Madcap Manor

Evening, all! The last couple of days have been very cold and windy - perfect for staying indoors and making a Christmas card or two!   Yes, there's a new challenge at My Time to Craft Christmas and we'd like you to use Die-Cuts Only on your creations. No stamps! Just die-cuts!   I made an easel card, using Spellbinders Grand Circles and Grand Scalloped Circles dies for the base and papers. Everything I used came from an old kit called Festive Forest by Love from Lizi including the green die-cut foam deer which I used as a stopper. There are still some very pretty stickers and tags on her website here.    The one thing I always have to remember when making a circle card is to keep the width to 5 1/2 inches, as my largest envelopes are only 6 inches! I speak from sad experience.   My teamies have done some wonderful work as usual, have a look at the Challenge post to see just how versatil die-cuts are!   Thanks for looking, and s...

So many people seem to be under the weather at the moment. If any of you lovely people aren't feeling too good I hope you get well soon! This is made with a Spellbinders Parisian Accents die: I cut one blue and one green strip, trimmed the plain bits of card remaining, and swapped the patterns. Then I put a narrow strip of gold ribbon across the middle and stamped the sentiment (which I see is wobbly - oops!). I am determined to play more with my dies! There's a terrific website Card-making-magic and Christina who runs it has posted some amazing video tutorials! Well worth a visit - it's aimed especially at beginners, but there's plenty to learn!! I'm off to pop this card through the door of yet another neighbour, poor man, I hope it cheers him up! Thanks for looking! love Mags B x

Hi, guys! It's a gorgeous autumn day and the sun is shining, so of course I'm tackling my list of Christmas cards! This was quite quick to make, apart from easing the snowflakes out of the Whiff of Joy die! The background is by Kanban, the colour is shaded from dark to light and as you can see there are little bits of silver here and there. The 3 snowflakes have been Glamour Dusted thoroughly (though it isn't showing brilliantly, I blame the photographer!) and held together with a Papermania gem brad which was originally clear so I coloured it with a Sapphire Flexmarker. The sentiment came free with a magazine last year. I'll be making more of these! But first I must clear my craft hovel - I'm sure there's a carpet somewhere under the boxes of crafty stuff! I'm entering this to the Cute Card Thursday Challenge as their theme is 'Glitter.' I'm also entering Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge as Hazel want to see Snowflakes! Th...

Hi, guys! I'm sorry I haven't been around much, we had the annual Holiday Club at Church last week, and it's been manic! Fabulous fun, too! This last few days I've been making thank you cards (7 since Thursday!) This is for the wonderful team who supplied us with tea and coffee - I don't know how I'd have managed without them! I have this new die-cut of a teapot and cups by a firm called 'Joy!'  but I can't recall where I bought it! I used Pink Petticoat papers for the die-cuts and smaller square, and the background is a freebie from 'Papercraft Essentials' magazine. I went round the edges of the pot and cups with Old Paper DI to give a bit more definition, as one of the ladies has bad eyesight. The photo is a bit faded, irl there's more of a contrast. The sentiment is a Marianne die, and you're going to see it several times in the next few days! I stickled in Cotton Candy - I've discovered a new way to stickle compl...