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Freebie Friday-Tutorial.

Hello Bloggers!

Are you enjoying the heat? Personally, I hate it and am looking forward to it getting cooler again.

This weeks tutorial is how to make a folding theatre card.

Here is my sample:

Inside

Outside

As usual you will find the instructions on the Tutorial page of my main site.

Freebie Friday-Tour De France

Good evening everyone.

With the Tour de France this week, I thought it would be appropriate to give away some digistamps relating to cycling. So this week you will find a mix of stamps including a Penny Farthing.

As usual, you will find the stamps on the Freebie page of my main site.

This is a card I made last night, which is a long card in a box. I uploaded a tutorial for this card to my website last week.

All for now, Tina x

Freebie Freebie-Tutorial

Happy Friday everybody!

I hope you are all well this Friday?

Cards I've been making this week, I made a pop up card earlier in the week.

The stamps are from Little Claire.

The flower on this card is also a Little Claire stamp.

The freebie Friday for this week is a tutorial on how to make a long pop up card in a box.

As usual you can find the tutorial on the free tutorial page of my main site.

All for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday-Tutorial

Good evening everyone.

That's another week over, where does the time go?

Its been an eventful week, we have hopefully sold our house, subject to contract. We had a new shower fitted in the main bathroom, so things are looking up.

Here is a card I made at club yesterday:

It was all made with just a single flower stamp. Thanks to Pam for the demo.

The freebie this week is a tutorial on using different types of glues with gilding flakes, mica powders, flock and foil on stamps and stencils. As always you will find the tutorial on the free tutorial page of my main site.

All for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday-Recipe stamps

Hello Bloggers,

My post is a bit late tonight but at least I have got there in the end!

Have you been enjoying the weather? I hope you have a nice weekend planned to make the most of it while it lasts?

I have my card club at Eagle tomorrow and so I am looking forward to spending the day with my friends.

I spent the other afternoon playing with masks and stamps, using different mediums such as gilding flakes, flock and mica powders.I used both Flitter glue and Stampendous-stamp n' bond. The Flitter glue is very tacky and ideal for all these mediums, however I found that some of the definition of the stamps was lost. The stamp n' bond is used like an embossing powder, stamp or cover stencil with Versamark, sprinkle with stamp n' bond and heat with a gun. When the powder turns from white to clear it is tacky and ready for use. This takes literally seconds, don't be tempted to heat more as you will dry the glue out. You can then use your chosen medium over the top.

Here is one I made using a stencil, Versamark, stamp n' bond and mica powders.

The freebie Friday this week is a set of recipe digistamps, as usual you can find them on the free download page of my main site.

Freebie Friday-Templates

Good evening everyone!

Are you looking forward to a lovely weekend? The weather for us here in Lincoln is supposed to be dry and sunny, so we'll see.

Here are some cards I have made this week:

This one was made at club last night.

This was a special order for a golfing fan.

This was a special order for a footie fan.

The Freebie Friday this week is a set of templates to make 3 different size box frames, there is a square, DL and A5 size. They are pretty self explanatory really so you shouldn't have any problems.

As usual you can find the templates on my main site.

All for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday

Evening bloggers!

Its Friday again! The weeks are flying by! 

I have had a terrible week, my husband has been away in Normandy for the D Day celebrations and while he has been away everything has gone wrong!

I have been making his birthday card while he has been away and thought I would share it with you as I know he doesn't look at my blog!

Front

Inside

I used the new Xcut tunnel dies, this set is the 'woodland' one. I also used a mixture of Stampin' Up and Clarity stamps.

The Freebie Friday this week are 3 sheets of Oriental designs, I hope you like them.

As usual you can find the download on my main site.

All for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday-Tutorial

Good evening everyone! I hope you are looking forward to hopefully a dry weekend?

I have had a busy week as ever and have not had much time for crafting. I have made another bendy card with a totally different theme. I have to say, I am not really fond of steam-punk, as I just don't really get it but I had a go for a change and this is what I came up with.

The tutorial this week is for a pop up card, as usual you will find it on the tutorial page of my main site.

All for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday-Vintage ladies

Good evening Bloggers! 

Are you looking forward to the bank holiday weekend? Lets hope the nice weather comes back!

I have made a quick guide for the Bendy card which was a freebie Friday tutorial a short while ago, you will find it on the tutorial page under the Bendy card tutorial.

This weeks freebie is a sheet of digistamps with 6 vintage ladies on.

