Christine's Creative Nook

Hello my crafty friends! Today I have for you an Open Book Easel Card and adorned it with Zinnias from the new  Painter's Garden release by Spellbinders/ Susan's Garden .  This was a fun and easy card to make and I used Tink Zinck's YouTube video found here. Zinnia S4-1236 was cut from Spellbinder/Susan's Garden Specialty Paper SCS-122  (3) times, colored with alcohol markers ( OLO ) then shaped using Spellbinders/Susan's Garden Ultimate Tool Kit T021 . Susan has a YouTube video for creating the zinnia which can be found here . Happy Birthday is from Garden Gate Collection stamped on white cardstock using black ink attached to card stopper using Clear Double Sided Adhesive . Hope you have been inspired and will now go make a card.  This card was really fun and easy and can be used for many different occasions. Thanks for stopping by today and until next time - Happy Creating! Christine You only live once but if you live right once is enough! Unknown  

Hello My Crafty Friends! Today my card is a pop up birthday card for our granddaughter (she was 23 this week).   I have not done a tutorial for it but here are the Karen Burniston dies that I used to create it.  Finished card is 6 X 6. Karen Burniston dies used: #1226 Surprise Cube Pop Up (from her latest release) #1118 Flap & Closure #1030 Happy Birthday #1179 Happy Birthday Shadow #1031 Numbers #1003 Word Set 2 Birthday (for the celebrate and the Happy) #1083 Word Set 9 Love #1090 Border Blend Argyle #1091 Border Blend Party #1100 (old die set from ECD) Props 8 - cake, plate & fork Hope you like my card and you will check out Karen Burniston's website karenburniston.com  Thanks for stopping by hope you have been inspired. Until next time - Happy Crafting! Christine You only live once but if you live right once is enough! Unknown  

  Hello My Crafty Friends! Today I have a fun card it is called Easy Flip Card  by Sam Calcott found here   Susan did this card recently o her Facebook Live. I have adorned it with Spellbinders / Susan's Garden Pansy from the new release Painter's Garden  and Eucalyptus from Foliage & Ladybug /Autumn Flora . Card is a 6" X 6" Spellbinders Scallop Heart and regular Hearts were used for this card. 3 Pansies S2-352 were cut from Susan's Garden Specialty Paper SCS-122 , colored with OLO Marker V-2.6 the shaped with Susan's Ultimate Tool Kit T021   Susan has a YouTube video to show how to create the pansy it can be found here. 5 Eucalyptus were cut from Susan's Garden Specialty Paper , colored with OLO Markers a yellow green over a blue green (can't remember the exact colors) shaped using Susan's Garden Ultimate Tool Kit .  Susan's YouTube video for this can be found here .   Kids Choice Glue was used to build the flowers and foliage ...

Hello my crafty friends! Today I have another card using dies from Spellbinders/ Susan's Garden latest release Painter's Garden .  I have chosen to use the Gerber Daisy from this new release and have put them on a slimline card. Card base is 4" X 9" white 110# cardstock.  From dark peach cardstock a mat was cut 8-3/4" X 3-3/4" adhered to card front.  Second mat was cut from lighter peach cardstock using Spellbinders S6-186 Fluted Classic Slimline die set using 2 largest dies attach to card front using Clear Double Sided Adhesive .  White layer is designer cardstock cut using 2 next to the 2 largest dies adhered to card front using Clear Double Sided Adhesive . From Susan's Garden Specialty Paper SCS-122    3 Gerber Daisies S5-531 were cut then colored with alcohol markers (OLO Markers were used here O2.2 & OR2.3 for the lighter daisies and OR2.3 & O1.3 for the darker one plus YG8.5 & YG8.7 for the leaves).  Once colored they were sha...

