Happy Birthday Mum

Thank you to everyone who took part in the February challenge over on the Crafting Muskateers challenge blog.

It was my lovely Mum-in Law's birthday on 23rd last month and I decided to make her birthday card for this challenge which is sponsored by Debbi Moore Designs. Debbi's was the first ever DT I was on way back and I actually designed for them for about 3 years altogether. The only reason I left was because I felt as though I was getting into a rut and needed to spread my wings a bit. I shall always be grateful to Debbi, Lynn and the team though :)

My card

I used a Pyramage topper from the Glitter & Glitz cd and added a bucket load of glitter and diamantes. The leaves are cut with a Joy Ccrafts die and the rolled flowers are from the Bebunni Love Collection from Crafters Companion

This is what is on offer to the winner this week 

Don't worry if you haven't got a blog of your own as we have a Facebook page and you can pop your card up there.

Good luck :) x

Less Is More

I've never taken part in this challenge before so I hope I've done it properly! The girls over on the Less Is More challenge blog are asking for Predominantly Purple on our work and this is mine. I've had this stamp for years but don't use it very often!

Stamp is by Inkadinkadoo # INK8353
Sentiment stamp is by Debbi Moore
Paper (I think is by Nitwits - it's from the Snippet drawer again, Di!)
The little purple gems are from a Papermania wheel


I think I'm coming down with this rotten flu bug which is going round. My whole body is really painful to touch, I have a temp and I'm barking like I don't know what. One of my brides has it and she came over twice during the week and again this morning when I started with it. Oh well, I will soldier on :)


Take care and thanks for visiting.

This and that

I've just added Marianne's blog candy to my side bar, why don't you hop on over and see for yourself :)

Debbi Moore is on Create and Craft tomorrow (Friday) morning at 11.00 am. She will be using some of my DT work in her demo's! Note to self.........don't forget to set the video recorder :))

Anyone For Anya?

I put this card together at about 7.30 this morning, did something else and then because something was put on top of it I forgot about it until now!
Any how, the challenge on Anyone For Anya? this week is "our challenge is Funky Flowers. We want to see something flowery on your cards.You can use bought or made flowers or you could use flowery papers - we don't mind as long as it's fab and funky."

Materials used: Anya stamp - Dies to Die For, papers - Pink Petticoat, ProMarkers,
flowers - Prima, sentiment - Craftwork Cards, gems - Papermania

I got a pleasant surprise the other day. I received a Readicut catalogue the week before last and it sat on my desk for over a week still in the wrapping. I decided last Friday that I would have a quick look through it before I chucked it and there were three cards in there that I'd made as samples for Debbi Moore :) I didn't realise that she had started selling through Readicut so I was rather chuffed..........little things please little minds eh? LOL

BFN

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

Perfectly matched!

Mojo Monday and Passion For Promarkers :) I needed to make a couple of quick 'grown up' birthday cards and knew roughly what I wanted to do so it was great when I checked both challenges and realised that I could do them both with the one card.
Right onto this week’s challenge, which has been chosen by Caryn. She would like to see your ‘girly and glittery’ creations but you can use any colour promarkers (great for all you beginners who are still building up your stash).

Image- Debbi Moore Designs coloured with ProMarkers & Glamour Dust, papers-Blonde Moments and Bloom and Grow by MME,
sentiment tiles-Craftwork Cards, flowers-Papermania and Prima, everything else from stash.

I hope you like it :)

Debbi Moore

I've just realised that I haven't posted my latest samples for Debbi! Making Christmas cards in June is quite difficult when the sun is shining but at least I didn't have to make them last week when it was swelteringly hot. I don't usually think about the 'C' word till we have been on holiday in August and even then I struggle LOL.
All of the backing papers, images, alphabets and sentiments are from Debbi's Christmas Dreams cd, the other bits and bobs are from my stash. I also used a couple of stamps from the Christmas 2 set and Metal Magic (which I was scared to death of at first, but absolutely love it now :))

Debbi will be on Create and Craft (I think) next Tuesday 14th so if you get the chance to watch, you might just see one of my cards :)

tfl

Wedding work

Two more orders finished and delivered this week which means two more happy brides :)


I now have a card, a money wallet and an album to make for the same customer, for her friends wedding, which I need to sort today and two cards for DH to take to work this weekend. The chances are that I will be back later with more work and I also have my Debbi Moore samples to blog about.

Take care :)

Rosie-Dee's

challenge this week, in the last of the colour combo month, is to make a card, scrapbook page, altered item or whatever you like but it must be black and white. I chose to make a card as I have three birthdays to make for this week.

paper and Page Frills - Doodlebug
image and sentiment - Debbi Moore
gems - Anita's
butterfly - Martha Stewart
everything else from my stash.

We had a fab weekend weather wise, with yesterday being the better of the two days........it was a scorcher. I sat in the garden and worked. DH decided that he wanted a work place like mine! Their office doesn't have opening windows so the air con is on all the time, the windows are tinted so they never know what the weather is like till they go outside and the coffee machine has been broken all week! Oh, the joys of working from home :)

I had yet another busy week last week. I still have wedding orders coming in and got an email from Debbi's office to see if I could make some Christmas samples ready for the show on Ideal World next week. I really struggle with Christmas before I've been on holiday in August :) but I did manage to get them posted on Friday morning. I then had to strip off my desk and clean it as I had green glitter everywhere LOL!

Must get back to work now as I have 50 invitations to try and get done today. I've also made my DT card for next Sunday so I may be back later with a sneaky peek! Please try to join us for the Sunday challenges.

