Candles...

This Saturday I spent the afternoon at my cousins birthday party it was her 40th and I had not seen her for a couple of years. She didn't want me to get her anything - but I could not turn up without anything. After some digging from my auntie I decided to stamp her a set of candles in her favourite colours and make a card to match - this a major challenge for me as I had never stamped a candle before and I had no idea what to do or whether I had the right stuff to do it!

I decided to do something quite simple to complete in case it all went horribly wrong, I used the circle circus stamp set and the colours melon mambo, rich razzleberry and summer sun. To stamp the candles you stamp the required image onto tissue paper, cut arounf the image and then place where you want this to go. Then you wrap grease proof paper tightly around the candle once you have a firm grip you use a heat gun to seal the image in. When holding the heat gun on the candle you can see the image change, once this has happened you can slowly peel the grease proof paper off and TA DA! the candle is done. I cannot believe how effective they look and how easy they are to do. I hope my cousin liked them - it is always very difficult to get a gift for someone who you don't really know and don't see very often.
So for the card I used the same stamp set and the colours melon mambo, rich razzleberry, soft suede and summer sun I created two panels of whisper white and mounted this on melon mambo, then attached this to the card blank that was rich razzleberry. I random stamped the panels using 8 of the stamps two for each colour and again I love the effect - it is my most used stamp set, but I am still trying not to use (honest!)

I hope you like what I made, something completely different for me and new - thanks for looking and your comments are appreciated! Debbi x x x

new colour's... first card!

My delivery arrived on Thursday and last night was the first chance that I had to play with the fabulous colours that we have been given for the May offer! I made a card for a friend who I saw today who over the last week has not been 100% and I thought that this would cheer her up a little - I chose to use all three colours that we are lucky enough to have and the stamp set once again circle circus but I love this set and love the way that circle circus is so versatile! I have stamped the images in melon mambo, rich razzleberry and softy suede.
I have cut a card blank and then stamped a panel of whisper white, inking the edges of this. Behind this I have added a piece of the beautiful ribbon (just doubled over) using soft suede and stamped the sentiment in rich razzleberry.
Keep an eye out for more samples using the new products in a BLOG HOP I am organising over on ILWS on the morning of June the 6th - there are a lot of demo's involved and I am sure that you will have a lovely morning!
STAMP SET circle circus, whimsical words
INK rich razzleberry, soft suede, melon mambo
CARD rich razzleberry, soft suede, melon mambo, whisper white
ACCESSORIES dauber, soft suede ribbon

Brights!

The card that I have to show you today is a card that I have made my neice who we have been to see today - the present that I got her was a Barbie playset and the box was in the colours that I have chosen to make her card in - pixie pink and tempting turquoise perfect for a little girl.
I have chosen to use one of my favourite stampsets Circle Circus and I have used card to stamp on that I have never really used before - confetti from Stampin' Up! It has the same texture as whisper white but running through it are the tiniest pieces of confetti that add little chunks of colour to the background of the image - you will see this if you enlarge the photo of the card!
I have then mounted this on pixie pink card that is placed the to the right hand side of the card and then onto tempting turquoise I have stamped for you from happy moments onto this in the bottom left hand side of the card and the card blank is sahara sand - again another colour that I don't use very often.
I have randomly stamped images from circle circus onto the white using only three stamps and the two colours.
I hope you like the card and thanks for looking - your comments are appreciated - Debbi x x x
STAMPSETS - circle circus, happy moments
CARDSTOCK - sahara sand, pixie pink, tempting turquoise, confetti white
INK - basic black, pixie pink, tempting turquoise

ANOTHER MINI PREVIEW...

Ok, so tomorrow you are able to get your hands on the lovely products that are available in the new mini catalogue and I LOVE the shimmer paint that is available - so a quick post for you here just to show you how good this is, unpacked today and two cards made in 5 mins!. So I have cut 2 card blanks 3x3 and stamped circle circus onto them in shimmer paint. All I have done is used a dauber to cover the stamp by gentle tapping them and them stamped - easy. I think that you will agree that the effect is AMAZING. and it dries so quickly. I have also inked the edges of the cards to finish them off!
I hope you like them and thanks for looking - Debbi x x x
STAMPSET - circle circus
CARD night of navy
ACCESSORIES - shimmer paint

Recovering from Hop...

