Haberdashery with Debbi Moore Designs Stamping Magzine

Not only is the Shabby Chic collection of Debbi Moore Designs CDs one of my favourites, but also the Stamping magazine that follows is. It is needless to say how much I enjoy the free gifts that come with it.

The second edition is dedicated to a lovely new CD – HABERDASHERY that has appeared recently. It is all about lace and ribbons, threads and needles, buttons and thimbles.

As a result of reading the magazine and using the free gifts, I made these two similar, but different cards.

Mother’s Day Sunday

I love Sundays. They remind me of my parental home and my growing up. After all, they remind me of my Mother.  It would always be that lovely smell that would spread from the kitchen to wake us up on Sunday mornings. My brother and I would know that our Mother was there for us. 

And, she is still.  

Athough I live far away now, I can still ‘smell her presence’ on Sunday mornings.

 

Materials used for this card are:

• The Tale of Two Bad Mice – Beatrix Potter – stamps from Crafter’s Companion
• The Paintbox Poppets CD from Crafter’s Companion
• DO Crafts Digital Designer template
• Spectrum Noir pens from Crafter’s Companion
• Tim Holtz distress ink
• Some white cardstock
• Neenah card from Crafter’s Companion

Sweet Memories

Jane Shasky double CD from Joanna Sheen is one of my favourites. I always wondered why there were no any stamps. And, to my surprise, I found out that there were three stamp plates: Slice of Heaven, Sweet Memories and Relax & Enjoy.

This beautiful water can is from Sweet Memories. I simply stamped and water coloured the image. Then, I cut I out and layered with the rest of the elements.

Tools and elements used:

• White card,
• Tri-boss universal embossing folder – patchwork from DO crafts,
• A white card die cut doily,
• Tim Holtz ink stamp – aged mahogany, and
• Spray and Shine from Crafter’s Companion.

Boofle

It‘s been a while now that I receive regularly Boofle cards from my OH.  I adore this little knitted doggy and no wonder that I went crazy when I saw that he would be a new baby in the family of DO crafts.

The card presented was created with the free stamp- Boofle from Creativity magazine.

Boofle was stamped and coloured with Spectrum Noir pens. Then once cut out, it was mounted on a white square card which was layered with different elements:

• Brown square card whose edges were distressed,
• Distressed square card which was embossed with the Tri-boss universal embossing folder – mixed buttons  from DO crafts,
• Grunge postcard stamp from Additions distressed with Tim Holtz vintage photo ink stamp
• And, stamp elements from rhe free stamp present from Stamping for You magazine from Debbi Moore.

Hello everyone,

I was surprised and honoured when I found a message from dear and talented Lousie about this lovely award that I was given  the other day.

The idea of the LIEBSTER BLOG AWARD is to spread the love from one small blog (under 200 followers) to other small blogs. This helps to spread the knowledge and readership.

To accept the award, you must:

1. Link back to the person who gave it and to thank them for thinking of you.
2. Post the award to your blog.
3. Give the award to 5 bloggers (with less than 200 followers) that you appreciate and value.
4. Leave a comment on the blogs of the five people you have chosen to let them know. ‘Liebster’ in German means ‘dearest, so to carry on the Liebster tradition, I am going to pass this award on to 5 people whose blogs have  been an inspiration to me.

These talented ladies are:

Svjetlana
Debbie
Karmakrafts
Jackie
Sue

Paint Fusion CD

Lavender is one of my favourite plants and seeing  it in any form is a treat.

This one is from Sheena Douglas Paint Fusion CD.

It has inspired me to make a card, a mini box and an inside tag for earings.

 All is meant to be a farewell present for a colleague.
Hope she'll like it.

Materials used:

• Paint Fusion CD - Sheena Douglas
• Centura Pearl card - Crafter's Companion
• Dusky Concord Distress Ink - Tim Holtz
• Anita's 3D Gloss - Design Objectives
• Ultimate Pro- Crafter's Companion
• Various types of Collal glue - Crafter's Companion

In the Land of Fairies

It is a great pleasure to present the final results after having used Fairyopolis- Flower Fairies CD from Crafter’s Companion.

The cards made are never the same regardless of how many times the material has been printed and transformed into lovely projects.

I have used the following material for making the cards:

• Fairyopolis CD from Crafter’s Companion
• Neenah card
• Distress inks – Tim Holtz
• Some ribbon
• Anita’s clear gloss