Boo

Back again with a tag made for the new challenge over at Ruby's Rainbow and the theme has been chosen by the lovely Jennifer which is:

 

'Halloween or the colours-purple,orange & black'

 

I made the tag with a 'forever friends' image from a calendar. papers, letters & silver wire from my stash.

I love forever friends so had to use this image.

 

Challenges:

delicious doodles challenge-59-halloween-something-scary

creative card crew.challenge-48-teddy-bear-picnic

crafts 4 eternity-happy-halloween

 

We'd love to see your creations and have you joining in with us so see you there.

Have a lovely day.

 

Hugs Debbie x

Autumn Fun

Good morning,
Is it feeling more like Autumn to you today.It certainly felt it yesterday in Arbroath.It was sunny though and a chill in the air.

It's time for a new challenge over at Nutcrafters and it's Katie's turn to choose the theme which is:
'Autumn'
I've used a nutcrafters Autumn breeze digital stamps for my card coloured with pencils.The backing paper is from my stash and I've used my tree embossing folder too.

Challenges

heck of a challenge october-challenge-autumn-colours

paper-craftingjourneyanything-goes

allsorts challenge-230-treemendous

Hope you're all okay.Big hugs to you all.

Love Debs x

Shabby Chic New Home card

Hi,

Here's a card I made for my daughter Shannen to celebrate here moving into her first place. Saw an idea on Pinterest and it inspired me.All the papers were funky hand, the ribbon was from the ribbon girls, charms from my stash.I added some roses,letters,inked some doilies and used my brick embossing folder inked with distress inks.

Hope you like it.This is my take on shabby chic.

On Thursday I had a busy day of washing, tidying out my craft cupboard and my 12 year old nephew Logan came in theafternoon to craft and spend some time with me before he goes back home to   Scotland. We had a fab time.He made 2 cards.One for his Mum and one for his friend's birthday so

I'll pop them on my blog when he take some pics.He brought some opal fruits whoops... Starbursts for us to snack on.Each wrapper had something on that we had to try,we had such a laugh.One was to balance 5 sweets on top of our heads.....very interesting.

challenges:
natalie and amy challenge-13-shabby-chic
Crafty cardmakers-shabby-chic
Paula holifield crafts-little-bit-shabby
abc-challenge x-for-xtra-special.
acreativeromance.metal-mania

I travelled back up to Scotland yesterday with my Sister Karen, her hubby Andy and my nephew Logan as my Auntie Pat has got a limited time left and my Mum needs me for support.It was a good journey and I read and chatted most the way with them all.I dropped coffee down myself in the car I smelled lovely when I arrived.We arrived to a lovely roast pork dinner.Mmmmm .....

Have a super day whatever you're up to.It's a beautiful sunny day here in Arbroath.Thanks for popping by. With coming away so suddenly I never got my candy posted up so apologies.

love Debs x

Lots of layers midway reminder

Morning all,

Well it's time for a little reminder about the ongoing challenge over at Nutcrafters.So get out your crafting goodies and use a Nutcrafters-freebie .There are some fab freebies there so why not use them as there are prizes on offer too. 

I've used one of the new soon to be released 'Young at heart' digital stamps. Coloured with spectrum noirs and promarkers.The paper, button, ribbon, glitter and distress ink are all from my stash. Remember to pop over and see what the rest of the teamies have made.

Challenges:
crafting when we can challenge-55-make-it-sparkle
the squirrel and the fox challenge-55-pink-for-breast-cancer
Stampin for the weekend - anything-goes
allsorts challenge week-229-ribbons-and-bows
party time tuesdays - ptt143-glitter (glitter on the necklace, hair bow & handbag)
My Sister and her family came to see us today which was nice. I even cooked some 'pepper & tomato soup' for lunch. They are staying with my Dad until Friday then they'll be going home back up to Scotland. I'm hoping to get some crafting time with my nephew who's 12 today.The shrink plastic will be out I'm sure.

Thanks for popping by.Have a nice day.

Love Debs x

Spooky card

It's Saturday so what are you all up to.

