Blog Candy Winner!!!!

Hello my lovelies, well the time has arrived to announce the winner of my blog candy! How exciting! Thanks to everyone who entered, I'll be popping along and saying hello and joining your followers as soon as I get a minute as work has been a nightmare for the last few weeks. Anyway I'd better stop rambling on and get to the important stuff, with the help of random.org the lucky winner is 

number 21: Kym (http://kyms-crafty-cards.blogspot.co.uk/)

Congratulations Kym!!! Email me your details and I'll get your goodies in the post to you:-)

I wish I could give you all a prize but I am planning another blog candy very soon as I'm having a bit of a sort out in my craft room so if you like stamping keep popping back as I'll have some lovely goodies up for grabs

Claire xx

Sew much fun :-)

Good morning, back to work for me this morning so I'm not a happy bunny, I just wanted to share this card made using an image and paper from The Paper Shelter, I love this cute image, she's adorable isn't she? Sorry about the crappy photo, of this one. the colours are all bleached out and its soooo blurry,  I'll never make a photographer will I lol??

I coloured the image with Graph'It markers, here's a better pic of the image:

The backing paper is also from The Paper Shetler,, I've added seam binding ribbon, paper flowers, buttons, pearls and lace from my stash. I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

ABC: Very cute

Crafts and Me: lovely lace

Di's Digi Designs: colouring

The Paper Shelter: Stitching real or faux

Really Reasonable Ribbon: Shabby Chic and Ribbon

Totally Papercrafts: Stitching

Well I'd better go and earn some pennies, have a good day and thanks so much for popping by. I'll be back later to announce my blog candy winner!! 

Claire xx

Exciting times in PanPastel Land!

Oh my goodness, its all happening over at PanPastel UK, , in fact Berni is stocking so many fab new products we're having a new name 'Premium Craft Brands'. We've got a whole host of talented new teamies joining us and a gorgeous new look blog  too!!! Of course we've got a new challenge with a fab prize from the lovely Berni at Premium Craft Brands too so grab a cuppa and pop over to find out all about it.  Before you go, my DT project is a little card and gift box made using PanPastels (of course lol)

I've recently treated myself to a gelli plate so I decided to have a play. I applied Magenta Tint PanPastel  to some white card and then had some messy fun with Maimeri Acrylic paint and a gorgeous pronty mask create some backgrounds. I made a little card, I didn't want to cover the background up so I simply stamped the sentiment and added some brown seam binding and a rose made with tattered florals and more magenta tint PanPastel:

The little gift box is actually a PanPastel box, painted with acrylic paint and then covered with pieces of my gelli plate background. I added another rose and more ribbon to finish off.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Altered Eclectics : Alter something

Chocolate Coffee and Cards: flowers

Crafting Cafe: altered art

Everybody Art: Roses

Inky chicks: pretty in pink

Kitty Bee Designs: flowers

Thanks so much for visiting today, 

Claire xx

400 Followers Blog Candy!

This is a sticky post so please scroll down to see more recent posts :-)

Good morning my lovelies, as promised here is my blog candy to celebrate 400 followers. I'd like to give a big party with lots of cake and bubbly to celebrate but as that would be a bit tricky (and a bit crowded as my house is soooooo tiny)  so I thought some blog candy might be a better alternative lol. 

The lucky winner of my candy will receive these fab Polkadoodles CDs, they are all jam packed with gorgeous goodies and are perfect for cards and all sorts of other projects.

There are some of my favourite cds here but these are all brand new and they include: Pretty Sweet, Pretty Tuff, Bonbon Belles, Here comes Christmas, Frederika and Heavenly Garden all designed by the lovely Nikky Hall. 

 Now whats the catch I hear you ask? Well all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is:

1. Be a follower of my blog and the Polkadoodles Blog

2. Pop this pic and a link to this post in your sidebar

3. Leave a comment on this post

4. Add your name to the linky thing (which hopefully will work lol)

No candy only blogs please

To give everyone a chance to join in the fun the candy will be open until Sunday 29th September 

I'll post world wide so what are you waiting for?

