Mmmmm A good challenge.... part 2!



This post is continued on from the blog post on August 5th:

http://craftycardsbymarg.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/mmmmm-good-challenge.html

Part 2:  My dear neighbour moved house yesterday to a village a couple of miles away,

she did a house exchange with the tenant of the 3 bed house and luckily this woman

wanted to move back to here.  I wasnt going to let Alison go with out me atleast

giving a card so hence me looking through my stamps. I can across my Polkadoodles

box and I knew instantly that one from the "Neighbourhood" range would be ideal, so

I chose the mushroom house as I wanted the garden feel to the card...

I made the side stepper card from one piece of A4 card, chose the backing shaped

pieces of coloured card from one of my storage boxes (as when I get my Grande

Calibur out I tend to cut more than the ones I want for that particular card) and then

cut the felt flowers and the "grass" using my newer cutting dies (the grass one is from

Marianne Designs at http://www.mariannedesign.nl/ ) and felt squares from

the prize I won on Facebook last month (curtosy of Colour-Full-Felt at http://colour-full-felt.co.uk/craft-felt/craft-felt-metres?gclid=COHPj8_T87ECFVMdtAodvRwA8Q )

I stamped the mushroom house, trees and small flowers using Memento Ink and then

I stamped the trees using Momento Ink and Archival (for the green tree leaves). All the

stamped images were coloured using my Promarkers. The Butterfly is cut from a sheet

of Polkadoodle printed paper from the Pen&Circle Club mini cdrom issue 3. (I cant

remember where I brought or what company made the butterfly die).

The finishing touch is the flower shaped faux pearls on the centre of the 2 felt flowers

and then along the grass.

The verse was printed on a piece of pearlescent paper and folded in (half like a card),

cut to size to fit on the back of the card and then stuck down on to the back of the largest

side of the card.  Photographs taken and the card is finished....

This card/blog is being entered into the following challenge: https://www.facebook.com/groups/130211167019322/
Polka Doodle Dandies August Challenge to blog 3 times during the month of August

A free Giveaway!!!!

Hiya peeps,


Yet another quick update to let you know about a fantastic GIVEAWAY on
another blog.....Its called Studio 12 at Polkadoodles and this is the link over
to the blog (and of course the giveaway) : 
http://studio12creative.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/giveaway-sticky-post.html

Studio 12 is one of the latest cdroms created by Nikky Hall,
owner/designer/creator at www/polkadoodles.co.uk. This cdrom is quite
different than the rest of her creations on cdrom as it:
 "Studio 12 Collections are all about combining traditional papercrafting with
digital techniques now available with 3rd party graphics programs - but quite
simply, you can use the images however you wish!"

Try it, you never know, you might be pleasently suprised!! ;)

Time for my bed (after Ive finished with this blog post), so I will say Good Night Peeps
and talk very soon xx ;)

Im on Net Mums!!

Good Morning from a very warm and sunny Burntwood in Staffordshire.,
its only 7.45am but Im already wide awake, well so much awake anyway ;)

Today I would like to tell you about a fantastic website called NetMums.com
which is wonderful, its so informative, helpful in lots of different ways and so
upto date in every way. I found it a while ago, how I cant remember, but the
main thing is that I can list my cards for sale on there for free. I could upgrade
for small fee each month but at the moment I have enough on my mind getting
spare/unused stock on Facebook for sale due to the impending building work
starting.
The object of Net Mums is used by countless mums and dads over the country,
to help them find the help that they need for any query, question or problem they
may have, to give them every bit of help with the planning of days out, what to do
with any youngsters party and where to find every single piece of party planning
you should need, which is where I come in with the invitations that I can make,
but also, not forgetting the absolute must of a Birthday Card.

The link below will take you straight to my page:
http://www.netmums.com/south-staffs/local/view/parties/suppliers/cards-by-marg-inc-invitations

I must say that also available on netmums.com are:
support, advice, local sellers to your own area, chat area called "coffeehouse", food,
what's on, competitions and many many more...
http://www.netmums.com/  

I must sign off now, a busy day for me as my dishwasher has developed a
fault and the repair man is due this morning. Ive also got to finish off or
atleast start to personalise my Etsy account which I opened a couple of days
ago. More on that when Ive finished it and my account is fully open.
Bye for now peeps xx

Mmmmm A good challenge....

