Spellbinders Majestic Squares

It is my turn to host the Spellbinders Savvy Saturday Video Tutorial - and I am excited to be using on the the Dies from the Summer Blog Frenzy!  How amazing are all of the new Dies - I am sure the Wish Lists got longer each day.

To see my video tutorial for this card make sure you can click here - I would love you to leave a comment and let me know that you think!

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Petals

This card is created using the new release sets from Penny Black designed by my dear friend Nina of NinaB Designs, called Petal Party

It is stamped, coloured using SU Chalks/Pastels and a Blender Pen, popped up onto a Spellbinders Labels Twenty Three Nestabilities using foam tape.  The Die has been cut using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine
  

A little bit of shimmer is added using 3D Kindy Glitz, I love this stuff, it also adds texture.

The addition of  Want2Scrap bling is always a good look

Resulting in a very summery feel, which works just fine for me on our cold and frosty winter mornings.

This card is for the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz - Anything goes

Cooking It Up With Katie - Lace A Summer Flower

Paper Shelter Challenge - punches/dies

Waste Not Wednesday - always "use your forgotten stuff" - paper

Love to Create - Anything Goes

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 

MyGrafico - Bright Summer Colours

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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Flight of Thread

I love making cards with these gorgeous new stamps by Laura Kirste Campbell for Penny Black.

A Flight of Thread coordinates with Spellbinders Labels Twenty Nestabilities, which makes cutting it out so easy - especially with the Spellbinders Grand Calibur.  It is then layered into two small motifs from the Parisian Motifs Shapeabilities®

I have kept the image one layer, colouring it using SU Chalks/Pastels and a Blender Pen, I love the depth of colour you can get using a Blender Pen, adds a dimension all of it's own.

 

 

Ribbon threaded lace, hand dyed Seam Binding and a Mulberry Paper Rose add a pretty touch.

Finishing off with some Want2Scrap Bling.

This card is for the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion - Things with Wings 

Fashionista Challenge - Winged Things  

Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes

Love to Create - Anything Goes  

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

MyGrafico - Bright Summer Colours 

Whoopsi Daisy - Things with Wings
Dream Valley Challenges - Things with Wings

Great Impressions - Die Cuts and/or Punches

2 Sisters - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin - Ribbons and bows

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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A Friend

I love this sentiment from Serendipity Stamps, who generously sponsored the Stampin' Sister in Christ Challenge some weeks ago and this was one of the stamps I received.

 

The sentiment is one of my favourite sayings and it paired beautifully with this bird from DRS Designs. I have had these images stamped and cut out for weeks and am happy to have FINALLY used them on a card! 

The bird is coloured using SU Chalks/Pastels and a Blender Pen and had 3D Kindy Glitz added.

The sentiment has been cut out using the Spellbinders Labels Four Nestabilities and the Die used as a mask before the sentiment was taken out.  My Die was cut out using the Grand Calibur.

 

The pearl flourish is from Want2Scrap - is didn't take long for this to become another addiction - their bling is divine!!

I want to say a special thank you to Theresa Blake-Calderini for sending me this gorgeous vintage Flower Frog, when I asked about them on facebook - it came beautifully packaged and her generosity means so much to me.

This card is for the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges - Things with Wings

Great Impressions - Die Cuts and/or Punches

The Squirrel & the Fox - Make it Sparkle

2 Sisters - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Dies to Die for 

Totally Gorjuss - Something Yellow

Hotshot Crafts - Distress Ink

365 Cards - Nature

Shelly's Images - Anything goes

Crafts and Me - anything goes

Stampavie and More - Something with wings

Paper Shelter Challenge - outdoors

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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SSIC Banners

I wish I could tell you that I had made this card for the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge weeks ago but the truth is that I thought I had and suddenly realised yesterday I had NOTHING done - arggggggh! 

So I checked out this weeks challenge, hosted by our fearless leader Kris, who has chosen:

"Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." Psalm 46:10 

Use FLAGS or BANNERS in your creation

(ie. create your own flags or banners… or in your paper, image)

I quickly grabbed things that were lying around in piles on my desk (as you do!) and created flags by folding thin strips of paper in half and dove tailing the ends of them.  Each flag is attached using double sided tape and embellished using buttons and mulberry flowers, finishing off with a row of pearls.

A strip of Spellbinders Classic Edges One Edgeabilities® and Classic Decorative Insert Three Edgeabilities®  have been added along the lower edge of the card and some gorgeous vintage lace added, a butterfly and pearls (of course!).  These Dies have been cut using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine.

It all came together very quickly - PHEW! LOL!

This card is for the following challenges:

Fun with Shapes & More - must include die cut/punch

Stampin' For The Weekend - Show us Your Style

It's All About the Vintage - Summer & butterflies

Shelly's Images - Anything goes

Crafts and Me - anything goes

Thank you to this weeks sponsor.

Make sure you stop by the Designers Blogs are some amazing inspiration - these ladies are inspirational on so many levels!!

