Stamp With Us Challenge...

I have managed to fit in a bit of crafting this weekend as we have had a poorly son - Joshua and we have not ventured far from the house - having him poorly is bad enough but he flatly refuses to take any medicine and will just whimper in pain - bless him he is full of a head cold and had a headache for a couple of days. I am just trying to decide if I can hide a dose in spaghetti on toast! Here is a card that I have made using my favourite colour combo this combination is what i have chosen for my latest swaps over on ILWS. I love the garden whimsy set and have not used it for ages. I have changed the sentiment that I used in my swaps so that I could enter this in the challenge on Stamp with Us! A simple card to make and it literally takes just a few minutes.

I have stamped the image in rose red on whisper white and rounded the edges and also inked them. I have then added another butterfly stamped in the same colour cut out and stuck with dimensionals to the top of this image. I have added a panel of bashful blue card stock and to decorate added a piece of certaqinly celery ribbon to the top of the panel. This is then mpunted onto a certainly celery card blank and I have rounded and inked the edges. The sentiment is stamped in rose red.

STAMPSET - garden whimsy

INK - rose red, certain celery

CARDSTOCK - rose red, bashful blue and certain celery

RIBBON - certain celery

ACCESSORIES -dimensionals, corner rounder, dauber

I hope you like the card and thanks for looking your comments are appreciated - Debbi x x x

January Class...

This is the class that I did in January one of the ladies that comes to regular meets wanted to create a box and some cards for her mums birthday that is in a few weeks. So this is what I created for her. To make things slightly easieer I pre cut the box and scored all the fold lines as we only had a couple hour class because of the hours that she works and we needed to get the project completed for her mums birthday! She wanted to make something that was using the soft subtles colour family. The stamp set that we have used is pocket silhouettes and looked great stamped in these colours.

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Thanks for looking and your comments are appreciated - Debbi x x x

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge...

I saw this challenge and knew that I needed to do this one... I have just purchased the Gorguss Guardian Angel stamp and couldn't wait to have a play this challenge was perfect for the monochrome tones theme this week. I coloured the image using my pro markers and mounted the image onto craft card stock, and then again onto chocolate chip card. I have also rounded the corners. I have used a piece of close to cocoa DSP as a panel on the card and mounted this on a piece of chocolate chip card. The card blank is also craft and I have inked the edges of this with close to cocoa ink. I have stamped the sentiment in close to cocoa and this is mounted on craft and chocolate card stock also. As decoration I have used three shades of card candy all similar to the colours I have used for the card.

I love angels and this is now my favourite stamp, I love the simplicity of this image and how the girl looks so peaceful - and of course there is a bear in it!

I hope you like my card and thanks for looking your comments are appreciated - Debbi x x x

Stamp With Us Challenge...

This weeks challenge was to create a 'Thank You' card I decided that for this card I would use black and white - so that I could use the beautiful new ribbon from Stampin' Up! which I have just purchased... I have stamped the image from whimsical wings in basic black on whisper white card and have then inked the edges. There are two ways that you can do this - using a dauber which is the way I have used here or by running the image through your ink, this way you get a much more defined application of colour. I have then mounted the image onto basic black card stock I have then added a panel of whisper white to the middle of a basic black card blank and attached the ribbon to the middle of this - I have tied a knot in the ribbon to added a little detail.

I hope you like the card and thanks for looking your comments are appreciated - Debbi x x x

2 sketches for you...

The first sketch this week is ofcourse a good one. I have decided to use the Loads of Love set because it was out on my desk - and I have painted the image using my SU! ink pads and an aqua brush. I have wheeled a real red card blank in real red and inked the edges. I added a basis black strip across the middle of the card and three hearts punched in real red to the side of this. The image and sentiment are stamped in whisper white and the corners are rounded. The image is mounted on basic black cardstock and the corners are also rounded.

I hope you like the card and all your comments are appreciated. Thanks for looking - Debbi x x x

Tackle it Tuesday...

Over on ILWS there was a list circulating of all the challenge blogs that are available for you to take part in... Set out day by day one of the new ones that was posted was Linda's also known as Gadget Monkey and a talented ladyand a fellow Stampin Up! demonstrator! The colours that we had to use were basic grey, rarely rust and really rust. At first I wasn't keen on the combination - but they look great together. I used one of the flower stamps from good friend, stamped this on very vanilla first in barely banana and then again in rarely rust inking the edges with this colour also. I used the good friend stamp stamped in black but stamped off - as I don't have grey adding this to the card with dimensionals. I used a basic grey panel for the back of the card and inked this in craft to make it stand out more, also adding three card candy and finally rounded the corners of everything!

I hope you like the card and thanks for looking - all your comments are appreciated and take part in lindas challenge its great! - Debbi x x x

Forever Friends Challenge...

The challenge over on the Forever friends blog this week was quick and simple. I decided to quickly colour an image using my SU! ink pads and an aqua painter. This is a great technique if you have no other methods to colour near you - simply depress the ink pad lid onto the pad and then reopen the ink pad. You can then pull the ink onto your aqua brush and colour the image, to build up the colour on the image simply add more colour to the brush. Once I had completed the image I mounted it on pixie pink card stock after inking the edges of the image and then again onto whisper white rounding all the edges of the image. I made a card blank from pixie pink card and added some Forever Friends DSP in similar colours to the card stock. I stamped the sentiment straight onto the DSP. The colours I used to colour the bear are more mustard very light as a base and then again in creamy caramel. I added some darker shading to the edges of the bear.

I hope like my card even with the colouring this card only took me 20 minutes, thanks for looking and your comments are much appreciated.