Nikky Hall of the company Polka Doodles, (can be found at www.polkadoodles.co.uk)
has given Facebook craft group Polka Doodle Dandies, of which Im a member, to blog
3 cards in a month.
This usually isnt a problem for me but I must say that lately Ive had problems in keeping
awake and keeping up with my emails let alone anything else. Still, a kick up the bum is
just what I, along with many others I think, will need.

Ok Nikky, blog number one on Saturday evening 4th August at 11.15pm..:


The first card I wish to tell you about is a card I made using a digi stamp offered to
us by Emma Canning, who is now, able to sell her digi stamps on
www.polkadoodles.co.uk by Nikky kindly asking her.   Anyway, after printing out the
image, onto a thin white card, I coloured the image of the girl in Flex & Promarkers,then
cutting them with my Spellbinders dies and my Grande Calibur. The papers are all from
the Pen & Circle club issue 3 cdrom, (I love them as they are so fresh but also bright). The
flowers, Mulberry paper and the double sided ribbons are both from my own stash.
It was entered into the following challenge:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/130211167019322/
Polka Doodle Dandies August Challenge to blog 3 times during the month of August

Kimmie Krafting Design Team Application Entry

Here are six photos of my Design Team Application for Kimmie Krafting. 

I used one of their stamps from Canine Capers set One, coloured it with Promarkers and even coloured in the background with a light Putty colour as I didnt want the plain white of the card to show through all over. It was then glued onto the backing die cut label one shape. I then got the A4 sheeet of pearlescent deep cream card from PapermillDirect.co.uk in the Lake District, scored the card to form the A5 basic card shape.  I covered the front of the card with a paper from a Polkadoodles cdrom Id got, then I turned the top right hand corner over and secured that with a brad through to the inside of the card. The stamped image topper was then placed on foam pads and stuck in the middle of the card. I then placed the clear faux gems on wire stems either side as well as two small bows made from pink ribbon with little dogs on. The finishing touch is the sentiment and the roses of two different sizes and two colourways.

All in all, a beautiful card that covers almost any occasion.

My Facebook Giveaway win...

Here is just 4 out of the 10 photos of what I won this last Friday. 20th July,and it was at my home on Monday morning.!! Fabulous service and a wonderful prize of 72 x 4 inch square, one of each colour!!  Its not too thick either so it can be die cut using my Spellbinders....and boy, am i looking forward to that part!! Keep a look out in the near future for the first card I make using one or more sheets of this felt.  Well done Colour-Me Felt for giving away such wonderful stash

http://colour-full-felt.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colour-full-felt/235072723212069

A couple of cards, both of which are Competition entries (Dawns Crafy Cards) and Jammi Panda Crafters

The above card was one of my competition entries, this time one of my Facebook friends regularly has a card swop with professional sponsers. It was to try and win set of stamps, very kindly sponsered by Sue Wilson. The challenge was to make a card using Sue's favourite colours of Teal Black & White. I was very pleased and enjoyed, such alot making the card,but obviously unhappy that I didnt win. The card size is an 8 x 8 inch with the fold on the DL fold/score line on any score board. The stamped image is from Lily of the Valley and coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers (on the skin only). All the leaves, the flower shapes and the scalloped square teal coloured card were cut with Spellbinders dies. All the items used in this make are from my own stock.
You can check out Dawns website at:   www.dawnscraftycards.net

Jammi Panda Crafting...

The next lot of photos are of another challenge make, this time for a Facebook group
called Jammi Panda Crafting. Ive got a lot of friends on there and we are actually
meeting up, as a group very soon and I cant wait to meet everyone of those wonderful
friends face to face. Its also going to be so relaxing for me to be out and away from
home even if just for a short break. 
Anyway, back to the card, the challenge was to use all of the elements sent from boss
lady Fee, (Head Panda as we all call her) lol. The elements were sheets of papers and
images for decoupage or just usage as we wish. The only added item we had to use
was acetate. I used my acetate behind the stars to make them move! 
You can find our Facebook group here:
https://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/groups/jammipandacrafters/ 

The company website is:
http://www.jammipanda.co.uk