Star of wonder!

First I must apologize for the picture as I was struggling to get some decent light to take the thing.  Today's offering uses one of the individual stamps that you can now get from stampin up, the one I chose is the Christmas Star, it's quite a large stamp and lends itself beautifully to my favorite size card 6 x 6.

I stamped out the Christmas Star in red and used the flourish from the everything Eleanor stamp set as some greenery.  You can't really see in the picture but I added some pearls of different sizes so that this would look like mistletoe.  I've matted and layered using some of the burnished gold card on to the red of my card base, and of course stamped onto whisper white.  What you also can't see well in the picture is that I cut out each star and scored it along the white lines so that it would stand up a little from the card base.

Hope you like it, if you would like any of the products used to make this card please click the pictures below which will take you directly to that item in my shop.

Happy crafting

Deb xxx  

Whisper White A4 Card Stock	Real Red A4 Card Stock	Stampin' Dimensionals	Christmas Star Clear-Mount Stamp Set
Everything Eleanor Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Basic Pearls Jewel Accents	Brushed Gold A4 Card Stock	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad
Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

Table built using Stampin' Up! Product Table Builder from The Crafty Owl.

An extra post

I know I don't normally blog on a Monday but I've been extra productive so have lots of projects to share with you. 

The card I'm going to share with you today is a wedding card I've made for a work friend who is tying the knot in August

I've chosen the colours Melon Mambo and Old Olive because, on her invitations she had some Melon Mambo Ribbon and flower, on asking her what her wedding colours where she explained she was having a lot of green for the table decorations.

Heres the sentiment, I've double the decorate label by just cutting it in half and adding it to the ends like I did with the modern label I've shown you before

The dress and sentiment are both from the love and laughter stamp set, and I've used the distressed dots for the background, unfortunately  this is retiring :-( and so is the vintage wallpaper embossing folder that I've used to emboss the oval framelet.

Here's the products I used;

Stamps
Distressed Dots
Love and Laughter

Card
Very vanilla
Old Olive

Ink
Melon Mambo

Stampin Up Accessories
Big Shot Machine
Framelet Ovals
Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder 
Decorative Label Punch
Old Olive Scalloped Polka Dot Ribbon

Yes again it's a 6 x 6 card, pop back tomorrow and I'll show you the little gift I made to go with the card. If you'd like any of the items to use this card please email me at debbie72keating@yahoo.co.uk

Happy Crafting

Deb xxx

Easter rumblings

I am sorry for my absence but we've been quite busy here in the Keating household lol.  I'm glad to say there is no snow here YET!

Anyhoo on with todays make, which uses the milk carton die.

Scotty too hotty isn't a great fan of the old easter egg so we buy him sweets instead and so Mum has to make something easter like to hold them and here it is well one of them any way. Milk cartons in their own little holder.

Heres a close up of the holder, I've embossed the handle and stamped around the edge, I think you can just see the mushrooms from the everybunny stamp set.

Here are the cartons again stamped with the everybunny stamp set I've also used the small bottle tops with the paper daises as decoration.

A little ribbon bow and a bit of bling to finish.

Don't forget Sale-a-bration ends in just 4 days!!! If you wish to place an order or take up the fantastic demonstrator offer please email me at debbie72keating@yahoo.co.uk

Happy crafting

Deb x

Valentines Day

Well I hope you have all been suitable spoilt today by your nearest and dearest.  I've been given chocolate, some lovely dress jewellery and some perfume.  Scotty too hotty made me an electronic card and message on his DS lol.

So todays card is a valentines card, I have totally stole this from a fellow demonstrator, I saw it and right away fell in love with it. You can see Teri's version here, you'll need to scroll down a bit to get to it.  Here's mine;

A lovely heart shaped easel card. I've used soft suede  real red, whisper white and old olive card,  I have used the heart shaped framelets and crochet trim round the edges of the heart, and the you are loved stamp set.

Now because I had those lovely roses on my card it also meant that I needed to make a box the house it.  When it comes to making a box and getting the sizes right my mind always seems to hit a blank, and yet I'm able to work out envelope sizes.  Luckily after posting that I needed some help the lovely Emily came to my rescue.  So here's the matching box;

I used chocolate chip for the box base on this one.

