I Didn't Expect This!!!

The postman delivered a parcel today and what a lovely surprise when I took it out the box,I had a package wrapped in pink tissue paper tied with a ribbon and inside was a beautifully decorated box (made from scratch) with a note book inside and a Thank You card,it was from the lovely,talented Ros.

When I had a sort out of my craft stuff I sent Ros some things for her craft group she runs for special need adults,I certainly didn't expect this beautiful gift so thank you so much,Ros,I love it.

xxxxDebxxxx

CCCB week#22 and I'm an Aunty Again!!!

It was Bromsgrove Crop on Thursday,and was a great evening  as usual. I love going to catch up with everyone,have a chat and of course do some scrapping,they are such a lovely group of ladies. I got one LO finished and I started  another one which I will show you in the next day or so.
The LO I finished  is suitable to be entered into this week's challenge over at City Crafter Challenge Blog which is called Tree of Books,so you can use an image of a tree or anything to do with books.
Here's the photo that Kirsty gave us for inspiration.

While I was blog hopping I found a fab sketch site called My Little Sketch Blook, Liz designs some great sketches and the DT are a great inspiration. Here's the sketch I used for my LO.

Here's the LO:

The LO is using the new September Scrapagogo kit which I absoloutely love,the papers and all the different textures are just gorgeous especially the corragated alpha's.
I've gone tree mad this week,it's Libby's birthday on Sunday so I made her a card,which she has already opened so I can show you. I made this card before this week's challenge but by sheer coincidence it fits the requirements.

All the materials for this card is Stampin' Up.

On Monday's post I said my sister was heavily pregnant,well while I was at the crop on Thursday, I had a phone call off my Mom to say  my sister had just given birth to a healthy baby girl named Olivia weighing 8lb 12oz.

Olivia



Sisters

Thanks for stopping by!
xxxxDebxxxx


9.9 Sketchy Thursdays

Here's this week's sketch challenge over at Sketchy Thursdays.

I did this LO using May's Scrapagogo kit,I used  Nestabilities to make the flowers and the spiral edge note book punch is from Stampin' Up.The photo's are of my girls on the park at Legoland in 1996.
I'm trying to scrap some of my older photo's because I do tend to print off  my recent ones and I've got so many gorgeous photo's off my children when they we're little.My friend Rae said something on her blog a couple of days ago about scrapbooking is to preserve your memories and that is so true,so even though some of my photo's aren't the best quality (pre-digital) I still must scrap those precious memories.
Just one last thing, I ordered the Tim Holtz Alterations Paper Rosette yesterday from LB Crafts and it came this morning,it is fab!!!
This is what it looks like:

and this is what I've done with it:

Back Soon
xxxxDebxxxx

Fresh Living

It's week #27 over at The Shabby Tea Room ,and we've now had 6 months of wonderful challenges and inspiration from them,where does the time go!!! This week is called "Fresh Living" so the challenge is to make a project inspired by nature and/or the colour green.

I stamped my Hampton Art Bird Collage stamp in SU Chocolate Chip ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.I used BG Cappella papers and kraft card, added a Prima flower and punched some leaves from a Martha Stewart punch.The 4 You stamp is from the SU Tiny Tags set
and punched out with the SU Tag punch.
I am soooo excited!!!Rach has just rung me to say we've got tickets to do a workshop with Tim Holtz in February. I think I might have burst her hear drums how loud I screamed with excitment!!!

Thanks for looking!!
xxxxDebxxxx

Dust Off Your Templates !!!

I normally go shopping with my Mom and sister on a Monday but my sister is heavily pregant (due on Thursday) and had to go for a scan to check on things,so I decided to do some scrapping instead. Lea and her friend Theresa have got together and started a new challenge blog called Scrapbookers Anonymous,it's a challenge blog with a difference,they encourage you to use things you haven't used for a while,what a great idea!.The first challenge is to dust off those templates and use them on your project,I'm sure if your not a scrapbooker you can still take part with a card,so please take a look and support them with their very first challenge.
Here's my entry.

I used the In Stitchz by Bazzill templates for the square and circle,I sewed around the circle but left the square with just the pin holes.The papers are The Girls Paperie and October Afternoon,I splattered some blue,red and yellow TA Glimmer Mist over the white cardstock.I can't believe it,I haven't used flowers!!!
My friend Rach has tried to get us tickets tonight for a Tim Holtz class in February at LB Crafts we won't know for a couple of days whether we are successful or not so keep your fingers crossed for us.I will be so excited if we do get to go !!!