Good luck everyone

Claire xx

Halloween Fairy from Chocolate Baroque

Hello my lovelies, hope you're having  a happy day. My day didn't get off to the best start as some idiot set the alarm off at work and I had to go in grrrrrrr! Anyway I'm home now and I've got some new crafty goodies to play with so I'm in a better mood. My card today feature stamps from Chocolate Baroque, I've combined some of the stamps from Nevermore with the Autumn Fairy stamps (you can find them here)

I stamped and masked the images to create the scene and added a cliff side to the castle with my markers. I masked the moon and then got to work with my PanPastels and an eraser to create a moody twilight sky. Once I'd added the background I removed the masks and coloured the images with Graph'It Markers, adding a little grass in the foreground.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A Creative Romance: Fairytale

Craft a Scene: dusk to dawn

Creative Corner: the great outdoors

Fairytale: pumpkin/mushrooms/bats

Kaboodle Doodles: use orange

Simon Says Stamp: anything goes

Postie has just brought me some of the new brush nibs for my Graph'It markers so I'm off to try them out!
have a great day and thanks so  much for visiting
Claire xx

A new challenge at Polkadoodles!

Good morning folks, as always I've got a smile on my face as its Friday at long last and we've got a brand new challenge starting at Polkadoodles so pop on over and check out the fabby prize and all the gorgeous projects to inspire you from  my very talented teamies! 

For my DT project I've used papers, some of the precoloured elements, sentiments and a digistamp coloured from the fabulous Angelberry Christmas CD. This cd is absolutely crammed full of gorgeous goodies and I've used some of my favourites on this card. I've used a shaped card from Which Craft? and two of the backing papers from the cd, all distressed with a craft knife, distress ink and  some faux stitching around the edges. 

For the front  I made some little rolled paper roses and added some precoloured holly leaves from the cd.. I made a wrap to hold the card closed edged with a MS punch I die cut the sentiment and distressed with distress ink, and added some more holly, gingham ribbon and a button from my stash.

here's a pic of the inside, all the little embellies are coated with glossy accents.

The beautiful Angel is coloured with Graph'It Markers. I've added some faux pearls to the front to finish off

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz: decorate the inside of the card

Creative Belli: ribbon and pearls

Creative Card Crew: Christmas

Designed to Colour: anything goes

Fab'n'Funky: buttons

Holly Jolly Christmas: buttons

Little Miss Muffet: We wish you a merry Christmas

Paper Shelter: stitching 

Thanks so much for visiting, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

PS IF you're quick there is still time to enter my blog candy, lots of yummy Polkadoodles goodies up for grabs! you can find it here

Big Bold Baubles from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning my lovelies, I've got a quick and easy card to share today using a fun technique with my Graph'It Markers. I've used one of the fabby Big Bold Background stamps from Chocolate Baroque

Its a really easy technique, all you do is stamp your image on acetate (I embossed with black EP) and the flip the acetate over and colour the image with  Graph'It markers. Next take a piece of double sided adhesive film and stick it to the revese of your image. Peel off the backing and sprinkle all over with glitter to get a lovely sparkle through your image. Its hard to get a photo with all the sparkle, he's another angle

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Colour me Creative: anything goes

Crafts Too: Texture plus add something shiny or glittery

Crafty Hazelnut: Stamp, stamp, stamp

Sweet Stampin: Glamour and glitz

Wags'n'Whiskers: sparkle

Thanks so much for visiting today
Claire xx

Christmas fun with Polkadoodles

Good morning folks, how are you doing with the Christmas cards? I hate to tell you but its not long til the big day so if you need some inspiration pop over and have a look at the amazing new cd from Polkadoodles! Its called Home for Christmas and its jam packed full of gorgeousness, there are of course lovely digis, papers and precoloured images and embellies but this time Nikky has gone to town and added lots of scrummy extras so check it out here. 

I've used some of the precoloured images to create this scene, I've decoupages it up and added some glamour dust for a snowy sparkle. I decided to add an acetate overlay and added some shabby white frantage embossing powder to create some 'snow'

The backing papers are from the same cd, as is the sentiment. Nikky always comes up with the most fabulous sentiments on her cds. To finish off I've added a big white bow, a red button and some bakers twine. I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts: button up

C is for Challenge: sparkle

Christmas Stampin all year long: anything goes

Crafty Catz: decoupage

Paper Creators Crafts: make is Christmassy

Totally Gorjuss: Dotty

Well I'd better get myself on that bus to work, I'm at a conference today so hopefully the buffet lunch will be scrummy and it won't be too boring. These sort of things are always good for a catch up and a chat though so i'm sure it will be better than being in the office

thanks for popping by

Claire xx

PS If you like Polkadoodles goodies, you're going to love my blog candy

The Owl and the Pussycat

Good morning my lovelies, I couldn't resist combining the gorgeous owl and pussycat stamps from the latest Chocolate Baroque release, Autumn Fairies. 

