Pollycraft Challenge #23

Good Morning Everyone!!

It's a new challenge this week over on Pollycraft Monday Challenge and this is my first slot as one of the guest designers.  The theme this week is ...

FURRY FRIENDS..(Animals)

We would like to see you add an animal to your creations.  Remember you don't have to use a Pollycraft image on your creation but if you do you will be entered into a monthly prize draw for a £25 voucher.  This weeks prize is the gorgeous 'Sweet Dreams' digital stamp collection.

The DT have been busy with lots of gorgeous 'Furry Friend' creations so be sure to check them out, here is my GD card for you.

I've used one of the new Animal Scribbles digi stamps available now from the Pollycraft Designs Shop.  This is 'Kitty Flowers' coloured her with watercolour pencils and copics, the grass and background were chalked, used scalloped circle nesties in my bug to cut out image, inked scallop edges in purple.  Dp is K & Co.  Flowers were plain white die-cuts which I coloured using copics then added clear dew drops in the centres. Sentiment is stamped and coloured with copics then finished with clear dew drops in three corners.

We do hope you'll join in with the latest challenge, and remember the challenge runs for two weeks.

Bank Holiday Sunday Fun!!!

Good Evening All

We had a fantastic fun day today with the village raft race and then the BBQ back here.  The weather wasn't too good, but at least the rain held off for us to get the BBQ done, in fact it just started to rain as we were taking the last of the chicken drumsticks off the barbie, it was too windy and chilly to sit outside anyway so we'd set everything up to eat inside.  I managed to get a few pictures well 94 to be precise of the raft race fun, and here are a few to share with you.

 

There were 6 rafts in this years race, they have a nice leisurely row for about 1/4 of a mile until they reach the end when there are a number of obstacles and the added bombardment of flour bombs and buckets of water. This obstacle is covered in washing-up liquid so it's pretty slippery...lol.

 

The rubber ring obstacles, this is where they normally all fall in!!

 

This poor race official gets it every year with the flour bombs, but he always makes sure the culprits get a good soaking back, and if they are really cheeky and get too close to him they often end up in the canal itself.

 

My cheeky nephew and no he wasn't caught in the crossfire of flour bombs, he poured a bag of flour over himself...lol.

 

Steve and his brother get in on the action of bombimg the rafters.

 

My niece about to get her dad, a quick pic before I moved out of the way.

 

Good hit from my niece with a little help from me too, as I'd just recieved a flour bomb to the back courtesy of my BIL.

Another of my BIL's getting a dusting, he's not normally so white on top.

And finally one more raft.

Hope you enjoyed the pics, as you can see it was all fun and thats the main thing whatever the weather.

I'll be back tomorrow morning with my first GD card for the Pollycraft challenge, thanks for stopping by!!!

Joanne xxx

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge

Good Morning Everyone!!

This is a scheduled post as right now family and friends should be turning up for our fun day with the village raft race and then a BBQ back here this afternoon.  Praying rain will stay away!!  Hopefully I'll have some pictures for you later.

This weeks Stamptacular Sunday Challenge is....

"Scallop Mania"

We want to see plenty of scallops on your cards or other projects.  The DT have all done a fabby job again so be sure to check them out and here's mine.

I've used one of the gorgeous new 'Ginger' images from Pollycraft, coloured her with copics and promarkers.  The scalloped embossed frame and scallop base card are both from Craftwork Cards.  I've dusted over the embossing with Dovecraft blue shimmer chalk.  The blue dp is a paper from Funky Fairys 'Just Hanging Around' kit, the peachy coloured dp is from my scraps stash.  The peach flowers are fabric then I punched the blue flowers from the FF dp then added clear dewdrops to the centres.  Sentiment was stamped onto white cardstock, coloured with copics and chalk then cut out using scallop circle nesties in my bug.

We do hope you'll be able to join us for this weeks challenge!!