Thank you for leaving all your lovely comments,I appreciate every one.
xxxxDebxxxx

Sketchabilities #25

I printed these photo's of me,my husband and our girls to use at  Bromsgrove Crop but didn't end up using them on the day.While I was blog hopping the other day I came across a sketch blog called Sketchabilities, they have got some amazing sketches and decided to use their most recent sketch which was perfect for the photo's.
I only took my point and shoot camara on holiday so the photo's aren't very good quality but I love them as we don't have many photo's of us altogether.

The yellow background paper was from a Scrapagogo kit and the all the other papers are Prima.I used  Nestabilities to cut out the circle and label shapes.All the flowers are Prima,the large flower tucked under the photo's was sprayed with TA Cotton Candy Chalkboard and then stamped with SU French Filligree background stamp.
I'd just like to share my day out I had yesterday at the Ludlow Food Festival which is held in the castle grounds.I had such a good day with family and friends,the weather held out for us and there was plenty of food,drink and laughter.We go every year and it just gets bigger and better every year.

Thanks for stopping by.
xxxDebxxx

CCCB - Week 21 - "One For The Boys"

The very talented Ros is this week's host over at City Crafter Challenge Blog and has choose to do "One For The Boys" which is very handy as I've got my Nephew and Brother's Birthday in the next month.The challenge is to do a masculine project using one or all of the colours in this beautiful photo by Leslie at A Creative Mint.

My first card is using Tim Holtz papers and a New York Yellow Cab chipboard shape from Tattered Angel which I inked with Mustard Seed and Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Here's the card for my Nephew's 4th Birthday who's a cute little monster!!! The papers are from Sassafrass.

TFL
xxxxDebxxxx

Thank You,Ros

I would like to thank the lovely Ros for my 'Friendly Blogger Award'.I am very honoured that she see's me as her friend.

June Lanum designed this award and would like it passed on to others. So I'm passing  this award on to some of my lovely friends.

Libby

Lisa

Rach

Lea

Back soon.
xxxxDebxxxx

The Shabby Tea Room Week #26 - "Tag Your It"

This week's challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room, is " Tag Your It" so as the title hints,you have to use a tag on your card or project. I don't know how they keep coming up with these wonderful challenges and the gorgeous cards the DT create every week.
I missed last week's challenge because I wasn't well but I'm so glad I could take part this week as I love making tags.Here's my card for this week's challenge.

Supply List

Papers- K&Co
Dressmakers Dummy-B line Designs
Eau de Cologne-B Line Designs
Sentiment and Frame- Stampin Up

Thanks for stopping by!
xxxxDebxxxx

Sketchy Thursdays 9.02 Sketch Challenge

I  haven't had a chance to play along with Sketchy Thursdays for sometime,it's been a busy few weeks with summer holidays and other things going on but I took this week's sketch to the crop to use for inspiration.

Apart from the three class LO's I did at Saturdays crop I only got two of my own done,here's the one using the sketch.

A very simple layout using The Girls Paperie papers,a Basic Grey rub-on and a few buttons.

Back Soon!!!
xxxxDebxxxx

Best Crop Ever!!!

Sorry I haven't been about this week,I haven't felt to well and haven't done any crafting at all. I do feel a lot better now and was well enough to go to Bromsgrove Cropaganza yesterday and what a fantastic day we all had!
We had a full house which was great and it was nice to see some new faces as well as the regular crew.Everyone I spoke to after thought it was the best crop we've had,thanks to Libby and all her hard work in organising everything,we really do appreciate it,also thanks to Jon who went and collected our lunch from the local butchers,which was some lovely hot pork baps. Morag Cutts taught three classes throughout the day which were fab everyone loved the LO's she did.My friend Kerry came along for the first time and I was so glad she enjoyed it,she fitted right in with the crazy gang and wants to come every month so we obviously didn't scare her off.
Here are my three class LO's,all the photo's were from our holiday in Gozo this year and this is why I scrap to preserve all these wonderful,fun memories.

Me and my friend Karen having a glass of Pimms before dinner.

The gang having a drink at Uncle Teds bar.

Me and my beautiful girls ready for a night out.

The classes took up most of the day but I did manage to do another couple of layout's in the evening. Here's the first one I did using Websters Pages and plenty of Prima flowers,I tucked some brown tulle under the ripped paper to give a bit of extra dimension.

Jodie and Hannah at the Feast of Santa Marija.

I will show you my other layout in my next post,I need to add a title yet,I'm hopeless at thinking of titles and can never think of anything very original or clever.Does anybody else struggle with titles like I do? Hopefully I will get more crafting done this week but I am trying to have a big sort out in my craft room. I really have got far to much and as I'm tidying I'm finding things I'd forgotten I had even bought.

TFL
xxxxDebxxxx