I made the background with PanPastels and distress inks and cut an aperture in the centre. The owl and cat were stamped on vellum and embossed with black detail EP.I've added some sparkle to the cat's wings with glamour dust. On the back of the vellum, I masked a moon and then created a misty sky with PanPastels. To finish off I've added some seam binding ribbon, a flower and a little star charm.

i'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz: favourite colours (pinks and purples for me)

Craft your Passion: No coloured in images

Creative moments: :frame/ anything goes

Wags'n'Whiskers: sparkle

whoopsi Daisy: ribbon and bows

thanks for visiting today, have a great day whatever you're doing

Claire xx

Skaters from Splodge Away

Good morning folks, hasn't it been beautiful weather over the weekend? I haven't seen much of it as I'm battling though loads of work stuff but I've got a week of soon, can't wait!! Anyway today's card is a little concertina book card made using some of the scrummy new masks from SplodgeAway, for this project I've used Ice Skaters and the lovely snowflake border.

I used white glossy stencil paste through the skater masks and the snowflake border, once the paste was dry I spritzed them with lots of glimmeer mists in blues and greens and again left it to dry. I matted the images on blue card and used a nestie to cut an aperture:

I've added lots of paper flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and some lace and ribbon from the ribbon Girl

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Girls: anything goes

Happy Campers: show us your flowers

Hiding in my Craft Room: Lots of layers

LEJ Designs: winter wishes

Our Creative Corner: forgotten things (glimmer mists are mine)

Paper Shelter: multiple folds

Papertake Weekly: Make it sparkle

Sister Act: anything goes

Well thanks for visiting, its always lovely to see you

Claire xx

PS I've got some lovely Polkadoodles blog candy up for grabs,check it out here

Anything goes at PanPastel UK

Good morning my lovelies, I hope you're enjoying a lovely lazy Sunday morning. Its my favourite time of the week (well it is once the ironing is done lol) as I can potter around and don't have to think about rushing off to work. As its Sunday morning, we've got a new challenge starting at PanPastel UK and this week our theme is a nice easy one, 'Anything Goes'. As always there's a fab prize up for grabs from our lovely sponsor Berni at Your Creativity Store 

For my project i've made an 8x8 canvas (a real bargain from the Works). I've used PanPastels and one of the new masks which will be released very soon for the background. I've added a lots of die cut leaves,  and flowers coloured with PanPastels, I've used the new metallic Pans for this project but its so hard to get a decent pic of the lovely shimmer. I popped in some little red berries from the Ribbon Girl and then decided to add some ivy leaves to break up all the coppers and golds. I used a Marianne die to cut these and coloured with green PanPastels. The sentiment is from Chocolate Baroque and to finish off I've edged the canvas with gold acrylic paint and added a little die cut butterfly with a pearl body.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments: autumn

Craft your Passion: autumn colours

Fab'n'Funky: Leaves

Lexis Creations: autumn colours

Mariannes Design Divas: anything goes

Oldie but Goodie: dies/punches

(my oldies are my dies)

Paper Crafting Journey: flowers

Paper Nest Dolls: autumn/fall

Thanks so much for visiting today,

Claire xx

PS Don't forget to check out my blog candy here

Autumnal Colours on the catwalk

Hello there, and a big warm welcome to my new followers! Its lovely to 'meet' you. Well the last two weeks have zipped by so quickly,  its time for our new challenge at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and this time around our theme is 'Autumnal Colours' chosen by my lovely teamie Avril. As always our lucky winner will receive a fab $20 voucher from Flonzcraft and the stamps are such good value you get loads for your money! Don't forget we're a stamping challenge though so no digis allowed. 

