Happy 70th Birthday

Happy 70th birthday to my dad today
I thought I'd just share the birthday card I made for him - thought I'd keep it retro and simple, being a man, he's not into much fussiness....

Image: Total Drama from KennyKDownloads coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers
Diamond White and Black card from The Papeterie
Garden Lattice M-bossabilities folder from Spellbinders

Skin: Burnt Orange, Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush
Hair: Raw Sienna, Gold, Tulip Yellow
Chilli Red and Lipstick Red, Azure, Sky Blue and Arctic Blue, Celestial Blue and Stonewash

I'd like to enter it into: 
Crafting For All Seasons - something new (digi stamp)
Crafty Creations - something new (digi stamp)
DigiStamps 4 Joy - oh my, how time flies
Pennys Paper Crafty - anything goes
Celebrate the Occassion - boys birthday

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

The Big Four Oh

No, it's not my turn yet - not long, but not just yet lol
One of my oldest friends turned 40 last month, Kerri was also my bridesmaid many moons ago - and despite just living 5 miles from her I don't get to see her very often. So it was only last week that I managed to go round with her card and present.

Image: Oh No You Didn't from KennyKDownloads, coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers

Papermania Typography stamps for the numerals.
Boofle Triboss embossing folder "patchwork"
Papermania  capsule collection cardstock
white cardstock from The Papeterie


I'd like to enter her into:
Inky Impressions - embossing
Little Red Wagon - girlfriend
Crafty Sentiments - numbers
Corrosive Challenge - cheeky, saucy and sassy
Colour Me Creative - girly
One Stop Craft Challenge - just good friends

Debz x

Last Minute Details

Well, I think we'll all set for tomorrow's GJWTHF at The Papeterie - I'll try to tweet some pics during the day, you can follow me on twitter by clicking on the button near the top of my sidebar. Can't wait to see some familiar faces and some new ones :)
The kitting isn't all done and dusted yet though - I'm away to make a start on kitting for the projects we'll be doing at the craft group in Ellon on Tuesday night.I have a cunning plan, but I need to do a mock up to see if it's going to work - which reminds me, I better go get the supplies out of the boot lol.

I managed to get a commission card done this week too - a friend of mine wanted a "girly card for a 21st birthday", so this is what I came up with. I followed a similar design that I did a wee while back featuring a Saturated Canary image.

Image: Soho from KennyKDownloads, coloured with flexmarkers. I used Scallop Circle Grand nesties to cut the card base and the layers of white and pink card (all from The Papeterie) I used the paisley M-Bossibilities folder to emboss the white panel. Pink bling is from Kaisercraft, butterflies were punched with an EK Success layering punch.

I'd like to enter her into....
Moving Along With The Times - Va Va Voom
Paper Play Challenges - Shaped Card
Fab n Funky - embossing
Flutterby Wednesday - butterflies


Thanks for visiting, 
I appreciate any comments 
Debz x

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

Blue Snow?

No, there's no blue snow - just me doing some crafting lol, I know, it seems like ages doesn't it?
I'm determined to try and enter some of my favourite challenges more often this year - although I don't want to make any promises or resolution as we all know how that goes :S
Anyway, here is one of my favourite stamps from Sugar Nellie: Journey...

 Image: Journey by Leanne Ellis for Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers, greeting is from a great new greetings set from Woodware, papers are all Kaisercraft - Black & White Timeless which I have coloured with watered down Distress Ink (Faded Jeans) and Distress Stains (Peeled Paint and Picket Fence). I coloured the card candi (craftwork cards) with flexmarker and the eggshell seam binding is from Angel Crafts.

I'd like to enter her into:
Sugar Nellie FB group - blue green and white
The Sugar Bowl - sketch plus birthday
Stampin' for the Weekend - out with the old (papers, distress inks/stains, candi, image)
I Love Promarkers - anything goes


thanks for looking
I appreciate all your comments, so don't be shy
Debbi
x
p.s. am so chuffed that I won a challenge woohooo

Happy Birthday Tina

Hi folks
I have to apologise again, it's been another busy week, dentist appointments for everyone this week, Willow's had 2 hospital appointments, I've had one too. And of course made a good dent in the xmas shopping so I'm afraid there has been a distinct lack of crafting going on, let alone anything else.
But I did do a late-night crafting session to make a 40th birthday card for my beautiful friend Tina...

