Whats behind the Kuretake Advent Calender Door 17

ME!!!!!!!!!!! thats who!!

I was so pleased when Buffy from Kuretake asked me to design a project for their advent calender blog sessions. I was also really nervous as all the other are very arty and creative and well Im just me! but I gave it my best shot and this is what I came up with!

This personalised Christmas canvas is sooo easy and quick to do and can easily be adapted to other occasions too how about

1. Wedding vows/first dance lyrics
2. Nursery Rhymes
3. Favourite Poem

And yes that little Cutie in the pic is my Jake, on his first christmas - oh my that was nearly 6 years ago now, I wonder if he would don a santa suit if I asked now?!!!

Anyway get yourself over to the Kuretake Blog for my instructions on how to make it and then hop on to the Kuretake Online Shop to treat yourself to a little pressie - their pens are FAB!!

Thanks for looking and I would really love to see your projects!

Crafty Boots Winner

 I am pleased to announce my winner of the blog hop was

MsStitcher!!!!!

If you could please contact Stephanie- Emma on stephanie-emma@craftyboots.co.uk with your address she will get your prize out to you ASAP.

Congratulations and thank you all for entering!

Belated Thank you!

Hi there everyone,

I just wanted to pop on and say a huge thank you to everyone who tuned in to my Create and Craft debut with Nikky Hall and sent such lovely wishes on twitter, Facebook and emails to the studio.

I am so very lucky to have such lovely support and I hope to be back soon!

Here are pics of the demos I made on the show and 2 you didnt get chance to see.

All the cards use images from Pretty Sweet and Pretty Tuff by Polkadoodles

Finally My Crafty boots Blog Hop Card

Hello,

I know its late and I am very sorry ( blogger hates me at the moment) but finally my Crafty Boots blog hop card is live! If you have no idea what I am talking about then scroll down to the post below this one and join in.

The design team were given some gorgeous Digital Designs to play with.

Here is my offering I hope I did it justice? Please excuse the late night pics!

Digi Image : Wedding Horsehoe by Hope Jacare
Papers: Sweet Flourish Collection by Pink Petticoat
Sparkle : Wink of Stella Pen in Clear by Kuretake
Coloured with : Flexmarkers,  dry brushed white acrylic paint and Distress Ink pads

The theme at Crafty Boots Challenges this fortnight is ‘Anything Goes’. You can join in the challenge as normal but there are 12 extra chances for you to win a prize by joining the first ever Crafty Boots blog hop!

If you are joining in the hop you should have got here from Denise's Blog If you haven’t blog hopped before it is really simple, just start at the Crafty Boots Challenge blog and hop through the design team blogs in the order set out on that page. Each of the design team members has a word or two for you to collect which will reveal a message at the end. Once you have collected that message email it to bloghop@craftyboots.co.uk to be entered into the draw to win the prize of three digis of your choice from Hope Jacare Doodles. You must also become a follower of all the design team’s blogs (and Claire’s) to be eligible to win the prizes.

Don’t forget that myself and each of the design team members has a prize of candy up for grabs, this will include a sample pack of the fantastic new Crafty Boots Deluxe card along with a few other goodies. Be sure to leave a comment on each of our blogs and follow us to be in with a chance of winning our candy!

My words for the secret message are:

 THE

Your next and final stop is Zoe’s blog.

The deadline for both the Anything Goes challenge, and the blog hop (and candy) is Sunday 11^th December at 12 Noon (UK time).

I will be back later today when Blogger decides to play nice and lets me upload my card!

Some cards and a competition sneak!

Hello lovely people,

Hope you are all well and getting used to the dark nights of winter. Hands up who has 1 clock in their house somewhere who still has the wrong time on it ;)

Have been busy getting ready for NEC this week with samples from the new cd by Polkadoodles Nikky has released a followup to the gorgeous Pretty Sweet girls with the Pretty Tuff boys!

Oh my they are gorgeous - you can preorder your copy here now!!

These are a few of my samples, all coloured with promarkers. Let me know what you think!!

It was also challenge day on Polkadoodles which saw them asking for Fantasy Card. I used a super cute Dustin Pike image to make my fairy tale Knight card. Again the card was promarkered.

Finally Monday also saw another Crafty Boots challenge - This time with the theme "young". I instantly thought of this cute digi image by Sylvia Zet. I love her images at the moment and this little girl playng in the snow just screamed young to me. I added a bit of glitter paper and some beautiful paper roses and she was done. Again image was coloured with promarkers....

Well I must be away to shower and make sure I have everything ready for NEC this week. I will be fufilling Elf duties with Nikky Hall on the polkadoodles stand so please do come and say hi!

ooooooh before I go.... how would you like to win a complete digital scrapbooking suite? A brilliant software suite to enable you to make scrapbook layouts, photo books, cards, tags, calenders and even blog headers and backgrounds? A suite that is super simple to use you will amaze yourself!!

