Blue Journal & Candy

well hello there strangers, hope everyone's well, yes I know its been ages - if only there were more hours in a day.
But after all the planning and preparation, the September 2013 Craft Retreat at The Papeterie is all done and dusted and we've already started on plans for the April 2014 retreat, but more of that later.
I taught 6 classes over the course of the weekend - and as Letraset Product Coach for Scotland, of course I had to include some of my favourite letraset products - aqua and neon markers, pro and flexmarkers and alcohol inks. My first class was one I taught twice, once on the Saturday and once on the Sunday morning, an altered notebook.

Supply list:
plain kraft wirebound notebook *
"Light Blue Laid" cardstock *
kraft cardstock *
"Diamond White" cardstock *
Tim Holtz Movers & Shapers "Tag & Bookplates" die
Tim Holtz Movers & Shapers "Dream" die
Studio 12 "Pretty Petal Bunting" stamp set *
Tim Holtz "Lost and Found" Visual Artistry stamp set
Little Darlings/Saturated Canary "Breeze" stamp *
Memento "Teal Zeal" inkpad *
Memento "Tuxedo Black" inkpad *
Tim Holtz Distress Inkpad "Tumbled Glass" *
Tim Holtz Distress Inkpad "Broken China" *
Seam Binding *
Bakers Twine *
Promarkers & Flexmarkers: Burnt Orange, Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush, Cool Grey 1-5, Egyptian Blue, Sapphire, Celestial Blue * #
(* all available at The Papeterie)
(# all available at Letraset)
You can find my mini tutorial for the blue hair over on the Letraset Blog.

And I thought I'd have a wee giveaway to apologise for being MIA for so long, so to be in with a chance of winning this pack all you have to do is leave a comment on my post on the Letraset blog so I can see that you've visited, then leave your details on the inlinkz widget below. The draw ends at noon GMT on Saturday 5th October, and a winner will be selected using random.org


 Debz x

A Girlie Birthday

My wee Faithy is away to her friends' birthday party tomorrow, so I made her a card to give her. They're off to the Build A Bear factory, so Faithy is sooo excited - of course this is assuming we are not buried under about 10 foot of snow by then lol

Image: Birthday Ellie from Saturated Canary, coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers
Diamond White card from The Papeterie
Pink card from Papermania
Letraset transfer greeting
M-bossabilities embossing folders

Skin: Burnt Orange, Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush
Hair: Walnut, Cocoa, Cinnamon, Tan
Pinks: Vermillion, Shocking Pink, Frosted Pink
Blues: Midnight Blue, Denim Blue, Stonewash
Purples: Imperial Purple, Purple Velvet, Wild Orchid
I'd like to enter her into...
MAWTT - happy birthday
Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes
Saturated Canary Challenges - inspired by a movie (birthday girl)
Crafting by Design - alcohol markers
I Love promarkers - lots of layers

Debz x

DJ Luv

I've been really really lucky lately, some of you may have noticed that I was one of the runner-up winners on Krista's Saturated Canary Pinterest Competition - I'm so honoured that Krista chose my ideda along with Angela's to come up with this pair that she called DJ Luv, they'll be available to buy as a pair on Friday 11th January over at her shop, but we got a copy first so I just had to colour them up as soon as Krista sent them. Angela's inspiration board featured the female dj character and I (of course) went with the teenage boy character - you all know how I'm constantly on the search for boy stamps :)

I used a combination of flexmarkers and promarkers: 
skin: Burnt Orange, Coral, Sunkissed Pink and Blush. 
blue hair: Indigo Blue, Azure, Sky Blue, Stonewash
brown hair: Saddle Brown, Auburn, Nutmeg, Light Fawn
girl's clothes: Lush Green, Green, Mint Green, Pastel Green, Vermillion, Shocking Pink, Frosted Pink
boy's clothes: Midnight Blue, Denim Blue, Stonewash, Grass, Lime Green, Azure, Sky Blue, Arctic Blue
Headphones are in Cool Greys, deck in Blue Greys

Debz x

Ginger

Oh these school holidays are playing havoc with everything else I do, especially my crafting. But it's not long to go now - 10 days and counting :)
Remember to enter my promarker giveaway here.
My friend's little girl celebrated her 4th birthday this week so I thought I'd share the card I made for her - it was a quickie.