I'm laid on the sofa having a good rest as I was feeling a bit yuk. Mind you I did do some ironing and my floors yesterday so my body is probably in shock - HOUSEWORK!!!!! Popped to Tesco this morning to pick up my Simply Cards mag and it wasn't in - very sad..... It was heaving in there too.I only wanted a few bits but offered to get my Mum in law some shopping with her being laid up after her hip operation - now I know the reason I get my shopping delivered - IT'S EASY ... Luckily Shannen came with me to give me a hand, otherwise I would never have managed then we popped up the road to drop them off and to see how she was doing.

Anyway enough of my waffling, here's a spooky card I made a couple of days ago.Hubby helped me by drawing the spiders web with my white sakura pen.I tried to do one with my silver thread but he thought it was rubbish - which it was.The spiders etc are from my Polkadoodles 'sundae of season' cdrom printed and cut out.

I also used my distress ink to colour the base card orange.

Challenges:

polkadoodle week-41-halloween

incy wincy designs halloween

papertake weekly happy-halloween-hues

oldie but a goodie challenge spooky

crafty calendar challenge-october challenge - halloween

sparkles forum challenge-49-halloween-or-colours

Well enough lounging about, teatime.... Bye for now.

Love Debs x 

Shabby Saturday Wordbook

Morning all,

I'm posting today to show you an older download from funkyhand called shabby-saturday. 

It's so nice to re-visit an older download as you soon forget how lovely and usable it is. 

I decided to make a word book for my Great Auntie Pat who is in a hospice to remind her that we're all thinking about and love her to bits. We had taken some pics while I was in Scotland to record our time with her which I popped inside.

Here is  a pic of this lovely download:You can get it here.

All the funkettes are showcasing this fantastic download so why not pop to the Get funky and craft blog and see what they've all been making.The letters are so easy to cut out out as are the flowers. I decided to get some extra dimension with the flowers by popping one on top of the other. 

We'll be showing another download next month so keep your eyes peeled. 

Challenges:
crafty catz weekly challenge 203-gift-to-remember
the crafting cafe - anything-goes
cute daisy may spots-and-dots
milk coffee challenge spots-and-dots-challenge

Have a super day whatever you're up to.

Love Debs x

Cute as a button

Here I am again with the new challenge over at Ruby's Rainbow and the theme is:

'Buttons'

So get those buttons out and join in with us.

As you can see I used a button stamp with distress inks and embossed them with clear and white embossing powder.I hung some Prima buttons (a present from my friend Sheila) on some bakers twine, matted and layered a sentiment sticker and added some wooden buttons. Quite different for me but I wanted to experiment. 

We'd love to see what you make and please feel free to pop over and see what the rest of the ladies have made.

Challenges:
dream valley challenge-67-buttons
ladybugs crafts ink challenge-anything goes
stampin for the weekend - anything-goes

That's all from me today.Have a good day whatever you're up to. I'm hoping to get some time to craft at last.

Hugs Debs x 

Lots of Layers

Morning,

It's the lovely Jo's time to pick a theme for the next challenge over at Nutcrafters which is:

'Lots of Layers'

Here's my take on the theme using docrafts paper pad and the 'Young at Heart' digital stamp set including the sentiment which is yet to be released, so a sneaky peak for you all.I used promarkers and spectrum noirs to colour the images.

So why not pop over and see what the rest of the girlies have made and join in with us and have a chance to win.

Main Prize...

To spend in the Nutcrafters store...

Remember you have to use a Nutcrafters image to qualify for this prize!!

2nd Prize...

2 Digi stamps or 1 stamp sheet of your choice from Nutcrafters...(subject to availability) 

Challenges
stampin for the weekend - anything-goes
scribble and scrap crafts challenge-3-always-anything-goes
bearly mine-challenge-108-anything-goes
creative craft challenges 2 challenge-21-anything-goes-blogaversary

Hope you're all well. I had a day in yesterday as I'd popped to see my Dad on Monday and did a few jobs for him.While I was flicking a duster around the living room singing to the 'Military Wives cdrom' I saw a deer - so cute. My Dad sees them all the time living on the farm but it's been ages since I have.

Hoping to get some crafting in today once the shopping has been delivered.

I'll be back in an hour.

Love Debs x

Funky Sunday!!!

