Happy Christmas!

 Happy Christmas everyone!  Wishing you all a joyous Christmas and a peaceful, healthy year ahead! 

Christmas Robin

Hello crafty people  - first Christmas card for 2020. Way behind a lot of you out there but have a lot of birthdays  in the last couple of months. Hopefully will get a few more done now that the gardening season is coming to an end and indoor activities take over.  My first attempt at making a card from a paper napkin. Poinsettias made with John Next Door stamps and dies and greeting from Stamping All Day. Hope you like it. Happy crafting. Mags x

Thinking of You

Thinking of you cards are so useful and so appropriate for all sorts of stressful or sad times.  Love the finished result of these cards made from a designer paper pad and embellished with a couple of die cuts and a sentiment.  Happy crafting.  Mags x

 

Stay Safe

Two little cards I made when we were in total lockdown - just to say thank you to our lovely neighbours for all their offers of help with shopping and anything else we needed.  Happened to have a paper pad featuring London/England.  Just perfect for the strange times we were living in.  Happy crafting. Mags x

 

Butterfly Trellis Card

Butterflies on a trellis makes a lovely any occasion card. Just love butterflies!!

 

Clematis - Hand Painted

Absolutely love this stamp - an old PSX Botanical Rubber Stamp featuring Clematis -  which I managed to find online after a lot of searching.  My card is based on a card I saw on a Facebook group the details of which I have now lost but many thanks to the kind lady who gave me permission to 

copy her design. I stamped it with Versafine ink and painted it with Distress Oxides.  I think I may be using this stamp quite a bit!!  Happy crafting x

Shabby Chic Birthday Card

Hello crafters - I loved making this card as the colours are so subtle.  A lovely dusky pink but the photos don't do the colour justice really.  Tonic octagon die and my handmade flowers. Happy crafting - Mags x

Scraps of Designer Paper

Hello crafters - another lovely paper but only a small piece left.  Hope you like how I have made it stretch!! Happy crafting - Mags x

Birds and Butterflies

Hello crafters - last piece of this lovely paper.  Love it - it is so pretty.  Birds and butterflies always win with me.  Hope you like the simplicity of this card.  The paper does it all.  

Happy crafting - Mags x

Birdcage Slimline Card

Hello crafty people - a DL card for a change.  I really like this shape card and don't do them enough.  Not sure where the paper is from but such a gorgeous design I didn't want to cover it up too much - it speaks for itself. Happy crafting - Mags x

Cream and Gold Butterfly Magic

Hi crafty friends - another lockdown card.  Happy Birthday!  Really like the cream and gold.  Spellbinders Butterfly Magic Shapeabilities cutting and embossing die. Textures and frames really enhance the main image. Happy crafting - Mags x

Quick and Easy Wedding Card

Hello everyone - hope you are having a good day.  The rain today means I have been forced to stay in and finish off unfinished projects!  We all have them and I am determined to get some of mine finished so that they are actually usable!!  This one is a lovely double sided embossing folder I have had for a very long while. I think it is a Spellbinders M-bossabilities folder. It is really useful for wedding cards and sympathy cards.  - Happy crafting. Mags xx

Flower Trellis

Hello crafters - another one of my half finished cards that I have finally completed.  Love the trellis on this card.
Happy crafting - Mags xx

Blooming Botanicals

Had fun playing with the Stampin’ Up Blooming Botanicals papers. Happy Crafting - Mags x

Illuminated Letters Anniversary Card

Hello Crafters!  Hope you are keeping busy in this lockdown situation.  I seem to be busier than ever catching up with jobs around the house and garden that I don't usually have time for.  However, I have had time to make this card I am sharing with you today.  It is for my daughter and son-in-law's 18th Wedding Anniversary.  18th Wedding Anniversary is porcelain apparently, hence the die cut teapot and cups, also reflected in the backing paper.  The die cut flowers are from a spray of flowers cut from an old die and snipped apart to enable me to arrange them as I wanted them.  The pink flowers are painted with my dried up Inka-Gold which makes a wonderful water colour paint.  Happy crafting - Mags x

Illuminated Letters Birthday Wishes

Hello Crafters - sharing with you my second card with Sheena's Illuminated Letters Die & Stamp Set. I am loving this set in that it so easily marries with such a lot of stamps, dies and papers that I have already.  This card is for my son-in-law - his hobby is angling so the topic was very appropriate. Using the fish scroll stamp behind the illuminated letter, the backing paper was from a pad which I added colour to with Distress Oxide ink, the stamps were Sheena's complimented with a couple of Inkylicious stamps. Hope you like it.  Happy crafting - Mags x

Illuminated Letters Birthday Card

I have not been as enthusiastic, for a very long time, about a new card making product as I felt when I first saw the Illuminated Letter Die Set by Sheena Douglass.   It is a set that will enable me to utilise my other stamps, papers and scraps of precious card that I have kept for ages in the hope of finding a use for them.  I think I will get a lot of use out of this set. Happy crafting - Mags x

Get Well Soon Card

Hi Crafters - I a have discovered coloured vellum! Love it - such lovely texture for the dragonfly wings. Finished the wings off with clear Wink of Stella. Hope you like it. Happy crafting. Mags

Birthday Banners Card

Hi Crafters - using up a very old decoupage paper pad for a dog lover’s birthday card. Happy crafting. Mags😀

Hexagon Card using up Scraps!

Hi Crafters - was in a hexagon mood!! Card made from scraps - always satisfying!! Happy crafting. Mags 😀

Stampin’ Up Botanical Blooms

Hi Crafty People - card made using Stampin’ Up Botanical Blooms papers that I have been hoarding for many months!! Perfect card for someone who has spent time in hotter climates!😀 Happy crafting. Mags x

Inka-Gold Painting

Hi Crafters - didn’t like the flowers I had cut out many moons ago - was going to throw them out. Didn’t like my dried up Inka-Golds - was going to throw them out. However, my ‘keep everything just in case” nature took over. I used the Inca-Gold as paint and painted the boring flowers and to my delight everything was saved. I tried reviving the Inka-Gold with glycerin as per many YouTube advisors but mine were well past saving. Happy crafting. Mags😀

Luxurious Birthday Card

Birthday Card
Using up my salvaged flowers painted with dried up Inka-Gold used as paint.

Luxury Birthday Card

Birthday Card
Using my salvaged flowers painted with dried up Inka-Gold used as a paint.