Sheffield Training Swap Swap!

When we got back from demonstrator training in Sheffield one of my good friends Deb O'd had the great idea that we do a swap incorporating our favourite and just changing the colour combination that we used. There were 5 of us that signed up and we had to have them in this week. I have made this one by Kelly Austin and she has used the Bird on a Branch... She used the combination bashful blue, basic black and stamped on whisper white.
I have made the card in the same way but changed the combination to taken with teal, basic grey and stamped on whisper white. I think that you will agree Kelly has done a great job! One of the great things about being a demonstrator is the swaps that we get involved in - this is only one that I am in this week. My second being Cards for Men - more on that later though.
To make the card I have stamped the image in basic grey on whisper white with the flowers of the tree stamped in taken with teal and I then rounded the top corners, this is then mounted on taken with teal card stock which also has the corner rounded at the top. I have used the stamp from love you much to stamp the sentiment and then punched this out using the window punch I have stamped on taken with teal. I have added a brad to decorate - as on the original and a piece of grey taffeta ribbon stapled to the card blank to decorate the left hand side of the card.
I hope you like the cards and the colour combinations chosen - more crafting to be shown later! Debbi x x x

Simon Says Challenge...

WHATS LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT... The challenge on Simon Says this week is the famous Tina Turner song - are you singing yet?? LOL I have entered the card I used in the Sugar Nellie Challenge for this one too... The stamp Little Miss Attitude is answering the phrase, with her folded arms and jaunty expression almost daring you to care! - Although having said that I am one of the lucky ones and married to a gem! Who even though we said no presents this Valentines had a Pandora bag at the ready! This card I loved doing using the stamp from Love you much - cannot wait to play further with this even though Valentines has passed. The image I have coloured with my pro markers.

Thanks for looking and your comments are appreciated Debbi x x x

Sugar Nellie Blog Challenge...

The challenge this week was a sketch challenge and I thought that this was the perfect opportunity to use the other new gorguss girl that I purchased last week 'little miss attitude' this was so me when I was younger LOL and I am sure that hubby would agree that I still look like that now on the odd occasion! I loved following this sketch - I decided that I would use plain card stock and decorate that with hearts using different coloured ink. I have coloured the inage with my pro markers - as I have used beige for the main colour of the dress I did not do a lot of shading as I felt it was not needed. I am definately going to practice this technique as there are some brilliant tutorials on the net to show you how!

I have used a simple sentiment from one of the new SAB sets from stampin up! 'for you' it is from the set vintage labels.

I have used a black card blank and rounded the edges of the card, to emphasise them further I have inked the edges in craft ink. The first panel added was red stamped in black hearts - the stamp is from love you much. I have then added a white panel stamped in real red using the same stamp, The final panel is black stamped in white.

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