Polkadoodle Challenge - Spring

 It's time for a new Polkadoodle challenge and this week the theme is

Anything Goes

The DT were challenged with a spring theme so I've done something a bit different and used Jogging Jane and coloured her with Promarkers.  The backing paper is a really old one that I found in my stash (trying to use up what I have!) and is from Sugar Birdies.  I've dotted liquid pearls around the edge and hand wrote the sentiment.  Flowers are from the Pretty Paper Flowers pack 2

Good luck with the challenge!

Polkadoodles Challenge - Valentine

It's time for a new Polkadoodles challenge and the theme as always is

Anything Goes

The DT were challenged to make a Valentine's card and I've used the rather Some Bunny Adores You digi, coloured with Promarkers and layered onto a really old paper from Sugar Birdies (I'm trying to use up all my oddments!)  The sentiment comes with the digi and I've added it along with some wooden hearts, waxed cord and a heart charm, all from my stash.

Good luck with the challenge!  I'd like to enter the following:

2 Crafty Crazy Critters:  Anything Goes
A Bit More Time To Craft:  Anything Goes
Country View Challenges:  Love
Let's Craft and Create:  Love is in the Air

I Love Promarkers - Challenge 386 - The Paper Shelter

Welcome to a new I ❤ Promarkers challenge!  The theme is

More Than One Layer

And we are sponsored by The Paper Shelter.  We were given this cute image - Wearing Spring and I've coloured her up using Promarkers.  I've rifled through my stash and found these really old papers from Polkadoodles - Sugar Birdies cd - plus large flowers that I'd printed onto thin card and also vellum so I've layered them up.  I didn't have a lot of the papers so had to carefully piece them together!

I've stamped the sentiment with one I got free in a magazine some years ago and the half pearls are from my stash.  Good luck with the challenge!

I'd like to enter the following:

Lemon Shortbread:  Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door:  Anything Goes
Make My Monday:  Lots of Flowers
CD Sunday:  Anything Goes

Polkadoodle Challenge - Anything Goes or Flowers

It's time for a new Polkadoodle challenge and the theme as always is

Anything Goes

The DT were challenged to make something for Mother's Day that isn't a card and to add flowers.
I've used flowers printed from the Sugar Birdies CD - I've had these in my stash for quite some time and I'm trying to use up what I already have!  I've used one of the Fanciful Circles dies and also a Stitched and Pierced die.

The buttons and embroidery thread are from my stash and I've used a Sizzix and a Clearly Besotted die for the wording.

Good luck with the challenge!  I'd like to enter the following:

Crafting With An Attitude:  Anything Goes
Crafty Creations:  Anything Goes
Creative Moments:  Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday:  Occasions

Colour Crazy Challenge - Week 23 - Scrap N Dipity

It's time for a new Colour Crazy Challenge and the theme as always is

Anything Goes

This week we are sponsored by Scrap N Dipity and I've used this fab image called Fenna:  My New Glasses.  I've coloured her with Promarkers and layered her onto a kraft card blank.  The flowers are from a very old Polkadoodles cd - Sugar Birdies as I found lots of old papers in my stash and these had been printed onto thin card and also vellum so I've layered them up and added a black button to each centre.

Good luck with the challenge!  I'd like to enter the following:

Crafting With Friends:  Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft:  Anything Goes
I Love Promarkers:  Anything Goes with option of circles
Little Red Wagon:  Flowers
Try It On Tuesday:  She's Got The Look

Polkadoodle Tutorial - Flower Pegs!

We've started a new feature over on Polkadoodles and the Design Team will be sharing some tutorials just before the challenge post goes live each Friday.  I'm starting the ball rolling with a rather simple but pretty way of using pegs!

You will need the following:

Sugar Birdies cd
6 wooden pegs
Glue
Scissors
1 A4 sheet of thin white card
1 A4 sheet of clear vellum

From the Sugar Birdies cd, print off one of the flower sheets so that you get 4 sets on a sheet of A4 card.  Do the same with a sheet of clear vellum.  Put the card back through your printer and print a contrasting block colour on the reverse.
 

