A sneak peek of Pollycrafts Spring Things

After the lovely Lilybean Fairies release last week, Paula has been hard at it again with some more beauties, this time it's all about spring, after all this snow we keep having I'm certainly looking forward to seeing the arrival of spring.  Well here is a sneaky peek of one of the upcoming 'Spring Things' images...

 

This little darling is 'Balancing Act'

RECIPE

Digi Image - Pollycraft 'Spring Things ~ Balancing Act' (soon to be released)

Papers - My Minds Eye

Colouring Mediums - Copics & Promarkers

Embellishments - Ribbon, Flowers and Brads from stash

Sentiment - PC Generated

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This card fits 4 challenges ....

The Corrosive Challenge - Sketch

Kaboodle - Spots and Stripes

Digital Tuesday - It's All About Animals

Cute Card Thursday - Spots & Dots

If you are a big Pollycraft fan then you maybe interested in joining the new Pollycraft Group over on Paper Craft Planet, it would be great to see you there!!!

Thanks for stopping by and if you have the snowy icy weather please be very careful on foot and on the roads, there has been some terrible accidents today locally here.

Hugs

Joanne xxx

Altered Notebook and Tags

Over on the Magical Crafts Forum, there are lots of swaps going on and this month I have joined the Notebook swap and Tag swap.

 

I've altered a plain 6 x 4 notebook using some scrap material I found in my stash and added some sequin and silver braiding along one edge. The flower was two pieces cut out from the material secured with a fancy brad and spacer, then used some silver chain for attaching 3 charms to.  Nearly didn't want to give this away...lol.  But I'm looking forward to recieving a notebook back from the swap, which I'm sure will be just as gorgeous.

There are six of us taking part in the tag swap this month, and they will be made into a tag info book.  On the other side of these tags is a really tiny pic of me...lol, my address and a few bits of info about me.  In the swap I will recieve a tag from each participant with their address and some info about them, all put together with a book ring, a fab idea for a fancy little address book.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge #8

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Thanks to everyone who played along with our Valentine's challenge, such gorgeous creations.

We are now on to Challenge 8 over on  MCFC can you believe!!

Our challenge for you this time round is.......

'SOMETHING FOR THE KIDS'

We would like to see your projects with a child in mind.  Remember we welcome any kind of crafts as long as you follow the theme.

This week we are being sponsored by

One lucky winner will get $10 to spend in the Simon Says Shop, and they are kindly going to pay your p&p so you will get the full $10 to spend.

My fellow DT buddies have really gone to town with this challenge, and you will find plenty to inspire you.  Here's mine for you...

 

I've altered this little gift bag with a little princess in mind, perfect for most little girls, I think.

RECIPE

Digi Image - Spiral Whispers (sadly currently no longer available)

Paper - From scraps

Colouring Mediums - Copics and Promarkers

Embellishments - Ribbon, Flowers, Gems and Charm all from stash

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We do hope you come on over and play along with our challenge for you, we are all looking forward to seeing your projects for a child.

Enjoy your Sunday

Hugs

Joanne xx

A Card for a Mega Amount of Challenges

Well a girl can only make so many Valentines/Love cards...lol and as there are so many challenges with this theme at present this card is covering one mega amount of challenges, plus a couple of non-love challenges too.

This card is being entered into....

Drunken Stampers - Be My Valentine (with a twist of metal)

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Monochrome Tones

Your Next Stamp - Charms

ABC - N is for New

Penny's Challenges - Valentine/Love

Simon Says - Photo Inspiration

Paper Play Challenges - Love Notes

Charisma Cardz - I Love You

C.R.A.F.T. - Valentines or Love

Stamp Something - Love Somethings

Stampin For The Weekend - Valentines Themed

Fussy & Fancy - Hearts

Crazy 4 Challenges - Be My Valentine

Challenge Up Your Life - Valentines and Hearts

The Corrosive Challenge - All You Need Is Love

By The Cute & Girly - Love

Double Dutch - Be My Valentine

Sophisticat Challenge - Love

Papertake Weekly - Love Actually

Creative Card Crew - Valentines

I think thats 20 challenges, definate record for me and not something you will see from me very often I can assure you.

RECIPE

Stamp - Magnolia (RAK from my SIL)

Paper - My Minds Eye

Vellum - Kanban

Colouring Medium - Copics and Promarkers

Flourishes - My new stamp set I got from Hobby House yesterday

Charm & Chain - Also got from Hobby House yesterday

Flowers - From stash

Ribbon - From Stash

Sentiment - PC generated

Embossing Folder - Swirls used in Cuttlebug

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Right now I have to go add the link to all those challenges.

Thanks for stopping by as always your comments are much appreciated, I'll be back in the morning for the new Magical Crafts challenge.

Hugs

Joanne xx

Totally Papercrafts Challenge #2 and my blog hop candy winner

Good Morning Everyone

Thank you to everyone who took part in the Totally Papercrafts launch challenge and blog hop last week, after collecting all the letters you should have come up with the word 'FRIENDS'.  Go check out the challenge blog to see if you are a winner!!!  I can reveal that the winner of my blog hop candy is....

Lalkygirl 

Congratulations Tracey!!  Please can you email me your full name and address and I'll get the candy in the post to you.

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CHALLENGE #2

This week we have a recipe for you....

3 Embellishments

2 Papers 

1 Image

We welcome Susie from Die Cut Dreams as our sponsor and guest designer this week, the lucky winner of the challenge will recieve a mix of mystery die-cuts to the approx value of £10.

