Those Lazy Summer Day's~

Hi Girls,

Busy day for me today. I have been to cut my Nana's hair.
For those of you who don't know, my lovely Nana is 94 years young and has the same Christmas Day Birthday as me!
She is a wonderful lady with the sharp brain of a woman 20 years younger, thank goodness she has all her faculties, she's amazing.

Well every 8 weeks or so, I go cut her hair and then four times a year I perm it for her, well today was cutting day! It doesn't take me long at all, about 40 minutes, but because her and my mum live together, I usually make the morning of it. We have a laugh about the latest "thing" or person. Nana likes nothing more than a talk about the latest news, we yak about anything, I love it.

Anyway after that I had the Kilimanjaro of ironing to do then, it was "Play Time"...Yah...

This is what I eventually came up with...Hope you like it.
I adore this Mo image. Reminds me so much of Summer Days in the Garden (Oh I cannot wait!)



It's a bit girly with the Pink, but I am not averse to a bit of bling, so here it is.

I have used some of my "First Edition" "Love Letters" papers, they are so sugary and pretty. I bought these buttons and ribbon from Hobbyhouse just recently. The Sentiment is Craftwork Cards, I have coloured it in with copics because it was white, now it's a very pale pink which fits in much better.

I am entering this into:

Craft Us Crazy--Spring

D2P--Buttons and Bows

Papertake Weekly--Sketch

Sweet Stamping--Come Rain or Shine/Weather (Summer Day's)

Stamps r Us--Spring

Penny's Paper Challenge--Recipe

Debbiexx

It's Warren the Rabbit Again~

Hello girls,

Hope you are all well. A big thank you to all my lovely followers (93 of you, I can hardly believe it), and I can also not believe on the 5th April I have been blogging for a year!! Wow.
I have enjoyed every single minute of it. I think I have managed quite well in combining blogging with work and all the other things I have to, and want to do.

I will be posting a "One Year Old" blog candy on Tuesday 5th April (If I can do it!) I hope all my lovely followers will join in, watch this space. I am hoping someone will give me some advice on how to keep the Candy at the top of my blog like others do?? Please let me know if you know, Ta.




Onto today's card. I have chosen the pre-printed rabbit "Warren" again, he is from Craftwork cards, but this time I have chosen the pre-coloured version.





I am very busy Scrapbooking at the moment, but still want to do the occasional card. These images are fantastic when you are short of time and cannot find time to fit in a spell of colouring! I have chosen some pink dotty paper from my stash of leftovers! and some pink embossed Swiss dot paper. The swirl is Magnolia, the pearls are Hobbyhouse and the sentiment came on the sheet with the image. I have used my Nestie for the circles and scallops.

Entering this card into:


A Spoonfull of Sugar--Easter
Bee Crafty--Spring
Colour Create--Pastel Colours
Crazy Catz--Pearls and Swirls
Saturday Sketch--Sketch
The Creative Cottage--Spring
Crafty Creations--Bunny


Debbiexx

Summer Day's Are On The Way~

Hello Girls,

I have had a busy day today and this is the first time I have had to go on line and see you all.
I went to work this morning.
Then home for lunch, straight after that it was off to meet my friends at our monthly "Cut and Chat" craft club. What a great time we all had, thank you girl's for the lovely company (even if the room was not quite up to scratch!!)

After finishing off my commission work of "Save the Date" wedding cards, I did manage to make this card using the gorgeous LOTV Fairy image. Now in a mo I need to get back to Scrapbooking before I go to bed.

I know this LOTV fairy stamp is not one of the latest releases, but I have used her several times before on a topper and do think she is so stunning and so delicate.
I did only buy her recently when I went to Harrogate along with a few others, cannot wait to ink them all up!!



I have used some of my new papers by Prima, and some lace I bought locally. The pin is Hobbyhouse as are the flowers. The sentiment is also LOTV as is the background music stamp, just up in the left hand corner. I have stamped this with cocoa memento ink. All the edges of the paper are inked with Tim Holtz Bundled Sage and I have added a touch of Stardust Stickles.



I have used my new style cards, with the cute little pointy edge. I saw Vicky had used something similar and loved them, when in Harrogate I saw on the Craftwork cards stall that they had them, so I thought great, I will have me some of them! It makes a change from using just 6x6 square which are what I usually use and are my favorites.

I would like to enter this card into the following:

Allsorts--Special Lady
CES--Die Cut Crazy
One Stop--Fairies
PaperPlay--Distressing
Stamp Something--Spring
Sarah Hurley--Go Green
Kaboodle Doodles--Spring has Sprung
The Sweet Stop--Sketch

Debbiexx

Monochromatic Bunny~

Hi Ladies~

Monochromatic Bunny...Sounds like the name of a New Sci-Fi Movie at the Cinema..BUT no it's my latest card creation!!





