Lickle Ted

Hopefully by the time this posts I will be a bit more organised for "that" day which seems to have galloped up and taken me by surprise this year.

I'm almost certain that I still won't have written any cards or even made any more but I should at least know what else I need to buy and for whom (maybe)

This cute little guy was in a recent issue of Cross Stitch Crazy. He might be a cushion eventually!!!???!!!

Must get my @ss in gear

Can you hear that? should be the sound of cards being written and envelopes licked or not :c)

Love these cards - 20 for one of your English pounds from Lidl and they're not at all wobbly.

Tall child has gone to her friend's dad's birthday party and is sleeping over. Hubby is being part of the security at Ibrox for the Rangers Dunfermline game so I am a sad lady with only a cat to talk to - NOT!!!!

This is the card I made for Abby to take with her using scrabble type tiles from Fuzzimo, the paper is Teddy Bo & Co and buttons from stash. I've put a support on the bottom of the stepper bit of the card so it doesn't do bambi legs lol! Oddly enough he is going to be 40 and the tile values add up to that.................... weird!!!???!!!

Teddy Bo Tuesday - All White Christmas

I've used white TEDDYBEA_003 and layered her onto embossed core'dinations and silver mirri card. I liked it so much I changed the embossing folders and made several more using the different coloured images and card to layer them onto

Our new challenge today is White Christmas - it took me a while to dream up the idea but it's amazing what appears in your head at 3 in the morning!!!!!

 Brown

 Green

 Pink

 Pink

Blue

Made by Tall Child

I bought this kit for tall child for xmas - unfortunately she spotted it so now she's getting a finished bracelet :c)

She did make it herself though

xx

Fairytale Friday

I'm sooooo sorry I've been AWOL I've been cleaning!!!!  We've now had the estate agent round so I can finally have a rest and get out some of the things that I've hidden away - I'm soooo glad my car has a huge boot LOL! I was cleaning the front of my kitchen cupboards at 9pm Monday night - am so not well. Just need to keep everywhere neat and tidy until after the photos are taken.............

It's Fairytale Friday again over at Teddy Bo and at last I've managed to make something using TeddyBoBea_088 we love penguins in this house. The papers are Papermania from a few years back and the sentiment is from Imagine That. Pearls and doily from stash. I've used my new Martha Stewart beaded arcs border punch on the mirri card.

Christmas Countdown Calendars

Great way to use up those 2011 calendars - well the December bits anyway :c)

Found some Jewellery

Amazing what you find when you tidy up - mobile phone charms and earrings :c)

They're for sale on my Facebook page - please like my page if you're on Facebook and I'm always looking for new friends for me lol!

Teddy Bo Tuesday

Sadly no card from me today - they've had me locked in the cupboard under the sink and only let me out to clean - something to do with my constant singing..........................

Our challenge of Christmas with no red or green is still running over at the challenge blog

Tutorial for Teddy Bo Top Tips

This week over at Teddy Bo top tips we have a tutorial for something a little festive and the teacher this week is ME!!!???!!!

Yep that's right we're scraping the bottom of the barrel but at least I did my tutorial with pictures so you won't have to suffer my singing LOL!

This week we're making an advent calendar.

You will need:

A scorboard

2 sheets of A4 card

A tag punch or die or something similar

Bookring or ribbon, string, binding tool

Paper to decorate

Numbers of some description

Teddy Bo Image ( if you would like a free image just for joining in :c) )

Cut one of the A4 sheets to 11 inches in length and score at 2, 6 & 10 inches

Flip it over and score at 1 inch

Fold into a tent card but don't secure the bottom as it's easier to decorate if you can lay it flat.

Punch out 24 tags (you can use childrens flash cards, squares, circles or anything you like)

and add your numbers. I've used peel-offs but you could stamp them, die cut them or even write them.

You can either decorate your base now or leave it fairly plain as I have. I've used my crop a dile to punch a hole right through the tags and then through the base card having marked where I wanted the hole to sit. I even remembered to check my bookring would fit. It's not so crucial if you're using ribbon as you can adjust it.

Print your image off and colour and decorate as desired. I've used TeddyBea_161 Santa stop here please and coloured her with Promarkers and added the letters and snow with Sakura gel pens

Here's the assembled advent calendar. I've used part of the 2nd sheet of A4 card to matt Bea onto. Looking at it in the pictures it needs something extra near the numbers but Mr Mojo has done a runner so have walked away for now rather than spoil it - how many time have I done that and not been able to get the offending things off again.....................

PS This fits perfectly with our current challenge which is Christmas with no red or green

New Challenge at Teddy Bo

No card no make no nuffink for me today other than to tell you that there is a new challenge over at Teddy Bo and today's new images will be very useful as the theme is

Christmas with No Red or Green

I seem to have lost this last week somewhere. It's very strange to finally have a craft room upstairs out of the way of everyone and with everything to hand. It's so strange that I haven't hardly been in there LOL!

I have handed my notice in so I will finally be able to start my xmas shopping and catch up on my crafty makes especially now I have somewhere to get my sewing machine out Whoop Whoop!

Debbie xx

Have you seen this?????

The Craft Barn is celebrating over 600 followers with this humungous lot of candy!!!!

Nip over for a chance to win and maybe a little shop whilst you're there :c)

A Little bit of Festive Stitching

 I very rarely stitch anything for Christmas but spotted these in a chart booklet with one of my mags and used up an odd offcut of fabric and some odd threads I had in my box. When I can get to my sewing machine I'm going to make them into some sort of padded decoration type thingy - I know what I mean lol!

Don't try this at home

This cutie was mummy bear's birthday present so has gone to live in her room at the Towers.

Don't forget to nip over to the challenge blog and see what we've been up to this week as it's Fairytale Friday and to see what the other girls have made...........

Hugs,
Debbie

Boofle!

This cute little guys name makes me think of the Bernard Matthews adverts from when  I was a kid - apologies to anyone reading this from Norfolk but I did live most of my life in Suffolk so have a bit of an accent at times although the Essex one of my birth is still the strongest LOL!

This guy was a free chart with I think World of Cross Stitching a couple of months back and as I've been without a table I've dug out my needle in the evenings. He's cute for the C.R.A.F.T. challenge and stitched for Creative Inspirations and Anything Goes.

Papercrafting Journey Embossing

I was really excited to be asked to be a Guest Designer for this weeks challenge over at Papercrafting Journey. The theme is embossing and I've used heat embossing on my Milton image (doesn't show in the pic) and dry paw print embossing on the purple card (covered most of it up).

I've used First Edition Daydreamer papers for my background and the heart are by Art from the Heart. Milton and his friend were coloured with Promarkers (Apricot, Saffron & Vanilla, Caramel, Cocoa). The layout is the Sketch and Stash challenge.

I would also like to enter him into the MSE hugs challenge and C.R.A.F.T. which is cute