Polka Doodles........

Morning peeps hope you are all looking forward to the long summer holidays now the schools have broken up.....well they have here, we have been that busy with presants for teachers that most of them must have a ton of chocolate to munch on during the hoildays.....yummy.

Today sees the start of a new challenge at Polkadoodles, the theme this week is recycling, I chose to use some acetate packaging that I had saved from ages ago. I printed out the trees and snowman using gimp and shrinking them down to about 1 inch (or 2.5cms if you don't remember inches....lol) in size, I even layered up the hat and scarf on the dinky snowman....awwwwhh. I tore white paper and edged with glitter for the landscape and then popped the trees and snowman in between the layers.
Shhhhhh this is also a sneek peek of the new Christmas Cd which is being released this Saturday on Create and Craft......lots of festive images to colour or print.

Challenges
Willow Sketchie......Christmas in July.
Paperplay....Christmas in July.
Delightful challenges......Christmas in July.
Creatalicious....Christmas in July.
Creative Beli....Christmas in July
Little Red Wagon.....use some packaging.
Stampavie.....Christmas in July.
Die Cuttin' Divas.....Christmas in July.
Jelly park.....Christmas in July
The Paper Shelter.....anything goes
Lollipop Crafts.....Christmas in July
My Craft Spot.....Christmas in July.
The Cutie Pie......Christmas in July.
Lady Bug Ink......Christmas in July.
Hugs n smiles

Polka Doodles............

Morning peeps hope you are all well and not too wet, gosh a months worth of rain in one day we'll need water wings soon or we'll get webbed feet. The stripping is well under way.........no not what you're thinking, the wallpaper stripping in the dining room, I hate the mess but its got to be done so hopefully I'll get started on Sunday with the painting ready to hang the wallpaper.

Well on to todays challenge at Polka Doodles the theme is Shabby Chic, I have used floral circles and papers from the Candy Doodles Collectors Edition Cd, I tore around the egdes and crumpled the paper, distressed the edges and then glimmer misted in irridescent gold, laayered the circles up and added a pearl to the centre.....kept this very simple just adding lace and torn edges to the background paper.

Challenges
4 Crafty Chicks......no stamping
Paper pretties.....clean and simple.
Creative inspirations.....anything goes.
Try It on Tuesdays......anything goes The Craft Barn must sell the item though...Polka Doodles Cd.
Craft room challenge....ink it
Digital Tuesday....winter or blue
Hugs n' smiles

Easter Hop at Polka Doodles

Morning peeps, have we got a treat for you.......we're having a blog hop at Polka Doodles as well as having a fabbie Easter theme challenge.

So hi everyone! Welcome to our fantastic blog hop and candy giveaway!

Our fabulous sponsors Marianne Design are giving you the chance to win this adorable Garden themed Craftable as part of our blog hop! Craftables are new from Marianne Design and offer more variety to your die-cutting with the additional embossing options and you can also decoupage layers if you're clever with them! We also have this lovely cuter than cute Snoesjes stamp, a fabulous 32 page paper pack and we adore this stunning flower ribbon - this candy is just scrumptious!!

In addition to this wonderful Marianne Design candy the first prize winner will receive a brand new Sugarplum Daisy CD AND a Candy Doodles CD from Polkadoodles PLUS 2 further winners will also receive a Candy Doodles CD - so there are 3 chances to win in our Hop and Challenge!!

Here is what you must do: (you might find some extra candy along the way from the DT so make sure you go visit them all!!)

CHALLENGE STAGE 1: Now, we know not everyone likes to do a hop for whatever reason, so we still have our normal challenge for the week which is EASTER themed - you must make a card or project which is Easter themed.

But that's not all...

CHALLENGE STAGE 2: Our second challenge is the blog hop - if you hop along with us this week you will find that the Easter Bunny has arrived early and left some hidden goodies on some of the Design Teams blogs - but you have to hop though the whole list to find who the Easter Bunny has visited!

