Purpleicious!!

Hi everyone,

 

This is going to be a very short post today. I was working in the garden on Saturday and tripped up and fell badly, onto my left arm. Hubby had to get me up, as my left hand was really hurting. I had landed on a paving slab and my hand hit the brick edging, around the flower bed.

 

After cleaning all my cuts, I noticed my wrist was swelling up and getting very black. Just to be sure it wasn't broken, my hubby took me to our local hospital, minor injuries dept. Anyway, they don't think it is broken, just badly bruised. So ice packs and elevation required. (& one handed typing)!!

 

This is the last Saturated Canary stamp I purchased, Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. She is so pretty and I loved her hair. She may be old but new to me.

 

Very briefly, coloured with DInks, a splatter of Frantage and edged with Stickles.

 

Papers, ribbon and flowers from stash.

 

Hope it is warm and sunny, as it is here, wherever you are.

 

Thanks for popping into my blog and for your lovely comments. Annie I will email you re: eBosser.

 

Hugs,

 

Carol S.xx

Gorgeous Ava!

Hi everyone,

 

What a horrible, cold, wet and windy weekend, we have just had in West Sussex. A couple of weeks ago we were in T-shirts, now the heating is back on, as well as the jumpers.

 

Never mind, a good excuse to spend the whole weekend crafting. I have another craft fair to do in Crowborough on Saturday. So I am busy making stock.

 

Before I got stuck into making boxes etc. I had to make my Saturated Canary images into cards. This gorgeous digi is Ava, she is so cute. I coloured her with DI markers.

 

The background papers are from a Marja Vintage Summer Basics pad. It was very painful removing the pages from the pad and even more painful, putting them in my trimmer and cutting into them!!:-(

 

She is so lovely, I felt she should have my best papers!

 

These SC images are so lovely to colour and love the highlights in their eyes. I used a white Sakura pen to enhance them.

I added some Stickles to her bow and her lace edging on her dress. The swirly die cut, was a free die with Papercraft Essentials magazine.

 

 

I have one more SC to post and will hopefully do that in a few days.

 

I ordered 7 of the new Lili of the Valley fairy stamps on Saturday and they have a 20% discount on all orders over £10. It ends tomorrow. I can't wait to get my hands on them. Hopefully, they will arrive in time, for me to be able to make a clock with them, before the weekend fair. No pressure!

 

Gosh I'm posting early tonight, it's just turning midnight. Got another hour to create something more!

 

Thank you for stopping by and I love reading your comments.

 

Hugs,

 

Carol S.xx

 

Saturated Canary, At Last

Hi everyone,

 

Very cool, very wet and windy, here in West Sussex today. More to come tomorrow and over the weekend. Mmm, could be a crafty weekend!

 

I have drooled over Saturated Canary stamps for ever. I just thought they were rather expensive for just one stamp, that you couldn't use any other way. Then I read Pop's tutorial, on how she gets Digis onto watercolour paper. Voila!! It works! I have done this before, when I wanted to print text on a particular area of patterned paper. I had not thought of doing it with thick card, that your printer doesn't like.

 

So a big thank you to Pops!

 

I went straight to SC shop and bought 3 images. This is 'Pint Sized Love'. She looks so like my Granddaughter. She has a cat, so I had to colour it grey, like her Barney. 

 

I took this card with me to a coffee morning yesterday, where I had a stall. It was the first item I sold!

 

I coloured her with Distress Inks, with a touch of Stickles on her bow and the ribbon in her hair.

I added Glossy Accents to her eyes, glasses and the cats eyes and nose. I used Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles to cut the detail around the image. The backing paper is from my Tim Holtz Distress

Idea-ology paper pad.

 

The sentiment is free, from Netty's Cards, where you can download loads of Annette's sentiments. Great fun blog to read too! 

 

 

I have coloured the other 2 images and will get them made up over the next couple of days.

 

Thanks for taking time out of your day, to visit my blog and leaving me such amazing messages. I love to read them all.

 

Hugs,

 

Carol S.xx