Evening all,

I did mean to post earlier but it's been a busy couple of days.Do you ever have those days where you start turfing out your cupboards but wish you' d never started.That was me yesterday...... Thought I'd get a head start on the packing so bagged a lot of stuff.Got a nice tidy wardrobe now.

Also had the people coming round today who've bought our house so we've been tidying up.it went ok.It's been a miserable weekend but I'm feeling much better since my tumble.

Here's a card I made using the new download funkyhand boys-will-be-boys. It's has a fab array of papers that can be used for other occasions, not just for boys.In this instance I've made a boys card.

I used only the papers.The words were from one of the sheets and so were the arrows.I just cut them out.I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

Challenges:

the sisterhood of crafters its-anything-goes-time

the male room challenge blog transport-andor-travel

the crafting cafe anything-goes

sister act card challenge-28 - anything goes

That's all from me tonight.Hope you've all had a good weekend. Thanks for popping by.Keep an eye out as I'll be posting up some more candy very soon.

Love Debs x

Shannen's 19 today!!!

Morning all,

Well today is,my daughter Shannen's 19th birthday, so happy birthday darling. 19 phew! where do the years go? Here's the card I made for her:

I just had to use some pics of her dressed up as one of the pink ladies for a recent hen night.Can't beat lots of hot pink and black too.

Challenges:

divas by design challenge- 3-or-more-layers

sister act card challenge-27 anything goes

fab n funky challenges music-challenge-188-its-all-rocknroll - Songs from Grease ' Your the one that I want'

southern girls challenge - sing-sing-song-sing-out-loud - 'Your the one that I want'(songs from Grease)

Here's a few pics of when she was little - she won't be embarassed of course!!!!!! hee hee!

Still adorable - well she has her moments of course.

I'd like to thank you all for your lovely comments yesterday about my fall etc - bless you all.So kind.Still a little fragile, achey and bruised but I'm getting there.It was a hectic day at home yesterday as my baby girl was moving all her furniture etc into her new home that she's sharing with a friend. They've got a lovely house in the village so she's not far away.Popped to have a peak yesterday afternoon - it was a little chaotic.

Hope you're all ok and having a nice day today, even if it is a little chilly.Thanks for popping by.I am slowly getting around everyone and commenting.

Big crafty hugs

Debbie x

Santa's wash day...

Hi,

I'm here with the midway reminder which is over at Nutcrafters and the theme is:

'SHOW OFF YOUR COLORING SKILLS'
(use a hand colored image).

There are freebies on the blog and prizes on offer.So pop over and join in with us, as well as seeing what the rest of the fabulous teamies have created.

I've used the soon to be released Santa digi stamp - coloured with promarkers and spectrum noirs. I embossed his beard & clothing, added embossed grass mask, added dew drops, freebie papers & die cut marianne designs snowflakes.

Challenges:

christmas cards all year round - october-challenge - Getting ready for xmas

crafting musketeers - challenge-6-christmas

Had an eventful few days and not always in a good way.Popped shopping with my daughter on Monday and got a parking ticket as I'd set my disabled badge clock an hour ahead - gutted. Going to try and appeal. Met up for coffee and cake with my M.E group friends which was nice but the parking ticket had upset and stressed me out quite abit. 

Yesterday I fell over in my living room and my iron fell on the carpet and singed it - GREAT. Hurt all my left side.Managed to lift the iron up but the damage had already been done - might have to ring the insurance company as I've sold the house and can't leave it in this state....Grrrr.... I am so clumsy - I couldn't get up off the floor so hubby had to rescue me. Upset again. Poor fella got me to the sofa, made me a coffee and told me to rest.

Today can only be a better day I am hoping.

Big hugs Debbie x

Tag time with Funkyhand

Hi all,

It's little ole me with hopefully a nice bit of inspiration using the new Funkyhand craft download of boys will be boys

Well what do you think of the delicious new Bot fire away digital stamp and fab papers????  Aren't they brilliant!!!!!!! They are so bright and usable.

I got the downloads to play with the day before I went away to Scotland, so half an hour before I was due to jump in the car to travel to the train station I was madly printing off a few sheets to play with. 

