Mystical Unicorns

 

I was tempted to buy this unicorn silhouette die set for half price at the Tonic sale along with some more nuvo drops for my collection.

I've experimented using different backgrounds and it works well with DL cards. The one below I snipped off the horn to turn it into a horse!

It made a nice change from making Christmas cards, another batch of 100 xmas cards went out to a local charity today to help them with their fund raising.

Nuvo Drops Storage

 Since January my Nuvo drops collection has expended quite a bit!

It is recommended that the bottles are stored upside down to stop the nozzles clogging, so when I saw that their stackable storage rack was back in stock at Tonic, it seemed a good idea to get one!

The stepped storage makes it easy to see the bottles at the back when picking the right shade and type of drop to use.

The drops have been appearing on so many of the cards I have made recently!

temptation....

 

Well, I know I shouldn't, but I went onto the Tonic website to check out their range of Nuvo drops and they had this collection of their Glitter Drops on special offer at 40% off - I just couldn't resist.

So I am going through the cards that I have already made and adding lots of glitter drop embellishments to them, a great job for a wet and miserable afternoon!

Getting a Nuvo Collection

 

For many years I have used Ranger Liquid Pearls to add embellishment to my cards, but I have got fed up of having to clear the nozzles with a pin every time I want to use them. So I am gradually swapping to Nuvo drops, as they don't seem to suffer from nozzle clogging.

They are more expensive, but the bottles are nearly twice the size and so last much longer.

So far I have 6 bottles of Crystal drops, 2 bottles of the translucent Jewels drops, 2 bottles of Glitter drops and 2 bottles of vintage drops. I think there are over 100 different colours and types, so I have a long way to go!

Tonic Floral Cuff

 Having a break from making Christmas cards ( you can have too much of a good thing!) So I decided to have a play with the tonic goodies I won last week.

The floral cuff die has a lovely clean, crisp cut and comes with 5 matching graduated flower dies

The embossing folder makes a nice clean pattern too - I think I will get alot of use from these in the future!

Lucky Me

 

I was lucky enough to win this Tonic Cardmaking Collection kit last week.  Christina Griffiths from Card Making Magic, has a regular giveaway on her blog (called Flowers, Ribbons & Pearls) and last week I was the winner!

There are lots of papers and toppers, an embossing folder and 10 stamps!

Plus a fab Floral Cuff die and loads of ideas in the magazine to inspire you to use it - a great giveaway!

Why not pop over to her blog and see what she is giving away this week, she posts one every Friday and the winner is drawn out of the hat on Saturday! You could be lucky like me.

Today's Car Boot Bargains

I visited my first car boot sale of the year this morning and picked up a big pile of crafting goodies from a lady who was having a clear out ( to make room for more stash!)

There was a box of 16 stamp sets from Honey Doo crafts (usually £8 a set) -sentiments, snowflakes, numbers and lots of flowers, 6 different distress oxide ink pads (at least £5 each new), several dies including a tonic Fairy (£11) and 2 ink duster brushes. I paid £18 for the lot and was very pleased with these additions to my craft room

I haven't got any Honey Doo Crafts stamps, so decided to try some out with a bit of heat embossing

So, these are my first makes from my new stamps - a couple of Sympathy cards and a Christening card. Really pleased with the quality of the stamps, now off back to the craft room for some more stamping!