It's Penguining to Look a Lot Like Christmas ... is over, but it's never too early to start for next year!

I know Christmas is over, and it's a new year already, but it's never too early to start on 2022's Christmas card stock!  (oh, yes I have!)

Card Recipe:

From Dies To Die For:

• It's Penguining to Look a Lot Like Christmas Stamp Set
• Double Stitch Nesting Circles
• MFT Merry Christmas Frame
• Stiched Square Nesting Dies

Happy crafting

Annette
xx

Bundle Girl with Reindeer

This is the last one in my Hexagon series. I've really loved making this shape of card. It's so easy, but I think it really stands out.

Card Recipe:

From Dies To Die For:

• Bundle Girl with Reindeer
• Taylored Expression Brick by Brick stencil
• Stitched Hexagon dies
• Maja Design Paper pad (no longer stocked)
• Memory Box Twilight Snowflakes (no longer stocked)

Happy crafting
Annette
xx

Ellie loves Phant

I often go overboard with the embelishments when it comes to wedding themes.  In this case it's an engagement card for some friends of ours who live in The Netherlands featuring a pair of loved up heffalumps from Stamping Bella. 

Card Recipe:

From Dies To Die For:

• Ellies Loves Phant from Stamping Bella
• Maja Design Papers
• Stitched Circle Nesties

Happy crafting
Annette
xx

The Penguin and the Marshmallows

My Christmas card box is filling up nicely, and here's another cutie to pop in there ready for December.

Card Recipe:

From Dies To Die For:

• The Penguin and the Marshmallow
• Taylored Expression Brick by Brick stencil
• Stitched Hexagon dies
• Maja Design Paper pad (no longer stocked)
• Memory Box Twilight Snowflakes (no longer stocked)

Happy crafting
Annette
xx

Christmas Presents

It's the last in my set of Colorado Craft stamp cards and although it's a Christmas card, the image could possibly be suitable for a birthday card too.

Card Recipe:

From Dies To Die For:

• Christmas Presents Colorado Craft Company
• Maja Design Papers
• Lawn Fawn Stitched Scalloped Border Dies
• MFT Merry Christmas Frame

Happy crafting
Annette
xx

Holiday Penguins

There is a cute penguin playing on today's card as I'm building up my Christmas card stash.

Card Recipe:

From Dies To Die For:

• MFT Holiday Penguins
• MFT Dienamics Stitched Rounded Rectangle Stax
• Wild Orchid Crafts Open Roses
• Wild Orchid Crafts Mini Rosebuds
• Maja Design papers
• Seam binding
• Flat Backed Pearls

Happy crafting
Annette
xx

Sending Sweet Celebration Wishes

I've made some more large tags and this time I've used some cute party critters from MFT.  

To see how I made the base shape, look back to last Wednesday's post.

Card Recipe:

From Dies To Die For:

• MFT Sending Sweet Celebration Wishes
• MFT Dienamics Stitched Circle Stax
• MFT Dienamics Stitched Oval Stax
• MFT Dienamcis Stitched Square Stax
• Maja Design - Coffee in the Arbour Raspberry Cupcake
• Maja Design - Coffee in the Arbour Raspberry Lemonade
• Maja Design - Coffee in the Arbour Let's Share a Cookie
• Maja Design - Coffee in the Arbour Raspberry Jam Cookies

Happy crafting
Annette
xx

Piggy Pebbles

I really like making large tags.  They are a change from making cards and are lovely to add to a gift for someone special. 

I've made my own base shape from a stitched square rectangle and a stitched oval nesting die to curve the top.

To make the tag shape I popped the oval on the top of the rectangle but only placed the top plate up to the point where I want it to cut. 

This only allows the pressure to cut the top curve and not the bottom half.  I do the same with the patterned paper, but use a smaller oval.

Project Recipe:

From Dies To Die For:

• MFT Piggy Pebbles
• MFT Dienamics Stitched Circle Stax
• MFT Dienamics Stitched Oval Stax
• MFT Dienamcis Stitched Square Stax
• Maja Design - Coffee in the Arbour Raspberry Cupcake
• Maja Design - Coffee in the Arbour Raspberry Lemonade
• Maja Design - Coffee in the Arbour Flourishing Garden
• Maja Design - Coffee in the Arbour Raspberry Jam Cookies

Happy crafting
Annette
xx

Stamping Bella - Rosie Smooches Bernie...

Hello friends, I hope you are having an okay day!

I also hope that you and those you love are managing to stay happy and healthy!

Today I am here to show you a card made with beautiful goodies from

Dies To Die For

Stamping Bella - Rosie Smooches Bernie

I had fun colouring this beautiful image!

