CREAM AND BEIGE

Today I have a card to show that a friend at work asked me to make for her daughter who is celebrating a birthday next week. The only thing she asked for was something in cream and beige....


Well that had me stumped until I spied the left over pieces of paper from a scrapbook page that I did at Running With Scissors a fortnight ago.....I have almost completed this page but am waiting for some photos that I particularly want to put on the layout....its my daughter's prom this Friday, one of them anyway....she's having two....and I want some photos from this event to complete the page.


Anyway I digress, this is the card I made......

The image is one of my new stamps that I bought from Dimension Fourth at Doncaster a few weeks ago. I stamped the image and added shading with a Promarker and glittered all the edges of the letters and the leaves. A very kind lady at Dimension Fourth was demonstrating how to do this technique and kindly gave me the sample she had done so I could have a go myself....and this was my attempt. The papers as I say are the leftover scraps from the yet to be completed scrapbook page....yet to be shown. I then just added a a ribbon, some punched flowers and some pearls and jewels.

Thank you for looking.

Debbie x

LAVENDER CHILL OUT

Hello...what a wonderfully sunny day it is today although a bit hot for me I'm afraid....


How lucky am I?  I've got a week off work and I so hope the weather holds and I've also got the tennis to watch too...couldn't have planned it better if I'd tried....which I didn't.


Today's card is made with an image I coloured quite a while ago but have never got round to using.

I love House Mouse stamps, they are just so cute. I have coloured these little mice using Promarkers. The papers are from Craft Creations Limited. I bought quite a few of these in different colours as I have a bit of a thing about spots and stripes at the moment.  I have used some Bazzil card that I've had in my stash forever....think I bought these shades way back when I first started making cards. I have used a Martha Stewart border punch and I found the pearls at the bottom of my craft basket where I keep odds and ends but they matched perfectly.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

The Crafty Pad Challenge ~ # 127 ~ Bold and Bright or Soft Pastels

Totally Papercrafts Challenge ~ # 72 ~ Spots and Stripes

Sketch and Stash Challenge ~ # 64 ~ A Sketch

House Mouse Challenge ~ # 98 ~ Here Comes Summer

This is the sketch you had to follow for the Sketch and Stash challenge:~

Thank you for looking.

Debbie x

LEMON AND LIME

The weather is beautiful today and I have managed to make a bright and sunny card to share.

The image is one of my new Sugar Nellie stamps called Fairy Tale. I have coloured her with Promarkers, I think I'm getting the hang of them now. The papers are a mixture of Basic Grey and Kaisercraft.  I have used a couple of Nestability dies and a Martha Stewart border punch. The flowers are from my scraps box and came from various places. I've then just added some punched leaves and a butterfly and not forgetting a couple of brads and some Stickles to the hem of the dress.

These are not my usual choice of colours so I was a little out of my comfort zone but I wanted to play along with a few challenges.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Allsorts Challenge ~ # 109 ~ Lemon and Lime

I Love Promarkers Challenge ~ # 71 ~ Anything Goes

Cupcake Craft Challenge ~ # 147 ~ Sketcharoony

This was the sketch for The Cupcake Craft Challenge.

Thank you for looking.

Debbie x

ALNWICK WATER GARDENS

I've finished another scrapbook page....yes really....I have!!!. I wonder how long I can keep this up?.


This morning I went to my local craft shop Running With Scissors as I do on a Saturday morning for a scrapbook class and again I came home and actually finished the page rather than putting it on one side to finish....sometime later.

Again these photos were taken at Alnwick Castle Gardens in Northumberland in the water feature gardens last year.  Well worth a visit....Alnwick is where they filmed some of the Harry Potter scenes. I'm afraid my photo of this page isn't very good.

Thanks to Tracey who designs all the scrapbook pages for us. I hope you don't mind Tracey but I added a few of my own embellishments and decided not to use the ribbon.

I've got a week off work now but have a 'To Do' list as long as my arm but am hoping to sneak in a bit of crafting.

I think Mr Blogger is playing up as my followers appear to have vanished yet again.

Thank you for looking.

Debbie x

LADYBIRD LADYBIRD

I have been trying to make this card all week and today I finally found the time. I've had the idea for this card since I saw a picture on a challenge last Sunday on the Cupcake Inspirations challenge blog....and I knew exactly which stamp would fit the bill.

This picture was the inspiration and this is what I came up with....

The image is a stamp from Dimension Fourth Ltd which I bought when I went to the Stamp Magic show at Doncaster a few weeks ago.

I have coloured the image with Promarkers and added a few embellishments from my stash, the little wooden ladybirds arrived in a scrapbook kit last week and I thought they were ideal for this card. I have used some Bazzil and Kraft card for the matting and a Martha Stewart border punch on the Kraft card. I added some Stickles to the daisy and a little glossy accents to the ladybirds to make them stand out.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:-

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge ~ # 116 ~ A Picture

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge ~ # 33 ~ Use Red

Thank you for looking.

Debbie x

PHANTOM MEETS ONION MAN

Today I'd like to share two scrapbook pages that I did a while ago at my local craft shop Running With Scissors....'just to prove that I do actually finish my pages'....eventually!!!  Thanks to Tracey who always comes up with such lovely ideas and layouts.

The photographs were taken in my mum's garden where a rogue onion from the veggie patch had bolted and flowered, leaving some of the bulb skin around the flower head. I took a pen and drew a face on the remaining skin so it ended up looking like a masquerade mask....so Phantom of the Opera meets Onion Man.

I was also asked to do another of my boxed cards for a 30th Wedding Anniversary....it is much the same as the other cards that I have made and shown but I didn't want anyone to think I'd been sat back doing nothing lately.....ha ha!!!.

Thank you for looking.

Debbie x

MINNIE MOUTH!!!

Today I have a scrapbook page I'd like to show which has some photos that were taken of my daughter some time ago....her hair has been cut since then and now she has a very short inverted bob which really suits her.

I tried to match the papers to the outfit she was wearing and the theme was inspired by the amount of noise she can generate for such a wee girl....hence the title....Minnie Mouth!

I used a piece of black 12x12 card for my base layer and I had red and white polka dot paper and black and white polka dot card that I'd salvaged from the bottom of a gift box. I stitched around two edges of the card and cut out little Mickey Mouse motifs using a Cricut cartridge I'd borrowed from a friend. The flowers and brads were from my stash. The title was cut out using another Cricut cartridge but I can't remember which one it was..

Thank you for  looking.

Debbie x