Sneaky Peeks for Saturday

Just a quick wee post to let you know what I've been busy with this week and what's happening this weekend.
I'm really excited to be demo-ing alongside the incredibly talented Erika Gunter on Saturday at The Papeterie. Erika will be there all day, demoing some fab distress techniques as well as fab ways to use the new Spellbinders dies and embossing folders. And I'll be there from 10am - 1pm demonstrating promarkers and flexmarkers with some beautiful floral stamps from Woodware and Imagination Crafts....

And here's a sneaky peek of one of the samples...

And if you fancy learning more about Letraset's new Flexmarkers then I'll be teaching a class from 1.30 - 3.30pm.
I also have a few exciting things in the pipeline, I can't tell you any more than that at the moment, but watch this space :)
Remember to enter my candy before it finishes tomorrow.
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 60th Birthday Mum!

It's my mum's 60th birthday today and we're just back from delivering her pressie and cards, so I'm sharing one of the cards I made with you. I made this one for the kids to give to their Nana. I thought I'd go with no stamping for a complete change...

 all cardstock is core'dinations, I have used MS Valentine Lace, MS Vine Trim, EK Success Retro Flower, Woodware Daisy and McGill Branch punches, Kaisercraft adhesive stones, Tim Holtz rosette die and craftwork cards greeting. The 60 is old cardstock stickers from Papermania that I heat embossed.

Passion for Promarkers #19 - Cool Aqua & Apricot - Make your own Flowers

Gosh this has been a quick week, and thankyou to all those who made the effort to join in with last week's challenge over at Passion for Promarkers. It was a tricky challenge last week, with it being a colour combo PLUS anything but a card. But the entries that we had were gorgeous - well worth the effort.

This week we have a lovely combination, Cool Aqua and Apricot PLUS make your own flowers, chosen by one of our new GDT's, Sam S - for the next four weeks we are being joined by Sam S and Claire and I'm really looking forward to seeing their fab creations.

To team up with the theme of making your own flowers we have a fabulous prize from this week's sponsors . 

This week you could win a gorgeous Martha Stewart Cosmos Punch worth £10.50

 

So, have I whetted your appetite? As a special promotion Craft Obsessions are also offering the promarkers at £1.50 each.

For my DT card this week I thought I'd use up some of my scraps - seeing as my scraps box is starting to take over my desk.  

 Image: Hippie Anya from the greeting farm - kindly stamped for me by Gina (thanks G) coloured with promarkers (of course): Tan and Ivory for skin, Apricot for her trousers, Cool Aqua for her top, shoes, patch on her trousers and flower petals, Oatmeal and Apricot for her hair, Gold for the flower centre and the corn in her hair, Antique Pink for her mouth.

Matted onto sanded core'dinations card cut using Labels 8 nesties in the cuttlebug

The aqua polka dot paper was a freebie from a magazine, the orange dotty paper is Basic Grey Offbeat edged with MS Latice Arch border punch, Anita's white satin ribbon coloured with Cool Aqua promarker.

And the flowers were made with 3 different sizes of Daisy punch from Woodware and more freebie aqua paper and the core'dination card as before. The large clear gems are from my stash and the greeting as usual is Daisy & Dandelion.

And here's Hippie Anya's close-up.....

 

 Remember to go see the other fabulous cards from the rest of the DT - the links are on my sidebar, I'm so honoured to be working with such a talented bunch. Don't forget to visit our 2 new GDT's and give them some love too.

Passion for Promarkers #12 - Cocoa & Rose Pink

This week's challenge at Passion for Promarkers is to use the colours Cocoa and Rose Pink - this is a super colour combination - who can resist pink and brown together? Natalie chose these fab colours this week and the DT have some crackers of examples for you.

Being a typical Aquarian, I wanted to try something a little different this week and chose not to use a stamped image at all. I used a card that I got from famous Kath as inspiration for it. 

Anyway, we'd love to see as many of you enter that can, this week's prize is a £10 gift voucher to spend on any of the craft supplies and children's crafts at Baker Ross

This is a great place to buy crafty stuff for kids - ideal to keep them occupied during the duller or wetter days. I've bought loads form here, they also have a terrific selection of craft blanks eg wee gift boxes, pencil boxes bags etc. And I'm going to be really cheeky here and ask you all a favour - if any of you place an order at Yellow Moon, when you checkout there is a page that will ask you for a source code so that the commission on your order goes to a charity or group. As many of you know I'm the secretary/treasurer and co-founder of Extra Special Parents which is a support charity for parents and carers of children with special needs. Our source code is SSH10729 and I would really appreciate it if you could use that so that ESP receives the commission. 

So this is my DT card this week...

