Creatalicious Challenge #3

Yay - I finally found some ME time today and disappeared into my crafting corner to play along with this month's Creatalicious Challenge. The rules are

* Use only scrap/used sheets of DP
* You can use new cardstock
* Add flowers handmade by you

Well I think I managed to fill all the criteria!! This is another Mo Manning illustration from Digital Pencil Too and this card came together pretty quickly as I already had these lovely gals coloured up ready to go - they are perfect for teenagers! The DP is from Stampin' Up and the flower is made from both sides of the same DP. The tutorial for the flower by Michele Roos is HERE. I've made this one before and I'm sure I'll be making it again - I think they are FABULOUS.

I've also "made my own" DP by stamping my SU Gratuitous Graffiti background stamp on it in the same colour ink as the CS - Pumpkin Pie. The Night of Navy CS has been "thumped" with the matching ink to add more texture. And YES - I used my distressing tool again seeing it was sitting on the desk waiting to be shown some more love - LOL

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Marcia's Challenge for The Stamp Spot DT Continues!

As I told you a couple of weeks ago Marcia sent her DT some fun new products to play with and this week I've used some of the gorgeous Felt Ribbon - this is the Raspberry but it does come in other colours - check them out HERE. It went beautifully with this wonderful Basic Grey DP from the Indian Summer series. The muted tones mixed with the pink gives you a lot of scope to play with other colours - so I went with Chocolate Chip - LOL.

My image is one of the adorable gals from Inky Impressions - Angelica's Heart Socks. These images are just gorgeous and have sooo much detail in them - but once you add some colour to her eyes she seems to just come alive. I've used my nesties and cuttlebug embossing folders to create the "frame" for Angelica to sit in - she looked a little lost popped up on the felt ribbon. But I did find a home for a little felt offcut at the top of the frame - it just seemed to tie everything together. Some rhinesones and pearls were added for a little bit of bling.

The sentiment is from SU but all the rest can be found at The Stamp Spot Online Store.

The glue is probably still drying as I post this as I'm a bit behind today!!! Hope I'm better organised next week for my Stamp Spot Day!!!

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What Have I Been Up Too???

I haven't had much crafting time lately as last week was my daughter's final week at High School!! Yup - she's all done bar the actual exams. At last Friday's Graduation Dinner there were plenty of tears shed as the kids farewelled their school days and some favourite teachers.

During the week we had friends over for dinner, early morning champagne breakfasts, school uniform "re-designing" for the last day, the final parade of the year 12s to school and the Graduation Dinner - what a week!!! And considering I work at a High School - the one my daughter's boyfriend attends! - I seem to have done a lot of it twice - LOL.

And then to top it off I had my family over for lunch on Sunday - a small gathering of 17!

Anyway - I thought I'd share some pics from Sarah's last day. I've always been proud of her and this last day was no exception. She left the Graduation Dinner carrying a framed certificate she was awarded - along with a cheque for $300 - for her outstanding contribution to the college. Now onto the pics...

"Muck-up" morning and breakfast with the teachers - Sarah (2nd from right, the short blonde - shhhh - don't tell her I called her short - LOL) and her beautiful "girlies" in their altered school uniforms!

Those same 4 gorgeous young ladies later in the day at their Graduation Dinner - what a difference a few hours make - LOL.

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Magnolia Down Under Challenge #25 - Distressing

What can I say - when the Queen of Distressing (aka Kellie) set distressing for our Magnolia Down Under Challenge this week I knew I may struggle! I LIKE things nice and neat, though don't check out my workspace - LOL. Even though I think Kellie's style is amazingly wonderful and I am in awe of it - it's just not my style - trust me I've tried. But I do actually own a distressing tool and used it on most of the edges here. I also thought buttons instead of pearls in the snowflake centres were more suited to the theme - they are just a little less polished I suppose!

I've used a Magnolia Christmas Tree and Tilda from last year's Christmas release - I really wanted to give them a chance to see some ink before my new Magnolia Christmas stamps arrive!! Between Kellie's Magnolia Down Under Store and Bizzy Bec's Store I think they have covered nearly all of the images available - and are they ever GORGEOUS!!!

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is the lovely Gabbie over at The Soap Dish - if you are a lover of handmade soaps this HAS to be the place for you, and they make amazing gifts - Christmas is just around the corner!!! Gabbie is also a fellow papercrafter and does some beautiful work!

Talking about beautiful work - don't forget to check out the amazing creations from the rest of the MDUC team - I've seen a sneak peek of a couple - it's worth the mouse click!!!

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BLOG CANDY WINNER

WOW - thanx everyone for visiting my little part of blogland! I managed to read every comment and am hoping to find the time to visit lots of my new friends at their blogs! The internet is such an amazing place - it brings the world that much closer.

Unfortunately though there can only be one winner - and using random.org that winner is......

CAROL who said

Hey Debbie...Congrats on your blogaversary...There is sooo much yummy candy there.....oh...what I could do....those snowflakes...yummmm. Thanx for the chance to win..Carol

Watch out for my email Carol - and congratulations!

Thanx again to everyone who stopped in and said HI.

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'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Just a quick post today today to show off this cute little guy - another fabulous Mo Manning digital image! This little fella is all tucked in ready for Christmas morning - his stocking looks filled so I guess Santa has already been and read his letter, and he's obviously been a good little mouse as he seems to have got what he wished for - LOL.

My layout is a little simple - I seem to be struggling a little with my mojo - I had all sorts of things laid out to embellish and nothing seemed to work! I think I need to spend more time crafting and get my eye in again - do you hear that DH?? ;)

The good thing is Mo's images are sooo fabulous they don't need a lot - so that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!!

