The Madness goes on

So after dragging Scotty too hotty round the supermarket for baking items, whilst keeping an eye out for him sneaking in little trinkets he might fancy along the way, we finally made it home without too much fuss, apart from a man standing right next to me as I was leaning into the car and shouting JESUS!  I thought he was on about the size of my bum! How rude I thought (even though it is on the rotund side lol) luckily he was exclaiming at a young lad on a bike who had nearly mowed him down *giggles* Now I'm sorry all you papercrafters but I've been at the sewing machine again. Look on the bright side I'm not the best sewer and I've had to refer to my sewing machines manual several times, but these two projects did not take long, and if I can do it then anyone can!  So here's my first project;

It's a lovely little clutch bag, I even manchine to use my machine to make a button hole AND sew on a button! I have problem with my shoulder so I thought this with it's little wrist strap would be ideal for when I'm at school in my other guise as a Learning Support Assistant. Both my pencil case, notebook and diary fit in it perfectly;

I also made this little wallet to go with it, it fits my business cards in and some money should I need it;

Aren't they lovely?  I'm really chuffed with myself , whats even better is that these patterns are free and available here

Now I'm off to feed Sir Scott

See you soon
Deb xxx

Sewing Machine Madness

Well what a funny day I've had, I meant yesterday to dig out the sewing machine from the deep darkness of what is know as 'under the stairs' and do some sewing using some of the Stampin Up fabric, but that did not work out as Scotty too Hotty was poorly, so I was busy playing nurse and giving cuddles :-).

So today out comes the sewing machine, now I've owned this machine for 30 years and it was second had when I got it, I've not used it for 20 years and couldn't remember why.  I set the whole thing up and was raring to go and .......... it didn't work, which is probably why I packed it away in the first place, whats more is I've moved 6 times since I packed it away and instead of getting rid of the thing dragged it along for the ride *rollseyes*

Not to worry I went out and purchased myself a reasonably priced SIMPLE machine as my sewing is at novice level so I didn't want some complicated thing and I made these;

I made these lovely slippers from the twitterpated fabric available from the new Spring mini.  If you would like the pattern for these it can be purchased from here .

Can you see the ribbon holder behind them?  Here it is;

Scotty's Granddad made it for me, now if you are getting a little ribbon storage jealously he is willing to make more for a cost of £20 plus postage and packing.  Let me know if you would like one and I'll pass on your details :-)

Bye for now
Deb xx

Stampin Up Do it again

Stampin up have again come up with some fantastic promotions for June and July!  I really don't know how they keep doing it!

Here's the first

From the 1st June until 31 July 2012 Hostesses can get £80 of free products with a qualifying party!  That's an extra £30 of FREE products when you host a party!  Click here above for more information.

But that's not all oh no.

 To help you reach your required sales from the 1 - 30 June if you buy three sets of designer papers you'll get a set Free!  Free!  Click here to see the papers available in this offer.  Please email me if you would like to host a party or if you would like to order some papers

Well now I'm off the pick some papers ;-)

Deb xxx

Jubliee Delights

Well as I said in my last blog I was having a day full of making bunting, and baking and here are the results, after popping up the bunting around the house outside I decided the inside could do with a little jubilee decorating too and here's the results.

I Decorated the kitchen using the pennants punch and Not quite Navy, real red and Confetti White card and then there was the baking, now I must warn you although my cakes taste lovely I have not quite mastered piping or getting the consistency of the butter cream quite right (it didn't occur to me that the food colouring would make it more watery DOH!)

They do taste very moreish though lol and finally my crown biscuits, again the piping needs work lol

Well that's it my friends, I'm off now to cook Sunday Dinner as my dad is blessing us with his presence this jubilee Sunday, I hope you all enjoy whatever you maybe doing this weekend to celebrate 60 years of our Queens rein.

Deb xxx

Richard the lionheart, a goodbye and a thank you

What a busy week I've had.  Everyone has been gearing up ready for the Queens Diamond Jubilee and the kids at school have been off the wall with excitement because it was the last week before their holidays.  Talk about hard work lol.

I'd like to start with my little King Scotty, we had a letter from his school requesting that the children go dressed as Kings, Queens, Princes or Princesses.  Scott decided he'd like to go dressed as Richard the Lion heart (because he was brave apparently ) and here he is in his costume.