And if you dont win - how would you like a code for money off the software and money off in the digital image store?  you would?? hmmm well check my blog next week and I'll see what I can do ;)

SJ Rocks!!

The other day I was lurking on Facebook when a post popped up into my news feed from the lovely SJ from Little Musings.

If you haven't had ever heard of Little Musing well oh my gosh aren't you missing out! SJ draws the most beautiful illustrations and you can purchase them in the form of digistamps, acrylic stamps, and art prints. Check them out here

Lately she has been designing the most gorgeous personalised art prints using words. If you give her 10-12 of your most favouritist things, or your values she will arrange them into the most gorgeous looking personalised print

Those who know me know that language, linguistics, literature and the like are passions of mine.

Anyhow I digress .. SJ's status popped up in my news feed proclaiming that the first person who could list their name and likes would get sent a free print. Well I was away - i had posted my likes faster than a blink hehe and yippee I won!


Sj had my print designed and sent to me for checking so quickly and I fell it love with it. Its gorgeous.

i know i know

I know I promised I would be back with another post and news and stuff but I am too tired tonight so will just leave you with some pics....

LOST - Blog posts!!

hmm for some reason whilst I have been messing with my Blog template I have deleted some of the previous posts :s

i have lots and lots and lots to tell you and show you so will be back tomorrow with lots of news!!

Blog Hop Time!!

Hey everybody.

Hope you got your web hopping fingers on cos its POLKADOODLES BLOG HOP TIME!!

And OH MY GOD!! Nikky has been so generous with the prizes this week, and not only with ALL 3 of the top challengers win the gorgeous Double Sprinkles of Kraft CD but if you leave comments on the hop blogs you could win our individual candy too... thats an amazing 15 Chances to win!!

If you havent blog hopped before its super simple. Just start at the Polkadoodles challenge blog where you will find a list of us doodlers. Visit each blog in turn (remembering to leave a comment if you want to win their candy!) collect the mystery word from each blog... then follow the instructions the mystery words will tell you! If you get lost go back to the main blog and pick up the list again.


So if you reached here from AUDREY's blog then you are on the right track. My word for you is

ENTRY

and you need to hop on over to the lovely JOSIE for the next word!

Nikky has designed a gorgeous download to celebrate the blog hop and fathers day and I used it for my card this week. I love the fact that you can make a super quick card and you need nothing more than a card blank and the files in the download.


My version was really easy, just some torn paper and elements from the download cut out and 3D mounted.

So if you want to win my candy which is this fabby CD and believe me it is GORGEOUS, check out the gallery here ....  then leave me a comment below!

Happy hopping friends!

Friday Blogging

Hope everyone is having a good bank Holiday Friday? There certainly is a few of them this next few weeks isnt there!

Its a busy weekend here in our household. We move on Tuesday so we are spending the last few days making sure everything is packed and ready to go.

I did manage to fit in a couple of design team commitments before I had to pack up my crafty stash *sob*

First up we have the Polkadoodles challenge which was set by .. MOI! I challenged the team to make a project using 3 different patterned papers.


I decided with the royal wedding coming up next week I would get all patriotic and make a union Jack card. I had this card pictured in my head so am so surprised it turned out as well as it did as its not very often that my head ideas translate to paper projects.

I used the lovely colour papers from Sundae of seasons to make my super simple card. I cut a piece of the blue hearts to cover the whole card blank, Then 2 white strips of the beighe polkadots and the pink hearts. They were really easy then just to layer to create the flag design.

To finish off I wrote L O V E with a black pen on some white paper and cut them out for the bottom corner.

Head on over to the challenge blog and see all the other fabby items the Design team have made.


I was also lucky enough to be asked to be a guest designer for Little Musings. SJ created a fabby digi kit "TreeHouse" for me to use.

These are the designs I came up with using the elements of the kits. I love the paper pieced treehouse it looks so cute. Thanks so much SJ for letting me play with your designs.

I also managed to sneak in a couple of cards with other Little musings. I LOVE the dinosaur one and my 5 year old wrote the sentiment for me.

Bad Blogger Strikes Again

I know i am such a naughty blogger aren't I... but honestly this time I have a good excuse.

We are moving and we only heard for certain that we had the house this week so for the past few weeks we have been trying to sort everything and pack. We are moving county so there has been a lot to sort out.

Anyway I am back now... but probably wont blog again next week as its gonna take a while for me to get my craft stuff back out and sorted.

I have a few new cards to show you that use the lovely "Double Sprinkle of Kraft" CD from Polkadoodles. If you havent brought this CD yet OMG!! what are you waiting for? It is gorgeous, such beautiful papers that look so textured you will stroke them!!

Hope you like my cards? Pop back by on Friday as I have a new challenge card for Polkadoodles and a special card for someone i was asked to guest design for!