Very Belated Mother's Day card

Hi everyone. Thank you for your lovely comments on my card. I really appreciate you taking the time to leave them for me. It makes me a happy bunny :D. I will definitely show you my craft room when it's finished. I've got something being made which will take a while so it will probably be a couple of months before it's completely ready for its grand unveiling.

Onto today's card. A local tearoom/ farm shop has offered to sell my cards whenever I can make them which is just wonderful of them as it doesn't put me under any pressure if I'm not feeling up to card-making. This is a Mother's Day card I made for the shop but have only just managed to show you:-

Card Ingredients

6" x 6" Card Blank from Craftwork Cards.

Papers:- LOTV Country Lady and Woodland Wishes.

Kraft card.

Dies:- Cheery Lynn Designs Tiny Fanciful Flourish left and right, Tattered Lace Essentials Circles.

Sentiment:- LOTV Happy Circular Sentiments.

Flower:- Dovecraft paper blossoms.

Lace:- Candy from Carole.

Ribbon:- Crafty Ribbons Country Check.

Other Stuff:- 10mm Rhinestone flower with diamond centre from Wild Orchid Crafts, pearls from Andy's Crafts, Glamour Dust in crystal and doily from stash

 

I'd like to enter the following challenges:-

Penny's Challenge 229- Anything goes

Little Miss Muffet Challenge- Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge - Bingo Board - Flowers, Doily and Sentiment.

 

Well that's all from me today except a little apology if I haven't commented on some of your posts. I'm so behind on things at the moment at home so my blogging is taking a back seat. I've also got to sort through my craft stuff and my mums to see what I want to keep and what must go which I'm not looking forward to as I'll want to keep everything!!

 

Sending you all a big hug,

 

Debra x

A new craft room!

Hi everyone. I'm so excited as I'm getting a craft room, YAY!!! I've been using a lap tray and a small folding TV table to do my crafting on for so long but not for much longer. We've been having an extension built on the back of our house since the end of January and it's getting to the end now. A third of the space is just for me so I'm having fun in between the hospital appointments shopping for furniture.

I have made a few cards but just haven't had time to post them anyway here's one of them using Graphic 45 Parfumerie stamp and die cut set.

A couple of close up photos....

 

 

 

Card Ingredients

 

6" x 6" Card Blank

Papers- Lotv Pressed in Time and Country Lady

Stamps- Lotv Set 49 Tags (Le Jardin) and Set 46 Background Bits (Notes).

              Hot off the Press stamp and punch sentiment.

Pens- Copic Ciao.

Ink- Memento Black Tuxedo and Distress ink pad Frayed Burlap

Dies- Spellbinders Labels Forty. Cheery Lynn Designs Doily die Sophia's Heart

Ribbon- Hobby House velvet ribbon. Thin ribbon and lace from my stash.

Flowers- Cherry blossom and Sweetheart blossom from Wild Orchid Crafts. Other flowers from stash . 

 

I'd like to enter the following challenges :-
Allsorts Challenge- April Showers bring May flowers

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge

Crafty Ribbons Challenge- ANYTHING GOES with ribbons
 

 

I've got my fridge freezer, washing machine, tumble dryer and microwave in our living room at the moment while the tiler is tiling the extension and kitchen. It was bearable on the first day but the that feeling is quickly wearing off now! My sons, Chris and Kieran, and Lexi, Chris' girlfriend, are here for some of the bank holiday so it'll be a bit of a squeeze in the living room but it'll be so great to have them all here. 

 

I hope you all in the UK have a great bank holiday and the rest of you wonderful blog friends all over the world have a great weekend too.

 

Sending you all a big hug, Debra x

 

 

 

 

 

My Candy Winner is.......!

Hi there everyone. I hope you're all having crafty fun.

Well I think I've left it long enough for my faithful blog friends to enter my candy giveaway. I'm a bit busy with hospital appointments and with builders ( I'll tell you about that next time) so haven't time to post a card and I've gone old school with putting your names in a hat (well, a paper bag :D) for the draw. The name pulled out by the independent witness, my hubby, was...........

 

 ..............Carole Pollard!!!...........

