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 shape

 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 Glue .  Susan has a YouTube v

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