Get Well Soon!

Supplies:  Poorly Chester digi from Tales from Pollycraft, Freebie sentiment 

from Marit (scrap-a-licious-times blog)  , copics, machine stitching, 

pp Kaisercraft - Class of 87 collection, dark blue textured cardstock - 

Papermania, pop dots, roller adhesive - Tombow,

A quick card share today - my brother has been unwell and I created this card whilst thinking of him (it's not the card I am sending as I feel it is probably more appropriate for a younger person!).  Not saying he's not young.... but he is my older brother! LOL!

The sentiment is by Marit and is a freebie and is the perfect match to Poorly Chester digi from Pollycraft. 

Entering my card into this week's challenge on Simon Says Stamp - "spots and/or stripes".

Other Challenges

Paper Makeup Stamps - Get Well (must use digi)

Thanks so much for stopping by - hope you have a great day.

Monster Birthday

Supplies - Spike digi from Pollycraft, BG Oliver pp, copics, black tuxedo 

memento ink, Spellbinders oval dies, White card blank - Anita's, glossy accents, 

Number Five stamp - Papermania and tombow runner adhesive.

You know that I am a big fan of Pollycraft - and love what Paula creates.  Here is a fun monster "Spike" from her Critters range available here.

Made this card for a 5th Birthday.  Stamped the "Five" on the reverse of the pp and cut it out and mounted it behind the card aperture which I cut using an oval die.

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you have a wonderful day.

Monster Thanks!

Supplies:  Digital image - Fluffy by Tales from Pollycraft, Orange cardstock - Folia, 

Bazzill Basics - dotted swiss kraft, Sentiment - Pollycraft and Hero Arts, 

white gel pen, copics, scissors and pop dots.

As you know - I love ORANGE! - so I had fun colouring and making this card.  Used the fun monster - "Fluffy" by Tales from Pollycraft.  Added the "Monster" sentiment from this set and the "Thanks" from a Hero Arts set.

I was spotlighted on The Paper Variety for my Masculine Birthday Card - woohoo!

Challenges
Kenny K's Krafty Girlz - Favourite Colour

Thanks for peeking.  Hope you have a wonderful day.

Monster Birthday and a Pollycraft Blog Hop and Freebie

As you know my "baby" was seven recently.  He adores to colour, draw and generally play with all things paper and ink!  A bit like his Mom!

This is the card I made for him, he adored the "shiny bits" and of course the monster made him laugh. 

Supplies:  Digi - Spike by Pollycraft, Canson aqua cardstock, 

pp and foil paper by Smirk,  Fiskars upper crest border punch, 

Spellbinders star die, critters and cogs clear sentiment set by 

Pollycraft, copics BG10, B24, G000 for the monster, glossy accents 

and dimensional adhesive!

I do really love playing with these monsters!!!  You will find them here - Pollycraft.  Paula is soooo talented.
She also had a fun "Critters and Cogs" week on her blog recently and I was a featured blogger - Yipee! - thanks Paula.

I ordered the Critters and Cogs clear sentiment stamp set from Pollycraft last weekend and the package hit my hall floor just in time to make this card.

Paula very kindly does freebies every month and her next freebie is due on the 7th March (TODAY!!!!!) - it's adorable - "Flo Tea Time" be sure to tell her I sent you over when you are saying "thank you".

Paula is also having an amazing blog hop to celebrate the release of her new digis - "Swings and Slides" until this evening (7th March).  Be sure to start here at Emma's Blog and if you get lost - click here.  There are goodies to be won at every stop!!!! woohoo!!! and tons of inspiration - what better way to start a Monday right?

Thanks for peeking and I hope you have a great day.

I only have eyes for you!!! - Digital Freebie

Supplies:  Freebie digital image by Tales from Pollycraft, W R Memory Keepers pp, 

Textured cardstock by Papermania, copics, machine stitching, XCut corner punch, 

while gel pen, googly eyes! and glossy accents.

Happy Valentine's Day to all my blogland friends - I sincerely hope you have a lovely day.

Today I am sharing a "FUN" card.  You know I love all critters!  Here's a new one from Paula over on Tales from Pollycraft and at the moment it's a freebie (until Feb 28th) - just perfect for those fun Valentine's.  Quick - you can get him from HERE.

