That Special Time of the Year...

Good  evening everyone, I hope you are all well and keeping busy.

What on earth has happened to the weather this week, its been a funny kind of day here, it started with the sun shining and the wind blowing which took the warmth away, then it went cloudy and even cooler then this afternoon it started to rain for a while. I have a feeling that summer has passed.

 

I have been busy making christmas cards as I have quite a few to do and I like to get them out of the way, luckily I have a few from last year which is a help.

last week I ordered the new Tonic Holly Rings Dies and the Frond Dies and I must say they are fabulous, so here is my first make.

 I used an 8 x 8 white card, layered with pearlised copper card, white card embossed with an embossalicious folder again copper card placed behind holly die circle, then stampedsentiment and embossed with Heat it Up copper. Die cut the frond along with poinsettia dies.

 

I would like to enter this into:-
http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ No 71 -  Winter Wishes
http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.co.uk/ No 45- Christmas

 

 

Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment they are always appreciated

 

Chris xxxxx

 

 

Christmas again..

Where has the weekend gone, I have obviously been enjoying myself to much lol.
 I cannot believe I have now blogged 3 days on the trot lol. So glad I had kept a few cards and of course some more pages to blog with don`t worry no pages this time. Maybe tomorrow :).

This is another C6 card.

Green pearl card from stash.

Spellbinders Labels 29 for the main topper stamped

with tree from Creative Expressions in ColourBox ink and glittered.

 

C6 card layered with embossed green card from stash.

Holly stamp another of my favourites coloured with promarkers,

Holly paper from Dovecraft.

Spellbinders Medallion One

Ribbon and candi from stash.

 

Chris xxxxx

 

 

 

 

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......