You need to complete both the Easter themed challenge and the blog hop to be in with a chance of winning one of the fantastic prizes on offer! If you've never taken part in a blog hop before it's easy peasy...all you need to do is visit each blog in turn and for this hop each Polkadoodler will give you a LETTER (be careful - some of the Polkadoodlers may have more than one so make sure you collect them all!)

Now add all the letters together, unscramble them and leave a comment on the Polkadoodle Challenge Blog (comments will be moderated!) telling us what the word is. You MUST follow this blog and link to the blog hop on your own blog to be eligible to win, so make sure you click follow in the sidebar!

Your entry will automatically be judged for the Easter themed challenge BUT we will know if you have completed the Blog Hop so if you haven't you will still only be eligible for the random blog candy hidden amongst some of the Polkadoodlers.

FOR THE EASTER THEMED CHALLENGE JUST LEAVE YOUR ENTRY AS NORMAL USING THE INLINKZ BUTTON, WE WILL SORT THROUGH THE ENTRIES AS WE WILL KNOW IF YOU FOLLOWED THE HOP OR NOT! ; )

Now if you have just arrived from Lisas blog you are in the right place for the next letter which is.........U........now you need to hop over to Lanas to collect the next letter.

For my card, although not strictly an easter card it does have a cute bunny on.

Crafty Catz.....use a digi.
Chococlate, coffee and cards.....fancy folds.
Fairy Tale challenge.....everything goes.
Fussy and fancy....anything but square.
Pixie Cottage....cuddly critters.
Creative card crew.....spring.
Digital tuesday.....favourite colour (pink).
MTTC.....Easel card.

Have fun

Polkadoodles......

Morning peeps gosh I'm normally complaining that the week is flying by but this week its going twice as fast, I've had no time to blog or even catch up with the challenges, which is why this is a short post.
The theme for this weeks challenge at Polkadoodles is animals or birds and this week we could play with our stamps and use papers from Polkadoodles, but then Nikky our boss lady is bringing out a new Cd which will be launched next week, so I decided to give you a sneek peek, cos the images are just sooooo darn cute and there are more delish papers......think you're going to like this one, it definaitely has the ahhhhh factor.I kept the colour scheme simple to just two colours......spring like.

Challenges
Digital Tuesday....think Spring (colours)
Ladybug Ink Crafts......anything goes
Sweet Stamps.....think Spring.
(colours).
Really Reasonable Ribbons.....spring with a ribbon.
Wags n Whiskers.....use green
Simon Says....use green
Better get ready for work as all you Mums will not be getting any chocolates this weekend.
hugs n smiles

Polkadoodles......

Mornig all, no snow yet but the head lines in the papers say a week of snow so they must be right cos they don't tell fibs......lol. Its back to work for me today so no crafting today, well thats not exactly true as I ussually spend my lunch break colouring. I'm trying to colour with Promarkers at the moment and I have to say I'm struggling, I'm so used to blending colours and mixing them together and of course with Promarkers you can't get the same effect, they are great for covering large areas, I did colour this image with Promarkers but I wasn't totally happy with the finished result so I applied glamour dust on top and turned it into a sparkly bear.......lol. The theme this week at Polkadoodles is Show us some love and include a heart. I used the image and papers from The Sundae of Seasons CD. I just love the string of hearts and kisses that the bear is holding, I did add glossy accents to these and I coloured the buttons as they were originally white.

Challenges.

Ladybug Ink.....Loves me loves me not.

Craft us Crazy.......anything goes.

Heart Song Inspiration.......buttons/ brads.

Fab n Funky.......use a digi image.

Paper Pretties.....use ribbon or twine.

Cute Card Thursday.......Buttons and bows.

Oh well better get ready for work

hugs n smiles

Polkadoodles.......

Morning peeps hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend althought the weather forecast isn't good  it sounds like it should be great for crafting, although I have a certain little visitor staying over night on Saturday so no early cuppa and craft for me on Sunday.
Todays card is for the new challenge at Polkadoodles, this week Nikky has drawn us a sketch to follow, I've used quite abit of artistic licence for this one.....lol. we also got to play with a stash box stamp but the papers I've used are from The All Around and Everywhere Cd.