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Boys Will Be Boys

I've gone with a fairly simple card this week for my day at The Stamp Spot - it's been a little crazy in my part if the world! The senior high school students are finishing up and I both have a daughter in year 12 and I work at a High School - so "muck up" week is here big time for me - LOL.

I have decided to go back to a more innocent age - my son's! He has a number of friends turning 11 and 12 so I thought I could use this for one of them. I think Skater Ian is perfect for a boy's card - and mixed with bold colours and cuttlebug embossing he looks fabulous. I do have a confession - I cut the wheels off his skateboard by mistake - so he's now sporting ones made of buttons - hope he doesn't mind - LOL. The fabulous DP I've used is from Cosmo Cricket's The Boyfriend range and it called Driver's Ed - how perfect for this image!

I just had to use a Greeting Farm stamp this week as Marcia has just received some brand new ones instore - check them out here. And don't forget her marvellous paper sale, new embellishments and other fabulous new stamps!

Don't forget to stop in and check out what the rest of the fabulous The Stamp Spot DT have been up to too.

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Excitement at Debbie P's Place

Well I've finally managed to put together a little bit of Blog Candy to celebrate my recent Blogaversary! I can't believe it's only been a little over a year since I started stamping! I started my blog fairly soon after I started stamping - you should go back and check out my first efforts - I was sooo proud of them - LOL. But we all start somewhere and I feel I'm where I need to be now.

You'll notice a couple of my embroidery sewn pieces in my blog candy - I've done some snowflakes and a couple of polar bear candy cane holders - I've popped a candy cane in one on the picture to show you but I won't be sending the candy through the mail - I'm worried it may get sticky and go all over everything!

You have to be in it to win it!!! Just leave me a comment - and please number them for me. That's all you need to do! I'm happy to post to anywhere as I love people visiting me from all over the place and have made some fabulous friends through my blog.

EDIT - You guys can give up the numbering, it just seems to be confusing everyone - I'll work it out - LOL. Thanx for trying though!!!

I'll be picking a winner next Saturday - October 24th at 4pm AEST - or thereabouts - LOL

Now I also have to apologise for my lack of posts over the past few days - and I haven't much for the next few either!! I suffered a migraine in the middle of the week and had the library workshop yesterday to prepare for - so no personal crafting has been done! Ah well!

My migraine was MUCH improved though when I heard I was one of the Creatalicious Challenges winners with my snowflake card - and I also won Tracey's UStamp Free Pass - I got all this fabulous news within a 5 minute quick stop on my laptop to check in - woohooo - thanx gals for this wonderful boost to my week!

Wishing all of you some good news...and good luck with the blog candy!

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Sneak Peek and Enabler Alert!!!

Do you love Christmas and have you been waiting to check out the new Magnolia Christmas stamps???? Well wait no more! Kellie has started listing them in her store for your viewing pleasure HERE...

They are NOT available yet but you can at least see some of what's coming and Kellie will have them available for pre-order on MONDAY!!! And the DPs are gorgeous too - my bank balance is in trouble AGAIN - I don't think it's recovered from the Yummy collection yet - LOL!!!

**Please note that due to availability some items may change**

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A Challenge and Pink Ribbon Day

Kellie recently set each member of her MDU Store DT a challenge - she asked each of us to use a specific image that she nominated from the gorgeous YUMMY collection - I was asked to use the gorgeous Magnolia tea cup on a card or project. You can check out what the others girls came up with for their challenge here - and trust me - it's well worth the visit for some wonderfully inspiring creations! Kellie has also set a challenge for YOU - and you have a chance to win a $10 store voucher - check it out at the same place here.

I had originally planned to use one of my Tildas or Edwins and have them sitting on the tea cup - but I decided the tea cup was my challenge and should therefore be the star of the show! I've made a little kitchen shelf and popped a couple of the Magnolia tins on the top shelf. The cups are "hanging" from the shelf on rhinestone brads - with the exception of the one that's down and ready for boiling water to be poured over the "Tilda's Special Tea" teabag - I can just imagine it would have a wonderful fruity taste and aroma. I know - I'm a sad case - I like to imagine all sorts of things - LOL.

Kellie also has a special offer for you - one that comes from the heart and is very personal to me too - I've had 3 close friends suffer from breast cancer so next week's Pink Ribbon Day is a time for me to reflect on how lucky I am to still have these 3 amazing women in my life!

One in every nine Australian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer by the age of 85. It could be a mother, sister, aunt, cousin, niece or friend. Whoever they are, one thing they have in common is that they will all need our help and support.

This year, Cancer Council’s Pink Ribbon day is on Monday, October 26th. Pink Ribbon Day is your chance to help raise money and awareness for all Australian women affected by breast cancer.

For as much as we do to help improve survival rates and treatments, the fact is there is still so much more to be done. But by purchasing just one wristband you are helping in more ways than you could imagine.

Kellie has these wristbands listed in store HERE - they are not instore yet but they are on their way. Please take note of the code below as all postage on this item is free. Kellie is not out to make any profit from selling these and as a thank you, she is offering free postage. If you are to order a stamp it is STILL free postage. Papers, stamps anything - it’s still FREE postage if you order a Pink Ribbon Wrist Band.

**Please be sure to quote this code in check out PINK01 so you are not charged for postage

**PLEASE NOTE : This is a pre-order as they are on their way and will be posted to all that order them on their arrival asap.

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