Unfrogetable

Unfrogettable...

I am still home with Jake today, the vomiting has finally stopped but my poor little man is so weak, the doctor thinks he will start asking for some food this afternoon.  At the moment he is fast asleep on the couch so I have taken the opportunity to finish my latest card inspired by a sketch challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges.

Materials Used; Pollycraft Designs digi 'Frog', Copic Caio markers, SU Rich Razzleberry & Wild Wasabi, Kaiser Craft Lilac Avenue DP, SU ribbon and button, sentiment and silver elastic from my stash pile.

Challenges Entered;

Crazy 4 Challenges; C4C77 a sketch challenge

Simon Says Stamp; Anything Goes

Meljens Designs; Green

Out of this World

I come in Peace!

I have the day off work today to look after Jake, my youngest, who is home from school with a yukky tummy bug.  He fell fast asleep on the couch so I took the opportunity to browse some blogs and came upon the latest challenge at Pollycraft's; Fly Me Too The Moon.  A perfect to chance to use my Critters Star Digi.

Material's Used; Critters Star from Pollycraft Designs, Copic Caio, Scrap card stock, American Crafts DP, Ribbon, Googly Eyes, Star Brads & Star Charm from my stash pile.

Challenges Entered;

Pollycraft Challenge Blog; Fly Me To The Moon

Paper Sundaes; Stripes

Simon Says Stamp; Anything Goes

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Well it's a warm Christmas Day here in sunny Perth, and we are on our way to a traditional family BBQ followed my a swim in the pool to cool down.  The kids have opened there prezzies and the house looks slightly disheveled but that can wait till boxing day!

I would like to wish all of my friends and family a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

This is the card I will be delivering to my bestie today, it is also my very first Step Ladder card.  Every year we try to out WOW each other with our birthday and christmas creations and I think this time she might be slightly blown away as I had decided that if I as going to struggle through making this type of design for the first time I was definitely going to add all of the trimmings!!

I used two of my new Christmas digis from Tiddly Inks along with a free clip art tree, the sentiment is also a freebie from Pollycraft Designs.

Once I had the template worked out this card was a joy to decorate and hopefully it will be putting a huge smile on my besties face this Christmas.

Materials Used; Digis from Tiddly Inks & Pollycraft Designs, SU Season of Joy set, SU Riding Hood Red, Garden Green & Chocolate Chip Card stock, Kaiser Craft Christmas Carnival DP, Copic Caio markers, Kaiser Craft rhinestones, SU Rhinestone brad, snowflakes, Martha Stewart Crystal Glitter, button from my stash pile.

Challenges Entered;

Paper Sundaes; Cut It Out

Simon Says Stamp Challenge; Anything Goes

Stamptacular Sunday; TREEmendous!

What Cookie??

 

What Cookie??

This is the card design I made for my husband from my two boys Nicholas & Jake, especially as they already take after there Dad and always have their fingers in the cookie jar!

I used one of Pollycraft Designs cute little monsters; starring as the abominable snowman, along with a tree from my clip art collection and a sentiment I made up just for this occasion.

Materials Used; Pollycraft Digi image, Copic Caio markers, SU Bashful Blue with other blue card stock, Kaisercraft Christmas carnival DP, white Flower Soft for the snow, glitter on the monsters belly and snowflake & gingerbread buttons from my stash pile.

Challenges Entered;

Pollycraft Monday Challenge; White Christmas

Simon Says Stamp; Anything Goes

Stamptacular Sunday; TREEmendous 

Paper Sundaes; Cut It Out

Happy Birthday DH!

Happy Birthday!

Today is my DH's birthday and he was woken up with our two wonderful boys beaming and ready for school (of course DH was not ready to wake up yet!)  While the young bots are at school we will both be relaxing at home after being able to co-ordinate our days off together which seems to be a very rare occurrence.

As you can see by looking at earlier card posts I had a theme going on with his birthday cards this year and this is the one from me.  I am loving the fact that I have been able to add some real hardware to my embellishment stash!

Materials Used; Pollycraft Designs Digi - Cog Girl, Copic Ciao's, SU Basic Grey, Pacific Point and some other generic green card stock, DP from Kaiser crafts Konstruct Collection,  Sakura Glaze pens, metal flower bead spacers, twine and hardware from my new hardware stash.

Challenges entered;

Pollycraft Monday Challenge; Photo Inspiration 

Paper Sundaes; Metal  

Bee Crafty; All About The Image (alternative craft item is the hardware) 

Creative Inspirations Challenge; Recycled Element (that would be the nut and washers)

Ooh La La Creations; Spots and Dots

Just A Little Bot!

Just A Little Bot!

Here is my favorite little robot starring on a card inspired by this weeks challenge at Pollycraft Designs, it is a photo inspiration challenge and here it the photo that inspired him!