Challenges

4Crafty Chicks......summer in January.

Totally Gorjuss.....welcome

Have a great day

hugs

Polka Doodles......

Morning peeps are you getting excited yet another week to go and its .......CHRISTMASSSSSS!!!, sorry I'm getting a little carried away with myself, have finished the last of the shopping yesterday, we went to Leicester with Ethan  who demolished his Grandads scone with cream when we went for a coffee, getting it all over his nose, fingers and just about any where else he could but he so enjoyed it, we had brought him a childs picnic box meal with fruit, cisps, sandwhich and drink in, but he pinched the scone before we'd even sat down and his poor Grandad had to go and get himself another cake .....this time he came back with a strawberry tart covered in yummy strawberries and Ethan pinched some of them as well, not only that he ate his crisps and banana from his meal as well, hes getting expensive to take out......lol

Todays card is for the new challenge at Polka Doodles which I picked......the theme is 'Through the Window' so you're looking through to the design, apologies if this is a bit of a challenge but it is the last one until the new year, we will be back on Jauary 6th with a new challenge for, and there is also a £10 giveaway to spend at Polka Doodles for one random lucky person.

As soon as I had a play with the stamps called Be Neighbours I knew I wanted to create a Christmas scene, the image has been coloured with Prisma pencils on Kraft with lots of sparkle I used a white gel pen for the snow effect, the papers are from The Magical Winter Cd 2 and the tree and sentiment is from The Christmas Boutique pack which was brought out earlier in the year and is available at WH Smiths.....you get stamps, embellishments, papers, stickers and an inspirational booklet by the teamies over at Polka Doodles. the snow on the windows is Flower Soft and looks realistic although it stuck all over the acetate window due to static......lol, so I spent alot of time cleaning the window.

Challenges

Paperplay......Christmas.

Papercrafting Journey.....Christmas.

4 Crafty Chicks.....Christmas card.

Charisma......last Minute christmas makes.

Glitter Geeks......anything goes.

Stampin' for the weekend......Christmas

My Sheri Crafts........let it snow

Dream Valley.....Christmas.

Addicted to Stamps......snowflakes.

Hope you all have a lovely day

the weekend is nearly here.....yay

Stepper card.....

Morning peeps hope you all had a lovely weekend, I've managed to get two of the christmas trees up yesterday, only one to go in my sons room, but I need to get in his room first with a duster and a vacumn cleaner and hes busy fininshing off a project that he is doing at University so it might have to wait a couple of days. It took me all day to get the trees up and decorate the room and I'm pooped not only that I'm now coming down with a cold and my sore throat is coming back.....drat. I've ,well I say I, what I really mean is my son has popped on another blog background so that its also dressed for Christmas........which I think looks so sweet. I thought I'd post a non Christmas card today as I spent the early part of yesterday morning doing a production line of Christmas cards ready to post this week, just need to finish them off. The image comes from Pretty Tuff which is the latest Cd from Nickky at Polkadoodles  the papers and sentiment are also from the same Cd. I made the teddy by covering a diecut in matching paper distressed the edges and then added glossy accents onto the diecut sprinkling in silver glitter.....you get a lovely glossy sparkly bear which makes a great embellishment for this sweet image. The matching buttons are also a die from Dy-namics.

Challenges

Crafty Pad........no birthdays or Christmas.

Corrosive Challenge......anything but a Christmas card.

Allsorts ....use two colours and white.

Crafty catz......anything goes

Totally Papercrafts.....anything but Christmas.

Cute Card Thursday......anything goes.

Wags n Whiskers.....fancy folds

Off to work now, I've relented and let the staff start playing Christmas music

for the next two weeks, as soon as I go out the back I just know they'll change the Cd 

to play Slade or Wizard rather than something more traditional and the volume seems to go up as well......hmmmm!

We shall all be wearing our Christmas head gear, I ussually have a halo.......lol, well I have to look angellic,

the others have Santa hats or Reindeer antler bands so we all look festive and have some fun 

as it will be soooooo busy for the next two weeks.......well I hope it is.

Polkadoodles.......

