Thinlets Halloween

I can't tell you how excited I was about the new thinlets dies, they make life so much easier.  I was very jealous of our American friends who got them first.

I was chomping at the bit to try them out and here's the first card I made with them

I made this Halloween card for Scotty too Hotty's teacher.  It uses the Toil and Trouble stamp set and the new Witches Brew papers, these papers are fantastic I just love them.

The thinlets score and cut, and are so easy to use, plus you get an assortment of other die's in with it.

The sentiment is from the delightful dozen stamp set, I've just inked the edges of this with pumpkin pie ink.

Hope you like this, if you would like any of the items used to make this card please click the 'shop now' tab

Products used

Stamps
Toil and Trouble
Delightful Dozen

Ink
Basic Black
Pumpkin Pie

Card
Basic Black
Pumpkin Pie
Witches Brew papers

Accessories
Circle card Thinlets Die
Scalloped Circle punch

Christmas Banner

One of the fab new items in the Autumn/ Winter catalogue is the fantastic banner kit.  I highly recommend it, it can be used for anything, birthdays, retirement, anniversarys, weddings anything.  I've used mine for Christmas and I got it from my wonderful upline Monica 

I'm sorry but this project is very product heavy but well worth it I think.

The banners have been inked in gold using the sponge daubers, The letters have been cut out and mounted onto snowflakes cut out using the framelets in glitter cardstock, with a vintage button added for detail.  The rosette has a small glitter snowflake and is topped off with one of the frosted finishes.  The papers are from the season of style set and the ribbon ruffled at the top of the banner is the cherry cobbler stitched edge grosgrain. 

In the middle is a bow again made with the season of style papers using the Gift Bow Bigz L die and hanging from that is two more snow flakes which are finished off with the frosted finishes.

If you would like any of the items used to make this card please click the 'shop now' tab at the top of my blog

Happy crafting

Deb xxx

A bit of a different post

Today's post is a little different because instead of showing you one of my efforts I'm sharing with you someone elses.

Today's creation is by Sarah Costello and she was the winner of our fortnightly challenge on Stamp with Us, you can join in the fun here.

Here is Sarah's winning creation

The challenge was to use the new incolours in any way you wanted, as you can see Sarah used her's to make a lovely insert for this frame and photograph using the flower shop stamp set.

Hope you enjoyed todays post with a difference, why not join us on the challenge page.  This fortnights challenge is anything to do with Halloween or autumn.

Happy Crafting

Deb xx
 

007

Today I've had to leave my beloved stamping up stamps in favor of some toppers from Making Cards magazine.  It's my long suffering other half's birthday on Friday and I wanted to do something a little different for his card.  Because he likes rugby and was in the RAF he normally either gets planes or rugby balls on his cards lol,

It's a simple gatefold card done in whisper white and basic black, I've also added some of the new candy dots in black too.

Here's a closer look at whats on the mini circles.  I also did a lovely matching insert for it but wrote on it before I thought to photograph it, typical of me really.  Now Ray never reads my blog so it won't spoil the surprise for him, in fact I could get away with writing all sorts about him on here and he'd be none the wiser lol oooohhhhh sooooo tempting.

Happy Crafting

Deb xx

Lavender Blue Dilly Dilly

The sun came out yesterday for all of five minutes lol.  Ah well better get used to autumn now then.  Today I'm going to share with you a lavender bag, I got the idea for it from my lovely upline Monica

It's just one of the new mini muslin bags stamped with the en Francias stamp in gold and one of the butterfly is from the best of butterflies stamp set.

The butterfly is stamped in basic grey, I stamped this first them masked it and stamped with the en francias stamp/

I finished it off with some crotchet trim and one of those lovely frosted Finshes.


If you would like any of the products used here please click the 'shop now' tab at the top left of my blog.

Happy Crafting

Deb xxx

Products used

Stamps

En Francias
Best of Butterflies

Ink
Gold
Basic Grey

Accessories

Mini Muslin Bags
Crotchet Trim
Frosted Finishes

Papaya Collage #2

Hello, I hope the weather is a bit better where you are, we've had nothing but rain for the last few days. My brother, bless him, still came and sorted my garden out for me yesterday in all the pouring rain.  He's a star.

Well today's card, this one also using the Papaya Collage set.

I've used Primrose petals and gumball green ink on this one, again I cut out the frame to layer it up.  I also added some of the primrose petals ribbon.  The sentiment is from the Bring on the Cake stamp set.

The Bird is stamped in soft suede and I've added some gems to the top right hand corner of the frame and the top left hand corner of the card.

I also stamped inside the card. Hope you like it, if you would like any of the items used to make this card please click on the 'shop now' tab.

Happy crafting

Deb xxx

Products used

Card
Whisper white
Primrose Petals

Ink
Primrose Petals
Soft Suede
Gumball Green

Stamps
Papaya Collage
Bring on the Cake

Accessories 
Gems
Decorative Label Punch

Papaya Collage

It's very windy and chilly here in deepest darkest Yorkshire today.  I think Autumn has finally descended upon us.

Today I'm going to share with you a card using the Papaya Collage set. 

This card is again a 6 x6 and uses the retired tea for two papers, you could easily use the afternoon picnic papers with it as these are very similar.  I've cut the frame in the middle out and raised it on on pads to give the card a bit of dimension, It is a bit of a faf cutting the frame but well worth the effort. The leaves inside the frame are second stamped in soft suede.

