Anything Goes or Halloween at Polkadoodles

Good morning folks, my project today is an art journal page for our Anything Goes challenge over at Polkadoodles. As always we've got lots of inspiration from my teamies and a fabulous prize from Polkadoodles lined up for our lucky winner so pop over to the challenge blog to find out all the details.

I've used this adorable image from Polkadoodles for my journal page. She's called Winnie Wednesday Witch with Cat, you can get her as a digital stamp here or you can treat yourself to the full Winnie Wednesday Halloween Collection (full of gorgeous images, papers and sentiments) here. 

I began by creating my background. I splashed on some masking fluid to create create some stars and once that was dry I misted the page with water. Next I sloshed on metallic acrylic paints in shades of blue, pink, green and purple adding lots of water to help them blend. I added dark blue acrylic and then black around the edges and left it all to dry. 

While the background was drying I coloured Winnie using Graph'It markers:

I cut Winnie out leaving a little ground at the bottom of the image and went back to the background. Once it was thoroughly dry I rubbed off the masking fluid to create some nice bright stars, next Isplashed diluted white gesso on the background to create some stars. I added more stars with a white posca pen. I used matte medium to collage Winnie on to the background.

I'm entering this page in the following challenges:

Animal Friends: Autumn/Halloween

Craftaholics R us: Anything goes

Fairytale: Pumpkin

Pause Dream Enjoy: Halloween

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: not a card

Try it on Tuesday: It's Halloween Time

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

Claire xx

Fantasy Woodland

Good morning folks, today I'm sharing a little Autumnal canvas made using stamps from Chocolate Baroque.

  I began with a brusho background and then stamped the trees (from  Fantasy Woodland) and embossed with gold embossing powder. I added some little dots of clear glue and created some foliage with beadazzles.

Next I took some brown acrylic paint and grounded the trees. Once that was dry I stencilled in some leaves using green acrylic paint and the Useful Leaves stencil. Next I added some falling leaves using the Seasonal Elements stencil and the word Autumn using the Seasonal Journey stencil and iridescent paste. Once the paste was dry I coloured the leaves and word with alcohol markers.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Allsorts: Trees/Leaves

Creative Artiste: Anything goes

Noor Designs UK: Fall colours

Thats' Crafty: Forever Autumn

The Crafty Addicts: anything goes autumn colours

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

Claire xx

Winter Solstice from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning folks, a quick post before I dash off to work as I wanted to share this project made using stamps and stencils from Chocolate Baroque.

 I began by stamping 

Winter Dawn onto white car and coloured her with Graph'It Markers. I outlined the image with a black marker annd then applied black gesso all round and then added some colour using Twinkling H2O paint in blued and purples. I stamped the image again on acetate using versmark in and embossed with a sparkly white powder. I cut the snowflakes out and layered them up over the image. I added a little glue and glitter too give some more dimension.

 I added some stencilling around the image using the Seasonal Elements stencil and glassy gel medium, sprinkling with more glitter while the medium was still wet. The colours of the paint have bled through this while it was drying, a happy accident as I love the effect!  I applied clear versamark ink through the stencil to create the wording and embossed with Icicle WOW EP. I layered the focal image up one some corrugated card that I'd painted with black gesso and highlighted with a little silver gilding wax. I added a little scrap of ribbon and a snowflake embellishment to finish off.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks: Blue Christmas

Christmas at Sweet Stampin: Anything goes for Christmas

Creative Craft Cottage: Christmas

Frilly and Funkie: Christmas

WOW embossing powder: Anything goes with EP

Thanks so much for popping by, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Anything Goes at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge

Good morning again folks, my second post today and this card is for our Anything Goes challenge at Colour Crazy Challenge. Our sponsor this time is Lemon Shortbread and I've used their fab image Surfer Guy to make this card.

I've coloured the image with Graph'It markers and used PanPastels and some clear microbeads for the  background. The sentiment was stamped in red ink and I've simply matted and layered him on red and then dark blue card.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Card Mania: summer fun

Delicious Doodles: Beside the sea

Inky Chicks: Sentiment

Stinkin Inkers: Summer heat

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

Claire xx

Anything goes at Colour Crazy Challenge!

Good morning folks, it's a nice easy challenge for you over at Colour Crazy Challenge as our theme is 'Anything Goes'. Our sponsor this time is Polkadoodles so our lucky winner will be in for a real treat! My teamies have some some beautiful projects so do check them out if you have a minute.

I've coloured the adorable Etty Sewing with Graph'It markers and added lots of printable elements to her sewing room. Etty is from the Winston Deluxe Collection but you can also get the image on it's own as a digi stamp here. She's so sweet isn't she?

