Just Magnolia Challenge...

It has been a long time since I completed the Just Magnolia Challenge and this week whilst blog hopping around I came across this weeks sketch and I knew I had to complete it! Although this evening I should have been in bed early and not sat at the table making a card! I have caught my husband's sore throat and am feeling very sorry for my self. A couple of years ago I had my tonsils out and since then this is my third sore throat - this one is a stinker! Not impressed - but at least it is keeping me quiet - hubby is glad of the peace I am sure LOL

For this challenge I have coloured the sailer tilda with my promarkers in pastel colours using only blush, dusky pink and pastel blue. I have mounted the image in SU bashful blue card stock and rounder the corners. I have used two of the SU! retired DSP's for the panels and inked the edges of the card blank in bashful blue ink.

The flowers are punched in the same DSP and I have used ice circle brads to hold them. The sentiment is from happy moments one of the new SAB sets and only available until the end of the month! Last orders are being placed now.

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

STAMPS sailer tilda

INK momento bashful blue

CARDSTOCK bashful blue

DSP retired SU!

ACCESSORIES corner rounder, dauber, ice circle brads

Cute Card Thursday

This challenge really intrigued me as I never really use metal on my cards and I have allsorts of embellishments in my stash! So I decided for this challenge I would use my retired hodgepodge set which has remained unopened for nearly a year I might add. I have used a Forever friends image and coloured it with my pro markers, I mounted this on grey card stock and then again on craft. There are two clips added to diagonal edges of the image to decorate. The sentiment hero arts I have stamped in basic black on brocade blue card stock and mounted again on craft and then grey. I have added to brads to the left edge of the sentiment. At the top of the card I have added a strip of brocade blue ribbon and a ribbon slider also. I have inked the edges of the card and also for effect added a blue fingerprint to the image! and I didn't scream very well behaved when I did that I can tell you! LOL
I hope you like the card, thanks for looking and your comments are appreciated - Debbi x x x
STAMPS forever friends
CARD STOCK basic grey, craft, brocade blue
INK basic black, brocade blue
ACCESSORIES hodgepode, dauber, brocade blue ribbon

My Time to Craft Challenge...

The challenge this week was 'GREEN + ONE' For this I decided to use greenhouse garden and I chose the colours old olive, certainly celery and mellow moss. I stamped the image on very vanilla and mounted this on old olive and certain celery card stock. The sentiment is heroarts and stamped in black - my other! I have mounted this on certain celery and old olive card stock. This stampset is very easy to use and for this card I have not used a stamp a majig I have used the rock and roll tecnique that we were shown at convention. The full image is stamped on the card stock in green. I have then inked the top stamp in black that accents the detail to the flowers, the top of the stamp is placed to the top of the green stamped image and quickly rocked over the image - easy and it must be cause I can do it!

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

STAMPSET green house garden

INK basic black, certain celery, mellow moss, old olive

CARD STOCK old olive, certain celery, very vanilla

SENTIMENT heroarts

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

2Sketches4You

I completed this card in a bit of a rush as the deadline is Saturday - but card making beats housework any day! lol and the bathroom can certainly wait... I decided to use my new greenhouse garden set for this challenge as like always it remained unmounted and on my desk. I have used the soft subtle colour family for this card and have not included any embellishments I have just used card and the circle and window punch. I have layered card stock on the left hand side of the card where the image is mounted and have done the same on the right for the sentiment.

I have used the colours sage shadow, lavender lace and almost amethest for both the card and ink and have stamped the flowers on to whisper white. For the middle fo the flowers I have used basic black and have used the rock and roll technique instead of using the stamp-a-majig.

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

STAMPSETS - greenhouse garden flight of the butterfly (sentiment)

INK - sage shadow, lavender lace almost amethyst

CARD STOCK - sage shadow, lavender lace almost amethyst

ACCESSORIES - window punch, 13/4' punch, 13/8' punch 11/4' punch

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