Cut out one set of the card flowers (6) and two sets of the vellum flowers (12)

Next, layer up the card and vellum flowers - keep the vellum layers at the top

Gently curl the petals to give them some dimension

 And then glue to the pegs - make sure you don't glue the bit where the spring goes!

 

You could add a button to the centre and thread some twine through - I was lazy and couldn't find any black buttons!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Shelly's Images:  April Showers Bring May Flowers
Crafting For All Seasons:  No Stamps Allowed
Hambo Hoedown:  Anything But A Card
Creative Card Crew:  Handmade Flowers
Unstampabelles:  Anything But A Card

Papers:  Sugar Birdies cd from Polkadoodles
Everything else:  My stash / under the kitchen sink

Polkadodle Challenge 16 - New Home

It's a busy Friday again!  The Simply Create Too challenge post is below and coming soon will be the Jellypark challenge post!  But for now its Polkadoodles and the new challenge theme is:

New Home

I've made a posh bottle tag for a change and used papers from Polkadoodles (I don't know which cd they are from but I found them in my Polkadoodle pile of scraps!)  I've used my fancy X Cut dies to make the shapes and added a dotted line around the edge with a black fineliner pen.

The tree and birdie image are from Sugar Birdies and I printed the sheet almost 4 years ago when I made samples for its launch!  I decoupaged the birdies and the tree and added stickles here and there.  I handwrote the sentiment with a Sizzix tag and the ribbons are generous donations from my cousin Claire and were left over from when she made her Wedding stationery!

Good luck with the challenge!  I'd like to enter the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks:  Trees
DRS Designs:  Bows
Hanna and Friends:  Anything But a Card
Crafting For All Seasons: No Stamps Allowed
Sisterhood of Crafters:  Animals

Papers:  Polkadoodles
Image:  Polkadoodles, Sugar Birdies cd
Dies:  X Cut fancy dies and Sizzix tags
Sentiment:  Handwritten 
Ribbons:  Donation

Polkadoodle Challenge 4 - Monochrome or Monochromatic

Today is like buses - one single blog post all week and then three come along all at once!  My Simply Create Too challenge offering is the post below, and Jellypark will be along shortly, but for now its the turn of Polkadoodles and the theme this week is:

Monochrome or Monochromatic

I've gone way back and used two butterflies from Sugar Birdies which I've then layered onto a larger card blank and the little black scalloped edges are actually lots of heart punches added just so you can see the tops.  I don't have the fancy scalloped edge dies that would have been big enough (I have an old red Sizzix machine which is too small for the Grand Nesties!)  so I have to improvise!

I've seperated each of the layers with foam pads and added a fine line of stickles around the edges.  Also added some half pearls and then black bows from ribbon I found in my stash which I must have had for ages because I can't remember where I got it from!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Dutch Dare:  Winged Things
Pixie Dust Studio:  Anything But Square
Creative Moments:  Neutral Colours
Whimsy Inspiration:  Fancy Edges
Craft Room Challenge:  Monochrome
Shopping Our Stash:  Use Your Oldest Ribbon

Images:  Sugar Birdies cd from Polkadoodles
Punches:  Heart
Everything else:  My stash 

Polkadoodle Challenge 46 - Give Thanks & Blog Hop!

It's Friday again and time for another Polkadoodle challenge but this week it is one with a difference! Not only do you get the chance to win some fab Polkadoodle products by entering the challenge which is:

Give Thanks

But there are lots more chances to win some Polkadoodle products by visiting each DT member in the blog hop! And there is more! But wait - I need to show my card for this weeks' challenge!

I've used the flowers from Sugar Birdies, layered up and curled the edges then added a very large bling gem to the centres! The stamping around the edges is from the Daisy Doodles stamp plate and it has to be one of my favourite stamps as it is so versatile! The sentiment is handwritten.

