Christine's Creative Nook

Welcome My Crafty Friends! Today I have another Pop Up Gift Bag Card for you.  My card today is adorned with Spellbinders Susan's Garden S4-1177 Sunflowers(Garden Favorites) S4-1079 Berry Branch (Autumn Flora)and S4-1086 Ferns (Spring Flora). The paper is an old but goody Graphic 45 - French Country.  I made a birthday card for our Daughter In Law she loves sunflowers and they have chickens and roosters. Card base is 5" X 7" from 110# cardstock I used black cardstock for matting  There are several YouTube videos for creating this style card this  is one link  here Once you have card base completed then you add your bouquet to front. Using Susan's Specialty Paper, Ultimate Tool Kit and Copic Markers 3 sunflowers & 1 bud, ferns and berry branch were created (small Styrofoam balls colored with acrylic paint were used for berries). Happy Birthday was cut 3 times from black cardstock with Clear Double Sided Adhesive on back then stacked together to give it di...

  Hello My Crafty Friends, Today I have for you a Diamond Stair Stepper Card which Susan Tierney-Cockburn did on her Susan's Garden Live recently she got the idea from Sam Calcott of the UK.    My card is another survivor card although it is not for breast cancer it is for a sweet lady that I just recently met - she was my sleep study tech.  Through the evening we talked and I learned that she was a cancer survivor it was Soft Tissue Sarcoma  (yellow is color for this cancer hence the yellow rose and purple is for all cancers) which is same cancer our youngest son died of.   Sam Calcott's YouTube video for this card can be found  here To decorate the front of my card I chose Spellbinders Susan's Garden dies starting with S5-507 Floribunda Rose from Garden Gate Collection .  Rose was cut from Susan's Garden Specialty Paper , colored with Copic Y15 Cad Yellow and shaped using Susan's Garden Ultimate Tool Kit.  Susan's YouTube Video fo...

  Hello my crafty friends! Today I have another survivor card that I have created for you.  It is a simple 6" X 6" tent fold card with pink Sunflower and white Bee Blossom .  I love to do these cards each year just to let let someone know that there battle wasn't forgotten just because they survived.    NOW GO GET THOSE MAMMOGRAMS!!! White 100# cardstock 6" X 12" scored at 6" fold on score line to create card base. Pink cardstock was cut 5-3/4" X 5-3/4" adhered to card front using Clear Double Sided Adhesive . White cardstock cut 5-1/2" X 5-1/2" cut then spritzed with water placed in 3D embossing folder ( E3D-033  Beveled 3D Embossing Folder by Spellbinders used here) and run through machine.  Clear Double Sided Adhesive was used to attach to card front. Spellbinders S5-525 Essential Diamond Dies from the Glimmer Greetings Collection was used for the sentiment and it's mat using the appropriate sizes for your sentiment.  Sentim...

Hello my crafty friends! Wow October already where has summer gone!  As we all know October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month - GO GET THOSE MAMMOGRAMS!!!  Each October I do a few survivor cards to send to breast cancer survivor people.  What better day to start this year but on World Card Day!   I started this a few years ago with a dear friend and classmate (graduated in 1968).  Over the years I went through my classmates that had survived it and added friends and acquaintances.  This makes me happy and I believe that it makes the receiver happy letting them know that just because they survived their journey isn't forgotten. My first card this year is a Diamond Window Card (I did a Christmas one a few weeks ago but it was larger 8"X 8").  I chose to do 6" X 6" so it would fit into my acrylic boxes which works just have less area for flowers. Here is a link for video I used to create my card just remember hers is 8" X 8" Find link here My card is d...