Many Thanks

Hello Friends, I have a quick card to share today - I have been trying to clear my desk - just a little (LOL) and creating cards from what is on there - clearing off the UFOs - unfinished objects - we all have them - or is it just me?!

I have had a stamped image sitting on my desk for as long as I can remember, I am not quite sure of it's origins and have recycled it to create a thank you card - we can never have too many of them at this time of the year,    My card base has been created using 5x7 Matting Basics A Spellbinders® Nestabilities® Card Creator. I have used Imagine Crafts ‘featuring’ Tsukineko Fireworks Spray to add splotches of colour and shimmer onto the stamped image and the double Seam Binding bow - I love the effect - especially on the bow.  My card is held together by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L.

This card is linked to the following challenges:

2 Creative Chicks - Anything Goes

Crafting From the Heart Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

2 crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything goes with Patterned Paper

CCC Digi Creations Challenge - Anything Goes

Just Keep On Crafting - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge weeks - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge - Anything Goes

Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge - Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge - 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!

{{{Hugs}}} and happy creating!

Bird Crazy - Your Special Day

Hello friends, time I was back with another card from the Bird Crazy Stamp set. I cannot stop colouring them and creating in different ways, this card is fairly simple and has a stenciled background nice and easy for a quick card...and we all need those from time to time!

 The card base has been cut using  A2 Modern Stationery Spellbinders® Nestabilities® Card Creator, for both the card base and the inked layer. The Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine has been used to cut and emboss the layers.

 I have coloured this image using Imagine Crafts 'featuring' Tsukineko Radiant Neon Inks and a sponge dauber - one of my favourite ways to colour.   My card is held together by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L. The Heart Stencil is from Want2Scrap. The background has been created using white cardstock, Imagine Crafts ‘featuring’ Tsukineko Memento Ink in Rose Bud and Sponge Daubers.

This card is linked to the following challenges:

Allsorts - anything but Christmas

Brown Sugar – Anything Goes

PDE Linky Party - Anything Goes

Simply Papercraft - Always Anything Goes

Crafty Girls Creations - Always Anything Goes

The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes/ Celebration

WordArt Wednesdays - Anything Goes

Crafting Musketeers - Use a Sentiment

Crafty Time - Anything Goes

Not Just Cards - Always Anything Goes

Love To Scrap Challenge - Anything Goes

Sunday Stamps - Anything Goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge - Anything Goes

Allsorts - anything but Christmas 

Great Impressions December Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Friends Challenge - anything goes 

Fashionable Stamping Challenge - Make Your Own Background

Lacy Sunshine Challenge - Anything Goes

Amusing Challenge - Anything Goes

Avenue 613 Challenge - 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!

{{{Hugs}}} and happy crafting

Spellbinders Elegant and Eclectic Layers Tutorial

Hello friends, it is always a pleasure to share a Step by Step Tutorial for Spellbinders - so many beautiful Dies both intricate or Core Dies - each one divine - personally, I have never met a Spellbinders Die I did not like!! 

My tutorial today shows how to layer filigree Dies from different sets and create an elegant card without having too much happening on it. Although it sounds like a contradiction, keeping it simple seems to work best when doing this.

Spellbinders Products: 

• S4-314 Lacey Ovals
• S4-464 Labels Thirty-Nine Decorative Elements
• S4-492 Oval Regalia
• T-001 Tool'N One
• PL-001 Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine

Preferred Partner Products:

• Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: E-Z Adhesive Runner, 3D Foam Squares
• Want2Scrap:  Baby Bling - Hot Pink - Self Adhesive; Baby Bling - Silver Rhinestone - Self Adhesive; 

Other:  Floral image; mauve cardstock; precoloured image; lace flower; 

1. Cut/emboss two (2) Labels Thirty-Nine Decorative Elements using mauve cardstock.
2. Use Tool'N One to remove the negative pieces from the Die.
3. Score one  Labels Thirty-Nine Decorative Elements 1/2" from the top and fold forward
4. Adhere the card front to create the card base - making sure to line up the filigree pattern.

5. Cut/emboss one (1) Oval Regalia using Whirl White cardstock.
6. Use Tool'N One to remove the extra pieces from the Die.
7. Adhere to the card base using double sided tape.
8. Cut/emboss one (1) Lacey Ovals using Whirl White cardstock.
6. Use Tool'N One to remove the extra pieces from the Die.
7. Adhere to card base using foam tape.

8. Adhere precoloured and coloured image to the layered card base.
9. Adhere mauve Seam Binding bow underneath the image, using liquid glue
10 Adhere lace flower and handmade resin to the center of the bow using liquid glue.
11 Alternate silver and pink baby bling around the Oval Regatta, as shown in the photo.

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!

{{{Hugs}}} and happy crafting

International Ambassadors Unofficial Gift Tag Blog Hop

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We so excited that you are joining us for the last International Ambassadors Unofficial Blog Hop for 2015 - but keep watching out for us as we will be back in 2016, with lots of new ideas and inspiration.  I hope you are enjoying stopping by each Blog as much as we love seeing you visit and are and are finding a lot of inspiration - each of us has our own style and I am sure there is something to inspire everyone. This month we are sharing our projects with you - we are creating Gift Tags.

No more last minute rush to buy gift tags - you can create your own - I hope you enjoy what we are sharing today!!

