Happy Saturday

Happy Saturday to you all

Yesterday was a complete wash out it rained so hard for hours the only way we could have left home to go anywhere was by boat but as we do not own one Crafting won the day

I so wanted to use my Magic Dwelling Stamp again so that was my main part its a beauty of a stamp I adore it 

I also used a smaller toadstool to sit alongside it from Autumn Harvest stamp collection and then finished of with the little Love stamp from Tall & Elegant stamp set

I totally love these sets - how they can work as a set or to mix and match

The papers I used are from the paper pad Fourni another favourite of mine.

I coloured up using Graph'It Markers, also using lots of fine glitter on the whites of the toadstools.

I finished off cutting out some clouds using the Fluffy Clouds die set

Thank you for looking
xx

Polka Dot Pals Gada

Soooo much rain this morning so I was held hostage at my craft desk

Ohhhh nooooo such a shame

I coloured up Polka Dot Pals Gada from Little Miss Muffet

I love these little characters, I used the extra add on face too

I used Polychromos to colour up 

and added some Nuvo glitter drops to her top and to the flower centers

The tag was cut from kraft card and I used Distress Oxides to make the background and used a few masks 

The Monkey see sentiment is also from Little Miss Muffet ~ I love it, its totally adorable

The always be yourself is a stamped sentiment

and I finished off with a bow made from lace

Thank you for looking

xx

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Lemon Shortbread ~ Anything Goes

Bookmark Afternoon

Happy Friday Everyone

Our Granddaughter Felicity started reading a new book yesterday a present from her Great Grandma . The book is called 'The Faraway Tree' and she is loving it

Although

of course she needed a new bookmark, so we made a couple

We used kraft card for the bases

The Stamp Set we used is one of my favourites

All about Daisy

We stamped using Memento Luxe Wedding Dress ink

then 

Heat Embossed using Ultra Fine Embossing Powder

Felicity then coloured using my Polychromo Pencils

We added some Lace and made a coupe of Lace bows to finish

Thank you for looking today

xx

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Crafty Sentiments ~ Anything Goes
TTCRD ~ Anything Goes
DL ART - Flowers

You got a Friend in me ......

The last few days we have had so much rain, Felicity our Granddaughter is here for the Easter holidays , she loves crafting and learning new things so I introduced her to the Polkadoodles Design sheets, I have not used these myself for a while until this week I forgot how good they are and so affordable at 99p

This is the second card made this week using the sheets and as before we had plenty left over

This time we used Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Design sheet 8

I totally love little Winnie nibbling on her chocolate and the pretty bunting 

I have mounted onto blue card but everything else is from the Design Sheet

Such pretty colours

look at that Friend  Sentiment

This made me laugh

Thank you for stopping by today

xx

Happy Tuesday ~ 99p Desiogn Sheets

Happy Tuesday to you all

We have had two very beautiful sunny days

but now....

the rain is falling

Last night I had a little play with one of the Design Sheets from

Winnie Sugar Sprinkle

You get lots on the full kit

I used a single sheet called Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime Design sheet 1

And look what 99p gets you!!!!

So I cut them all out and made my little Easter card

I had lots left over too!!

How cute is Winnie dressed as a bunny

Thank you for looking 

xx

Blooming Posy Doodles

Happy Monday Everyone

I am here today to share with you a card I made using the lovely

Blooming Posy Doodles A4 Design Sheets

I totally love working with these A4 kits and always run out of time before I run out of ideas

This card was so easy to make - I started of with a 7 x 7 blank card and cut away a border

Matted with Black card stock

and then cut our various bits from my A4 kit Matted them up with a blue card stock

The flower was cut out and mounted using pinflair so it is raised

Thank you so much for looking today

xx

Hop to it

Back again for the last time today, We have had so much fun Easter Crafting we actually run out of time , So I am sure we will pop back in the week with more Easter Fun crafts

We are sharing our Easter Bunny card this time

This really was so much fun , although a little fiddly

We used our favourite ever ribbon

Its part of the Summer Festival Range as is called Summer Meadow

It's perfect for Sring/Summer Crafting projects

Thank you for hopping by today

Love Grandma & Felicity 

xx

Crackers are not just for Christmas

Grandma & Felicity are back

to share with you our

Easter Crackers

perfect for our table for Easter lunch

How cute are these!! I cut them on my portrait and Felicity assembled them

We used lovely 

Organza Swiss Dot Ribbon

They were the perfect finish to our Crackers

xx

Hatching Chick

This project did make us giggle

A sweet little hatching chick Easter treat box

We used the lovely grass ribbon from Crafty Ribbons

 It is from the Summer Festival Range

We also finished off with a bow made from Crafty Ribbons

Thank you for stopping by today

Love Grandma & Felicity

xx

Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick

                                               Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken,  

                                                      Lay a little egg for me!

                                            Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken,

I want one for my tea,

I haven’t had an egg since Easter,

And now it’s half past three,

So, chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken,

Lay a little egg for me!