Image: Murray from Saturated Canary, coloured with promarkers - for her hair I used Spice, Ginger, Oatmeal and Buttercup.
White card from The Papeterie, embossed with M-bossibilities folder. Tim Holtz rosette die, greeting and candi from Craftwork Cards

I'd like to enter her into: 
CAS-ual Fridays - square cards
Chocolate, coffee & cards - embossing
Polkadoodles - celebration
Divas by Design - for a female

Debz x

My Little Protege

Morning folks, what a dreich day again - not as bad as yesterday, it was a real pea-souper, I could barely see the car in front of me on the dual carriageway. Although I have to say there was an alarming number of numpties who didn't have their headlights on, never mind their foglights - but then I truly believe that about half the folk on the road nowadays got their driving licence in a lucky bag!
Haha listen to me, ranting again.
Today I wanted to share something with you. As some of you know, Willow collects promarkers - she is almost as precious about them as I am lol She loves to colour in - I'm forever having to print off pages of digi stamps for her, we're almost through a box of 160gsm Diamond White from The Papeterie in  a few weeks. Incidentally, if you fancy trying out some Diamond White then pop over to The Papeterie's FB page, like them and leave a message asking for a sample pack - Charlotte is giving away sample packs and postage vouchers.
Anyway, I ordered a few new digis from Saturated Canary at the weekend and Willow immediately asked me to print out Double Take for her and this is how she coloured her...

Now what impressed me most about her colouring was the subtle colouring of her cheeks which she had blended in beautifully and the way she's coloured her eyes and lips. She even had a bit of Ivory to shade the folds in the dress, but the scanner hasn't picked that up. 
It looks like I'll have to keep an eye on her - she's already said she wants to be just like me when she grows up and be a craft demonstrator. Might happen sooner than I thought though :) In case you don't know, Willow is my middle child and she is 7.


Thanks for visiting, 
I appreciate any comments 
Debz x

My Sweet Valentine

Morning,
well it's the last day of the kids' half-term/in-service days so I'm taking them to the local Brewsters to play so that I can minimise the devastation at home.
So today I thought I'd share a wee Valentine project that Letraset asked me to do for their blog.
You can find the step by step tutorial over on the Letraset blog.

Image: Making Valentines from Saturated Canary, coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers on Diamond White card from The Papeterie.
The box used to be a Lindor choc box, painted with "Paloma" Annie Sloan Paint, stamped with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink and Kaisercraft grunge texture stamp. Red grosgrain ribbon from stash and fleur de lis nestabilities die to cut the red card (from The Papeterie)


I'd like to enter her into:
Saturated Canary - Red, Pink & White
Celebrate the Occassion - Valentines Day
Creative Craft Challenge - Valentines
Passion for Promarkers - Distressing
Creative Stamp Friends - Valentine
Lollipop Crafts - With Love (non card)
The Crazy Challenge - Valentines Day
Crafting When We Can - Valentine/Love
Dream Valley Challenges - Valentine
Gingerloft - Love is in the Air
Rogue Redhead Designs - stamped background
Sweet Stampin - CAS
Totally Gorjuss - Lurve
Crafty Catz - Valentine
C.R.A.F.T. - Valentine
Thanks for visiting, I appreciate any comments Debz x

Happy Birthday Rachel

I can safely post this card now as I've given it to the lovely Rachel from The Papeterie who is 19 tomorrow. Oh to be that age again!!
It was a great excuse to get colouring one of Krista's Saturated Canary images. I've bought loads of her gorgeous digi stamps but don't seem to have the time to do much crafting.

Image : Becki from Saturated Canary, coloured with promarkers (fine nibs for the details)
gingham paper was a present from the lovely Tina, grey cardstock is stampin' up, white cardstock and diamond white stamping card from The Papeterie, greeting is Inkadinkado, spellbinders oval and lacy oval dies, Hero Arts envelope pattern stamp with Angel Pink memento inkpad and seam binding from Angel Crafts.


