A Pollycraft Christmas Fun reminder...

Hello!  Good morning!  This is just a quick note as I am on my way to pick up my parents from the airport... They have come from NZ to spend Christmas with us here in Greece... their first ever cold Christmas!  I doubt we'll be having a BBQ for Christmas this year!

There's no new challenge at Pollycraft today as we have a special four week long challenge running at the moment with four fabulous prizes!

The challenge theme is Christmas Fun, so show us your Christmas projects!  We love to see all your fabulous creations every week!

Bye for now!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

Giveaway Winner!

Hi!  I nearly forgot about that giveaway I had!

So, without further ado, here's the random number thingy....

Anita, that's you!  I hope you enjoy them!  Want to send me an email with your preferred postal address and I will get them sent out to you ASAP?!

For those of you who didn't win this time, I will be crocheting up some more flowers to give away soon.  I am also planning another giveaway just as soon as I get everything together and photographed, so stay tuned!

Arabella

Gratitude

Good morning!  It's time for a new challenge at Little Miss Muffet stamps!  I know I've said it before, but I can't believe how fast the days are flying by at the moment!  

Our challenge this week is Gratitude/Thanks

I have made another smaller card this time (11cm x 11cm) and used one of the hats from The Hatters.  When you purchase any of the Hatter Girls, they come with the hat as a separate digi as well which is great for tags or smaller cards!

Here's is my card:

I have followed this week's sketch at Sketch Saturday.  

The papers are from October Afternoon and the sentiment is a rub on from Pebbles.  The tag is from Maya Road and the seam binding is from The Ribbon Girl. The hat is coloured with copics (see details below) and I have poked holes with my pergamano pokey tool freehand (for the rustic look) and stitched in the holes.  Other than that I have kept it pretty simple!

Challenges:

Sketch Saturday #182: Sketch
Crafty Creations Challenges: Give Thanks or Gratitude
Little Darlings Challenge #12: Thank You
Going Grey with Scrap Creations: Thank You

Here's a close-up of the hat:

And here are the copics I used:

Have a lovely day!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Athens

A splash of blue

Good morning!  Dinner last night went really well at the boss's house.  They loved the NZ lamb shanks... phew!   I was a bit worried as they have told me before that they don't really like the taste of lamb, but I think they really just don't like their lamb rare, so slow cooked lamb shanks was a good solution.

I have a small card to share today that I made for the Do You Stack Up challenge this week which is A Splash of Blue.  This is an 11cm x 11cm card rather than my usual 14.5cm x 14.5cm.

The papers are a mixture from Jilly Bean Soup, Bo Bunny and maybe Echo Park.  The seam binding is from The Ribbon Girl and the button is from my stash.  The sentiment is from LOTV.  This little fairy is a clear stamp from Pergamano and I affectionately think of her as the loo fairy as she really looks like she's sitting on the loo to me.  

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:

Do You Stack Up #46: A Splash of Blue

Here's a close up of the 'loo' fairy:

I coloured this one a while ago and I can't find my photo of the copics I used sorry....

Have a lovely day!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Athens

I'm a Tiddly Inker!

Woohoo!  Guess what?!  I made it on to the Tiddly Inks Design Team! {...happy dance...} I'm sooo super excited!  I have been in love with Christy's gorgeous images for ever so long and I'm very excited to be working with such a talented and lovely group of designers!

Here are the team links in case you haven't visited any of these super talented ladies before... You might even be able to spot a few new names on the list!  There's me, Joey, Kindra and Tracy... all newbies.

AMANDA of CCC

ARABELLA of ChickieChirps

CHERYL of Ink Trap

JEN of Deconstructing Jen

JOEY of Joey’s World

KINDRA of Creations by Kindra

LARISSA of Car-d-elicious

LOU of Loopy Lou’s Thoughts

MARLENA of Paper Paradise

MELISSA of MelissaMade

POPS of Pops Cards

STEPHANIE of Savory Stamping

TRACY of Stamping Seasons

So today is my first official post for the Tiddly Inkers and it happens to be the start of a two week challenge (#74) with the theme Anything Goes.

I made a card using the sweet Christmas Pixie who I have had sitting around waiting to pop onto a card for ages now.

I followed this sketch from my new teamie Jen and boy was it a hard one!  

The papers are from Crate Paper as is the sticker.  I cut the tag with my Slice machine and crocheted the flower.  The charm and button are from my stash.  I added lots of Stickles around the place and did a bit of stitching.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Deconstructing Jen #27: Sketch (a friendly challenge yourself challenge)

The Crafty Pad #148: Festive Cheer (Red, Green, Gold etc...)

