CAS in red and white

It's been ages since I've done any crafting that hasn't been for work, so I really enjoyed making a card for a friend. 
And this morning I got some really exciting news - I won a giveaway on the Tim Holtz blog, and to be honest I'm not sure if I'm more excited about my name being on his blog or about getting some of his fab new goodies hot off the press after CHA. So of course after I'd finished squealing like a little pig - thank goodness the kids were still in bed - I fired off an email to the lovely Mario. Mario must think I'm a bit of a headcase because he said "I can hear the excitement in your email" lol Now I just have to try and be patient and wait for my wee parcel to fly over the pond.


So here's my card...

Image: Little Red from Gorjuss Girls (PI) coloured with promarkers, greeting from LOTV
red and white card from The Papeterie, used 3 different embossing folders.


I'd like to enter her into:
Paper Pretties - texture
Pixie Cottage - red
Crafty Sentiments - lets get girly
Stamp n Doodle - red
Birthday Sundaes - birthday with sentiment


Thanks for visiting, I appreciate any comments
Debz x

Chasing my Tail

I'm having a strange day yesterday, the kids were being as awkward as they could in the  morning - wandering around like a fart in a trance. Willow had a meltdown, Scott was pushing his luck to the nth degree but hey-ho.
In the afternoon we were invited to see Willow's class hosting the school assembly - it was very hard, but I managed to hold it together and not bubble. 
They all had to dress up in colours relevant to the season they were born - Willow's an autumn baby. And they sang "We're all in this together", from High School Musical which I video'd.

I can finally show you a couple cards I made a couple weeks ago, Willow's best friend at school just became a big sister so this is the card I made to congratulate her on becoming "the big sister". Willows chum always wears the funkiest tights to school and that's where I got my inspiration from.

 Image: Kanban Urban Belles, coloured with promarkers and paper pieced. papers are all Basic grey, white card from The Papeterie, kaisercraft pearls


I'd like to enter her into...
Simon Says Stamp - lets get fruity (strawberry papers)
Clear It Out - paper piecing


And this was for the baby...

Image: LOTV coloured with promarkers
pink coredinations card and white card from The Papeterie. EK Success edge punch, embossing folder, LOTV greeting


I'd like to enter it into...
One Stop Craft Challenge - texture

Some Thankyous

I can post a couple of thankyou cards that I sent off to 2 of my lovely bloggy buddies recently - I'm hoping they received them ok by now so I thought I'd share them here as they are using things I don't usually use.

 I don't own any Sweet Pea stamps but the lovely Tina gave me a few stamped images with my birthday card back in January and this is the first chance I've had to get colouring - and I like them.... a lot!
I stamped some white card with Prima script background stamp, embossed another panel with a cuttlebug folder and inked the edges of everything with Brushed Corduroy distress ink. That gorgeous trim is from Simply Create. And the obligatory glamour dust :)
I'd like to enter her into..
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
A Spoonful of Sugar - Tons of Texture
Crafts & Me - Glitter

This one is made with Basic Grey - Lemonade papers and LOTV Dandelion Clock stamp coloured with promarkers, plus of course a MS arched lattice border punch and Craftwork Cards greeting. This is one of the stamps Elaine very kindly sent me for my birthday.


I'd like to enter her into..
Flutterby Wednesdays - open

Busy Busy

It feels like I haven't blogged in ages, but this whole week has passed in a bit of a blur. On Monday night I was over at Ellon, demonstrating the Promarkers for the Ellon Craft Group which was great fun, I hope I managed to pass on some tips. And I learned something too - one lady asked me which colours I would use to do red hair, you know, like Rihanna's red hair. So I tried that out and wow, I was impressed - so I promised I would make that image up into a card for the FB group so watch this space...


I was also asked to make 3 unisex baby cards by one of the other mums at school, well I went one better than that for her, I decided to make 3 baby boy and 3 baby girl cards for her, and she can give me back the ones she doesn't use. I have made little differences to each of the 6 cards so that they are all unique...

Image: LOTV coloured with promarkers, all cardstock is core'dinations, greeting is LOTV, I have used MS Valentine Lace border punch, Tim Holtz rosette flower die, circle and circle scallop nesties and embossing folders, ribbon is from stash.


Yesterday was the 40th birthday of my friend Mar, so I can't share her card with you yet until I hear she has definitely received it. But I know she received the lilies and 40th birthday balloon I sent her. Now I do know that white lilies are considered to be funeral flowers, but they are also Mar's favourites. So I ordered the flowers, with a vase on Interflora but it was made very clear that they were for a birthday - there is a section where you have to state what occasion the flowers are for, my card said "Happy 40th Birthday", the balloon had "40th birthday" and yet the florist still saw fit to tie a "thinking of you" ribbon around the flowers!! am pretty miffed about it.


Anyway, what else have I been up to?? well I'll share some more tomorrow as I'm probably not going to get much peace for the next week - it's half term this weekend and then the kids have 2 in-service days, so they're not back at school again until next Thursday. It wouldn't have been so bad, as Graham should've been home, but right on cue he was asked to do an extra week offshore so he left this morning - can't really turn our noses up at an extra week of offshore money, but it means my poor mum has been roped into babysitting on Saturday while I do 2 classes at the Papeterie on Saturday.


See you tomorrow...

Happy 68th Birthday Dad!

Hiya,
it's my dad's 68th birthday today. I took the kids out to see them both yesterday, which was rather good timing on my part cos we ended up having soup - chicken, roastie and trimmings - and sticky toffee pudding and custard for lunch... yummy!!


Anyway, here's the card I made for dad. I used a LOTV stamp that i bought at the SECC in october and that's it just seen ink!

Image: Big Present from LOTV, coloured with promarkers
Background paper is Peachy keen from Kaisercraft, patterned paper is ?? think it might be Basic Grey
ribbed kraft cardstock, papermania brad, prima e line pearls, craftwork cards greeting


I'd like to enter this card into the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - tons of texture

snow

Have you entered my candy? click here to enter before xmas eve


well the kids are off school again today - going by the announcement on the local council website, our head teacher is still optimistic that they'll open tomorrow though (can't see it myself) There is now a backlog of flights at the heliport so it's starting to look a bit dodgy for Graham getting home on the 23rd. And I'm not sure if Tesco are even going to attempt my delivery on the 23rd, if they don't well it'll be beans on toast or maybe just beans for xmas dinner


Here's some more things I haven't shared with you, these are another 2 of my entries for the Cardmaking and Papercraft mag's Cardmaker of the Year competition. This first one was for the LOTV category...

Image is of course from Lili of the Valley, coloured with promarkers

papers are craftwork cards and stampin' up, cardstock is core'dinations, ribbon, pins, button and greeting all from my stash

This was my entry to the Sizzix category...

butterfly was made by sticking various ribbons onto light card and using a Sizzix Bigz butterfly die to cut out.
the leaf/stem paper is Bo Bunny, the lattice paper is Wild Rose Studio, cardstock is core'dinations, string from stash and the greeting is Hero Arts.


Stay safe and warm everyone