Hello! So how did you enjoy the blog hop over the weekend that I took part on with some other demonstrators?? There were some great projects weren't there?? I managed to get around everybody I think and spent a lovely morning commenting on all the great projects - but will definately be casing some of the projects that I saw in the hop!!
So I have this evening made a box for one of the guys that I work with - he has been married years and when he found out I was a crafter asked me to make her a little gift! He chose the colours and what he wanted making and I just chose the stamp set.
I made a 3x3 box and four cards to go inside it - I have used the colours chocolate chip, close to cocoa, summer sun and old olive - I chose the stampset circle circus as you can just random stamp and it always looks good! I have added brads and some ribbon to decorate the cards and left one plain. For each of the cards I have used the same stamp and colour for each of the cards - stamping on whisper white and inked the edges of the cards and the layering to add some definition. For the lid of the box I stamped on whisper white and matted this on close to cocoa and then summer sun.
I hope you like this little box - as it is just random stamping it only took me about an hour to make the cards and the box!
I hope you like my project and thanks for looking - Debbi x x x

Sketch Saturday Challenge

A quiet evening here tomight so another card made - I love those rare Saturdays where there is a morning party that takes you up till early afternoon the children come home after running around for four hours all fed and happy, you watch the new Fireman Sam movie! (not my choice I might add - although a must see!) takeaway tea, shower story then bed - all done! and I cleaned the kitchen as well bonus. So I had a quick blog hop and saw this sketch and got out my circle circus stamp set again! At the moment I love this set and am enjoying the different effects that it makes - stamping all in one colour, stamping in many or stampin mainly in one color and just adding a bright one here and there. I love the versatility.

So for this challenge I have used basic black, taken with teal and regal rose. I have randomly stamped the imsge all over and backed this on taken with teal. I have added a plain taken with teal panel at the top on the card and layered the image piece over the top of this. There is a smaller image panel added to the bottom of the card also backed with taken with teal and \i have stamped the sentiment in basic black on whisper white and inked the edges before adhering this to the bottom of the card. I have akso added three card candy to the bottom image panel to decorate.

I hope you like the card and thanks for looking your comments are appreciated - Debbi x x x

STAMPSET circle circus

SENTIMENT heroarts

CARDSTOCK whisper white, taken with teal

INK basic black, taken with teal, regal rose

ACCESSORIES dauber, card candy

Yeay - blogger working!

Ok so for three days I have been unable to get on my blog or load any up! I did not know how addicted I am to looking at the work that everyone is doing it is so annoying! However thanks to a very clever hubby he managed to fix the problem after a lot of suggestions from the ladies over on ILWS to try and help me out (which is much appreciated) and a lot of messing about I can funally look at what everyone has been doing. Yesterday I spent the day with Margaret and we made boxes to keep stamped images in - For weeks I have just been throwing them in a pile and I know that I needed to stope doing this so we made these boxes I haven't made a lid for mine as I didn't see the point. but inside the box are several deviders with tabs on so that you can see what the images are (I have forgotten to photograph these but will do so tomor)

We first of all made the box using some black card from Margaret's stash the box has consertina sides also made out of black card and we have added white string to decorate the and add some strength to the sides.

For the front I used some whisper white card and stamped this using three stamps from the circle circus stamp set, stamped in basic black and have stamped the smallest one in taken with teal. I have then inked the edges and mounted this on black card and then on white and black again. This is then stuck to the front of the box with double sided. I then stamped the word images in taken with teal and mounted it on taken with teal card stock.

Something a little different than a card - I hope you like it thanks for looking - Debbi x x x

Stamp With Us Challenge...

This week we had a colour challenge with this lovely picture of cupcakes for inspiration! I was trying really hard to decide on the colours to use and in the end went for pretty in pink, pixie pink, creamy caramel and sage shadow all stampin up colours. I don't have any of the cupcake stampsets so have used circle circus instead! I have a white card blank with a panel of each of the colours layered on that, with the corners rounded and the edges inked. I have then used a smaller piece of whisper white and stamped the circles all over and added a piece of border punched in pretty in pink to the left edge. I have then stamped a setiment in pretty in pink, on pretty in pink cardstock and added this to the right of the card - coering a small booboo!I hope you like the card, thanks for looking and your comments are appreciated - Debbi x x x

STAMPSETS: birthday best, circle circus

INKS: pretty in pink, sage shadow, pixie pink and creamy caramel

CARD STOCK: whisper white, pretty in pink, sage shadow, pixie pink and creamy caramel

ACCESSORIES: dauber, corner rounder, border punch, dimensionals

Colour Create Challenge

This challenge was lemon and lime and with the lack of colour that we see when we look out of the window at the moment for me it was perfect something to brighten my new crafting area and something to add some brightness to all the white (snow!) For this card I decided to use one of my favourite stamp sets at the moment Circle Circus from Stanpin' Up! It is one of the sets that we got from Convention last year and when I first saw it in the catalogue didn't really think that it was me and did not think it would get much use. How wrong you can be! I love it. For this card I stamped the card blank with yoyo yellow and some of them are stamped off to give the lemony look! Inking round the edges as well. I then added the ribbon detail that is just doubled back on itself and glued down. For the middle panel I stamped on a seperate piece of cardstock and also inked the edges. The sentiment is hero arts and stamped also in gable green and mounted in carstock of the same colour. I loved making this card and was pleased with the result. I hope you like it too and thanks for looking - any comments are appreciated - Debbi - ps watch this space for BLOG CANDY coming soon!