2 Sisters Challenge blog #66: Let it Sparkle

So Artful Challenges: Sew Pretty

Floweret #8: Christmas

Here's a close up:

Unfortunately I forgot to record my copic numbers... sorry.

Have a lovely day all!  I had better get a move on with my food prep for tonight's dinner party!

Ciao!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Athens

Thank you

Hello!  It's Tuesday!  Yes, I'm sure you knew that already, but I just have to remind myself sometimes.  Tonight I am cooking at the boss's house for a manly dinner... want to know what they are having?

Well I'll tell you anyway...

For nibbles they will have mini leek and mushroom tarts and crostini with smoked salmon, cream cheese and lime and crostini with sugar cured beef, goat's cheese and red onion relish.

For a starter they are having peking duck pancakes

For their main course they are having slow cooked lamb shanks served with creamy truffle mashed potato and a medley of roasted vegetables

For their dessert they are having individual pavlovas with fresh fruit, whipped cream and icecream.

Now, on to more crafty things.  Sadly today is my last day as a design team member for Karber Digital stamps.  I have really enjoyed playing with their fun and super cute images and I'm definitely going to get a lot of use out them.

I hope you get a chance to check out the Karber Digital blog.  I love my teamie Kelly's cards!

Here is my last card for Karber Digital... sniff sniff...

This image is a slightly different style from the other ones I chose to work with, but I really like it.  It's a quick and easy colour and is great for an any occasion card.  The image is called Birds.  The papers are a mixture from my stash, but I can spot Bo Bunny and Crate Paper in there.  I coloured the image with copics and inked the edges with Distress inks, first in yellow and then in green.  The sentiment is a rub on from Pebbles and the tag is cut with my Slice machine.  The layout was inspired by the November SFYTT from I{heart}2stamp.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

I{heart}2stamp: November SFYTT

House of Gilli #21: Flourishes

iCopic Lover #57: Thanksgiving

Here's a close-up:

Here are the copics I used:

Have a lovely day!  I will be back shortly with an announcement!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #120 - Christmas Fun

Good morning all!  It's Monday again!  We got the weekend off work again... yay!  I had a bit of a stomach bug though, so my mojo battery was running a bit low unfortunately...  I did watch lots of Fringe though.

We have a new challenge at Pollycraft this week that is going to run for one whole month!  We know everyone is busy around this time of year, so we are making things easy.  Our theme for this special four week challenge is

Christmas Fun

We will have four winners and so we have four wonderful sponsors offering four wonderful prizes:

Rainbow Studios is offering one winner a Musical Amelia stamp

Bunny Zoe's Crafts is offering one winner a £10 voucher to spend in the store

The Ribbon Girl is offering one winner a green mini ribbon kit

Crafty Emma's Store is offering one winner a £10 voucher to spend in the store

How great is that?!  Remember you have to be in to win!

This week we also have four fabulous new release stamps in store from the Swings and Slides Merry Christmas collection to introduce to you and that's not all {squeal}... Paula is offering a freebie today over on the Pollycraft blog!!!

Head on over to the Pollycraft Monday blog to check out all five of the new stamps!  The DT had loads of fun with them!  For my card, I used one of the brand new Swings and Slides images called Snow Buds:

How cute are these two?! The papers I have used are from Crate Paper and I think the sentiment is too.  The snowflakes are from Make it Crafty and the ribbon and button are from my stash.  The image is coloured with copics (see details below).

Challenges:

I Did It Creations #82: Snowmen

Lollipop Crafts #58: Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time #89: Anything Goes

PanPastel UK #9: Frosty and Bright

Paper Sundaes #96: Beautiful Bows

Here's a close-up:

Here are the copics I used:

Gotta run!  I'm late!!!!

Ciao!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

How Many Fingers?

Hello!  Sadly the weekend is drawing to an end and it's back to work we go tomorrow, but at least we have had a weekend!  

Here's a card I made a wee while ago and forgot to share...

The image is a rubber stamp from CC Designs called Phillip and the papers are from Crate Paper.  The cut sentiment is done with my Slice Elite and the stamped sentiment is from Inkadinkadoo.  I coloured Phillip with copics (see details below).  

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges #20: Stitching

One Stitch at a time #89: Anything Goes

Stamptacular Sunday #139: Boy oh Boy
Sweet Stampin' Challenges: Birthday (in honour of 2nd birthday celebration)

Here's a close-up of the cute Phillip:

Here are the copics I used:

I hope you all had a lovely weekend!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

New Releases - Audrey and Hope

Please enter here if you are interested in my Follower Thank you Giveaway.