If you require any of the items made to used this card and box please email me your order

Happy crafting

Deb xxx

Papaya Collage Part Two

So heres the next lot of cards I promised from the tutorial which you can buy from Jenny Moor

This is the first of three cards, on this one Jenny had used the new in colour DSP because I didn't have any I instead used the primrose petals card and embossed it using the Vintage Wallpaper folder.

I love this card it's just so pretty lets have a look inside

The 'ghosting of the leaves is just by just stamping twice more without re-inking.

This is the last card from the selection I hope you like them I think they are very pretty and although I've stamped happy birthday on all of mine they could also be used as get well cards, anniversary or mothers days cards.

If you would like to order any of the items to make these cards please email me

Happy Crafting

Deb xx

Papaya Collage Stamp set

At Last the snow has gone!! All that snow we had on Saturday night, what surprise to wake up Sunday morning to find it all gone.

I'm going to show you some cards from the Papaya Collage stamp set, now I got these cards from a tutorial that you can buy from Jenny Moors, she does quite a lot of tutorials so it's well worth popping over to her blog to take a look. Some of the cards also use the Memorable moments stamp set.  I've tweeked the ones I've done to suit my purposes and instead of using DSP I've used card that I've embossed using the vintage wallpaper embossing folder.

The first card is a gate fold as you can see, on the tutorial it has 50th where I have added the butterfly lets have a look inside

Isn't it just lovely?  It uses Soft Suede, Raspberry Ripple, Very Vanilla and Primrose Petals  card, Inks used are Soft Suede, Raspberry Ripple, Old Olive and Primrose Petals.

Here is the next card again it uses Soft suede, Very vanilla, Raspberry Ripple card and Soft Suede, Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals and Olive inks

Heres a look inside,

I'll pop back tomorrow with the rest of the cards from this set, please feel free to email me if you wish to order any of the items used to make these cards.

Happy Crafting

Debxx

Quadruple Easel Card

Well we had about 2 inches of snow last night, and more to come, we've had worse so it's not so bad, no digging out needed at least :-)

Well today I'm going to go through a tutorial of a quadruple easel card for you, here's the card.

I've used Melon Mambo and Old Olive as my colour combination and the stamp set I used was the By the Seashore set, the sentiments are from Teeny Tiny Sentiments, I've used the large Vintage Faceted buttons as stoppers but you could use you sentiment as a stopper instead.

So lets get on with making it, you need to work in either inches or centimetres  do not combine the two or your card will not turn out as you hoped.

1 First you need to cut two pieces of card one measuring 18cm or 7ins square (this is your base card) and another measuring 17.5cm or 61/2 ins.

 Matt and layer these together

2 Cut four peices of card 8 x 15.5 cms 3 x 6 ins for the easels. Crease and fold each one in half and then take the outer corner and fold it down to the left. Make sure all the folds go in the same direction. 

3 Cut some contrasting card  card 7cms 2 3/4ins and adhere them to the lower corners of each easel. 

4 I then added a slightly smaller layer in whisper white which I had stamped my image and sentiment onto before hand.

5 On the bottom of each easel I have added foam pads to raise them up from the base, and then carefully pressed each one into place on the outer edge. All are facing out so that the recipient can see each panel as the card is rotated. I then added the vintage faceted buttons as a stopper.

Hope this all makes sense to you, remember you can make your card in whatever colour you choose, if you would like to order any of the items used to make this card please email me.

Happy Crafting

Deb xx

Angry Birds Birthday Card

My son is a big fan of Angry Birds, and it's his birthday on Saturday, He's having an angry birds cake made by the wonderful Charlotte who runs and owns The Cherry Blossom Bakery, go look at some of her wonderful cakes, look good and taste divine.

So to match his cake I thought I'd try my hand at making an angry birds card and here are the results

Not too bad I don't think lol.  You can get instructions on how to make this card here

I'll be back soon with some more Sale a bration sneak peeks.

Happy Crafting

Deb xxx

WOYWW

WOYWW

So this is what's on my work desk this morning, I'm busy making these little surprise boxes for a craft fair I'm going to.  They are quite simple to make but since I've decided to hand stamp them all instead of using papers they are a little time consuming.

The matches? Well they were for testing the lighting of the pumpkin this morning, just to make sure it works you understand lol

Happy Crafting

Deb xxx