Polkadoodles Goes Hochanda ~ Part 2

Did you see my earlier post ? 

Our lovely Nikky from Polkadoodles who makes her debut today on Hochanda

I was thrilled to bits to be able to make some samples for the show

For this card I used 

Here is what I used

Stamps ~ Time To Bloom, Special Times and Best of Days and great days

Coloured with paints

mostly doubled up for extra effect

Backgound Paper ~ Posy Doodles 6x6 Paper Pack

Sentiment Paper ~ Posy Doodles 6x6 Paper Pack

Dies ~ Stiched & Pierced Nested Circles

The grass is reindeer moss

Gems ~ Magic Sparkles Kit

Thank you for stopping by

xx

Stamping with Polkadoodles

Yesterday my little Granddaughter wanted to do some stamping, so out came my box of Polkadoodles goodies and away we went.

We have been making some fun seaside creations this week, we are craving sunshine and blue skies.

So we set to work on some sea themed tags using a stitched die (creative dies plus) we cut out two

Using distress Oxides we made some backgrounds

We both love working with these

Next we chose our stamps , this was great fun Polkadoodles do have the most amazing stamps

Find the ones we used here

Once we had stamped ,( Felicity really likes to stamp now I have brought her a platform)

We got out our paints and painted them up

Finishing of with some ribbons , twine, sequins and a button with a splash of white posca pen on the sea horse

Thank you for stopping by today

Love Grandma & Felicity

xx

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Double D ~ Sequins
Through The purple Haze ~ Add some Turqouise
Crafty Animals ~ Add an Animal
heARTful Stamping Challenge ~ Anything Goes
We Love to Create ~ Mixed Media
Dies R Us Challenge ~ Tag your it

Gnome House & Tag ~ Crafty Ribbons

I so love being part of the Crafty Ribbons DT

We get lots of lush ribbons to play with stroke

While I was deciding on my  project I had Christmas in mind.....

But Then.............

I spotted them  Eeeeeeeekkkkk OMG Gnome Ribbon, Christmas was soon forgotten as I set to work

I made the Gnome House first, I cut it out on my portrait using red and white card stock

and then used the following

Gnome Ribbon - Mushroom ~ around the base

Gnome Ribbon - Garden Gnomes ~ for cut out Gnomes (can you spot the nosy one peeping out the door)

Summer Festival - Wellie Ribbon~ for the boots

Volcan Viscose White Lace and 5mm Gingham red/white ~for the curtains

I added a few die cuts and ladybird stamps and my little house was complete

I then made my tag ~ also cut out on my portrait

The ribbons I used for this are

Gnome Ribbon - Mushroom ~ around the base

5mm Gingham red/white ~for the top of tag

For the tag background I used Distress Oxides, and doodles round with a black micron pen. I die cut a few tiny flowers, painted them and then used Liquid pearls in the centers

I did a few circles using white Gesso and an old water spray lid (knew it would come in handy)

The Gnome is called Pete and is from Make it Crafty, he is  a real cute cheeky chappie. I coloured him up with Graph'It Markers. 

Thank you for looking

xx

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The Fairy and The Unicorn  - Gnome

Classic Design Team - Anything Goes

World Wide Open Team Challenge - Anything Goes

Fussy and Fancy - Mixed Media

Always Fun - Create a Scene

TTCRD- Anything Goes

Ula - Don't Listen - Polkadoodles Crafting

Happy Thursday to you all

Sharing with you another Ula tag

I think this one is possibly one of my favourites
(I keep changing my mind)

You can find her in the store here 

The sentiment is from Ula's life collection - although you do get a couple of  other sentiments with the digi

I used watercolour card for my tag and for the background used Distress Oxides these really are magical

I used lots of differents stamps , bubbles , splatters etc and I also used two stamps from the Belle Papillon set  the leaf and the stem , I painted these

For Ula I coloured her with Graph'It markers and polychromo pencils and added some detail to her dress.

For the sentiment I cut it out seperatly dusted around with Distress ink and then doodled round

and doodled the tag edge too

Thank you for looking 

I would like to enter this into

Time out Challenge - With Words
Addicted to Stamps & More - Make Your Mark
Creative Artiste Mixed Media - Anything Goes
Craftaholics R Us - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes

Ula ~ Polkadoodle Crafting

Well yesterday was the magical day My Granddaughter has broken up from school for summer

which means we get a little visitor to stay

As soon as Felicity was through the door she was straight to her craft desk

Which also means crafting time for Grandma

I am so into making tags at the moment 

So that was our play for the day

Felicity made 2 tags for her Mum with stamped cats on and one she drew

and here is mine another Ula make

I just love her attitude

This image is called Ula create and you can find her in the Polkadoodles store right here

The sentiment is from Ula's Life collection

For the background I used Distress Oxide's ~ I'm loving these

I used the leafy stamp from Belle Papillon Collection

and painted it orange

I used Polychromos and Graph'It markers to colour Ula and with some tiny alphabet stamps popped her name on her book.

With the sentiment  printed I dusted round with distress ink and then used a white marker to highlight.

I then doodled round with a micro pen.

Thank you for looking

xx

I would like to enter this into

Dragonfly Dreams - Anything Goes

Love to Create - Mixed Media

Crafting With Friends - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything  Goes

Fussy and Fancy - Anything Goes

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone!