I think he looks wonderfully Kingly, don't you?  Do you recognise the paper used to make his crown?  Made by Scott himself by the way.  Stampin up had to get into his costume somehow lol.

Friday at school was a day full of mixed emotions as it was the day our year 11's were leaving, some of them have decided to come back to 6th form but a fair number are off to college or are going onto apprenticeships.  One of the pupils I work with brought me a card and had made me a strawberry flavoured cupcake, I was so touched, it's not very often us Teaching Assistants get thanked in secondary school.  I couldn't let that go with out a thank you so I made the pupil in question a thank you card and a little post it note holder for college, here they are:

I've found a sudden love of Baja Breeze since the training in Leeds I really like the colour and love that matching seam binding it makes such lovely bows!  As you can see I've used the Apothecary Art stamp set and the framelits, I adore this set it's just so beautiful.  I've coloured the images using the Stampin write pens.  I'm going to use this same set to make a thank you card for our neighbour who is kind enough to take in my ups parcels when I'm at work, such a lovely lady.

Well that's all for now, I'm off to cook Jubilee cookies and cupcakes, I'll post about them here if they turn out lol

Deb xx

Saturday Craft Club

Wow! what about the weather this week?  Just a shame we're all at work *grumpy face* but at least it's lasted for the weekend yay!  BBQ in this little household today me thinks.

Anyhoo to craft club and our makes, all these makes were ideas that I obtained from the Stampin Up training at Leeds, so much inspiration and so many talented people in one space, lovely. So heres what we made;

The baskets are made from the Attic Boutique papers with Baja Breeze seam binding, I've filled these two with bath time goodies but I think they would be lovely if they were filled with chocolates from The Cherry Blossom Bakery   These baskets are so easy and quick to make and an ideal gift for someone.

This is a wonderful little gift, I've made it using the new framlets and the tea shope stamp set, inside there are two individual fruit tea bags

I've used the designer papers to make the pockets for the tea bags. 

I've stamped a design on the back too, using the same stamp set.  A lovely gift for someone who has been poorly or just a little gift for a friend.

This idea came from the Impressions publication that all demonstrators received, it's full of ideas and advice, this one holds post it notes but it could also hold a small note book.

This is ideal gift for your children's teachers at the end of the school year, I know I'll be busy making a few of these for Scotty this year :-)

Talking about demonstrator, ever thought about being one?  The Starter kit has now dropped in price to just £99! and if you sign up now you will be given FREE tickets to the Stampin Up conference in Germany on the 2nd and 3rd of November! Why not contact me and we can have a chat about all the benefits of becoming a demonstrator. 

That's all for now

Deb xx

The Summer Mini is Here!!!!!!!

Yes it's here and let me tell you I've been bursting to show you things from it!  It's packed full with must have goodies, and we also have some new tools for you to try, like the fantastic framelits and the new scoring board that holds 12 x 12 paper!

And look what I made with it;

These are invitations to my 40th Birthday.  Yes my friends I know it's hard to believe I don't look a day over 25, but alas come November I will have reached middle age ;-).  I used the simply scored scoring tool to make the rosette, it's made from the new Attic Boutique Designer Papers,

I've used the textured impressions embossing folders to emboss the hearts over the word invited and I also used them to emboss the white background and used the same shaped Edgelit Die to cut it out.
Talking of Dies I used the new Framelits dies for this next card;

Can you spot that new ruffled ribbon too?

It's fab!!!! This card also features one of the new stamp sets, Love and Laughter.

As you can see the dress is made up of different wedding words.

It doesn't stop here oh no look at this!

Again it features the Attic Boutique Papers, I love these papers can you tell ? I've also used The Open Sea stamp set,

but there is something a little special about these stamped images, that you can't see but you can smell once you get close to the card, yes you read that right SMELL. Its the ALL NEW SCENTED STAMPIN EMBOSS POWDER.  You can pick between Vanilla, Melon and Cherry my card smells of cherries.



There is just so much in this catalogue you'll be spoilt for choice!, why not click on the link on my page and take a look at all the wonderful crafty stuff you can buy and email me with your order.


Bye for now

Deb xx