Elegant Christmas dove

A masked oval coloured with Pan Pastels, the dove from the Snowflake Christmas stamp sheet and sentiment from the Holly Christmas set

Morning to you all, just popping in with a little heads up that there is another Stamp Addicts Christmas show on C&C tomorrow at 4pm, so thought I would share a few more of the samples I made for the programme.

Dove from the Snowflake Christmas set embossed in gold and sentiment from Holly Christmas set

You will find all the stamps that will feature on the show under the what's new section here.

Reindeer from the Snowflake Christmas stamp set embossed in silver 

onto Spellbinders Elegant Labels 4

Hope you all have a good Wednesday and if you are in the UK enjoying this glorious weather.

Dance, sing, love, live

Morning to you all and welcome to my new followers and huge apologies to both old and new that I have been a really bad blogger this last few days and not visited as I would like. I have been so busy working away at more samples for C&C TV and coupled with trying to get ahead at the office before our holidays, I'm afraid I've had little time for blogging.

But it is time to share my DT work for Stamping Sensations where we have a sketch designed by our Tracy which comes with the twist of a Summer colour option and at Penny Black and More it's all about Dies and Punches.

My Penny Black DT piece above is quite a simple make using my all time favourite Penny Black inspirational quote as the focal point of my card, Spellbinders and some lovely Graphic 45 DP's. And to embellish two lillies made using Tonic's punch and stamp Peruvian lily set.

My second share is my Stamping Sensations DT piece following Tracy's lovely sketch and she also added the option of summer colours, so it had to be poppies for me as they are in abundance everywhere around here at the moment.

The stamp is another from Penny Black coloured with Pan Pastles and the background DP's are some of the lush new Remember Me ones from Kaisercraft. A border, some ribbon, Spellbinder leaves and a poppy made from Tonic's Rose punch and stamp set...............I think it's no secret by now that I adore Ruth's wonderful Tonic products.

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend and those of you in the UK enjoying this burst of Summer weather.

Parisian sunset

Saturday morning and time for our new challenge at Allsorts and this week we would like you to share your 'Favourite Things' with us. Our sponsors this week are DigiStamp Boutique and My Mums Craft Shop.

Dilemmas or what, Distress Inks or Pan Pastels, flowers or a scene, well in the end the Pan Pastels won the day along with a Parisian scene and it's another take on the card I blogged last week as I am still in Parisian mode. Again I used the Clarity Parisian mask to create the background along with PP's then paper pieced a lady and grounded her with some darker PP's and a Stampscapes cobble stamp. The Oak branches are also Stampscapes and the grasses in the front are Indigo Blue.

When I showed this one to number one critique his comment was "will she or won't she" when I said will she what he replied "jump", I actually thought it gave the impression she was looking down over the City from a park somewhere on the outskirts, clearly he saw something different to me !

Happy weekend to you all and time allowing will be popping round over the weekend.

Very special candy

I did say I had some rather special candy coming, well here it is.

Some of you may remember I had two Cricut machines, once for my craft room and one for occasional demos. I sold one a few months ago and since that time I have not used the other and it remains boxed and as I was recently invited to 'test drive' a new machine for Cricut and create sample work to promote it for them, I figure this one may get far more use in someone else's craft room than mine. It's not brand new but very little used and everything is boxed as new. Please note though that it does not come with any warranty because as far as I can tell it's not transferable and obviously I am unable to offer one.

Here's what's included:

Cricut Express Machine with universal connections

Cricut Jukebox

Cricut Design Studio (programme to allow you to design and operate machine from your computer)

Pack 12x12 cutting mats

Pack spare cutting blades

A selection of Cricut Cartridges

As it's a rather special giveaway I am going to run this for a few weeks and whilst I am on holiday to late August, here's what you need to do to enter:

1) Add the above picture to your sidebar with a link back here.
2) Be a follower of my blog.
3) Add your name to Inlinkz below.
4) In fairness to genuine followers any candy only blogs will be discounted from the draw........I shall be checking the lucky winner is not one of those and that they have the above photo on their sidebar with the link back here.

I am happy to ship worldwide, but due to the greatly increased UK postal costs recently, if the winner should be outside Europe it will be sent by surface mail which looks to take about a month, but I figure that's no great hardship should this little lot be making it's way to you.

This will replace my Saturday candy for a few weeks, but that will return once the winner of this candy is announced.

Good luck to you all.

A fenland meadow

Morning to you all, hope your week is going well. Thanks you for all you kind comments on my Parisian scene on Monday and also welcome to my new followers.

I thought I would share the birthday card I made for hubby, I did think it had already been blogged but seems not so here it is. I started by stamping the trees with black archival ink, the large one is Creative Expressions and the small one Stampscapes, then created the background with Pan Pastels and finished by stamping the Sutter Stamps fence, Hobbyart sheep, birds and branches adding a little watercolour here and there to highlight. The sheep stamp is a long one with six on it but they are all in a bit of a row so I ink the stamp in sections to give a more random look. I then rub out the Pan Pastels..............that's the great thing about them....... and add a little white micron pen to lift them.

Hope you all have a good Wednesday.

A winner

Morning Peeps, just popping in with the winner of my little candy giveaway and I am pleased to announce the lucky person is:

******Frea******

Congratulations Frea, please mail me with your full name and postal addy so I can get your goodies in the post to you.

I will be posting the 'special' candy I promised later this week so keep your eyes peeled !!

Parisian Romance

Good Morning, time for your new challenge at FlonzCraft Vintage Stamping Challenges where this month it's 'Pretty In Pink'.

I know I could have done lots of things with my lovely FlonzCraft stamps but I've been itching to have a play with this Clarity mask, so created the background with it using Pan Pastels and this lovely romantic couple and think it will make a perfect anniversary card for one of your sons and his wife on their fourth anniversary later this month.

I paper pieced the image, grounded the couple with some sponged steps and framed the scene with Flonzcraft blossoms and grasses.

I hope you all have a good week and as always thank you so much for all your visits and kind words.