I coloured him a lovely aqua colour to match the Hippity Hoppity paper by W R Memory Keepers.  I was going to add googly eyes to the sentiment too but decided it was "googly overload!".

Challenges

Sew Many Cards - Valentine's 
CRAFT Challenge - Valentine's 
Simply Create - it's bright in here
Stamp Something - Something for your Valentine
SSDS - Love is in the air

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you have a great day.

Are you feeling a little blue?

Supplies: Fluffy Digi image by Pollycraft Designs, Sentiment by Inkadinkado, 

copics, memento tuxedo black ink, Papermania textured cardstock and copics.

You could always try painting yourself a different colour!  I love this sentiment by Inkadinkado.  I think this sentiment paired with the wonderful "Fluffy" from the Critters and Cogs digital image range by Paula on Pollycraft Designs would bring a smile to anyone's face.

Hope you have a wonderful day and a great start to the weekend.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Baby Card using SRM Stickers

Supplies: pp October Afternoon, Digi by Tales from Pollycraft, Fiskars border punch, 

yellow fimo button I made, Large white card blank, textured cardstock by 

Papermania, copics and pop dots.

Love how this digi by Paula over on Tales from Pollycraft marries so well with the paper range from October Afternoon.  Made this card a while ago (may have shared previously... apologies if I have) but I didn't have a sentiment on it.  I found the perfect thing to finish it off in my SRM Stickers ... just LOVE these stickers.

Hope you have a wonderful day.. and thanks so much for stopping by and if you leave a comment - thank you.  They all mean so much to me... Cheers, Deirdre

Wedding Card

Supplies:  Digi from Tales from Pollycraft, sentiment from Create with TLC, 

pp by Basic Gray, Papermania cardstock, XCut corner punch, 

Quickutz embossing folder, grey thread, stickles and machine stitching.

Quick Share - my boys are back for their first day of school today!.  Have to go do the school run shortly. 

I just adore this gorgeous image by Paula - it was a freebie that Paula gave away a couple of weeks ago.  I coloured it with copics and added free Wordart from Create with TLC.  I also added stickles for a touch of sparkle.

Thanks for peeking.  Hope you have a wonderful day.

Woohoooo!

Just logged on and saw that I am a Pollycraft Favourite!!! woohooo!!!! All I know!!! is that Paula is just a wonderfully talented and kind person - did you see the wonderful freebie for this week's challenge - be sure to check it out HERE.

Thanks so much Paula - loved featuring on the Pollycraft Monday Challenge as much as taking part.  Be sure to check out the wonderful offer Paula is running on her digis here.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Happy Happy Birthday

Quick card share - I made this using one of Paula's wonderful digital images.  I cut it out, coloured with copics and added glossy accents to the icing on the cupcake.

The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and I used Spellbinders Labels 8 and scalloped Circles Large to die cut the Bazzill dotted swiss cardstock.  Added various sized gems in pink.

Thanks for peeking and I hope you have a great day.

Flash those Freebies! Pollycraft challenge

Last week Paula of Tales from Pollycraft asked us all to make a card with one of her freebies - here was mine.  By posting and linking the card she then sent us this ADORABLE freebie called "Tortoise hugs" via email and this week's challenge is "think green!".  I matted and layered this adorable image and paired it with some word art from Create with TLC.  Made this as a Birthday card for a friend who celebrates her birthday the end of this month - so I am also entering it into Pollycraft's Monday Challenge - "Happy Birthday".

Supplies:  Digi image from Tales from Pollycraft, Wordart from 

Create with TLC, Textured cardstock from Papermania, 

Labels 8, CB embossing folder swiss dots, copics and pop dots

I am tossing the idea around in my head of adding glossy accents to both of the turtle shells.... am loving glossy accents at the moment!! LOL!!

Paula - hope you are enjoying your Birthday "week".... oh, did I mention.... the next part of the challenge .... Paula is letting us have a choice of digi (any digi!) from her shop... isn't that so kind.  Paula - thanks for sharing your wonderful talent and thanks for the wonderful freebies.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you are having a good week.

