Polkadoodles, holidays and school is out!

Yay, school is out for the summer so I finally have time to craft and time to sort out my craft stuff! Sometimes you can have just too much stuff that you no longer use, so I plan to destash over the next few weeks. I already have a bag of bits and pieces that I know my nephew will make the most of as he has the crafting bug and had used all the stuff I previously gave him. Anyway, I have played with distress inks and came up with this little card. I’m going to enter it in to the Polkadoodles challenge. The stamp is called “just for you Winnie” and is perfect for a girlie birthday.

Shall we dance?

It’s our wedding anniversary this month and we have managed 18 years! Can’t believe it has been that long. Here is the card I have made for hubby, using Lili of the valley stamps!

Forever friends.

Another day, a different Lili of the valley stamp! I love these little fairies and I have coloured them with distress markers. I really dug out some old stash for this card! The flowers date back to my very early days of crafting. I have loads of them and I am challenging myself to dig deep in to the narnia of craft supplies !

Fairy on tip toe.

Morning all. What a lovely sunny morning it is too. I finished this little lovely off last night. She has been coloured with distress markers. The papers are old dovecraft ones. I’m enjoying going through my mahoosive stack of Lili of the valley rubber stamps as I’m sorry to see they are going to stop them and you will only be able to get the digi versions. I love my digis too, but there’s just something about rubber stamps for me that feels like they are properly handmade.

Lili of the valley - Never too old for a hug.

It’s my mum’s birthday soon and I am trying to get ahead with cards I will need. I have dug out some old Lili of the valley stamps and I love them 😍 . I also decided to play with my distress markers. I need plenty more practice, but I like how this all came together and I’m not gonna lie, this took me a while to make.

Polkadoodles crazy.

I know, I don’t post here very much, but I like to keep a record of what I make/or rather like, so here is as good a place as any! I picked up these mermaid downloads from polkadoodles and I have to say that I love them. These images are precoloured, so great,  when you need a card in a hurry and don’t have much time to spare.

 I think it’s worth entering them in to the polkadoodles challenge, where the theme is anything goes. 

Another polkadoodles

Here is another Polkadoodles entry for the Polkadoodles challenge. She has been coloured with promarkers.

Happbee birthday

Got to love a bit of polkadoodles! I decided to give my promarkers an airing and came up with this card.I really enjoyed colouring in this little lady. Think I might enter it in to the Polkadoodles challenge challenge as well.

Pencil practice

It takes ages to colour with  pencils and this one is no exception. It took a good few hours to get all of these layers down on the image. I used prismacolour pencils as I don’t yet have enough Caran D’Ache to get the effect I wanted for this little lady. She is a Candibean stamp that I have had in my stash for ages and I just fancied colouring her up to add to my 2019 Christmas cards collection. Her little dogs are so cute and I had one of these as a child. I am going to enter this card in to Di’s digi challenge where the theme is snow much fun.

New pencils

Every now and again I buy craft stash .... ok quite often! Sometimes something just gives you a wow moment and I bought the smallest set of Caran D’Ache pencils after watching a Jennifer McGuire video on YouTube. She has a lot to answer for! 😂 Anyway, she’s not wrong about these pencils being the “copics of the pencil world “ . They beat prismacolour pencils on every level being wax pencils and they don’t break like the prismas do, also their vibrancy and lack of wax bloom just put them on another level. I know I will have to buy a larger set at some point so had better start saving my pennies! Here’s a wee card I have made using the stamps that I also love by MFT.

Fairy Wings.

As we are now in January, I’m thinking of all those birthday cards I need to make for the special people in my life. This little fairy card will be going to my first cousin three times removed, who will be three at the end of January. I have used a Lili of the valley image called fairy wings, rose garden first edition papers and all the die cuts are magnolia dies, apart from the label shaped one which is a spellbinder die. The image has been coloured with promarkers and although you can’t see the glitter I have blinged it up with glamour dust and wink of Stella pen all over the dress. I have also used a craftwork card sentiment from that ever growing sentiment stash😉

With thanks.

Here is today’s card. It’s a thank you card for a family member for a Christmas present. I have used the lovely Lili of the valley stamp, coloured it with promarkers, used a sizzix Moroccan tile die and the papers are first edition rose garden collection.

Teddy going upstairs

So I am still playing with Christmas images and this one is from the Lili of the Valley set that I bought before Christmas. I haven’t had much time to play with these but now that things have settled down Imrind myself reaching for all of the goodies I bought that haven’t yet seen ink. I coloured this one with promarkers and used a memory box star die as an accent. It’s quite plain and simple for me, but love how this one has coloured up so well. I am determined to use up these sentiment banners that I had for absolutely yonks, but I’m sure that they multiply over night.

I’m going to enter this one in to the following challenges.

ABC Christmas challenge.

Cute card Thursday - Anything goes

simon says stamp - Anything goes

Owl 🦉 cuteness

So I just love, my favorite things stamps and the Christmas releases had me reaching for my purse and I had to have them! Here’s one I made. It has been coloured with promarkers and I made the background using my distress oxide inks, these are another of my favourite things. I just love what you can do with them.

Lili of the valley- Carol singing

Love these lovely Carol singers from Lili of the valley. I have coloured them with promarkers, used lawn fawn stitched border dies and some hobbycraft intricut dies for the snowflakes, which were a bargain!

I’m going to enter this card in to the following challenge

craftyhazelnuts challenge - Anything goes as long as it’s Christmas

Copics versus spectrum noir pens.

The image on the right has been coloured with spectrum noirs and the one on the left I have coloured with copics. Personally I prefer the copic coloured one as the spectrum noirs were not as easy to blend as the copics. I did use x-press it copic card for copics and Neenah solar crest for the spectrum noirs. Generally though, the price paid for spectrum noirs is cheaper than copics but you cannot buy the refills for spectrum noirs so as pens dry up you are a bit stuck. I also have some refill inks for a couple of the spectrum noirs but was horrified to find that that too has evaporated😡 so sorry spectrum noirs, you lose my vote!

Kit and clowder classes.

I love colouring, I confess, it’s so relaxing and immersing. I have been doing kit and clowder classes quietly for a while and have enjoyed the process without the commitment to have to create “ a project” with it. I have experimented with a range of media and here’s some work using kraft paper and prismacolor pencils. Tomorrow I’ll post some work with spectrum noirs versus copic. Which will win? X

A different phase.

I adore the lawn fawn and my favourite things stamps and dies. I haven’t stopped by here in years , but I signed in tonight and had this as an unpublished post. I was contemplating deleting the blog as I don’t use it anymore.....but now I saw these I thought that the delete button may not have been a good idea... I’ll wait and see what happens. Xx

Harry Potter

Who doesn't like a bit of Harry Potter? When I saw this image a while back I had to buy it and I loved colouring her up, although badly in need of practice!

Wedding card.

I made this for my friend Anna who got married recently. The image is from, the now closed, saturated canary (sob....)  The papers are from stampin up ,courtesy of my friend Diane,  and the image  has been coloured with copics... I'm so out of practice with them!  The sentiment is from Lili of the valley and all the pearls and flowers are from my stash. I bought the diamanté embellishment on holiday this year. I fell in love with them and I have been admiring them for ages before actually  plucking up the courage to actually use one on a card!