Swallowtail

I'm preparing to do some Christmas tag making today with any luck, The Rayster has managed to do all our Christmas shopping so now it's just down to me to bag and tag it all.  Today you are going to get three for the price of one.  A card, gift tag and gift bag all using the swallow tail stamp.

First here's the card

Butterfly in flight, I Stamped out the swallowtail twice and embossed it with black embossing powder then coloured it using the stampin write markers.  I then stick them together so that I could get the 'in flight' motion.

Here's a closer look.

The grass is from the wetlands stamp set and I just stamped it along the bottom of the card making the grass slightly higher on either end.

Here's the matching gift bag

and here's the tag

I thought I'd seen this technique on you tube but I now can't find it for love nor money, if, dear reader you come across it please let me know so that I can credit it on here.

That's all for now

Deb xx

Products used

Stamps
SwallowTail
Wetlands

Card
Midnight muse
Very Vanilla
Whisper White

Ink
Basic black
midnight muse

Accessories
Black embossing powder
Heat Gun
Midnight Muse stitched ribbon

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

New Catty and Best of set

Wow today marks the launch of Stampin up's new annual catalogue and also the new Best of set, this month it's Best of Butterflies it's just £13.95 in clear mount. 










 















Isn't it lovely?  I've already popped my order in lol, Now onto todays offering

I totally Stole this from Pinterest and you can see the original here.

I Liked it so much I decided to make another using primrose petals and so saffron

 I added some butterflies to this one although I'm not so sure the colours work so well.  If you would like any of the items used to make this card, or would like to order the best of butterflies set please email me at debbie72keating@yahoo.co.uk.

Products used

Stamps
Stippled Blossoms
En Francias
Papillon Potpourri
Teeny Tiny Sentiments

Card
Primrose Petals
So Saffron
Very Vanilla
Midnight Muse
Crumb cake

Ink
Midnight Muse
Crumb Cake
Primrose Petals
So Saffron

Stampin up Accessories
Big Shot Machine
Fancy Fans Embossing Folder
Perfect Polka Dots Folder
Ovals Collection Framelets
Large Oval Punch
Scallop Oval Punch
Elegant Butterfly Punch

Fathers Day Gift and card

Hello campers I hope you are all well and dandy ;-)  Yesterday we celebrated fathers day here in the mad house, my dad was guest of honour and we were joined by my little brother and his girlfriend, Scotty too Hotty arrived later as he had spent the day with his dad.

That brings me nicely to the card and gift bag I made for dad, I totally stole this from pinterest which you can see here.

Here is My card

It uses Midnight muse and very vanilla card.  I've used the En Francias AGAIN lol as a background stamp and also used the clockworks stamp set

I popped a pearl in the center of the hands and also added some card candy to the top right hand corner

I also inked and stamped the inside

Here is the matching gift tag and bag that I made, using the two tags die, which I really will be sorry to say goodbye to :-(

Here are the products I used

Stamps
En Francias
Clock Works
Teeny Tiny Sentiments

Card
Midnight Muse
Very Vanilla

Ink
Crumb Cake
Early Expresso
Midnight muse

Stampin Up Accessories
3/4" Circle Punch
1" Circle Punch
Big Shot Machine
Two Tags Die
Modern Label Punch
Word Window Punch

Well Hope you like today's offering, if you would like to order any of the items made to use this card or gift bag please email me at debbie72keating@yahoo.co.uk

Happy Crafting

Deb xxx

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

Spring!!

Where is it? Where has Spring Gone?  Currently we have sleet and it's mighty cold.  Brrrrr

So I guess I'll have to bring you spring by way of a card

Just looks at my mucky grid paper!!! lol don't want to throw it though as I've made notes on it.  What I should do is get a note book.  Well as you can see I've used the Papillon Potpourri  set for this card, the colour used are, so saffron, midnight muse, tempting turquoise, so many colours and not enough time. lol

Heres the inside

Don't you feel so much more spring like now lol.