I'd like to enter her into :
Saturated Canary - Dies or punches (dies, plus I used a corner rounder punch on the sentiment)
Sentimental Sundays - die cuts
Cute Card Thursday - Music & Dance (sentiment)


Thanks for looking
Debz
xx


p.s. I haven't forgotten to post the embarrassing birthday pic - wait til tomorrow :)

Happy Birthday Charlotte

Good morning, today's post is all about the gorgeous manageress at The Papeterie.... Charlotte because today is her birthday. So...wishing you a mahoosive day missus, enjoy today and your week off :)

Here's the birthday cards the girls and I made for her..
Faith's one:

Faith drew herself, Charlotte and me on a sunshiney day :)

Willow decided to colour "Snow White" from Saturated Canary Digi with her own promarkers and glitter gel pens


And lastly, my card...

 Image: Nevaeh from Saturated Canary Digi, coloured with promarkers and accented with pearl pen on the skirt and white gel pen on her stockings
white and red cardstock is from The Papeterie, Sizzix embossing folder, red satin ribbon from stash and faux stitching done with Letraset fineliner. The "friend" was cut with a sizzix die, if you look closely you can see I've done a faux running stitch on it too then triple clear embossed.

I'd like to enter her into 
Saturated Canary Challenge - Stitching
4 Crafty Chicks - Marker It Up
Charisma Cards - embossing (both)
Sisterhood of Crafters - Birthday
Anything Goes Challenge - To The Letter

My Birthday Girl

Willow, as you probably already know is my middle child and the last of the kids birthdays this year. Yesterday she was 7, she had a fantastic day. She's been on a bit of a downer for the last week or so, and every time we asked her what she wanted for her birthday she told us that she didnt want anything, and then went around with a face like a wet weekend.
So I was working blind when I went to Toys R Us at the beginning of the week - but I think I managed to get everything she likes...

The birthday girl ...

So she was highly delighted with all her presents - and her diva cake from M&S, aren't Markies cakes just yummy!!

I ended up making 2 birthday cards for the little madam - I made a pretty one with a Gorjuss stamp, but she came through to my room and decided she wanted me to use a different image, so she chose the image for this card...

 Image: Janessa from Saturated Canary Digis, coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers
card blank is Craftwork Cards, paper is Tim Holtz, La Blanche flourish stamp, Papermania daughter stamp, Prima e line pearls and white organza ribbon from stash

I'd like to enter my card into:
The Stamping Boutique - Someone Special 
Tuesday Throwdown - Think Pink
Sisterhood of Crafters - Birthday

Splash

I was scrolling down my blog the other day and realised there was a distinct lack of me actually making anything that I could show - so I thought I'd rectify that with a bit of an instant digi image hit.


I'm sure most of you will already know about Krista's new Saturated Canary digi images, and the challenge blog has just gone live over the weekend too, so for a quick fix I decided to colour Pearl, A Mermaid in.

Image: Pearl, A Mermaid from Saturated Canary Digis coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers - to get the scaly type effect on her tail, I touched the blender pen to the paper and lifted off, repeating as required.
Core'dinations card, lacy ovals and oval nesties - I wove some Anita's white organza ribbon round the lacy oval, bling clusters from The Papeterie, papers are Tilda that I got in a candy from Elaine, and I doodled the faux stitching. Pearl pen for the accents in her hair.


I'd like to enter her into:
Addicted to Stamps - stitching
Paper Sundaes - anything goes
My Sheri Crafts - sew simple
If the Shoe Fits Scrap it - Bejewelled blue
Outlawz - Anything Goes
Colour Create - Lime, Aqua and White
For Your Inspiration - photo

Happy 12th Birthday Scott

Happy Saturday!
My first born is 12 today, I can't believe it's 12 years since I went into labour 7 weeks early and was in complete denial lol And who would have thought that that tiny wee bundle weighing 3lbs 5.5oz would turn into the strapping young man he is now.
This is Scott 12 years ago today...

that was the polaroid they took of him in the neonatal unit, to give to me until I was able to go see him. In fact I'm getting a bit emotional thinking about it.
Anyway, this is my big strapping lad now...

I'll show off some more pics tomorrow cos we're still mid-birthday lol
But in the meantime I thought I'd share the cards Willow and I made for him, here's Willow's one...

 Willow has used Smitty Schoolboy digi from Saturated Canary Digis, and coloured him with her promarkers. She cut off one of the petals from a glittered foam flower she bought at the House of Sugar last weekend and used that as a sun.


And here's my card...

Image: Smitty Schoolboy from Saturated Canary Digis, coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers, the "son" stamp is papermania, paper is MS and star EF from The Papeterie


Better go find 12 candles for the cake, see ya!