Enjoy your bank holiday weekend everyone xx

Pollycrafts Friday Freebie

Good Morning Everyone

Well it's absolutely bucketing down here at the moment and the wind, well lets say it feels and looks more like November than it does August.  Paula has been busy doodling away and she has come up with yet another gorgeous freebie for you all, and his name is Dave!!! And here he is...

Coloured Dave with copics and blender.  Cut him out with circle scallop nesties on my bug then inked the edges in gold.  You can't really see by this pic but I also dotted crystal stickles as snow on the background of the image.  The gold and red embossed card are both from Kanban, sentiment is Papermania Elements.  Scalloped base card is from Craftwork Cards which I've punched at the bottom using a Fiskars snowflake border punch.  Dotted the scallops around the card with red sakura stardust then finished with card candy in the corners.  So if you would like to get your hands on Dave, just nip over to Tales from Pollycraft where you will find him waiting for you to pick him up.  Also Paula is planning to release the 'Ginger' collection later today and a few other treats so don't forget to check out the Pollycraft Shop .

 

This card is also my entry for this weeks Magical Crafts Forum Christmas challenge, which this week is 'Traditional".  I've gone what to me is my favourite traditional colours of Red & Gold, most Christmas my cards are more red and gold then anything else, though this year I have been more adventurous with my colours due to making quite a few throughout the year, but I've still got to have some red and gold ones!!

Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by!!

Cherry Kisses Friend's

Good Evening Everyone!!

Sorry I've been a bit absent the past few days, I've still not managed to complete my blog hopping, in fact far from it, I've just had so much going on this week and it's not going to be much different now until after the bank holiday weekend, but I will try and hop on any spare moments and will really get down to it next week, where hopefully it will be a more peaceful week.  I really appreciate you visitng and commenting on my cards, please don't think I've forgotten you or that I'm not bothered about visitng you as I already feel really bad for being so slack the past week.  I guess we all sometimes have so much going on in our lifes that blogging has to take a back seat for a while. 

Anyway I have a card to show you which is for two challenges.  I've followed the wonderful sketch over on Inspirational Card Sketches and followed the theme this week of 'Friendship' over on Creative Inspirations.

The images are from Pollycraft they are Cherry Kisses Chillin & Summer and the background grass is also from the same collection.  Coloured with copics, promarkers and blender.  Papers are Funky Fairys 'Dainty Dots'.  Ribbon is from my scraps stash, I believe I bought it from our local haberdashery store.  Flower is a mix of fabric, paper mania and a blue rose from The Range.  Frond leaves punched from paper and coloured with copics.  Added card candy to the ribbon and a green tiny gem to each image.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Funky Fairys Challenge #31

Good Morning Everyone!!

It's Wednesday so that means it's time for a new Funky Fairys Challenge !!!

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

WEDDING - SOMETHING OLD & SOMETHING NEW

We would like to see your wedding creations that include something old and something new.  As an OPTIONAL extra if you also include something borrowed and something blue on your creation your will earn yourself a 2nd entry into the random draw for the FF download prize. 

**To be included in the prize draw you must have used at least ONE FF papercraft item on your creation**

The Dt have all been busy with some beautiful creations, so be sure to check them out.  Here's mine...

I've used Funky Fairys 'Just Hanging Around' papers.  The labels were cut using nesties in my bug.

*Something Old - The bride and groom outfits, I've had them sitting in my stash for well over 3 years they were still sealed in their little bag

*Something New - Flower and Spray

*Something Borrowed - Ribbon, borrowed off of one of Mollies soft toys, though it's not getting it back...lol

*Something Blue - Papers.

We do hope you'll be able to join us for the challenge, we look forward to visiting your blogs!!

**FUNKY FAIRYS NEWSFLASH**

We have something very exciting happening in one weeks time over on the Funky Fairys Challenge Blog and Inspiration Blog, now I can't give anything away as it's TOP SECRET, but you really wont want to miss out on the fun that will be happening so be sure to visit the challenge blog next Wednesday, get it down in your diaries!!!

