Hello... a family birthday...

Well today the card i am sharing is one that I have made for my cousin who is exactly one week older than me and it is her birthday today - Happy Birthday Emma! I don't see her very often but we chat a lot on the internet... So this is the first of the week of family birthdays! Monday is my son Aidan's he will be two and also it is my Auntie Alma's (Emma's mum) and then next friday it will be mine! What a lot of cake I will have to eat! ;-)
The card that I have made for Emma is using an old favourite stamp set pocket silhouettes I have used the babywipe technique for the back ground and have then stamped the images across the panel.

 I have then mounted this on a piece of rich razzleberry card and then again on soft suede. I have then mounted this on a white card blank and I have inked the edges of each piece. I have added the friend to friend sentiment as even though we do not see eachother often we are still very close (even if she doesn't like football as much as me!) For the main image I have stamped off one of the images all the way across the card and then added a few that were not stamped off. I have then added the flower detail stamped in rich razzleberry at regular intervals across the card. The sentiment is in the top left hand side of the card and this is fro the same stamp set.
Thanks for looking - Debbi x x x

more thanks...

Here is another thank you card that I created for some lovely customers. I have used the colours soft suede, rich razzleberry and melon mambo. I have again used the stamp set pocket silhouettes, I have brayered the panel in the middle of the card with soft suede and then I have then stamped off one of the images in soft suede and another I have stamped in rich razzleberry. I inked the edges of the of the panel and then mounted this on rich razzlebery card, I then mounted this on craft and then again on a soft suede card blank. I inked the edges of the panel and the card blank in soft suede.
I hope you like the card and thanks for looking  - Debbi x x x

the end of a great year!

So as we near the end of the Stampin' Up! year and many of us are gearing up for the new catalogue - I have been making thank you cards for all my customers to either give to them when I see them or when they collect or receive their latest order - So over the next few days I will be showing you some of these cards...
This card I have made using melon mambo, rich razzleberry, craft and confetti white. I have brayered the confetti panel in melon mambo and soft suede and then I have stamped off one of the images from pocket silhouettes and added this in soft suede and then added another in rich razzleberry.  have inked the edges of the panel and mounted this on craft card. I then mounted this on rich razzleberry and the card blank that I used was melon mambo! Pocket silhouettes is a lovely set and I love the effect that you can create from it... I hope you like the card and thanks for looking - more in a couple of days - Debbi x x x

GET WELL SOON... Stamp With Us Challenge!

I have made a promise to myself that I am going to make some time each Saturday morning to complete a challenge or at least a dedicated hour to make a card! So this week I decided that I would do the Stamp With Us challenge that I always love doing and I haven't done for ages! I have used the new Stampin Up! colours rich razzleberry and soft suede coupled with summer sun. I have used the stamp set pocket silhouettes and a clear brad to attached a tab of rinbbon.

I have stamped random images of the pocket silhouettes across the base of the card firstly in soft suede stamped off and then in the gaps used summer sun. Across the whole of the bottom of the card I have stamped rich razzleberry. I have then inked the edges of the card and nounted this on soft suede and then again on rich razzleberry inking the edges of the stamped panel. I have attached the tab of ribbon to the left hand side of the card using one of the clear rhinestone brads from stampin' up I love these and use them far more than other ones!

I have then attached the panel off set on the card to the left hand side and stamped the get well soon verse from curvey verses in the bottom right hand side. I have loved using this stamp set in the last couple of weeks - but it has to go away now! I chose to use this set for the get well card bacause even though the flowers are simple used with seperate coours I think that they are really cheery!
My next challenge is stamping candles - eekkkk!
I hope you like the card and thanks for looking your comments are appreciated - Debbi x x x

National Stampin' Up! Demo Support Day...

Many of you know that I am an SU! Demonstrator and on ILWS a couple of weeks ago we decided that we were going to send thank you cards to Demo Support - Chris and Eileen. The idea being that we all posted them to be in the post on the 9th June so that they would hopefully all arrive on the same day! Going off the thread we had going it is estimated they they would have received about 50 cards each. Chris and Eileen are the people that we contact if we have any queries in relation to our Stampin' Up! business whether that be the people, products or orders that we are making. They will always find the answer that you need and respond quickly to emails and phone calls. So I sent them cards to say a massive thank you for the support that they have given me since I signed up as a demonstrator and all the help that they gave when I signed my first downline earlier this year. 