For my DT project I've made a little Book Box card using a template from Which Craft?. I've used papers from Pion Designs, distressed with a craft knife and old paper distress ink. The image is of course from Flonzcraft, one of my favourites and this time I've stamped on watercolour card and coloured with my distress markers. I love the colours of Autumn, especially this time of year as the garden is still full of flowers and the leaves are just starting to change colour, so pretty :-)

The gorgeous lace, ribbon, butterfly charm and resin flower embellie are from the Ribbon Girl as is the larger butterfly.  I made a little closure with a spellbinders die and an ideology fastener. Here's a pic of the inside, using the same papers and my favourite sentiment from Chocolate Baroque.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

365 Cards: in the garden

A Creative Romance: dies/punches

Anything goes: in the garden add some butterflies

Crafty Sentiments: Fall/autumn colours

Divas by Design: anything goes

Paper Shelter: card with multiple folds

Stempelsonnen: Autumn

Top Tip Tuesday: Shaped Cards

Now all I need to do is get my beads out and make a little pressie to go inside.

Thanks so much for visiting today, don't forget to check out the gorgeous projects to inspire you from my DT Sisters. I'll be back later with my DT project for PanPastel UK :-)

Claire xx

PS you've still got time to enter my blog candy, you can find it here

Autumn Fairy at Twilight

Good morning my lovelies, have you seen the new Autumn fairy stamps from Chocolate Baroque? OMG they are absolutely gorgeous!  Here is my first sample using these wonderful new stamps. this large fairy from October

I began by punching a moon from some masking tissue with a circle punch and popping it on my card. I used torn copier paper to mask the hills in the background (but if you subscribe to Glenda's Mojo Monday newsletter you'd be able to  use the fab free template for this technique, if you don't receive the email, click here to find out how you can receive it). I used an old shaving brush to add my ink to this project, I used various shades of blue and purple distress inks and build the colour up gradually. I find that lightly brushing with a shaving brush gives a slightly misty, diffused effect. I added the stamping with black archival ink using stamps from the Autumn Fairies collection. To finish off I added some glitter to the fairy's wings for a little sparkle.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Chocolate Coffee and Cards: anything goes

Craft a Scene: dusk to dawn

Cute Card Thursday: Fairy nice

Left of Centre: No designer papers

My Craft Spot: Favourite technique (making a scene lol)

Its a bit of a dull day here today but that naughty puppy Barney has been digging the lawn up so I'm off to do some repairs lol, i don't know why I bother as he'll only dig them up again as soon as I turn my back. Good job I love him. Have a good day and thanks for popping by , 

Claire xx

PS Don't forget my blog candy, you've still got time to enter, click here for all the details

A new challenge at Graph'It Markers

Good morning my lovelies, its Friday (yippeeeeee) so its time for our new challenge over at Graph'It Colour Challenge, pop over to find out all the deets, our lucky random winner will get their mits on a fab prize as always AND our top 3 picks will get a digi download too so grab those markers and get colouring :-)

This week's theme was defnitely a challenge but I decided to have a go at colouring glass and bottled (ouch bad pun lol) out of colouring the wallpaper through the glass so I tried to add some shadow and  depth around the bottom of the glass to make it look like it was standing well away from the wall. I used neutral greys for the glass and added a little 7210 for the glass,, I also used the neutral greys for the shadows.

The stamps are from Sheena Douglass, I love that sentiment !I used distress inks for the stripes. To fnish off I've added black lace, a seam binding bow and a black button topped off with a twine bow.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Crafting for all seasons: humerous

Crafty ribbons: anything goes with ribbon

Creative Craft Challenge: ribbon

Marker POP: anything goes

Really Reasonable Ribbon: shabby chic plus ribbon

Thanks so much for popping by

Claire xx

PS don't forget you've still got time to enter my blog candy, you can find it here

September fairy from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning folks, a warm welcome and a big thank you for visiting today. I'd like to say a big hello to my new followers, as soon as I get a minute I'll be visiting your blogs too but work has been so hectic for the past couple of weeks I don't seem to have had a minute. Today's card features one of the gorgeous new stamps from Chocolate Baroque's Autumn Fairies collection. 

