Thinlets Halloween

I can't tell you how excited I was about the new thinlets dies, they make life so much easier.  I was very jealous of our American friends who got them first.

I was chomping at the bit to try them out and here's the first card I made with them

I made this Halloween card for Scotty too Hotty's teacher.  It uses the Toil and Trouble stamp set and the new Witches Brew papers, these papers are fantastic I just love them.

The thinlets score and cut, and are so easy to use, plus you get an assortment of other die's in with it.

The sentiment is from the delightful dozen stamp set, I've just inked the edges of this with pumpkin pie ink.

Hope you like this, if you would like any of the items used to make this card please click the 'shop now' tab

Products used

Stamps
Toil and Trouble
Delightful Dozen

Ink
Basic Black
Pumpkin Pie

Card
Basic Black
Pumpkin Pie
Witches Brew papers

Accessories
Circle card Thinlets Die
Scalloped Circle punch

Christmas Banner

One of the fab new items in the Autumn/ Winter catalogue is the fantastic banner kit.  I highly recommend it, it can be used for anything, birthdays, retirement, anniversarys, weddings anything.  I've used mine for Christmas and I got it from my wonderful upline Monica 

I'm sorry but this project is very product heavy but well worth it I think.

The banners have been inked in gold using the sponge daubers, The letters have been cut out and mounted onto snowflakes cut out using the framelets in glitter cardstock, with a vintage button added for detail.  The rosette has a small glitter snowflake and is topped off with one of the frosted finishes.  The papers are from the season of style set and the ribbon ruffled at the top of the banner is the cherry cobbler stitched edge grosgrain. 

In the middle is a bow again made with the season of style papers using the Gift Bow Bigz L die and hanging from that is two more snow flakes which are finished off with the frosted finishes.

If you would like any of the items used to make this card please click the 'shop now' tab at the top of my blog

Happy crafting

Deb xxx

A bit of a different post

Today's post is a little different because instead of showing you one of my efforts I'm sharing with you someone elses.

Today's creation is by Sarah Costello and she was the winner of our fortnightly challenge on Stamp with Us, you can join in the fun here.

Here is Sarah's winning creation

The challenge was to use the new incolours in any way you wanted, as you can see Sarah used her's to make a lovely insert for this frame and photograph using the flower shop stamp set.

Hope you enjoyed todays post with a difference, why not join us on the challenge page.  This fortnights challenge is anything to do with Halloween or autumn.

Happy Crafting

Deb xx
 

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Today I've had to leave my beloved stamping up stamps in favor of some toppers from Making Cards magazine.  It's my long suffering other half's birthday on Friday and I wanted to do something a little different for his card.  Because he likes rugby and was in the RAF he normally either gets planes or rugby balls on his cards lol,

It's a simple gatefold card done in whisper white and basic black, I've also added some of the new candy dots in black too.

Here's a closer look at whats on the mini circles.  I also did a lovely matching insert for it but wrote on it before I thought to photograph it, typical of me really.  Now Ray never reads my blog so it won't spoil the surprise for him, in fact I could get away with writing all sorts about him on here and he'd be none the wiser lol oooohhhhh sooooo tempting.

Happy Crafting

Deb xx

Lavender Blue Dilly Dilly

The sun came out yesterday for all of five minutes lol.  Ah well better get used to autumn now then.  Today I'm going to share with you a lavender bag, I got the idea for it from my lovely upline Monica

It's just one of the new mini muslin bags stamped with the en Francias stamp in gold and one of the butterfly is from the best of butterflies stamp set.

The butterfly is stamped in basic grey, I stamped this first them masked it and stamped with the en francias stamp/

I finished it off with some crotchet trim and one of those lovely frosted Finshes.


If you would like any of the products used here please click the 'shop now' tab at the top left of my blog.

Happy Crafting

Deb xxx

Products used

Stamps

En Francias
Best of Butterflies

Ink
Gold
Basic Grey

Accessories

Mini Muslin Bags
Crotchet Trim
Frosted Finishes

Papaya Collage #2

Hello, I hope the weather is a bit better where you are, we've had nothing but rain for the last few days. My brother, bless him, still came and sorted my garden out for me yesterday in all the pouring rain.  He's a star.

Well today's card, this one also using the Papaya Collage set.

I've used Primrose petals and gumball green ink on this one, again I cut out the frame to layer it up.  I also added some of the primrose petals ribbon.  The sentiment is from the Bring on the Cake stamp set.

The Bird is stamped in soft suede and I've added some gems to the top right hand corner of the frame and the top left hand corner of the card.

I also stamped inside the card. Hope you like it, if you would like any of the items used to make this card please click on the 'shop now' tab.

Happy crafting

Deb xxx

Products used

Card
Whisper white
Primrose Petals

Ink
Primrose Petals
Soft Suede
Gumball Green

Stamps
Papaya Collage
Bring on the Cake

Accessories 
Gems
Decorative Label Punch

Papaya Collage

It's very windy and chilly here in deepest darkest Yorkshire today.  I think Autumn has finally descended upon us.

Today I'm going to share with you a card using the Papaya Collage set. 

This card is again a 6 x6 and uses the retired tea for two papers, you could easily use the afternoon picnic papers with it as these are very similar.  I've cut the frame in the middle out and raised it on on pads to give the card a bit of dimension, It is a bit of a faf cutting the frame but well worth the effort. The leaves inside the frame are second stamped in soft suede.

The flower and the butterfly are both stamped in primrose petals, I've added some small pearls to the body of the butterfly.

I added another square of the papers to the inside and also re-stamped the rose.

Hope you like it, if you would like any of the products used to make this card please click the 'shop now' tab

Happy crafting

Deb xxx

Products Used

Card

Primrose Petals
Whisper White
Tea for two papers

Ink

Soft Suede
Primrose Petals

Stamps

Papaya Collage
Bring on the Cake

Accessories

Decorative label punch