Neutral Noel.....

The sixth prompt over at Jingle Belles is Neutral Noel and the ladies have given us this beautiful photo as inspiration of Pottery Barn Holiday cushions. The snowflake cushion caught my eye straight away so that was my inspiration for my card.

I stamped two different sized snowflakes from the Inspired by Stamping Winter Wonderland stamp set in SU Crumb Cake and diecut them. I then diecut a Nestabilities label to mat the snowflake and stitched around the paper, adding some lace and buttons.

Supplies
Stamps- IBS Winterwonderland, SU For My Family
Papers- Websters Pages
Pretties- SU Lace, Buttons, Su Twine
Nesties- Labels 1, Snowflakes

My pile of Christmas cards are growing, I'll hopefully have them all made by the end of November, no last minute panic like I usually do.
Thanks for looking, have a great weekend and I'll be back soon to show you what I've been crocheting with the leftover yarn from the wash cloths.

xxxxDebxxxx

Stuck on You.......part 2

Good Morning, I hope you are all having a good weekend. I can't believe it is snowing by us after the beautiful springlike days of last week at least it isn't sticking. Today I have another Christmas card for the Jingle Belles challenge, Stuck on You. I've got 3 cards finished now for this challenge, I'll be getting a nice little stash of Christmas cards at this rate !!!

This card is going to be for my baby niece, I think the Echo Park reindeer sticker is so cute, the papers are from MME.
I went to Bromsgrove crop yesterday and started my Smash Book, photo's to follow soon. It was great to see all the girls, Helen bought her Melt Pot and we had a little play with that, I loved it, you can do some great things with it.I didn't realise you can use it with shrink plastic !!!!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend
xxxxDebxxxx

Stuck on You....

Hello my friends, I hope you are all enjoying the weekend, today I'm back with a Christmas card for the Jingle Belles challenge, they have teamed up with E.A.D. Designs and are asking us to use stickers or rub-ons. I don't have many stickers so thought I may have had to use rub-ons but when I looked I had got a couple of sheets of Christmas stickers.

I used this week's sketch from Mojo Monday.

I used Websters Papers and distressed the edges with TH Antique Linen Distress Ink, the snowflake sticker is October Afternoon. I stamped the SU sentiment onto a piece of card and snipped the V-shape to make a banner.
When I cleaned my craft room I threw so many scraps of paper away which I'd planned to use on my cards but never did so I have decided to use up the left overs straight away so here is a second card.

Supplies
Papers- Websters Pages
Stickers- October Afternoon Very Merry
Stamp- SU Contempo Christrmas
Other- SU Lace, bling

I bet the girls over at Jingle Belles are shocked that I have not only done two cards but got them in the first week, you never know I might be able to get another card done next week.

Hugs
xxxxDebxxxx

All Buttoned Up...........

They say better late than never, I'm here again, it's the last day of Jingle Belles 'All Buttoned Up' challenge and I've just finished my card. I asked Lisa H to give me a nudge if I started to fall behind and this morning I had a message reminding me it was the last day, thank you Lisa.
As you can probably guess you have to use buttons on your card, even though I've only made my card this morning, I had been thinking about it all week and knew what I was going to do, so here it is.

I decided to make a button wreath, very simple but fun I think, I wouldn't mind a full size one for my front door this Christmas. I just love buttons and have a huge collection, I just can't help buying more if I see them.
I used two different size circle Nestabilities to get make the base, and then started layering the buttons up until I was happy with the look, I added a bow and stamped the sentiment. It's a great way to use some of those buttons up we all tend to hoard.
Thanks for looking and next time I'm going to try my hardest to get it done the first week of the challenge, you never know I may get one done the second week too.
Hugs
xxxxDebxxxx

Jingle Belles....A Banner Holiday...

The girls over at  Jingle Belles are asking us to make a Christmas card using their header as the inspiration. It's the last day today so had to quickly get this post in, nothing like leaving it until the last minute.

You can take any of the elements from this pretty header, I've gone with the colours but I had to add a jingle bell in there too.