Happy crafting

Deb x

New beginings

Scotty too hotty has been a little sad this week as his friend is changing schools after half term, so to try and combat the blues we made him a card together

Now unfortunately the image isn't stampin up as we wanted to display the new uniform that Scott's friend would be wearing. This image  from LOTV was ideal for that purpose.  It's a 7x7 card and we decided to stick with two colours midnight muse and daffodil delight.  I've created the effect on the 'friend' sentiment just by cutting the decorative label in half and adding it to either end of the sentiment, which is from a now retired set, can you believe I didn't have a 'good luck' stamp!!.  We hope he likes it.

Decorative Label Punch 120907 £15.50
Rhinestones 119246 £4.50
Midnight Muse A4 Card stock 127546 £6.25
Daffodil Delight A4 Card stock 121680 £6.25
Whisper White A4 Card Stock 106550 £7.50
Ovals Collection Framelet Dies 129381 £22.95

A Very Crafty Day

It was a very crafty day yesterday for Scott and I.  His Auntie gave him a till roll and asked him if he could write a really long story on it.  So he's on the job, he has started with the story of the three little pigs and was really disappointed yesterday when he's not finished it when it was time to go home.  He'll get to finish it today hopefully.

Meanwhile I was stamping candles again.  I just love the effect you get.

I've used the Blooming marvellous stamp set for these candles which is free during sale abration,  The inks used are so saffron, pool party and midnight muse.  These are very easy to make, you just stamp your design onto tissue paper, then place the tissue paper on to the candle, then wrap some grease proof paper tightly around the candle and heat up the stamped design with your heat gun, you can see the tissue paper 'turn' as it melts into the candle.  Why not give it a go?

Happy crafting

Deb xxxxx

Midnight Muse Classic Stamp Pad 126860 £4.95
Pool Party Classic Stamp Pad 126982 £4.95
So Saffron Classic Stamp Pad 126957 £4.95
Blooming Marvellous stamp set 129651(w) 129654(c) Free with an order of £45

Birthday gift box

Well it's a very exciting day for me today, I have managed to obtain a studio with the Artfuel group and today they have their grand opening. This means that the public can come for a look around, meet the artists and find out about workshops and exhibitions that are going to be held there. Eventually they are hoping to open a little cafe there and there is already a shop where you can buy some of the artists work. It's from 2 to 8pm today so if you're in Doncaster why not pop along, Artfuel is situated in Portland Place, Portland Place is accessed from the roundabout on Trafford Way close to the train station. Turn onto Cleveland Street, then left onto Duke Street & left again through the archway into Spring Gardens and straight on towards the large public car park on the corner of Trafford Way. Artfuel is in the large brick building with towers to the right of the car park.

So on to Tina's gift box, which is just one of stampin up's kraft gift boxes decorated up.
I've used the same colour combo that I used on the card of midnight muse, so saffron and pool party, I've also used some of the silver glimmer paper to add a bit of bling and popped on two pool party buttons which are free as part of sale-a-bration if you spend £45, that I've used as a fastener I filled it full of jelly babies lol and there were also two candy watches to help Tina with her time keeping.


If you would like to order any of the items to make this project please email me


Happy Crafting


Deb xx

Dreams, sick children, new glasses and another birthday!

Well what a day yesterday, I was feeling much more like myself only to have scotty too hotty come down with the dreaded lurgie.  However it did give him time to make a valentines card for his girlfriend lol.   I also had to pick up my new glasses yesterday which are varifocals  They are making me feel very sick, which is apparently normal until I get used to them.  I have to remember to 'point my nose' to what I'm looking at rather than just moving my eyes.  And (you should never ever start a sentence with and lol) to top all this off I had a dream that David Cameron stole all my punches.  The Great Raymundo found this hilarious and asked me if I was trying to sign Mr Cameron up as a demonstrator.

Anyhoo on to the card.  I made this for my friend Tina,  she is the one friend who I can count on to get me into trouble ;) lots of it.  If there is a 'Thick of it' to be in it's a good bet it'll be me and Tina and it was her birthday last Friday.

I've used a combination of Pool Party, Midnight Muse and So Saffron card and ink.  I've used the Teeny Tiny sentiments Stamp set and the Bloomin Marvelous stamp set which you can get FREE! with an order of just £45 during the Sale-a-bration period. Punches I've used are the scalloped circle and circle, Scallop Trim Border, word window and Modern Label.

Next time I'll show you the gift box I made for her.  If you would like any of the items I used to make this card please email me.

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

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