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Oh yes - it's Monday again and time for another  Make My Monday  challenge - this week it's all about the boys - we want to see your masculine creations please. I have reverted to my favourite card layout and gone for my squares - take a look I have taken the images from The Open Sea and stamped them off each of the squares and then sponged the edges to give it a slightly vintage feel. Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: The Open Sea Ink: Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake Card Stock: crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@icloud.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now directly from my Stampin' Up website - click  HERE  to take a look. I can't wait to visit...

We are Picking a Previous..... today at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  and the theme is a Previous Colour. I didn't delve too far back but went for this traditional colour palette from back in July I decided to have fun with this and dug out a couple of retired sets - take a look Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Bells and Boughs, Pines and Poinsettias (Both retired) Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Early Espresso Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler Accessories: Floral Frames (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@icloud.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now directly from my Stampin' Up website - click  HERE  to take a look. Have a great weekend xx

Don't you just love a gorgeous sketch to get your teeth into on a Thursday morning? You do? Well just take a look at Louise's last sketch of the month It's for  CAS - Colours & Sketches  and this is what I made from it Mmmmm yummy cupcakes! Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Create a Cup Cake, Oh Goodie Ink: Real Red, Pink Pirouette, Pool Party, Pear Pizzazz Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip Accessories: Cup Cake Builder Punch, Dimensionals (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@icloud.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now directly from my Stampin' Up website - click  HERE  to take a look.

It's Monday again - comes around quick doesn't it?! But never fear 'cos today over on  Make My Monday  we are thinking ahead to Mother's Day - take a look at the card I have made for my Mum And just in case you can't see the gold embossing clearly - here is a close up Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Daydream Medallions, Stippled Blossoms, Delightful Dozen Ink: Versamark, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Whisper White Accessories: Gold EP, Dimensionals (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@icloud.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now directly from my Stampin' Up website - click  HERE  to take a look.

Good morning - it's time for another Christmas Card challenge over on the  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  and this week is our Stash Challenge and the theme is Paper Flowers And here is my card I used the Petite Petals stamps for this and the matching punch to create some poinsettia flowers to adorn my green wreath. They were all shaped with an embossing tool on a squishy mat before attaching to the card with a glue pen. Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Petite Petals, Petite Pairs, Daydream Medallions Ink: Old Olive, Real Red Card Stock: Whisper White Accessories: Rhinestones (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@icloud.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now directly from my S...

That's right folks don't let it pass you by - grab your FREE Sale-a-bration goodies now. Spend £45 or more before March 31st and choose your FREE items from the flyer  HERE . There are some beautiful stamp sets to choose from - I particularly like the Petal Parade set and I took it along to to show the ladies at Hilary's Stampin' Up party last night. Now although I love the set and 'I had to have it' as soon as I saw it but I had a bit of a last minute mental block as to what to do last night - eek! Luckily I had seen this beautiful card  HERE  on Vicky's blog and decided to steal  borrow the idea. (I did ask permission before hand!). I changed the colours and rotated the design and this is how they turned out: See that little pouch in the background? We made it to store our cards in. It's the Retro Fresh DSP and the colours on the cards match perfectly because that's what Stampin' Up does. (I was lucky enough to meet with a lady who ...

It's Thursday and time for another challenge at  CAS - Colours & Sketches . Today it's a colour theme - take a look A beautiful collection don't you think, chosen for us by the lovely Louise. They are very Spring like too however, I went down another road and went under the sea - take a look I embossed with white embossing powder before sponging my ink over the top to create my sea. My Calypso Coral shell was also embossed and ink was sponged over the top before it was cut out and attached using dimensionals. The white heat embossed powder resists the ink and makes the images stand out beautifully - a sentiment was all that was needed to finish it off. Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: By the Tide, Loving Thoughts Ink: Calypso Coral, Island Indigo, Pool Party Card Stock: Very Vanilla Accessories: White EP, Dimensionals (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@icloud.com - ...

This theme used to fill me with horror - I used to dislike vintage so much but with The Open Sea from Stampin' Up it's easy, and just right for this week's new challenge over in  The Male Room . There is a gorgeous sailing galleon that is just begging to be made vintage and teamed with the old style World Map looks great - take a look Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: The Open Sea, World Map, Loving Thoughts Ink: Chocolate Chip Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Baked Brown Sugar, Chocolate Chip (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@icloud.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now directly from my Stampin' Up website - click  HERE  to take a look. Please don't forget that if your or...

