Paris in Spring

Morning Peeps, I am totally chuffed to see so many lovely pieces of artwork creeping into my Spellbinder blog celebration, if you missed my post you can find it here, still plenty of time to join in for a change of winning some of the Spellbinder dies.

As it's Monday it means my weekly share of my Prickly Pear DT piece and with Valentines at the end of the week what better than something with the Tour Eiffel, surely one of the most romantic Cities in the World. I have stuck with the traditional colours, Pan Pastels, a rose embossed panel and the lovely Paris Heart stamp, the banner is empty for you to add your own sentiment and I have used the very fitting Paris in Spring one.

Have a good Monday all.

Blue and brown right down to the finger tips

Our lovely Jo is our host this week and is challenging us to use colours beginning with the letter 'B' on our artwork. Our sponsors are Yours and Mine Papercrafts and A Passion for Stamps.

Also a little reminder about my 5th Blogaversary celebrations, if you don't know about it check out the post here, lots of Spellbinders to be won.

Naturally brown and blue came immediately to mind for my first card for Jo's theme, I love the colour combo that much that I had my nails that colour this time....................my fortnightly manicure is my little treat and I have indulged in quite a few colour combos recently, I rather liked the graduated pink and purple with a bit of sparkle of course, then there were the Christmas snowflakes.......hmmmmmm choices.

Anyhow, on to my card which is a mixture of Sheena, Stampscape and Lavinia stamps all stamped with archival ink and then of course Pan Pastels for the colouring.

And the nails...........pretend you didn't see those short stumpy fingers, like me they are vertically challenged but the nails are all my own !

And a second card using Ruth's Clarkia image coloured with watercolours pencils and matted onto some Spellbinder.................and this is B for Burgundy.

Whatever you are up to this weekend I hope it's a good one.

Passing ships

Morning Peeps, the first Monday of the month so time for our February challenge at FlonzCraft Vintage Stamping Challengese where this month 'It's a Man Thing'.

I made this card before hospital 'just in case' and my Mojo was MIA at the time and it's not particularly Vintage but we always say on the challenge blog that entries need not be Vintage, so I hope this may encourage some of you who perhaps aren't into that style that you can still join in.

I used an oval mask and stamped through it with the FlonzCraft Etched Ship and created some sky with Pan Pastels. The sentiment is also from FlonzCraft..........their sentiment sheets have quite a few different ones on them so great value at just £3.60 per sheet. The individual stamps are equally good value and most £1.80 each......how many places can you buy good quality stamps for that price ?

So do pop over and take a look........their postage is also very reasonable despite them shipping from New Zealand.

I also have my weekly Prickly Pear share and this one is using both sizes of the gorgeous new Lily stamp, I love this one and you will be seeing a few more pop up with this stamp. I coloured this one with watercolour pencils.

Hope you all have a good week.

A bit of bling and fantasy

Today sees the start of our new monthly challenges at Stamping Sensations and Penny Black and More and where our themes are Wings, Fantasy or Fiction and Make it Sparkle.

The top card is my offering for Penny Black and More but alas the sparkle element is non to clear on my photo, but she is a classy girl and her sparkles are her gemstones round her neck and wrist. I stamped the brickwork and flowers though an arch shaped mask then stamped an paper pieces just the lady from Penny Black's Venetian Summer stamp. I used another PB stamp down the spine and added ribbons and some pins to finish.

And for Stamping Sensations another arch it seems although that wasn't intentional. The dancing fairies are Lavinia as is the tree which I extended in height by masking the branches and the castle is a really old wood mounted stamp and afraid the name has word away. Colouring is all Pan Pastels and finally some Lavinia toadstools and flowers along the bottom. 

And just the one more and I got itchy fingers to use one of my new Tonic frames. After making up the frame I stamped round the edges........I know I should have done that first........did a bit of stamping and distressing in the aperture and added one of Ruth's Peruvian Lilies, a pair of little Tonic birdies, leaves and butterflies all of which I dipped in UTEE.

I do hope you will join in in our challenges this month and look forward to visiting your entries.

Love is in the Air

Our theme this week at Allsorts is Love is in the Air, one I feel will be popular with Valentines Day just around the corner. We have two lovely sponsors, Nicecrane Designs and DigiStamp.

For the top piece I decorated a chipboard heart, starting by covering with acylic pain then over stamping with Penny Black Floral Thread, distressing the edges and adding some lace and flowers made with Tonic's Stamp and Punch Rose set to embellish round the Nicecrane image from the Sweet Valentine Design sheet.

The second one is fairly simple using an image from the same deign sheet,  a frame cut with a Spellbinders, computer generated letters and some roses.

Have a good weekend everyone.

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Trees, moons and suns

Good afternoon crafty Peeps, hope you week is going well. I imagine those of you in the UK are as fed up with this weather as I am, rain, rain and yet more rain, but there again our friends across the pond are having to contend with sub zero temperatures which can be no fun either.

I thought I had better do a post now as tomorrow being Thursday means my third treatment and judging by the last two a couple of queasy days, so best to get ahead of the game and share some cards I made recently. Just inkyness really, or rather Pan Pastels and a variety of stamps and masks.

See you soon and as always I appreciate your visits and kind comments.

Blog hop day two

It's well known that I don't do cute and sweet very often but I love this baby image from the new Spring release and the sentiment also from the new release is just perfect with it

Another scheduled post for the second day of our Prickly Pear blog hop where we have two awesome $75 prizes to be won and today you should have arrived here from Tracie's blog and move on to Jessica's blog.

And if you didn't visit yesterday's post here it's not to late to pop along so you are in with a second chance of winning one of the prizes.

All the blog hop and prize details can be found here and the Spring release stamps and dies which were showcased at CHA can be found on the store website here. Winners will be announced on the Prickly Pear blog on 2nd February.

Good luck hopping everyone.