Good morning!  Yes, I'm on time this morning : )  We have two new lovely ladies being released at Little Miss Muffet stamps today... Audrey and Hope.  Head over to the Little Miss Muffet challenge blog to check out the fabulous cards my teamies created with these two new images!

For my card I decided to use Audrey...

The papers I used are from the October Afternoon Sidewalks range.  I cut the clouds with my Slice machine and the corner embellishments are from Make it Crafty.  I coloured Audrey with copics (see details below) and added Stickles to the design on her pants and to the clouds.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Shelley's Images: Anything Goes
Freshly Brewed Challenges - November: Anything Goes
Try it on Tuesday: Anything Goes plus Wish you were here

Here's a close up of Audrey...  I tried out a new skin colour combo... a bit pinker and darker than usual.  It's growing on me.

Here are the copics I used:

Have a lovely day!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

Sssssorry.....

If you are interested in my wee thank you giveaway for Followers, click HERE.

Hi There!  I forgot to post my New Release post this morning for Little Miss Muffet stamps! We have four new releases to showcase this week.  Today we have two from the Animal Friends collection and tomorrow there will be two Little Miss girls to share. Head on over to the Little Miss Muffet challenge blog to check out the beautiful creations from the DT.

For my card today I decided to use Echo the Snake.  He comes with and without the gift wrapping bow.

The papers I used are mostly from Echo Park and the Snake card is from My Mind's Eye.  I coloured Echo with copics (see details below) and I added a Googly eye to soften his look a bit as the actual digi drawing is quite realistic.  

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Alota Rubber Stamps #71: Dots

Bearly Mine Challenges #23: One for the boyz

Sassy Cheryl's Challenge #90: Anything Goes

Sir Stampalot Challenge November: Blue and Green

Here are the copics I used:

Have a lovely day!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

A wee thank you giveaway for Followers

Hello!  It's me!  I have been thinking for a while about having some giveaways.  So far I have only organised the most important one which is for Followers...    So if you are a Follower of this blog, keep reading!

When April Blackbird and I started this blog a year or so ago we didn't have much of a clue what we were doing and somehow as we have bumbled along we seem to have collected a few people along the way who actually read our posts!  I find this totally amazing and I am very thankful to have met such lovely people in blogland!

So to show my appreciation I wanted to have a special giveaway...  I crocheted 20 of my wee flowers (10 different colours, 2 of each colour).  The flowers are roughly 3cm across and are made from bamboo cotton and crocheted with love!    I will also include a 6x6 paper pad from Crate Paper just for fun... 

Here's a picture:

So, if you are a Follower, all you have to do to get your name into the draw is leave a comment on this post!  I will keep this open until November 23rd.

Have a lovely Wednesday!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

Christmas Wishes

Good morning!  It's another chilly grey morning here.... winter is definitely here in Athens already!  I'm sure I remember our previous Novembers being much milder than this!

I have another cute Karber digital stamp to share with you today.  This one is called Elf Gift.  Head over to the Karber blog to check out Kelly's fabulous card for today... I just love the sentiment she used!

Here's my card (using the November sketch at I{heart}2stamp):

The papers are all from Crate Paper (as is the button).  The seam binding ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl and the sentiment is from LOTV.  I coloured the wee elf with copics (see details below).  Once again I had the hardest time colouring the reds!  I got too much of the dark red in the shadows on the pants and it kept smearing into the lighter areas, so now there is not much light differentiation.  Oh well...

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

I{heart}2stamp: November Sketch

Cards for men #23: Christmas cards

Crafty Boots: Fantasy

Here is the usual close-up:

And here are the copics I used:

Have a lovely day!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

Friends

Good morning!  It's Monday again... time for a new challenge at Pollycraft!  There were some lovely entries into the sketch challenge last week!  

This week Joey has chosen the challenge theme and it's a good one... she chose Friends/Friendship.  Head on over to the Pollycraft challenge blog to check out the wonderful samples from the DT!

Our sponsor this week is Quixotic Paperie and they are offering the winner a 10 voucher to their store!

For my card, I decided to use Blossoming Friendship from the Spring Things collection:

The papers are from October Afternoon and the sentiment is from Inkadinkado.  The flourishes are from Maya Rd and the seam binding ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl.  The crochet flower is one I made.  

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday #181: Sketch

Paper Sundaes #95: Digital Stamp

Challenge up your Life #56: Friendship

Here are the copics I used:

Have a lovely Monday!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece