Colours of Autumn

Morning Peeps, we're celebrating the Colours of Autumn at Allsorts this week and the usual Anything Goes option. Prizes for the next two weeks are Lavinia stamps.

I've was lucky to have an early play with the new release, I'll admit I don't usually do Halloween but these Witches in the new Dream Witch Collection are so stylish along with the other worker stamps that I really had fun working with them. Above incorporates Tree of Spirits, Hattie, Bubbling Cauldron, Flittermice, Magical Mist and Hocus Pocus plus Tree Root. I would like to enter this into the current Autumn Hues challenge at Lavinia.

For this one I started with circle dies and drew round the top with a glue pen to create a halo effect then applied Gilding Tilsen with a soft brush, then a clean brush and soft tissue to remove the excess and a rubber will remove stubborn bits which may have glue on them. Next a bit of very light inking to create a circle, followed by stamping using Oak Leaves, Woodland Fern and Oak Creeper dangling from the bottom, stamped the Gate and Fence into the circle two Fairy Faragers, Fairy Towns signpost and finally Forest so Green sentiment......I know there's not too much green on display but there was until Autumn started to set in!! I'm popping across to the Path of Positivity with this one.

Autumn hues

I just had a timely prompt from Hilary that today is reveal day for Card Chain Challenge, so it's a quick post to share, afternoon and energy fading, I guess things will improve!

My card went to Lyneen in Washington, although she told me this morning it's not arrived - posted on 8th August, bizarrely, the one for this month sent to Greta in Oregon has arrived already.

A stencil created on the Scan and Cut, Twila, Shadow Bloom and Bumblehums from the Sunbloom Collection following the months colour palette.

This one is for the new Lavinia challenge and uses Pheasant, Wild Hares, Oak Branch and Leaf Spry, the theme this month is Autumn Hues. The Path of Positivity is back after their Summer recess and I am popping there with this card.

Harvest Papavers and a Rooster

Morning everyone, I'm scheduling this for our new challenges at We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations where our themes are Hand Coloured Image and A/G with the option on Animal Magic. Prizes come from Highlight Crafts and AALL and Create.

Above a nod to harvest as a child when it always seemed to spill over into September, unlike nowadays, farmers didn't have grain dryers and heat generators. Often it would be afternoon before combines got going as there was the inevitable delay of fixing new belts, it seemed a daily occurrence and a trip to Cambridge to source a new one. Poppies growing in the wheat (a stretch of imagination for September), Pheasants taking flight and numerous Rabbits darting in every direction. 

The wheat is an old Hero Arts stamp embossed with gold and copper EP, Poppies AALL and Create Papaver (395), Oxide sprays onto a lolly stick frame, Pheasants from A&C set by the same name (454) and a sentiment, it's years old so not certain of make. Lots of snippets on this, Poppies sentiment and Pheasants so think it should fit in OK at the Snippets Playground. Here's my snippets....

My SS share is this splendid A&C Cockerel from Bright Dawn (925), I guess not officially an animal but we are taking a loose approach to the option. A masked and stamped panel to ground the Cockerels and a stencilled sunray background, so I figure it's early morning and the big fellow is blasting out his morning greeting. 

One of our sitting hens once produced five male chicks from nine eggs, we didn't have the heart do what many would (dinner) so they all grew to produce a very riotous morning greeting, thank goodness we live in the middle of nowhere! But they were stubborn creatures and usually declined to go into the hen houses at night, so one by one the Fox took them out, save one who used to roost on Ben's back in his stable......until one day he fell off and Ben rolled!!

Added as lots have kindly enquired: Still slow going and today I'm off having another CT scan (yes NHS on a Sunday) ahead of going in again on 11th, but will try and catch up with some of you soon. Not a lot of crafting, although some new Witch stamps did kick start me last week and will share shortly.

 

Getting Sentimental

Morning everyone, a new challenge at Allsorts and this week I'm your host and my chosen theme is Getting Sentimental but there's always the A/G option. Our September prizes contains goodies from  Craft Stash and Highlight Crafts. 

I've always loved inspirational quotes and was so fortunate when a stamp company wanted to carry those I created along with Create and Craft. The one above is from my Believe set.

This card went to our eldest Son after he received his 'gong' at Buckingham Palace in May, the sentiment is very appropriate to his personality. Stamps are all Lavinia, Open Dandelion, Wild Summer Flower and Orchard Grass, a part masked frame and colour added to the focal images, very simple but I think effective.

This one features my all time favourite Penny Black sentiment Dance, Sing, Love (2695J), the frame is a Sweet Poppy stencil coloured with inks and the sentiment stamped into the middle and matching envie, this went to one of our Granddaughters, in fact it was her Dad who received the above card.

Rockin' around the Christmas Tree

A quick (and wow unscheduled) post with a share for the new Rudolph Day's challenge and another for the current Snippets Playground. Above a Sweet Poppy frame, stencil paste and foiled through a hot laminator, Lavinia Wild Pine Tree and two little Fairies, the right from Dancing Fairies, the left no longer available.

This one uses lots of Bazzil and Mirri leftovers, the stars created in Canvas Workshop and sent to the Scan and Cut, it's one I made some months ago and never blogged (hence no photo of snippets). Thought it would be good for a masculine card and made a few in different colours.

Delightful Animals

Morning everyone, Déjà vu.......forgive the lack of visits and clipped comments, not too good, been back in hospital, existing and new issues and it's really taken the wind out of my sails. 

A new challenge at Allsorts where we are back to weekly challenges. This week Lolo has selected the theme of Delightful Animals and as usual there is the A/G option to fall back on. There are two prizes from AALL and Create.

Another Fairy, this time in a vase mask created with a TL die, Oxides for shading, Twila Fairy, Hare from Woodland Hares, large Bee from Bumble and Hum and a smaller one from Bumblehums. The flowers around the edge of the vase are Shadow Bloom and coloured with a yellow Posca sparkle pen.

A soft Pan Pastel background and images from AALL and Create Canine Dreams (862) all stamped in Versafine black and a little colouring added to the lamps and Butterflies.

Thought I would share some of our household Animal Magic, above DIL Veronique trying to be a Dog Whisperer, Labs, Vizslas, Dachshund, Terrier and even a Dalmatian, we have quite a variety and that's not the full family compliment as a couple look to be missing!

Anysia bought some new fangled hay feeders, supposedly intended to slow them down, my boy Heskey (in need of a feather trim and good groom of his mane and tail) is most definitely not impressed.

Finally, two Fallow Deer caught early morning on the wildlife camera in the orchard, so many windfalls this year. It's a fairly new 'toy' so hopefully share more activity soon.

Fairy garden in a jar

Huuuge apologies to my team mates and everyone for being so delayed with my mid month shares at We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations, You'll find lots of inspiration on the challenge blogs along with details of prizes on offer and themes for August. I have added this to the Lavinia stamps challenge gallery.

All stamps are Lavinia with the exception of the Penny Black sentiment on the second card, inks all Versafine Clair new colours available at a very good price here.