Christmas is coming.....

Oh my a 2nd post in two days lol.  I made some christmas cards just before I started the scrapbook and completely forgot about them, so here is the first one.... sorry if it reminds you that christmas is creeping up on us.

For this I used a C6 card,

(I have hundreds of these)

Silver embossed card from stash,

 sentiment stamp from

Little Bit Scenic by Sheena Douglas,

 silver embossing powder by Debbie Moore 

Poinsettia Dies,

Spellbinders Romantic rectangles

Pearl gems from stash.

 

Thank you for popping by

Chris xxxxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scrapbooking....

Oh my goodness I cannot believe it is nearly a month since I updated my blog,

(hangs head in shame).

Well I will explain why, since my great granddaughter was born and all the photographs that have been taken I decided it was about time I actually played with Craft Artist which I have had for over a year oops lol, so I joined the Serif Craft Artist Users Group on FB. Wow they have been a great help. Thank you ladies. For the first week I spent hours trawling the web for free digikits to add to Serif, yes there are loads, then just playing, the best thing is nothing gets thrown in the litter bin you just delete and start again, yes the delete button was used quite a few times to start with lol.

I won`t bore you with all the pages that I have made at once, there are 20 of them. I don`t want to chase you away lol. I finally finished the book yesterday.

So here are just a few of my really favourite pages.

This one is the first page.

 

I would like to enter this one into:-

http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ -  Something Shiny.

Please delete from your challenge if its not to your rules for the challenge.

2nd Page

4th Page

9th Page I love this one

Page 15 okay last one for today lol

 

Well I had to include myself lol.

I still have a lot to learn.

 

Chris xxxxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isabella.....

Good morning all, and a very big welcome to my new followers.

Over the weekend I had a tidy up in the craftroom before decorating ( no not started yet)and came across some old cd`s and straight away I thought I could do something with these, so now they are safely tucked away in my drawer for future use, except for one which I have had a play with, and what better than to use a photo of my gorgeous great granddaughter.

I was lucky to have some lace sent to me by the lovely Lindsay, Thank you.

So out came my lace stash to see what I could come up with. I hope you like it.
Wall hanging.

 

 

My granddaughter loves pink, I used 3 lots of lace. Pink on the outside then white and pink and white in the centre. Printed the photo then diecut with Stately Circles and backed with pink card. Flourish diecuts added, Bow with pearls, flowers from stash.

 

I would like to enter this into:

Emmas Cards UK - Lace and Pearls

My Craft Creations - Die cut shapes

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Kadoodle Doodles Challenge Blog -  Anything Goes

Alphabet Challenge Blog - Lace

 

 

 

 

 

Roses are Red.........

Good afternoon everyone, yesterday we had cloud all day not happy at that, but woke up this morning its glorious sunshine woohoo. Unfortunately have not been unable to enjoy it yet as the dreaded h.......k got in the way so too compensate for that I took some short breaks in between and made a card..... like you would lol.

The last few weeks I have been playing with the cd`s for Jem`s Designs and making samples for their up and coming shows, no I cannot show you them... yet..., so I thought I would brush the dust off my Promarkers which have been sorely neglected tut tut I hear you all say lol.

Then I had to choose what image I was going to use, after a lot of time spent last evening looking at stamps and images, I finally decided to use one of my own digi`s... Rose. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed colouring in.  I still need loads of practise.
To set the image off I used black card for the base and stamped and clear embossed it.
The spine of the card has also a different look called Braided Card technique which I found on Pinterest and just had to have a go, you can find it here. Yes it is so easy.
I also used Spellbinders Timeless rectangles and ribbon from my stash. I shall add a sentiment when I know what it will be for.

Thank you all for popping by......

 

 

 

Just a Note........

Wow another week has gone by so quickly, another weekend nearly upon us and I have not got done what I wanted too, oh well there`s always next week lol.

 

Made this card last week and would you believe it got lost among all the papers on my desk oops. I bought some of Ali Reeves templates and thought I would have a play after watching her on C & C. For this I used a 5 x 5 scalloped card and placed the template onto the card and used Tattered Rose to ink the inside of template then stamped the poppy ( very kindly given to me by the lovely Lindsay ) with Memento black tuxedo then wrote Just a Note in the corner. I`m not sure if I need to add anything else!!!!!!!

 

Now before I go just a little update on my granddaughter Ashley, She is still having dialysis 3 times a week, so at times she does get depressed as she has to watch how much she drinks and has to be careful around anyone who may be unwell themselves.

 

To say I am so PROUD of her is an understatement. I love you so much.

Oooops nearly forgot my great granddaughter Isabella is now 2 months old  and weighs 7lb and she is coming on in leaps and bounds even if she did sleep most of the time while she was here today.

Finally managed to get one or two photo`s when she did open her eyes lol. beside her is the little teddy that hubby bought her and yes it does have Arsenal on, we have to start her early lol.

 

Christmas in July......

Good morning all my lovely followers, I hope you are all well and enjoying the weather. Again I have been a bit lax in posting and leaving comments as it has been a busy time for me the last few days as busy making samples for the new Jems Designs cd, which will be coming to your screens soon.

Today is the start of a brand new challenge over at
LEJ Designs Challenge Blog  -   Christmas in July
 
So come on girls and boys pop on over and get your christmas hat on and join in.
The first randomly winner picked will win is 4 digi`s of your choice from

LEJ Designs

And the second randomly winner will win some Crafting Goodies.
While you are there have a look at what the design team have created.

I am very lucky to be a Guest Designer this week.
 For my card I have used the Reindeer baby available from LEJ Designs and he is a real cutie. The card shape I found on Pinterest so thought I would give it a go and it is so simple. I printed the backing paper from MCS onto the Linen card from Paper Mill,  Blue vellum for the die cuts, Image coloured with Promarkers, sentiment and stocking added from MCS.

 

Thank you for popping by and I will try my very best to

return comments on your blogs as soon as I can.

 

I would like to enter this into

 

Stamp and Create Monthly Challenge - July Challenge - Christmas in July

`ABC` Challenges - Christmas in July

Crafty Sentiments - Christmas in July

Fab `n` Funky - Christmas in July