Sketch Saturday and Tales From Pollycraft Challenge

Made this card using this week's sketch from Sketch Saturday.  Check it out here.  I made the card to also enter Paula's challenge - Flash those freebies! over on Tales from Pollycraft.  Paula wants us all to make a card using one of her freebies, post it and she will email us a new freebie... who doesn't LOVE freebies?

I used "Flo" who was a freebie on Tales from Pollycraft a few weeks ago.  Paired her with Cosmo Cricket paper, cardstock I ran through a CB embossing folder, I coloured Flo with copics and added lots of tiny pearls.  Am also entering it into the Pollycraft challenge this week - "Bold and Bright!".

Thanks so much for peeking and I hope you find time to "flash those freebies too!".  Hope you are having a great weekend.

I do love Fluffy!

Isn't he just the most adorable monster?  I have added googly eyes to him (odd shaped and mis matched googly eyes no less!)

I had a batch of these "fluffy's" coloured, so I added him to a card blank with pop dots and added this wonderful sentiment sticker from SRM stickers.  Just love these stickers.

Was going to enter it into Paula's challenge this week - if you create a card using one of her freebies you get another freebie emailed to you... how cool is that?  Think I bought Fluffy from her shop...oh no!!!!!! will have to make another!  Check out the details here.

But I then realised I can enter it into SRM Stickers current challenge - clean and simple.  Details here.  yipee!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and for leaving such lovely comments.  Hope you have a great Wednesday.

A funny frog card!

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Here is a card I made using a wonderful image by Paula (Tales from Pollycraft).  It was a freebie a while ago, remember Paula does AMAZING freebies on Friday's, so be sure to check out her site today!.

Supplies: Image from Tales from Pollycraft, WordArt from Create with TLC, 

Papertrey ink ribbon, pp from Cosmo Cricket - Early Bird Range, 

Martha Stewart border punch, machine stitching, 

Quickutz Cookie cutter circle dies, spellbinders scalloped circles large, 

copics, pop dots, glossy accents and googly eyes!

I added wordart from Create with TLC - Times fun when you're having flies!!!!!  - so fun.  Added glossy accents to the frog so that he looks a little shiney!  makes you want to touch him and added googly eyes for the extra bit of fun.  The fly came from my stash, Papertrey Ink ribbon and pop dots!.

Thanks so much for stopping by - I hope you have a terrific day and wonderful weekend.

Sketch Saturday - Week Four

It is so hard to believe that the month of June is nearly over..... my time at Sketch Saturday just whizzed by.  Thanks so much for having me as a Guest Designer - I had a blast.

  This week's sketch is here

and here is what I did with it.

Supplies Digital image from Tales from Pollycraft, pp Cosmo Cricket - Early Bird, 

textured cardstock by Papermania, pearls by Papermania, 

image and pearls coloured with copics, misc buttons, 

misc ribbon from stash, pop dots and glossy accents.

This sketch was so much fun to work with.  I used a digital image called "New Home" that I got as a freebie recently over on Tales from Pollycraft (thanks Paula!), coloured with copics, added glossy accents and matted and layered with cardstock/patterned paper from the Early Bird range by Cosmo Cricket.  I then Added some ribbon from my stash along with matching green buttons (unknown source! again from my stash).  I used copic YG03 to colour the pearls the same shade of green in the digi and hey presto... card done!.

Again I would like to thank Paula for inviting me to be Guest Designer for the month of June - I really enjoyed my time on Sketch Saturday.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you get time to play along this week. 

A couple of things and a freebie!

I want to post about a couple of things today!.  Firstly - as you know I have been Guest Designer for Sketch Saturday for the past few weeks as a result of Paula's invitation.  Paula is ULTRA talented and does freebie digital images on her site on Fridays.  I just HAD to post today's - she is called "Flo - the simple things". 

If you would like to download Flo - just go to Paula's site - Tales from Pollycraft.  Wouldn't she make the perfect Dad's card from a little girl?.

Secondly - SRM Stickers are doing a blog hop and featuring the new Cosmo Cricket Range - Delovely and boy is it LOVELY!!!!.  Be sure to check it out and start on Jenyfur's blog here.

