February's page

I've just finished this page for my Art Journal. Used lots of paint, inks,stamps etc.
My January page is a few posts down.

Craft Bubble and Papertake Weekly Challenge

I am part of a group on the Craft Bubble forum called Craft Mad and Loving It. One of the girls sets a challenge once a week. This week it is a sketch and the theme is "Standing Under". I would also like to add it to the Papertake Weekly Challenge as I added ribbon and pearls to highlight the image.

Here's the sketch

And here's my card.



Stamps: Tulip Oriental Garden
Papers: First Edition
Sentiment: Tulip Birthday Gifts
Borders: Martha Stewart punch

I coloured the images with Copics and added pearl gems and ribbon to highlight the image.

Diddydoodles

Just wanted to write a post about a junior challenge blog that my 8 year old daughter is a Design Team member of. It's called Diddydoodles and is the junior equivalent of the Polkadoodle challenge blog. My daughter Robbyn is thrilled to be part of the Diddydoodle challenge blog and asked me to make her, her very own blog. So if you have a quick minute in your busy day please would you go over and leave her a comment? She would be over the moon if you did.

You can find her blog here.

Robbyn's Place

thank you very much.xx

Polkadoodles Challenge

Friday again and it's time for another Polkadoodle Challenge. So this week the theme is

Tempt us with a template!!

Here's my card.

I have used Polkadoodle's Paper Boutique Vol 3 CD. I used the Country Cottage template and then I used a mixture of the papers from the CD and also printed out some of the images and coloured them with Copics. I inked the edges of the papers with distress inks.The sentiment is also from the same CD.

The other Polkadoodles DT members have made some gorgeous cards with templates. Why not take a look and be inspired to join in? You can see them all here.

Cute Card Thursday & Sketch Saturday

This week on the Cute Card Thursday blog we have the theme of......

You're a gem

A lovely easy one for you this week just use gems!!

so here is my card



Stamp: House Mouse- Happy Hoppers-Fancy Pants
Papers: First Edition - Daydream
Borders: Martha Stewart Punches
Card: Cordinations
Sentiment: free from a magazine

I've also made this card for this week's Sketch Saturday challenge. Here's the sketch.

365 Art Journal (should be 366 for a leap year)

Today I'm showing my 365 Art Journal. This is the first one I have attempted and I've gotta say I thoroughly enjoyed it. Got really messy but it was fun!!

Kate Crane was a big inspiration to me in starting this. Her work is out of this world, love it!!




The journal is from Asda and was only £4, bargain! I started off covering the pages with pastel pencils rubbed in. Then I went to town with acrylic paint, different kinds of inks, stamps, sequins. I even got my embossing gun out! The circles are cut with punches from Tim Holtz papers. The January is made from thickers and covered in metallic acrylic paint and then edged with distress inks.

The girl is a stamp which Cherry kindly stamped out for me and I coloured it in with distress inks.

Now I've got to try and remember what I did at the beginning of January so I can fill it in!!

Cute Card Thursday

This week's challenge for Cute Card Thursday is

Song and Dance

I've used a House Mouse pretending to be a conductor image for my card.

Stamps: House Mouse
Papers: First Edition-New Leaf
Border: Martha Stewart Punch
Flower: Tonic Punch
Leaves: Martha Stewart Punch

If you would like to come over and join us in the challenge you can find us here