So, onto the blog hop and the candy that you could win! If you've come to my blog from Jenny then you are going through the list in the correct order. If not, don't worry as you can still visit us all! The letter you need to collect from me is

S

And here is the candy you could win by leaving me a comment on this post!

In the picture above - you will get a copy of Paper Boutique Vol 2 Creative Christmas, tube of clear Doodle Dewdrops, pack of Fru Fru Boutique ribbon in candy reds, a Fairy Polly rubber stamp, and a Seasons Greeting sentiment rubber stamp, collectively worth over £26!

There is more but at time of publishing I'd not yet got myself sufficiently organised to take a photo - so that will be added!!

Nikky has been very very generous and has offered each visitor to our blogs during the duration of the blog hop a special code for the Polkadoodles website which provides 10% discount! And with free postage and packing over £5 to worldwide destinations and no minimum order amount, this is an offer you cannot afford to miss out on! Just type in HOPPITYHOP10 at checkout and 10% will be deducted from your order!

Put the letter in a safe place, leave me a comment, and now hop to Enfys who will show you what candy she has to offer!

The Blog Hop will end at 12noon on Sunday 28 November along with the challenge, so good luck and happy hopping!

• Papers: Sugar Birdies
• Stamped border: Daisy Doodles stamp sheet
• Sentiment: Handwritten
  

Polkadoodle Challenge 37 - Easel Card

It's Friday and welcome to another Polkadoodle challenge! This week Brenda is setting the challenge, and what a challenge it has been for me! She has asked for:

An Easel Card

And I've never made one before! So after a bit of research and some help from the Design Team (thanks Kris!) I made my very first easel card! I'm always a bit behind with what's in fashion, so no surprise that I've never made one until now!

Once I realised that I could not make the card from just one sheet of A4 cardstock, it was quite easy!
I've used papers and flowers from Sugar Birdies as these were already printed (my printer ran out of ink!) and in my stash just waiting to be used. I'm a big fan of these flowers and I do like using them!

All I've done is curled their petals and added pink and silver sead beads to the centres.The calendar pad is from The Range (10 for 99p - so I've another 9 to make!) and I've just done a bit of doodling and edge inking and rounding.

Quite quick and easy once I'd sussed out how to make it! Hope you can join in with the challenge this week - its open until Sunday 26 September at 12noon GMT.

• All paperbased elements: Sugar Birdies from Polkadoodles
• Calendar tabs: The Range
• Everything else: My stash
  

Polkadoodle Challenge 32 - Acetate or Vellum

It's Friday again so time for another Polkadoodle challenge! This week Stacey has set the challenge (and I think she wishes she'd picked something else!) but I love using vellum so I had no problems with it!

So the challenge this week is to print onto either vellum or acetate in your creation. Deadline for the challenge is Sunday 22 August at 12noon GMT and please remember the maximum challenges is 10. Pop over to the challenge blog to log your entry and also to see the amazing Aquamarker competition too as there is still time to enter that!

I've made two cards this week for the challenge as they are only A6 in size and I'd printed enough papers and flowers to make two.

The backing papers and flowers are all from the Sugar Birdies cd. Papers have been printed at A5 size so I get a smaller pattern and too the vellum flowers which I've simply cut out, layered and ruffled the petals. I've added pink seed beads to the centres.

The sentiment has been handwritten with a Sharpie marker (I was too lazy to go looking for my stamps!) along with the doodled lines.

Hope you can join us this week!

• Backing papers and flowers: Sugar Birdies cd
• Everything else: My stash
  

My Hero!

I'm quickly catching up with some of the challenges from the last week now that we are back from holiday! I do like the sketches on Sweet Sketch Wednesday and the current one is this:

I've used a digital image by Lee Jacobs which I bought from here, coloured with Promarkers plus black and grey felt tips (I've yet to buy these colours in Promarkers!) plus china-graph white pencil for highlighting.
The plain green backing is actually a card blank that I cut down with the printed from Polkadoodles Sugar Birdies cd and I thought it went perfectly with the image when I was sorting through all my scraps.

