Watching you at the window...

Oh I do love animal prints, this one is from a Joanna Sheen CD with a little glitter on the vines creeping up the shutters... It reminds me of my little Yorkie looking out the window at everything and everyone passing. I used card stock, backing papers from my stash of printed papers and card and the greeting is from my Polka doodles  Double sprinkles of Kraft CD . I found this piece of lace in my sewing box, must have been my Mothers as I have never bought this one.. so on went my liquid pearl dots in pink. I made a few of the flowers using paper ready made daisy like flowers, just folding them in half and a quarter to make a double flower.  I used my Promarkers to go round the edges of my paper to give it a bit of a shadow and a faux mat a layer.. 

Thanks for looking.

A card for a few challenges...

Hi Everyone I made this card for a few challenges that I have been meaning to enter for a while, so here it is....



I used backing papers, flowers and ribbon from my craft stash and an image from my Polkadoodles double sprinkles of Kraft CD which were coloured in using Promarkers. The words are from a transfer I got in a scrapbooking kit a few years ago. Its so nice to find a use for items that you have had for a while. I punched the leaves from a hand punch and used a die through my cuttlebug to cut my image giving it a nice oblong size. I also used pink little gems and a large clear gem on the centre of the ribbon. The card stock was also from a kit which had already been die cut.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Southern Girls Challenge - Anything goes.

http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/

Charisma Cardz Challenge - Pink and Green.

http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/06/charisma-cardz-24-pink-and-green.html

Totally Pater Crafts Challenge 71 - Die cuts and punches

http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/2011/06/challge-71-die-cuts-and-punches.html

Thanks for looking.

Winter Wonderland Christmas flower Challenge

http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/06/christmas-flowers.html

Morning Everyone and a Happy Sunday to you all. Even though it is a dull and wet day, we really need the rain and its a good excuse to spend the day crafting.

I have collected so much christmas stash that I have decided that this year I will use my current stash up before buying anymore and that is a challenge on its own, the not buying bit I mean! As I am unemployed at the moment I have to turn my pennies over a few times and justify my spend so this is a great way to keep up with my crafting without feeling pinched. (its a good things most of us are hoarders as its come in handy I can tell you).

Enough of that and onto my challenge.

I used a dark cream card  in a 8x8 size, some cream glitter card and some backing papers from about 2 Christmas's ago, the flowered background, and the other is the actual flower which I cut out and 3D, I put a little red glitter on the petals as I believe Christmas cards need glitter to bring them alive! I also used on the corners my Martha Stewart snowflake corner stamp with some red gems and bits inside the snowflakes.

Now back to crafting!

RAK cards I've sent so far

June Card

May Card

April Card

My recent baking session -

Hi Everyone,

Thought I would share with you my first attempt at Pop making, (thats a small round cake ball on a lolly stick). what fun it was making them, even though the meter man came in the middle while I was dipping a pop into the candy covering to read my meters which are inside my Kitchen. (The candy covering is really yummy).

I would love making this as a business as its got so much scope and also you can send it anywhere really.

I sent out and gave out most of the pops to friends and family to taste and test the posting packaging and they were all received well and eaten very quickly!

Gone a bit Polka Doodles Double Sprinkles.....

I recently bought the Double Sprinkles of Kraft CD from Polka Doodles as I have always admired Nicky's images and with the promarkers that I recently got, needed some tutorials on how to use them, so have printed out a few sheets to do some colouring in and these are the very first of the tutorials that I have managed to do today before my little Yorkie decided that my lap was where she wanted to lay her head and have a snooze. so hence me working on my laptop uploading. lol

A Card from my Mother

My Mother who lives in South Africa, has just recently taken to card making with a little help from me.  When she came over for a holiday she brought me this birthday card which she made herself. I had explained over the phone how she could make the flowers from a stash that I had left with her when I visited her a few years ago, so I am so proud of her with this card, its really her first card she has ever made me... I have sent her back with so much craft stash and also all of the stash I won on Creations by Gills blog a while ago and she is just going craft made. She has learnt a lot while over here and up is the only way she is going. Look forward to more cards handmade by my Mum!

My RAK card received.

I am sorry for being so long in putting these cards onto my blog. No excuses just never put my card up, so today is the day. (Becky,Karey and Margaret, please forgive me).

My April card was from Becky and its such a lovely card and I just loved the information inside explaining what everything on the card stood for. Thank you Becky.http://creationsbygillm.blogspot.com/2011/04/rak-card-swap-club-is-now-underway.html

My May card was from Karey - a lovely all pink card with butterflies that have double wings and stick up - love it ~ thank you and yes I am enjoying being part of the RAK club.http://creationsbygillm.blogspot.com/2011/05/rak-card-swap-club-for-may-is-underway.html

My June card arrived  and what another lovely card from Margaret with a lovely message about herself and who has not been making card for very long. Margaret this card is very nicely made and just love the glitter on the poppies. Thank you. In answer to your question about my hobbies, well if its out there, I want to try it so I have had my hand at many things including needlework, knitting, and other wool/yarn crafts, papercraft, cooking, jewllery making (not very good yet) mad about gardening and love my doggies. So I could keep myself very broke and busy with all these things. (hahaha) http://creationsbygillm.blogspot.com/2011/06/rak-club-card-swap-for-june.html

Oh what a week

Hi Everyone, Well what a week, I have my Parents visiting and we are travelling around the UK visiting Family, unfortunately 4 days into this holiday my Father had a stroke, which gave my Mother and I a big fright, it was not immediately evident that he was having a stroke, all these TV adverts dont really give you  all the help as his face was not that effected. The stroke affected the speech part of his brain and the right side of his body. Being in a strange place I have to praise the holiday cottage that I am staying in ( It takes up to 2 dogs) had a file with all the important information that you would need including the full address of the place. I phone 999 and got such good response and the Ambulance folk were excellent. The Dorsett County Hospital were also exellent and with them having to use travel insurance as they do not live here, that went through without any problem. Thankfully he is a very determined person, he could not talk at all on Monday night when it happened and by the next day was able to talk some, his right hand and leg are not completely 100%, his writing is not too good and he cant sign his signature, which seems to irritate him and he is always trying to sign....Thankfully he is now out of hospital, but our holiday is really not going to be as we want, we are off again on our travels tomorrow, and as I am the only one driving will have to consider stopping to make sure he gets a bit of a rest from the car and my little dogs have a walk. We are constantly on edge now looking for anything that may go wrong, also he is not allowed to stress etc so my Mother is fussing all the time. It will be nice to get back to my own place and be on my own with my craft and my life. I was unable to bring craft with me due to space limits.

So I will not be submitting much for the next week or so.

I hope you all had a good day today watching Kate and Will marry, weren't they sweet

Debbie T

Card # 3

Another Oh la la image from some printed images that I did from the CD. I have glittered the roses on the topper and used a pearlised grey card and dark red ribbon with some paper rose buds. The inside has a insert with the same image.

 

Thats all for tonight, its back to the knitting. Thanks for stopping by.