Flamingo birthday 🦩

Creating and personalising cards for people I know (and don’t know) is part of the pleasure I believe. It’s not just about creating for the sake of creating it’s about making someone’s day and about making them smile. The card I’m sharing today was for a really good friend of mine.

I chose to use the Pink Ink Flamingo from their Wings Series of stamps. I stamped the gorgeous flamingo in kitsch flamingo (what else??) distress oxide onto a piece of watercolour card that was already in my stash from where I’d been making backgrounds with Brusho. I wanted a mat that wouldn’t take away from the focal point, but nothing I had seemed to work. So looking through my stash a saw a roll of washi tape. I used the washi tape wrapped over the edge of the card so that it was thinner and am amazed I’ve not thought of it before. I think it’s a fabulous way to frame the image!

The stamp set comes with other stamps like the flower and the crown so I utilised these too in my design. I am really pleased with the end result and hope it’s inspired you!

Happy crafting!

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Sleepy bear Christmas

I’m back making another Christmas card again in March…. It is cold enough to make me think its the right time of year for Christmas. Maybe next month it will be warmer?

For the DT challenge this week the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #670 is All Dressed Up (ADU). The theme this week is “Christmas”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

• Digital image from ADU
• High tack glue
• Base card – 300gsm
• Coloured pencils
• Glamour dust
• Background paper
• Pencil and paper stumps for shading
• Sentiment strip

I love this digital image and have used it before. It doesn’t take much colouring, but is coloured with coloured pencils and cut to a square topper. It helps that polar bears are white I guess!! I’ve chosen some subtle colours which tone in with the background paper that the image is matted onto. To add some sparkle to the image (as it is Christmas) I used a quickie glue pen and some glimmer dust.

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read your comments. Please let me know whether this has inspired you!

Debbie x

let it snow

Hello friends. I know, I know. We all want better weather here in the UK and I’m talking about snow!! I’m back making Christmas cards again for this challenge, but actually having to make Christmas cards through the year for the challenges is helpful as then you have actually made some when it gets to December.

For the DT challenge this week the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #666 is DRS Designs. The theme this week is “winter”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

• Digital image
• High tack glue
• Base card – 300gsm
• Coloured pencils
• Tumbled glass distress ink
• Snowflake border die
• Cream shiny paper

I combined an image and a sentiment from our sponsor. The digital image is coloured with coloured pencils and cut to a square topper. I’ve then inked some shiny paper with distress ink so that it takes on a blue colour before die cutting this with a snowflake border die.

The snowflake border was cut 4 times and stuck down so that it was off the edge and framing the image. This was then mounted onto some inked card and added to the base card.

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments. Please let me know whether this has inspired you!

Debbie x

Inspired by a song 🎵

Hi everyone. I hope you all had a good festive season however you celebrated. It’s now a new year full of new challenges and new inspiration! Hopefully you can take a look at older posts and find inspiration there too. Since this challenge is about being inspired it’s fitting that this is my first challenge for the year and has the theme “inspired by a song”.

So I chose the song “flowers” by Sweet Female Attitude and it is also my mums birthday this week so I chose this for her. She can’t have real flowers due to her allergies, but she does like them.

For the DT challenge this week the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #664 is All Dressed Up (ADU). The theme this week is “inspired by a song”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

• Digital image
• High tack glue
• Base card – 300gsm
• Coloured pencils
• Backing paper
• An edging die to add the border to the topped

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments. Please let me know whether this has inspired you!

Debbie x

Rudolf fun card!

Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. I saw a post today to say that it’s only 2 weeks until we start opening out advent calendars!

For the DT challenge this week the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #658 is The Cutting Cafe. The theme this week is “for the children”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

This week I chose to use this 3D rudolf card cutting file. The file has a trap door on the inside of the card so that the cup can be refilled! There are videos on the website which show you how to make the projects up so go and check them out!

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

• Digital cutting files (svg) – but this comes in PDF if you don’t have an electronic cutting machine
• High tack glue
• White card for the base – 300gsm
• Red card
• Acetate
• Snowflake card
• 2 colours of brown card
• 1 gingham bow

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.