The sentiment is computer generated and I've added two buttons with jute bows to comply with the sketch.

• Printed backing papers: Sugar Birdies from Polkadoodles
• Image: Digital image by Lee Jacobs coloured with Promarkers and bought from here
• Sentiment: Computer generated
• Everything else: My stash
  

Polkadoodle Challenge Week 21 - Sew & Sew!

Another Polkadoodle challenge this week and it is a really nice one too!

Sew and Sew!

So that can be real stitching or stamped, or faux - however it takes your fancy!

I've been trying to use up stuff I've already printed and I found these flowers that I printed off ages ago from Sugar Birdies. They've been printed onto vellum and I've layered two of each colour together, added eyelets to the centres and then tied ribbon through. The ribbon matches the splash of colour across the middle of the card.

Backing papers are also from Sugar Birdies but I've printed them at A5 size as I wanted a smaller pattern.

The sentiment is from one of the Fairy Flutterfly stamps and I've faux stitched the flower stems and also around the edges of the card.

Good luck if you enter the challenge this week - you have until Sunday 6 June to enter!

• Backing paper and flowers: Sugar Birdies
• Sentiment: Fairy Flutterfly Fairies stamp
  
• Everything else: My stash
  

Polkadoodle Challenge Week 20 - Something for Mum

It's Friday again and another Polkadoodle challenge! This week, Fliss has set the challenge to make:

Something for Mum and the colours Blue and Peach

I had a little disaster with my first idea and attempt so that's on one side to be resuscitated for another day! So in the end, I made a little fancy gift box.

I've used the Sugar Birdies cd and used one sheet of A4 for the actual box. There is no need for glue as it holds itself together with the tabs through the top.

The flowers are also from the same cd and I printed the sheet so that it fitted four times onto a sheet of A4. The flowers were then coloured with Promarkers and I've simply layered them up and gently rolled the petals to give some definition.

And finally I've added a silver flower brad to the centre.

The box is really quite small so it won't hold anything much bigger than a bag of chocolate buttons!

If you want to join in with the challenge, we would love to see your creations and you have until Sunday 31 May at 12noon GMT to add your entries to the Polkadoodle challenge blog. Good luck!

• Backing paper: Sugar Birdies cd
• Flowers: Digi stamps from Sugar Birdies, coloured with Promarkers
  

Polkadoodle Challenge Week 19 - Dimension & Texture

Well, this is a special week as on Polkadoodles we are celebrating our First Birthday! And celebrating we are! There are lots of prizes up for grabs for the challenge this week, and Enfys has set the challenge of using Dimension and Texture on your creation!

Because it is our Birthday, Nikky has very generously offered a free download which, if you are going to enter the challenge this week, you need to use. Pop over to the challenge blog to grab the link and to see the wonderful Design Team samples!

And now for my card! I've used the decoupage ladybird from Paper Boutique along with backing papers. I've used D'Vine Swirls and Swiss Dots embossing folders to create some texture on the shell of the ladybird (no animals were harmed in the creation of this card) and also on the grass.

A bit of wire, some card candy and organza ribbon from my stash, along with a sentiment badge from Sugar Birdies (handwritten message and coloured with Promarkers) and the card is complete!

Hope you can join us this week with the Dimension and Texture theme along with the freebie download! You have until 12noon on Sunday 23 May to enter. Good luck!

• Ladybird: Paper Boutique from Polkadoodles
• Sentiment: Sugar Birdies from Polkadoodles
• Everything else: My stash
  

Ladybird, Ladybird

The Rosie D challenge curently is a colour challenge for St Georges Day:

Red and White for St George's Day

And I've still got quite a few card orders on the go, and as luck would have it, I was already half way through making this - and it fits the challenge quite nicely!


