Christine's Creative Nook

Hello My Crafty Friends! First of all I want to wish you all a very Happy NewYear!    It has been a while since I have posted due to working extra and trying to get everything done for Christmas.  Hopefully now I can post on a regular basis. Susan has a new release with Spellbinders called Painters Garden and today I have used one of the flowers from the collection the Bird of Paradise plus the new embossing folder Bamboo Trellis .  I have paired the Bird of Paradise with Oriental Lilies from Summer Flora Collection and the Berry Branch & Eucalyptus from Autumn Flora Collection . Card base is 5" X 7" with dark brown mat layer 4-3/4" X 6-3/4".  Light brown cardstock was cut 4-1/2" X 6-1/2" then embossed  using Bamboo Trellis E3D-044 .  Attach embossed piece to card front using Clear Double Sided Adhesive. Bird of Paradise S4-1237 was cut from S usan's Garden Specialty Paper SCS-122 colored with Alcohol Markers ( Copic & Olo ) and sha

Hello My Crafty Friends! Today I have another Faceted Diamond Easel Card and adorned it with Spellbinders Susan's Garden Tea Roses and Jasmine . This is the card that  Susan Tierney-Cockburn  did on her "Facebook Live" November 17th.  The video for creating card base can be found  here From  Spellbinders Susan's Garden Specialty Paper SCS-122  using  Spellbinders Susan's Garden Tea Rose S6-176 from Summer Flora Collection  I cut 3 roses and 1 bud colored with OLO R 1.7 marker.  Several leaves  and stems were cut from green cardstock and shaded with ink. Spellbinders Susan's Garden Ultimate Tool Kit was used to shape flowers and leaves. YouTube Video for creating the Tea Rose can be found  here Jasmine S4-1204 from Winter Garden Collection was cut from Susan's Specialty Paper SCS-122 .  Susan's YouTube Video can be found here . The center shape where your arrangement goes can be most any shape so I chose Diamond.   From silver mirror card I cut l