A sketch challenge

  This  week at I ♥ promarkers we are challenging you to use our sketch in your project , we are being sponsored by Kenny K and you could win 5  digi images from their online store.I have used one of Kenny k's images for my card.I also used my cricut machine and Rock princess cartridge to cut my girls rock sentiment  and stars.I actually ran out of the pink mirror card that i used for the matt layers ,so when it came to the shadow layers for my sentiment and for the small stars i just cut them from silver mirror card and coloured them with my magenta promarker for a perfect match.

Happy birthday polkadoodles

Polkadoodles is celebrating its first birthday this week and Nikky has designed some great backing papers  to give you for free !,

We want to see what you can do with them for this weeks challenge ,but we also want to see dimension and texture on your projects too .

I used the papers to make this card for my  dad and  I used the embellishment sheet to make the rosette.

I cut the letters and shadows with my cricut using SCAL2.

The card itself is like a leather effect and i added some faux stitching and brads for texture .

Polkadoodles summer blossoms

Where has this week gone to ? ,I can't quite believe it is friday already .I have been working one day in arrears all week !
I just about got my project for Polkadoodles done in time ,This week we want to see your creations with a theme of summer blooms
I used lots of blooms from various polkadoodles cds , i had printed them off a while back and can't remember which ones they were from  :)
The little bunny is from Paper boutique , i have decoupaged him  and set him amongst the flowers on a side step card .

Polkadoodles -Alter it challenge

I know , it was a box and now its a....box !
It was a rather fetching detergent tablet box and now it is a home for my cute little fairy flutterfly stamps . I used my favourite polkadoodles cd for the background papers , the fairy flutterflys and flowers made from the newest cd " All around and everywhere "

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This gorgeous fairy- Gracie , and some of her friends have landed at polkadoodles and i could nt wait to use them.
Our challenge for you this week is to make your project in monochrome, i have gone for orange as i love this background paper which is from sugar birdies cd, it matches perfectly with one of the stamps in the set.Gracie's wings are a separate stamp in the form of a beautiful butterfly which I stamped onto heavyweight acetate and folded to raise Gracie off the frame .
Pop over to Polkadoodles and visit Gracie and her friends

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This week at I♥PROMARKERS we (I'm still GDT) want you to use black and white with just one other colour . I have chosen to use this gorgeous fairy stamp - yes a real stamp and not a digi !  its new at polkadoodles , the fairy  comes in two parts so you can use her without the wings if you want to and then you also have a gorgeous butterfly to use elsewhere .

Polkadoodles -Animal Challenge

This weeks challenge at Polkadoodles is to make something with an animal on it .I had to make a card for my boss  for her 50 th birthday from all of us at work .She is a massive horse fan and has a horse called  Willie .
She likes to joke that she is going to ride her willie all weekend !

I  have used BTN for the  card , printing it at A4 , the rosette is made from papers on the cd ,cut out with Nesties .I had to add one of my little people the rest of them at work would n't have forgiven me if I had n't included her .

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Kerry had asked us all to make a wedding card for her  polkadoodles challenge this week . I have used this cute couple from the love and cherish cd ,  i used papers from  back to nature although the colour is slightly different to how it is on the cd since my printer still has a mind of its own ! I rather liked how it came out . i even added a bit of stamping to this one using  polkadoodles stamps  -( the little spray bits behind the flowers) and they are not blurry !

Happy birthday Ruth !

 It is Ruth , one of my Polkadoodle teamies' birthday next week - so the challenge we have set you is to make a birthday card .I just love the look of these scrummy cakes on the love and cherish cd so i teamed it up with the equally delicious cherry papers  on the sugar birdies  disc .
I  was very brave and added some stamping - not something i like to do .If you look close you will see why .
Yes I managed to blurr it !