* Kristine * Linda (that's me) * MariLynn * Miejse * Peggysue * Traci M *

* Candice * Diane * Helen * Jerusha * Michelle * Sandie L *

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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Floral Motif

My card today is created using one of the Spellbinders Cut Fold and Tuck Dies

I love the concept of these, they make such a great focal point on a card

 

and come together so quickly, as the girls in my Card Design Classes can tell you!

I love the elegance of the Round About Shapeabilities® and how elegant it looks layered with some Want2Scrap  bling added, along with a mulberry rose.

 

This is layered onto some corrugated card and a Spellbinders Floral Ovals Nestabilities that has been cut in half. 

 

 

The sentiment is by NinaB Designs.

This card is for the following challenges:

Fun with Shapes & More - must include die cut/punch

Paper Play - Use a die

Shelly's Images - Anything goes

Crafts and Me - anything goes

Waste Not Wednesday - always "use your forgotten stuff" (patterned paper)

LEJ Designs - Recycle Something Or Use Household Items ( corrugated card)

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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Life is Beautiful

I love how versatile the new release sets from Penny Black are - this card is created using an image designed by my dear friend Nina of NinaB Designs, called Petal Party

 

Today I have gone for a monochromatic look - it works so well with flowers - don't you think!?

 

The flowers and leaves have peen popped up onto foam tape and layered into the Spellbinders Parisian Motifs Shapeabilities®, the Classic Edges One Edgeabilities has been cut twice, using the Classic Decoratove Inserts Three Edgeabilities has been adhered down the centre of the  patterned paper (from my scraps pile on my desk)

 

Finishing off with a sentiment from Petal Party set from Penny Black, some pleated Seam Binding and those gorgeous Want2Scrap pearls.

This card is for the following challenges:

365 Cards - Nature

Charisma Cardz - Summer

Delightful Challenges - Anything goes   

DRS Designs - Flowers

Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Loads of layers

Paper Play - Use a die

Shelly's Images - Anything goes

Crafts and Me - anything goes

Divas by Design - Diecut

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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Fleur de Lis in Blue

Today's card is created using the gorgeous background Stamp Wallpaper Print illustrated by Laura Kirste Campbell for Penny Black Inc.

I have stamped white card with Tsukineko Versamark and embossed using White Embossing Powder, then sponged using blue ink, adding some light and shade by varying the depth of the ink.

I have added this gorgeous Fleur de Lis by Want2Scrap - don't you just love the way it compliments the stamped background.

I have added black gems, also from Want2Scrap - Black Rhinestones I love the way they look good on masculine cards as well.

Finishing off with some Baker's Twine, black lace and a Fleur de Lis emblem that was sent to my in a RAK.

YOu can see two of Laura's cards using her divine Wallpaper Print by visiting her new website Laura Kirste

This card is for the following challenges:

Cooking It Up With Katie - Dad or special guy, Texture & Metal

Crafting for all Seasons - For Men

Crafts and Me - anything goes

Scrapbook Sisters - diamond  

Use It Tuesdays -  All About Dad  - used Bakers Twine and Embellishment I have had for over a year (**head hung in shame**)

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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Round and Round

I still having such fun with the new images from Penny Black - illustrated by my dear friend Nina of NinaB Designs, I have used the newly released set Round and Round - don't you just love it!

The stem and leaves have been stamped, using Tsukineko Brilliance - Pearlescent Ivy onto a Spellbinders Labels Ten Nestabilities and layered into the Labels Seventeen Nestablitlies. All Dies have been cut using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine. 

The flower head has been stamped three times with Tsukineko Brilliance - Pearlescent Poppy, each layer has been cut out and popped up with foam tape to add some extra dimension.

 

I have added some of the gorgeous Want2Scrap Beautiful Bling Borders-Fancy That! bling, also designed by NinaB Designs (yes, she is gifted lady!)

 

This card is for the following challenges:

Bearly Mine - Flowers

Die Cuttin' Divas - Summer Colours Red Orange & Yellow

Lollipop Crafts - Flowers in Bloom

Love to Create - Summertime Fun  

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes  

Great Impressions - Die Cuts and/or Punches

Speedy and Friends - Vintage

Fun with Shapes & More - must include die cut/punch - Summer

 

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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Divine Pattern

I am back with the another stamp from Penny Black illustrated by my dear friend and ever so talented Laura Kirste Campbell - as I said in my previous post, those of you who LOVED Layers of Color and have been missing Laura's artistic flair, will be happy to know she is back and ROCKING the images - you can check out her new Website/Blog here

I have stamped the Divine Pattern image and then cut it into panels to use with some leftover Webster's Pages paper

 

The Divine Pattern image was lightly coloured with SU Chalks/Pastels to add a touch of colour.

 

and finishing off with Want2Scrap bling, Swirls - Silver Rhinestone  designed by NinaB Designs.

 

The corner bling also Want2Scrap is Classy Corners - Class, designed by NinaB Designs

Mulberry Roses are the final touch for this very CAS card (for me!) 

This card is for the following challenges:

Speedy and Friends - Vintage

Hotshot Crafts - Week 1, Distress Ink (Ranger - Peeled Paint)

Raise The Bar – Summer

Creative Mondays - Summer

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Let`s Ink It Up - Use Your Favourite Embellishments

Robyn`s Fetish - Anything Goes

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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