just a quick note

So sorry I haven't posted lately, but with one thing and another, A lovely holiday in Devon and Cornwalll for a start though with a very bad back, then when we arrived home after a long journey of 10 hours I became ill, in the next couple of days I found out that I have blood poisoning, anyway all being well I will be demonstating at sir stamp tomorrow.
we have lots to show you so please please come along and say Hi to myself and the amazing crafty Lou, you just have to see this girls stuff its really really good.
see you tomorrow.

love chris

little boy blue

I don't normally do blue but I quite like it with the yellow, I did a bit of tearing with these gorgeous snippets papers from Sir Stampalot they come in 12 x12 with four different 2' squares on them, very useful.
I stuck them down to the yellow card and then put it through the cuttlebug folder, it somehow seemed to bond the whole thing together, I then used the papers to stamp on it was a bit like those cardboard dressing up things we had as children. The flowers are of the cricut I think it was george cartridge.
hope you like love chris xx
ps I think we have decided it's a boy!!

not in a pear tree

Well I don't know about you girls out there but I'm not getting a lot of crafting done with it being the school hols.

I thought I would post what I have done for Sir Stampalot a couple of weeks back, the stamp set is called in a pear tree there is so much on the set can't wait to have a proper play maybe tomorrow.

with love chris xx

New sarah kay stamp "gardens need many helpers"

well I just love this new sarah kay stamp ,and I apologise its red and green again it just hapens,I have made it for sir stampalot and am half way through another one, I think it will have to be a different colour!!

My Husband and son have been to an air show today so I have had the day to myself and this is what I came up with, everything is from sir stampalot (click on the green box right hand side top of page)

Heres the list

Counntry scene on the right hand side is sea 737 hobby art

Small birdy on post is d5214 hero arts

butterfly is 3864f its called bohemian

fabulous Birthday is c4635 hero arts

The little boy?(I think) is sak nat 9b Gardens need many Helpers.

the card stock is Bazzil Green embossed leaves

and the red Bazzil I think it is called tomato

thanks for dropping by love chris xx

stampin up notelet holder

Good Evening everyone thought I would do another quick post today as it seems to have been a while, but again its not been done today, as I have had a very busy day with 3 nephew and nieces under 6 and an older one of 28 and lots of others, it has been very lively here today(NOISY) it's nice to sit back and just do a bit of blogging.

The notelet holder is easy to make by just scoring a spine in the middle of your card, the papers and stamps are all stampin up and I am in love with this paper it's one of those I don't really want to use!

thanks for dropping by.

love chris xx

Quick post

Good morning everybody. I can't believe its a week since I last did a post, but here it is, a very quick post one I had in the drawer, I have used all stampin up stuff you can only just read the stamp at the top of the card it says ,So glad were friends. This is for all of you that keep looking at my blog and leaving me nice messages. Thankyou love chris xx

I SHOULD USE IT FOR CLEANING !!

YES ITS BLEACHING Good evening . I have just come in from my Wednesday night craft class I thought I would do a quick post so here it is ...

I have used the poppys from Stampin up Bloomin with beauty stamp set on elegant eggplant card stock, and I just love the way it bleaches out, I have tried various card over the years and nothing compares to this for bleaching

it is just so easy to get a good effect, its fun , have a go with bleach ONLY ON A CARD MIND !!!!! We need to save our energy for crafting

love Chris xx

YES ITS RED AND GREEN AGAIN!!

Good morning, bit of a dull one this morning and we are supposed to be barbequeing, oh well.
Heres one we did on Friday night for a S U party for a very nice lady called Jeanette,we had a lovely evening, and yes it seemed to be red and green again ,I dont know how it keeps happening!! The background is En Francais background stamp the red is stamped with the paisley background stamp, the stalk is stem sayings, and the flower is done with the 5 petal flower punch, one petal folded on the green and two folded on the red, then stuck together .The circle is wow flowers placed onto punched ovals then of course stitched with the white pen hope you like. love chris xx

NOT SO SCARY!!

Hello everybody. here's one that I have had the elements coloured and cut out for days but just couldn't seem to get round to doing anything with, the papers and card is stampin up as is the punched out ovals and words ,the backgroud behind the scarecrow is a magenta stamp cso 43 which I got from good ole sir stampalot, the rest are a whippersnapper set of stamps which my friend louise kindly stamped one day for me ,Thankyou louise I have enjoyed using them ,the bowl of apples has been glazed with glossy accents, and the straw (which does'nt show up very well on the photo) sticking out of him are some fibres that I won the other night in a craft raffle (thanks Mary)louise had also stamped me some trees out of the same set but it didnt fit anywhere so I cut the leaves off and popped them down the side hope you like love chris xx

More with the s u scallop circle punch

Here's another one using the scallop punch from s u , I have punched it out using shrink plastic and stamped a flower in each one then cut out some stamped leaves they are from a retired stampin up set.
Thanks for dropping by love chris

hi I thought I would show you what I have done with the scallop circle punch

from stampin up, I just love this baby, I have cut down each scallop to form a petal and then folded it in half triple embossed it then added a small circle in the bottom I think it looks quite effective I have also embossed my scallop edge thanks for dropping by love chris xx

for Mel

I have covered this little notebook from paperchase for my friend Mel, she has been helping me when I have got stuck when posting on my blog, always on the end of the phone, each time I get a problem or think there's something else I should have done, so today I had a free morning and here it is, the scarecrow is what crafty lou stamped for me and the other stamps are magnolia. I shrunk the little bird I think its kinda cute.

nice and easy

just a quick one for a stampin up party, not my usual colours but I really like them ,I have cut out the stamped flower image from soft summer and decopauged just the flowers, the little buttons at the top I have punched out on shrink plastic using wow flowers stamp which sound wrong but there is actually a round happy birthday stampin with the set they are really useful so nice and easy.
The colours I have used are not quite navy, gable green ,tempting turquoise, and taken with teal

Decorated box

Had some fun on Thursday at Sir Stampalot covering this little box which I bought from papechase, they do a lovely range of brown paper covered things which a lovely lady called louise put me on to, got lots of other things to cover ,thought this would make a lovely raffle prize if filled with Ribbons, the papers are Daisy Bucket and of course yes its another Sarah Kaye stamp!! I promise it will be something different tomorrow.

using my fabulous" fabulous finds" cartridge

And yes its that Sarah Kaye girl again, I just love her so much, this time I've shrunk her if only it was that easy! I have cut this shaped card out on my cricut using fabulous finds it actually cuts out what you see and is so easy to play with, I have used daisy bucket papers , not had alot of time for blogging lately but hopefully I wont be so busy this next few weeks , thankyou ladies to all of you that are following me and leaving me lovely messages