Each flower was made with 2 each of 2 different sized woodware daisy punches and plain white card. I coloured one of each size with cocoa promarker and the other 2 with rose pink promarker. I embossed each petal, layered them up and added cream buttons tied with the pink satin ribbon that comes tied around the card blanks and envelopes in a pack of Anita's card blanks - waste not, want not!! The leaves were cut freehand from the same white card and coloured with meadow green promarker then inked the edges with papermania brown inkpad.

the papers are Papermania Scrumptious, the greeting is Daisy & Dandelion and I doodled the stems with black sakura micron pen.

Here's a close-up of one of the flowers...

So pop on over to Passion for Promarkers to see all the other DT cards, there's some fantastic inspiration this week again.

Passion for Promarkers - Week 3 - Cinnamon & Pumpkin

Woohooo, another  Tuesday and another new challenge at Passion for Promarkers. When I first saw the colours for this weeks challenge; cinnamon and pumpkin I thought - argh!!!!!!!!!! I don't normally do orange!

BUT.... once I started playing with the cinnamon and pumpkin, I loved them. I think orange should be the new black :D

The prize for this week's challenge is a £10 voucher for the fabulous 

So here's my DT submission...

Image: Rain, Miss Anya from The Greetings Farm

Coloured with: Cinnamon & Pumpkin, Cocoa and Orange for shadows and also Umber for the darker parts of her hair. I accidentally picked up Saffron instead of Ivory to do the skin, but once it was dry I thought it was quite nice, there is a hint of Pastel Pink for her cheeks. Finally I used a white Gelly Roll Med sakura pen for the highlights.

The patterned papers are both Basic Grey - Offbeat.

The orange and Brown card for matting is core'dinations - the scalloped oval and plain oval were cut with nesties in the cuttlebug

The green card is core'dinations which I ran through the cuttlebug with the swiss dots embossing folder.

Papermania Autumn ribbon, Papermania gold teardrop gems, Papermania fabric flower coloured with Pumpkin promarker, Cream Prima flower marked with Cinnamon promarker, Papermania chocolate brad, I used a woodware leaf punch to cut the leaves from core'dinations card. Finally the greeting is a Daisy & Dandelion greeting banner.

And here's Miss Anya's close-up...

remember to go visit the rest of my DT team-mates (links on my sidebar) and have a lookie at their fab cards.

The Sugar Bowl - Challenge #10

The Sugar Bowl have had a bit of a change and have decided to move forward as a sketch challenge. Which pleases me no end. I find the layout of a card the most difficult thing sometimes, and having a sketch to work from often makes a card come together far easier and most times a lot quicker too.

So for challenge 10 there is a fab sketch by the wonderful Marlene, and I really enjoyed making this card. In fact I'm quite proud of how it turned out, I think its my favourite so far.

Image: Country Garden from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers (fine details were added with whispers brush markers as some areas were just too tiny for the promarkers - the detail on these stamps is truly amazing)

cardstock for matting and layering is all core'dinations, as is the creamy taupe card which was embossed in the cuttlebug and sanded.

papers are all Basic Grey - Bittersweet

the three swirly bits on the bottom right are strips cut from some KI Memories tulip diecut cardstock

flowers punched using woodware daisy punches from core'dinations cardstock, papermania paper flower from new embellishment trios, chocolate buttons from embellishment trios and finally the greeting is from the Daisy & Dandelion greetings banner pack

Baby Girl Congratulations #3

Remember the card I posted yesterday for my old school chum's sister, well this one is for the grandparents. This is their first grand-daughter and their 2nd grandchild.

Image: A Little bird told me, Gorjuss Girls Set #1 from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers (and I've just noticed I've forgotten to add the highlights with sakura gelly roll)

core'dinations card cut with woodware scallop circle punches and embossed using birds & swirls embossing folder in the cuttlebug, then sanded

scalloped ribbon from Doodlebug Boutique Trims

greeting from Daisy & Dandelion Greeting Banner pack

papermania pink shimmer dots

Baby Girl Congratulations #2

This is the second baby girl card I've made this week, this one is for the little sister of an old school chum of mine (Hi Carol!) She had a baby girl, a wee preemie weighing just over 3lbs. Mum and baby are doing well.

Image: Tilly from DigiStamp Boutique, coloured with promarkers and sakura metallic pen

Papers: Papermania Colossal Pack 

Scallop circles cut using woodware punch, and faux stitching using black micron pen

prima flowers, buttons from stash, charm is from a papermania elements topper that I vandalised, and the greeting is from the Daisy & Dandelion banners pack.

CCSR Colour Challenge #3 - try #2

I thought I'd have another go at the CCSR Colour Challenge this week and I took some inspiration from our local celebrity Kath who is on the CCSR DT. I ordered some plain acetate from Emerald Crafts which arrived on Saturday morning as I have loved Kath's recent acetate cards and I wanted to give it a try. I was also pretty inspired by all the DT's work this week as it's such a lovely fresh colour combination: Turquoise & Yellow. Certainly not 2 colours I would normally have chosen but they work together brilliantly - and are so cheery looking.

