An Easel Creation!

Good Morning Everyone!!! I wanted to share a card I made with this great new digi Maya Blowing Bubbles. I think it is so fabulous that now we have our own digital line of images!!! These images are so great to work with. I also just had to include a sentiment from our digi line too!!! Check out all the new products HERE.

For my creation I wanted to change up your usual Easel card shape. I thought it would be fun to create a legal envelope size easel card!!!! I used spring/summer like colors because Maya just reminds me of warm weather. My kiddos love blowing bubbles when its nice outside... Hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day!

Guest Designer Bev's Tutorial - Attaching Charms

Morning All!

Today we have a special treat for you. Our Special Guest Designer Bev, of All the Things I Love, is sharing a tutorial with us today for attaching charms to our projects. I don't know about you, but I love charms and I never know exactly what to do with them or the best way to attach them to my cards. So Bev is going to share her idea, which is not only easy to do, but creates a perfectly dangling charm detail!

I’ve had lots of requests on how I attach my charms with chain and jump rings so I have quickly done a simple step-by-step for those that wanted to know.

I use forceps (medical ones that I picked up from a medical suppliers here in Newcastle) but any pointed nose pliers will do the trick, tweezers won’t work as they are not strong enough. I use cheap silver plated jump rings and chain which I get from the jewelery section in Hobbycraft but I would think you could pick these supplies up at any bead/craft store.

Hold the jump ring with both sets of forceps/pliers with the join uppermost.

Twist the right hand forceps/pliers towards you – DO NOT PULL IT OUTWARDS, all this does is misshape the jump ring, By twisting it forwards to open and backwards to close the ring remains a perfect circle and does not distort.

Repeat with the other end of the chain and feed this jump ring on to the brad to secure to your flower.

 I hope this helps a little, looking forward to seeing all the dangling charms. lol

 

 

Thanks for looking,

Hanging with Whimsy

Good morning all!!!  And a very happy Tuesday to you.  I have lots of exciting Whimsy to share with you today!
First......

The digi's are here!!!!!  Have you hopped along with us on our new release hop???  If not head over to Crissy's blog and start the fun!  This is the card I created for the hop.  I used Pebbles the cat, one of the prizes on the hop!  Along with 2 other digi images, a digi sentiment set AND a 15$ gift certificate!!! WOW huh?!?!
Crissy has also started a new challenge blog, Sundays with Crissy.  It's a lot of fun!!  This week's challenge is to do some kind of combination..images, papers, embellies, challenges, whatever.  A lot of the Whimsy gals guest designed this week, to help Crissy start off with a bang!  You can use any image you like, but to be entered for the prize you need to use one of Crissy's digis.  Available HERE.  Oh and did I mention.....the prize is COPICS!!!!!  15 of them! Here's the combo card I did for the challenge.  I used Maya blowing bubbles, isn't she sweet?  And super fun to color too!!!
Well, I won't keep you here much longer so you can get hoppin!!!  Have fun!  Erin:)

Todays the day !

Well today is the day that  the wonderful New Digital Collection is available to download !

here is the very gorgeous Maya - designed by Chrissy Armstrong.

Make sure you join us on the blog hop later today !!!

Maya was coloured with copics and the gorgeous lilic bloom is from 

Prima .

Hope to see you on the blog hop later !

                                                                           Maddy x