Image: The Collector - Gorjuss Stamps from PI coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers
The 4 and 0 are papermania stamps, coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers then covered with glamour dust
MS border and butterfly punches, core'dinations card, stickles
the gingham paper was a gift from Tina.

Remember to enter my distress ink candy - closes at noon Friday, and look out for more candy tomorrow too :)

Flexmarkers at The Papeterie

MIA again folks, sorry!
But now that I've finished my last demo/class for the year I might be able to get back into blogging a bit more regularly. 
Yesterday was my Flexmarker demo morning with a promarker class in the afternoon at The Papeterie. And another crafty hooligan, the fabulous Kath was also in residence demoing the new Tim Holtz limited edition Distress Inks.
So a big thank you to all the ladies who came to see us, it was lovely to see some familiar and some new faces.
And a huge thankyou to my beautiful chum Tina, who came down for lunch and then come to my class - the cupcakes are gorgeous and I'll be trying out the jellies later xx


Here's one of my samples for the demo, using the brand new Gorjuss stamps and Flexmarkers...

 Image: "Rose" Gorjuss stamp from PI, coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers (the dress/boots are Egyptian Blue, Sapphire and Celestial Blue, her hair is Saddle Brown, Auburn, Nutmeg and Light Fawn, all in flexmarkers)
I also coloured the adhesive stones with Egyptian Blue, and the ribbon with Sapphire flexmarkers
The papers are Kaisercraft - Black & White Timeless, black and white card all from The Papeterie and the faux stitching was done with Letraset Fineliner.


I'd like to enter this card into...
A Gem of a Challenge - sketch, stitching and sentiment
Allsorts - Black, white and one other colour

Happy Birthday Kath

Slap my wrists again, I've been a very naughty blogger and haven't blogged in a whole week, and I don't even know why.... apart from the fact that I've not done any crafting to blog about.
Anyway, never mind that, it's our local celebrity, and my very good friend, Kath's birthday today - she's 21 :)
So by the time you read this I'll have been over with the card I made for her and a wee pressie.
so here's the totally Kath-inspired card that I made for her, using some of her favourite things... remember to pop over and wish her a happy birthday.

The butterflies are part of one of the new Hero Arts/Sizzix stamp/die combos, coloured with flexmarkers. I've also used Poinsettia Circle and Envelope Pattern stamps which are also Hero Arts. Do you like the shade of green on the poinsettia circle, envelope pattern background and the seam binding? well it's the brand new Evergreen Bough from the Winter limited edition Tim Holtz distress inks - isn't it gorgeous? The greeting is PI and the seam binding and white cardstock are from The Papeterie.

I'd like to enter it into:
Crafty Catz - anything goes
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Ribbon Carousel - anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - make your own backgrounds

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

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!

Ahoy, me hearties!

I had a nosey over at the PfP challenge blog to see what this week's challenge was - when I saw it was "a pirates life for me" I thought "oh well, can't enter that then". But on my jaunt over to The Papeterie yesterday to catch up with Charlotte, Rachel, Alanna and Kath, I spotted these cute little Nellie Snellen pirate stamps.

