Print Candee Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Print Candee blog hop!  The theme this month is Fall/Spring - depending on which hemisphere you're in of course!  I'm excited to be the second stop on the hop.  If you haven't checked out the Print Candee blog then please stop there first so you don't miss out on any of the fun or potential prizes!  

For this card I decided to try and improve my digi skills and play with the images on the computer a bit more.  I used the tree image from Digital Potpourri's Halloween Horrors and the leaf piles and individual leaf from the Digi Butterfly's Fall Leaves Clip Art. It took me a while to figure out the layering and rotating but I got there in the end and created this little scene.  Of course, I had to have some traditional stamping in there so stamped the sentiment and layered the image on embossed card stock.  

After finishing the card I played around with layering some more.  I layered a couple of the leaf piles and then added a label from Assorted Labels to the top.  I stamped names on them, fussy cut them, added cardstock props to the back and ended up with these cute place cards!  I thought they'd be perfect for a table on Thanksgiving.  :) 

Fun stuff huh?  There really is a huge selection of goodies in the Print Candee store and they are always offering specials.  There are also a few prizes to be won on this hop - 2 $10 Print Candee gift certificates and a $15 Two Peas in a Bucket gift certificate!  To increase your chances of winning leave a comment on the Print Candee blog as well as on each of the Design Team's blogs.  You will have until 11:59pm EST on Saturday, October 29th to comment for prizes.

Speaking of the fabulous DT, here's a list of all the blog hop participants so you don't get lost:
              Print Candee Blog
              Jen (Me in my first ever hop!)
              Jocelyn
              Marion
              Kalyn
              Jackie 
              Therese                   

That's all from me for now.  Get hopping over to Jocelyn's blog and check out her fantastic projects!

Print Candee

Hello and Happy Monday!  I am so excited because today I am sharing some projects with you that I created for my first ever guest designer gig!  The fun and fabulous Jocelyn Olsen, Creative Team Co-ordinator for Print Candee, invited me to be the Guest Designer for October.  Now I must confess that while tickled to be asked I was also terrified.  Print Candee is a digital craft company.  I had never used digital goodies before mostly because I am not so hot in the computer skills department.  Things like Photoshop confound me and even trying to add a picture to Word has been a struggle.  (Not to mention the fact that the Craft Cave and computer are at opposite ends of the house from each other so there is a lot of running back and forth).  However, I decided it was time to face my demons and figure this stuff out and I'm so glad I did!  Print Candee has so much cool stuff from clip art to paper packs to templates and even Photoshop tools!  They currently have over 20 different designers so there really is something for everyone's taste and style.    

I used a mixture of Print Candee products and traditional stamping products for my projects.  I started with Digital Potpourri's Halloween Horrors 12x12 paper and the coordinating clipart set.  I stamped this card with the Hero Arts envelope pattern background stamp and a sentiment from Elzybells.  I printed a sheet of the spiderweb paper for the bottom portion of the card and then 3 of the clipart images which I cut and embossed with my Nesties.   

Once I started to get the hang of the whole digital thing I couldn't stop at one card so I made another card and a little treat bag!  The card uses the spiders and the stripy paper from Halloween Horrors, sentiment stamps from Purple Onion Designs and some Gunmetal Stickles on the spiders bodies.  And how cute is that Ribbon Treat Bag huh?  I used more stripy Halloween Horrors paper, one of the two pumpkin images and also a label from Assorted Labels.  The sentiment and little spider are from Elzybells and I got the idea of making the ribbon into a googley eyed bat from Kirsty!    

The crafty possibilities really are endless and now that I'm feeling more confident using the computer I'm looking forward to trying out some more digi projects.  To celebrate my conquering of my digital fear I get to give away a gift to one of my fabulous commenters! Have you dipped your toes into the digital pool yet?  Leave me a comment about your experiences and on Friday I'll draw a random winner to receive a $5 Print Candee gift certificate.  In the meantime check out the Print Candee blog and store to see all the fabulous supplies and projects they have on offer!