Blue snowfall

Good evening, It's going to be a great week! Do you know why? It's time for a new Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps fall/winter release!

Be sure to check out 2 whole pages of new goodies on the website AND you can get free shipping until 21st November! All you have to do is enter the code FREESHIP at checkout.

So each day this week me and my teamies will be posting our designs using the gorgeous new releases.

Today I have decided to go all snowy - we still haven't had any here and fingers crossed it's a few weeks away yet!

I embossed a sheet of whit card with snowflakes and matted this with blue card onto my card base. 

I used 3 of the new stamps, the first is the gorgeous Snowflake Corner. I then used the Snowflake Border - which is 3 snowflakes, I repeated this 3 times around the opposite corner. I then added Celebrate the Season to the center . All were stamped with blue ink and the images added to the top of my card. I added silver and dark blue ribbon to hide the bottom of my stamped card. continuing with the snowflake theme I added a die cut. A few pearls colored to match in with the card were added to balance the design 

Check out these and lots more over at Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps, there is a section just for the New Releases so you don't have to go hunting for them.

Whilst you are there why not click over to the blog and see all of the design teams creations - there will be a new post every day this week! Also don't forget to check out the Facebook Page to keep you up to date with our news 

Thanks for stopping by - now go shop!!!

Elfing around in baubles

Good afternoon! Sunny and warm here today so hard to believe it's November and I'm planning Christmas! 

Today's first post is an adorable little elf from Scrapper's Delights. She is sitting watching the snow fall all around her all:

I started by building a scene using my graphics program. I placed Warm Wishes Elf digital stamp into a digital bauble added 2 further baubles and filled these with snowflakes. I then added in background and printed the whole image. 

I colored Warm Wishes with my Copic markers,  I tried to stay away from traditional Christmas colors and thought the pink and blue were so cute together.

Once colored I matted the picture onto Pink card and then onto my card base. I added silver cord for the bauble ties and added lots of loose glitter to the snow drops for added sparkle.

A very simple card but I think adorable at the same time.

Thanks for stopping by now head on over to the Scrapper's Delights Store to see all of the new releases.

We also have a monthly challenge where you can enter any makes you doWhy not stop by the Scrapper's Delight Facebook page for regular news on and inspiration from my Teamies and keep your eyes peeled on my blog for new releases from them!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Artistic Inspiration - #167 Anything Goes 
Craft Your Passion - #338 Anything Goes 
The Paper Nest Dolls - #11 Anything Goes

Sketch Inspiration

Good Morning, it's a new week we put all the outside furniture away over the weekend and cleaned off the deck getting ready for winter!

Despite that today's card is a reminder of summer. Inspired by Stamping used inspiration pictures whether it's a color collection, sketch or picture. The idea is you use one or more of these in your design but with your own spin on it.

It gave me the opportunity to use a stamp I have had a long time but rarely use:

These were the pictures I chose to use:

I started with my stamped image and colored the flowers with in the color theme using my Copic Markers. I then used a stitched circle die to cut out the image this is the main focus of the card.

Staying within the sketch theme,  I matted my card base with some patterned design paper, a die cut strip and a rectangle of peach colored card, again following the color scheme.

I added my image using foam squares for dimension but felt the card looked a bit bare. Using the same peach colored card I cut 4 corner die cuts making it look as though they were embossed rather than separate parts.

A few Enamel dots finished the sketch theme as well as balanced my design.

  Products used:

  Lili of the Valley Hydrangea Stamp - Retired

  Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Card

  Copic Markers

  Patterned design Paper-from my Stash

  Staples White Card for Base

  Turquoise Card

  Peach Card

  Memory Box Contempo Circle Border Die

  Cheery Lynn Lace Corner Deco B die

  Enamel Dots

Thank you for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave some love in the comments 

 

Snowflakes stick together!

Good morning, I can believe we are still walking around in T-Shirts and it is November! Unfortunately as we live in Michigan I can't see this lasting for long!!!

I'm back today with my 2nd inspiration for Prickley Pear. I'm staying with the winter theme and although this card isn't necessarily a Christmas card it could be used as such:

It's a very simple card, I used a 5x5 inch scalloped card blank and matted it with blue card and snow flake patterned design paper. I then stamped this lovely sentiment from Prickley Pear. It's called Stick Together and I really love the wording. 

I die cut the stamp using a scalloped frame die. I also used the same die on some blue card. I adhered the sentiment using wet glue but then used foam squares on the frame to give it dimension. 

The 3 blue snowflakes were white buttons, I remove the stitch hoops from the backs and colored them to match my design.

Thank you for stopping by, you can find more inspiration from me and my teamies on the Prickley Pear blog and their Facebook page.

O Holy Night

Good afternoon - time is flying by so quickly I can't believe November has arrived already.

It's the time of year when most design teams have a review and new calls. I have decided to leave a few of my teams and concentrate more on the ones I really enjoy being part of. 

This lead to an opportunity to join another team. Tanya the owner of Riley and Company also owns Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps and has given a couple of us the opportunity to work on both teams. As I love both company's stamps I jumped at the chance.

Today is my first showcase for Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps. I got to chose the images I wanted to work with. I love Christmas and the real reason for the season, whilst I love using cute images at this time of year I love the more traditional styles so when I saw the Mary and Baby Jesus stamp I had to have it

I teamed the stamp with the O Holy Night sentiment stamp. The image was colored with my Copic markers but this time I have also used my Polychromo pencils which has added so much more depth. I love the effect and will be using them more!

Once colored I die cut the stamped images and inked around the edge before removing from the die. This is where I had a happy accident, I didn't realize there was green ink on my mat and I ended up picking it up with the blue I was using however it gave a warmer glow to my image and emphasized the green in the image more. 

I matted my card base with some green card and some blue design paper. Ivy die cuts balanced the image. I die-cut a white flower and colored it to match in with the Christmas roses in the image.

Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps have a diverse range of stamps - some for every occasion. whether you need cutesy or more realistic images they carry them. The also have a great range of sentiments and I will be posting more of them over the coming weeks 

Thank you for stopping by and reading my first post for Prickley Pear. You can find more inspiration on their blog and their Facebook page.