I used Derwent Procolour Pencils and chose a much more delicate colour palette than I'm used to!  /-:

Bernie - Pink Madder, Crimson Lake, Felt Grey, Gun Metal, Deep Cadmium, Turquoise Green, 

Rosie - Salmon, Pink Madder, Crimson Lake, Light Blue, Sky Blue

I popped the image back into a circular die and blended Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide around the edges.

I added quite a lashing of glitter!  

You can never have too much if you're a unicorn - right! (;

The sentiment is from

Stamping Bella - Mail Chick

Finally I layered the image onto some die cut design papers with a pice of pink sparkly ribbon.

Ingredients from Dies To Die For

Stamping Bella - Rosie Smooches Bernie

Stamping Bella - Mail Chick

Inkon3 Black Hybrid Detail Ink

Catherine Pooler - Circle Dies  (I used a different brand of Circle Dies but these would do nicely)!

MFT Square Stax  (Again, I used a different brand of square die but these would be fine)!

Stardust Stickles Glitter Glue

Be sure to have a look around our

Dies To Die For Blog 

to see the gorgeous DT creations there and then to 

Dies To Die For

to engage in some essential retail therapy!

Thank you for popping by!

Happy crafting - look after yourselves!

from Sue...xxx

Happy Dance

I'm doing a little Happy Dance today with this cutie from Stamping Bella.  She comes in a pack of 2 images (a large and a smaller version) and the sentiment.  I stamped the smaller image on the insert to match the outside.

Card Recipe:

From Dies To Die For:

• Happy Dance from Stamping Bella (image and sentiment)
• Versafine Ink Pad
• MFT Stitched Basic Edges 2
• Maja Design Vintage Romance Paper stack

Happy crafting
Annette
xx

Huggy Squidgie

Woohoooo, I'm so excited about my card today because it's included in the latest issue of Papercraft Essentials (issue 147) which was out last week.  

The whole Dies to Die For DT are promoting the lovely new Stamping Bella images available and I used this image called Huggy Squidgie which is really sweet and great for a 'friend' card.  

I hope you like it, and if you get the mag, check out the other DTDF DT cards on pages 55 to 58. :0)

Card Recipe:

From Dies To Die For:

• Stamping Bella Huggy Squidgie
• Versafine Ink Pad
• Maja Design Vintage Romance Paper pad
• MFT Dienamics Stitched Oval Stax

Happy crafting
Annette
xx

Those flowers again!

Happy Friday everyone, it's Kat here!

I had so much fun playing with the gorgeous MFT stitched flower dies for my set of bright floral tags last Friday that I couldn't resist seeing how they would look in a more vintage style.

Flowers are always a good way to say thank you aren't they?!

If you would like more details on how I created this card, then please do pop over to visit me at Paper Firefly.

Have a wonderful day!

Kat xx

Lovely things I used;

Vintage Spring Basics 6x6 paper pad - Maja Design
Stitched flowers - My Favorite Things
Thanks and hello  -My Favorite Things
Stitched square scallop frames - My Favorite Things

Magical Dragons

I've opted for not one, but two of the cutest dragons around for my cards today.  I watercoloured them both in pink and purple, but swapped the colours around on each one. The sentiments come from the MFT stamp set and are available from Dies to Die For as are the stitched cloud dies.

Card Recipe:

From Dies To Die For:

• MFT Magical Dragon Stamp Set
• Versafine Ink Pad
• Maja Design Vintage Summer Basics
• Lawn Fawn Puffy Cloud Border Dies
• Memory Box Stitched Clouds

Happy crafting
Annette
xx

Pin the Tail

I've always loved donkeys. I'm not sure if it's my childhood (and adulthood) love of Winnie the Pooh, or my fondness of the actual animals (we have a Donkey sanctuary not far away), but I do love 'em.  It's not often I see images of donkeys, but as soon as I saw this one, I knew that I had to ink him up.  So here is 'pin the tail' from Whimsy Stamps.

Card Recipe:

From Dies To Die For:

• Whimsy Pin the Tail stamp
• MFT Stitched Scallop Basic Edges 2
• Versafine Ink Pad
• Maja Design Vintage Romance Papers
• Brown Twine

Happy crafting
Annette
xx

Pix's Favorite Gift Box

Morning everyone, 

Sue  here today!
I might possibly have made a gift box similar to this recently but I loved it so much I made another!
irresistibubble!

Stamps - Mama Elephant, Pix's Favorites

Sentiment - Mama Elephant, Mini Messages

Dies - Mama Elephant, Mini Tags, Die-namics Stitched Square Frames,  

Lawn Fawn Pillow Box Die

Papers - Maja Design Vintage Frost Basics 7th December 

Thank you for popping by.

