Dinning Room

Hello! I have this tutorial on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog today, for a card idea I've wanted to try for a while - an exploding box card with a Pop Stand feature in the middle. I decided to use Karen Burniston's lovely new Christmas Trees Pop Stand, which has a beautiful floating centre. Directions for making the card: 1. Score a 12'' x 12'' double-sided piece of card stock into 4'' squares as shown below. It's been my first chance to use my new Martha Stewart Score Board, which I found lovely and easy to use! 2. Cut away the four corner squares. Fold under the two outer side squares (so that the card base can fit through a die cutting machine). Die cut the small pop stand tabs into the middle of the centre square. (This will also die cut the two folded-under side squares, but these die cuts will get covered up later.) Open out the card base again, so that it looks as below. 3. Using more double-sided card stock, die cut pieces to make the large

I'm not much of a one for celebrating Halloween, but I do like this stamp set by Purple Onion Designs! I had fun making the background, by dabbing ink onto a large stamping block, and printing that onto white card stock. I sprayed it with water, sprinkled it with a bit of rock salt, and let it dry before stamping the black images. I used Stephanie Barnard inks, which are incrediby vibrant and juicy! I backed it with the Tim Holtz cobweb die. Product links:    

I have a Sizzix Flip-its card today, using another of the gorgeous stamps from Stacey Yacula's new collection at Purple Onion Designs. (T here is a  limited time special set price of $100 , till the 4th of November!) I used the ' Maple ' stamp, which I cut out and layered with foam pads. I coloured Maple with Copics, and added spots to the scarf with Signo Uniball White pen. Product Links:    

Hiya! I am back today with a Pop it Ups Accordion Oval card, featuring new stamps by Stacey Yacula for Purple Onion Designs.  A beautiful new Stacey Yacula collection is being released today, called 'Snowflake Grove' ! It consists of 30 gorgeous new stamps, and there is a limited time special set price of $100 , till the 4th of November. I used another new stamp from Purple Onion Designs, for the sentiment, from a set called Holiday Marquee Sentiments . I added some bunting flags, which I inked along the edges, and I also added ink out the outer edges of the card. The Stacey Yacula stamps I used on the card are Oakley the bear, and the Decorated Tree . I coloured them with Copics, and added some Stickles. I cut some holly leaves with a punch for the bottom corner. Other products used:    

It's time for Karen Burniston's monthly Designer Challenge and this time we have a 'Characters in Costume' challenge!! I thought what better costume than a Wonder Woman costume, and on such a classy chick as Cheepers?! Also - there is a sale on all Karen's Characters and Props dies at the moment!! I used the Lorna Label die set on some red gingham card, for the card base.  I added some card layers to the pop-out part, including a giant yellow star as a background for Cheepers (sorry - Wonder Chick!) I die cut some extra body layers, and cut them down to make the different parts of the outfit. I cut out a tiara, and added a star from the Star Fancy Frame Edges die set. I used the small cloud from the All Seasons Tree set, to make some blue hair which I coloured curls onto, and added some red Glitter Dots for earrings! I printed off a Wonder Woman title, and modified it using letters from the Alphabet - Caps 1 set! I inked the edges of the white card stock with black

I attended the funeral of my friend's mother last week, and made this card for my friend. It was a lovely day - sad of course, but simple and genuine and sweet. For the card, I used the Circle Pull Card on some plain white cardstock, and made my own embossing paste ( here is my previous tutorial for this  - it's really easy), which I used with Tim Holtz's Flourish Stencil. For the centre circle, I used gold heat embossing powder, with VersaMark ink and a Stampin' Up stamp. I used Copic pen in the Copic Airbrush, to spray pink around the edges of the card. I backed the card with gold cardstock, which you can just see at the edges of the card. Finally, I added some flowers from a gorgeous set by Crate Paper, called Open Book Floral Ephemera. I spent most of August in France - away from my craft supplies, so to get my 'craft fix' I bought some new stash online instead. It was like Christmas when I got back from France! Here are a few of the new things, mainly by Ma