As usual you will find all the freebies on my main site.

All for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday-Tutorial.

Hello friends, I hope you are going to make the most of the lovely weather we have been promised for the weekend? I wont be seeing much of it, as I am at club most of the day tomorrow and on Sunday I am going to a craft fair.

I have had a very busy week with a trip to Worcester and a trip to Pontefract, so there hasn't been much time for making cards.

I did have time to make a tutorial on a new card for you, so I hope you like it.

You will find the free tutorial as usual on the tutorial page of my main site.

All for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday-Woodland creatures

Good evening, I hope you have had a good week?

Last Bank holiday Monday we went to Tattershall Castle, its a nice place to go if you don't mind steps!

This is the view from the top of the castle, looking down on Trinity church.

 Tattershall Castle

I have actually had time to make a couple of cards this week.

This is another bendy card which I have used Xcut build a scene dies with. 

This one was made using some free stamps on a magazine and gilding flakes.

Freebie

The Freebie this week is a sheet of woodland creatures digistamps, I hope you like them.

As usual you will find them on my download page of my main site.

Have a good week, all for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday

Good evening everyone, are you looking forward to another lovely bank holiday weekend?

Today's download is a tutorial on how to make a Napkin card, here are  a couple of samples:

As usual you can find the download on the tutorial page of my main site, all for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday

Good evening Bloggers,

I hope you had a good Easter weekend and did something nice and didn't eat too much chocolate?

We went to Southwell and visited the Minster and the workhouse, we have never been before and it made a change. The workhouse was quite interesting and took us 2 hours to go round it, I would say it is worth a visit if you are in the area.

The Minster

 The Workhouse

The Freebie for this week is a set of cat and dog silhouettes, as usual you can download it from the free download page on my main site

All for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday-Pop up box card tutorial.

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you all have a very good weekend. Our house has just gone up for sale and so we are spending most of the weekend getting all the little jobs done ready for viewing.

This weeks freebie is a tutorial for a pop up box card.

This is a sample of a pop up box card:

As usual you can find the download on the tutorial page of my main site.

Enjoy your weekend, Tina x

Freebie Friday-bendy card tutorial.

Hello everyone, I've only just sat down in enough time to tell you about this weeks Freebie Friday.

I've been getting ready for club tomorrow and then both my son and then my husband both decided they wanted hair cuts, so it is now 10.20 pm and I'm just doing my blog!

This weeks Freebie is a tutorial on how to make a bendy card, as in the picture below.

As usual you will find the download on the tutorial page of my main site.

Have a lovely weekend, all for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday-Easter inserts

Good evening everyone.

I cant believe it is now over a year since I started this blog! It certainly doesn't seem that long.

I have had a busy week but have had time to design my samples for a demo I am doing this week.

The demo is for the half in, half out technique using dies. I have used Tonic ones for my samples.

This card is one I made because I was playing with some new Marianne dies I bought at the NEC.

The Freebie Friday this week is a set of A5 inserts with an Easter theme. As always you can download them from the free download page on my main site.

Have a good weekend, all for now, Tina x

Latest projects

Good evening everyone, I hope you have all had a nice weekend?

I had a card from each of my children today but that was as far as the Mothers Day thing went!

I have been busy today making cards with a couple of the new dies I recently bought.

This first one is the Tattered Lace oriental panda die, which is so lovely you don't need to do much with it for a great card.

This next one is a white on white card, which can be really effective. I have used a new Marianne die for the shaped top, Petras mirror for the main shape and then various Marianne dies for all the other embellishments. Some handmade flowers to finish it off.

I hope you like them!

All for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday-Easter digistamps

Good evening bloggers,

It is turning out to be a lovely evening, the rain has dried up and the sun is trying to make an appearance before it goes down. It is supposed to be a lovely weekend, so enjoy it while it lasts!

Happy Mothers day for Sunday to all those mums out there. Also my thoughts are with those who no longer have their mums with them. Just remember to appreciate them while you do.

The Freebie today is a set of Easter digistamps.

As always you will find the stamps on the Free download page of my main site. If you are a regular visitor you will notice I have had a bit of a shuffle and put the tutorials on a separate page as it was getting a bit full.

Due to such a busy week, I haven't been making much this week, I am at club tomorrow, so I will upload my projects over the weekend.

All for now, Tina x 

Freebie Friday-Card tutorial

Good evening everyone, I hope you are all well?

