First Christmas Card!

Hi everyone. I hope you're all well and having crafty fun. A big welcome to my new follower Sue, I hope you can visit often and that you enjoy my posts.

I forgot to mention on my last post that I had a wonderful candy giveaway win from Vicky's blog-http://stickywithicky.blogspot.co.uk/ . Vicky did a 10km run to raise money for Cancer Research and has a link there where you can donate as well. We all know someone who has been affected by cancer so why not visit her fabulous blog and make a donation whilst you're there.

My MS is misbehaving again at the moment as is Blogger on my tablet so I haven't been crafting as much or commenting on your blogs. Blogger will work for a short while and then tell me I'm not following any blogs! I will comment on your blogs if it will let me.

Anyway I've finally made my first Christmas card, Yay! Took me ages to do the layout and then as I was gluing the different layers I kept sticking things in the wrong place. So I hope you like my card although I'm on the fence about if I like it or not.

Lots of LOTV products used on this card

Image close up

and the flowers.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:-

Lotv Christmas In August Challenge
Deep Ocean Challenge- Something Sweet
Live and Love Crafts Stitching- Real or Faux Challenge (faux Stitching)
A Creative Romance Challenge- A Touch of Kraft

Card Ingredients

 

 

Card blank 8"x 8" and stamping card- Craftwork Cards

Kraft card and white card punched and distressed from Stash

Pens- Copic Ciao

Papers- LOTV- Snow Princess and Snow Princess Solids

Stamps- LOTV Mistletoe Kisses, Christmas Mini Images- Foliage, set 75 Christmas Wishes and set 40 Babies Companion set ( faux stitching)

Dies- Joy crafts Ice Crystal 1, 2 and 3.

Punches- Martha Stewart pine branch, docrafts snowflake edge

Ink pads- Memento Black Tuxedo, Distress pad in Old Paper, VersaMark watermark, ColorBox Robin's Egg and Lilac.

Lace- Candy win from Live and Love Crafts  

Frosted berries and Chrysanthemums from Live and Love Crafts

Purple flowers from Carole's candy win and cream flowers from stash.

Other stuff used- DecoArt Glamour Dust in crystal, Stickles in Star dust, WOW white puff twinkle embossing powder (on heart), Wooden Heart and doily from stash.

Gosh that was a long list! Well, that's all from me for now. Thank you so much for visiting me, I always appreciate the comments you've taken the time to leave. Enjoy tomorrow and have a great week.

                                            Debra x 

 

 



Blog Anniversary Candy Winner!

Hello everyone. Before I announce the candy winner I want to say a big thank you to you all for taking part and a big welcome to my new blog friends, many from different countries! So hello to Marianne, Kelly, Leila, Nikki, Vinita, Lucy, Regina, Lora, scrAPpamondo and Dr Sonia. I haven't had chance to comment on all your blogs yet but will visit you all soon.

Ok, so to the winner of my first blog candy, using Random. Org sequence generator. The winner is ...................

                              No. 7  Rebecca Bradshaw!!!!!

Well done Rebecca.

As Rebecca was already a follower before I started the giveaway I thought it would be nice that a new follower received a small gift also.
 The second number in the sequence generator was a new follower and that person was............. 

                                           No. 5   Leila Bianca!!!!

So if you could both send me an email with your addresses I'll send you your prizes. My email address is:-

 craftedbydebra@gmail.com

Thank you again for entering and I hope you pop in to visit me often.

                                  Debra x

1st Blog Anniversary!

The Graduation Cards

Hi there. Hope you're all fit and well today. I've got quite a few new lovely blog friends following my blog which is wonderful. I'll say a proper hello to you all when the Candy giveaway finishes.

I just thought I'd get the Graduation cards posted today. The design for these cards is not mine. The designer of the original card is a lovely lady called Janet Nagel. I saw her card on Pinterest and thought that's what I want to make. This is her blog if you'd like to see her superior version of the card- http://janetscoloringmyworld.blogspot.co.uk/. Janet very kindly allowed me to show my version of her design but I must stress the copyright belongs to her.

So here are mine, it's a bit picture heavy!

This is Zoe's card (Kieran's girlfriend) with spotty paper.

Side view

Kieran's card had script as his paper, I thought it suited him as he'd done a history degree.

Finally Chris' card.

They're all in the colours of their Graduation hoods, nearly! Chris told me his was black and red with white fur trim. Well he was wrong as it also had dark green on it. I could also kick myself as I didn't take a photo of Lexi's card which had black and white flower paper on it.

I cheated with my cards as I bought the box cards from Craftwork Cards whereas Janet made them from scratch. It was a good job as it took me about 8hrs to make the first one. It took ages to cut the shapes out on my machine and my cutter was playing up and not cutting in straight lines. I'm not going to do a recipe for them but if anyone wants to know what I used, give me a shout.

Anyway I hope you like them, my son's and their girlfriends did which made me really happy. Thank you again to Janet!!

Exciting time!

