Saturday 28 May 2016

More Birthday celebrations



Hello everyone, it's my turn to use a digi that has been put together by one of my team mates, to carry on with the celebrations for the Polkadoodles 7th birthday.


As this anniversary is normally called the "7 year itch", the Polka Doodles team have embraced the prickly feeling by scratching that itch and mixing/scratching up some new images ... get the pun? Corny we know but the team have had great fun. So to embrace the “itchy scratch” the Polka Doodles team have thrown caution to the wind and “scratched up” a different kind of birthday celebration.
The birthday celebrations will be running for 2 weeks and each day someone from the Polka Doodles team will be sharing their “mixed/scratched up” image. It’s been all hush hush and secret squirrel too as no one knows who has been busy creating what and when they will be revealing their image... so the Polka Doodles team get to join in the fun too. To add an extra layer of itchy fun, everyone has also been colouring up the new “scratched/mixed up” images, (still not knowing who designed them) and they will be sharing via their blogs and on FaceBook.
We really have scratched things up ... new merged images, no one knows who created what and no one knows when they’ll be sharing them ...!
Please do take the opportunity to visit the Polka Doodles team and see their new digi images because you will find a discount code (or two) along your way that you can use in the Polka Doodles shop.

For my card I have been given a great image made up from one of the older cd's Not for Girls and from the Work and Play Collection 8.

Image 1

I printed the image out and cut it out, coloured with Graph'it markers and then had to decide what to do with it, well I took some papers and the stars into Craft Artist and recoloured to the colour I needed. Printed them onto Text and Graphic paper and then just cut to size and matted onto black card, the stars weren't exactly as I wanted so I coloured the red ones with the same pen as I used on the guitar  but then painted all of them with some pearlised paint.

I hope you can find out who put the image together and when you do you may just find a code on their blog for a great discount at the Polkadoodles store.

Sunday 22 May 2016

Happy 7th birthday Polka Doodles

Happy 7th birthday Polka Doodles.
As this anniversary is normally called the "7 year itch", the Polka Doodles
team have embraced the prickly feeling by scratching that itch and
mixing/scratching up some new images ... get the pun?
Corny we know but the team have had great fun.
So to embrace the “itchy scratch” the Polka Doodles team have thrown
caution to the wind and “scratched up” a different kind of birthday celebration.
The birthday celebrations will be running for 2 weeks and each day someone from
the Polka Doodles team will be sharing their “mixed/scratched up” image.
It’s been all hush hush and secret squirrel too as no one knows who has been
busy creating what and when they will be revealing their image...
so the Polka Doodles team get to join in the fun too.
To add an extra layer of itchy fun, everyone has also been colouring up
the new “scratched/mixed up” images,
(still not knowing who designed them) and they will be sharing via
their blogs and on FaceBook.
We really have scratched things up ... new merged images, no one knows who
created what and no one knows when they’ll be sharing them ...! Please do take the opportunity to visit the Polka Doodles team and see their new digi images
because you will find a
discount code (or two) along your way that you can use in the Polka Doodles shop.
I used an image from Twiggy and Toots and merged it with the shop from
Dollie Daydreams Girl Talk Collection which I coloured with my Lyra pencils
and the background I did colour wash with water colours.
The sentiment is from one of the new soup cd's Magic Garden, the little die cuts
behind the image are Tattered Lace and they are cut from some old business cards
I was given, they are a perfect size and once coloured or painted blend in perfectly.
Check out the blended images on the Polkadoodle site and for today only there is a code 
you can use which will give you 20% discount on individual downloads use 
BIRTHDAY 20 at the checkout.

A bit of a long post so thanks for staying with me, don't forget to use the code and 
save your 20%, this expires at midnight 22nd May.

Friday 20 May 2016

Birthday Celebrations at Polkadoodles

Good morning everyone, it's right in the middle of the birthday celebrations at Polkadoodles so what better challenge than Birthday Celebrations so you can join in the fun!

For my card I've used Lily Love Bug, this time I have used the image of her sitting on the heart. I thought it was a good one as we all love our Polkadoodles images.

I have used a sketch for the design of the card and think all the beautiful papers work so well together, please come over to both the blog challenge and the pages on Facebook as there are lots of things going on and offers and prizes around too.

I am entering this into the following challenges;
Jades Sparkling Butterflies - Anything goes
Crafting With an Attitude - Anything Goes
Southern Girls - Anything Goes

This is what I used


Friday 13 May 2016

Things with Wings at Polkadoodles

Good morning my friends, I'm here with my inspiration post for our current challenge which is Things With Wings.  I have used Lily Love bug for my card, I have had this collection for a while but never got around to using it, I don't know why apart from not being able to do much of any crafting recently.

I added the collection to Craft Artist to make the selection and sizing of the items so much easier, I chose the images I wanted to use and then printed them ready for cutting.  My Cameo isn't connected to the pc at the moment so I had to cut everything out by hand but that was quite relaxing, I built up the picture and layered everything up with both Collall all purpose glue and Pinflair gel.

Onc I had finalised the layout I decided it needed just a little something extra and then I remembered I had those new Tattered Lace tuck in dies so cut a couple of the hearts and they were just enough to finish it off.  Although you can't see it in the picture I have used a glitter pen over parts of the card.

I hope you will come over and join in with us and don't forget there are prizes and you could win a feather in your cap if you use a Polkadoodles image.

I am entering this into the following challenges
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes
Digital Delights - Anything Goes with a digi
Crafting with an Attitude - AnythingGoes