Pollycraft's Friday Freebie & Challenges

It's Friday and that means time for this weeks freebie from Pollycraft.
Meet Drake........

Isn't he the cutest little penguin, so if you want to get your mitt's on this little fella nip over to Tales from Pollycraft and if you do use him Paula would love to see your creations, so if you want to share what you have made leave her comment to let her know where she can see it.

I'm also entering this card into THREE challenges.
Firstly I've followed the sketch over on Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge.
Digital Tuesday this week wants to see some 'Bling', I've used some gems, sparkly snowflakes and used clear Sakura Stardust on the snow.
And finally there's a new challenge blog Penny's Challenges and for the first challenge Penny would like to see 'Buttons' on your creation, I've added a couple of buttons to the snowflakes.

Drake was coloured with copics and blender. The DP is from Kanban and silver card is from my stash as are the buttons, ribbon, gems and snowflakes.

Dusty is still making improvement and eaten a little more than he did yesterday this morning, he even found the energy to get out of his bed and come downstairs to be let out. We hadn't let him out for a few days, so we let him out and then he was back on the doorstep 10 minutes later and when coming in managed a hiss at Mollie...lol, so he is definately much better than he was much to Mollie's disgust at being hissed at for just sitting there quietly.

Enjoy your day!!!

A 5 in 1!!

Well my combining of challenges has crept up to a card that covers 5 challenges. I've followed the lovely sketch over on Charisma Cardz, the colour theme over on Cute Card Thursday which is 'Teal & Red', Simon Says 'Buttons & Ribbons', Crafty Creations is 'Buttons' and then finally Creative Inspirations where they want to see some doodling.

The image is the gorgeous Cherry Kisses - Summer from Pollycraft, coloured with copics and promarkers. The papers are all Funky Fairys 'Simply Brushed and Tiny Daisies'. I've doodled faux stitching around the edges of the papers and also the swirls on the left hand top and bottom corners. Flowers from stash with the bow and button sewn to it. Red dotty ribbon from stash as are all the buttons and the tiny white flowers. Sentiment from Kanban which I've inked in red around the edges. There are a couple of more challenges this could of fitted, but I don't want to run out of challenges to enter..lol.

Thank you to everyone for all your kind words for Dusty, I'm happy to say that he has been eating on his own today, not alot but it's better then nothing. The vet is happy for him to still stay at home with us as long as he remains eating and drinking, even if it's only a little bit. His heart rate is still quite high but his temperature is near normal now. Which hopefully means the antibiotics are helping in someway until they can identify the problem.

What a sticky muggy day it has been today, it's raining now and it feels like a storm could be on it's way, as I have one of those niggly pressure headaches which I sometimes get when we are about to get a storm, we could certainly do with one to clear the air and my head...lol.
Hope everyone's enjoyed their day!!

Funky Fairys Challenge #28

Yay it's Wednesday!! That means it's time for a new challenge over on Funky Fairys, are you last weeks winner? You better go and check on the blog!!
Thanks to everyone how entered the 'Thinking of You' challenge.

This week we have a colour challenge for you....

"BLACK & WHITE"

We want to see your projects using only the colours black and white.

The DT have some gorgeous delights to help inspire you, so please take a look and here's mine.



The image is from Funky Fairys 'Love Train' (part 8), papers are Dainty Dots and Simply Swirly. Added some black colouring to the image using copics. The large flower was white but I coloured black with copics leaving a little white, the next white flower is from Papermania, then added a fancy bow and tassle to the centre. Ribbon from stash then finished with some card candy.

We do hope you'll join us this week for some funky challenge fun!!

This is a scheduled post written last night as I'm at work today so I've no update on Dusty really except we managed to get a few teaspoons of the high protein food from the vet down him last night and a little water, so maybe the antibiotics are working. Steve's on Dusty sitting duty today and he'll have the task of trying to get the antibiotic capsule down him, that should be fun, it takes military precision just to get a worming tablet down him. Thanks to everyone for all your kind words and thoughts.

Dusty Update

Hi Everyone

No card from me today I'm afraid I have done a bit of crafting but all DT stuff, so you'll just have to wait for them.

Thanks to everyone for your messages about Dusty. We got him seen by a vet first thing this morning. They took some bloods from him and gave him a couple of antibiotic jabs, then they let me take him home as it would be more comfortable for him. The first lot of results came through this afternoon and were inconclusive in some areas and normal in others, they were'nt very specific with what that actually meant or indicated...lol. They are also testing for a thyroid problem but this result will take a week to come back. If the thyroid test comes back ok then they will do scans to check for tumours. I personally can't understand why they aren't doing the scans before hand, as at least that would be a quicker result and hopefully rule out any tumours, but I guess they know what they are doing. To try and keep his stress levels down, we have been given some high protein food and antibiotics to try and feed him at home, but if no joy with feeding after tomorrow, he will have to be hospitalised and put on IV's until all the results are in. If he deteriates any further in this time, we have to get him in to them straight away day or night. One good sign is he did have a few sips of milk this afternoon. I know cats shouldn't have normal milk and as a rule we never give him normal milk, but I think anything we can get down him at the moment will be good for him. So thats about it really, just got to try and push the fluids and food and keep a close eye on him. I'll keep you updated as and when.
Phone/broadband problem still ongoing, we've had one engineer who's now passed it on to the broadband lot, we'll hear from them this evening or tomorrow morning.
I'll have a card for you tomorrow as it's Wednesday which means it's Funky Fairys challenge day!! Enjoy the rest of your day!!!