I adore fairy stamps and Glenda's new stamps have a wonderful mixture of silhouettes and some images that are perfect for colouring too (as well as that adorable pussy cat and some scrummy foliage stamps)

I've coloured the fairy from September with Graph'It markers, added some glamour dust to her wings and die cut her with nesties. The background was made with distress inks on linen card, stamped with the gorgeous fern foliage stamp

I coloured some seam binding ribbon with the leftover ink, added some lace and a paper flower to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A & T Emerald Faeries: Magical creatures

Bunny Zoe's: something blue

Crafty Cardmakers: winged things

Creative Craft Challenge: use ribbon

Papertake Weekly: make it sparkle

Sparkles Forum: fairies and/or butterflies

Tuesday throwdown: things with wings

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Don't forget to have a look at my Blog Candy, you can find it here

Snowy night in SplodgeAway land

Hi there folks, just a quick post today as I'm having a bit of a hectic week with nothing but problems at work and I've got a horrible cold too.. Here's one of my Splodge Away samples featuring two of the new Christmas masks: Christmas Scene and Christmas Text Disc 2

I've used distress inks in shades of blue and a littlle black soot,  splattered  with some water to create the sky using the Text disc to mask the moon. I inked in the houses and with black soot and used a post it note to add the shadows.I created some little lights with a Graph'It markers. 

I used black soot DI to ink in the text and snowflakes in the moon and stamped in Santa in his sleigh. To finish off I added some snowflakes with a white gel pen

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

365 Cards: Cityscapes revisited

Here come the boys: Blue Christmas in September

Opus Glueii: citiycape

The Stamping Boutique: Christmas

Well as usual I' rushing off to work, have a good day and thanks for popping by

Claire xx

PS Don't forget you've still got time to enter my blog candy, I've got some gorgeous Polkadoodles goodies up for grabs, have peek here for all the deets

Make it Blue at PanPastel UK

Good morning folks, hope you're having a good weekend so far. After a totally crappy week at work I haven't done much at all but hopefully I'll motivate myself to make the most of my day off today. Anyway we've got a new challenge at PanPastel UK and this week our theme is 'Make it Blue', as always there's a fab prize up for grabs from Premium Art Brands and we've got a DT call at the minute so pop over to the challenge blog to find out all about it.

I've been playing with some fab new products to make this card. Premium Art Brands have some fab new goodies on the way. I've used the lovely Winter Spruce stamps for the background, I began with Ultramarine Blue tint PanPastel and stamped the spruce tree with Versamark before applying burnt sienna PanPastel  over the top. The owl is a stamp from Chocolate Baroque, coloured with Graph'It markers. I used my Gelli plate with one of the new masks to create the cute owl background. I'm pretty new to the gelli plate and so far I love it, great fun! For this print I used some Ultramarine Blue PanPastel on the card and then some scrumy new Maimeri acrylic paint. I've used kraft card for matting and layering and just added some brown seambinding ribbon to finish off

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Bloggers: backgrounds

Cards and More: anything goes

Craftin Boutique: anything with an owl

Crafty Creations: kraft

Thanks so much for popping by today

Claire xx

A spooky new challenge at Graph'It Colour challenge

Good morning, back again with my DT card for the new challenge over at Graph'It Colour Challenge. This is my second post today so scroll down a wee bit and you'll find my card for the new challenge at Polkadoodles.  I've had  a bit of a week of it at work and I'm chasing my tail so hop on over to the Graph'It Challenge blog and find out all the deets (there is a fab prize up for grabs this week!). My teamies have come up with some spooktacular projects so make a cuppa, put your paws up and check them out.

For my card I've used a digital image, papers and sentiment from Polkadoodles (you can find them here). The image is coloured with Graph'It markers of course, you can find a full list of colours over on the Graph'It Blog.  I've just added a couple of buttons, some tiny twine bows and a seam binding bow to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments: Anything goes

Penny's Paper Crafty: anything goes

Sisterhood of Crafters: Use a digi

Tuesday Throwdown: anything goes

Thanks for popping by today, 

Claire xx

PS If you llike Polkadoodles goodies (and who doesn't lol) check out my blog candy here

A new challenge over at PolkaDoodles

Good morning my darlings, sorry I've been a bit quiet this week. We've had a few problems at work (nothing major just the building subsiding lol) so I've been working late and bringing home piles of boring paperwork instead of visting my lovely blogland buddies. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up at the weekend. Anyway its time for our new challenge over at Polkadoodles,, pop over and find out all the deets as Nikky is offering a fab prize for our lucky winner!

Don't you just love these little guys?? They are so cute. 