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Cutie Pie: Cute/all creatures great and small

Digi Choosday: Anything goes

Inspiration Destination: Anything goes

Sisterhood of Crafters: Anything goes

The Corrosive Challenges: Anything goes

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

Claire xx

Patchwork Butterflies from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning my lovelies, I've been chasing my tail for the last few weeks, work seems to get busier and busier! Anyway this morning I'm sharing a project made using the lovely Patchwork Butterfly stamp set. I love these stamps, they are so versatile.

To make the necklace and earrings I stamped the largest butterfly and the smaller coordinating butterfly on shrink plastic using Gold Stazon ink. I coloured the back of the butterflies with alcohol markers and cut them out. I punched holes for the jump rings using a crop-o-dile using the largest punch as the hole will shrink when heated. I heated the butterflies to shrink them, the largest one was flattened with an acrylic block but I curled the wings of the smaller butterflies while they were still warm. I added some beads from my stash to complement the colours of the butterflies.

I recycled a gift box to put the little butterflies in. I covered the box with some paper that I'd coloured with dye inks and mica sprays, crumpled and left to dry. I highlighted the texture with gilding wax and added some stencilling with gold texture paste. The butterfly was stamped on acetate and embossed with gold.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Artistic Stampers: winged things

Creative Artiste: Anything mixed media goes

Dragonfly Dreams: add sparkle

Frillie and Funkie: Something old (recycled gift box)

Moving along with the times: embossing

Thanks for visiting today, have a lovely weekend

Claire xx

Anything Goes at Colour Crazy Challenge

Good morning again! My second card today and' this little cutie is for our 'Anything Goes' challenge over at Colour Crazy Challenge. Our sponsor this time around is Di's Digi Stamps so our lucky winner will be in for a treat as Di's images are adorable!

I've made a little rocker card using Top of the Cupcake World, one of Di's supercute digi stamps. I've coloured her with Graph'It markers and added a little glamour dust before layering up over a heart shaped doiley.

The pretty papers are left overs from my other card today and are from the Eden collection by the lovely Nikky Hall at Polkadoodles. I've added a pink organza bow and a sparkly dazzler to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Inspiration Destination: anything goes

Lemon Shortbread: Anything goes

Simon Says Stamp: Furry Friends

Sparkles Forum: 4 or more legs

The Ribbon Girls: Any image plus ribbon

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

Claire xx

Anything goes at Polkadoodles

Good morning, weekend is nearly here and I'm looking forward to 3 days off work! I just hope this lovely weather lasts. My first card today is for our 'Anything Goes' Challenge over at Polkadoodles and of course we have loads of inspiration from my teamies and a fab prize up for grabs too.

The DT were challenged to use 2 or more papers so I've made a card using the beautiful Eden collection this week. I coloured the image (Eden Butterflies) with Graph'it markers and layered her up over 3 of the lovely papers in the collection and added some of the little butterflies and a sentiment too

I added a few little pearls and found some lace that was the perfect shade of plum to match in my stash,

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments: anything goes

Creative Moments: anything goes

Fairy Tale: things with wings

Paper Minutes: butterflies

Paper Shelter: lace and pearls

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

Claire xx

Anything Goes at Eclectic Ellapu

Good morning my lovelies, can you believe it's May 1st already and a bank holiday here in the UK so of course rain is forecast lol. We've got a new challenge starting at Eclectic Ellapu and our theme this time around is 'Anything Goes'. My lovely teamies have got load of inspiration so if you've got time, pop over to the challenge blog and have a peek.

For my DT project I've made a page for my art journal using some old favourite stamps. I began by spritzing the card with glimmer mists. Once that was dry I added a little stencilling and a dusting of glamour dust for a little more fairy sparkle. I stamped the images which are some of my oldest wood mounted stamps from Stamps Happen using black ink and coloured them with Lyra pencils. I added some more sparkly by highlighting the stars with a silver Graph'It shake pen,

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Fussy and Fancy: anything goes

Incy Wincy: so so cute

Moving along with the times: Fairies

Simon Says Stamp: anything goes

Simply Papercraft: anything goes

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

Claire xx

Beautiful Katya

Good morning my lovelies, long time no see! I've been without internet for a wee while but eventually Virgin media have sorted the problem and so I'm playing catch up now. My project today features the lovely Katya from Chocolate Baroque.

To decorate the plastic frame I applied gilding glue and then adding gilding flakes here and there and dusted mica powders over the rest.

