new spellbinder dies.....

this is one of  the new victorian collection and they are very nice!

This is the Delightful foliage set....I made the entire card with 3 cuts of the die......
very satisfying.....

a birthday card

I am still not really in a crafty mood so I thought I would look at some dies I have bought and not used yet and this is what I made.....

I have cut the Sue Wilson Austrian background out of both the front and back of the card to give a lovely lacy effect....a matt and layer using lavender and a white layer stamped with a creative expressions sentiment .....the flowers are Sue Wilson's delicate daisies...open petals and the leaves Sue Wilson's faux quilled leaves....a bit of ribbon some creative expressions PVA dots....purple violet....and a bit of distress ink.....
Hope you are having a crafty day......

can you help?

I recently saw a post on Christina's blog where she made an appeal on behalf of Festive Friends  now this charity is very close to my heart as the recipient of the cards are taken by contact the elderly to tea at volunteers houses once a month....my dear old Mum used to go to these tea parties and they were the highlight of her Sundays...she met such lovely kind people and had lots of fun sharing her memories with other elderly folk,many of whom had no relatives or friends left.....heart breaking and heart warming as they all had a lovely day in good company....
This appeal is for hand made christmas cards to send to some of the old people and I have made a selection of cards to send.....If you have a few spare cards you have made could you spare them for the charity...please click on the link and see what they do....

a christmas card

where has my mojo gone ...I have been away on holiday for a week and really cant get back to my crafting!...dispite a visit to stamp magic on sunday and lots of new goodies I am just sat here looking at them......
this is a card I made a few weeks ago and have only just got round to taking a piccy of...

I have used a crafters companion create a card.....softly falling...cut out of co-ordinations and sanded back.....layered onto a stepper card I made and stuck double sided adhesive onto and covered on cosmic shimmer iced snow...the tree is a Marriane design die treated to the same iced snow and the snow man and snow dog are crafters companion dies...not the freebiees from the magazine...these are much bigger.....they have been sprayed with stick and spray and cosmic shimmer  diamond snow ....
the snow flakes are spellbinders create a flake 2......finished off with cosmic shimmer sparkle pearl PVA....
Hope you are having a happy craftyday!

Christmas card club challenge # 22 Rita's choice...... christmas reindeer...

I made this card for the Trees challenge but as it had reindeers in I decided to change it to this challenge.....

such a shame that all the glitter doesnt show up it is really full of bling and glitter.....

I have used the heartfelt creations "magnificent spruce trees" set..embossed with white cosmic shimmer and utra shimmer wow embossing glitter over the top and to one side..... onto navy blue card....same with the falling  snow...which is from Sheena Douglas's "farmhouse christmas" set....the reindeer are from katy sue designs "winter wonderland silhouette stamps" which I stamped onto the card and then twice more so that I could cut them out and  decoupage them up.....the snow ground is pinflair iced diamond...flower soft polar white...and cosmic shimmer diamond snow.....all matted and layered onto silver ...white ...navy and mounted onto an A5 card.....

I will be going round all the other girls blogs later tonight but if you want to see their fabulous card go to my side bar and visit their blogs......

Christmas card club challenge #21 Sue P's choice....Carol Singers

I fancied doing a silhoutte card

so what did I use
Spellbinders carolers.....man and woman
spellbinders holiday die.....snowflake view
Tim Holtz holiday lamppost
Heartfelt creations magnificent spruce trees.....
Sue Wilsons snowflake lattice embossing folder
Cosmic shimmer PVA   black,pearl.and sparkle pearl and a creative expressions dazzler and some ribbon.....a couple of distress inks....some pinflair snow.....black ,silver and centura pearl card......
it didnt turn out a bit as I intended but there we are....
I hope to be popping round all your blogs tonight and keep your fingers crossed that blogger doesnt chuck me out again!

a birthday card

Just playing ......

needing inspiration so I went back to a card I made earlier this year and have made it in another colour.....
Spellbinders Fleur de Lis pendant...cut 9 times!.....
Spellbinders opulent ovals, some Sue Wilson Faux quilled leaves and the flowers are from Wild orchid ......