What a totally fun project that really sparkles in real life, this is our Easter chick made mainly by our Granddaughter Felicity. She made most of it at school and then brought it home to finish off

The Bow was made from beautiful ribbon from Crafty Ribbons

We think it was the finishing touch

We would like to enter this into
Double D ~ Wing it 

Easter Makes

Happy Sunday to you all

There will be a few posts from me today

On Friday we picked our Granddaughter up from school to spend the Easter holidays with us,

Yesterday was dull and rainy so we spent it making lots of various Easter projects using the lovely ribbons from Crafty Ribbons.

Our first make we decided on was this cute little Easter bag

First I cut it out on my portrait and Felicity helped me assemble , it really was great fun to make up

The ribbon around the bottom is beautiful Organza Swiss Ribbons

Now look at that stunning bow that fits perfect on our Bunny

this was also made with ribbon from  Crafty Ribbons but alas I can not take the credit ~ My lovely talented teamie Wendy from Spain sent me some ~ pop across to Wendy's blog you will not be disapointed

Hope you like our Easter Bunny Bag 

We shall be beck later with more Easter Fun

Love 

Grandma & Felicity 

xx

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Crafts Galore Encore ~ Anything Goes
Crafty Animals ~ Anything Goes
Lets Craft & Create ~ Easter
Not Just Cards ~ Anything Goes
Papercraft Business Challenge ~ Easter

Polkadoodles Crafting

Happy Friday Everyone!

Here today for 

Polkadoodles Challenge
*Anything Goes*

This time I have used the lovely Winnie Spring Sugar

I adore this collection 

I have printed her and the rabbit out several times and decoupaged her up

I love the little sentiment that is also part of the collection as is the paper 

Thank you for stopping by today

xx

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Brown Sugar ~ Spring/Easter
CAS on Friday ~ Easter
Crafty Catz ~ ATG option of Easter
Cute Card Thursday ~ Easter

Hochanda Afternoon

Have you got your cuppas and your feet up watching our lovely Nikky on Hochanda

I am here to share with you another of my samples

I havent made a weaved card in ages and half way through I realised why , it takes quite a while but I do love the effect, so that was my starting point

I them used Stamp Set ~ Small Beginnings

Stamped several times and heat embossed onto vellum

I then watercolour painted them from underneath and fussy cut them out

Popped a pearl in each one the pearls are from the Magic sparkle embellishment kit

I then finished off by using the lovely polkadoodles die Hello this is not on todays show although you can get from the store here, this really is a fantastic price for such a wonderful die that I use lots. I cut it out twice so I could get a shadow effect

Thank you for looking

xx

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The Paper Girls - Embossing
Stamps & Fun ~ Spring
Dream Valley ~ Spring Colours
My Time To Craft ~ Spring
Card Mania ~ Embossing
Classic Design Team ~ Anything Goes
World Wide Open Design ~ Anything Goes

Die Cutting Divas ~ Flowers + Die
TTCRD ~ Anything Goes

Eeeek We are back ~ Hochanda

So Excited to see the second hour on Hochanda

Here is a card I made with a matching chipboard tag

I used Distress Oxides to make my backgrounds

The stamp set used is Daisy Friends totally love this set. I have stamped and embossed the flowers and the border  and then used water colour paints I then finished them off with Spectrum noir Sparkle pen they really do shimmer in real life

I finished off by using a snip of ribbon for the tag from the Heavenly Dreams Embellishment kit

Thank you for stopping by

xx

Stampin' Unicorn on Hochanda

And yes I am back again to share another card, there will be another couple of posts from me this afternoon while the second show of the day airs at 2.00 on Hochanda

This time I have used the A4 topper kit snipping of bits and pieces . I also used a sheet from the 6x6 paper pack Butterfly Dreams and mounted onto Black cardstock. I have shaped the flowers so they pop of the card. I so love the A4 topper kit

Thank you for looking

xx

Happy Tuesday ~ Post number 2

Busy, Busy , Busy are you tuned into Hochanda??

If your not you are missing all the lovely goodies and demo's

Today it's the turn of Stampin' Unicorn

This time I have decorated a shadow box frame

I ummed and arred whether to remove the white apperture but decided a nice paper from the 6 x 6 Fourni pack would work.  I stamped several flowers and leafs from the stamp sets Dotty about Flowers and Blossom These were embossed , then watercoloured. The Butterfly is from Daisy Friends Stamp set and was stamped, Embossed and layered up

I finished of using the scrabble tiles from Bits n Pieces 6x6 Paper pad, and popping on some Glossy accents

I hope you are liking my samples I really have had so much fun making them

xx

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613 Avenue Create ~ Re-Use
Penny Black and More ~ Feature a Creature
Classic Design Team ~ Anything Goes
SheepSki Designs ~ Flowers
The Flower Challenge ~ Flower
World Wide Open Design ~ Anything Goes

Polkadoodles on Hochanda

Sooooo excited after the incredible show on March 1st, I have been busy making samples for todays shows on Hochanda at 10.00 and 2.00

This time we have been playing with the lovely Stampin' Unicorn goodies

I have made this card using the lush A4 toppers card, using also a sheet from the Fourni 6x6 paper pad as my backing

I have layered up the flowers and cut randomn bits out of the card

I so love the vibrant colours, I could literally play with the A4 forever , and you will see many more projects over the coming days using it

Thank you for looking

xx

Postcard

Happy Snowy Sunday, where has spring disappeared to??