 I've made a Christmas card for my lovely son using one of the gorgeous images from the 'Here Comes Christmas' cd, coloured with Graph'It markers and a backing paper from Angelberry Christmas Cd.  I added some clear crackle paint around the penguins feet to make it look like they are on the ice but its not showing up too well on the pic

I've used a MS punch and added some pompom trim, seambinding ribbon, a cute little star button and a snowman charm.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Cute Card thursday: Hip to be square

Crafty Hazelnut: Layer it up

Here come the boys: blue Christmas in September

Joanna Sheen: ribbon

We'll I'm rushing off to work but before I go, don't forget to check out my blog candy here  I've got some fabby Polkadoodles goodies up for grabs. Thanks for popping by

Claire xx

Design Team Call at PanPastel UK

Hello my lovelies, i've got some super exciting news to share! PanPastel UK is having a bit of an update to reflect the wide range of products brought to crafters from Premium Art Brands and Berni is looking for some new Design Team Members to join us! Once our new teamies join us we're going to be called 'Premium Craft Brands' and we'll be featuring not just our beloved PanPastels but lots of other amazing products including Maimeri Mediums and acrylic paints, masks, stamps, card and of course Graph'It markers! Pop on over to the PanPastel Blog to find out all about it. Its a fab team to be a part of, as of course we get to work with the most amazing products but Berni is such a lovely person and its such a friendly team to be a part of. 

Good luck everyone

Claire xx

October 31st from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning my darlings, today's card is a quick and easy card featuring the fab new Halloween stamps 'Nevermore' from Chocolate Baroque

I created by background by applying copper paint to black card, embossing it with my cuttlebug and a Halloween embossing folder and then sanding it a little for a distressed look. I staped the sentiment on some more of the painted card and embossed with black embossing powder before die cutting the frame. I've used black card for matting and layering and added some seam binding and a little Halloween charm.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges

Crafty Ribbons: anything goes with ribbon

Glitter and Sparkle: add a bow

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Embossed

Sister Act: anything goes

Totally gorjuss: anything goes

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Don't forget to check out my blog candy here! 

Glitz and Glam at PanPastel UK

Good morning folks, its starting to feel a bit chilly here and now Strictly and X factor are back on TV it can't be long to Christmas. Premium Art Brands have some gorgeous new goodies to help inspire you and I've used a combination of all the new goodies for my card for this weeks challenge at PanPastel UK where the theme is 'Glitz and Glam'. As always there's a fab prize and the coveted winners badge up for grabs too.

When my last package of DT goodies arrived it felt like Christmas morning lol, I've used some of the gorgeous new metallic PanPastels for this card. I love the Pewter and Silver with the cool shades of turquoise PanPastels so I set to and created a background using my PanPastels. I added some texture to the edges of the background using the Perfect Poinsettia stamps, I applied Maimieri Light Modelling paste to the stamp and stamped all around the edges. Once it was dry I applied Silver and Pewter Pans. I created the flowers using the same colours of PanPastels and layered them up with silicone glue, adding dewdrops in the centres. The sentiment is from the same stamp set, stamped with Teal Memenot ink and die cut with a spellbinders die.I just added some sparkly wired gems to finish off

I'm entering this card in the folllowing challenges:

4 Crafty girlz: anything goes

Addicted to Stamps and More: anything goes

Aud Sentiments: any sentiments

Christmas Stampin all year round: layers

Lady Anne's: anything goes

thanks for popping by today, its always lovely to see you and to read your kind comments

Claire xx

Don't forget to check out my blog candy if you've got a minute, lots of Polkadoodles goodies up for grabs!

Can you resist?

Hello my lovelies, hope you're having a good weekend. Its chaos here as DS is decorating his bedroom so the whole house is a mess lol. We've got a fab new challenge starting at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and this time around, Fliss has chosen the theme of 'Can you Resist' so we want to see you use a resist technique and of course rubber/clear stamps too. As always there is a fab prize from our generous sponsor Flonzcraft so don't miss out!

I recently treated myself to some new Lavinia stamps so I decided to give them an airing for this project. I used glossy card stamped in the main image.Next I stamped the leaves with versamark and then applied Memento inks in Bamboo leaves and Tangelo I then overstamped with the same Memento inks and added a few purple leaves here and there. I stamped the smaller leaves with Memento Tuxedo Black. The image was coloured with Graph'It markers and once all the inks were dry I gave it a bit of a polish. I matted it one some black card and added a punched border and lots of iridescent gems along the tom. To finish off I added a seam binding bow and a gorgeous sparkly button.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Card Crafters Circle: Portrat of a woman