These are the cards that I made Chris's is made in Rich Razzleberry and for the lovely Eileen I used Melon Mambo - I used the thank you verse from curvey verses and I have stamped in the same colour as the card that I used I hope you like them! Have a lovely weekend and will post Father's Day cards tomorrow!... Thanks for looking your comments are appreciated Debbi x x x 

Babywipe.... some more

The second card that I made using the babywipe I decided to do in rich razzleberry, my best friend has just decorated her bedroom this colour and I have made her a card to match - so I thought it would compliment well! I have used the babywipe for the background of the panel with both rich razzleberry and close to cocoa - I dabbed the babywipe in the ink and then gently tapped this on my grid paper to take some of the excess of as I wanted just a touch of colour. I have then mounted the panel on soft suede and decorated with a ribbon and a clear brad to add a bit of bling. I then mounted this onto rich razzleberry card and I have attached to  a white card blank and stamped the sentiment in rich razzleberry to the bottom left hand side of the card.

STAMP SET - curvey verses, pocket silhouettes
INK - close to cocoa, rich razzleberry
CARD - vanilla white, soft suede, rich razzleberry
ACCESSORIES - clear brad, rich razzleberry ribbon,

Pocket Silhouettes...

For the recent blog hop you saw that I made a card holder and a set of cards - the tutorial that Jo (mainly flowers) came up with used the stamp set pocket silhouettes a set that I love and I was very tempted to use it on Sunday but I decided on the I heart (heart) set.
However got the set out anyway... I have been having a play around over the last few weeks with the babywipe technique there are two reasons for this 1) the effect that you get and how the build up of colour is very subtle and 2) I cannot use my brayer without the card looking like a deckchair - managed it once with the supervision of Helen but practice is needed and I will definately have another go at this in the next couple of weeks.
Over the next week I will be showing you a set of cards that I created Sunday night and they were very quick to complete - firstly I cut card to make the panels and then I babywiped the card to the desired colour. I then left them to dry. This was followed by stamping the panel with pocket silhouettes and adding the sentiments. I have used the colours soft suede, summer sun and melon mambo. I mounted the panel on soft suede and then again on melon mambo, I mounted this panel onto a card blank off centre and added a piece of melon mambo ribbon to the right hand side.
The sentiment is from curvy verses and one of the stamp sets that I earned with the sale-a-bration promotion earlier on in the year! Thanks for looking and your comments are appreciated Debbi x x x

January Class...

This is the class that I did in January one of the ladies that comes to regular meets wanted to create a box and some cards for her mums birthday that is in a few weeks. So this is what I created for her. To make things slightly easieer I pre cut the box and scored all the fold lines as we only had a couple hour class because of the hours that she works and we needed to get the project completed for her mums birthday! She wanted to make something that was using the soft subtles colour family. The stamp set that we have used is pocket silhouettes and looked great stamped in these colours.

If you would like information on classes or to be added to my mailing list for future ones please email for further details...

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

Just Magnolia! challenge 5

This weeks challenge was a recipe... which is picture below
My image is coloured with polychromos again from my lovely friend sam and is mounted on SU! cardstock, the flowers are punched out with a woodware punch - multi daisy and the sentiment is from pocket silhouettes - also SU! The brads are from my stash.

I hope you like my card and thanks for looking Debbi - TTFN x x x

raspberry-ribbons sketch 21

Hi... Happy Weekend!

This is the first time that I have entered this challenge and I hope I have done it justice - The design team cards are great... For this card i used a square blank and painted a penny black image that a friend gave me i coloured the image with my watercolour pencil crayons and mounted this on blue SU! cardstock. I used SU! designer paper to create the bottom half of the card and this was decorated with SU! ribbon (chocolate chip) I used button to decorate and the sentiment is from the pocket sillhouettes set from SU!

I hope you like the card - have a great weekend x x x TTFN Debbi