Sew Good.....

Hi everybody, hope you all had a lovely weekend, the weather has been miserable here, the only thing we have not had is the dreaded s word lol.

I bought the Simply Homemade magazine  the other day as they had some fab freebie stamps and papers, so of course my fingers were itching to make a card and this is what I have come up with.

 

 

6 x 6 white scalloped card, Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles, stamps and backing papers free with the magazine mentioned above. hexagon shapes are papers from my stash. images coloured with promarkers and lace and ribbon from stash.

 

Chris xxxxx

 

Sneaky Peek.......

Hello and good evening everyone. I can finally show you one of the cards from Jem`s Designs new cd Yesterdays` Dreams - Christmas Treasures designed by the very talented Sheenagh Hulin.

 

Tune in to Create and Craft on Tuesday 25th at 1pm to see the lovely Susan Andrews demonstrate all the beautiful images, backing papers and more.

Hopefully you will see some of mine.

If you would like to see the fabulous creations and more from the talented Design Team Members pop over to Facebook - come along and join us? 

This card is from the folder " Candlelight ". I hope you like it.

 

8 x 8 square card, red pearlised card, backing paper printed then cut with template and glittered. image  and candle printed and acetate placed over image. Marianne design poinsettia dies, Ribbon from Cuddly Buddly and jems from Creative Expressions, peeloffs from stash.

 

Chris xxxxx

 

 

What a Surprise.........

Well here I am finally with some exciting news......

A few weeks ago I joined the Jem`s Design facebook group and seeing the cards and creations that the girls had made I bought a couple of cd`s along with freebies that Sue Andrews very kindly lets the members use, and I was lucky to win one of the competitions that they hold using A Swan`s Song CD, the images are very delicate along with the backing papers and elements.

 

About a month ago Sheenagh Hulin asked if I would be interested in being a guest DT for their new upcoming cd....
" Yesterdays` Dreams - Christmas Treasures "
 which will be on
 Create & Craft Tuesday 25th June  - time to be announced.

 Well I jumped at the chance and thoroughly enjoyed using the images that Sheenagh sent me and they are fabulous and so easy to work with,   I was quite nervous, so me being me I gave Sheenagh a sneak peek of what I had made

( Sorry no I cannot show you what I have created at the moment).

Imagine my surprise when I received an email from Sheenagh asking if I would be interested in becoming a permanent design team member, I was shocked and just sat there for a few minutes trying to take it all in......... of course I said YES woohoo.

Thank you Sheenagh for asking.

Jem`s Designs are well known for.. Gothic, Fantasy, Fairies and Dark  and so many others, just click on the link to find them all.

 

Right down to earth now. The 2 cards I am showing today are from Jem`s Designs HatBox Confection.

6 x 6 pink scalloped card, Creative Expressions Moroccan Mask, Spellbinders Adorning Squares, silver pearlised card, Tim Holz Distress ink, gems from stash. Hat is decoupaged.

 

The instructions for this card shape is from Joanna Sheen.

Centura card, backing paper printed onto cardstock, I did not have the correct spellbinders die to use, so I used matt and layer template from Emmas Cards uk cut by hand. Flowers so kindly given to me by Lindsay, gems from stash.

 

Just before I disappear a little update on my granddaughter Ashley.

She spoke to the doctor on the day of her discharge and he told her she has Goodpastures disease which effects the kidneys and lungs. Consequently she is having dialysis 3 times a week (she was having this while in hospital) for 6 months then she will be put on the transplant list.  can I ask if you dont already...

 PLEASE Sign up for the donor card,  not only for her sake but all the sufferers out there.

 

Chris xxxxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baby Shoes....

Hello everyone. As you have probably noticed (well I hope you had lol) I have been missing for a while and this is the reason why........Firstly I would like to thank all of you that left such lovely comments on my previous post in regards to your get well wishes for my granddaughter Ashley.

 

 I can at last tell you that she came out of hospital yesterday after a month of some very bad and scarey times, she still has a long road ahead of her and I am so PROUD of her for what she has been through.

You are a STAR sweetheart.

 

In between having this worry over the family I have been making samples as a GDT spot, sorry cannot say more at the moment.

 I have managed to make some baby shoes which I can now show you as I gave them to Ashley this morning when I went to see her and baby Isabella.

Items used White card for shoes, Centura white for the box background printed from MCS, peeloffs, Memory Box precious hearts, pink pearlised card for the letters.

 

Now for the best part, I had my first cuddle today with my Great granddaughter Isabella and she is absolutely adorable.

 Mummy did not get a look in while I was there lol, which was quite funny because just before I got there Isabella would not stop crying, then I walk in and  being asked if I want to hold her ( silly question lol), she settled and went to sleep as the pictures will show.

I love this one as it seems like she is contemplating something with her hand on her chin.

Family together

Had to smile at this one.. as I had just given her back to mummy...

yes she started to cry.

 

one final word before you all get bored lol.

I want to apologise for not stopping by and leaving comments on your blogs of late. Will try my best very soon.

 

Chris xxxxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am a Great Grandmother......

I am sorry that I have not been about at all in the last week, it has been a joyful and a tearful (well a lot really) time. Thank you to one very special person ( Lindsay) for letting me get my concerns of my chest.

 

As you have seen by the title I became a great Grandma last Wednesday as my granddaughter was rushed into hospital on the Tueday as she was having breathing problems. Thats another story which I really do not want to go into. The out come was she was induced on Weds morning and at 12:54pm my beautiful great granddaughter Isabella Vivian was born weighing 4lb 8oz and 6 weeks early, she was put into an incubator to start with, as my DIL says she has now been hatched and now into a cot lol..

