Raspberry Suite Colour Challenge

This is a challenge that I saw Langara had entered and had to have a go! I have substituted the colours for SU! ones as I don't have any other! I just love this combination and knew stright away the stamp set that I was going to use. Winter Post although a Christmassy set there are many elements that can be used all year round - especially at the moment as we are having so much bad weather :-) but at least I am spending some quiet time with my boys as we cannot go to far from the house.

The colours that we had to use for the challenge are pictured here - so I have substituted these with Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Very Vanilla and Tempting Turquoise I think I will be using this combination again - they look so good together.

So for the card I stamped tempting turquoise on the card blank but stamped off so that it was not as bright - and also inked the edges of the card. I then stamped around the edge of the card using the snowflake stamp. I stamped in Chocolate chip for the middle of the card - the postcard and the skaters, I inked the edge of the card also using a dauber. The deer are stamped in so saffron. The card candy to the right of the card are craftwork cards and similar shades to that of the challenge. I hope you like the card and thanks for looking Debbi x x x

New Catty Sawp

One of the recent swaps I was involved with on ILWS was an inspired by the new catty swap for Stampin' Up! This was back when the catalogue was released of course but I have only just got around to snapping a picture of the swap I completed - I decided upon my favourite set to use Winter Post but then looking at the card I had to create decided that I had picked the hardest card in the whole catalogue to recreate - I kept looking at the card and for many days did not get anywhere so I decided to break the elements of the card down - firstly I cut all the cardstock to size and then the DSP. I had to use a sheet from a retired set as I didn't have ant DSP from the current catalogue that was anywhere near the shade that I needed (oopps the DSP was from Ski Slope) Once I had done that I cust all the very vanilla cardstock to size and began the stamping - I have to use several stamps a total of five from the set as you will see and there were also several inks I used Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Brocade Blue and Old Olive. The edges of the card were distressed also.

Once I had completed the stamping and put the card together I was pleased with what I had created but this card caused me some anxiety let me tell you! And I do remember posting on the forum - seriously have you seen my card and Monica had a little giggle! I am sure she was not the only one.

I hope you like it and thanks for looking Debbi x x x

Christmas Workshop - here are the cards...

On Tuesday night I had my Christmas Workshop and we had a great time, there were 4 ladies crafting and Deborah O'D made an appearance just to heckle! The cards I had prepared went down well and there was nothing complicated for the new stampers amongst the ladies! We made 10 cards using three SU! stampsets Winter Post, Old Fashioned Christmas and the new stamp set Tree Trimmings with the matching papers. All of these sets are beautiful and create such lovely cards and the images are so easy to stamp - The two new ladies after only a couple of false starts made some beautiful cards and we had a great night. There was plenty of tea flowing and even a festive cake or two! It was lovely to see everyone having such a great time and already I have two places booked for next months class - with no class planned LOL!
I have only used four colours to stamp in real red, garden green, old olive and close to cocoa. I haved also used the same card stock to contrast and both whisper white and very vanilla card. I decided that I would stick to traditional colours and just add a bit of glitter to the odd card!

If you would like to be included in my mailing list for classes/ workshops or further details of the cards please email me for further details: mailto:debbi_corfield@hotmail.co.uk

I hope you like the cards and thanks for looking Debbi x x x

Stamp With Us! Launch Night...

The Stamp With Us! launch night was Friday and it was really exciting - after already spoiling the surprise for myself, having not read Monicas blog about not opening the envelope! We still didn't know what we would be doing... We had to recreate the card for the front of the Stampin! Up Mini Catalogue, but we only had an hour. Whilst the challenge was on I couldn't really take part as my three year old (pictured below) wouldn't go to sleep and daddy was out... So I was water coluring my image and cutting it out whilst taking part in the live chat! I have to say very exciting and a fantastic idea ( if you haven't already done so sign up, the challenges are great and so is the company!

We had all received an envelope in the post and this is what was inside - There was a Soft Summer image stamped on Whisper White, a brown card blank, a real red card strip and an old olive card strip with a piece of bashful blue taffeta ribbon. Once our cards were completed we had to upload our card images on to the site! Here is what I received... and below that the card that I produced - in very quick time once Josh was in bed and Spiderman and Bear in the Big Blue House had finished LOL.

However for the second challenge I was just about ready to take part armed with my last purchase from SU! We had to complete a card using red ribbon, the colour black and two buttons - I immediately thought Christmas with the colours and had bought Winter Post So here is what I completed... I hope you like the cards and I must say it was a great night and being able to craft and chat to the people I am getting to know in the crafty world was great! Its surprising how many crafters drink in the evening - from what I can gather there was a lot of alcohol on the go!

Thanks for looking - enjoy your bank holiday! Debbi x x x