Here today for 

Polkadoodles Challenge

*Anything Goes*

 For my card this week I have used the wonderful clear stamp set
 Christmas Poinsettia/Holly

I stamped the poinsettia twice onto fine grain cartridge paper, I also used the sentiment stamp
I used paints to colour and added extra petals from my second stamp.

I have watched Nikky Hall many times on Create & Craft and when she has almost finished her projects she simply flicks paint over it all to finish always with amazing results.  I have tried but am still ultra nervous at doing so!

Thank you for looking
xx
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Home For Christmas

What an absolutly stunning set arrived this month with my Simply Cards & Papercraft.

I adore Christmas and couldn't wait to play

How spoilt were we, embossing folder , stamps and dies!!

To start I used a white A5 centre- stepper card blank.

 I covered it in a Christmas red paper leaving a slight border of white showing through.

I die cut the door three times, once in red , twice in white. I wanted the door to stand off the page so used sticky foam tabs to adhere and cut the panels from the red door and adhered with glue

Using Memento ink lady bug I stamped the number, knocker , letterbox and sentiment.

I stamped the lights with Memento black ink and coloured using watercolour paints.

The wreath was again die cut twice to give some depth 

The holly leaves were die cut and watercoloured . Once dried I added some ruby red liquid pearls.

I stamped the pots (twice )using Memento gray fog and the plants with Memento bamboo leaf adding again liquid pearls and adhered with foam tabs.

The bows were stamped using lady bug and bamboo leaf dabbed over with glossy accents for shine.

I had tons of fun making this card

And can see a fair few of these being made

Thank you for looking

xx

I would like to enter this into

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra - Christmas

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Christmas

Paper Creators Crafts - Christmas

Craft Rocket - Anything Goes

Crafting With An Attitude - Anything Goes

Crafty Girls Creations - Anything Goes

Crimbo Crackers - Shaped Cards

Crafty Creations - Use a number

Simon says Stamp - Stamp It

Digi Choosday - Anything Goes

Everybody Art Challenge - leaves

Holly Jolly Christmas - More than one fold

Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Use Your Stuff - Watercolour

Penny Black and More - Stamped Sentiment

Alphabet Challenge - N for Numbers

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Crafting With Friends - Anything Goes

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes

The Hummingbird Collection

Happy Sunday , It's a little dull here in the South West but very, very humid!

I have Simply Cards & Papercraft delivered each month

and when it was delivered the other day I could not wait to play

What a stunning Hummingbird collection we were well and truly spoilt

I am very afraid of frogs in real life but this little chap was yelling at me to use him

I decided I wanted to use nice fresh colours of green and yellow with white

I started with a 6 x 6 white card blank

Using the freebie embossing folder which is 5 x 5

Cutting a hole in the center

Mounted onto some fresh green cardstock

I added in some bakers twine and adhered all to cardbase

With a slightly smaller die , cut another smaller circle

and then the stamps came into play

I stamped the frog and the sentiment using Memento ink Bamboo Leaves

Using Water paints to colour up
(using blue I flicked about for some effect - not much I'm not that brave!)

I then used the fern stamp around the edge

and attached with foam pads

For the Flowers I stamped them twice, the underneath flowers are painted as are the leafs

For the top flowers I used Brusho's Yellow and lemon 

added a few tiny pearls once dry and a little yellow stickles

Finished of with some faux stitching, a few fern leafs from a fern die and a button

Thank you for looking have a great day

xx

I would like to enter this into
Glitter 'N' Sparkle - Anything Goes
Great Impressions - Anything Goes
Penny Black and More - Anything Goes with a stamp
Love to Create - Mixed media
Just us Girls - Water Colouring
My Time To Craft - Embossing
Thats Crafty - Zesty Zing
The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes/Friends
Sisterhood of Crafters - Close to Nature
Word Art Wednesdays - Anything Goes

Messy Crafting - Polkadoodles

A very Happy Sunday

On my crafty road I have discovered Brusho's, I have dabbled with them in the last few weeks, using them on flowers and such but not on a big scale.

Soooooo here goes...Big Girls knickers pulled up and all that....

I made a trio of cards all trying Brusho's a slightly different way - I most definatly adore them. These are all on watercolour card

For all cards I used a mixture of the Daisydays Stamps and also Summertime Stamps collections. I used Memento Inks.

Card 1

I used Ultra Marine Brusho's and Blue water colour paint on the flowers. I used quick sprays of water on the Brusho's

(You can tell by card 3 I was more adventurous and was'nt bothered about spraying more that a dribble of water)

Card 2

This one I used Scarlet, Lemon and Yellow Ochre Brusho's with slightly more water than above

I used lemon and Orange water colour paints on the flowers

Card 3

This one I used Brusho's Turquoise, Lemon , Orange and Coalt Blue and soaked with water. The yellow circles I did with Pan Pastels . And painted flowers using a dull yellow , a grey and then a grey mixed with white.

Thank you for stopping by 

xx

I would like to enter into

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Fussy and Fancy - A walk in the garden

Thats Crafty - Bright & Zesty (card 2)

Creative Moments - Anything Goes/Circles (card 3)

Inky Chicks - 5 or more flowers (card two)

Get Creative - Lots of Blue (card one)

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

Penny Black and More - Anything Goes with a stamp

Love To create - Mixed Media