For those that know me know I am a great lover of oxides, this was a little experiment.

 A good friend of mine visited last week and she brought some of her lovely cards for me to see, On some she had used the normal distress inks on photo card.......Now this got my head whirling would Distress Oxides work? Out came my photo paper and the first inks that came out of  my box - now I normally would sit awhile to decide my colours but as this was an experiment I just went for it. Amazing results I loved it , but I took it one step further and on half removed the oxides

I hope you can see the difference on B where oxides were removed.....

I left it to one side but then decided I needed to decorate it - It was the perfect size for a postcard, So using various Stamps, Black Micron Pen, A few Sequins and some Sequin waste my postcard was made

I totally loved what came of an idea that may or may not have worked

I can see this becoming a regular make

Thank you so much for looking today 

xx

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A Inky Mess ~ Mixed Media

Country View Crafts Challenge ~ Postcards

Mix It Up Challenge ~ Own Background
Crafters Castle ~ Anything Goes
Creative Fingers ~ Anything Goes

Fairy Magic

Happy Saturday

So much snow again in the UK oh dear does that really mean I have to keep warm and cosy in my craft room? Such a shame (she lies)

I have been trying a few new ideas these last couple of days some have been automatically binned but there are a couple I quite like and have stored for future use

I saw this new image the other day from Digi Stamp Boutique

Silhouette Fairy

Normally I use stamps with my Distress Oxide inks, more for ease really but I loved this digi so much , I really wanted to make it work

I used very pastel Distress Oxides I am going to make another but go really bright

I removed some of the oxides with splatters of water , her wings were painted with sparkly watercolour paints

I also love the border that came with the Fairy, how lovely is that (hurry to the store its on offer at the moment)

The sentiment used is from another  set from Digi Stamp Boutique Black Floral (sorry there is no link but I can not see it for looking I'm wondering if its a retired set)

Thank you for stopping by today

xx

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Digi Stamp Boutique ~ Monthly Competition ( now on Facebook)

Creative Craft Cottage ~ Make it Feminine

CCC Digi Designs ~ For the Girls

Polkadoodles Crafting ~ Hochanda

Happy Friday to you all

I hope you have a good weekend

I am here to share with you a dragon fly tag ~ I was really dissapointed with the photo quality but loved it so much I still wanted to share

I used Distress Oxides for the background

and then heat embossed the dragon flies (and Sentiment)

I then got some water colour paints and added a little to the dragon flies to make them pop

Thank you for looking 

I would like to enter this into

Creative Moments ~ Anything Goes

Fab'n'Funky ~ Not Square

Moo - Mania ~ Colour effects

Pause, Dream, Enjoy ~ Anything Goes

A Inky Mess ~ Mixed Media

Mix It Up Challenge ~ Anything goes Make your own Background

Through The Purple Haze ~ Add some turquiose

Meet the Fuzzypuffs

Happy Thursday Everyone

So excited to share with you the Fuzzypuffs

These were launched by Polkadoodles on Sunday, I missed the party as it was Mothering Sunday in the UK , but I was still lucky enough to be able to colour a couple up.

I have also been working on some lovely samples for Polkadoodles Hochanda show Next Tuesday , be sure to tune it . The last lot of goodies sold out in six minutes so be warned :-)

So here we go with my Fuzzypuffs

This is Bunnita shopping , how cute is she

I have coloured her using Graph'It Markers and layered her up so she really pops of the page

and this one is Bunnita carrot cake yummy scrummy

I have used distress Oxide inks to create the background

Thank you for looking today

xx

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Crafty Sentiment Designs ~ Easter

Lemon Shortbread ~ Anything Goes

TTCRD ~ Anything Goes

Simon says Stamp - Easter/Spring

My Time to Craft ~ Easter/Spring

Crafty Ribbons ~ It's a dogs life

Happy Wednesday to you all

I am here today to share with you a little dog hanger that I made

I used the little dog Horace from a Polkadoodles Collection

Horace & Boo

The sentiment is also from that collection

Horace was printed out several times and cut up and decoupaged

The Hearts were cut on my portrait

I used the lovely 

Organza Swiss Dot Ribbon

Which comes in many different scrummy colours

Thank you for looking

xx

Monster ~ Polkadoodles Crafting

Happy Friday Everyone!

Here today for 

Polkadoodles Challenge
*Anything Goes*

This week I have made a fun tag using the Monster collection

I have used the pre-coloured version of Monster Manny, along with a bottle of poisen and a sentiment from the Monster collection
For the background it was a mixture of a few different green Distress Oxides mixed with water
I then used a few masks and inked through those and finished of with a bubble/circle stamp
A little bit of Jam pot Gooseberry ribbon to finish
oh and a few sequins
Thank you for stopping by today
xx
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Papercraft Business Challenge Blog - DT Call