I flung some:

bakers twine, 

buttons, 

glue, double sided tape, 

a ruler, scissors and the sheets in my case and off I went. 

To say I had limited supplies was an understatement but I managed to pull a few card and tag designs out of the bag in time for release. The only thing I needed was some colouring pencils which my Mum bought me.Even then I could have shaded them in with a pencil.

So here's my tags:

It just shows how you can produce something out of nothing with good designs and papers which Funkyhand do so well. It's nice to have the die cutting machines etc but it's just as good if you haven't. It makes you use your imagination and some good basic tools.

There is one thing I can't do without though and that's a good paper trimmer. I can't cut in a straight line for toffee - even if I am using a pencil line.I didn't even have a hole punch so I improvised.....

I might try something like this more often just to see what I can come up with. It's good to challenge ourselves once in a while.

Anyway why not have a play with your funkyhand downloads etc and either pop them over here at Get funky and craft, or go on to the Funky Hand Facebook page. We'd love to see what you all get up.So lets spread a little funkyhandness about.

Challenges:

creative card crew challenge-46-tag

creative craft challenges 20-anything-goes

the sisterhood of crafters - tag-you're-it

Hope you've had a good weekend.

Big crafty hugs

Debbie x

Autumn card

Morning,

It's time for a new challenge over at Ruby's Rainbow. It's time for the lovely Nick to choose the theme which is

'Autumn colours - use yellow,orange and turquoise.'

I made my card while I was at my Mums with a recently bought ink pad, cheap tree & leaves stamp,leaves from the garden, thread from my mums cross stitching and pot pouri.Amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it.I surprised myself how resourceful I could be.  Hope you likely....

So get your crafting goodies out and join in with us.We'd love you to pop over and see what the rest of the teamies have made too.

Challenges

allsorts challenge week-226-how-does-your-garden-grow - trees, leaves from the garden

delightful sketches weekly-challenge-happy-fall

one crazy stamper october-thankful autumn-challenge

dream valley challenge-66-autumn

heck of a challenge october-challenge-autumn-colours

Love Debs x

Lots of colouring

Here's my first post of the day to tell you all about the new challenge over at Nutcrafters. This time it's the lovely Audrey's turn to choose the theme which is:

'Use your colouring skills'

I used one of the new stamp sets called 'Dino days' which is lovely to colour with my promarkers and spectrum noirs.I added some funkyhand paper from my stash too.

As always there are prizes to win so why not join in with us as and pop over to see what beautiful creations everyone's made.There are freebies to use with Katie's compliments too.

We would like to see cards or projects using your 'Colouring Skills'

Main Prize

To spend in the Nutcrafters store...

Remember you have to use a Nutcrafters image to qualify for this prize!!

2nd Prize

2 Digi stamps or 1 stamp sheet of your choice from Nutcrafters...(subject to availability

Challenges:

The squirrel and the fox challenge-53-happy-birthday

crafty catz weekly challenge happy-birthday-to-us

pennys challenges -147-anything goes
paper-crafting journey - for-boy
papertake weekly anything-goes

I am now home from Scotland and trying to catch up with you all.i'll get there but it might take a little bit of time.

Have a super day whatever you are up to. Thank you for popping by to see me and for all your lovely comments as always.It makes my day.

Love Debs

Anything but a card

Hi everyone,

It's time for a new challenge over at Sparkles forum christmas and the theme is:

'Anything but a card'



So I made a wordbook with last years Christmas download winter-wonderland

You have a chance to win Di's Digi's $10 voucher

http://disdigidownloads.blogspot.com/

So why not be prepared and get your Christmas makes done early and pop over and join in with us as well as checking out what the rest of the talented teamies have made.

Challenges
divas by design challenge - monochrome
crafts 4 eternity-anything-goes
the paper shelter challenge-no-130-stitching-real-or-faux 

Sorry I've not been around much lately commenting etc..... I extended my stay with my Mum in Scotland as my Great Auntie Pat has gone into a Hospice.I stayed to give my Mum some support and to spend some time with Pat.She's comfortable, safe and quite happy now so that's all we want. I travel home today so please bear with me until I get myself back into the swing of things.

Love Debs x