Pollycraft #21, Sketch & Stash #16 and Cupcake Craft #51 Challenges

Pollycraft's challenge this time round has been set by Ria and the theme is 'Buttons & Bows', however I'm not actually going to be entering this card into the challenge as I'm a GD, but I just thought it would be nice to incorporate the theme into my card. But I am entering this card into the Sketch & Stash Challenge and Cupcake Craft Challenge. I've followed the fab sketch over on Sketch and Stash and gone along with the theme this week set by Cupcake which is a 'Beach Theme'.

I've used my new 'Cherry Kisses - Beach' image from Pollycraft, coloured her with copics and chalked the edges. Papers are Funky Fairys 'Simply Brushed'. Ribbon is from my stash, sentiment is from Craftwork Cards, flowers are Papermania, and the buttons I bought yesterday from our local carboot. Below is the sketch to follow over on Sketch & Stash.


I hope everyone's had a good day. We've had no landline phone all weekend, so Steve's had all the wires pulled out today checking to see whats not working after BT did a line check and all was ok. At first he thought it was sky but that was ok, then he finally located it too the cable from the broadband, went out and bought a new cable and hooray the phone appeared to be working, we could ring out. We just thought we'd do a quick check to see if we could receive incoming calls, nope it's constantly engaged. So it looks like it's now the BT Home Hub, we can now ring out but no one can ring in, unless we unplug the hub connection then have no broadband, all very confusing...lol. So that needs sorting tomorrow. Plus our poor cat Dusty is a bit poorly, he's been off his food a bit over the weekend, but today he's refused to eat at all, the problem is, he is a little so and so for not drinking whether it's water, milk or anything, so he has to have water mixed into his food, so if he's not eating that means he's also not getting fluids, so it's a trip to the vets for him tomorrow morning. He's 13, so I do hope he'll be OK. We can also tell he's not right as normally he'll give Mollie a swipe if she gets too close to him, but he just can't be bothered at present and just lets her give him a lick, that certainly is out of character for him. So fingers crossed the trip to the vets will sort him out for the better.
Thanks for stopping by!!!

La-La Land Crafts DT Call

There's a new stamp company hitting the land, La-La Land Crafts, which opens for business on the 12th August (get that in your diary's ladies and gents).

Anyway Irina is looking for a design team of six people. If you are interested than you need to nip over to the La-La Land Crafts Blog for full details of how to apply. And even if you don't want to apply still nip over and take a peek at what's going on, with some sneak peeks.

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #18

Thank you to everyone who joined in with last weeks 'Inside Out' challenge, it was wonderful to see all your cards, boxes etc...decorated inside as well as on the outside.

We're already onto week 18 over on Stamptacular, boy time just flies!!

This week's theme is...

"CHILD'S PLAY"

We want to see your projects for a child in mind.

Remember to be in with a chance of winning this weeks prize kindly sponsered by
Paper Makeup Stamps, you must include at least ONE stamped item on your project and your entry must be exclusive to the Stamptacular challenge.
The DT have some wonderful projects to show, so be sure to check them out and here's mine.

The dragon template I've had for years and had never used, not sure where it's from sorry. The little dragon image was a stamped image I recieved in a swap. The main dragon was printed on to white card stock then I ran it through the printer again using Funky Fairy's 'Slightly Spotty'. Coloured the little dragon using copics, cut him out then attached to the base card with foam pads. Sentiment was done on the PC and then made it into a little signboard for the little one to hold.

We do hope you'll join us for this week's challenge and don't forget we also have a DT call running until the 23rd August.

Magical Crafts Forum

My bloggy buddy Angel, is entering a new exciting venture with a craft forum.

A forum wont work without some lovely members, so please nip over to

Magical Crafts

There's going to be lots going on with tips, swaps, chat etc.., so please lets all help Angel get this forum on the road.

Thank you!!

Sketch Saturday #62

Another wonderful sketch as always from Sketch Saturday this week.




I've coloured the Gorjuss Girl with copics and lightly chalked the edges with brown. The dp's are all from Craftwork Cards as are the, pink dotty flower, butterfly sentiment and card candy. The rest of the flower is built up with a large white fabric flower and a prima flower on top with a spacer and pink pearl brad. I really loved this sketch and will definately use again.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Saturday, bloomin miserable day weatherwise yet again here as it is for many in the UK I believe. Oh well will have to stay in and keep on crafting!!!

Stamptacular DT Call

We are looking for some new DT members over on Stamptacular for initially a 6 month commitment from October 2009 through to March 2010.
Previous or current DT experience isn't necessary to apply, so nip on over to the challenge blog for full details of how to apply. All submissions must be in by 23rd August.

I'm sadly stepping down from the DT at the end of my 6 month commitment in September due to other commitments. But I must say the Stamptacular DT is a team in a million, and Priscilla is an absolute star. You really couldn't ask for a friendlier team, so don't be shy get over there and apply!!