Best of Flowers

Morning lovely people, I hope today finds you all well.  Lots to do here today from house hunting to making bath bombs lol

Today's card uses the Best of Flowers stamp set, It's one of the sets that Stampin up are using to celebrate 25 years.  They will be releasing one set per month until October.  This months set is Best of flowers and includes some old favorites and one never before seen stamp, it costs £13.95 for 4 stamps.

Again I've used the En Francias as a background stamp on this and teamed together the colours Baja Creeze and Chocolate chip.  I stamped the flower in chocolate chip as well then coloured it using the stampin write markers.

Bit of a closer look for you

The sentiment is made just by punching out two of the decorative label cutting it in half and sticking the chocolate chip to the ends of the very vanilla.  Simple yet effective.

List of Supplies

Stamps
Best of Flowers
En Francias
Blooming With Kindness (sentiment)

Card
Very Vanilla
Chocolate Chip
Baja Breeze

Ink
Chocolate Chip

Stampin Up Accessories
Stampin Write Markers (Garden Green, Wisteria Wonder )
Decorative Label Punch
Pearls

Well time for me to go, if you would like to order any of the products used to make this card please email me at debbie72keating@yahoo.co.uk.

A Nice cup of Tea

Well lovely people although it's very sunny here today it is rather cool,  Scotty too Hotty is as smart as a guardsman this morning as it's school photo day. 

A nice cup of tea I have to have about 3 in a morning when I'm at my teaching assistant job, can't face teenagers without them lol, so onto today's card

A Very simple card which uses the Tea Shoppe stamp set, I love this set and I'll be very sorry to see it go, I've used crumb cake, midnight muse and baja breeze as the colours on this one

I added some pearls to the flowers on the tea cup to give it some pop

The sentiment was punched out using the scalloped oval then I mounted it on some midnight muse punched out using the extra large oval, again I've added some pearls.

I also made an insert for the card.

Here's what I used

Stamps
Tea Shoppe

Card
Crumb Cake
Midnight muse
Whisper White
Designer Series Paper

Ink
Midnight Muse

Stampin Up Accessories
Scalloped Oval Punch
Extra Large Oval Punch
Pearls

If you would like to order any of the items used to make this card please email me your order at debbie72keating@yahoo.co.uk

Happy Crafting

Deb xx

Summer Flutterbyes

Well what a day yesterday, sun blazing down, dare we believe that summer is now here?  Scotty too Hotty went off to school with hat and sunglasses and loaded down with suntan lotion, He also went with 6 bars of chocolate to share with his class as they are doing a project on chocolate, not sure how they will have fared in a hot classroom though lol.

Now I'll apologize now for today's project as it is product heavy which wasn't my intention I think I just got a bit carried away lol

 These are little hostess gifts that I've made

Here's a closer look, I've used the top note, enfrancias stamp, Inked up the vintage wall paper embossing folder to get that effect on the scalloped circle, I've also used the elegant and itty bitty butterfly punches and the blue flower is from the itty bitty punch pack.  Colours are pretty in pink, baja breeze and crumb cake

Here's a list of items used

Stamps
En Francias

Card
Crumb Cake
Pretty in Pink
Baja Breeze
Very Vanilla

Ink
Crumb Cake

Stampin Up Accessories
Big Shot
Top Note Die
Elegant Butterfly Punch
Itty Bitty Butterfly Punch
Scalloped Circle Punch
Itty Bitty Punch Pack
Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder

Don't forget to pop along tomorrow to see what else has been going on in my little crafty world, if you would like any of these products please email me at debbie72keating@yahoo.co.uk

Happy crafting

Deb xx

Candle gift box

Well two decent bank holidays in a row what is the world coming to?  Firstly I had some news for you.  Due to some issues online ordering has been closed down, but only for a short time while stampin up iron out these issues, theres still plently to see on the website including a whole load of projects for you to try so do please still pop on over and as soon as online ordering is back up and running I'll let you know.  In the mean time you can still email me your order at debbie72keating@yahoo.co.uk.

Now today I want to share with you a tea light holder;

Isn't it lovely?  I used Baja Breeze, Calyspo Coral and some vellum that I had embossed and I put a bit of washi tape around the candles

The tag is made using the ticket builder punch and the stamp is from teeny tiny sentiments.  Would you like to make it?  There's a tutorial for it made by a fellow demonstrator here. 