The flower and the butterfly are both stamped in primrose petals, I've added some small pearls to the body of the butterfly.

I added another square of the papers to the inside and also re-stamped the rose.

Hope you like it, if you would like any of the products used to make this card please click the 'shop now' tab

Happy crafting

Deb xxx

Products Used

Card

Primrose Petals
Whisper White
Tea for two papers

Ink

Soft Suede
Primrose Petals

Stamps

Papaya Collage
Bring on the Cake

Accessories

Decorative label punch

Stippled Blossoms Birthday

I thought I'd give you a rest from Christmas today and instead share with you a birthday card made with the stippled blossom stamp set

This is a 6 x 6 card made using elegant eggplant, the flowers were stamped in wisteria wonder and elegant egg plant. As you can see I've used quite a few layers on this card.  I've embossed one layer using the petals a plenty embossing folder, I then added a layer of crumb cake before adding another layer of whisper white which has been stamped in crumb cake using the En Francias stamp.  I then added the flowers and finished it off with a butterfly from the papillon pot pouri stamp set.  I also added a sentiment from Bring on the Cake.

Products Used

Stamps
Stippled Blossoms
En Francias
Bring on the Cake
Papillon pot Pouri

Ink
Wisteria Wonder
Elegant Egg Plant
Crumb Cake

Card
Elegant Egg Plant
Crumb Cake
Whisper White

Accessories
Decorative  Label Punch
Petals a plenty Embossing Folder
Big Shot

If you would like any of the products used to make this card please use the 'shop now' tab.

Happy Crafting

Debbie xx

Lovely as a Tree #3

Hope you all had a great weekend, did you make any cards for world card making day?  It was a very exciting day on Saturday and some fellow demonstrators as it was the launch of our challenge page on facebook.  Why don't you go over and have a look the page is here and join in the fun.

Now for today's card, it again uses the Lovely as a tree stamp set

I've used the heat and stick again on this one with dazzling diamonds.  The tree is stamped in garden green. Here's a closer look

I think it's very effective, although I did get covered in glitter in the process and I resembled a 70's disco diva by the time I was finished lol.

The Sentiment is from more merry messages and I've added a few jewels to the corner for a bit of extra pop!

Products used:

Stamps
Lovely as a tree
More Merry Messages

Card
Whisper White
Basic Grey

Ink
Garden Green

Accessories
Heat and Stick Powder
Dazzling Diamonds
Jewels
Heat Gun

If you would like to order any of the products I have used here please click the shop now tab,

Happy crafting

Deb
xx

Christmas Gift Box

Today I'm going to share with you a lovely little gift box which I cased from the very lovely Julie Kettlewell

I've made it from the Winter Frost papers, the box is made from a single sheet of 12 x 12.  The belly band is made from vellum and stamped in silver with the Festive Flurry stamps.  I've then added the same stamp but this time stamped in pool party then with a smaller snowflake on top stamped in silver,  The sentiment is from Tags 4 you stamp set.

Inside it's just big enough to fit a small gift, I've added a pack of stamping up buttons to mine.

Best of all they store flat, so you can make up a lot and store them quite easily until you need them.

Products used

Stamps
Tags 4 You
Festive Flurry

Card
Winter Frost papers
Whisper White
Vellum

Ink
Sliver Encore Pad 
Pool Party

Accessories
Score Board
Festive Flurry Framlets
Large Jewel
Label Bracket Punch

I hope you like it, if you would like any of the products used to make this card please just click the 'shop now' tab.

Happy Crafting

Deb xx 

Another Lovely as a tree

It's raining today in deepest darkest Yorkshire and looking pretty glum. Today I'm going to share with you another lovely as a tree Christmas card.  I love this stamp set!

To make this card I stamped out the trees in always artichoke, then used the stamp a jig to re-stamped them using versamark, I then covered the trees in Heat and stick powder, heated it up and added dazzling diamonds and reheated it.

I added a frosted finish to the corner.  The sentiment is also stamped in Always Artichoke and is from the more merry messages stamp set.  A very simple card to do yet very effective. 

Products used

stamps
Lovely as a Tree
More Merry Messages

Card
Whisper White
Always Artichoke

Ink
Always Artichoke

Accessories
Frosted Finishes
Heat and Stick Powder
Dazzling Diamonds 

Hope you like it and have a go for yourselves, if you would like to buy any of the products used to make this card please use the 'shop now' tab

Happy Crafting

Deb xx

Flower Shop Birthday

I thought I'd give you a rest from Christmas today and instead show you a birthday card made with the Flower Shop stamp set.

I used Pistachio Pudding, Baked Brown Sugar and Very Vanilla on this card, which a bit of that lovely ruffled ribbon.  The sentiment is stamped in Baked Brown Sugar and is from the Chalk Talk stamp set

I've used the faceted buttons and an antique brad for the centre of the flowers.

 I also added some pearls to the corner for extra 'pop'.  This card is another 6 x 6


Products used

Stamps
Flower Shop
Chalk Talk

Card
Pistachio Pudding
Baked Brown Sugar
Very Vanilla

Ink
Baked Brown Sugar
Pistachio Pudding

Accessories
Pearls
Pistachio Pudding ruffled Ribbon
Antique Brads
Vintage Faceted Buttons
Chalk Talk Framelets

If you would like any of the items used here please click the 'shop now' tab to place your order.

Happy Crafting

Deb xxxx