The music paper is from MF 6x6 5th Avenue paper pad,the candy cane paper is Basic Grey that I had left over from the last Christmas card, the cute house and banner is from October Afternoon Very Merry sticker sheet. I'd like to live in a house like that one.
Have a great day, I'll be back tomorrow with some sneak peeks for the new stamps from Inspired by Stamping.

xxxxDebxxxx

Jingle Belles 2012 - Card 2........

First of all I would like to say thank you to the guys at Jingle Belles for picking my card as one of their faves last week, I was thrilled. The second prompt from the girls at Jingle Belles is a sketch especially designed by the lovely Kirsty

Here's my take:

I used Basic Grey Blitzen papers and covered the front of the card in Dasher, then cut a strip of Candy Cane punching the edge with the Martha Stewart Zig Zag punch. The sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping Christmas Greetings which I stamped onto white card and die cut out using Nestabilities Labels 1, finishing off with a rosette die cut with the Tim Holtz Mini Paper Rosette. Well that's my second Christmas card finished !!!!!
I hope everybody had a good weekend, I had great fun at the bingo on Friday night, unfortunately I didn't win anything.





On Saturday I popped over to Hobbycraft to see if they had anything new in, I bought a couple of crochet pattern books. The Patons book is very basic but has some gorgeous projects and I love making baby clothes so when I saw this Sirdar book I had to have it, my niece will be getting some new cardigans in the near future.



 




Thanks for stopping by.
xxxxDebxxxx

My First Christmas Card of 2012.........

I have made my first Christmas card for Christmas 2012 thanks to the girls from Jingle Belles, hopefully I can keep up with it this year as the prompts are every two weeks.
The first promt is:

"NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT(S)"

so you need to make a card that incorporates gift wrap or some presents, I went with the presents, I saw a card in the Magnolia magazine that I fell in love with but I did my own take on it.

I started off by making an easel card which is very simple, take a standard square card and fold the front of the card in half, you could just leave it at that but I used one half of another square card and attached it to the folded half.

 

  I covered the front and bottom of the card in October Afternoon papers and made the tree by cutting a piece of card into a triange to the size I wanted , then with some BG papers I cut 3cm wide strips and punched along the 12" lengh with a Martha Stewert border punch, layer the strips of paper onto the triangle, trimming the ends off along the straight edge. I decorated the tree with pearls and a glittery star.
Next came the presents, I used chipboard squares and covered them with paper and ribbon, for the deeper parcels,I stacked 5 or 6 chipboard squares together. I finished off with a sentiment from Inspired by Stamping 'Christmas Greetings'. I really enjoyed making this card and look forward to more prompts throughout the year.

Supplies
 
Papers- October Afternoon, Basic Grey
Stamps- Inspired by Stamping 'Christmas Greetings'
Other- Martha Stewart Scalloped Lace Punch, SU Ribbon, pearls, Spellbinder Label die
 

I'm really feeling the cold since I got back from Spain, it is so windy here in the Midlands, I'm looking through the window and the trees look like they are going to snap in half. I think it's time for a cup of coffee to warm me up and maybe a bit of crochet in front of the fire.
 
Hugs
xxxxDebxxxx

Let it Sew,Let it Sew,Let it Sew.........

I really have fell behind on my one Christmas card a week,but hopefully I can get back on track now. This week's challenge over at Jingle Belles is a play on words 'Let it Sew,Let it Sew,Let it Sew' and as you can probably guess you have to incorparate some stitching on your Christmas card,

I have gone quick and simple on this card which would be ideal if you need to make a few of the same. I stitched a curved line with my sewing machine to hang the baubles on and added a brad at each end. I stamped the bauble from SU Contempo Christmas in Real Red and Old Olive then punched them out using the co-ordinating punch,so much easier than cutting,lol,using 3d foam pads to adhere. I then stamped the sentiment 'welcome Christmas into your heart' which is from SU Heard from the Heart stamp set, I just love that sentiment.
Enjoy the rest of the day.
xxxxDebxxxx