I have chosen this pre-printed image by Craftwrok Cards. Never seen them before and wish I had bought more of them. They come in just grey print, I have coloured them in very lightly with pro-markers. You can buy pre-coloured versions of them too, just thought they were different and love the very pretty bunny.
All three matching papers are also Craftwork Cards, flower punch is NS and border punch Ek success. Forgot I had this old ribbon tucked away, think it matches the Mono look quite well. Not very complicated today, simple card to make.

Hope you are all doing well and are enjoying your weekend.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:


Cupcake--Monochrome
Creative Card Crew--No stamped Image
LadyBug Crafts--Monochrome
Papercutz--Use three papers
Polka Doodles--Spring has sprung
Phindy's Place--All about Animals
Sweet Sketch Wednesday--Sketch + Bunny
Totally Gorjuss-Spring
Totally Papercrafts--Cute and Cuddly

Debbiexx

Lovely LOTV Fairy~

Hi Girls,

How nice is this "Spring" weather we are having? I just love it, doesn't it make you feel so happy and have more energy "to craft"!
I have been really busy Scrapbooking over the last four days, but decided to have tonight off (I have done a couple of pages this afternoon) so it was time to have a little play with one of my new LOTV stamps.....I have had them since SUNDAY and not yet had a chance to even look at them!!

I was a little greedy and did buy quite alot of these stamps, including three sets of round Sentiments which are delightful. Had a slight heart flutter today when the Visa Bill arrived, did not know if I should run away, but then I thought "how am I going to get all my stash into my 107???? Impossible, as I cannot even get my supermarket shopping in it!! LOL





Anyway onto tonight's card: I have used one of the LOTV Sentiments aswell as the lovely Fairy Image. I used a new scalloped Nestie circle behind the sentiment, and another to mat the image. This paper is MME, MS border punch, Ribbon from Hobbyhouse as are the flowers and the pearls. Finished with some diamond stickles. I have coloured the image using Pro-Markers.

Entering this card into:

A Spoonfull of Sugar--Pearls, Ribbon and Flowers
Friday Sketchers--Sketch
Claudia & Company--Colour Combo
Crafts and Me--Anything Goes
Digi Doodle Shop--Ribbon and Bow
Delicious Doodles--Florals
Flutterby Wednesday--Open and Wings
LOTV--Punch It
Passion for Pro-Markers--In the Garden

Debbiexx

Template Show and Tell~

Hiya Girls,


A couple of you out there have asked about the template for my little Mother's Day baskets I made in my last post. I don't know where it came from and was a while ago now that I first made them, but I have tried (try being the operative word, as I have never done this before) to show a sort of picture of a basket in stages and hopefully it will help...SO here goes:

It is the easiest basket I have ever made. You need some plain cardstock, I use Basil Basics. Cut it to a 6x6 size (that's inches) then score two inch lines around all edges as shown:




Now you cut down two sections opposite each other as shown:

You then just cover the panels with your chosen paper. I cut 2x2" squares and then just take a slither off each end so they will fit, but if you want to measure each one accurately you can (I find no need tho'):







Then you simply fold up and brad the join as shown:





For the handle you need to cut a strip 2"x8" and then punch along the edges. You can then stick ribbon or paper down the centre.








Finally join handle onto the brad you have used and fill with tissue and your favorite treat...

I hope this is ok, not sure it is accurate enough, but you can Email me for other info if you like, address is at the top of my blog.

Debbiexx

Me again~

Yes it's me again with another post. You would think I had nothing to do but craft wouldn't you? Well I haven't!!





I have however been making little "Mother's Day" baskets for my Mum's at Playgroup, and some little Easter Buckets (filled with Eggs) for the children in the group for Easter.
I did some of the mum's day baskets last week so finished them all off today. They have a lovely jar of bath salts, and body lotion inside.
The little buckets were bought in a local "discount" shop, I just love them and think they will be handy for keeping little bricks or toys in after Easter! I filled them with choccie eggs and then used my shredder to shred up coloured paper and then stuffed that in and over the top. I then popped them into a plastic lunch bag and tied the top with ribbon....What do you think?



Entering these into:

Allsorts--Make a box
A Gem of a Challenge--Anything but Square
Crafty Calender--Spring
Craft your Days Away--Mum's Day
Dream Valley Challenge--Mother's Day
Saturday Ch--Anything but a card
Tuesday Throwdown--Anything but a card

Debbiexx