There is a new challenge today at  Make My Monday  and in case you hadn't guessed the theme is 'Beautiful Butterflies' Here is my card I was very pleased how this card turned out - I nearly binned it half way through! I was colouring it and until I added the glitter I didn't like it all. It really does sparkle in real life especially with the rhinestones down the side too. The border was created by stamping the small butterfly and then cutting around the edges - I drew a faint pencil line to guide me too. Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Swallowtail, Papillon Potpourri Ink: Smoky Slate, Soft Sky, Marina Mist, Midnight Muse Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Midnight Muse Accessories: Bitty Butterfly Punch, Basic Rhinestones (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct ...

OK who stole my weekend? It was right there I blinked and then it was gone - and all my good intentions with it! So here at long last is my card for the challenge at  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  - the theme is STARS Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Banner Blast, Special Season Ink: Smoky Slate, Versamark Card Stock: Whisper White, Garden Green, Real Red, Silver Glitter Accessories: Big Shot, Mosaic EF, Mosaic Punch, Scallop Trim Punch, Dimentionals (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now directly from my Stampin' Up website - click  HERE  to take a look. Please don't forget that if your orders total £45 or more you can choose FR...

I am so late with this - I've been catching up with my commenting! Today is a new challenge over on  CAS - Colours and Sketches  - it's a sketch take a look And here is my card I love how this turned out, it only took minutes but my desk was covered in stamps and stamp boxes - I used 3 different sets! Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Papaya Collage, Summer Silhouettes, Loving Thoughts Ink: Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Early Espresso, Island Indigo, Pool Party Card Stock: Kraft (not Stampin' Up), Whisper White Accessories: Dimensionals, Basic Rhinestones (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now directly from my Stampin' Up we...

Hi all - I'm back home again after over 3 weeks away. In case you didn't know my dad was having some pretty intensive chemotherapy treatment and I was staying with my mum till he came out of hospital. And he did - after nearly 3 weeks. The journeys to and from Birmingham have been quite exhausting and mum and I have felt very stressed and stained especially on the days when he had a very bad reaction to his treatment. But that is behind us now and we now have the task of building his strength back up and keeping him positive. As you know I am on the design team of 4 challenge blogs and while I have been away my fellow teamies have kept everything running so smoothly and efficiently and I would like to thank them all - it's a privilege to work alongside you all. Thank you too to all my lovely followers who have stayed with me and left me such lovely comments -and hi to all my new followers I promise my posts will get better from now on! Right then talking of posts I had ...

Today at  Make My Monday  we are celebrating SPRING - here is my card A short post today as I am moving myself back home after my 3 week stay at mum's - no doubt when I get home I will have 3 week's cleaning to catch up too!!! Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Peaceful Petals Ink: Smoky Slate, Crushed Curry, Basic Black, Pear Pizazz Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Coastal Cabana (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now directly from my Stampin' Up website - click  HERE  to take a look. Please don't forget that if your orders total £45 or more you can choose FREE  SALE-A-BRATION  goodies - email me for more details...

It's Saturday and that means another Christmas challenge over at the  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown . You can choose from these colours to make your cards I have chosen the Kraft, dark blue and paler blue to make mine - take a look I love making shaped cards and this is a shaped easel card using the Floral Frames Collection. Here's what it looks like folded up for posting Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Daydream Medallions, Petite Pairs Ink: Versamark Card Stock: Kraft (not SU) Pool Party, Island Indigo Accessories: Big Shot, Floral Frames, White EP, Vintage Faceted Buttons, Dimensionals (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now...

Hello - it's time for another challenge over at  CAS - Colours & Sketches  - take a look And here is my card This a sentiment from the Delightful Dozen set with a few added candles - I've used markers to ink the stamp so that I could chose which words to do in purple and which to do in yellow. Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Delightful Dozen, Create a Cupcake Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum, Crushed Curry Card Stock: Whisper White, Elegant Eggplant Accessories: Scallop Trim Punch, Bitty Blossoms Punch (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now directly from my Stampin' Up website - click  HERE  to take a look. Plea...

I have a brief day off from hospital visiting today so I can actually (I hope) write a decent post! Today's challenge in  The Male Room  is a colour challenge -                   BLUE ,  GREEN  and  BROWN Here is my card - don't forget it has to be male Gorgeous Grunge is great for male cards and doesn't need much else with it. I don't do messy stamping if I can help it so this set is perfect for me to add a bit of grungy distressing! Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Gorgeous Grunge, Morning Meadow Ink: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs...

New challenge today at  Make My Monday "HELLO BABY" Here is my card You can shop now directly from my Stampin' Up website - click  HERE  to take a look. Please don't forget that if your orders total £45 or more you can choose FREE  SALE-A-BRATION  goodies - email me for more details deezinesart@gmail.com

New challenge at the  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown Patricia has a sketch for us My card You can shop now directly from my Stampin' Up website - click  HERE  to take a look. Please don't forget that if your orders total £45 or more you can choose FREE  SALE-A-BRATION  goodies - email me for more details deezinesart@gmail.com