Quick post...

Today is a quick post just to show you a couple of small cards i made a fellow demo who did not have one of the mini sets that I had puchased - I quickly stamped some of the imagrs just so that she could showcase the stamps if she wished! I also stamped and puinched out some of the sentiments so that she could add these elements to her own cards.
I love the this set and will use it more in the coming weeks - rather than use the set to create a card I think I will use it more to add something different to cards. Thanks for looking - Debbi x x x

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

BAD BLOGGER...

Ok so where does life go?? I apologise for not blogging sooner and will try harder to get more crafting on here in the coming weeks... I have made two cards this evening cased from my very good friend Deb O'd who was mad enough to spend the day with me and my boys on Sunday on a freezing beach! (we were freezing) while the rest of them ran about paying cricket, football, flying kites and my beautiful 4 year old evening donned his swimming shorts to get wet in a large puddle!

For these cards I have used the I (Heart) Heart stamp set the full sized heart punch and the Three Heart punch - I chose two seperate colour combinations - real red, confetti white, and whisper white and orchid opulence, lovely lilac and whisper white.
I have also used the window punch to add the sentiment - stamped from happy moments one of the recent sale-a-bration sets.
I have used three punched large hearts for the background of the panel and added stamped hearts from the stampset stamped in the same colour to the foreground and stuck these with dimensionals. I have also mounted the panel onto cardstock. I have used the two way glue pen to stick the layers together and am pleased with the effect.
The card blank of the red card is sahara sand - a colour I have never used before, softer than craft but I love the subtlety with the red!

I hope you like the cards and I have added a link to Deborah 's blog - take a look! Thanks for looking and your comments are appreciated! Debbi x x x

Look at the Sun!

Hubby was banging on about the sun being brilliant red last night when it was setting - due to the volcanic ash and I was only half listening whilst trying to watch gossip girl! Then tonight whilst I was on the phone to my dad I turned around and saw this...
It was beautiful so I thought I would share it with you before I go to make some cards that I must post this weekend... Crafting either later tonight or tomorrow morning depending on how I get on! Thanks for looking - Debbi x x x

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

Vintage Vogue...

A few weeks ago I was with Helen and we had a play with our sets from regional training and Helen had made a card similar to this one which I decided to make - I have stamped the vine from the set in the bottom of the left hand corner of a piece of whisper white card stock I have used the colours tempting turquoise and close to cocoa I have inked the edges of the piece with close to cocoa. This is mounted on craft card stock and then on tempting turquoise behind that and I have also inked the edges to this. On the piece of tempting tuquoise I have again stamped the vine in the corner using close to cocoa and tempting turquoise. The card blank is close to cocoa and I have inked the edges to this also the vine is also stamped in this too. I have added the large and small flower from the set to the bottom left of the card The flower is held together by an ice circle brad and have used stamping dimensionals to attach the flower. in the top right of the card I have stamped the friend sentiment and decoupaged this with dimensionals. This is stamped on whisper white with both close to cocoa and tempting turquoise, I have inked the edges to this and then mounted it on craft card stock. This is also attached with dimensionals.
I hope you like the card and thanks for looking - Debbi x x x

MINI LAUNCH..

This week I held my mini launch and here are a couple of the things that we did on the evening! I knew as soon as I saw the catalogue I would have to demo Dasher - even though we are only at the beginning of Spring this was one of the first stamps that I purchased I love him and think he is so versatile and will work so well with the other Christmas stamps that I have! So for a quick demo I used night of navy card and craft ink - inked up Dasher and stamped him inked the edges of the card and added dazzling diamonds to the antlers using the two way glue pen. I love the sparkle to such a simple card.

The make and take that we made - instead of doing a couple of cards we made a matchbook holder (cased from Michelle Last) and a set of cards to go inside - I used bright colours yoyo yellow, only orange, lovely lilac and orchid opulance and the sweet pea stamp set. To decorate the holder I have used the sweet pea roller then stamped some sweet pea birds on whisper white card and mounted this on yoyo yellow card stock. Inking the edges to add definition. We then made 4 cards to go inside the holder and for these I have used whisper white card stock to stamp sweet pea on and then mounted these on contrasting card stock...
I hope you like my cards and thanks for looking - your comments are appreciated - Debbi x x x