I created a background with distress inks (bundled sage, Wilted Violet and Shaded Lilac) and overstamped using the Large Crackle Background stamp using purple chalk ink. I stamped Katya onto white stamping card and coloured her with alcohol markers. I also stamped her onto acetate with versamark and embossed with Gold Embossing Powder. I then cut Katya out and glued her to the background. I then cut her headdress out from the acetate and layered that up with tiny blobs of silicone glue. I added a few little gems here and there.

I then stamped the sentiment (from Artistic Expressions) with purple chalk ink on some gold vellum. I tore the strip out and rolled the edges around a cocktail stick to make a little scroll.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and more: make your mark

Creative Artiste : Anything Mixed Media

Sisterhood of Crafters: Stamp it

Tuesday Throwdown: Something clear

WOW Embossing powder: Anything goes with embossing powder

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

Claire xx

Anything goes at Colour Crazy Challenge

Good morning folks, it's time for a new challenge over at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge and it's a nice easy one for you as our theme is 'Anything Goes'. We've got lots of inspiration for you and a fab prize from Oddball Art Stamps for our lucky winner too.

I've used this adorable little guy to make a page in my art journal. He's called 

Hudson and you can find him here

I've coloured him with my Graph'It Markers and cut him out before using Slap-it on to glue him to my inky painty stencilled background. I've just added a 'Dream' sticker from my stash to finish off.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Colour Inspiration Monday: Anything goes

Crafting with an attitude: Anything goes

Crafty Creations: Anything goes

Lemon Shortbread: Anything goes

Little Miss Muffet: anything goes

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

Claire xx5rr5r

Anything Goes at Colour Crazy Challenge

Good morning again my lovelies, my second post today and this time I'm sharing my project for our Anything Goes challenge at the Colour Crazy Challenge where we're sponsored by Bugaboo. You can use any medium to play along, just make sure you've used a hand coloured image and you could be the lucky winner of a lovely prize from Bugaboo!!

I've coloured this supercute mermaid and her little friends from Bugaboo ( you can find them here) with my Graph'It markers and create a background with PanPastels and Superthick Slap it on through a bubble stencil. Once the glossy paste was dry I added white highlights with a Graph'It shake pen and cut some extra bubbles out to layer up with 3d foam pads.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Artistic inspirations: Anything goes

Crafting by Designs: Anything goes

Crafty Sentiment Designs: Anything goes

Glitter'n'sparkle: anything goes

Wonderful Wednesdays: Anything goes

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

Claire xx

Anything Goes or Ribbons and Bows from Polkadoodles

Good morning folks, Friday at last so the weekend is nearly here! I hope you're going to join our 'Anything Goes' challenge over at Polkadoodles, we've got a fab prize and lots of inspiration from my lovely teamies too. The DT were challenged to use ribbons and bows so I've made a very girly card for my DT offering.

 I've made a card using some of Nikky's beautiful stamps and dies. The papers are from the Belle Papillon Collection and the flowers are stamps from the beautiful Bella Fleur A5 Stamp set . I've die cut the flowers using the Flower Bunch Doublet Die and layered them up with 3d foam pads over the gorgeous Elegant Nest die cuts

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Gals Corner: add ribbon

Creative Moments: anything goes

Dragonfly Journeys: Bodacious bows

Deep Ocean: Add lace

Incy Wincy: leather and/or lace

The Ribbon Girls: Any image

Thanks for popping by, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

All Dressed Up at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge

Good morning folks, we've got a new challenge over at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge and our theme  is Anything Goes. Our lucky winner will receive a prize from All Dressed Up and I was lucky enough to be able to colour this adorable image from our sponsor this week.

The image is called Little Angel and of course I coloured her with my Graph'It Markers. You can find a full list of the colours I used over on the challenge blog. I created a border around the image with some of the lovely stamps from Polkadoodles Stamp Soup collection.

I added lace and bow topped with a little wooden button to finish off. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Come and Get It: Christmas

Crafty Sentiments: Anything goes

Creative Moments: anything goes

Dream Valley: Christmas

Holly Jolly Christmas: Anything goes

Whoopsi Daisy: Christmas/Winter holiday

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

Claire xx

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge

Good morning folks, we've got an Anything Goes theme over at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge so I hope you're going to play along with us for a chance to win a prize from our lovely sponsor Oddball Art! You can use any colouring medium to enter so dig out those pens/pencils or whatever you fancy and join in the fun!

