Christine's Creative Nook

Hello my crafty friends - Welcome to my blog, Today I have a card for you using Susan's Garden Lace Cap Hydrangea, Feverfew, Frame It Stitched Susan's Rectangle and Galvanized Tub . Here is how I created it. Step 1 Create a piece of background size to be determined by size rectangle used for cut out on card front..  My piece was created using several colors of Distress Oxide Sprays. Step 2   Create 6" X 6" card base.  Cut a rectangle upper left side of card front.  Susan's Garden Stitched Fitted Frame Rectangles were used but any rectangle die would do. Step 3   Cut background piece a little larger than the rectangle opening.  Adhere to back of opening using Clear Double Sided Adhesive . Step 4   Stamp made from Garden Notes Ladder Fern was used with green ink to stamp couple of ferns in area above tub so they would show above tub and flowers. Step 5   Cut 2  Galvanized Tubs with Clear Double Sided Adhesive on back.  Adhere 1 on t...

Welcome to my blog, Today I have some Valentine's cards I made this year. One of them is a quadra fold card that Susan Tierney-Cockburn had demonstrated last week on her Wednesday Live video. It is a fun card to make. The other 2 cards were pretty basic 6" X 6" cards. On all of them I did use Susan's Pom Pom Dahlia Die. Last week I had a tragedy in the family and so I didn't get all the flowers I had planned to make and no tutorial which I am sorry. Thanks for stopping by today and until next time - Happy Crafting! Christine

Hello My Crafty Friends, Here are a couple of Valentine's I created for a couple of young boys using Karen Buriston's dies. Such fun cards to make - Karen Burniston has great dies to make interactive cards. Thanks for stopping by today and until next time Happy Crafting! Christine

Hello My Crafty Friends, My card today features some of Susan Tierney-Cockburn' s older dies Garden Notes Tea Cup, Forget Me Nots and Stitched Frames Circle. This card was based on this inspiration picture Tea Cup was cut from White Soft Finish Cardstock with Clear Double Sided Tape on back. Adhere 1 on top of the other. Using Distress Oxide Inks I created a small background in center of cup. A few Forget Me Not flowers and leaves were penciled on over background. Water Color Pencils were used to color image. Several coats of embossing powder were added to cup. Garden Notes Forget Me Nots were created from White Soft Finish Cardstock colored with Copics B23 marker. The tiny center flowers were cut from yellow cardstock and leaves from green cardstock which was shaded and shaped. Several sprigs were created. Card base is a 6" X 6" created from White Soft Finish Cardstock. Yellow paper was cut 5-1/2" square adhered to card front. Blue printed paper was cut 5...