Pollycraft 'Sweet Dreams' Release, Friday Freebie & Dare U 2 Digi Stamp #19

This little beauty of an image is one of the new releases from Pollycraft available now the 'Sweet Dreams' collection. There are 6 images in total and are 99p each or your can purchase the full collection for £5.50. This ones called "Melody My Fairytale".
Also on the card is this weeks Friday Freebie from Paula "Funky Flutterby", so if you've not already got it nip over to Tales from Pollycraft.
I've coloured Melody with copics and promarkers, then chalked the background with blue and green shimmer chalks. I scaled the funky flutterby down before printing and coloured with promarkers then attached to the image with foam pads. Stripy dp is K & Co and the two floral dp's are Papermania. Flowers and brads from stash.
This card fits in with this weeks Dare U 2 Digi Stamp challenge which is a colour combo 'Blue, Green and White or Cream.

Hope you've all had a great day, thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend!!

A Spoon Full of Sugar #64

There's another great sketch this week over on A Spoon Full of Sugar.



I was really lucky to have won some wonderful images as blog candy from Penny over on Creations by Penny yesterday evening. And this cute kitty is one of Penny's images. Coloured the image with copics and blender, I then hand sketched the brickwork and coloured with chalks I also chalked the ground, then inked the edges. Papers are Funky Fairys 'Simply Brushed' and I've again inked all the edges of each paper piece. Sentiment was done on PC and printed on to one of the papers. The finishing touch was some clear Anita's tiny gems.
I hope everyone's had a good day, thanks for stopping by.

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Funky Fairys Challenge #29 Take 2!!

Apologies for the last post Mr Blogger really wasn't playing nice and goodness knows what was going on with all the text getting bigger and bigger as the post progressed...lol. Thankfully he's now playing nice and I have been able to upload my DT card for Funky Fairys Challenge. I wont got through all the challenge details again as they are all in the post below this one, but just a little recap this weeks theme is "Xmas".

The image is another sneak peek for a new collection which is soon to be released from Pollycraft called 'Sweet Dreams'. Coloured her with copics and there's some sakura clear stardust on the background snow flakes. I've used Funky Fairy papers 'Merry Christmas Everyone' and 'Dainty Dots'. The holly is from my craft stash.

Glad I could finally show you my card, thanks for looking.

Funky Fairys Challenge #29

Thank you to everyone who took part in last weeks 'Black & White' colour combo challenge, so many amazing creations.

This week over on Funky Fairys Challenges we have a theme which you are either gonna love or hate, but there's no disputing it's fast approaching and there's no escape from it as in 134 days it will be.............


"XMAS"


So you've guessed it we want to see your Christmas creations this week.

The DT have all been busy with their festive images and Funky Fairy papers this week and have come up with some fabulous creations for you, so don't forget to check them out. And here's mine.

WELL MAYBE NOT....Mr Blogger is not letting me upload my picture, so please accept my apologies, hopefully I will have a picture for you later, but if you can't wait to see it, you can take a peek at it over on the Funky Fairys Challenge blog.

Remember there are some wonderful freebie Funky Fairys papers over on the Inspirations Blog.

Make sure you check out the Funky Fairys Papercrafts Shop, where until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT there is 35% off of everything. If there's a kit or kits you've had your eye on nows the time to get them as some of the kits will be retired after the sale to make way for new things.

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

A bit of Femme Gothique

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a good day. I've been crafting away today as we've had the BT engineer here yet again and there was no broadband. Now our phone saga has been going on now for nearly 2 weeks, we had already worked out ourselves that it was something to do with the broadband, possibly the hub, that whenever the broadband was on we couldn't recieve calls as it gave an engaged tone. Finally after many calls from here to India someone was sent out that actually knew what they were doing and as we thought we were right all along it's a problem with the hub. The engineers don't carry spare hub's so a new one is on it's way to us by post, phew at long last, so hopefully within the next few days we'll have a working phoneline.

I've done lots of DT stuff, but I managed to get a challenge card done for Digital Tuesday which is a fab sketch to follow.