Image: Gorjuss Girls Set #2 from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers and accented with white sakura gellyroll and stardust pen on the shoes 

Papers: swirly background paper from CCSR the big one (adhered to the inside and outside of the back of the card) , turquoise flowers cut from the flowery paper from CCSR the big one

other: yellow card cut with 2 sizes of Labels 1 nesties in the cuttlebug, used same card to punch daisy flowers with woodware daisy punch, turquoise and yellow paper flowers from a huge scrapbooking set I bought a while back at Costco, papermania adhesive stones, and finally the acetate was from Emerald Crafts.

Here's a wee close up of one of the brand new Gorjuss Girls Set #2 from Sugar Nellie

(unfortunately the turquoise promarker used for her dress bled quite badly onto her wee crossed arms, so I had the cunning idea to stamp the image again, coloured the arms with ivory and blush promarkers then cut just the arms out and decoupaged them onto the original coloured image with 3d foam squares - phew what a save!!)

CCSR Colour Challenge #3

Kath and Sheila over at the CCSR blog decided on this week's colour challenge of Turquoise & Yellow and I wasn't too sure about it to begin with. But once I got my papers and core'dinations card out it came together quite quickly.

Paper: CCSR the big one

yellow core'dinations card, cut to size for backing greeting and for punching out daisies (woodware punch)

small flower from CCSR Doodles and sentiment from CCSR Sentiments stamped onto dark turquoise core'dinations card with clear ink it up inkpad then heat embossed using papermania seafoam white embossing powder

turquoise brads at centre of flowers from new Papermania embellishment trios

yellow polka dot ribbon from stash

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there, I hope you're having a wonderful, pampered and relaxed day.

I made this card for a commission for an old school chum (Hi Mike!) and decided to use the Whiff of Joy Challenge #22 rules  which are to use green, to kill two birds with one stone.

Image: Willow with Cookies from WoJ, coloured with promarkers and white gelly roll for highlights

Papers are all from the new Daisy & Dandelion A5 paper pack, the papers were inked with papermania green ink pad, green core'dinations card for matting and layering.

Dovecraft daisy grosgrain ribbon and papermania clear gems

The flower inside was punched with Woodware Daisy punches from the Daisy & Dandelion papers

The verse inside reads:

Here's wish you a Mother's Day,

That's filled with every pleasure,

And a future that's as happy,

As the memories you treasure.

Morning has broken.....

It was my mum's birthday last Friday, so it was a bit of a novelty to be making a birthday card again after all those xmas cards. Thought I'd keep it simple..... embossed with one of the cuttlebug folders, and punched various sized daisies using my woodware punches and finished the flower off with a flower shaped button and some raffia. The fabric greeting was from papermania. and of course it wouldn't be complete without some gems.

I also made a birthday card for my bestest friend, but I can't blog it until after her birthday.

We had the most beautiful sunrise this morning, the spectacular colours didn't last very long after the sun was up above the horizon, but I managed to catch it at its best....

Finally.......some crafting

I rediscovered my mojo this evening and have spent the whole evening putting together some xmas cards - after spitting the dummy out the other day :)

I had already sorted out the images: Penny Black's Merry Kitty and Greetings from the wise and punched them out using the biggest woodware scallop circle punch and the next size down punch was used to punch out the greetings I had printed out onto white card. So tonight I spent punching big daisies to back the greetings, and cutting circles with the x-cut shape cutter, then assembling all the bits. Adding some of the shiny new trims from Papermania.

Earlier on, the girls were playing around with a couple discarded cardboard boxes - maybe I should get them boxes for their xmas instead of any contents lol

Here's Willow looking all sorry for herself, complete with her black eye....

And Faith sporting her sister's snowman hairslides..... complete with perennially mucky face.

Happy Anniversary Mum & Dad

My mum and dad celebrate their 38th wedding anniversary tomorrow so I thought I'd quickly throw up a post with a pic.

I used a pearlescent gold card blank, the flowers were made using 2 different shades of purple Core'dinations card which was embossed using the swirls embossing folder in the cuttlebug, distressed using the BG files and then punched with various sizes of Woodware daisy punches. The pot was cut from terracotta coloured Core'dinations card and again embossed with the swirly folder and distressed with the BG files. The leaves and curly bits were cut freehand from some olive green Core'dinations card. And there were a few glittery brads from Papermania and a silver greeting peel off.

Just a quickie before bedtime...

Had a quick pop over to The Papeterie today as I was looking for a snowflake punch for xmas card making and ended up buying  2.5" and 1.5" daisy punches from Woodware and a cut and emboss ice crystal for the cuttlebug.

I made a quick batch of xmas cards yesterday using the snowflake embossing folder for the cuttlebug, some pearlescent card and some silver Anita's peel off greetings - pics to follow.

Anyway its 12.30am on a school night so am off to try and warm up the bed

nite nite

xx