Image: Treasure from Nellie Snellen, stamped with Memento London Fog and coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers - got to use Antique White and Light Fawn on his shirt and Aquamarine around him.
Red, black and white cardstock from The Papeterie, Hero Arts canvas stripes cling stamp with Memento Ladybug Red, Papermania mini buttons, faux stitching with Tim Holtz design ruler, Sakura silver metallic pen and Letraset Fineliner


I'd like to enter him into...
Passion for Promarkers - A Pirates Life for Me
Sweet Stampin - babies or little ones

Stampavie Demo Pt 1

Oh where does the time go? I haven't blogged in a wee while, the last week has gone by in a bit of a blur - and the next couple of weeks are going to be the same.
So what have I been up to? well this Saturday past I was demo-ing Stampavie stamps and promarkers with ultra-fine nibs and teaching a class at The Papeterie. So I thought I'd share a couple of samples today and a couple more tomorrow. I must apologise for the glare on some of the pics, I had already bagged them up before I remembered to take pictures.
This is the first stamp I chose - and the reason is, it reminds me of Princess Pepsi...

 Image: Spring has Sprung from Stampavie (the Laurence Collection), coloured with promarkers
white card from The Papeterie, embossed with cuttlebug swiss dots and Tim Holtz Rays texture fades folders. Kraft cardstock from Papermania, MS border punch and nestabilities

thanks to the ultra-fine nibs for the promarkers, I can now colour all the fine detail on stamps like these.
I'd like to enter this one into:
Diecut Dreams Challenge - 4 Legged Animals
Hooked On Craft Challenge - Cute and Cuddly
Stamp With Fun - Friends
Fab n Funky - animal magic


I don't know about you, but the hardest cards to make, in my opinion are ones for teenage boys. Now I don't suppose they would think my sentiment is particularly clever, but I hope that they would like this card...

 Image: Paul Texting from Stampavie (Mo Manning), coloured with promarkers
Papers are all MME Lime Twist - Out of The Blue, black card from The Papeterie, letters are Kaisercraft, buttons and twine from stash

I'd like to enter my texting teen into...
Fabulous Friday Challenge - buttons
Totally Papercrafts - One for the boys
My Mums Craft Shop - For A Teen


Today is my baby's birthday, she's 5! ok I know that's no longer a baby really, but she's my youngest and will always be my baby. She's had a terrific day and got thoroughly spoiled. Nana and granda were round with my nephew Kyle and of course there was the obligatory cake.
So here's a few pics of Faith's day...

Happy Birthday Kerri

Today is Kerri's 39th birthday, I've known Kerri a long time - 27 years to be exact, she was also my bridesmaid 13 years ago. Happily, our friendship lasted a lot longer than my marriage :)
Kerri is also the lovely lady I made the Home Sweet Home gift for that I showed off the other day.
Anyway, because she was at Rockness the other week, this image reminded me of hippies and festivals and so I thought it would be quite cool for her birthday card.
And what a stroke of luck that Letraset sent me their ultra-fine nibs just in time for me to colour this image properly! Scroll down to the day-before-yesterday's post to see the ultra-fine nibs review.

Image: Boho Chic from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers and cut out with Labels 10 nesties
the brown base card is from The Papeterie, the larger cogs are cut with Donna Salazar Sprightly Sprockets from Spellbinders and the smaller ones are laser cut chipboard from Make it Crafty. the greeting is PI stamped onto the waste from a Bigz XL ornate box die, the clocks paper is from my stash and the black pearls are Prima e line.


I'd like to enter her into
The Sugar Bowl - sketch
I ♥ Promarkers  - anything goes
Passion for Promarkers - park life (clearly she's walking in the park)
Papertake Weekly - Here comes the sun
Stamptacular Sunday - Fun in the Sun

Angel Crafts DT - Feb ribbon kit

Yay. it's the weekend! I'm dying to hear from Kath about her day with Tim Holtz yesterday - she's been counting down the days since there were 158 of them, and now it's all over! I was so excited for her that you would've thought I was going.


Anyway, I was on a mission the other day to get a load of stuff done so that I can get some samples done for my next demo and I got cracking with the February ribbon kit from Angel Crafts - it's a bumper black and white ribbon kit.
There are so many goodies in this kit it's hard to know where to start, but I jumped in and got going and these are the things I've come up with so far...


I've been searching all over the internet for this die, and accidentally stumbled across it in The Glitter Pot sale no less, so not only was it the last one in stock but it was less than half price - yay!