I am posting the freebie early this week as I am going to the craft show at the NEC tomorrow and I will be late home and probably very tired, its hard work spending money!!! Maybe I'll see you there?

The pictures below are the card I have made a tutorial for which as usual can be downloaded from my main site under the free tutorial section.

Front

Inside

The card itself is very simple, it is more the decorating that takes the time!

Here are some other cards I have made this week:

This card was made using the Marianne Anja corner die on all 4 corners of a square piece of card, matted onto a coloured card. The topper is a little notelet I have had for ages, stamped with a Clarity message and a bow to finish it off.

This card was made by measuring 10cm from each side of an embossed A4 card and drawing a pencil line. The semi circle die is from Heartfelt creations and was cut on the line each side. I then scored the card, top and bottom of the die cut area. I used a Martha Stewart punch and punched 2 flower borders which I glued on the front panel of the card. The little flowers on the semi circles come in the same die set, I then used Cosmic shimmer glue in the centres of all the flowers on the card. The topper is a Spellbinder die and so is the main flower in the centre. 

For this card, I stamped Little Claires beach hut and coloured with pro markers. I die cut it using an Xcut ornate frame die and mounted it onto a square card which has been embossed with an Embossalicious frame folder and inked over.

Thats all for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday

Good evening Bloggers,

I cant believe its Friday again! 

I have had a busy week with club meetings yesterday and another one tomorrow!

Here are the cards I made yesterday:

This Bookatrix card was made at club yesterday afternoon, it has been a long time since I made a Bookatrix card!

These stepper cards were made last night at another club.

Freebie Friday

This weeks freebie has been made with the onset of Spring in mind, there are two sheets, one pyramage sheet of two daffodil pictures and the other one is faux pyramage which gives all the effect without the cutting!

As usual you can find the freebie on my main site.

Have a good weekend, all for now, Tina x 

Freebie Friday-Cute mice stamps part 3

Good evening everyone, I hope you are looking forward to a lovely weekend?

I have had a busy week as always, I've been playing at some new projects for a change.

I've had this chest of drawers in my craft room for ages and I was fed up with them being so boring, so I decided to jazz them up a bit.

 Before

After

I made a picture frame card for the first time this week as well.

Now to the freebie, to conclude the collection, you can download the final part of the cute mice stamps on the main site.

All for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday- Cute mouse digistamps part 2

Good evening everyone, its freebie Friday again!

I cant believe how quick its come around again! I hope you liked the freebie last week, if so you are in for a treat as this weeks freebie is the second part of the collection.

As usual you can download the freebie from my main site.

This week I have been busy with my latest toy! I have loads of silicone moulds which I normally use UTEE or modelling clay with to make my own embellishments but this time I have been using hot glue sticks with my hot glue gun to fill the moulds and they come out lovely!

These are some I made and then painted with pearl acrylic paints.

I went for a workshop yesterday with Cutting Edge crafts, we had a lovely afternoon with them in a lovely relaxed atmosphere with David being very patient and kind to my ladies, here is one of the cards we made which is a double dutch fold card.

We will definitely go for more workshops with David and I can recommend them to you. 

All for now, Tina x

Craft and chat club

Good evening Bloggers,

I hope you are all having a good week? 

Mine is better than last week as I am feeling so much better, I had a horrific cough for two weeks which with the help of antibiotics is starting to get better.

I was at Craft and Chat club last Saturday and made a couple of cards using a Sizzix Bigz die which cuts 1 panel and then you link however many you want together to make a concertina album. Here are the two I have made:

I hope you like them, personally I cant choose my favourite between them!

All for now, Tina x

Freebie Friday

Hello everyone!

I am sorry for the lack of posts but it was my sons' 18th last Monday and so we travelled down to Sussex for a family get together to celebrate his birthday. I have been ill with a terrible cough which has been upsetting my asthma for the last 12 days and so haven't got much done lately. 

Today's freebie is a set of 4 cute mice digistamps, they are really sweet and I hope you like them! 

Hopefully I will start to feel better this week and get round to some card making.

Have a good week, see you soon, Tina x

P.S. As usual you will find the free stamps on my main site

Card making weekend.

Hello everyone, I hope you've had a good weekend and not floated away in the floods.

I have been away on a card making weekend in Leicester and had a brilliant time!

I thought you might like to see the cards I made while I was there.

The weekend will be held again in March next year, if you are interested and would like some info, please contact me.

All for now, Tina x