Happy new year

I just wanted to wish everyone a very happy new year and hope all your dreams come true xx

Future projects for 2014 workshops at Lenches Trust, Ridgeacre Road, Quinton. Bham. B32.

A little bit of Morehead Stamps.....

2014 Future Projects for The Card Demon Workshops

Hello all,

Please check out the projects tab on this blog to see future projects for our card making workshops at Lench's Trust. Ridgeacre Road, Quinton, Bham. B32 - Sunday 10am - 12pm .  All levels of crafters are catered for from absolute beginner to advanced crafter.  It is a fun workshop with lovely friendly members. Everyone is welcome.

Dates for 2014 are
Jan 12th,
Jan 26th,
Feb 9th,
Feb 23rd,
Mar 9th,
Mar 23rd,
Apr 6th,
Apr 27th,
May 11th
More dates to follow soon.

Below are some pictures of projects we will be creating in 2014.

Happy Crafting.

Love Debs xx

What a bad week.....

What a crap week I have had. Monday started the week OK, Tuesday morning about 3am woke up with a migraine and being sick this carried on for all of Tuesday and Wednesday couldn't even keep water down. .Woke up Thursday still with migraine but managed to eat a piece of toast before going to work. Big mistake..... Lasted about 20 minutes before headache was too much, got too hot and went for a nap face down on the floor in the office....... Very ladylike I don't think!  One crash call later and one ambulance to city hospital, high blood pressure And heart rate double what it should be... Still with migraine. They decided I needed a 12 lead heart monitor - lovely, all clothes from top off - not a good sight,  very degrading. They then decided I needed fluids as was dehydrated and anti sickness drugs and pain killers..... OK I thought one little needle and would feel better - or so you would think.  Needle inserted in right arm inner elbow. In go the fluids - very painful..... Needle not in vein fluid going into arm - MADE ME FORGET THE MIGRAINE..... Removed needle, tried other arm/hand for a good vein - no joy so back to the first arm which is swollen and painful as waiting for the fluid to be absorbed into my arm. Needle inserted in wrist by base of thumb - very painful going in but at least in vein - fluids and drugs now going in.  All the time still monitoring my heart rate and blood pressure and sticking pins in my fingers to measure my blood sugar.  Finally i think it would get better - the fire alarm goes off, now hiding under blanket in hospital gown with hands over ears- now thinking I felt better before they took me to hospital.... 15 mins later it finally stopped.
Fluids and drugs final oy in, heart rate now down to 105 beats per min and blood pressure going back down, told I could go home and must take it easy and rest - only took 5 hours....  Taking the needle out was a problem..... they pulled it out something went wrong and ended up big lump filled with blood under skin - told it would go down - very painful.

Now Friday night, no longer being sick - but still have headache..... I think I am being punished - 4 days with a migraine, is there no justice in this world.

Still, the moral of this story is the nhs staff were lovely and made me feel like they were going to help me, even though things went wrong with the needle's the staff were brilliant, especially the nurses and the ambulance staff, they couldn't have been nicer, it makes me proud to work for the nhs and be a part of it.

Craft fairs........ NOVEMBER 2013

Hello all,

I will be taking part in some some craft fairs in November to sell off all my stock, please come along and see me and my wares, there are bargains up for grabs.

3/11/13 - Yew Tree School, Solihull

8/11/14 - Birmingham Children's Hospital (Restaurant)

17/11/13 - Alderbrook School, Solihull

23/11/13 - The Sportsman Pub, Tipton.

If you would like further details please advise and I will provide you will full details.

Happy crafting, TTFN.

Debs x

Decoupatch box....

I took some pink Decoupatch paperd and stuck ro hexigan box and quilled some flowers and adddd to too. Punched some butterflys and added a ribbon.  

Love this project.

Love Debs xx

GIN O'CLOCK......

Hello again,

Had a little break from blogging for a week. But am back now.

