My first canvas

Here's my first ever canvas.

PLEASE CLICK ON THE PIC FOR A BETTER LOOK AND MORE VIBRANT COLOURS.



I loved doing this! Getting really messy and just going for it!! Think I'll be doing a lot more!

Ok after much questioning of people I decided to gesso the canvas first. I then stuck bits of Papermania paper over the dried gesso and used a medium gel to apply it.I then sprayed a little water over the canvas and applied Dylusions inks letting them run a little. After that was dry I applied more gesso through a spotty mask and went over it with some white dabber. I then stamped various images in black colouring the poppy heads in with red pastel. Next came the white pen to add all the highlights and dots. And then the She Art collage pieces which I again applied with the medium gel.They looked a bit fresh and new so I smooshed over some of the dylusion inks to blend them in with the background. Oh the bird and branch are a Marianne Designs die. Finally the words which came with the she art collage. I cut them out and went around them with walnut distress ink. Think that's everything!!

Polkadoodles blog hop

Today on the Polkadoodles challenge blog Team A are doing a blog hop to win some fab Marianne Designs goodies.

Our fabulous sponsors Marianne Design are giving you the chance to win this adorable Garden themed Creatable as part of our blog hop!
Creatables are handy stencils that cut and/or emboss. They can be used in many machines, with all kinds of paper. The cut-out and embossed shapes are ideal to make your cards and other creative projects even more beautiful. We also have this lovely cuter than cute Snoesjes stamp, a fabulous 32 page paper pack and we adore this stunning flower ribbon - this candy is just scrumptious

In addition to this wonderful Marianne Design candy the first prize winner will receive a brand new Sugarplum Daisy CD and a Candy Doodles CD from Polkadoodles plus 2 further winners will also receive a Candy Doodles CD - so there are 3 chances of win in our Hop challenge.

Here is what you must do (you might find some extra candy along the way from the DT so make sure you visit them all).

Challenge stage 1: now we know not everyone likes to do a hop for whatever reason so we still have our normal challenge for the week which is Easter themed - you must make a card or project that is Easter themed.

All details are on the Polkadoodles challenge blog.

Postcard

This is a first for me today. I picked up some blank postcards in WHSmith to have a go at. Here's what I came up with.



First I smooshed distress stains onto the blank postcard. I then stamped several images from the Papermania urban stamps collections over this with different coloured stains and inks. The birds and notes are from a pad by Papermania called Book Print. I cut them out and went over them with medium gel and again some distress stains. The saying is from a collage kit.

Simon says stamp and show a ......Tag!

My first is "The other girls"

My second tag is called "For god's sake"



And finally my third tag is "Find the beauty"



All the tags have been inked with my new Dylusions ink sprays, really vibrant colours. I've used a variety of stamps and collage pictures and of course my fav texture gesso.

I'd like to enter these tags into the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge as the challenge is A Tag!

Sugarplum Daisy Part 2

So here's the last 2 samples of the Sugarplum Daisy CD from Polkadoodles.


I've used a shaped card and covered it in papers from the CD. For the background I printed out one of the scenes and used a Spellbinders die to cut around it. I then printed out a black and white image and some of the birds. The image was coloured with copics and her wings have some lace stickles on them.I added a ribbon and a sentiment from the CD.


My second card has been made with the printed images. I printed a bigger one out and then die cut it and printed a second smaller one and cut around it to use as an embellishment. A Martha Stewart punch has been used for the borders and I made the flower by rolling it around a quilling tool. Some pearls and ribbon complete the card.

And if you're still reading then those are my 5 samples!

Have a lovely weekend.x

Sugarplum Daisy

Today I'd like to show you some of the samples I made for the brand new Polkadoodles CD, Sugarplum Fairy which was launched at Harrogate and was also shown on Create and Craft on Thursday.



For this one I used a preprinted topper and cut it out using a spellbinders die. I coloured one of the black and white images with copics and added some lace stickles to her wings. The sentiments are black and white so you can colour them to match your project, so I have used lavendar distress ink to colour mine. I also used a preprinted border.

The next one is an easel card.


I printed out papers, border, sentiment from the CD and also another black and white stampie. Again I coloured the image and sentiment with copics and distress inks.The heart border and butterfly are from Martha Stewart punches.

My 3rd project is a little bag.



I bought some cheap little white bags from Hobbycraft. I covered the front of the bag with papers and then printed out the stampie. I coloured the image again in Copics.Added some stickles to her wings.The flowers were made with a couple of punches and papers from Sugarplum Fairy CD. The sentiment was printed out and again I dusted over some distress ink.

I have 2 more to show but I'll save them for tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed looking at my samples.

Polkadoodles Challenge

Well did you watch the C&C programmes featuring the brand new CD Sugarplum Fairy from Polkadoodles? It's a very pretty girly CD and I've used some of the items on my Polkadoodles challenge card from the CD.

The theme is

Mother's Day

I used a blank easel card and covered it with some Sugarplum Fairy papers and a preprinted border. I also used a preprinted topper and punched out some flowers with contrasting papers. The sentiment is also from the same CD as is the beautiful butterfly. I then just added some of my own pearls, ribbon and gems.

The other DT girls have made some beautiful mother's day cards. You can see them all on the Polkadoodles Challenge blog. Hope to see yours too!!