 

 

Congratulations Carole, email me and I'll send you your candy which I hope will enjoy using.

I wish you could all win as you've all been the best blog buddies ever.

 

That's all for now so take care and as usual I'm sending you all a big hug.

 

Debra x

Belated Birthday Blog Candy

Hi everyone. Thank you for your lovely comments about my fall, oh, and my card too! You really are wonderful blog friends.

 I've got a little candy giveaway open just for current followers (from the date of this post) as a thank you for sticking with me while things are being just silly. Just leave a comment with a Yes at the beginning if you want to be put in the draw as I know some of you don't always want to enter candy giveaways. I can also enter this draw as I've managed to make myself a follower, lol! If someone can tell me how to remove myself please give me instructions as I feel really daft following myself.

Ok, onto my card...

a couple of close up photos.

Card Ingredients  

Card Blank- 5" x 7"
Stamps- Inky Doodles... Afternoon Tea and Sweet Sentiments.
Card Stock- from local stationers
Paper- free with a magazine
Pens- Copic Ciao and Pigma Micron black fineliner.   
Ribbon- Crafty Ribbons.. Country Check
Doily- Ribbon Box
Other Stuff- DecoArt Glamour Dust in crystal, banner from stash and pearls from Doodlebug design inc.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:-
Little Miss Muffet Challenges- Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin- Cakes
Crafty Ribbons Challenge- Anything Goes With Ribbons

I'm having tests at the mo and lots of doctor's appointments to sort me out. I'm not sure anyone could do that, lol!! So if I've missed commenting on your cards please forgive me. Don't forget to enter my draw for current followers by leaving a comment saying Yes at the start and I'll put your name in the hat.

                                                        sending a hug to you all,
                                                     
                                                                       Debra x

Spoke too soon?

 Hi everyone. A huge welcome to my new followers Jaycee, Alice P and Tanya M. I hope you like my cards and visit often. If Alice and Tanya tell me their blogs I'll come and visit. 

Well I hope I haven't spoken too soon about this being a better year! More later on that.

 

 

Today's card is a box card I made for my mum-in-law's birthday, the 26th January. I think I've already told you that it's my birthday too. Anyway I hope you like her card.

 

 

 

Side on...

Close up of the front flap

Close up of side flap

 

 

Card Ingredients

 

 Box Card- Craftwork Cards

Card Stock- Core'dination Nostalgia 12" x 12" 48pk, white card for flowers from stash

Papers- docrafts Papermania Lucy Cromwell Designstax

Acetate from stash

Dies- Creative Expressions Finishing Touches Collection Delicate Petals complete petals and open petals,

Cheery Lynn Designs Happy and Birthday sentiment (cut in white and pink) and Mini Fanciful Flourish ( left and right), 

La- La Land Picket Fence,

Memory Box Dancing Butterflies,

Tattered Lace Starlight Square ( butterflies).

Other Stuff- Stickles Star Dust ( on butterflies), pearls from MeiFlower ( centre of flowers)

 

I'd like to enter the following challenge

 

Crafty Calendar February Challenge- Anything Goes

 

 To continue from the start of the post-

I got out of bed at six o'clock in the morning one Sunday, a couple of weeks ago, then the next I knew Stuart was shaking me and I was on the floor with pain in my head and neck. Stuart said I'd just fallen backward for no reason with my eyes up in my head. As I couldn't get up and wasn't with it, Stuart rang for an ambulance. Packaged on a back board, neck collar and head blocks I was driven to hospital. I was x-rayed and CT scanned and told I had a skull fracture! Fifteen minutes later I was told it wasn't fractured it was a join line they'd seen, phew! So I was told to get up more slowly next time and we went home. I was discovering new bruised areas daily and I'm still dizzy but it definitely could have been worse, yes my hubby said, I could have landed on him, lol!! So now I'm having tests to find out what happened. 

I'll have a candy giveaway, in my next post, just for current followers as a belated birthday thank you for hanging in there with me.

                                  sending you all a big hug,

                                              Debra x

Welcome 2015

Happy Belated New Year! I'm hoping 2015 is a wonderfully happy and healthy year for all of us. I personally am pleased to see the back of 2014.