I am doing a craft sale on 3rd November 2013 at Yew Tree School in Solihull, I will be selling hand made cards and jewellery - pop along and see what bargins you can get.

I am also having a sale at Birmingham Children's Hospital on 8th November from 9am - 2pm - again pop along if you are free.

For this card I used some beautiful border dies to create a frame, I then used a crafters companion stamp and coloured in and finally die cut some sentiments and attached with a ribbon and this is the result.

TTFN

Debs x

Frame Card

Hello all,

Well last day off work today, why do weeks off go so fast, and working weeks so slow..... is there a conspiracy....

You may be aware my daughter graduated from St Andrews University with a MA in English and Philosophy  so I made a frame card to display a picture of her.

It is made with an A4 Sheet of card stock which was cut to 21 x 28 cm and from the bottom up scored at 13 cm and 14 cm then from the top down was scored at 1cm and 2 cm and on each side 1cm and 2cm, you trim the corners off when the score lines over lap and cut out a pretty windown in the front, add acetate to the window, add your picture and fold up and seal shut with strong glue/tape.

This is the end result after a ribbon and some flowers.....

TTFN

Debs x

Creative Expressions "August" Competition Entry

Hello all,

The competition for Creative Expressions is Autumn, so below is my entry.

This is how I did it.....

I have used Creative Expression stamps (Create a Scene Trees and Church) to create this card.  I stamped (using Momento rich cocoa ink) the tree image from the Church set as my focal point and used one of the smaller foliage stamps at the base of the tree, I then die cut and matt and layered onto orange core-dinations card stock and gold matt mirri card.  I created my own background paper using the branch stamp from the tree stamp set and used first and second stamped impressions to give a feeling of depth, I then used antique linen distress ink to colour the image and added some glitter to the background.  I then matted and layered onto orange core-dinations card stock and gold matt mirri card and put on my base card.  I finished the card off with some ribbon and gems and some stamped leaves again from Creative Expressions Seasonal Flora and coloured using Spectrum Noir pens and cut out and clear inked/embossed the leaves and placed around the bottom of the card.

Other than the picture being sideways, I love this card, it is so simplistic but was great fun to make.

TTFN

Debs x

A wedding anniversary card.......mine!

Hello all,

Well, it is my wedding anniversary on Sunday 29th September - we have been together 21 years now.  So I thought I should better make my hubby a wedding anniversary card, so what better to use than Crafter's Companion Party Paws stamps and rose quilling dies and rose embossalicious embossing folders and finally stamped on Neenah card stock and embossed card is centura pearl.

I have used a red card base and matted with black card, I embossed the centura pearl card using the embossalicious rose embossing folder and used spun sugar distress ink to go over the embossed roses, then layered on the black card stock.

I stamped a party paws cute image on neenah card stock and two sentiments, I then coloured with my spectrum noir pens, for Party paws, I decided to use all greys and used IG1,3,4,5,7,8,9 for party paws and DR5 for the heart and then glitter and glue for the "stripes", I used black card for the quilling and quilled 2 strips of roses and 2 stamens and rolled together and sprayed with Crafter's Companion pink glitter spray and die cut a leaf again in black and again sprayed with the same pink glitter spray.

I then die cut my sentiments and party paws image using a spellbinders shaped die and run IG2 round the edge of the party paws image to give an illusion of matting.

I hope my hubby will like it xx

Well, happy crafting till next time.

TTFN

Debs x

Shamballa watch

Hello all

Thought I would make a Shamballa watch instead of the normal bracelets, I choose a heart faced watch and went with a red and white and theme with black thread.

Am loving the end result.

Debs x

Fifty shades anyone.......

I made this card for one of my friends who enjoyed the books and who can't wait for the film.  So made this for her to keep her going.

I downloaded some fifty shades images from Google images using  black and silver theme I added the downloaded images and this is the end result.

Very happy with this. 

Debs xx

Gorjuss.....