Spellbinders Products: 

• GLD-016 Baby Buntings Spellbinders® presents “A Gilded Life
• S4-442 Victorian Medallion Three
• S4-551 Reindeer and Sleigh
• S6-050 Cinch and Go Flowers

• SCP-013 Whirl White
• T-001 Tool'N One
• PL-001 Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine

Preferred Partner Products:

• Imagine Crafts 'featuring' Tsukineko: Memento Ink in Espresso Truffle; Delicata ink in Golden Glitz
• Want2Scrap: Baby Bling - Red Rhinestone - Self Adhesive; Baby Bling - Silver Rhinestone - self adhesive
• Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: E-Z Adhesive Runner, 3D Foam Squares

Other: Alphabet Stickers; Fringed Ribbon; Red recycled button; Teal patterned paper; small script stamp; brown cardstock; green cardstock; liquid glue

1. Cut/emboss one Baby Bunting #6  (31 being the smallest) using Whirl White.
2. Use the Die as a Stencil by sponging the inside edges of the Die using Golden Glitz and a Sponge Dauber.

3. Before removing the Die, stamp the right hand edge using a small script stamp and Espresso Truffle Ink.
4. Cut/emboss one Vintage Medallions Three using teal patterned paper.
5. Cut Medallion in half and adhere one half to the left side of the bunting.
6. Adhere sentiment stickers as shown on main photo
7. Cut/emboss one Reindeer using Whirl White, colour using Delicata Gold and Sponge Daubers.
8. Adhere a strip of brown cardstock behind the filigree on the reindeer.
9. Adhere to the tag using liquid glue.
10 Add bling to the Vintage Medallion Three and a red bling to the Reindeer's Nose.
11 Cut/emboss one swirl from Cinch and Go using green cardstock, adhere to the top of the tag
12 Add fringed ribbon and secure by gluing a red button, add bling to the center of the button

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial, make sure you pop in and visit the other International Ambassadors - these girls are amazing - each one is picked to be an Ambassador for their country because they are seasoned designers and so inspiring, they also stand as talented designers in their own right - as you will see!!!  The list of International Ambassadors is below, in case you get lost along the way.

Yvonne van de Grijp - Netherlands

Christine Emberson - England

Christina Griffiths - England

  Linda Lucas - Australia (you are here)

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!

{{{Hugs}}} and happy crafting

Christmas Is...

Hello friends -  The Christmas Countdown is officially on - one week until Christmas Day!!!  Thank you to all those who commented on my previous  Christmas Card - if you have not seen it, you can find it HERE.  I have another one to share today - I hope you like this one as much.  I have to say I adore traditional Christmas colours but am really enjoying something a bit different.

My card today has been created using some discontinued products - but they are too gorgeous to pass up - My Dies have been cut using  the Spellbinders  Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine.  My card is held together by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L.  My bling is from Want2Scrap.     

The sentiment  is from Our Daily Bread Designs and  has been stamped using Imagine Crafts ‘featuring’ Tsukineko Ink. The fabulous silver paper is from Kaisercraft.  The sheer ribbon is from May Arts and the flowers are recycled from an artificial arrangement - I love these flowers and always recycle when they have 'had their day!'

 This card is linked to the following challenges:

Cardz 4 Galz - Christmas

Craft Rocket Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafting With An Attitude - Anything Goes

Crafty Girls Creations - Always Anything Goes

In The Pink - Pink Christmas

Scrap & Craft Challenges - Anything Christmas

Star Stampz Challenge - Christmas Creations 

Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination - Always Anything Goes 

WordArt Wednesdays - Anything Goes

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes with Twist of Christmas

Creative Card Crew - Holiday Season

Lacy Sunshine Challenge - Anything goes

Die Cuttin' Divas - Anything Christmas Goes

Great Impressions December Challenge - Anything Goes

'Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge - Anything Goes

The Ribbon Girls - Christmas Card 

Sweet Stamping December Challenge - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge - Anything goes

Jo's Stamp Shack Fun Friday Challenge - Anything Goes

Art By Miran Challenge - Anything Goes

Lacy Sunshine Challenge - 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!

{{{Hugs}}} and happy creating!

Peace on Earth

Hello friends - I thought I had better share a Christmas card or two over the next week - Christmas is approaching so fast - the last week always flies by - are you ready for it!?!?  We are not quite ready but hopefully this coming weekend will see to that! 

My card today has been created using some discontinued products - but they are too gorgeous to pass up - The Silver on the embossed folder has been wet embossed using Imagine Crafts ‘featuring’ Tsukineko VersaMark and Silver Embossing Powder - I love the richness of it! 

 My Dies have been cut using  the Spellbinders  Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine.  My card is held together by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L.  My bling is from Want2Scrap. 

The sentiment is from  Penny Black Inc. and has been stamped using  Imagine Crafts ‘featuring’ Tsukineko Memento Ink in Danube Blue.

This card is linked to the following challenges:

A Snowflakes Promise - Anything Goes with a Winter or Christmas Theme

Word Art Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Holiday Season

Lacy Sunshine Challenge - Anything goes

Die Cuttin' Divas - Anything Christmas Goes

Great Impressions December Challenge - Anything Goes

Retarte - Anything Goes 

'Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenges - Merry Christmas

City Crafter Challenge - The Heat is On - Heat Embossing

The Ribbon Girls - Christmas Card 

Fan-Tastic Tuesday Challenge - Anything Goes - Twist - Make it Sparkle

Sweet Stamping December Challenge - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge - Anything goes

Jo's Stamp Shack Fun Friday Challenge - Anything Goes

Art By Miran Challenge - Anything Goes

Lacy Sunshine Challenge - 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!

{{{Hugs}}} and happy creating!