Here's a list of the items used;

Stamps
Teeny tiny sentiments
Secret Garden

Paper
Calypso Coral Card
Baja Breeze Card
Vellum 

Ink
Calypso Coral
Baja Breeze

Stampin Up Accessories
Calypso Coral Ribbon
Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder
Ticket Duo Builder Punch
Apothecary Accents Framelets
Washi Tape

If you would like to order any of the items to make this project please email me at debbie72keating@yahoo.co.uk

Happy crafting
Deb xx 

A Birthday Friend

Well I'm feeling a little more like myself today, which means I can finish moving into my new craft studio, Yay!  The great Raymundo did some for me on Sunday but you know how it is, can't expect a man to get all the crafty bits right ;-)

Todays card was for a friend at work, we have a birthday fund where we all put in some money and on our birthday we get a card and some birthday dosh, lovely!  Myself and another cardmaker at work have been nominated to make the cards (I wonder why lol) but I'm flying solo at the moment as Judith my partner in crime is on the mend after an operation to her foot.  I did offer to fit a roller skate to it for her so she could come in but for some reason she wasn't so keen, I even offered to wheel her about which she was even less happy with, for the life of me I can't think why, anybody would think she didn't trust me ;-). The card I've made is for Julie who celebrated her birthday on 30th. Happy Birthday Julie!

So heres the card

I've used whisper white and Baja Breeze.  I used the edgelets to create the scalloped edge along the bottom of the baja breeze card.  I've stamped using baja breeze and midnight muse inks and finished it off with a bit of bling and some taffeta ribbon.  The stamp set used is the Blooming with Kindness set.

If you would like to email any of the items I used to make this card please email me

Happy Crafting

Deb xx

Sale a bration sneak peek 7

BRRRRRRR!! Cold again this morning and very icy doing the school run

Today I'm showing you my final Sale a bration card

Just in time for Valentines day lol, I used the heart shaped framlets to cut the hearts from the polka dot DSP, I've used pretty in pink and real read card and I stamped the sentiment 'Theres only one you' in Baja Breeze.  I've finished off the hearts with the jewel like buttons.

Happy Crafting

Deb xx

Friends birthday card

I must admit that I sourced this card from the internet as I had a complete brain block on Saturday   I knew I wanted to use the colours Cajun Craze and Baja Breeze and also the From My Heart stamp set.  Thats about as far as I got.  So I simply popped From My heart into Google and up came lots of ideas so here is the card.

I've added the Victoria lace and a few gems, I've also used the Holiday Frame embossing folder, just goes to show this frame can be used all year round.  This is a C6 card (half the size of A5).  I used the colour coach to help me find a colour to complement the Cajun Craze, this is a fantastic tool and well worth the money I highly recommend it,

Come back tomorrow when I will show you a similar card using the Papillon Potpourri stamp set.

Happy Crafting

Deb xxxx

A Christmas Card

Well I am buzzing with excitement over this new catalogue I can tell you, lol Have you had a chance to have a look yet?  Just click here I promise you, you won't be disappointed!

I thought I'd share the following card with you, this is made with the new In Colours and items from the Autumn/Winter catalogue. I used this card as a make and take at a recent workshop.

Sorry about the photo quality as it was taken on my phone, I've used the Ornament Keepsakes Bundle, in the bundle you get the stamps and the dies! Saving you money, thats what we like to hear, I've also used the snowflake die which you can just see at the side of the card, the Holiday Frame embossing folder. The colours used are midnight muse, and baja breeze.

Hope you like it

Happy crafting

Deb xx

Fold out card tutorial

I've seen this card quite a few times on blogs etc but have never managed to find instructions on how to make it, luckily I mentioned it to one of my friends, who'd made one so gave me her card so that I could copy it.  So here's the card and tutorial

Cut your card 24 x 24cm, save the long piece of cut off card for your belly band. Then score your 24 cm square card at 6cm and 18cm, turn your card round and score again at 6cm and 18cm, this should leave you with one large square in the middle and four smaller squares on all four corners.

Take your Diagonal plate and score at 4 3/4 inches and 7 1/8 inches.  Do this on all four sides.

You should now have four triangles coming off the large middle square, fold these triangles into the middle so that they cover the large inside square.

 You should now have four small squares facing you, like this;

Fold these along the score lines outwards to the outer corners.

Then all there is for you to do is decorate and add your belly band to keep the card closed,

For my card I've used Bravo Burgundy, Baja Breeze and whisper white card, I've used the pines and poinsettias stamp set and the stampin write pens.  Sorry about some of the blurry photography, hope this helps you make this lovely and effective card, if you would like any of the products to make this card please email me your order.

Happy Crafting

Deb x

Wedded Bliss

I wanted to share a card with you today that I made for a Civil Partnership.   Two good friends of mine took the plunge on Saturday and lots of fun was had by all.  Even more surprising is I even managed to get Ray (the better half) up to dance, he had well soaked his liver by this time though lol.

So here's the card;

I used the heart punch to make the two dresses and finished them off with some pearls ,I've lightly dusted some Baja Breeze over the hearts to make the bust area stand out, I also popped some pearls on oppisite corners and used some Baja breeze card embossed using the Victorian wallpaper embossing folder.  Quite Simple.

If you would like to order the items used to make this card please Email me here.

Happy Crafting

Deb xxx