Father's Day is just round the corner~

Hi All~

My card tonight is a jolly affair~
Although I no longer have my lovely dad anymore, I do still make my Father's Day card, for my wonderful Father-in-Law of 25 years, John...
I love this little image from Penny Black, the Slapstick stamp 'Happy Day'.

I think it is proberbly a little bit boyish for dad, but I am sure he will still love it anyway, and who could not fall in love with a bucket of frogs!!

I have kept it quite Mono colour by using brown/cream. The beautiful DP is by Bella BLVD called Nana's Apron, the punched border is made with my favorite EK Success punch called Morrocan, and I have used brads and a small NS punched flower.
The sentiment is a topper I have had for years, they all have different family sayings on them, and obviously this one is dad!

I am having major PC problems today, it's on a go slow, so if this post is sucessful and all is ok It will be a miracle!!

Challenges this card fit in with:
Sir Stampalot-punch it, The Creative Cottage-Father's Day and The Sweet Stop's sketch, go check them out below:

http://creativecottagechallenge.blogspot.com/2010/06/creative-cottage-challenge-13-happy.html

http://sweetstopsketches.blogspot.com/2010/05/sss58-may-29-2010.html

http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/06/june-challenge.html

Debbie

Love Bank Holiday Monday!!

Hi All,
I have had a lovely Bank Holiday Monday, hope you all have~

It could have started a bit better ~ My daughter was not feeling too well when she got up, and to make things worse she had to go off to work, fortunatly because she did not start until 1pm and she was up at 6am (feeling ill) she did have plenty of time to take painkillers and try to recover. Fortunatly before she went off to work she was starting to feel a bit better and did manage to stay all day...Great.

At 4pm my mum and nana came for their dinner with us, that was lovely. We had a roast Lamb dinner, with all the trimmings!...Delicious..Sorry to all vegetarians and lamb lovers...

This latest Easle card was made with an image from my friend Shelley, it'a a Leanne Ellis stamp, I think it's so sweet. I have a couple of these, but not this one, so thank you Shelley..
This card fit in with a couple of challenges: The Polycraft challenge wanted a "Hidden Message", (I did a little tab and held it down with a brad which could move away to reveal a message). The sketch is for Card Patterns, and Crafty Cardmakers asked for you to use two colours, one you like and one you don't, and for me this is Brown I do and Yellow I don't...Mind you now I have done it I quite like the Brown/Yellow combo.
I think I didn't like them together 'cos of the time I spent in the Brownies when I was 10 years old (not something I care to remember). Ha Ha!!!!!

http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenge-22-least-most.html

http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/2010/05/sketch-66.html

http://pollycraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenge-46-hidden-message-sheena.html

Debbiexx

Come on England!!

Hi All,
Now..I know I am a girl, BUT I am so excited about the World Cup starting in two weeks time (on the 11th June) that I could burst...WELL that was before I saw England play a friendly against Japan today...Yes JAPAN!!
It was almost as funny as last nights Eurovision.
The final score was England 2-1 Japan. I know what you are thinking, why was that funny, England won, I should be ecstatic...Well I am, but England DID NOT SCORE A GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats right Tanaka from Japan scored two, one for each side, then Nakazawa of Japan did not want to be left out so he scored for us aswell!!!
I don't know if I can possibly stand much more fun like this!
One thing might happen in the World Cup, we might get through if everyone scores FOR us!!

Back to girly things now:
Hope you like my latest card, it is a while since I stamped my Anya, I love her and this is one of my favorites with the sunglasses, very summery.
I followed the challenge on Craft Challenge and it was Blue and Green theme, also Anyone for Anya and their Sketch, Stamptacular Sunday Challenge and Cupcake's summer challenge: All details of how to play below:

http://anyoneforanya.blogspot.com/2010/05/sketch-10.html

http://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/05/craft-52-blue-green.html

http://stamptacularsundaychallenge.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenge-61-lifes-beach.html

http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenge-93summer-delights.html

Debbie

Can you hear me laughing?

Hi All,
I am laughing at the Eurovision Song Contest.
This is the first time I have watched it for about 5 years, It is so funny.
The second singer on was from Spain, half way through his song, a mad man got up out of the audience and started singing, dancing and generally causing a fuss on stage...I was almost crying laughing..
This show is priceless, especially with the whitt of Graham Norton.