Shape card challenge for polkadoodles

Polkadoodles are launching a fantastic new cd this week called Paper boutique . it has some fantastic shaped card templates and a scrumptious collection of papers . I have nt used the shape templates this time but i have used papers and decorative elements from the funky flowers collection . I made a few of the template cards as samples for the tv launch and i forgot to take pictures before i sent them off ! DURRR !
I cut the letter shapes with my cricut using SCAL2 and then cut out the card shape around them.
I had nt made one of these fold out name ones for ages , and seeing as its only 3 letters long it did nt take too long :)

POLKADOODLES CHALLENGE

This weeks challenge at POLKADOODLESis to use a sketch designed by Kris , and to include at least one bird . I spent far too long deciding which birds to go for , there are so many on the polkadoodles cds !
I eventually decided on these cool dudes from the not for girls cd .
I cut the wicked logo from INDIE cart on my cricut .some of the birds were pre coloured and others were coloured by me with promarkers

Hearts and flowers

Im a bit late with my posting this week , i have been proper poorly !
Thankfully i am all better now and can get on with all the cards i have on my list .
This is for the Polkadoodles challenge this week which is to use hearts and flowers . I had already made my valentine card for my hubby and did nt have a use for another so i made a wedding card instead.I used the new Love and Cherish CD , which has many different styles to choose from.Whatever your style there will be something to suit you .

Polkadoodles challenge -paper piecing

Our challenge this week at polkadoodles is to use the paper piecing tecnique . I have used several of polkadoodles cds for my card ,printing polly on to different patterns and reassembling.
polly was from jingle jangles , her wings were from back to nature .
the background and the alphabet were from sugar birdies and candy doodles .

Polkadoodles -orange and red

I had another hectic week this week , but this time something good has come out of it . My daughter has decided to move in with her boyfriend so there was a nice sized bedroom going begging ! Needless to say i dived straight in there and baggsed it for myself- so now i have a lovely new craft room . mind you i had to do all of the removals, and i did nt realise just how much paper i have !
I only just have the pc set back up again so i need to get straight back on to it.
Apologies, I have been a bit neglectful in my DT duties this week , as my PC was out of action for the best part of the week , I was forced to use the dodgy laptop that is so slow i nearly threw it up the wall a number of times . coupled with the broken N key i could nt possibly comment on all of the lovely projects that have been entered into the challlenges.

The challenge this week at polkadoodles is to use a sketch cleverly designed by our doodle dolly Enfys , we have also been asked to use any of polkadoodles cds and the colour scheme of red and orange. Here is my interpretation of that sketch
I used the sugar birdies and candy doodles cds and coloured my polly doodle with promarkers

polkadoodles challenge no 1

The first challenge of the year for polkadoodles is to use a song title on your card . us polkadoodledollies had to use the BTN cd too .There are some really gorgeous elements on this cd, i particularly like the little owls . I was going to do "owl always love you " by Whitney Hootston !
but i resisted since i used the owls in the last challenge , instead i used the beautiful butterfly from the heritage collection and did "love is like a butterfly"
The cardsdid nt photograph particularly well , you cant see the holographic embossing on the wings or the shape of the card . It has a fold back panel on the front so that you can see the papers on the inside even when the card is closed .i mounted the butterfly on my nesties circles .
i have treated myself to a photographic tent with lighting kit so hopefully i will be able to get some fantastic pictures of my work in the future

POLKADOODLES - Back to nature new cd

The challenge for you over at POLKADOODLES is to use the brand new Polkadoodles Back to nature cd .
I have used the cute little family of owls which are already designed so that they can be easily decoupaged without having to worry about which pieces to cut off !
I made mine into a stair step card .
I have to say there are absolutely tons of images on this CD and i think it is my favourite one so far i had great difficulty in choosing which one to use first .

Im a polkadoodle-doodler !!!

I want to share my fantastic news with you all - I was picked to be a new design team member for Polkadoodles !<3
I'm not sure what our real name is -i will have to check that out but a polkadoodle-doodler sounds good to me !
I am just thrilled to have been asked to join them and have been on a high all week ,just bursting to tell !
I joined in with this weeks challenge which was to use an envelope and a new years theme . I used papers and numbers from the jinglejangles cd and I used some foiling on top to highlight parts of the design ,and to tie the bottle in .
The bottle is cut on the cricut and the envelope is in fact a fake one i made myself after spending hours trying to cut the perfect one and not liking anything i came up with.It would nt stand up to anything actually being put in it the front is only glued on around the edges .
My photography is not too hot i'm afraid so you cant really pick out the foiling on the paper- but it looks quite lush to the naked eye !