Fetch A Sketch First Birthday Blog Hop

Good morning folks and welcome to the Fetch A Sketch blog hop to celebrate the first birthday of Jenny and Ruth's fabulous challenge blog which as I'm sure you've guessed is all about sketches! Happy Birthday Fetch A Sketch and my very best wishes to Jenny and Ruth for a second year of great challenges.
I'm thrilled to bits to have been asked to take part in the hop and have made some inspiration for you using a totally gorgeous image by one of the lovely sponsors, Christy of Tiddly Inks, together with papers from Polka Doodles also generously sponsoring the birthday hop.

I'm sure you can see now why I love the image being a little Alice fixated lol. I printed her out on to cartridge paper, colouring her with Aquamarkers and adding a little detail with Promarkers and Prismacolor pencils. I used the sketch from Week 15 as my inspiration and followed this using papers from the Polka Doodles Wonderland CD.
I made the faux buttons for the card using die cut flowers coloured with Distress inks and embossed with sparkly embossing powder. I pierced 2 holes in each and tied some brown linen thread through the holes. I made a computer generated sentiment cut out with the same die set and coloured with a blue Promarker.

If you're taking part in the hop (which you should as there are some fab prizes!) then you should have arrived here from Debbie's blog and now you need to hop on over to

Maria's blog

Don't forget to leave a comment too so that I know you've popped by.

If, however, you've only just seen this then please click on the Fetch A Sketch link at the top for all the details.

Good luck!

Fliss xx

Fetch A Sketch Challenge 7 - Guest Designer

Good morning everyone on a rather dull and dark Monday, it looks like rain will be here soon but I do have a post a bit later that might cause you to bring out the sunglasses! Not this one though.
I'm here now with my last card for Fetch A Sketch as I've come to the last post as September's Guest Designer. I would like to thank Ruth and Jenny for having me as I've so enjoyed doing the challenges - I find sketches really help if you're a bit stuck for ideas and sometimes do this myself to start off the creative process.
The sponsor for this challenge is our lovely Nikky of Polka Doodles and there's a fabulous prize for the winner so do pop over for a peek.
Here's my card and there's a reminder of the sketch underneath.

My card features papers and a cute image from the brand new Polka Doodles mini CD, Pretty Sweet. The papers and elements on there are just that with yummy colours and designs with a vintage, shabby chic edge.
To add a little extra texture I printed out the pink and white paper on linen card and it really does give it a fabric like feel. I added this to a scalloped card blank as I decided to go for all over pretty!
I added the image to a plain mat of Bazzill card cut with a Papermania large rectangular scalloped die. I then added a border of pretty patchwork paper trimmed with pinking shears and made the bunting from the same paper by marking out the measurements on the white reverse and cutting it out with scissors.
I finished off with a pretty greeting from the CD and a lilac gingham bow.

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Bows
Corrosive Challenges - Punches And/Or Dies
Paper Sundaes - Anything Goes
Our Craft Lounge - Patterned Papers

Have a good week.
Fliss xx

Fetch A Sketch Challenge 7 - Guest Designer

Good morning everyone on a very chilly Monday. Hope you all had a lovely weekend too and are rested and ready for the week ahead. I'm teaching a class this morning and hopefully by the time this pops up I should be a great deal more ready for it than I was when I drafted this post!
This is my second and last challenge as guest designer for Ruth and Jenny of Fetch A Sketch and the sponsor for this one is our lovely Nikky of Polka Doodles. There's a really great sketch this time perfect for celebration or Christmas so without further ado, here it is:

As you can see. I chose to make a Christmas card and used digital stamps, embellishments and papers from the Magical Winter CD set which has loads of elements for Winter themed cards and of course, Christmas!
I covered a kraft card blank with the blue dotty paper and then added a torn strip with a dotty ribbon and bow.
I printed out the jolly snowman and the Merry Christmas bunting and coloured these with Promarkers. I made the scarf look woolly by colouring all over with a pale blue marker then adding dotted stripes with 2 darker shades of blue and 2 greens. I hope you like the effect.
I cut these out and assembled the card as you see. Simples!

Do pop over to the challenge blog to see all the gorgeous samples and details of the challenge prize which is sure to be fabulous!

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
The Squirrel And The Fox - Anything Goes
Jingle Belles - Christmas including a digi
Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Paper Creations Ink - Buttons Or Bows

Thanks for looking and have a good week,
Fliss xx

Fetch A Sketch Challenge 6 - Decoupage Fairy

I'm back with another post as today is the mid way in the Sketch 6 challenge over at Fetch A Sketch and you have nearly a week still to get your entries in.
Here's a reminder of the sketch:

Here's my card with uses Claire of Jellypark's cute decoupage fairy:

 

I printed out the fairy and cut out all the elements then layered them up with foam tape. I rubbed the back of the wings with a large embossing ball tool to give them a bit of shape then added the fairy to a circle of white card embossed with the Cuttlebug Paisley folder.

I chose a favourite paper, Basic Grey Lemonade and covered my card blank with a piece of floral paper having first rounded the corners. I added a layered central bar also with rounded corners. I finished off with a sentiment from Inkadinkado stamped on some of the patterned paper and cut out and some Prima flowers - I altered the colours to match with Promarkers - with button centres.

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge - P Is For Pretty Pastels

Totally Papercrafts - Cute With Buttons

Flutterby Wednesday - Anything Goes

My Mum's Craft Shop - Layer It Up

Thanks for looking,

Fliss xx

Fetch A Sketch Challenge 6 - Guest Designer

Surprise! I'm back again with another post as I'm really excited to be able to tell you that Ruth and Jenny over at the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog asked me to be Guest Designer for September. Thanks for the honour ladies and I can't tell you how much this means to me.
Here's the great sketch:

This fortnight's challenge is being sponsored by Jellypark so do hop over to the challenge blog for all the details. Here's my card using one of the gorgeous digital images available at Jellypark.

I printed out the cute girl and coloured her with Promarkers. I then cut the image out with a circle cutter and left one elbow and a foot peeping out over the edge. I inked the edges with VersaColor Split Pea ink. I then added a red paper mat die cut with a Nestie scalloped circle.
The background paper is Picnic in the Park by Serif and came free with a magazine a while back. I stamped the flower trio by Rhonna Farrer for Autumn Leaves several times across the base of the gingham paper and coloured them with Prisma pencils.
I added a pretty strawberry border and some tiny punched butterflies coloured with Promarkers to finish off.
The challenge lasts for the next 2 weeks so there's plenty of time to enter. Hope to see you there!

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
Our Creative Corner - Stamping Onto Patterned Paper (I couldn't believe it when I saw this one!)
Clearly Inspired - CIC35 Patterned Paper
Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking.
Fliss xx

Fetch A Sketch

Good morning everyone, hope you're having a lovely Sunday. Many thanks to everyone who left such kind comments about my tumble on Friday and I'm feeling so much better today. The swelling in my hand has gone down a bit so I actually have some grip back without the ouch factor so hopefully will be fully recovered soon.
This is just a very quick post to tell you about the pre launch party over at Fetch A Sketch the new challenge blog set up by my fellow Polka Doodle teamie and friend Ruth and Jenny who was also on the team at one time. As it seems that most crafters' favourite is a sketch (as shown on Feline Playful) this is one I know you'll want to follow.

Ruth and Jenny have candy on offer to celebrate the launch so why not pop over to see what it's all about. The first challenge goes live on 27 June and I'm really looking forward to it.

Fliss xx