 

Unfortunately my granddaughter was taken ill again afterwards and at present she has been sedated and being treated, again I do not want to go into details of the reasons. As you can imagine we are all very concerned for her and hoping that she gets well very soon.

I cannot wait to give her the cards and here they are.

This one is for my Great Granddaughter welcoming her to our world

The papers and image came from Jems Design CD Peek a Boo.

I added the text from MCS.

Of course for this I had to use my own digi Crib.

8x8 white card, Spellbinders Decorative Labels One

Cuttlebug Embossing folder used for the hearts which I cut out and embossed.

Image coloured with Promarkers, ribbon, flowers from stash.

I really do not do girly girly cards so found this quite hard.

 

Lastly the other week Lindsay made a keepsake box for a baby boy and I said if it was for a girl I would have bought it, well Lindsay pulled out all the stops and made me one and it is worth every penny. Thank you so much.

 

 

Thank you all for popping by and leaving comments

and I will try and catch up with you all soon.

 

Chris xxxxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bluebells

Hello and welcome to my new followers Claire, Sandra, Joanne and Pamela. I hope you enjoy your visits.

 

I`ve not had much time to craft this week, so by Friday I just had to make this card with a mask and stamps that I bought weeks ago. So here it is..........

I must admit the inspiration for this came from Doreen O`Brien, her cards are amazing. I hope I have not let you down Doreen.

Spellbinders Labels Twenty Five, Stamps Away Pilkington Floral Silhouette, Distress Ink Tumbled Glass, Pastel Blue Embossing Powder, Heat it Up Clear Embossing Powder, Neenah card, Blue card/ribbon/gems from Stash, 6 x 6 blue scallop card.

Chris xxxxx

 

 

 

White on White..........

I cannot believe it is Saturday evening already, I`ve had a busy week what with decorating the hallway and making my FIL`s birthday card.

 

I wanted to have ago at doing a white on white card and I needed inspiration soI just typed in white on white cards and of course it bought Pinterest up, so after browsing for a while and found some amazing cards, I took a giant leap and joined, still trying to get my head around it lol so I may be asking for help :) as I have tried to upload some of my cards from my blog and they don`t seem to come up to pin them for some reason....... any help would be appreciated.

Thank you to a few of my lovely followers on here and FB who have followed me on there too.

Right that`s enough waffling from me. First card is my white on white and the second one is my FIL`s birthday card, I hope you like them.

 

5 x 5 white card, Marianne Poinsettia Dies, McGill pine Branch Punch,

Spellbinders Medallion One, Die`sire Elegance embossing folder, Pearl gems.

 

 

Centura white pearl card folded in half, Backing paper from Jem`s Designs Yesterdays Dreams Gentlemans Edition, Images and prices for the front image from web. Spellbinders Labels Twenty Nine. I designed all of this in MCS.

 

Chris xxxxx 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oooh it`s nice to see the sun.....

Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying your weekend.

We have had beautiful sunshine all day.

 

For the last few days I have been playing with my new CD`s from Jems Designs and I have to say the images are fabulous, it was difficult to decide which one to use first.

This one is from the Swan`s Song CD and it is very dreamy.  I did not want to over power the image with to many embellishments........

 

What do you think?.............

 

Jem`s Designs Swan`s Song cd. Spellbinders Labels Twenty-Five,

6 x 6 pink scalloped card.

 

Jem`s Designs are on Create and Craft tomorrow 21st @ 11.00 am with their brand new CD.. Sentimental.

 

Chris xxxxx

 

 

Owl

Well here we are Wednesday already, where does the time go. I woke up this morning and realised it was Showcase Day and I had not even made a card, norty me. So as soon as hubby left I was in the craft room beavering away and I apologise now for the poor colouring ( not my best ).

 

The first card this week by my wonderful DT ladies is......

Lindsay

It is with sad regret that I am having to say bye bye to the very talented and lovely Lindsay who has been with me right from the beginning and who started me on the road for drawing again. I will be calling on you to do a GDT spot for me.

THANK YOU Lindsay for all you have done for me and I wish you well in your new DT spot that you have wanted for a long while. xxxxxxxx

 

Janet

Tina

 

And of course mine, please don`t look to closely lol

 

5 x 5 square card, spotted paper from 5th Avenue, Spellbinder dies Classic Scalloped Ovals Large and Small, Framed Tags One, Memory Box Macarena Corner and coloured with Promarkers

 

I say this everytime and I hope you all agree that the girls have done fabulously with my Owl digi.

THANK YOU all so very much

I hope you will pop over to their blogs and leave well deserved comments.

 

Chris xxxxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flower Corner.......

Good Morning to you all.  Hope you had a lovely Easter and not to many choccies.

 

 I just do not know where this weekend has gone, so much to do and not enough time, and I completely forgot I had a showcase this week. Where is my card I hear you all saying..... well it is still in my head. I was going to spend the day (Tuesday) making it when hubby ( he`s at home all week) decided we should decorate the living room, so off we went to get the paint, finally got home about lunch time and have been decorating ever since. So consequently no card from me SORRY.

 

But I can say that my wonderful Design Team and my Guest DT have come up trumps yet again.

 

My Guest DT this week is the very talented and lovely.......

Linda Simpson

 

Tina

 

Janet

Lindsay


Wow what can I say girls, your cards  are absolutely FABULOUS.
I hope you will pop over to their blogs and leave some love.
Once again I am sorry I do not have a card to show.
Normal service for me will return once hubby goes back to work next week.

Chris xxxxx