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.

Friday Die Day

Hello friends


Welcome to Friday Die Day and this week it is majestic...Majestic Oval.
This die set comprises of three dies and the approximate measurements are:

1: 2⅜ x 1⅜”
2: 3⅜ x 2⅜”
3: 4⅛ x 5⅜”

This is how it looks cut/embossed.

I chose to use die templates 2 and 3, stamped 'Thinking of You' on the smaller one.

My card base is white card, patterned paper (scrap box) and rounded the corners.

Flowers are...yes Marisa's Bouquet (now back in stock).

Assembled my flowers and mounted the oval with 3D Foam Squares.

The finished card - I kept it fairly neutral.

I like to do this with more intricate dies so it doesn't detract from their beauty.

Pearls to the flower centres, always makes them pop.

Close up pics.

Today thanking Elliott for all his watermarking skills.



He deals with all of those things, I email them all off to him (he's in the next room!)

and they come back organised and watermarked - a pretty good service.

I just need him to start typing blog posts...

I could lay on the sofa and dictate...Barbara Cartland style! only kidding!

 

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

Take care friends.

 

Busy busy!

Hello friends

Just stopping by to say a quick hello, blog posts have been a little 

erratic this week as I've been a busy bee.  In fact I can't believe it's Wednesday already -
I mean Thursday!! Goodness it's even worse...

In between here is my co-worker, actually not doing a great deal of work!

She is checking out some of the new Christmas dies,

they are trickling into stock now on the website.

Also please continue to check the pre-loved dies on the website,

some more going on later today.

I'm about to head out the door to my City job for two days but please stop by

tomorrow for Friday Die Day.

Hope your week is going well, take care friends.