Hi there. Firstly a big welcome to my new followers Heidi and Annie. I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I enjoy yours.

 Sorry I've been missing for a while but lovely things have been happening for me and hubby. My sons have both passed their exams and just graduated from University. Chris, my eldest is now a Doctor with a medical degree and a 'first' in a medical science degree as well. Kieran also got a 'first' in History and a fabulous mark for his dissertation. They graduated within 6 days of one another so I had cards to make not just for them but also for their girlfriends who graduated at the same time as them. I made box cards for the first time which took me ages to make, I'll show you those on another post as I got the design on Pinterest and want to ask permission from the original maker first.

Anyway here's a card I made for a commission. I hope you like it.



 

 

 

It's a LOTV image from one of their art pads.

 

 

 

 

Here's a close up shot.

 

 

Card Recipe

 

8" x 8" card blank- Craftwork Cards

Card- White card from stash and pink from Papermania Solid Cardstock used for heart banner and little hearts  

Ink pads- Memento Toffee Crunch, ColorBox Rosebud

Papers- LOTV Always and Forever paper pads, patterned and solid 

Topper- LOTV Art pad 22 Little ones 

Stamp- LOTV sentiment set 26 Simply Sophisticated   

Dies- Spellbinders Labels Eight, Cheery Lynn Designs Sophia's Heart (cut up), Memory Box Precious Hearts, La, La Land Heart Banner

Punch-  docrafts Xcut border edge Heart

Glitter- DecoArt Glamour Dust in crystal

 

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:-

 

Lili of the Valley Challenge- Take Two. I've used LOTV papers, art pad and sentiment

 

Deep Ocean Challenge - Lots of Layers

 

We Do Dobadoo Challenge- Celebrations

 

 

We're so proud and happy for our sons but I'm a little bit sad as they have now moved or about to move into new homes with their girlfriends so have officially left home, sob, sob. Ah well, I'll just have to make do with my hubby and three cats!

 

Hope you're all having a great weekend and enjoying today's sunshine. I've actually got some more cards made to show you.... yes I know it's a bit of a miracle..... so I hope to be back soon.

 

                        

                            sending you all a big hug,

 

                                        Debra x 



Sorry I'm awol!

Quick hello to you all. Sorry I'm missing but I have a lot going on at the moment and haven't had a chance to post any cards. I should be back at it in about a week. I hope you're all well and happy.

                          Sending you all a big hug,

                                       Debra x  

I'm Back!!

Hi there. I want to say a huge Thank You for all your get well wishes, you've all been so lovely and I really appreciated it :)
 
I'm still recovering from my ops which could take up to six months but I also have Multiple Sclerosis which has complicated things further. So I'll try to post as often as I'm able.

At long last I've managed to make a card. It only took me three weeks and I'd coloured the image before I went into hospital! I was going mad not being able to craft but while not being able to make cards, I was able to order craft stuff online and I think my hubby was worried I'd never use it all (and end up on a hoarding TV programme) so vigorously encouraged me to craft if only for ten minutes at a time. Lol. So here's my card which has a Saturated Canary image for a change.

Sorry it looks like I was drunk when I took the photo.

 A close up shot.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:-
 Stampin for the Weekend- Anything Goes
 We Do Doobadoo Challenge- Ribbons
 Crafty Little Fairies Challenge- Spots and Stripes (paper, image and butterfly have spots, other butterflies and the paper inside card have stripes)


Card Recipe

8"x 8" Card Blank- Craft UK from the Range.
Stamp- Saturated Canary Tilly.
Ink pad- Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Aquatic Splash on butterflies and tag.
Pens-Copic Ciao
Papers- Lotv Promises paper pad, Maja Design Summer Basics
Lilac Spider web from Carole's Blog Birthday Candy win.
Dies-Spellbinders Labels Eight, Memory Box Corner Bow, Joy crafts 6002/0251 and 6002/0027
Sentiment- Lotv Sentiment Tags 24
Flowers- WOC Cosmos Daisy and Tulips from Live and Love Crafts, WOC Cherry Blossom and Sweetheart Blossoms from Lotv.
Leaves- Martha Stewart pine branch punch.
Ribbon from local shop.
Lace- from Live and Love Crafts.
Pearl Gems- from Andy's crafts
Other stuff- Glamour Dust, Stickles, Stampendous Chunky White embossing powder.


Sorry for the different sized photos but when I came to putting my watermark on the photos and realised I couldn't remember how to do it. Stuart, my hubby, had really kindly sorted all my craft stash into labelled boxes which he would get for me so I didn't need to bend. He did this under my supervision and we threw a few things away unfortunately this included the idiot's blog guide my eldest son had written for me. So my youngest, who came home for a couple of days, wrote me a new one which is a quite different and the photos didn't turn out as usual. I'm so grateful Kieran could help me with it or it would have been July before Chris came home to help me!

Anyway thanks for waiting for me and for checking in on me during all these weeks!!!

    Sending you all the biggest hug,

 

Debra x