Christine's Creative Nook

Hello my crafty friends! Today I have a Twisted Easel Christmas Card for you which I have adorned with Spellbinders Susan's Garden Ice Skate s from the newest release Winter Garden .  My skates were created to resemble my last pair of ice skates that I had.  My parents had bought them for me for Christmas when I was a teenager.  I had asked for white patent leather but I did not want fur around the collar but low and behold that is what my parents could find that year because way back then there was no internet to search. YouTube video for card base can be found here by Sam Calcott .  Spellbinders Picot Petite Ovals S5-433 was used to cut large oval from red cardstock.  Adhered to left side of diagonal fold front of card using Bearly Art Glue .  5-3/4" square striped paper  ( Paper Studio Diagonal Stripe ) was adhered to inside of card. The Ice Skate Die from Winter Garden Release .  I cut 4 from 110# white cardstock glued 2 together for 1 skate - I made 2.  Using Ultra Thi

Hello My Crafty Friends! Well today I have one last Peek A Boo Slider Card .  I told you it was fun and easy and the ideas just keep rolling in your head once you do one.  My card today is a Winter / Christmas Card I have Created. Paper is P13 Cozy Winter which is a wonderful paper pack. Card base was created using Tina Zinck 's YouTube video found here . Lantern was cut from Copper Cardstock using S4-1116 Garden Lantern from last year's Holiday Release  and embossed using an embossing folder by Cuttlebug Provocraft to give a hammered look.  The little knob and latch cut from silver cardstock. From green cardstock S5-515 Winter Evergreen die set  from the new Winter Garden Release was used to cut the White Pine and S4-1113 die set from last year's Holiday Release was used to cut Winterberry . They were all shaded then shaped with Spellbinders Susan's Garden Ultimate Tool Kit. Berries were created using tiny Styrofoam balls colored with acrylic paint . The snow w

Hello my crafty friends! Today I made another Peek A Boo Slider Card. I had so much fun making my other one.  I even have another one cut out - it is going to be a Christmas card.  Tracey Farr's card on aNNie's World Wide Crafty Invention Facebook page is what inspired me to make the Peek A Boo Slider Card. Today I decided to use an actual picture of my arbor in my yard.  Printed a 4 X 6 picture then die cut using same rectangle die I used to cut card.   Instructions for card base I used was a Tina Zinck YouTube video found here . Susan's Wooden Bucket and Geranium die set (S6-182) was used for this card.  I turned wooden bucket into a washtub cutting it from gray cardstock (twice) and embossed with Ranger Watering Can  E mbossing Powder. Geraniums were cut from Susan's Garden Specialty Paper colored using Copic Markers RV19 & R81 then shaped using Susan's Garden Ultimate Tool Kit.  Susan has a YouTube video found here . Paper Used is P13 Till We Meet Again

  Hello my crafty friends, Hope you are having a great summer.  Weather here in Maine has been very hot and in my area of Central Maine it has been very dry seems the showers just go around us. Today I have for you a Peek-A-Boo Slider Card inspired by a card Tracey Farr posted on aNNie's World Wide Crafty Inventions Facebook page.  Tina Zinck has a YouTube video on creating this card and I will link to it for you.  She makes it very easy to follow - fun card to create. Card is 5-1/2" X 5-1/2"  Card base was cut from white 110# cardstock. Link to instructions by Tina Zinck can be found here The Jasmine and Juniper dies from Spellbinders Susan's Garden new release Winter Garden were used for this card.  They were created from Susan's Garden Specialty Paper and shaped using Susan's Garden Ultimate Tool Kit.   Susan has YouTube Videos that should be up very soon. I added the Juniper first to card front using Kids Choice Glue .  My berries are made from li

Hello My Crafty Friends, My card today is one of those cards that no one really likes to have to make - a sympathy card but ones that we have to create from time to time. I have created a Rocker Card adorned with the Floribunda Rose from Spellbinders Susan's Garden Garden Gate Release along with Ladder Ferns from Spring Flora and Berry Branch from Autumn Flora Release. The Rocker Card was done by Susan Tierney-Cockburn on her Garden Club Live on Facebook which can be found here .  I used 110# white cardstock and a Polish patterned paper called Hello Beautiful. Susan's Garden Floribunda Rose (S5-507) from Garden Gate Release was created from Susan's Specialty Cardstock (SCS-122 ).  I did several buds and 1 full rose.  I used Copic Marker RV10 to color and Susan's Ultimate Tool Kit (T-021) to shape.  Leaves were cut from green cardstock. For berries I used Berry Branch from Susan's Garden Berry Branch (S4-1079) from her Autumn Flora Release cutting f

Hello My Crafty Friends, Today I have a simple card for you created using Helleborus die set and Sentiment stamp from  Spellbinders Susan's Garden newest release Winter Garden . My card is a 6" X 6" tent fold card created from white 110# cardstock. Gold cardstock was cut 5-3/4" X 5-3/4" added to card front using Bearly Art Glue . Pattern paper (P13 Cosy Winter) cut 5-1/2" X 5-1/2 " added to card front using Bearly Art Glue Sentiment from the new Winter Garden Release was stamped on white cardstock using black ink.  It was die cut from using a die set I have in my stash.  The die the next size up was used to cut gold cardstock to back the sentiment.  Bearly Art Glue was used to adhere the 2 together.  Dimensional tape used to adhere to upper right corner of card. Spellbinders Susan's Garden Gathering Basket  from Holiday Release was cut twice from brown cardstock adhered together then I embossed with an old Darice Embossing Folder - Basket Wea

Hello My Crafty Friends!   Well I am finally back to paper gardening again.  I was in an auto accident a couple months ago and have been busy with healing and tests as I blacked out while driving and totaled my vehicle.   Today I have a 3 Tier Shutter Card for you with Susan's Garden/Spellbinders newest release Letterbox and Star Jasmine - Winter Garden release along with Trillium from Garden Favorites release. The card base is super simple to do below I have template marked up and if you want to see video Susan did this card on her Facebook Live which can be found here . Create base and chose a patterned paper to add to card base.  I added another layer - white cardstock front cut 3-1/2" square and back I used 3-1/4" square. I created the Letterbox, Star Jasmine and Trillium ( Spellbinders will have them on YouTube very soon) I added Letterbox and flowers to card front using Bearly Art Glue .  Add Letterbox first then arrange flowers so they are pleasing to the