Nicecrane and Prickly Pear Monday

Morning Peeps, it's Monday which means my weekly share of my DT piece for Prickly Pear and this week I've gone very Autumnal using the gorgeous leaf and matching dies. 

I am also sharing a little Nicecrane project which you will find further down this post.

For the leaves on the card I sprayed a piece of Centura pearl on the reverse side with Dylusions, then cut out the leaves and acorns with the dies and over stamped with the matching stamps from the clear leaf set, these two sets are so useful I can can see will be used over and again. The lovely Keats poem is computer generated and I just love this Embossalicious leaf embossing folder which is A4 in size making it so useful for the base card which I shaded with Pan Pastels. I would like to enter this into:

Pan Pastels - Falling leaves
Lacy Sunshine - Fall colours
Quirky craft - Favourite things - Dylusions and Pan Pastels

Now the pretty little box I made using these adorable new Peter Rabbit images from Ignacio at Nicecrane, Designs they fir the circle Nesties perfectly and s soon as I saw them visualised a gift box.

I created the box and lid using my scoreboard and it measures 11cm sqaure x 13cm deep........I made it a little deeper to allow for the lid. I then covered it with some soft blue DP to carry the colour from the images and matter the circles onto some brown bazzil which I also used to make a punched border round the bottom. The lid was simple decorated with some ready made flowers and an organzie bow. I would like to enter this for:

Little Claire's - Child's Birthday

You will find a direct link to this and other similar image sheet on the thumbnail link at the bottom, but please note that I understand from Igancio that copyright prevents the onward sale of cards using these particular images in the UK, but fine throughout the rest of the world.

Hope you all have a good Monday and as always my thanks for your kind visits and comments.

Saturday candy and a bit of fantasy

Our lovely Jo is our host at Allsorts this week and has selected the theme of Use Your Alphabet, so she wants to see some lettering there other than the regular stamped sentiments. Our sponsors this week are Whimsy and Craftbag so double chance to win a great prize.

I really have appreciated your kind comments and mails this week as I am still unable to stamp or type properly due to the painful arms and hands so my wings remain well and truly clipped. My card is one I made a few weeks ago when I fancies a bit of inkiness and again confirming my theory of working a few weeks ahead is a good one for me. I created a background with a mixture of distress inks then stamped a Chocolate Baroque window and a variety of leaves and flowers. Next I bleached our some elements to lighten and painted here and there with Twinkling H2o's which I also used to paint the Stampendous fairy. The large letter was cut with Cricut Storybook and the remainder computer generated.

Now for the winners of last weeks candy who is Paty.....your comment didn't go to a blog, it went to your Google profile but I was unable to find a contact so I do hope you will see this and mail me your full name and postal addy. Should I not hear from you by 17th I will reluctantly re-draw and notify the new winner by mail or blog comment.

And this week I have a JudiKins Bollio double sided border stamp, same rules as usual....................

• Add the Saturday Candy logo from my sidebar to your sidebar (not this picture)
• Be a follower of my blog
• A random winner will be selected from all comments left on my blog between now and Friday, so two comments during the week two chances of winning and so on.
• The winner will be announced next Saturday

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Prickly Pear Autumn

Happy Monday Peeps, hope your weekend was a good one, here in the Fens yesterday was a glorious day of late Summer sunshine and a shopping jaunt to Cambridge.

As with yesterdays post this is a scheduled one with artwork prepared a few weeks back. It's at times like this that I know my theory of working well ahead with my DT work is the right one for me as my dysfunctional body is still making stamping and typing a painful task.

Today sees the first of my shares as a member of the Prickly Pear Design Team, when I was invited to join I did give it some considerable thought wondering if I would be overcommitting myself, but I already knew the excellent quality of their stamps so in the end agreed. And it's been a pleasure to work with the lovely collection of stamps and dies I received to create my DT artwork which will be popping up regularly.

As you can see I stayed very much in my comfort zone for my first piece with florals and Pan Pastels, stamping and masking the Amaryllis image to add the leaves...........a lovely set with matching dies.........then colouring both the background and flowers with PP's. The sentiment is also one of the new PPRS Autumn images which I inked with two shades of Adirondack ink to create the colour graduation. I would like to enter this into:

Eclectic Allapu - Celebrate Autumn

Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Use a mask or stencil - is this type of masking OK girls ?
Lady Anne's - Autumn

My second share is my FlonzCraft Vintage Stamping Challenges DT piece and with the theme of Feminine Beauty it was a tough decisions deciding which is Leo's lovely images to use, but being a real fan of the 20's went with this one which was also coloured with Pan Pastels. The flowers were made with Tonic's punch and stamps Peruvian Lily image I would like to enter this into:

Make it Monday - Elegant Ladies
Artistic Inspirations - Make it girly
Whoopsydaisy - Vintage/Shabby chic

Hope you all have a good week and as always many thanks for your visits and kind comments which always mean so much to me.

All creatures great and small

Our themes at Stamping Sensations and Penny Black and More this month are All Creatures Great and Anything Goes and warning in advance this is a bit picture heavy as I got rather carried away with the themes. 

