Picking apples

Hello crafting pals!

I've been mulling over the Twofer Challenge for *checks calendar* a whole month now and nothing appeared in my mind, so the conscious side of my brain will just have to take over! Come and see what I've been up to:

CARD ONE

I've used a set by Clearly Besotted called Apples and Pears which feature... yes, you've guessed it, the eponymous fruit! I chose the apples for this teacher celebration card, stamping it directly onto a snippet of lined designer paper (from a favourite retired Stampin' Up pack called Storytime, which I'm using very, very slowly!)

I blended a little Tumbled Glass distress ink onto the paper to suggest a sky and coloured the apples with alcohol markers.

The apples piece was mounted at an angle onto another offcut of the Storytime papers, trimmed to size, and I tucked a tiny striped snippet under one side.

The teacher-praising sentiment is from Simply Said by Clearly Besotted and I used my stamping platform to stamp it several times to get a really strong black. Before attaching everything to the card base, I added a couple of staples as an embellishment.

CARD TWO
The second card is quite different!

I decided to make a toffee apple by stamping the apples and trimming out just one, colouring it and adding a card stock 'stick'. I was going to add glossy accents to give it the proper toffee-ish shine but my heart wasn't really in it. Earlier, I had opened some new stamps and the thin plastic wrapper was still on the table and suddenly an idea happened!

I wrapped the apple in the plastic film, securing it at the back with sticky dots and then, with breath held in case it all fell apart, tied a piece of twine tightly around it to create a WRAPPED toffee apple!! Cunning huh?

I cut a couple of panels with my stitched rectangle dies from Heffy Doodles and used my stamping platform to stamp this sentiment from the Apples and Pears set on the smaller one. The panels were layered together on a card base and the toffee apple attached with glue dots.

Here are my cards hanging out together:

CHALLENGES
I'm linking both cards up with the Twofer Challenge where the theme is Fruit and the requirement is two cards of DIFFERENT designs, for DIFFERENT occasions, using the SAME stamp, stencil or die; Card one was made with lots of snippets of designer paper (the card base is the only thing that isn't a snippet) so I'll enter it into the Snippet Playground :)

AND IN OTHER NEWS
Technology is an extraordinary thing isn't it, and enables us to do all sorts of things we wouldn't normally be able to do. I appreciate it most though for making me laugh. Autocorrect has me laughing on numerous occasions - for example, the time I was texting my impatiently waiting daughter that I was just popping into one more shop and then I'd be with her. 'I'll just be a mo,' I texted, and then spent the next five minutes doubled up in hysterics as autocorrect decided I meant 'I'll just be a month'! What has made me laugh today was my own typing error. I started this post with what I assumed was 'Hello crafting pals!' but which, when I read it back, turned out to be 'Hello rafting pals!' I'm currently imagining you all coping amazingly with the white water rapids!

Do you have any Autocorrect or typo stories? Do share!

Hugs,