Creative Fingers: anything goes

Lavinia Stamps: add a flower

Rhedd and Rosie's: for the ladies

Wags'n'Whiskers: ribbons and bows

If you've got a minute pop over and have a look at the gorgeous projects created by my lovely DT sisters. Thanks so much for popping by today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

PS Don't forget to check out my blog candy here

Background Effects at Graph'It Colour Challenge

Good morning my lovelies, thank goodness its Friday I'm sooooo tired I feel like I've been back at work for a year not a week. Anyway as it is Friday that means there is a fab new challenge over at Graph'It Colour Challenge and this week we've got a really fun theme, we want to see your background effects! You don't have to use Graph'It Markers, any alcohol markers will do and as always there is a fab prize up for grabs so hop on over to the challenge blog and find out more (while you're there have a peek at my teamies fantastic background effects, as always they've come up with some amazing creations!)

For my project I had a play with Graph'It markers, acetate and Mix'it fluid spray and created a background effect on an acetate overlay. First things first though, I coloured the supercute image (from the Polkadoodles CD 'Here comes Christmas' with my Graph'It markers (for a full list of all the colours pop on over to the challenge blog) and matted it on some blue card.

To create the background I printed the image again on some copier paper but flipped it horizontally in my graphics programme (this means you can work on the reverse of the acetate and it will work out the right way round when you pop it on your image - not sure if that makes sense but I know what I mean lol). Lay the acetate over your flipped image and you're away

Next I took my yellow marker and used the chisel tip to colour the light from the lamp on to the acetate. Then I added the blue sky, again using the chisel tip. Now comes the fun part, take the Mix'It spray and lightly mist the acetate in a sweeping motion and in a second or two you'll see the snowy effect emerge. It dries in a matter of seconds. I then sprayed a little of the Mix'It spray on some kitchen roll and wiped around the edges. If you make a mistake, the Mix'It spray will let you wipe the ink right off the acetate, just let it dry for a few seconds and you can have another go

 I attached the background overlay with a couple of eyelets and added some ribbon and a flower from my stash with a little gold stickles and a dew drop in the centre

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

CRAFT: Christmas

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas: get inky or painty

One Crazy Stamper: Christmas

Penny's paper crafty: spooled items

thanks so much for visiting today, if you like this image make sure you enter my blog candy where there are loads of gorgeous Polkadoodles goodies up for grabs!

Claire xx

Vintage Skater Scene from SplodgeAway

Hi folks, well I've been having so much fun with the new SplodgeAway Christmas mask, they are fab-u-lous! This card uses the Christmas Village Stenskape, when I first saw it I was a bit baffled but thought I'd just go for it so got my distress inks out and it is soooooooo easy to use and makes the most gorgeous little village in just a couple of minutes. 

I've just used shades of brown distress inks for this card, it took minutes to make using the new Stenskape which includes the village, skaters, the rink, trees and even the little moon. I'd planned on adding some die cut poinsettias and ribbon etc but I kind of liked it CAS so I just stamped the sentiment from Chcolate Baroque and added a little shabby white frantage for some snow.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A Little bit Crafty: clean and simple

Christmas Card Challenges: Something new

Craft Room Challenge: trees and/or leaves

Ladybug Crafts: winter wonderland

Paper Minutes: Christmas clean and simple

thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

PS don't forget to enter my blog candy, you can find it here

Winter Spruce from Premium Art Brands

Good mornning folks,hope you're having a good week.  My feet don't seem to have touched ground since I went back to work, so I'm hoping the weekend will be be here soon. Have you seen the gorgeous new stamps from Premium Art Brands? There are 4 new sets, designed by the lovely and very talented Nikky Hall so of course they are fabulous. I've used 'Winter Spruce' for today's card, its a lovely big stamp so great for a focal image but you can also use it to make lovely wintery backgrounds too.

The papers are all from the Polkadoodles CD Angelberry Christmas and the stamped image has been coloured with Graph'It markers, I've added some stamped baubles highlighted with glossy accents and some glitter for tinsel.

To finish off I've added some pompom trim (love this stuff) and some red seambinding ribbon. The little candy cane is also from Angelberry Christmas.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

A gem of a challenge: Two backing papers

Glitter and sparkle: anything goes

LEJ Designs: something shiny

The Glory of Christmas : anything goes

 if you fancy some candy click here as I'm celebrating and I'd love you to join in.

thanks for popping by today

Claire xx