 Hello my crafty friends! Today I have another card for you adorned with Zinnias .  The card base is a floating frame it has an easel back. I found it on Sam Calcott YouTube site.  She has lots of great card ideas.  The Zinnias are from The Painter's Garden Collection by Spellbinders/Susan Garden . Here is a link to Sam Calcott's YouTube video for creating Floating Cards - you can find it here .  For background piece o my card it is a very old piece of  glittered corrugated paper (no recollection of where I got it) I cut so it was on diagonal.  It really is pretty in person.  The remainder of the card is  white cardstock except the little springs I made to raise card front I did them in brown.  My frame width is about 1/2" and I did use acetate. My Zinnias were cut from Spellbinders/Susan's Garden Specialty Paper SCS-122 colored with alcohol markers, shaped using Susan's Ultimate Tool Kit T021 and assembled using Kids Choice G...

Hello my crafty friends! Today I have a card that once again is adorned with another flower from Spellbinders/Susan's Garden Painter's Garden Collection - the Zinnia .  Wow what fun this flower is there are so many different colors.  The colors I have used on this card were inspired by a picture I saw on line called Queen Red Lime. Card base is 6" X 6" tent fold card.  Copper mat was cut 5-3/4" X 5-3/4"  (because I wanted to cut down on bulk I cut center out of copper mat leaving 1/2" frame all around) green mat was cut 5-1/2" X 5-1/2" and white was cut 5-1/4" X 5-1/4" then embossed using 3D embossing folder Bamboo Trellis from Painter's Garden Collection .  All were layered onto card front using Bearly Art Glue . The pot was created using Spellbinders/Susan's Garden  S6-180 Garden Pot & Dahlia from Summer Flora Collection .  The pot was cut twice once from copper cardstock and once from white cardstock.  To age the co...

 Hello My Crafty Friends! Today I have for you a Diamond Easel Card adorned with Carolina Allspice from Spellbinders/ Susan's Garden newest release Painter's Garden .   The video I used to create the card was by Sam Calcott which can be found here . Using Spellbinders/ Susan's Garden Club Carolina Allspice S4-1234   3 sets of flowers and leaves were cut from Susan's Garden Specialty Paper SCS-122 .  All were colored with alcohol inks then shaped using Susan's Garden Club Ultimate Tool Kit T021 then assembled using Kids Choice Glue .  Susan has a YouTube video to create this flower which can be found here . Flowers were added to diamond card front using Kids Choice Glue. Easel stop was cut using Spellbinders Candlewick Rectangles S5-399.   Sentiment was stamped on white cardstock with black ink then cut and adhered to easel stop using Clear Double Sided Adhesive . Easel stop was adhered to card using dimensional tape. Thank you for stopping by tod...

Hello My Crafty Friends! Today I have a card I created using the Pansy from Spellbinders / Susan's Garden new collection called Painter's Garden .  The Pansy is such a sweet delicate flower and comes in many lovely colors. My card is a 5" X 7" card base from 110# cardstock with a couple of mats.  The pink mat is 4-3/4" X 6-3/4" with a heart cut in center.  I used 2 heart dies using the smaller of the 2 on the pink mat.  The top white mat is 4-1/2" X 6-1/2" with larger heart cut out.   I actually cut the heart into white mat first so I could line up the hearts.  I laid the white mat with heart cutout over the pink mat then centered my smaller heart die in heart cutout of the white mat and taped it in position.  After removing white mat I run the pink mat with die through cutting machine.  The white mat was then embossed.  Pink mat was adhered to card front using Clear Double Sided Adhesive .  Next the white mat was adhered to pin...

Hello my crafty friends it is 2023! Just thought I would post a couple cards I had created using Karen Burniston Pop Up Dies . My first love is creating my S usan's Garden flower cards but right up there is creating cards from Karen Burniston dies.  The Bear was for one of our granddaughter's birthdays she goes to University of Maine and their Mascot is a Black Bear. The Second card was a Christmas card for our Dog Groomer - she takes great care of our sweet little Yorkie named Bo. Karen has such great dies and great videos for creating these fun cards! Thanks for looking - if you are looking for something different and fun check out Karen Burniston! Christine You only live once but if you live right once is enough! Unknown