Christmas card wallet

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all safe from the horrific gales and flooding that the south/west of the UK is experiencing at the moment. We have been so lucky inn Scruff's Corner as we have had wind and rain but there hasn't been any damage in our area.

I'm cheating a bit here as I'm using some of my Christmas makes to catch up on the old blog then I can get ahead of myself as I can schedule a couple of posts with 2014 makes :)

So, I made the following wallet for a lovely lady who orders all of her Christmas cards from me. The wallet was made using papers from Glad Tidings and Deer Friends, both are available as downloads from Nitwit Collections. They are just fab and there are loads of bits and pieces including papers, images, ribbons etc

There were 20 cards and envelopes in the wallet and I made four each of the above designs. I stamped the images onto smooth white card and backed them onto assorted coloured cards before I stuck them onto the blank cards. All of the images are from sets of clear stamps from the Christmas range from Clearly Besotted. I used the stamps again this year for most of my own Christmas cards.

Thanks for dropping by xx

New challenge

 We are now onto Challenge 6, can you believe it's 6 months since we started?  The theme this month is Christmas In October and is sponsored by Bridlington Stationers who is non other than Darren, the hubby of our very talented Nicola and here's what they are about

"Bridlington Stationers is owned by Darren Saul. Established in 1986, Bridlington Stationers Limited is a company brimming with experience. We are a customer focused business supplies company delivering over 30,000 products available on a next day delivery basis on a local and national scale.

Our commitment to personal and friendly service ensures a high level of continuity. We are here to advise, recommend and supply the office products that you need to assist in the smooth running of your business. Our aim is to save you money, save you time and give you the opportunity to buy all your office needs from under one roof."

Oh, I almost forgot, the prize for October is a pack of Promarkers.

Now for my card using my favouritest stamps :)
                                               
The stamp is from the Merry Little Christmas stamp set by Clearly Besotted Stamps, the papers are from a freebie My Mind's Eye pad which came with a magazine last year (I think), the poinsettia is a Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 2PK - Flower, Mini Daisy with gold gems in the centre and everything else is from my stash.

Thanks for dropping by and good luck with our new challenge. :)

Clearly Besotted

You may have noticed my relationship with Clearly Besotted Stamps......I'm building a nice little collection of them! One of the reasons I like them is that a lot of the sets have a solid image great if you are rubbish at colouring :)) and an outline image (allowing you to colour how you want). You can see what I mean in this card

Ingredients

You Are stamps and dies

Butterfly Wishes Additions stamps and dies

Sentiment - Thinking Of You

6x6 blank card

Gems

and here is another card using CB stamps just because I like it not because it has the two stamps as mentioned above :)

Ingredients

6 x 6 blank card

hot pink card

Background stamps - Building Blocks

Stepping Out

Thanks for dropping by, back soon :)

The house of the rampant frogs...... (Alias Kanban Thursday)

You want to hear the blooming racket in our garden at the mo, they sound like very distant motor bikes! I can't remember frogs being as noisy with their mating calls....maybe it's cos they are so late in the season. It's not noticeable during the day because of all the other noises but when it's dark and still outside it's really quite loud. We are up to 11 clumps of spawn in our pond so far which I'm pleased about as I was worrying last week that we wouldn't get any this year because of the cold weather.

So now for my cards (I've still got enough Kanban stuff to make hundreds more cards for this section of my blog)

 KB181

6 x 6" white card blank

901767 Water Colour Magic paper pad

900197 Heart of England b/g card

Black Pearlescent card

9040 Vivienne stamp set

Kanban sentiment pack

Ivory lace

3mm Pale Blue Ribbon

 KB182

6 x 6" white card blank

Kanban Floral Clear Stamp

A4MRSI Silver Mirri card

Sentiment kit

White Pearls

Peach Organza Ribbon

the pieces of b/g card were from my scrap box and I thrown the header for both of them away! Sorry.

KB183

6 6" white card blank

Kanban Floral Clear Stamp
A4MRSI Silver Mirri card
Acetate butterflies
White 5mm Pearls
The striped paper, as before, is from my scrap box with no header.

I have a Sugar Buttons card in the latest edition of Simply Cards and Papercraft, what a shame it's too ,late for Kanban to see it.

All made using the Sugar Buttons kit from Kanban

Thanks for dropping by and I hope to see you again soon. xx

Debbi Moore Designs

As I said in my previous post, here are the samples I made last month.








I was really pleased with the way they turned out considering I didn't have my craft room with me :)

If I get the time during the week, I will try to upload the cards I made for one of Debbi's appearances on Create and Craft in July.

It's beddy byes time now.
TTFN x