Morning peeps .......what a week I've had, feeling ill for most of it, but at least my throat is alot better, just felt ill all day yesterday and ended up going back to bed......which is a no no for me, however my grandson came up and put tinsel all over me whilst I was trying to get some sleep so I must have looked a right sight in bed decked out in gold and red tinsel.........bless.
The theme this week at Polkadoodles is ........'a quick Christmas card', actually I think I'd  better get my skates on as I still need to make a few more otherwise it will be shop brought again this year. I really need to start earlier.......think that will be one of New Year resolutions.
The image  used is from Magical Winter CD 1 and all I've done is added a bit of colour using Flex markers and sparkle. the card was embossed with a snowflake embossing folder and the background paper is also from the same Cd, just added doodling for an accent.

Challenges

Delightful challenges.....Blue Christmas

Creative Inspirations.....Snow much fun.

ABC Christmas......anything chrismassy goes.

Top Tip......Let it snow.

Crimbo Crackers......embossing.

Ladybug challenges.....snowflakes and sparkle

Moving along with the times......christmas last minute

Have a great day

hugs

Polkadoodles.......

Morning peeps well I don't know what happened to Thursday just a blur, I did do a sales event at a Spa selling cards and chocolates but unfortunately hardly anyone turned up so it was a disaster evening if you know what I mean, oh well its Friday and its time for another challenge at Polkadoodles and the theme this week is to use the colours of the Italian flag which are red, green and white, the theme was chosen by Miria who lives in wonderful Itlay near Rome......ciao hun.
I've kept my card very simple using the lovely Rudolph script paper from The Paper Boutique CD, the word stamp is from Crafty Idividuals as is the Santa image in the stamped frame, that stamp is by Viva.

Challenges

Papercrafting.......anything goes.

Moving along with the Times.....ribbons and bows.

Crimbo Crackers.......Santa.

Simon Says.....tag your it.

Paper Pretties.....tags.

Little Red wagon.....christmas theme.

Delightful Challenges....... Red and green

Frosted designs.....sketch.

hugs n smiles

Polkadoodle.......

Morning peeps gosh the weeks are flying by at a rate of  knots, I can't believe its Friday again, so that can only mean one thing its time for a new challenge at Polkadoodles, this week I got to choose the challenge so being as I love all things girly and pretty I chose the theme  'Pearls and Swirls' with pretty pastels and not only that there is a fabbie giveaway from Letraset for the winner......ohhhhhh. The winner gets a set of ultrafine Promarkers, so what are waiting for........
My card featues Maddie from the Pretty Sweet Cd, there are lots of delish papers and images to choose from as well. Image was coloured with Prisma pencils.

Challenges

Cooking up with Katie.......use a different fold, make it fancy and add flowers.

Corrosive Challenge.....with a flourish.

My Mums Craft Shop.......sugar and spice

Poodles Parlour........when I grow up

Hugs n' smiles

Pretty Tuff.....

Evening peeps just got back form the NEC with my daughter, I really look forward to our girlie day out, I did have to deposit her on a seat for awhile as she wasn't feeling too well, cup of tea with 5 sugars  in later and she was feeling better so I guess her sugar level was low due to lack of food......I did stick to my list but got side tracked only a smidge in fact my daugter kept asking when I was going to start spending......lol, I must have been feeling ill as well, I did buy quite a few dies as there were quite a few bargains to be had and it would have been rude not to buy two or three of them. I did manage to catch up with Nickki from Polkadoodles, her stand looked lovely, loads of samples and goodies, when I went back in the afternoon she was still swamped so I'll have to catch up with her another time. The card that I've made features one of the new images from the CD Pretty Tuff, the papers are also from the same CD which was launched at the NEC this weekend and will be available to order online tomorrow.I used my prismas to colour the image.

Challenges

Our Creative Crew.....masculine card.

Totally Papercrafts......stitch it.

Poodles Parlour.....Lets hear it for the boys.

Paperplay.......Button up.

Oh La La......stitching real or faux.

Simon Says.......Buttons

Off to unpack my goodies

hugs