Spooky Ginger and 3 Challenges in 1

Meet Ginger, this is just one of the new soon to be released images from Pollycraft.
Coloured with copics, promarkers and blender. Chalked the background and inked the edges in purple. Orange dp was a free download from HubPages, which I printed out twice so that I could layer one of the bat's and the spider so that they slightly overlap the image. The purple and black dp is from my scraps stash, so not got a clue who it's by. Buttons from my stash as is the black funky wool.
This card fit's three challenges:

Inspirational Card Sketches - Followed their fab sketch.
ABC Challenge - Buttons
Papertake Weekly Challenge- Celebrating their 100th challenge so you can choose any of their 99 past challenges, this card covers the "Frightful but Delightful" challenge from 20th October 2008.

Hope you all had a fab weekend, it sure was a busy one here but we have a small amount of time to oursleves before the youngest comes tonight for a couple of nights. Then next Sunday will be a really busy day with our village annual 'Raft Race' on the canal. We are having plenty of family and friends round to watch the race and throw flour bombs at the rafters finishing off back at ours for a BBQ. Lets all hope the bank holiday weekend brings pleasant weather!!
Thanks for stopping by xx

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge

We're seeing everything in 3D this week over on Stamptacular.
You must create a CARD that is three dimensional.

The DT have come up with some fabby 3D ideas to help inspire you. Here's mine....


The image is Daisy from Pink Gem and I've layered her up as a decoupage. Coloured with copics and background is chalked. Papers are K & Co, flowers are prima's with card candy in the centres and along one edge. Frond leaves punched out of white paper then coloured with copics. Scalloped circles cut from nesties in my bug and scalloped base card from Craftwork Cards.

Apologies for my lack of blog hopping this week, we have had visitors since Friday and they just keep coming, with a full house today...lol, I hope to catch-up this evening and tomorrow with hopping once everyone has gone.
Enjoy your Sunday everyone!!!

KT's Challenge

Blogging buddy Shell has had her blog taken over by her 11 year old daughter KT, who wanted to set her own challenge. She's done a wonderful sketch and theme of Cute and Romantic as it's her mum and dad's wedding anniversary very soon. I'm always up for a challenge, especially one set by a budding young crafter. Here's my card for KT's challenge.

I've used this Sarah Kay image which was stamped up for me by my sister-in-law, coloured with copics, promarkers and blender then chalked the background. The love heart clouds in the sky was done by placing heart peel-offs then chalking around them before removing them. Papers are Papermania and Dovecraft, flowers are Papermania with card candy in the centres, frond leaves punched out of white paper and coloured with copics and ribbon is from stash.

So if you are looking for a challenge please nip over to KT's blog ooopps I mean Shell's blog...lol and join in, I know KT and Shell would both be thrilled if you did. The winner will recieve KT's wonderful card she made using the her sketch and theme and some stamped images.

It's a lovely day here today. We have Steve's eldest and her boyfriend visiting us this weekend, so we are gonna go for a walk and a bit of lunch at a place called Little Switzerland near the Humber Bridge, so hoping it stays nice.
Enjoy your weekend everyone whatever your plans!!

Pollycraft's Friday Freebie

Paula over on Tales from Pollycraft has a treat for you this week, you can get THREE free images for the price of none!!!

Here's Susie Sausage and her boyfriend...

This is just one of the free images of these gorgeous little sausage dogs.
Coloured the image with copics and a little shading with a pencil then chalked the background in pink. Sentiment was done on PC and again chalked then both were monuted onto some black shiney card. Paper is Funky Fairys 'Dainty Dots', velvet black ribbon from Ribbon Box, flowers are prima'a with black gems in the centres, brad through bow from The Range and finally punched the frond leaves from the black shiney card. This card also fots two challenges, I followed the sketch over on Penny's Challenges and the colour scheme of Pink & Black is this weeks challenge over on One Stop Crafts.
Thanks for stopping by and hope you all have a good Friday!!!