I used the Flower Stems clear stamps from Autumn Leaves and the 1/8" wide black with white dots ribbon from Berisfords from the kit

Next up is a butterfly card - I coloured some core'dinations card with promarkers before using a Marianne D Creatables die to make the butterfly. 
I used black & white Grosgrain stripe/stitch from May Arts, black Grosgrain with white edged stitching from May Arts, black with white circles grosgrain from May Arts, black and white squares/stitched from May Arts, Lush Black rhinestones from MME which are all from the kit.
The greeting is from Craftwork Cards.


Back tomorrow with some Hero Arts cards
And don't forget to enter the Promarker Blending Pairs Competition - closes on Monday

Oscar and a Teaser

Morning!
it's getting closer to the end of the week, and tomorrow I'll be away on a wee jaunt across town to meet up with my crafty buddies Anne and Kath and blonde deliciousness that is Buddy for a catch up. This'll be the first time we've got together since - is it as long ago as the SECC?? Then I'll probably see them both again plus Jacqui at Simply Create for the shop relaunch and Kath's Hero Arts demo. If you are within driving distance of Alford then you really must see Kath in action - the woman is amazing.


So what have I been up to? well with a lovely tidy desk again (see previous WOYWW posts) it's been a joy to craft. And it will be even better from now on because after hopping round half of the WOYWWers yesterday I decided that I needed a hutch for the top of my desk as the wee shelf just wasn't cutting the mustard. I did my usual and googled "desk hutch" but oh my goodness they are expensive, and with "adapt and overcome" being my motto of the moment - I had a bit of a brainwave. I had previously picked up a faux leather DVD holder at Asda, and that was where I kept all my 8x8 and 6x6 papers, so I thought I could turn it on its side and it would make a great hutch - especially if I bought another 2 so that it stretched the length of my desk. So last night was spent rearranging all my bits in my nice new hutch, but I won't show you just yet - think I'll keep that wee surprise for next week's WOYWW.


I think I mentioned before that I'd splashed out on the 4 new soft centre stamps from Sugar Nellie last week. Just to be different I decided to colour Oscar the Owl - he's dead easy to colour.

Image: Oscar from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers
papers are all Cosmo Cricket Earth Love, stitched on . The brads are papermania and the wooden button is from a stall at the SECC in October.


I followed Kiki's sketch at The Sugar Bowl, so I'd like to enter him there
as well as
Fab n Funky - Animal Magic
Crafty Creations - Its a Bird Thing - plus polka dots and green
Creative Card Crew - For Men


LOL I nearly forgot the teaser - tomorrow I will be back with some fabulous candy, have some brand spanking new goodies from Letraset to give away and after my clear out I've unearthed lots of other goodies to give away too - including some of my favourite Sugar Nellie stamps, so remember to pop back tomorrow.

Baby Baby

I don't get to make baby cards nearly as often as I'd like - but I think I might just do them for fun to build up a wee stock. Might come in handy if I manage to get a stall at any of the spring fayres. This one is a birthday card for a 1 or 2 year old.
This is another card that I've done for Letraset.

Image: Bubbles from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers
papers are Wild Rose Studios, cardstock is core'dinations, greeting is craftwork cards and lace is from my stash

I'd like to enter my card into..
Passion for Promarkers - Baby cards
Stamp Something - Anything goes

Lurgy Still

Not any better, so am posting another of my Letraset cards for you to see - this one is a girly one, but without the use of pink, Decided to go with Peach for a change. 

Image: Manga Princess from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers
cardstock is all core'dinations
I used the Hero Arts flowers and dots background stamp on the cream core'dinations card - clear embossed it and inked over it with Dried Marigold Distress Ink.
I've used the MS Garden Trellis deep edge punch and MS Cherish PATP punch and the Tonic pop-up butterfly punch.


I'd like to enter Princess Manga into the following challenges


I ♥ ProMarkers Challenge Blog - punches
TotallyPaperCrafts - Happy Birthday
Cute Card Thursday - Monochrome
PaperPlay Challenges - Cutie Patootie