A prowling fox

Happy Saturday everyone, it' my turn to host the them at Allsorts this week and it's going to be a two week challenge to let us all have a bit of a break over the Christmas period so the next one will be on 4th January. 

I have chose the theme of 'Brown/blue/aqua'. It's a colour palette that I love working with and I hope lots of you will enjoy the combo as well. Lots of prizes up for grabs this time as well from Crimson Cloud, DigiDarla and Whiff of Joy plus everyone who enters this fortnights challenge can collect a free design sheet from Nicecrane Designs blog here.

I did say it was a colour combo I liked so I have three cards to share, the one right at the top uses a mixture of Sutter, Lavinia and Stampscaspes stamps. The fox is actually part of a whole scene but I inked just the small section where he is and cut him out to stand at the fore of my scene. All colouring is Pan Pastels and some snow glitter added to give a frosty feel.

The second card is one of the beautiful butterfly Nicecrane images which needs little adnorment, so just a TH butterfly border, die cut leaves and a flower made usin one of Ruth's Tonic stamp and punch sets.

And for the third one I created a background using this gorgeous rose embossing folder to which I applied Gilding Wax, an Artistic Outpost sentiment and roses created on the Cricut to which I added some gold embossing powder round the edges.

Hope you all have a good weekend and if you are one of those doing a last minute rush to the stores keep a look out for some bargains as my daughter found lots of early sale goodies in M&S today.

A bit more pick of the bunch

Using the Corncockle Punch and Stamp set, Memory Box leaves, Chocolate Baroque Indian and background stamps, Artistic Outpost sentiment, Dylusions and TH birdcage

Good Morning Peeps, hope you are all having a good week.

We still have lovely sunshine here, two days on the trot with my craft room French windows open is unheard of lately, but if the weather man's got it right it will be back to woolies come Friday so better make the most of it I guess.

I really could make card with Ruth Tonic Pick of the Bunch products all day, so as I have quite a few in my gallery though it only right I shared a few more with you before I get my head down and make a start of samples ready for the next Stamp Addicts show on C&C.......some really fabby stamps coming up, can't say more at the moment but I will let you have some sneak peeks very soon.

Using the Rose Punch and stamp Set, Chocolate Baroque Indain stamp set, Memory Box leaves, Pan Patels and a spritz of Glimmer Mist

I know from your messages lots of you have recently bought the Punch and Stamp sets and I just know you are going to have great fun using them, they really have revolutionised the ability to create pretty flowers to embellish our cards........thank you Ruth.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Creative Card Crew - Handmade Flowers
Die Cutting Divas - Flowers

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Colour
Dream Valley - Things with Wings

Have a good Wednesday and thanks as always for dropping in.

Tonic, Dylusions and dogs - what a mixture

Using Tonic Carnation punch and Stamp set, Chocolate Baroque Indian Elephant and Textiles sets, Dylsuions and sentiment is Artistic Outpost

Morning Peeps, thank you for all your kind comments over the weekend and a warm welcome to my new followers.

I do hope you have had a good weekend and got some of the lovely sunshine we had here in the Fens. It's much cooler today but still nice and bright and slowly everything is showing a bit of colour. I was looking back at my blog and saw that I shared some pictures of blossoms in the garden on April 2nd last year, at the moment nothing is anywhere close so we are a good three weeks behind. 

I thought I would share a couple of the recent samples I made for Ruth using her two latest Tonic Punch and Stamp sets, I will note below each which set I have used.

Using Tonic Peruvian Lily Punch and Stamp set, Hero Arts Leaves and Dylusions and Pan Pastels

Making the most of the sunshine I managed to get a few photos of the dogs Saturday, not an easy task getting all seven to sit together for any period of time and in the end the best I managed was six of them, with Holly finding a better option indoors as you will see below.

Above from left George, Daisy (back) Pixie (front) Lily (back), Poppy (front) and Bernie. Holly got bored with the photo session and sloped off back to the sofa in my craft room and here she is splayed out in her favourite position.

As always my thanks for your visits and wishing you all a good and crafty week.