Poinsettia

I had fun yesterday going through my massive box of stamps, and seeing ones  that I have not used for years...... yes they will be back in circulation soon lol.

One of my favourite christmas stamps is the Poinsettia which I nearly always use every year, I`m surprised it has`nt worn out yet.

 

The stamp is from Creative Expressions which I stamped onto red card several times and once onto green card, embossed with Debbie Moores Gold embossing powder and cut out. Next I used an Embossalicious folder with white card and matted onto red card and matted these onto an 8 x 8 white card, the sentiment was stamped and embossed in red, then cut with spellbinders Fancy Tags 2. Ribbon from stash and a couple of gold peeloffs which I don`t usually use, and a few punched pine leaves.

 

Thank you for popping by and hope you all have a lovely weekend

whatever you are doing

 

Chris xxxxx

 

 

 

 

In the Pink.....

Have you ever had one of those days where you cannot make your mind up what colours to use on a card.........That was me this morning, then I thought I would go out of my comfort zone and use just shades of pink!!!!!!!. I am not a pink person at all, so this was quite hard for me as I dont have much crafty stuff in that colour lol.
The roses on the card I made myself and are my first attempt,I feel quite chuffed

 

6 x 6 scalloped card,

stamped backing card & main image in Versamagic Pink Petunia.

layered onto flourish card stock from Pinflair.

The rose leaves are the new Signature Dies from Joanna Sheen. Lace, ribbon and jems from stash.

 

I would like to enter this into:-

 

LEJ Designs Challenge 65 - Lace

 

 

Chris xxxxx

 

 

 

 

Christmas Wreath..

Well here I am again with a card I made on Monday. I got the idea for this from pinterest which was a white on white... mine is`nt lol.

 

I won`t bore you with any waffle today... well I might after you have seen the card and some piccies too.

6 x 6 white scalloped card, green base card, papers from Dovecraft, centre embossed, Pine punched with Mcgill punch, poinsettia dies and ribbon/jems from stash.

 

This morning I got a message from my DIL on FB asking if I wanted some card that belonged to her Aunt Christine who sadly passed away a short while ago. Of course I said yes please, well within 15 mins or so my DIL`s mum Mary turned up with it and her boot was stacked to the hilt. Mary did not want the money she has asked me to donate to a little girl who has Leukemia.

These are only 2 piccies there is even more that I have to sort through. I cannot even start to list them all yet. Would you say £50 is good for the donation.

 

 

 

 

 

Even More Beautiful......

Hi everybody, it seems ages since I last blogged.... yep a whole 10 days.

Well let me tell you a story lol.

Firstly I had to make my DT samples for Jem`s designs brand new cd`s which were on Create & Craft on Wednesday ( I hope you saw it) I had the pleasure of using the Even More Beautiful cd and wow it is fabulous. The other one is titled Lililicious. They are only available from Create & Craft until 31/8/13 then you can get them from

Jem`s Designs.

Once I finished my samples and posted them off to Sue. I had a mad moment.

 

I have been wanting to decorate the craft/office room for quite a while, so last week when it was at it hottest I decided to do it, what a fool I was lol. It was a case of do a bit have a break, do a bit have a break, so instead of it just taking me a couple of days it took me a week. So of course after that was done I had to buy myself a shelving unit as I could not just let all my boxes of craft sit about willy nilly. Lets just say its tidier but I need some proper A4 containers now to make it look even neater. Please let me know where I can get them, nice and cheap of course.

Well that`s enough of me waffling on.

Here are my samples and a couple of piccies of my room now.

This card shape was hand cut from template, I hope it does not show.

 

This shape I found on Pinterest

Again this one was cut from template

All the images and backing papers from Jem`s Designs cd.

Flowers and ribbon from stash.

Now for my room,

The strange object to the right of the last piccie is my killer of a cross trainer.