A fantastic giveaway.....

Fantastic news for all of you wonderful crafters who loves to get something
for just a little bit of work on their own blog!!

Studio 12 at Polkadoodles,

Where paper meets digital...meets creativity that knows no bounds...

is giving away some gorgeous Polka Doodles/Studio 12 goodies

 

Check it all out at: http://studio12creative.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/september-giveaway.html

 

 

 

 

Thats all for a few days now peeps, as my disability adaptations start in 3 days and Ive

got a lot more packing up to do so Im afraid somethings got to give and its the internet...

including my facebook account as well as this blog, my emails and above all else-my card

making!!!  Ive taken most of my craft stash down to the property where Im having to stay

whilst the majority of the work is carried out. As soon as I can I will be back online and

all will be back to normal or atleast until most of the work is done and then I can move

back whislt they work around me, I hope anyway... lol.

I should be back online before the end of the week as soon as I hand over the keys, on

Wednesday morning, I can go to my temporary home and start crafting, that is  once Ive

made my bed up & put my clothes away.  (Im having to stay with my ex partner, my

youngest daughters dad) as there is no where else for me to live whilst all the downstairs

of my home is adapted to suit my disabilities. Its a long story and one Im not going to

write about on here.

 

Thats all for now peeps, take care, Enter the Studio 12 Giveaway, and Happy Crafting!!!

 

Love Marg xxxx

 

Mmmmm A good challenge....part 3!

This post is continued on from the blog post on August 19th:
http://craftycardsbymarg.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/mmmmm-good-challenge-part-2.html

I had some marvelous news 2 days ago, my best friend of almost 40 years, has 2 daughters and a son, the middle child Rebecca had announced her engagement!! I instantly went into thinking mode: wow, congratulations, what design of card can I make her, what to use???? I did know that I didnt want to use a picture, image, or sentiment so something different was called for! Well, as usual, That all went out of the window when I actually sit down at my craft table and decide on what the main element of the card is going to be....my eyes fell on the heart haped white doileys that I had brought a couple of months ago, that was it!! My focal point of the card was going to be the heart.....and I had the perfect backing papers from the same range to add to the whole ongoing design!!

I chose an 8 x 8 inch scalloped edged card blank in ivory to start the card going, adding a matt & layer consisting of 2 papers from the Dovecraft Tea Party range (cutting an invert quarter circle to each of the 4 corners) and then added the new ribbon I'd brought from an internet supplier., its a beautiful pale ivory lace ribbon with pink hearts woven in to the lace. I then added a heart shaped lace doiley from Dovecraft's Tea Party range to the centre of the card but not across most of the ribbon. I then used silicon glue to uplift a thin card heart that I cut from a pale lilac colour using a Marianne Design die. I then, after careful thought, added the smallest faux gems I had got in my stash, to cover the little holes left by the cutting die! I added the "congratulations" sentiment in the bottom right hand corner, with the assorted pastel coloured mulberry paper hearts to both sides of the doiley heart....giving a soft romantic feel to the card (in my eyes anyway lol). I hope you like the finished result...

This card is the final instalment for the Facebook challenge that Nikky Hall (owner/creator/designer at www.Polkadoodles.co.uk who set a challenge for us, on August 5th, to make 3 blog posts during the month of August:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/130211167019322/#!/groups/130211167019322/

Please, not only keep commenting on my posts, but also follow my blog....you never know what you might find out about me!! lol ;0 xxx

 

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.