Hi all,

Well a nice bit of sun this weekend, summer is coming back.

Using my XXL go create scalloped circle dies I cut out a card blank and slightly smaller backing paper and an even smaller plain one which I stamped and coloured with my spectrum noirs.  I made into an easel card.  Ttfn

Debs x

Embossing.....

Hello all

I used a small stamp from crafters companion and coloured with spectrum noir pens. And cut out with a pretty die.  I used a drafters companion diamond embossing folder to create the lovely background and sanded the core -donations card stock to reveal the embossed pattern. I added ribbon and ta dah......

Ttfn

Debs x

Embossing with the new makey bakes mice.....

Hello all

I got my new Makey bakey mice CD rom from Crafter's Companion yesterday so got printing out and have made the card below.

It is all printed from the Christmas CD and from the new section on the CD "complete companions" which I find is wonderful, everything you need to make a card in once place.

So, here's how I did it.

I printed out the backing sheet, 2 matt and layer sheets, and the topper and sentiment sheet and cut out.

I then took some silver miri board and along with the 2 matt and layer sheets and the backing sheet, I embossed it all with the A4 snowflake embossalicious folder from Crafter's .

I then took an A3 piece of centura pearl card stock and folded to make an A4 card, and using my Collall all purpose glue I stuck the silver on the card, then the backing sheet, following by the 2 matt and layers (which I layered each on to embossed silver miri) and finally put the topper on the card which I raised with foam tape.  I embellished with ribbon and the sentiment and the odd gem or 10, and this is the result.

ta dah.....

Let me know if you like.....

TTFN - happy crafting till next time.

Debs x

Crafters companion snowman and snowdog dies

Check out the link below.

A bit of Humphrey.....

Hello all,

I have just made a Humphrey frame card from Crafters Companion Humphrey CD and put it on to an easel card. To make the stopper for the easel I used core-donations card stock  and embossed with a Crafters Companion embossing folder and sanded to reveal the inner core.

This is the end result.

Ttfn

Debs x

Hello again,

2nd Card today using Crafter's Companion A4 snowflake embossing folded and die-sire corner swirls (Sorry I can't remember the proper name - but they are lovely).  I used one of the spellbinders snow men and a Martha Steward fence punch and a sentiment.  And this is what I made.

I took a piece of A4 centura pearl card and folded into an A5 card.  I matted with black card stock and took a piece of A4 centura pearl card and cut in to A5 and embossed with the A4 snowflake embossing folder from Crafter's Companion.  I then layered onto the card.

I die cut two corner swirls and used Spellbinders MR and MRS Snowman Die (again brought from Crafter's Companion) and just used MR, and stuck him to black card and put in on the corner of my base card and put a fence around him and finished with a greeting which I matted on to black again to keep the black and white theme.

The snow man does look a little scary........ but overall a good card. ;-)


TTFN

Debs xx

A Crafter's Christmas.....

Hello on this Autumn day - rain and dull - winters on its way.

I have been playing with my Crafter's Companion A4 embossing folder (Snowflakes) and Die-sire icicles die and Marianne Christmas tree die which I have embossed with embossalicious petite dots (6x6 folder).

I took an A4 card blank and folded into an A5 card, I matted with black card stock and took some centura pearl card stock and put in my A4 snowflake embossing folder from Crafter's Companion, I cut to size and layered onto the black card matt.  I took the Crafter's Companion Die-sire Icicles die and cut out of centura pearl card stock and attached with collall 3d glue gel to the top of the card.

I cut 3 tree's from the Marianne Christmas Tree Die and embossed using the Crafter's Companion 6x6 embossalicious petite dots embossing folder.  Again using the collall 3d glue gel I attached to the bottom of the card.  I took a Martha Stewart fence punch and punched a fence in black card and attached to the bottom of the card and finished with a sentiment.

I do love this card, and was fun to make.

TTFN

Debs xx