Take care and tfl. x

Friday Sketchers

weeks 51 and 52 and Papertake Weekly's challenge which is to you animals on your card.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong with blooming blogger but I can't seem to do anything I want to do. I can't add multiple pictures any more and I can't drag pictures to where I want them and can only add one picture at a time. I've just tried editing my 'Friday Sketchers' post as I showed the sketch of one and the image of another and it wouldn't let me! Anyway.......



Papers are Pink Petticoat and left overs by Papermania (from the albums I made during the week), the gems are Anita's and the other bits are from my stash. That's a birthday card for DH's neice, at the end of the month, off my list.

I used some more fabby papers from the Patti Picklicious cd and a little left over piece from Papermania wedding paper, my cutie little owl stamp stamp is from Stamps Away, the blossom stamp is from Debbi Moore, the fabulous swirl is a Quickutz Revolution die (and I love it), the flowers are Prima and the gems are from my stash.

I'm really happy with this card (which makes a change!!!)

Time flies

I cannot believe it is two weeks since I last blogged..........how bad is that? So what have I done since I was last here, well.......I have orders coming in fast and furiously (so much so that my mum is working with me part time), I'm ahead with my DT work (DewDrop Craftz cards will be shown tomorrow evening when the new challenge is uploaded and I will add my Debbi Moore DT work later), have two more commissioned albums on the go, DD no 1's wedding is all planned now so we're just waiting for the big day and I have been doing challenges but just haven't had the time to blog them! I did a wedding fayre on 26th April and then last week DH took me camping for the weekend (he knows how to treat a girl :)) We went to the beautiful Derbyshire Peak District, it's very quiet and I can't even get a mobile phone signal where we stay! Even DD2 enjoyed it (she's 15). She bought the book Marley And Me on Saturday morning and just laid and read.........unheard of unless it's a gossip mag. Oh and I've half sorted my craft room :)

So to begin......I have made and delivered another set of day and evening invitations for a wedding

and a set of table numbers for a charity function

They were tri-fold in black and white tied together with ivory ribbon. Sorry about the pants photo but I didn't get them finished till about 9 pm and DH whisked them up to the hotel so they could go in the post first thing yesterday morning to be (hopefully) received this morning in time for the 'do' this evening..............it's a good job I work well under pressure LOL

I think I will leave starting the challenge cards till tomorrow........it's bed time :)

Happy Birthday to me!!

...........and a lovely day it's been too. I got some new crocs and an A3 cutting mat off DH (and my trip to New York next week ;)), a craft tote off the kids, some fabby pressies of a very special friend, another good friend owns a hair and nail boutique and she did my hair for me this afternoon as my pressie and I got some lovely dosh which I am going to change into dollars to take to NY next week :) Have I mentioned we go to New York in 10 days? LOL We have also been for an 'All you can eat' Chinese buffet this evening and I am totally stuffed!!

Happy birthday also to Purplepenguin (my forum twinnie), Prince Edward and Sharon Stone.......you can see Ms Stone and I are twins just by looking at us although we're not quite identical, slightly different shaped. LOL

I just finished and posted my samples for Debbi Moore and used one of Kathy's sketches for a quick and simple card.
Materials used are as follows
green card from Crate and Bazzill Bling
Floral glitter card and stamp from Debbi Moore
Lace and gingham ribbon from stash

Challenge catch up!

Daring Cardmakers

I (Sue) thought I would treat you all to a Chinese Take Away, if you’re up for it.
No, I’m not talking about food……I’m talking about my dare!
Oriental Splendour I would like you to make a card with an Oriental influence and the ‘Take Away’ I referred to is the twist in the tail.
Whenever Oriental is mentioned most people, including myself, immediately reach for Red and Black so I’m taking them away from you and removing them from the pallet of colours that you can use on your card.So to recap:-I dare you to make an Oriental themed card which doesn’t use Red or Black

Mojo Monday #71 (how bad is this, I hadn't even noticed I was so far behind LOL)

Papers used are Lilykate by Basic Grey, flowers are Papermania and Prima and the image is a Debbi Moore stamp which has been coloured with my (very) limited supply of ProMarkers.

Debbi Moore 2

I thought I would show a few more of my DT cards today as I haven't got time to make any challenge cards till later. I'm finishing off a stationery order as I got two more orders in on Saturday.

As before, this was the kit I received but I didn't get the dvd!

The card was made using instructions which Ellen posted on Crafts By Carolyn (only mine ended up backwards! LOL) I coloured the images on this one with shimmer chalks but unfortunately the photo doesn't pick it up.

This image was coloured with Prismas and Sansador to pick up the colours of the butterflies on the glitter card.

I think this card has to be one of my favourites. I stamped the fuschia image onto acetate using Stazon and used glitter on the back of the image to colour it. I cut a frame from silver mirror card using one of my Nesties but as I only have the straight rectangles I had to edge the frame with scallop scissors. The butterfly was punched from pink glitter card.

Just another couple of simple cards to finish of this part. I found some of these cards a bit difficult as there wasn't any backing paper or sentiment stamps in the kit. I had to use peel offs, which I don't like using, on some of the cards but managed to use sentiment stamps from some of the other stamp sets on others.

Back to the invitations. :)

Last one.....

for this evening is Sketch Saturday I used my new Labels #1 Nesties for the first time (well they did only arrive on Saturday :)) and my (almost) new Martha Stewart punch and my new Snag Em stamps from Papermania (I can cope with a stash ban like this LOL) I stamped the flowers twice, once onto patterned paper then cut it out and paper pieced it. All the card stock and lace is from my stash.

That's it for tonight but I will be back in the morning with my Debbi Moore DT cards.

Take care and TFL