Christine's Creative Nook

Hello My Crafty Friends!   My card today was a birthday card for my best friend of over 60 years daisies are one of her favorite flowers.  I used Spellbinders Susan's Garden Gerber Daisy S5-531 from The Painters Garden Collection.   The flower represents the Blue Disc African Daisy.  Susan's YouTube video for creating the Gerber Daisy can be found here    I used Olo Alcohol Markers B0.6 and B0.7 to color the tiny center florets and a tiny bit of orange pollen on the outer edge of center flowers.   For the center of the front of card I used  Spellbinders S5-204 Lace Hearts .  added a few berries. The embossing folder is a  Lisa Horton 3D Lily of the Valley Blooms LHCEF 190. I recently had seen this card on Facebook that intriqued me it was by Avee Renee.   The card is called Mini Slimline Hexagon Card.   The tutorial can be found here   The card is an easy card to create. I do hope that I have inspired you to make yo...

  Hello my crafty friends! My latest creation is a double gate fold card which Susan Tierney Cockburn did on her Facebook Live February 26th Susan's Garden Live.  Video can be found here   I added a pocket and tag to the back of mine.  I created Spellbinders Susan's Garden Love in a Mist S3-559 and Clematis Poet S5-712 f rom Susan's latest release Poet's Garden .  Spellbinders Fluted Circles S4-1150 were also used for the circle on front of the card.  I chose to put a pocket and tag on the back of the card. My card is a 6" X 6" and I used Susan's instructions found on link above.  I made the pocket on center back by cutting cardstock 4-3/4" by 2-3/4" layered it with designer paper 4-1/2" X 2-1/2" adhered to back with glue on side and bottom edges only forming pocket.  I cut tag using Nested Tag set from Scrapbook.com. I created the circle frame using the 2 largest circles nesting them together.  I used the largest circle die to cut a...

  Hello my crafty friends! My card today is a simple Z Fold card adorned with flowers I created using Spellbinders Susan's Garden Wild Violets S3-569 from the latest release Poet's Garden and Anemone S2-440 from the release Summer Solstice .  The Decorative die cut is an old Spellbinders die set  Doily Round S5-406. The card base was cut 6" X 12" from 110# white cardstock and scored at 3" and 6".  Mountain fold at 3" and Valley Fold at 6".  Pattern paper  1 pc 5-3/4" square and 2 pc 2-3/4" X 5-3/4" adhered to corresponding panels.  Using Spellbinders Doily Round Die set I cut 1 lacy round and 1 solid round from white cardstock and 1 solid of colored cardstock.  I adhered the lace piece to the solid colored piece then adhered the left side only to front 3" section.  I added my sentiment to the solid white piece and using Beacon 3-in-1 adhesive adhered to inside of card lining it up with the front piece (using the liquid glue ...

Hello My Crafty Friends! My card today I created for a dear friend and former co-worker that just lost her husband. It is a 5 X 7 card with basket weave background.  Susan did this background technique on her Susan's Garden Club 2 Facebook Live February 5th which is found here .  I chose to cut 9 strips  to cover the card front 8 to weave and 1 I cut pieces to fill the gaps.  I used the Love-in-a-Mist S3-559 from Spellbinders Susan's Garden latest release Poet's Garden .  I also used Gingko S4-1278   from the Victorian Garden Release and the berry branch for the  Arrowwood Viburnum S3-516 from the Winter's Grace Release.  the vessel for my flowers is a die cut from my stash.  I used Spellbinders Essential Modern Ovals S4-1266 (2nd and 3rd smallest sizes) for the sentiment. I shaped the vessel with my fingers to give it a curve added a couple dimensional tabs lower center on the back then added glue on very edge of both sides and attac...

  Hello My Crafty Friends!  Here are a couple of cards I created end of last year but never got posted.  The Echinacea and Anemone are from Spellbinders Susan's Garden Summer Solstice Release. Sorry no mini tutorials just wanted to maybe bring a little sunshine to you all on this very cold day in Maine! Stay safe, stay warm and and spread a little kindness! Thanks for stopping by and until next time Happy Creating! Christine You only live once if you live right once is enough! Unknown

Welcome My Crafty Friends! Now that the holidays are over I sure hope I can get back to doing what I love paper gardening on my cards.  2025 was a crazy year with moving after 56 years in same place and getting settled in a new community then the holidays. Today I have used Spellbinders Susan's Garden new die Wild Violet S3-569 from new release Poet's Garden along with the Lily of the Valley S4-1086 from Spring Flora (not sure this is still available ). I created an Arrow Fold Card to display my little bouquet.  I found this card on Lisa Curcio Stamp Studio YouTube page which can be found here The paper was an old CTMH paper that I used (after moving I have decided I really need to use up some of my paper stash - I have so much paper).  I used 110# black cardstock for the base. The Wild Violet was cut from Spellbinders Susan's Garden Specialty Paper, colored with Olo Markers V2.7 and V2.6 the stem and leaves YG8.5 and YG 2.5 and then shaped with Spellbinders Su...