Out of the silence........

Morning Peeps, it's Saturday and time for a new challenge at Allsorts and I am your host so it was inevitable there would be a botanical flavour to my theme my chosen theme of  'Christmas flowers, garlands and wreaths or just Christmas). This weeks lucky winner will receive a Bee Crafty stamp.

Today is also one of my posting days over at the Chocolate Baroque Blog so I have some shares from that post as well.

Starting with my top card a Penny Black Poinsettia stamped focally using Distress Markers direct to stamp and then a couple of second generation images. The sentiment is also PB, one I really like but it's quite large so needs a bold image to go with it. Finally some watered down gold paint flicked here and there and gold pen around the edges.

A Christmas wreath with lots of Chocolate Baroque worker stamps and Versafine Clair and a sentiment which I think is Inkylicious. And below my shares from my Chocolate Baroque blog post, all from last months Hochanda TV shows. full details of stamps used on that post.

Have a good weekend and hope you will join in with our challenge this week.

 

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Santa's on his way

Morning Peeps, it's Saturday and time for a new challenge at Allsorts, our host this week is Mervi who would love to see 'Santa, Elves, Angels or just Christmas cards. Our sponsor this week is WOWVOW offering a £15 store voucher.

Believe it or not this little Santa is the only one in my stash, much the same with Elves so I went ahead with the Winter scene. Then one of my teamies posted her DT cards yesterday using the Chocolate Baroque Tomte Gomes, which if course I do have.......maybe they are one and the same, Google seems unclear, what do you think?

So the Winter scene using lots of stamp and further down some Tomte Gnomes. It looks pretty chilly and blowy in my scene judging by the tree and her skirt and I'm really not sure if she is wrapped up warmly enough and probably should have a hat on as well!  

Also a couple of shares from my post over at the Chocolate Baroque blog here.

Here are my Gnomes out in the snow.

 

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Cinderella, you shall go to the ball

Morning Peeps, I seem to say this on most of my mid month posts for  We Love Chocolate Baroque and Stamping Sensations, but it really is a quick one as life is throwing rather a lot our way at the moment. Prizes at both challenge this month are from Chocolate Baroque.

Poppy is now home from hospital and seems to be doing OK, huge hole in her neck size of a .50p piece from the tracheotomy as they don't like to stitch or cover apparently, so hourly cleaning of that and they can't do more until it closes. Daisy is struggling with her back legs and clearly in pain so at the vets with her this morning........after taking Alex to Cambridge Nuffield Lea hospital at 7am for his knee surgery.

The top card is for our Christmas Flowers, Wreaths and Garlands theme at Stamping Sensations and the one below for the Christmas theme at We Love Chocolate Baroque.

 

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A lightbulb moment

Morning Peeps, it's Saturday and time for a new challenge at Allsorts, our host this week is Helene who would like to see 'Candles and Lights' and there's an A/G option as well, our prize this week comes from Stix2.

Afraid I've not been active in blogland for a few days, our little Poppy has been in hospital and there's been a few touch and go moments culminating in a tracheotomy on Wednesday when she stopped breathing. She was transferred to Dick Whites Referrals, a specialist veterinary hospital, still needs more tests but hoping it's a manageable problem and nothing more sinister, she's a real little fighter in true Terrier fashion.

I have used one of the recent new Chocolate Baroque Hochanda TV releases for my card above, this one was called Lupin Blueprint. A brayered background onto linen card stock, the large lightbulb from the set stamped several times to the right, the the lupin and bulb stamped, coloured and cut out and placed into a die cut black circle. Some stencilling with texture paste, washi tape and sentiment from the same set heat embossed with details whit EP.

As most know I don't enter challenges, mainly because my sight is failing and I struggle with all the links so tend to save my screen time for my challenges, but I do make the odd exception and really wanted to support Gail in her new Let's Squash It challenge. The idea is to use embossing folders, something most of us have but don't use often enough, so here is my card using a Tattered Lace Christmas Holly folder and a Penny Black focal image and sentiment.

Whatever you are doing, I hope you have a good weekend.

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Vibrant Roses and Echoes of Italy

Morning Peeps, it's Saturday and time for a new challenge at Allsorts, our host this week is Lynn who would like to see 'Lace real of faux' with an A/G option. Our prize this week come from Chocolate Baroque and as it happens I also have a post over at the Chocolate Baroque Blog today, below is one of my samples from there, also a card for the current Butterfly Challenge.

My card is a Hochanda sample for tomorrows TV shows at 10am and 2pm, there will be different stamps available in each show, some old favourites and new goodies. The one I have used here is Floral Perfumery, stamped onto a Gelli Plate background, the Roses stamped a second time onto an offcut, masked with torn post-it notes and inked with Crackling Campfire and Twisted Citron, cut out and paper pieced. 

A few worker stamps stamped randomly to carry the colour of the Roses and a CB sentiment stamped onto black card and heat embossed with detail white EP. I cut the sentiment into two strips and layered over some cotton lace.

The Butterfly Challenge has arrived at the letter F and the elements are: Fabric, Flag Fold, French Pink, Forest Green, Flaxen and of course a Butterfly. After scoring the inner section with the folds I added Oxides as close as I could find to the three colours. Using rather a lot of Lavinia stamps I built up a scene, I guess I might have gone a bit OTT but I had a fun hour or two. The 'flags' come in the form of a Butterfly and Fairy which I stamped onto some fine Aida fabric and cut out, I'm not sure these shapes fit the 'flag' brief and you will have to take my work for it they are fabric. There's a closer photo below to try and show how the Butterfly and Fairy are over the edge but I'm not sure it's any more apparent.

These lovely Italian stamps are on one of tomorrows Chocolate Baroque Hochanda shows, I've had these sets for years going way back to Elusive Images/Gaphicus days, but still firm favourites. Most years we go to Italy, sadly not this year so this card using several of the images from the two sets is my take on CDSA Santa Maria, the road where my friend Lucian lives. We have been friends since I was three, although she was raised in the UK she still married an Italian boy and when their children were in their teens they returned to the family town of Compabasso, but Pino her eldest son married an English girl and still lives in the UK.

She lives in a beautiful three story villa with gardens running down in terraces where she grows vegetables which she bottles in true Italian style and her cellar has shelves decked with them......as well as Grappa which hubby Toni distills down there........my hubby could tell you a story or two about nights testing the variants he makes.

Have a good weekend all, not that in the UK we can do much even if we wanted to. Hubby and I have still not ventured further than the chemist and won't even be doing that for the next couple of weeks as youngest son is having knee surgery the week after next and we have been told we need to self isolate as a family prior to his op. He's having it at the Cambridge Nuffield Spire (on the NHS) so we are hopeful it will all go ahead as planned as Cambridgeshire as a whole is fairly low on the COVID scale.

 

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A Chocolate Baroque Christmas

It's the first Sunday of the month so time for our new challenges at We Love Chocolate Baroque and Stamping Sensations. Our themes for November are 'Christmas' and  'Christmas Flowers, Garlands and Wreaths'...........I can see the perfect chance to double up here and why not as this months lucky winners at both challenges will win stamps from Chocolate Baroque.

So all four of my creations feature Chocolate Baroque stamps and rather than bore you with all the names you can check what I used over at the respective challenge blogs where I have added links to them on the shop website.

Apologies for the lack of clarity on this one, had issues with my editing programme!

Looking forward to seeing lots of you join in this month.

 

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