Happy Crafting

love from Sue...xxx

If you would like to know a bit more about how I made this card please feel free to visit me at 

tanglemouse cards

Sunny is Stylish...

Happy Monday lovely friends.

It's Sue here today with a card which could almost remind me of my lovely summer holiday if I were anywhere near as glamorous as gorgeous Sunny!

Here is a summertime card made with some gorgeous Dies to Die For goodies

Stamp - Sunny is Stylish by Stamping Bella

Dies - Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables by Lawn Fawn, Puffy Cloud Borders Die by Lawn Fawn

Papers - Maja Design Summertime 6 x 6 Pad

Thank you for popping by.

Happy Crafting

love from Sue...xxx

Away with the fairies!...

Good Morning lovelies and Happy Monday

It's Sue here today and I'm well and truly away with the fairies!

Here is a fairy box card made with some gorgeous Dies to Die For goodies

Stamps - Lawn Fawn, Fairy Friends

Sentiment - Mama Elephant, Mini Messages

Dies - Mama Elephant Mini Tags Lawn Fawn, Lawn Cuts, Fairy Friends

Papers - Maja Design, Enjoying Outdoors, Garden Creatures

Maja Design, Enjoying Outdoors, Harvest Time

Maja Design, Enjoying Outdoors, Late Summer Flowers

Thank you for popping by.

Happy Crafting

love from Sue...xxx

Lunar Easter......

Stamp- Mama Elephant Lunar Animals.

Papers- Maja Designs Spring Basics stack.

Dies- Mama Elephant Lunar Animals.

Mama Elephant mini tags.

 Die namics Blue Prints 24.

Die namcis Grassy Fields.

Sentiment- Mama Elephant mini messages.

Hi everyone! 

Well, while the new Mama Elephant release and restocks are snuggled in customs for their 3rd week (...see..look how I tried to make it sound all cute and positive there?.... rather than OMG seriously customs just let 'em go..) I thought I would have a play with my...Mo's Lunar Animal set for easter ( ...in my defense this make is for Mo so I have redeemed myself for pinching his stamp set right?!!!).

I recycled a little clear box I had saved from christmas (..sigh..yes, I am always saving stuffs like this!!!) adhered a little design paper to the back inside and filled it with little mini mini chocloate eggs from B&M (.....there might not be many left in the packet................).

Then a little bit of fun with die cutting and it was done! its so cute I wannna squish it (...yes, and maybe steal all the lil eggs too...).

Thank you for popping in, hugs Lou xxx

The beauty of memory

Sympathy cards.....

I find them very difficult to make, for several reasons. Apart from the obvious of not really being a pleasurable thing to make, generally they don't really gel with my normal style.  I really don't think they suit being frilly, highly layered and embellished etc. So this week when I'd been struggling to come up with a design for a card that really should already have been sent to a friend, I turned to Pinterest for some inspiration.

I found the answer, and it only cost me 3 hours of my life lol! Pinterest and I have a love/hate relationship, I  love that it's so full of ideas, I hate that it's so full of ideas that it sucks me in and gets me looking at stuff I never even intended to when I stuck my head in there!

Anyway I found a card, and while it's a stunning beautiful and simple elegant card, it wasn't quite me, and I didn't have the right dies and stamps for it. But I used it as my inspiration for the card below. While I was there I also spotted the sentiment I used as I have NO stamps with suitable sentiments on (something I must address), and I used the word processing facility on Open Office to type it out and re-size it just right to fit on my card. That sentiment made me think to use the Crea Diem paper from Maja with the clocks, and then I was off and running. The result is below.

Maja Design - Crea Diem - The Irreplaceable Time
Bazill Smoothies - Blackberry Swirl
La-La Land Steampunk Clock
Impression Obsession Border Duo 2
Prima Say it in Crystals - Songbird 2 (yellow gems coloured over with a W9 Copic Marker)

Well that's all from me today, but I'll see you again next week! :) xx

Linda :) xx

Are you cured yet?...........

Stamps- The whole herd.

Papers- Maja Design Nyhavn - Sitting at the Dock.

 MME Record it Here is Happy.

Dies- Die Namics Blueprints 24.

Morning all!!

I have been playing with the new stamp set from MFT by Birdie Brown,its way too cute!! and of course I totally couldn't resist it the uber cute little piggly wiggly!! hes just soo adorable with that little expression on his face!! awwwwww!!

And the sentiment just makes me giggle every time I look at it!! its such a cute way to see if someone is feeling better!!

Thank you for popping in
huge hugs Lou xxx