it a Card??

Hello friends

I stepped away from Christmas to make something flowery.
It looks like a card but it isn't!

It's a box to hold cards/notelets and I've got a full tutorial over on the 

Scrapbook Adhesives blog here.

Please pop over and take a look and by all means...leave a comment if you wish :)

The 'Celebrate' die used is Fun Sentiments
and I hope to be stocking the Extreme Double Sided Tape soon.

Right then...back to Christmas!

Take care friends - have a great start to your week.

A Sunday Giveaway

Hello friends

I'm enjoying Christmas in Summer...

Not quite with turkey and tinsel but I am busy making festive crafty 

projects to take on my demos.

I will be sharing those soon but in between I think you should 

be enjoying Christmas too...with a festive giveaway.

I have a pre-loved set of Snowflake Bliss that needs a new home,

there's four very pretty snowflake dies in this set and they look like this...

I used them as a garland to decorate a package.

They would look gorgeous on a tree, card, box and more.

Really simple, just leave a comment on today's blog post and a winner will

be picked out later this week.

Roast dinner day today...thank you Mum :)

Take care friends.