Anyway no more laughing.
I have wanted to have a go at a Tent Card for ages, and when I saw on the Magnolia blog how to make one I thought I would have a go. It was easy once I had decided where all the tenty bits went!
I combined the challenge with a couple of others, and they are listed below:
I have used the nestability to cut out the window, and to also matt up the image. The image is a Penny Black, from a set I bought called "Make a Wish", it is so sweet and has a teddy bear, mice, flowers and of cause has the little Make a Wish sentiment. I have added a little "strawberry" charm for added texture. My flowers and leaves are made with a NS punch~

http://crazy4challenges.blogspot.com/2010/05/crazy-4-challenges-c4c39.html

http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/pimp-your-card.html

http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/2010/05/penny-black-saturday-challengeweek-103.html

http://creativecottagechallenge.blogspot.com/2010/05/creative-cottage-challenge-12-blooming.html

Debbiexx

Thank You Teacher~

Hi All~

How nice is this...It was such lovely weather here today that Hubby and I had our lunch together.....OUTSIDE.
Friday is the day Hubby and I have lunch together, but having it outside as well was just the icing on the cake~~

As I am on a role at the mo, I have decided to do another paper bag gift today.
Last night I was really happy making the first one of these, a different kind of project to a card, I like all aspects of craft, not only cardmaking but Scrapbooking, ATC's and Boxes/Bags, so kept with the same theme for these next challenges.
Hope you like it. Papers are K&Co, image is Magnolia, border punch is MS and ribbon and tag is from my stash..

I have entered the Thank You Teacher challenge, the Hot and Spicy, Stitching, paper/tag and ribbon and even a sketch challenge. All details are below:

http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/2010/05/week-57-hot-and-spicy-and-special-prize.html

http://papercutzchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/05/paper-cutz-challenge-43.html


http://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/2010/05/week-21-challenge-sew-and-sew.html

http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/2010/05/something-with-birthday-recipe.html

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenge-25-its-little-sketchy.html

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2010/05/sketch-41.html

Debbiexx

Pressy For My Mum~

Hi All~

I am watching The Final of American Idol while I am posting my latest creation!
It has been on since 9pm and is still on now, I am taking ages writing this out and watching at the same time. It has been on what seems like forever, week after week I have watched it and now it's nearly over. Finishes tonight at 11.10 GMT.

Anyway............
Tonight I have tried out a new craft...covering a brown paper lunch bag and making it into a gift bag. Cannot remember which blog I saw the demo for it, it was ages ago, but I roughly knew how to do it and actually it was quite easy.

It's my lovely mum's birthday in June, and I am getting her some tree's for her newly refurbished (if thats the right words to say about it ) garden~
But..I also want to get her a small personal pressy just for her and it is going in this bag..Hope she likes it, and what I eventually put in it.
These bags were from a local shop, and were only a £1 for 10, what a bargain.
I covered them in Basic Grey papers, have used my new Woodware punch for the big flower and leaf, the border is made with the giant MS punch. I have cut three layers in the Nestabilities, for Tilda and she is coloured using Pro-Markers.
Pearls were added and ribbon from my stash, I have inked the edges of all the papers with Tim Holtz distressed inks.
Challenges this bag fits in with are:

http://basicgreychallenges.blogspot.com/2010/05/week-20-punch-it.html

http://ropchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenge-38a-gift.html


Debbiexx

Lilac distressed Flowers~~

Hi All~

Decided to do a bit of distressing this afternoon, and even though I used these flowers on the last card, I wanted to see if I could make them look different on this card...I think I did!

I have just bought this lilac Tim Holtz ink, so thought I would have a go with this too.
I have stamped and embossed the flower image, then matted up on DCWV Latte stack, I have distressed the edges by sanding them with a paper file.
I have chosen the script in the cuttlebug embossing folder and matted this aswell.
I have followed the sketch on Truly Scrumptious and this asked for 5 embellishments, hence the 5 flowers. Four are cut with a NS punch including the leaves, and the other is from my stash, I wrapped ribbon round to give it some dimention.

Entered into the following challenges:

http://quixoticpaperie.blogspot.com/2010/05/quixotic-challenge-27-emboss-it.html

http://trulyscrumptiouschallenges.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenge-33.html

http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com/2010/05/v-is-for.html

http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenge-62-distressed.html

Debbiexx