My DS's are winding down from school, although over a week still left to go... I may not get a chance to post here as much as I would like but will still be keeping an eye on all my friends blogs!.... my craft space is in the attic and boy, is it hot here in the Summer.  So I am going to try and get out and have fun with the boys during their holidays.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful Friday/weekend.

Sketch Saturday - Week Two

Where did the week go?  Week Two of my Guest Designer spot on Sketch Saturday already!  I am sooo enjoying myself. 

 

Here is what I came up with.... used one of Paula's cute monsters from her Critters and Cogs set and he is called "Star".  I threaded the star on some embroidery floss and tied it around his finger removing the digi image part completely.  I coloured him with copics and used pp from Sassafra Monstrosity range. I cut him out, layered him on Bazzill dotted swiss cardstock in black and then matted and layered using Papermania textured cardstock in various colours.  I also used my machine to add some stitching.  Then I added some stickles to the star and perfect pearls to his teeth to give added/raised dimension. 

Hope you get a chance to play along with Sketch Saturday this week.  Check out the challenge and DT creations here.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Guest Designer for Sketch Saturday

First ... just let me get this out of my system...woohooooooooo!!!!!! okay... we are all set..... !
A number of months ago the super talented Paula from Pollycraft also a Design Team member for Sketch Saturday contacted me and asked if I would be her Guest Designer for Sketch Saturday in June.  So after I danced around my kitchen.... I quickly responded "YES!!!!".

This is the sketch for this week

Supplies: Fluffy digi from Tales from Pollycraft, Kraft Cardstock, Cuttlebug embossing folder, 

pp by SMIRK for him range, Sentiment from PTI, brads from Papermania, pop dots, 

copics and Quickutz cookie cutting circles.

A number of you will recognise Paula's wonderful image - "Fluffy" from her Critters & Cogs Range.  I saw him and just dashed over to buy him, isn't he just ADORABLE?..... I teamed him up with the new SMIRK for him range (paper/ribbon) and some brads in my stash that matched.  I used the same kraft coloured cardstock to do some layering of textures rather than colour (for a change!!)

Thanks so much for peeking and I really hope you get a chance to play along with Sketch Saturday this week.

I just realised that my owl card with the wonderful Mami Doodles Owl image was featured on the CARDS blog yesterday in the challenge - make cards with a window!.... still doing the happy dance!.  LOL!

"Fluffy" and some Word Art

I just can't get enough of this amazing image by Paula over on Tales from Pollycraft.  She very kindly does wonderful freebies on Fridays.  This guy is "Fluffy", one of her Critters out of her "Critters and Cogs" Range of digital stamps.  As soon as I saw him I had to dash over and buy him 'coz he is just sooooo much fun.

I paired him with a freebie Word Art sentiment from Create with TLC.  You can find it here.  Paulette just creates the most amazing fun Word Art pieces.  Don't know about you but I have the perfect person to send this too....  LOL!!!  I kept it very simple as I think Fluffy and the sentiment do all the work!.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

What's on your Desk Wednesday (WOYDW)

Okay... so I am kinda horrified that I am posting this photo!! LOL!... but here it goes... my desk on a Wednesday.  Thankfully the sun was shining when I took this shot a little while ago but now it's behind BIG clouds.  You will see working from left to right I have a container with stamps, ribbons, more ribbons, embellishments in a clear container (most still in their packaging), copics, cleaners, jamjars with fimo buttons and a light! 

Towards the front of the desk there are some PTI stamp sets I plan on using, lens cover for my camera ! LOL!, ink, pens, adhesive and my trusty A4 Bristol Board that I use when colouring with copics.... oh, nearly forgot... my brother sewing machine. 

Can you see those wonderful TGF stamp sets??? woohoo, arrived the other day - haven't cut them up yet.... my first TGT rubba...!! thanks Marie (and of course my Dream Team team mates).  Would you like to see more desks?  Check out Julia's blog here.

You might have spotted this card on my desk drying....

Another card using with "white space".  Sentiment from PTI, digital image was a freebie from Tales from Pollycraft.  Coloured with copics, stickles on the hearts and wings I also added doodles with a black pen.  Thanks for peeking.  Hope you have a great day.