Polka Doodles Challenge - Easel Card

Another post from me today as being Friday, it's Polka Doodles challenge time again. This week's theme of EASEL CARDS has been chosen by team mate Brenda as she says she's addicted to them - I second that as I just love them too! Good wishes go out to Brenda too as she's been feeling under the weather lately - hope you feel much better soon Brenda.
My contribution is one of the samples I made for Nikky from the absolutely stunning collection of papers, images and sentiments on the brand new Polka Doodles CD, Sundae of Seasons. I have no idea how Nikky managed to fit all this on one CD as there's a massive amount of stash there all ready to be printed out. Nikky is on Create and Craft TV on Monday 20 September at 10am and the show is a must just to see the variety on this year round CD.
My easel card has been made from the stunning Sewing collection which is a favourite of mine as my younger daughter is starting her Fashion degree at Kingston University next week and we will be taking her up there tomorrow (along with a massive amount of stuff!)

I'm sure you can see from the photos why I love this collection so much and I have to say the collection of papers on there is from my point of view, the best yet. The papers have a very vintage feel to them rather like fabric and the colours are so beautiful with lots of deep reds, greens and teals with some softer pinks, aqua and golds.
Don't you just love the mannequin here which can be cut out too and there are also some black and white versions to colour yourself or print out on patterned paper.
The challenge is open until 12 noon on Sunday 26 September and don't forget to take a look at the other DT creations as there's some very spooky stuff there!
I'm also going to enter my card in the Craft Your Passion challenge with the theme of Easel Cards and the Crafts and Me challenge with the same theme.

Autumn Fairy

Hello everyone, hope you're all OK. I've been very busy making samples for the new Polka Doodles CD which has its' first airing on Create and Craft TV on Monday 20 September at 10am. If you've got time it's well worth a look as this is the best one yet of Nikky's gorgeous crafting CDs.

I had some fantastic news last Friday as I found to my great surprise that my Flora Doodle card for the URLooking Good challenge at Raise The Bar had made the Top 3 and the prize is to be a Guest Bar Tender for the new challenge tomorrow. I can't tell you the theme yet but it's sure to be popular as it's something we all like!

I've only just got this made in time for the current challenge at Raise The Bar with the colours Orange, Brown and Green as I managed to lose my box of Distress inks and only found it this morning.
It also fits another challenge and I've put all the links below the details of my card.

I made the background paper by stamping a skeleton leaf by B Line Designs in Dried Marigold and Crushed Olive Distress inks then over stamped with a skeleton leaf Rubber Stampede in Spiced Marmalade and Vintage Photo. I then sponged a little Dried Marigold over the top.
The mat panel round the image is made in the same way using glossy card and Pumpkin and Olive Green Stazon ink. I stamped the fairy by Judikins in Memento Rich Cocoa and coloured her with Promarkers.
I then stamped my favourite maple leaf by Personal Impressions in Rich Cocoa several time, coloured then with Promarkers and cut them out.
I assembled the card as you see, adding a border punched with the Martha Stewart wrought iron punch, inked with Vintage Photo and embossed with clear powder.
I'm entering this in the following challenges:
Raise The Bar - Orange, Brown and Green
Creative Card Crew - Autumn
Thanks for looking.

Fliss x

Polka Doodles Challenge - Card For A Boy

Hello all on this fine sunny day which is why I'm sneezing loads lol. It's time for the new challenge over at Polka Doodles and this week Brenda has chosen the theme which is to make a Card for a Boy .

Before I show you my card, I need to let you all know that on Sunday Nikky will be on Create and Craft TV with the brand new Polka Doodles CD which is being launched at 2pm (very lucky as the footie starts at 3pm so you can wrestle the remote off those footie fans to watch her!!!). Do watch if you can as there's some fabulous stuff on there which the DT have all been working on over the past week and I'm still covered in glitter (it seems to get everywhere!) so you can probably guess what the new CD's about.

Here's my card for the challenge which is very simple to show off the cute image I chose with my middle niece's little boy in mind as he will be 3 years old soon.

I just know he'll love this little fellow who reminds me of Brian from the Magic Roundabout which I still remember after so many years.
He's from the All Around & Everywhere CD (says she pausing to sneeze lol) and I printed him out quite large, cut him out and stuck him with foam tape to a card blank made from background paper from the Candy Doodles CD - don't you just love that dotty effect.
To finish off all I did was print out a piece of background paper from the Not So Plain Plains on the Not For Girls CD (these have a lovely linen texture print) and computer genetated my sentiment which I printed on the paper and punched out.

Don't forget to watch the show on Sunday and you will find all the details on the Polka Doodles website.

Polka Doodles Week 3 Sketch Challenge

This week over at Polka Doodles we have a sketch challenge and the DT were all challenged to use red and orange with the sketch.

Here's what I made which uses a mix from 2 CDs.

I've made a bright and cheerful card using the daisy paper from the new Love & Cherish CD and the lovely Flower Stackies from the Back to Nature CD.
I embossed red and orange card with the Cuttlebug Bloom Dots folder and punched opposite corners with the Woodware corner daisy punch. I layered the flower up with a button centre and matted this on a square of daisy paper with the side edges trimmed with scallop scissors.
I made a small tag with daisy paper and added a small flower from the Stackies sheet. I stamped a greeting using the Daisy Doodles stamp set and cut this out. I assembled the card trimming the top edge of the red panel with scallop scissors.
Nikky is on Create & Craft on Monday 25 January at 3pm with both of these fabulous and versatile CDs. She will also have Promarkers which I'm now becoming a fan of having just tried them out.

Valentine

I know it's a little early for Valentines but I've just finished making some samples up for Nikky of Polka Doodles whose brand new CD entitled Love & Cherish is being launched on Sunday 10th January at 11am on Create & Craft TV.

There are some absolutely gorgeous papers and toppers on the CD suitable for all sorts of occasions, not just those involving love (!). There will be more samples appearing here soon too, although I'm entering this one in this week's ABC Challenge with a theme of L for Layering. I found out about this challenge from Brenda, a fellow Polka Doodler and if you'd like to see a fabulous sample from the CD that she's made, click here.
The card is made using 2 of the papers with a border layered across the middle along with some black lace. I've added one of the cute toppers, matted on black card and a paper flower embellishment with a punched flower centre and a jewel to finish.