All paperbased elements are from Paper Boutique from Polkadoodles - the ladybird and grass are layered / decoupaged and I've added a sentiment label (coloured with Promarkers) which is actually from Sugar Birdies - I've handwritten the sentiment.

Added some flowers and buttons and made the antenna from wire and card candy. I'm going to add the recipients name onto the grass.

• All paperbased items: Paper Boutique from Polkadoodles
• Sentiment: Sugar Birdies from Polkadoodles (coloured with Promarkers)
• Everything else: My stash

Polkadoodle Challenge Week 6 - Hearts & Flowers

Another Friday and another Polkadoodle Challenge! This week it is the lovely Dolly who has set the challenge of:

Hearts and Flowers

For my sample, I've used a welly boot template that I bought ages ago from Craftwork Cards and then papers from Sugar Birdies that I cut to fit.

I've inked and chalked the boot to give it definition and a little character. The flowers are also from Sugar Birdies but I printed them at A5 so they would fit! I've curled the edges and added buttons with jute string through the centres.

Perfect card for a gardener!

• All paperbased elements: Sugar Birdies cd from Polkadoodles
• Buttons and jute string: My stash and kitchen drawer
• Welly boot template: Craftwork Cards
  

Ladybird Love

The monthly Lily Boo Too challenge is set by the very lovely and talented Enfys and the theme is:

Valentine

As luck would have it, there is a freebie download for the challenge too and I've used it for my card! I've coloured the image with felt tips (poor man version of Copics / Promarkers!) I've used two of my only set of Nesties to frame the image which I've inked with black ink around the edges.
The backing tiny check paper is from Sugar Birdies from Polkadoodles and the ribbon is from my stash. I did want a larger knot for the ribbon but it was a tad short and I was determined to use it!

The gems are from my stash. A pretty quick card to make so don't know why its taken me nearly a month to do it!!

• Image: Freebie download from Lily Boo Too
• Backing paper: Sugar Birdies from Polkadoodles
• Dies: Spellbinder Nestabilities
• Ribbon and Gems: My stash
  

Polkadoodle Challenge 28 - Recipe

It's Friday again so it's another Polkadoodle challenge! This week Nikky has set the challenge of using at least 3 different papers and a rubber stamp.

I've used an image from the soon to be released new cd called Nature and papers from Sugar Birdies. The stamps are Candy Doodles - the sentiment and the fancy bits behind the flowers.

I've made the flowers by randomly drawing them and using the flower on the hat as inspiration. Pop over to the challenge blog to see the other samples made by the Design Team - there is also a little sneak peak of another of the images from Kris.

You have until Sunday 6 December at 12noon to enter the challenge so good luck and we can't wait to see what you create!

• Papers: Sugar Birdies
• Image: From the soon to be released cd Nature
• Sentiment and Stamped fancy bits: Candy Doodles stamps
  

Polkadoodle Challenge 13 - Two Folds

It's Friday again! And it's another Polkadoodle Challenge! This week the Design Team were challenged to make a card with two folds.

I've printed directly onto my cardstock - white double sided hammered white card, and I've used Sugar Birdies for the lovely swirly leaf design. I decided to be a little monochromatic and then realised it needed some colour so along came the big bloom!


I've used my own template for the handbag - it actually opens out fully so that a message can be written inside. I lightly inked the edges with my trusty yet fading black inkpad and then added tiny seed beads around the edges for some interest.

I added more to the centre of the flower which has been made from printing the flowers onto paper (the bottom layer) and then vellum (subsequent three layers) and slightly curling the edges.

The handle has been made from thick silver wire which I curled around a pen. To make it the right length, I carefully stretched it, making sure I kept the curl. I've added seed beads again but they are loose and move around on the wire.

Are you upto the challenge? Click here to be taken to the challenge blog where you can see the rest of the DT's examples and also enter. You have until Sunday 23 August to enter!

• All paper based elements: Sugar Birdies cd
• Template: My own
• Wire and beads: From my stash