Debbie x

Chrysanthemum skull, fuchsia and backgrounds.

Hi there, and thank you for stopping by. Today sees Stamp Addicts back on tv and these are some of my samples I’ve made for the show. You’ll also find these on Instagram @d_e_crafts so I hope you’ll follow my creativity and leave a message!

Chrysanthemum skull

The chrysanthemum skull rubber stamp is a deeply etched and as you’ll see it’s very detailed. I’ve used distress inks here to watercolour this image and have added a second layer which is raised as you’ll see below.

In the background you’ll also see the background which is “porcelain”, stamped in black onto grey water-coloured ink.

Another sample with the porcelain background is this one:

Porcelain background

More of the skulls and also some of the sentiments from Stamp Addicts

Chrysanthemum skull with lace border

The other stamp for this show is a fuchsia and this one also features another background “papyrus”. For this image I’ve cut several layers of the flower and decoupaged it up to give it some depth.

The last card below also uses the papyrus background as well as some keys which are also Stamp Addicts rubber stamps. Instead of stamping the papyrus as one whole background this time I’ve inked a section and used that section to fill the card from. This gives a more random pattern.

I hope you liked the stamps and the samples. Let me know if you have any questions and I’m happy to let you know what I’ve used and answer any questions.

Thanks for stopping by!

Autumn days duplicity

Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. The trees are getting colourful and the weather is changing so autumn is definitely here!

For the DT challenge this week the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #656 is Sheepski Designs. The theme this week is “Autumn/Halloween/”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

This week I chose to use my distress oxide inks and a Dylusions mica spray. I chose an image called “Duplicity” – for some reason I’m drawn to skulls and butterflies! I printed this image out twice so that I could decoupage a second layer for the rose and butterflies. The parts that are layered I gave also added the mica spray onto so that they stand out against the main image.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

• Digital image from Sheepski Designs
• Distress Oxide inks (see above image for colours)
• High tack glue
• Silicone glue
• Card base – 300gsm
• Metallic card mat

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.

Debbie x

Just for you

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by again! The sponsor for this challenge is TPS. Each week we invite you to join us at the Through the craft room door blog, the theme is always anything goes!

I printed out the digital image and had some peach coloured card which was in my stash which coordinated with the image so this is what I used for the large mat and for stamping the sentiment words onto. To make the green in the image pop a little more, I also used a green mat which I cut with a stamp die. Between the green and peach mats I felt it needed something kind of lacy, but none of my lacy dies seemed right!

Can you guess what I used instead of lace?? The cream lacy parts were 2 peacocks that o had already cut in cream card in my stash. I hope you’ll agree that they look fabulous on this card.

Here is a summary of the materials:

• 300gsm card base
• Image from TPS
• 2 cream did cut peacocks
• Peach card
• Green card
• Rectangle stamp die

As always, I hope that you like the card. It’s lovely to see that you’ve stopped by to leave a comment. Thank you.

Debbie

Gifting stationary

Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. So this week I have managed to get Covid again (2nd time) so I’m glad I had my project prepared in advance for another DT challenge. The sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #654 is The Cutting Cafe. The theme this week is “Gift box/bag”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

As you can see I’ve chosen a gift box. The stationary box set comes as either PDF’s or SVG’s so that you can either print and cut out with scissors or digitally cut out the pieces. Either way you can see that it’s a fabulous gift set. There’s a base and lid to the box with various apertures. I chose this one as it was an interesting shape and added some acetate into the window.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

• Digital cutting files/PDFs from The Cutting Cafe
• High tack glue
• Grey spotted box base card plus white card blanks – 300gsm
• Distress oxide inks, stamps, washi tape and papers to decorate the cards and envelopes.

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.

Debbie x

Male 40th

Hello there and welcome to my blog!

Birthday cards are the ones we all make more than other cards, and male cards are always more tricky. So here is a male card for a 40th birthday that I made recently.

For a big birthday I wanted to make something more special so I made a shaker card. The base of the card has some stamping on it in distress oxides (walnut stain and wild honey). On top of the card are some die cut cogs which coordinate with the card inside the shaker.

Thank you for stopping by!