Image: renjith krishnan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

 Materials Used; Tiddly Inks digi stamp, copic ciaos, SU Orchid Opulence, Lavender Lace, Tempting Turquoise and Green Galore, DP from Kaiser Craft's Konstruct Collection, Creative Imaginations rub-on and star stickers from my stash pile.

Challenges Entered;

Pollycraft Monday Challenge; Photo Inspiration 

Party Time Tuesdays; Anything Goes 

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge; Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails! 

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge; It's A Mans World 

Ooh La La Creations; Spots and Dots
Stamp Something; Photo Inspiration (birthday)

 

Best Friends....

Best Friends

This card was inspired by this weeks Scrappy Saturday Challenge (WMC16) over on the Wee Memories blog.  The challenge is to incorporate some chipboard into the design.  I have limited chipboard embellies in my stash but I do have a few packs of chipboard letters.  So here is my friendship easel card dedicated to my bestie.

The gorgeous little tree that I have incorporated is from Pollycraft Designs and the sentiment is from Kaiser Digital, just about everything else is on this card is from Stampin Up.

Material Used; SU Vintage Vogue stamp, Love Tree Digi from Pollycraft Designs, Copic Caio markers, SU Soft Suede, Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry card stocks, SU Cottage Wall DP, SU Felt Flowers, SU Certainly Celery ribbon, SU Sparkle Brads, chipboard letters and pearls from Kaiser.

PS: Make sure you check out the wee Memories blog, it's well worth the visit.  This week Jenny is having a special giveaway to celebrate 300 followers, she is giving away $15 worth of Hero Art stamps to one of her followers, how groovy is that!

Other challenges entered:


Daring Cardmakers; It's A Girl Thing

Flash your FREEBIES! Part Two

think GREEN!

Part two of Pollycraft's Flash your Freebies challenge was to use the free digi we received by email and to think GREEN!  Awww! This pair of turtles are just adorable...

I am so excited, because now that I have made this card all I need to do is add the link and I will get a choice of any digi FREE from Pollycraft's shop, thanks to the wonderful generosity of Paula, how sweet a deal is that?

I am not to sure of my choice of colour, now that I look at the photo, for the little blue bird sitting on the fence (another free digi from Pollycraft) but overall I am happy with the way the rest of the card turned out.

Materials Used: digis from Pollycraft Designs, Copic Ciao, SU Old Olive card stock, DP from Kaiser Hey Birdie collection, Kaiser paper flowers, SU Certainly Celery ribbon, green brads from my stash pile.

Flash your FREEBIES!

 FLASH YOUR FREEBIES !!!

Pollycraft is doing something extra special to say thank you to it's loyal followers.  Just need to submit a card using one of their free digi stamps and link it back to the Pollycraft blog.

I have used this cute little Cuthbert with Balloons image, he is perfect for that special birthday card.

Material Used; free Pollycraft digi, Copic Ciao, Sakura Glaze pens, SU Chocolate Chip and Close to Cocoa card stocks, DP from My Memories, buttons from my stash pile.

Entered in the following challenges;

Tales from Pollycraft; Flash Your FREEBIES!

Party Time Tuesdays; Anything Goes Birthday

Crazy 4 Challenges; C4C46 Buttons

Leaving it to the LAST minute!

A challenge and something extra...

I promised myself this week that since I had time off to do little more than relax, I would get into my craft room and do some serious card-making.....well I don't know where that week went, I was busy doing anything and everything except crafting!

Today is Sunday, tomorrow I am back at work, nothing like cramming it all in during the dying hours!

I have three cards too show you in this post , one for a challenge and the others are using characters I had manged to colour during the week, but were never mounted!

SMILE - it's a Sketch Challenge

This first card if for the this weeks FFF Sketch Challenge at Splendid Stamping. I have used a digi stamp; Country Anya for this one and added one of the farm animals from the McSplendid Farm set.

Materials used: Copic Ciao markers, SU Soft Suede Card stock, paper stash off-cuts, DP Kaiser craft Hey Birdie, ric-rac ribbon and other various embellies.

Small Wonder

This card was inspired by a card I saw on Meljen's Designs DT Blog, and as I had the same digi stamp and Cuttlebug embossing plate I had to give it a go.

This sweet puppy is already very cute but the embossing really makes him POP! He is coloured first, then cute and embossed.

Materials used: Copic Ciao markers, SU Riding Hood Red and black card stock, Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles embossing plate, Daisy Bucket DP, SU Whimsical Words stamp, various embellies.

A Monstrosity!

The third card off the rank features one of my favorite new monsters from Pollycraft designs, his name is cuddly! He is great fun to colour. The sentiment is one that I have made up myself.

Material Used: Copic Ciao markers, SU Elegant Eggplant and Riding Hood red card stock, Daisy Designs DP, Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles embossing plate, ribbon and brad from the stash pile.

If you made it to the bottom of this Monsterous post you have earned yourself a break, thanks for visiting, until next time....