The DT have as always some beautiful creations to show you, which we hope will inspire. We do hope you'll come and join us for our second challenge, we look forward to seeing what you can whisk up with the recipe. Here's mine...

 

RECIPE

Stamp - Magnolia 

Papers - My Minds Eye

Colouring Medium - Promarkers

Embellishments - Flowers, Ribbon and Card Candy from stash

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Well what a wet dreary day it is here, not quite as cold as it has been of late mind.  I'm off on a little trip out with my SIL Mel today across the Humber into Lincolnshire to visit The Hobby House.  I always buy from them at the shows not realising until fairly recently that their shop was only 43 miles away from me just outside Grimsby, so I'm really looking forward to visiting the shop, looking at their site yesterday there are so many things I'd like to buy, but I am going to try and be very good and only get what I really want to go for which is some charms and spacers, they have a fab selection.  I really must be good!!...lol.

Well enjoy your day everyone and thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Joanne xx

Lilybean Release Day Special Offer

***The Lilybean Fairies are NOW RELEASED***

 

Grab the whole set of six for ONE DAY ONLY for £5.50

OFFER HAS NOW ENDED!!

Offer only until midnight tonight thereafter the images will cost £1.29 each

VISIT THE POLLYCRAFT SHOP NOW!!

  

  

 

If you are visiting for............

***BLOG HOP CANDY NOW CLOSED***

.........the Totally Papercrafts Challenge launch Blog Hop CLICK HERE to see my blog hop post!!

The Final Lilybean Fairies Preview

Good morning everyone, I hope everyone is keeping well.  Well today is day 6 of the Pollycraft Lilybean Fairies and our final preview before their release on the 4th February.  So not to keep you waiting any longer here is the final Lilybean Fairy......

Presenting...'Clover - Toadstool Dreams', isn't she gorgeous!!

Now if you don't already know you need to nip over to Tales from Pollycraft and check out all the stunning  DT samples, leave a comment and this time not only can TWO people win todays image but ONE very lucky person will win the whole set of the Lilybean Fairies that have been previewed each day since last Friday.

I'm entering this card into 6 challenges .....

Mojo Monday - Sketch

My Time To Craft - Fairy Folk

One Stop Craft Challenge - Make It Personal

Crafty Creations - Wings

Flutter By Wednesday - Open Challenge

ABC - New Stash

It's personal as this is for a friend to give to her SIL who is starting a new business venture which she thought would only ever be a dream and never reality, so the words just about says it all.

RECIPE

Digi Image - Pollycraft 'Clover - Toadstool Dreams' (Lilybean Fairies released 4th February)

Papers - My Minds Eye (New free papers from C&P Mag)

Colouring Mediums - Promarkers and Chalks

Nestabilities - Scalloped Circle

Embellishments - Flowers and Brad from stash

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I hope you have enjoyed the daily Lilybean Fairies previews, thank you for all your lovely comments.

Enjoy your day.

Hugs

Joanne xx

Lilybean Fairies Preview Day 5

Well here we are on day 5 of the Lilybean Fairies previews after this there's only one more to show before the release of all 6 images on the 4th February.  To be in with a chance of winning todays preview image, hop over to Tales from Pollycraft where TWO commenters will win.  

 

This darling Lilybean is 'Clover - Dancing with Dragonflies'.

I'm entering this card into 2 challenges...

Saturday Spotlight - Bigger Is Better (I think the tied ribbon covers that)

Incy Wincy - Put Your Hats On

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RECIPE

Digi Image - Pollycraft 'Clover - Dancing with Dragonflies' (Lilybean Fairies released 4th February)

Papers - K & Co

Colouring Medium - Copics, Promarkers, Sarkura White & Dovecraft Shimmer Chalks

Embellishments - Ribbon, Flowers and Gems from stash

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

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Thanks for stopping by and look forward to seeing you tomorrow with the final Lilybean Fairies preview.

Hugs

Joanne xx

Pollycraft Monday Challenge & Lilybean Fairies Preview Day 4

Good Morning Everyone can you believe it's February already!!

Another beautiful sunny start here today, though looking out at the ice and frost it certainly isn't a warm one.

It's Monday and it's time for another Pollycraft Monday Challenge which also links in with the Lilybean Fairies Preview 4, we hope you have been enjoying our daily previews and are as excitied about their release on the 4th February as we are.  Now on to the challenge which this time round is......

"Things With Wings"

Today we present to you 'Primrose - Carefree'

Now if you haven't already been checking out our daily previews then you need to get over to Tales from Pollycraft where TWO people could win this gorgeous image before the release, if you signed up yesterday then maybe you won yesterdays image, you best go check.  Remember also at the end of the previews ONE lucky person will win the whole Lilybean set.

Some of my fellow DT have used todays peview image for their challenge inspiration like myself but some have used other images for the theme, so you really must check out their wonderful work over on the challenge blog.  You don't need to use a Pollycraft product to enter, but if you do that would of course be very lovely.

RECIPE

Digi Image - Pollycraft 'Primrose - Carefree' (Lilybean Fairies released 4th February)

Paper - Was an odd page but I believe it is Laura Ashley

Colouring Mediums - Watercolour Pencils and Promarkers

Sentiment - Produced on PC

Embellishments - Flowers, Ribbon and Heart Pearls from stash.

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Have a lovely day and don't forget to pop back tomorrow for day 5 of the Lilybean previews.

Hugs

Joanne xxx