I've used one of the cute images from our sponsor for this card. I coloured her with my Graph'It markers (you can find a full list of colours used over on the challenge blog) and doodled a border around the image. I used a silver Graph'It shake pen for her specs and added a scrap of ribbon and some sequins to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More: Anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore: Anything goes

Craft your Passion: anything goes

Lemon Shortbread: anything goes

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

Claire xx

Anything Goes at Polkadoodles and Colour Crazy Craft Challenge

Good morning folks we've got an Anything Goes challenge over at Polkadoodles and Colour Crazy Craft Challenge so there are two chances to win goodies from Polkadoodles!!  I've killed two birds with one stone and made a Christmas card for my DT project for both challenges. The paper weaving took me ages as I'm useless at anything fiddly but I do love it so I may well use it again when I pluck up the courage lol.

All the papers, flowers, tages and the gorgeous image are all from the :Polkadoodles Winnie Winterland Collection which you can find here. I've coloured the image with Graph'It markers, you can find a list of the colours used over on the challenge blog. 

I've used Polkadoodles dies  to cut out the flowers which I printed from Winnie in Winterland and Nikky has had a genius idea and included a section called the Fitting Room .... all the images and embellies etc are perfectly sized to fit Polkadoodles die. I used my favourite Polkadoodles Bubbleicious frame die to cut out the image. You can find the Polkadoodles dies here. 

I've added ribbon, a little charm and some faux berries to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Live'n'Love Crafts: White Christmas

Noor Designs UK: Winter

Ooh La La: Vintage

Stamping Sensations: Christmas Greetings

The Ribbon Girls: anything goes

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

Claire xx

Christmas postbox from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning folks, we've got some gorgeous new stamps this month over at Chocolate Baroque so I've made a start on my Christmas cards using the beautiful Vintage Postbox stamp. This is a lovely stamp and not just for Christmas lol.

I coloured the image with Graph'It markers and added some glitter for a frosty sparkle. I decided to make a shaker card so I cut a square aperture in a piece of cardstock and used border punch to add some interest. I lined this with acetate and used 3d foam tape to create my shaker card adding Shaved Ice to create my snow.

I dusted off some old border peel offs to frame the image and added  a sentiment with a little bow and a button to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas: Vintage or anything Christmas

Crafty Sentiments: winter

Deep Ocean: die cuts/punches

Penny Black and More: anything Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Sparkle and Bling

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

Claire xx

Halloween at Chocolate Baroque

Good morning, today's card is one of my DT makes for Chocolate Baroque where our theme this month is Autumn/Halloween. I've used lots of lovely Halloween stamps from  Chocolate Baroque to create this little scene.

I began by stamping the images (from Put a Spell on You and Nevermore) using Memento Tuxedo Black in and then masked the images using making fluid. and created the background using distress inks and acrylic paints. Once the background was dry I removed the masking fluid and coloured the images with Graph'It markers. I've added some spooky embellishments to finish the card off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A Vintage Journey: Make it Spooky

Crafty Calendar: Halloween

Fantasy Stampers: Halloween

Kitty Bee Designs: Halloween

That's Crafty: Friday 13th/Halloween

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

Claire xx

Anything goes at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge

Good morning folks, it's time for a new challenge over at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge where out theme is 'Anything Goes'. Our lucky winner will receive a fab prize from our sponsor Oddball Art and we've got some Graph'It goodies up for grabs too. You can use any colouring medium to play along so I hope you're going to join us!

I've used this adorable image from Oddball Art, you can find a list of the colours used over on the challenge blog. The papers, sentiments and flowers are all from Polkadoodles using the Winnie Winterland collection and some of the new dies from Polkadoodles. 

I've added lace, ribbon and gems from my stash to finish the card.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Addicted to stamps and more: make your mark

Aud Sentiments: Cute and a sentiment

Crafting by Designs: Christmas

Crimbo Crackers: die cuts

The Ribbon Girls: use any image

Whoopsi Daisy: die cuts/punches

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

Claire xx

Anything Goes at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge

Good morning folks, its' time for a new challenge over at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge and we're keeping it nice and easy for you with a theme of Anything Goes. Our sponsor for this challenge is Polkadoodles so our lucky winner will be in for a treat with a fabulous prize from Polkadoodles.We've also got Graph'It Goodies up for grabs too so I hope you're going to play along.

I've had loads of fun with lots of Polkadoodles stamps and dies to create this card. The flowers and butterfly were made using Lemonade Fizz with leaves from Lavender Tea. The toadstools were made with stamps from Magic Garden. I masked the stamps and used distress inks in Halloween shades to create the background and then coloured the images using Graph'it Markers, you can find a full list of colours used over on the challenge blog. I've added a fence and lamp using the fabulous Elegant Lamplight and Gate dies

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Colouring in Scrapland: autumn

Crafty Friends: Autumn colours

Digistamps 4 Joy: anything goes/ make your own background

Fantasy Crafters: Anything fantasy goes

Sweet Stampin: autumn

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

Claire xx