The image is from the Cherry Kisses Frames Collection by Pollycraft. I've coloured with copics and a blender, I tried to achieve a tie-dyed effect on her top, I don't think it looks too bad. Chalked the background and inked edges in black. Dp's are Dovecraft. The embellishments are made up from jump rings, larger rings from an old belt, leather straps also from same belt, black and white sequin flowers and purple gems. Also added some gems to the image frame. Sentiment was done on PC then chalked and mounted onto black card and one of the dp's. As it looked a mix of feminine and gothic, I decided to reflect this in the sentiment with a little bit of french.

Enjoy your evening and thanks for looking!!

One Stop Craft Challenge #41

Yay, two cards for you in one day!!
This one's for this weeks One Stop Craft Challenge with the theme of 'Roses'. After doing a male card I had to get a feminine one done too and a zesty colour one at that...lol.


The roses image is another gorgeous freebie from Lily-Boo's Boutique, coloured with copics then inked around the edges. Cut out ovals using nesties in the bug. Papers are K & Co. Ribbon from stash. Finished with some gems in two corners. There you go something feminine and zesty.
Thanks for looking and enjoy your evening.

Cupcake Craft Challenge #51

I was chuffed to bits to find out this morning that I made the Top 5 on Cupcake for last weeks challenge, you can see on the left hand sidebar I'm already showing my Top 5 blinkie with pride!!

The challenge on Cupcake this week is a great sketch and colour theme, which just so happened to help me out with an idea for my step-dad's birthday card, as the colours were a perfect masculine combo.

Instead of an image I did a word cloud using Wordle, I'd forgotten all about this site until visiting someone elses blog recently who'd also used it, sorry I've forgotten who's blog it was. The dp's used are scraps from Funky Fairy papers and Basic Grey. Cut out the ovals using nesties in my bug. Ribbon and button from my stash, then added card candy to the bottom. The base card and panel are actually dark brown but the photo makes them look black.

Been a wet old day here today, bit of a come down from the lovely weather of the past few days, but it's still quite warm and muggy.
Dusty is doing much better and though not eating as much as he used too, he's heading in the right direction. The vets called today with some more results and all were ok. He finished the last of his antibiotics this morning so we just need to keep an eye on him for the next few weeks for any changes in behaviour, weight gain or if he deteriorates again. As he has perked up they don't want to put him through the trauma of any scans or further tests. So fingers crossed this was just some mystery nasty infection and nothing sinister is lurking.

Hope you are all having a good day!!!

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Recipe

Good Morning Everyone
I hope many of you are enjoying some lovely weather, it certainly is here so we are off to the beach today.

Thank you to everyone who took part in our 'Child's Play' challenge last week there were so many wonderful creations. This week over on Stamptacular we have a recipe for you....

3 Brads
2 Papers
1 Flower

The DT have had yet again some wonderful fun with this challenge and we hope our works will inspire you to take part in the challenge. Here's mine for you.

The image is from the 'Sweet Dreams' collection which will be available soon from Pollycraft so this is a little sneak peek for you. Coloured her with copics and promarkers, then chalked and inked the edges and mounted her on to one of the dp's which are both Basic Grey 'Offbeat'. The brads are from my stash and the flowers are a mix of fabric, prima's and felt. The sentiment was from a freebie stamp set a couple of months ago from the Creativity magazine, which I've inked on the edges and mounted onto one of the dp's.

We do hope you will be able to join us this week for some challenge fun.

Enjoy your Sunday!!!

Sketch Saturday #63, Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #44 & A Spoon Full of Sugar #63

Happy Saturday to you all, the sun is shining here, hope it is where you are too. Just popping a card on before getting out in the garden, not to relax unfortunately but to mow the lawn and a general tidy up, but we can relax later with a little BBQ for just the two of us, and maybe a chicken leg for Mollie...lol.

I've followed the sketch over on this weeks Sketch Saturday, followed the theme of 'Cute As A Bug' over on Secret Crafter and also the theme over on this weeks A Spoon Full of Sugar which is 'Floral Fantasy'.

The image is a free digi from Lily-Boo coloured her with copics then chalked and inked the edges. DP's are all from my scraps stash so can't remember where they are from. Inked all the edges of the green dp. Flowers are a mix of prima's and Papermania put together with pearl brads. The sentiment actually says 'Birthday Wishes' in embossed silver it's from the Daisy & Dandelion 'Masculine' collection, but with the light I just couldn't get a good enough pic to show it.

Enjoy your Saturday!!!