For Stamping Sensations I have two DT pieces, the one at the top using an image from The Edwardian Lady Birds from Nicecrane Images, links to the sheets below. I have tried to reflect the rustic feel to the images with some hessian and twine, a lovely sentiment from Stampendous which goes well with the image and a sprinkling of Frantage. I would like to enter this into:

Gem of a challenge - Lets hear it for the boys
A little bit crafty - A little bit shabby

Scary stuff for me but I have gone a bit CAS with my Penny Black and More DT piece using one of my favourite PB floral images and stamping in just two colours, black versafine and festive berries distress inks and creating a spotlight. Simple as that really. I would like to enter this for:

Quick Quotes - Stamping
Cards galore - Flowers

Now my second Stamping sensations piece using another image from Nicecrane this one the Amazing Children sheet and a sentiment which is an unmounted one so not really sure of the make. The DP is Graphic 45, some stitching and the butterflies are Spellbinders. I would like to enter tis for:

My Sheri crafts - Stitching

And one final Penny Black share using one of the new Christmas releases called Christmas Harmony, Cheery Lynn holly and Tonic punch and stamp Poinsettias.

Christmas all year round - Getting ready for Christmas

As always we have some great prizes to be won at both challenges so I do hope you will join in the fun.

Autumn colours and Saturday candy

Catherine has come up with one of my very favourite themes at Allsorts this week 'Autumn Colours' and played right into my hands. Our lovely sponsors are DigiStamp Boutique and Crafty Ribbons.

I created the base card for the top card using the Cricut Mini by welding the leaves to an oblong...............it's so easy to do on the virtual screen mat and cut it out on some rich bronze pearl cardstock and rubbed some gilding wax to the leaves to create a bit more colour. A mixture of Sutter and Stampscape images which I inked with Distress Markers and spritzed before stamping, then added Pan Pastels to create a warm Autumnal sky. Finally some raffia down the side.

My second make was a bit of an experiment as I was unsure if the printer ink would smudge if I added Pan Pastels but I can confirm it stays fast and works fine...................just proving what I always say in that crafting is a constant learning curve.

I printed out each of the images from the DigiStamp Boutique Black 3 flower set, trimmed to the same size, placed the three pieces alongside one another to mask a small top and bottom border then used Pan Pastels to create sky and base colour. Then simply matted them onto a contrasting colour, some raffia down the side and the sentiment is from the same set.

Now for the winner of last weeks candy who is Andreja from Thursday post, well done please mail me with your full name and postal addy. Should I not heard from you by 10th I will reluctantly re-draw and notify the new winner buy mail or blog comment. And this week I thought some ribbons and embellishments in Autumnal colours to match this weeks theme, same rules as usual....................

• Add the Saturday Candy logo from my sidebar to your sidebar (not this picture)
• Be a follower of my blog
• A random winner will be selected from all comments left on my blog between now and Friday, so two comments during the week two chances of winning and so on.
• The winner will be announced next Saturday

Happy weekend to you all.

Cricut doing the work for me

Morning all and Happy Thursday.

My crafting frustrations continue as far as the fingers and hands go, saw the GP yesterday but the normal answer which I guess I already knew, it's all part of my dysfunctional body and will pass in time. So today I am going to try my interferential machine which is really for my back on my neck and shoulder, it can only be used for fifteen minutes at a time and every other day but over a week it might give some relief.

But I had to find crafty alternatives whist stamping is so difficult and I found I can get along reasonably well with the Cricut Mini as that does most of the creativity for you at the touch of a button or two without moving from my desk so here are a few I came up with .

The one at the top using flowers and leaves from the Ultimate Creative Sampler and Art Philosophy cartridges and some simple matting and layering with Kaiser DP's.

And the second one using hearts from Creative Cards cartridge and graduating the sizes with the on screen tools to create vertical apertures which I simply placed over coordinating cardstock and added a sentiment.

And just one more using hearts from the Lyrical Letter cartridge.

Short and sweet post and pretty simple cards, but thanks as always for taking a peek.

Nicecrane Lovers

Morning to you all, hope you are having a good week thus far.

First up apologies for the lack of posts and for the 'copy pasty' comments some of you have received from me, but the hands arms and shoulders are playing up due to a flare up of Cervical Spondylosis so along with my normal dodgy dexterity issues there's not a lot of choice.

It also affects my stamping abilities, I did have a play with stamps yesterday but the bin came off best so I gave that up as a bad job and reverted to Ignacio's Nicecrane images, to be honest they are a God send just lately and enable me to keep crafting with the minimum stamping.

As some of you know I was recently invited to join the Prickly Pear team and this week they are having a sketch challenge and giveway here which includes the lovely leaf and die sets which are great, you will be seeing some of what I made with them in a week or so.

So here are a couple of shares, one of which below is an anniversary card for our Daughter and SIL whose Anniversary was yesterday.......and it's ours today !! The top card uses an image from the Victorian French Postcards, Graphic 45 DP's which lend themselves so well to these images and flowers made using Tonic punch and stamp Peruvian Lily set which I shaded slightly with Pan Pastels.

This is the Anniversary card, I think this image is so perfect for the occasion and our Daughter loved it, I think as a Humanities teacher it appealed to her love of all things Historical. It uses an image from the Victorian Lovers French Postcards, again Graphic 24 Secret Garden DP's, ribbon, a button and cord.

Have a good Tuesday and see you all soon.