Sympathy card

A very good friend of mine's sister was killed in a tragic car accident.  I can not tell you how much my heart went out to her.  If I was to loose one of my sister's like that it would maybe kill me too from the heart ache.  So anyway this is the sympathy card I made for her. It is mostly the design on the papers but I did add some ribbon and a butterfly with some small pearls.  On the inside I stamped a saying from a Scrappy Mom's stamp set, "God won't bring you to it if he can't get you through it".  I guess as we get older we loose ones that we love. Loosing my Mother was one of the hardest things I've ever had to get over but I did even though a day does pass that I don't think of her or see or say something that reminds me of her.
Thank you for visiting my blog and I want to send you all warm hugs, Debi

This is a pop up card too. The heart is put on a cut out from the outside of the card and the cut out is covered with the card base. Very easy and fun. I really like the way this turned out. This pic is my son in law and grand daughter. Was taken last year. Thanks for looking. Hugs, Debi

Sunny Side Up in San Diego: Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

Sunny Side Up in San Diego: Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting: This cake is a match made in heaven for me. It's a rich, almost fudge like, cake topped with a light and creamy peanut butter frosting....

I wanted to try putting a picture on a candle. The first one I did looked pretty bad so I kept trying until I finely had one that looked okay. This was a Mother's Day gift to my daughter. And the card. Thanks for stopping by. Hugs, Debi

This card is a quilt card. Inside I stamped...Thinking of you!  I think I should have used more contrasting paper so the quilt pattern would have popped a bit more. But in the tutorial these are very close to what she used.
You can find the tutorial here http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/quiltedcard/  Of course we all put our own little touches on what we make. Thanks for stopping by. You know I love comments.
Hugs, Debi

This is birthday card. I used Paisley and CAC. The paper...hum...I'm not sure I've had it around for awhile.
I've sort of neglected my blog but I haven't forgotten it. Hugs to all, Debi

Birthday card...by my Son

Believe it or not...my son made this card. The only thing I did was tie the bow. He found this great paper he liked and took off. He has a lot of artisic ability any way. He can draw some of the greatest pictures with paint or pens. He cut the fairy out with a craft knife and used the same paper to put her on. He went thru some of my emblie's and picked out a few he liked. He made this for his girl friend. He is 30. I was so impressed I just had to post this. I hope you like this. Please leave a comment so I can share them with him. Thanks for looking today. Hugs, Debi

valentine card

Isn't this Bingo Valentine card cute? It's for sale on my Etsy store paperandthingzbydebi.etsy.com.
I hope you will go look and let me know what you think. Thanks for stopping by today. Hugs, Debi

Stitched card

I made this for a Valentine card but it would be a great Anniversary card too. I have it for sale on my Etsy site. paperandthingzbydebi.etsy.com Stop by and check it out. Thanks for visiting by blog today.
I'm going to enter this card in the CardzTV challenge, "A stitch in time".  Hugs, Debi

Some of my Christmas cards

Here are some Christmas cards I made this year. There were more but I mailed them out before I realized I forgot to take a picture of them. I do that with a lot of my projects. I've been checking out a lot of blogs and You Tube and some of the cards are so lovely they make my jaw drop. Merry Christmas to all you wonderful talented, bloggy friends. Be safe and God Bless...Hugs, Debi

Advent calender

I made this Advent Calendar for my daughter. It's made out of small match boxes. I put ribbon for the pulls and decorated the boxes with paper. Used some bling, flowers, cricut cuts and numbers. The over all size it about 12x12. There are also some stickers. I only did it for the odd days of Dec. If I would have done one for each day, it would have been way too big.  Let me know if you made an Advent calendar, I'd love to come look at it. Hugs, Debi

Santa card

Isn't this card cute? I can't take credit for the idea of the beard on this card. I saw a card like this over at Tracey's web site...craft junky too. She made the cutest card like this (only better) and I wanted to try my hand at it. It's not the same but I put my own twist on this one. I think she is the queen of doodling. Okay, I just wanted to share this card with you all today.  Yes I did give it away lol.  I'm almost done with all my Christmas projects. Hugs, Debi

Cookies...YUM!

Ya hoo...another entry.  I'm not much of a baker but my hubby just loves these cookies fresh from the oven. My sister taught me when I was young that the secret to a good cookie is not to over bake it. These came out so nice and soft and crinkled on the top just like they should. My favorite cookies is a suger cookies with frosting on top. Tell me what your favirite cookie is. Happy baking... Hugs, Debi

Tolet paper roll art.

Here my friends is some art, or a snowflake, done with an empty tolet paper roll. I got this from Pinarest. I painted it and added some chunky glitter and used my die cuts in the center with a stick on snowflake. I'm going to enter this at gettingcricky.com Sunday challage. It's been a very long time sense I'v entered any challenges. Stop by her blog and check out the DT projects they are awesome. Thanks for looking. Warm hugs, Debi

This is a Fall card I made for my cousin. It's a Z fold card. Mary at Cardstv shows how to make this. I found the picture on the internet and it looked so fun I printed it up and made a card from it. Hope you enjoy it. 

Hugs, Debi

Here is some Halloween test tubes I made. The bottles were a little big but they were the only ones I could find. I found the instructions on YT at dawn7133. She is a stampin up demo but makes the cutest projects.
Hugs, Debi.

A card box

This is a card with a box. I put some wonderful little votive candles in the box part and made the card area into a birthday card for my daughter, her birthday is Oct also. Here is where I found the instructions for this project. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKc-t0AxbI I'm sure there are other places on YT for this but I found this first and used it. I think it turned out so pretty. I want to make more of these if I have time. 
Hugs, Debi

A birthday card

I'm going to play catch up here. I have a few projects to post so I might need to post more then one a day. First of all here is a birthday card I made for my sister in Oct. She is one of the sweetest people I know. If she wasn't my sister I would want her for my friend. All of my sisters are my best friends...and my brother is too. As you can see it isn't really straight but I always say if you want a perfect card you might have to go buy one for $5. Hand made cards are always special. Thanks for stopping by and looking today. I do hope you will leave a comment and let me know what you think or if you've made a birthday card and want to share let me know so I can hop over and look. Warm winter hugs, Debi

My sweety made this for my craft room. I love it and wanted to share it.

I've been going thru some files and found a lot of photo's I haven't posted of Father's day cards and Birthday cards etc. I will get them posted and then keep up on my most recent projects. I'm looking for an advent calendar that I can make and not have to have a SVG file. I don't have SCAL.

I'm so happy you stopped by...thank you my bloggy family for sticking with me. I'm getting back into my craft room and will be posting a lot more. Big sweet hugs, Debi

Ah, at last I'm entering a challenge. Creations by Gill is having a scrapbox challenge. Get it? "Scrapbox". This one was easy for me as I have more scraps then probley anyone.  I'v been wanting to make a card like this fold for awhile now. Dawn over at dawn5377 on youtube did a really simple version of this card and ta da...I did it. The papers arn't real straight but if our cards were perfect they would be store bought, right?  Head on over to creationsbygillm.blogspot.com and check it out. Her DT did a great job on thier projects.  Thanks for stopping by. I always like to hear from you and what you think.  Hugs my sweet friends, Debi