Christmas food time..

 Well it's the 1st August and time for a new challenge over at

Sparkles Christmas Challenge.

 Dawn has chosen the theme of:

'Christmas Food'

For my card I used some Hunkydory products from a past Christmas collection.

We'd love to see you over at Sparkles Christmas Challenge 

as all the teamies have created some inspiring creations to give you a great start to your Christmas crafting.

Challenges:

Dream valley challenges -298-christmas-in-july

Christmas-craft-creations-july-challenge-anything-goes

Creative knockouts challenge 499-christmas-in-july

 Here's hoping you're all keeping well. I took last month off from the design team due to my right arm playing up again and feeling abit yuk. 

The weather is still quite strange isn't it but hey ho.... I've had a fair few tomatoes and cucumbers from the greenhouse. Went to see the new Mission Impossible film at the cinema which was really good finished off with a nice meal at Ask. My Dad came to stay for a week too which was really nice. He helped me in the greenhouse alot and we enjoyed a nice meal out locally too and a few shopping trips. 

Take care.

Big hugs Debs xxx

Christmas Trees

 Well it's the 1st June and time for a new challenge over at

Sparkles Christmas Challenge and Heather has chosen the theme of:

'Trees'

For my card I used my new tree die that I found on Amazon, There is no stamping on here which is unusual for me but I had a great time creating it with an old backing paper, card snippets for my trees and a previously printed computer sentiment.

Hope everyone is doing well. The weather seems to have cooled this week but it's still nice to see everything growing outside. I have treated myself to a greenhouse, so my hubby has been working hard putting it together and strengthening it. What a clever guy. Myself and my daughter Shannen have planted tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, cucumbers, kale, rocket and potatoes so here's hoping!

I love the garden as well as my crafting so it's so nice to potter doing the things I love when I can.

Challenges:

Dream valley challenges-295-anything-goes.

pixies snippets playground challenge-455 - backing paper and trees cut out of snippets.

christmas-craft-creations May challenge reminder no stamping

Thanks for popping by as always, I love to read your comments. I can't believe we are halfway through the year already.... Take care

Hugs Debbie xxx

Sleigh time

 Well it's the 1st May and time for a new challenge over at

Sparkles Christmas Challenge and Debbie has chosen the theme of:

'Include a Sleigh'

so I grabbed my Sheena stamps, inks, a stencil from my stash and promarkes and had fun. We'd love you to join in with us, so why not get ahead with your Christmas makes and pop by.

Take care and I''ll see you all soon

Hugs Debs xxx

Christmas Presents/Parcels

 Hello,

It's the 1st April, so time for a new challege over at Sparkles Christmas challenge 

and Caz has chosen the theme: 'Christmas Presents/Parcels'

We'd love to see your creations, so why not join in with us.

For my card i stamped some presents using my Inky Doodles stamps, my Clearly Besotted setiment stamps and a 'From the heart digistamp. All coloured with pencils.

Challenges:

digi choosday wk-12-anything-goes

cards galore challenge april-2023-challenge-110-anything goes

creative fingers challenge challenge-251-anything goes

It's been a weird few weeks with the weather but I'm loving all the Spring shoots and flowers popping up. 

Everything is fine here. Hope you're all keeping well. This month I've had my hair cut & coloured, my nails done and used a Christmas voucher to get a facial, which was heaven. So a pampering month.... I have just booked to go to see my Dad in Scotland on the 4th April for just under a week so that'll be nice.

Take care, Hugs Debbie xx

Stay cosy!

 Hello,

It's 1st March now..... so the theme this month is: 

Warm Winter Clothes 

                            (could be Santa's clothing, mittens, xmas jumpers                          scarves etc..)

chosen by me!

So why not get prepared and join in with us over at Sparkles Christmas .

I rooted through my stamps for winter warmers and came up with this Tag card.

For my card I used some magazine freebie stamps and a Polkadoodles gloves stamp. I spent ages looking for the jumper stamp but I found it at the last minute phew... So frustrating when you misplace something... Grr... I coloured the stamps in with pencils and used a snowflake stencil in the background.

Challenges:

trimmies craft challenge-668-christmas

Creative fingers challenge-249-anything goes

We love to create -anything mixed media goes

February has been a steady month here. I've made a few cards, been to see 'Plane' at the cinema starring Gerard Butler which was fab followed by a meal out at Castleford Xscape and otherwise just pottered about at home.

Hope you're all well.

Thanks for popping by.

Big hugs Debbie x

Love

 Hi all,

I just wanted to pop on and share the card I made for my hubby for Valentines day. I'd seen an idea on pinterest and thought I'd have a go. Hubby doesn't like fussy cards, mind you what man does?

I used some of my cardio stamps once I'd embossed my stencil and inked it with my distress inks. The sentiment stamps were in my stash and the Love die.

Challenges:

cutie pie challenge-179-theme-hearts-flowers

crafters cafe blog challenge 294-cute

as you like it challenge-favourite-stencil-or-freestyle(this is 1 of my favourite stencils as the hearts are so effective and by embossing the stencil it makes them pop even more. Stencils are so adaptive and you can just use a part of them or the whole thing.)

we love stamping-february-challenge- anything stamped and add a stencil(optional)

sir stampalot challenge february-challenge-anything stamped (option of sketch)

Hope you're all well. It's been a mix of sunshine and showers here, glad I had my raincoat on for walkies today. It's lovely seeing all the spring flowers popping up too.

Take care

Thanks for popping to see me.

Hugs Debs xx

Non traditional colour Christmas

 Hello,

Well that's January over and it's 1st February now..... so the theme this month is: Non-traditional Colour chosen by the lovely Helen. 

So why not get prepared and join in with us over at Sparkles Christmas . 

For my card I used a 'Sheena' ivy stencil, distress inks, a word die and a freebie ivy stamp. Nice to make a different card shape for a change. Really enjoyed playing.

Challenges:

cards galore challenges february-2023-anything goes

abc christmas challenge- a is for anything christmas goes-challenge-b-are-for (anything Christmas goes for my card)

creative fingers challenge -247-anything goes

lil patch of crafty friends-anything goes

January has been a productive month here. I've made a few cards, 1 was a commission, have gone to see friends and a few friends have been to visit me and a lovely Sunday lunch at the local pub - very nice. Hope you've all had a good January.

Thanks for popping by.

Big hugs Debbie x