A SNEAKY PEAK!!

Good Afternoon All!!

I'm very, very, very excited!!!! to say the least!!! I can, at last, tell you that Magnolia stamps are coming to a craft shop near you - In2Crafting to be precise!!!!

We will be stocking Magnolia stamps and can't wait to display them in the new shop - I can't tell you how happy this makes the girls and me!!!!!

Last Monday evening we had a crafty get-together and we had a play - boy did we have fun!!!

Would you like to see what we did ?????

Designed by Di

Designed by Janice

Designed by Laura

Designed by Lynne

Designed by Lynne

Designed by Michelle

Designed by Réne

Designed by Sally

I hope that you are all as excited by this news as we are and a little birdie tells me that there will be classes on the next workshop list devoted to these little darlings!!!

WATCH THIS SPACE!!

Lots of Love

See you soon

xx Lynne xx

JUST A REMINDER

Hi everyone!!

Just a quick posting ... First of all just to remind you about the Demo Day this Saturday - come along if you can - Lynne Gilbert will be here showing all sorts of techniques and inspiration using cosmic shimmers, new unmounted stamp sets, distress inks and lots, lots more!!!  Its free - just come along anytime between 10:00am and 4:00pm and enjoy!! :o) !!

 While I'm here posting I thought I'd show you two father's day cards I made using things I'd forgotten I had (don't we all do that!!)  This one is from my children to my father-in-law and I used the Flippin' Men range of stamps "Football" Click Here for availability, I coloured him with promarkers but just used the "Warm Grey" range giving the image an old fashioned feel - I stamped out the border three times, coloured it in then punched the circles out (green 1" woodware punch) to make a background.  I computer generated the sentiment and then punched it out (yellow 1.5" woodware punch)

Hope you like it :o)

The second one is for my father-in-law again but this time from my hubby and me - this time I used the Jayne Netley Mayhew animal CD Rom Click Here for availability - I isolated an image (see tutorial HERE for a step by step guide), I then printed 4 copies and cut them out using a nestabilitie shape gradually getting smaller to make my own pyramage.  The papers were printed out from the CD as well onto pearl paper.

Keep watching as I am going to post a tutorial on how to make this type of pyramage soon!!

Thanks for looking and hope to see you all at the Demo on Saturday :o)

By the way if any crafting goodies I use are not in stock just give the shop a ring on 01268 730234 and we will be more than happy to order them in for you and post them out if you don't live locally

Ta Ta for Now xx

SENTIMENT EASEL CARD

Hi Everyone

Earlier this week I posted a tutorial on how to isolate an image in a PDF document and gave you a freebie to try - hope you have all had a go.

I wanted to make a card with the sentiment sheet but have been out of action this week as I have had a new kitchen fitted (click here if you want to be nosy lol)

Anyway... my craft area is back to normal now so I made a card this morning just using the two sentiments from the sheet, nestabilities and paper from a paper stack called "planes & Trains"

I cut both sentiments using nestabilities, and then distressed the edges before I removed then - leaving a white border - the main sentiment is from Labels 2 and the "Just for You" is from the Ovals set.

Hope you like it :o) xx

TUTORIALS - NESTABITLIES SHAPED / EASEL CARDS

So here we are with another tutorial - I do hope these are helpful to you - I know I have a lot of fun doing them!!
Before I start I must pay homage to Sharon - this was something she did on one of her classes and I fell in love with it - so all credit to her xx

The first one is simply using your nestabilities to cut a shape from an already pre-scored card. This enables you to mat and layer on your card using the smaller sizes of the nestabilities shape you have chosen.

Please scroll down to the very bottom of this post as an Easel Card version follows these instructions .... and you don't want to miss that do you!!

So ... first of all gather together your "tools" you will need

A die cutting machine, low tack tape, nestabilites shapes, pre-scored cards, a bone folder and some double sided tape.  For this particular card I used "curved rectangles" (Click Here for stock availability) and so I needed a 7x5 pre-scored card.

Place your nestabilites shape you have chosen cutting edge downwards onto the folded card leaving a small gap to the fold so that the whole shape isn't cut and secure with low tack tape

Turn your card the other way up so that the nestabilities shape is underneath the card with cutting side now facing up and cut - (if you are using a Cuttlebug the order is A Plate, C Plate, nestabilities face upwards with card face downwards then B Plate)

 

run through once and then run back again towards you (giving it a double cut) - with some die cutting machines the pressure on the roller can be slightly uneven - and mine is no exception - as you can see it has cut deeper to the right than the left

- this is easily remedied by simply turning the plate around and running it through again.

 

You now have your shaped nestabilities card

Next gather together what you want to use to decorate and finish your card

I have chosen some die cut decoupage, complimentary blue card, adhesive pearls, ribbon, stickles and flowers

I have cut the next two smaller sizes down in the blue card 

I have then cut a small amount off of the left hand side to make it straight - this is necessary so that when you mat and layer your card the straight edge will line up against the fold of your card

 

Now just finish off your card with the embellishments you have chosen

Here is an alternate version I thought I'd show you this time using Labels Two (Click Here for stock availability) and using a tent fold so that the card opens the other way

Now ..... to take it one step further and make an easel card you follow the same principle

Place your chosen nestabilities shape face down on your pre-scored card and secure with low tack tape - in this instance I have used Scallop Circles (Click Here for stock availability), and cut, using the same procedure as before

You will also need to cut an extra single scallop circle

You will then need to fold back the lower scallop on itself

So it now looks like this - this is the support for the "easel"

On the single scallop apply double sided tape to the BACK OF THE LOWER HALF of the shape - you are going to stick this to the folded over scallop

This forms the basis of your card - all you need to do now is decorate and finish it with your chosen embellishments

I have cut two smaller classic circles (Click Here for stock availability) from complimentary card

I left the white card inside the circle and distressed the inner with Spun Sugar Distress Ink (one of the new colours) Click Here for stock availability with some cut n dry foam this gives you a white "rim"

I then stamped a butterfly from "gem stone insects" a clear stamp set from Inkadinkado click here for stock availability again with Spun Sugar Distress Ink, and cut another circle from pink spot card  - so I now have three circles, one of the pink spotty ones I have trimmed an edge to leave it straight - this is so it will fit inside the card easier.

I then mounted the butterfly image onto the top of the card

To make the "stopper" for the easel I decided to stamp a greeting and cut it out using the smaller circle and scallop circle nestabilities and using the same technique as before inking the circle to leave a white rim.

I then decorated the greeting and the butterfly with silver sequins

And here is the finished card!!

Thank for for staying with  me through this "long" tutorial but I have tried to be as precise as possible with lots of pictures so that you can see step by step how to achieve this lovely cards - I hope you have a go as they really are easy once you get the hang of them.  If you do make some, post them on your blog and leave me a link in the comments and I will pop across and have a look - I would love to see what you do.

If you live nearby pop your finished cards into the shop so we can all see what you've done.

I'm going to have a rest now!!!

Lots of Love and see you soon :o) xx