I was going to show you the Card-io Christmas cards I made but I was running out of time to post them so off they went. I then realised I'd forgotten to photograph them! So here's the Christmas card I made for my in-laws.

 

 

 

and a close up of the embossed wreath.

 

Card Ingredients

Card stock- Centura Pearl white with a hint of gold and jade pearl card from stash.

Die cuts- Spellbinders Grand Decorative Circles, Cheery Lynn Happy Birthday and Joy Crafts card stand two.

Stamps- Stamps by Chloe Starry Trails and Starry Wreath.

Ink pad- Versamark

Embossing powder- Stamps by Chloe Silver Bells Wow embossing powder.

Glitter- Stamps by Chloe Blue Lagoon ( possibly. There's no label on the jar and I didn't write the names down when I bought the glitter set from Create and Craft, doh!)

Other stuff- white organza ribbon from stash for bow, small gems and petal shaped diamante on bow from MeiFlower.

 

The Starry Trails was stamped around the big circle embossing it with the Silver Bells after each time I stamped it so I could see where I'd stamped. The jade circle was going to be another Decorative Circle die cut which it was in a way. I forgot to use some wax paper with it and it ripped on removal from the die so I cut the decorative edge off leaving the plain circle.

 

A big thank you goes out to my lovely blog friends who have been checking on me, your messages have meant a lot. Thanks Marianne for showing me that I'd posted this halfway through writing it (I was trying to write it on my phone on a bumpy journey and pressed publish instead of save!) I will get back into commenting on your blogs.

 

 Big hugs coming your way, 

 

Debra x   

 

 

Penguin Pals

Hi everyone. Sorry I've been missing again but my pesky MS has been making my double vision worse again. It 's still not quite as good as it gets so please put up with me for a bit if I don't comment as much as I'd like. It was also a year, on the 13th November, since I lost my lovely mum and I've been feeling quite low about it.
   
I wrote some of this post before my vision got really bad and this is what I had to say then.

 I hope you're all well into making your Christmas cards now. I went to the craft show at Doncaster and, of course, came back with a few goodies......ok, a lot of goodies. I bought some stamps from Card-io to make faster and flatter cards for posting. Well I'm not actually that quick with them yet but I should have some to show you next time but for now I've got another LOTV stamped card to show you using Penguin Pals. 

 

 

 

 

Here's a close up shot.

 

 

 

I made this card before I got the snow advice from Lou but I don't think it looks too bad apart from me going a bit mad with Old Paper Distress Ink on the paper! I used a 6" square card, some Core'dination Cardstock, sanded, and two papers from LOTV Winter Wishes paper pad. I used Spellbinders Adorning Squares for the image. The Frosted Spruce Tree is from Memory Box, the Snowflake is from Joy Crafts 6002/2020. The edges of the paper was distressed with a Tim Holtz tool then the distress ink was used on the paper, die cuts and sentiments which are from LOTV Christmas Grungy Messages set 33 and Grunge Christmas Postmarks set 17. The snow was WOW Twinkle Puff Embossing powder and DecoArt Glamour Dust has been added to the tree.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:-
Crafty Catz Challenge- Anything Goes and GDT Spot
Lili of the Valley Challenge- Merry Christmas

I had some lovely news though while unable to blog and because of one of you fantastic blog friends!! It was a good job Lucy left a comment congratulating my top three win at Crafty Little Fairies as I would have missed it completely as I've tried to avoid my tablet except to check emails. I was so excited to see this on their blog as it's my first top anything win and I've so wanted someone to choose my card instead of a random draw win (not that I don't like these as well, lol!) and have a badge for my blog. So I'm a very happy bunny and my hubby says I'm easily pleased that is until he sees my Christmas list, hehe!

So that was where I had stopped writing the post. I'll be back properly when my vision settles down and I'm feeling a bit more cheerful. I think the last 12 months have just taken their toll on me with my mum, 2 operations and a relapse of my MS. Hopefully next year will bring better times.
 
Thanks for your visit and I hope you like the card. I'm sending you all a huge hug and one especially for you, Lucy!
 Debra x