Joyful Christmas

I love this stamp set, just because you can do so many things with it.  I'm going to show you another 6 x 6 card using this stamp set

That poinsettia is just gorgeous!  Love it.  I stamped it out in versamark then I embossed it using some of the gold embossing powder,  but it works just as well if you stamp in the new gold ink pad if you don't want to go to the trouble of embossing it.  The verse is from More Merry Messages, this stamp set is lovely and has a few longer sentiments that can be used as verses inside your cards.  I've used very vanilla and burnished gold as the main colours on this card.

Here's a closer look at the verse which I stamped in soft suede. 

 


Here's that lovely poinsettia I added a few pearls to the middle of it

If you would like any of the items I used to make this card you just need to click the 'shop now' tab, set up your account and you're ready to go.

Products used

Stamps
More Merry Messages
Joyful Christmas

Ink
Versamark
Soft suede

Card
Real Read
Garden Green
Very Vanilla
Burnished Gold

Accessories
Gold Embossing Powder
Pearls

Happy Crafting

Deb xxx

Chalk Talk Birthday

Well it's getting a tad chilly here in deepest darkest Yorkshire and we currently have the heating whirling away keeping our little house warm and toasty :-)

Today's card again uses the new incolours and the chalk talk stamp set and framelets

This is again a 6 x6 card using crisp cantaloupe and pistachio pudding.

Here's a closer look at the tag sentiment.

If you would like any of the items used to make this card, just click on the 'shop now' tab and off you go :-)

Here's what was used

Chalk Talk Bundle

Crisp Cantaloupe Classic Stampin' Pad

Price: £4.95

2013-2015 In Color A4 Cardstock

Price: £6.25

Basic Pearls Jewel Accents

Price: £4.50

Pistachio Pudding Classic Stampin' Pad

Price: £4.95

Pistachio Pudding 3/8" Ruffle Stretch Trim

Price: £8.25

 

 

 

 

A Spot of Christmas

Yes we were feeling a bit Christmasy in the Keating household this week with the cold, I've finally had to give in and put the heating on!! Not good.

So here's my little bit of Christmas to show you

I made this using the lovely new Festive Flurry stamps and framelets from the autumn/winter catalogue, even better you can buy these as part of a bundle and save money!!  I also used the new sliver encore ink pad, but I'm thinking I should have added some glitter to that top snowflake, what do you think?

The sentiment is from the teeny tiny sentiments stamp set and as you can see I've also used some of that lovely sliver glimmer paper.  The card by the way is a 6 x 6 inch.

Products used

Card
Sliver Glimmer Paper
Midnight Muse
Pool Party
Whisper White

Ink
Midnight Muse
Pool Party
Sliver Encore

Stamps
Festive Flurry
Teeny Tiny Sentiments

Accessories 
Big Shot
Festive Flurry Framlets
Word Window Punch
Modern Label Punch

If you would like to order any of these items or have any questions on how I made the card please feel free to e-mail me debbie72keating@yahoo.co.uk

Happy crafting

Deb xxx

A Card for Shelli

For those of you who don't know, Shelli Gardener is the CEO of Stampin up! She has recently been involved in quite a bad accident with her horse and is currently recuperating in hospital.  I thought I would send her a card and some well wishes.  You can do this too by sending your cards to stampin up head office in Utah America.

I decided to use the lovely Chalk Talk stamp set and framelets to make the card, and to also use the new In colours, which I love!

I've made it using Baked brown sugar and crisp cantaloupe.  It doesn't show it very well in the picture but the strip in the middle was cut using the new rotary trimmer and has a nice little wiggle on it.  I also went pearl mad on this card.  Here's a closer look.

OoooOOOO you can see the wiggle now lol. The sentiment comes in with the Chalk talk set and was punched out using the large oval punch.  Love it.















Stamp Sets
Chalk Talk

Card
Baked Brown Sugar
Crisp Cantaloupe
Whisper White

Ink
Baked Brown Sugar
Crisp Cantaloupe

Accessories
Big Shot
Chalk Talk Framelets
  Rotary Trimmer
Pearls

End of the holidays

And I really don't know what to do with myself, I've been used to having Scotty too Hotty here and now he's gone I'm finding it really hard to get back in my routine so please bear with me while I get back into the swing of things lol

Today I'm going to share with you some coasters I made using some tiles!! Yup you read that right tiles.  I have been after some really nice coasters for our dining room table but they all seem to be quite expensive for half way decent ones, so I set about making my own.

First I stamped out my design using the black stazon ink.  Here's a closer look

I then coloured these using the stampin write markers.  I then coated them with two thin layers of spray varnish and a layer of modge podge.  Here's the finished coaster,

I've popped some little pads on the bottom of each tile so they don't scratch the table.  I've used the papillon potpourri stamp set and crisp cantaloupe and Coastal Cabana In colours.  I'm gonna make some vintahe looking ones for my dad using the penny farthing from the Feeling Sentimental stamp set, that you may have gotten during Sale-a-bration.

If you would like to order any of these stampin up products used in todays blog post please email me at debbie72keating@yahoo.co.uk.

Happy Crafting

Deb

Passionettes Blog Hop

Hi Everyone and welcome to the Autumn/ Winter Catalogue blog hop.  You should have arrived here from the lovely Donna's page.

Now I'm going to show you a little halloween treat box, it takes two little chocolates and is just so cute!  I love halloween, well ok I love anything that involves dressing up and sweeties lol

OOOoooooOOOOOO It's made using pumkin pie caerd and some black embossing powder and finished it all off with some black ribbon.

The Skull and crossbones are from the Toil and trouble stamp set and the sentiment is from the Tags 4 you stamp set. You can buy these in a bundle with the matching punch to save some money!!!  How good is stampin up to us? 

You can find a video tutorial for the box here

Now hop on along to Irene who has something lovely to show you too

Happy Crafting

Deb xxx

Recovering and old papers

OOOooooOOOO I'm back after a long time away, the move went well and then we went off on holiday! A lovely time was had by all :-)

So todays little project is a stool that my Dad made when he was at school, it was starting to look a little worse for wear

as you can see.  It must have been painted white at some stage which was a revelation, as it was covered with peeling wood effect fablon yes I know yuk!

Heres what the top looked like.

So out came the retired papers and the modge podge and I set to work

Here's my work half way through

I cut squares out to cover it as I thought this would be easier, the squares where scalloped so it gives quite a nice effect.

 And heres the finished product.  Whats more surprising is that no-one has noticed it's been re-covered lol, ah well not to worry.

See you soon

Happy crafting


Deb xx