Diddy Doodles blog Challenge for June is "Teenager"

Hiya from my mums blog, Im Tia and Im on the design team for Diddy Doodles and I enjoy making cards, it makes me feel so relaxed as most of the time is spent deciding how to layout all the items.

This month I decided to use the Prettty Tuff cdrom from www.polkadoodles.co.uk which is all boys stuff as in all the charactors are boys, with tractors, cars, trucks and some sporty stuff on it. The papers on the disc are lovely though and they compliment the images

I chose to use a boy called Jay and the skateboard, both of which I coloured in using my mums promarkers and flexmarkers on his face. I made the easel card using just one piece of A4 card, covering the bottom with blue holographic card. Every item I used was from my mums stock.

This card is used on the diddydoodles blog challenge for children upto the age of 16 at:

http://diddydoodles.blogspot.co.uk/

I hope you like the card, Love Tia x

Anything Goes Guest Design Team Blog Challenge for May 2012

As a Guest Designer for Creative Craft Challenges2:

Wow, Im really honoured to be chosen as a guest designer for
Creative Craft Challenges Blog
and Im really excited!!!  My first chance at this honour for which I
spent weeks deciding what to make for the challenge of
"Anything Goes", sponsered by Love to Stamp, so the prize is fantastic.

I, decided after a long while of thinking, to decorate a paper bag and gift tag
so it can be used as a gift bag.
I, obviously only decorated the one side of both the tag and the bag.
For start off, I cut the backing paper out of a piece of my own stock of 12x12
papers into the large scalloped circle and topped it with a Me to You Bear topper.
I then cut some green felt with a new Marianne Design cutting die in a lattice effect
curved border, again using my Grande Calibur. I had to roll the felt through 3 times
before it finally cut but the effect is beautiful. This is one die that I will be using often.
I then glued these in place on the bag under and to the left of the Me to You topper,
added a stick on 2 layered butterfly in yellow and black, glued 3 different sized,
different shades of green buttons on to the bag following the line of the cutting die.
The final touch is the orange and ivory flower which again, is from my own stock.
The tag was made in the very same way apart from the sentiment topper, which
was cut from a die simular to Spellbinders and I used Anita's silver coloured peel off's
to spell out "For You". The butterfly on the tag is a white stick on, from the same pack
as the yellow&black one. 
This make was completely out of my comfort zone as Id never decorated anything other
than a card before, so Im a pure example of "Anything Goes" lol, try it once in a while,
its fun!!!! I hope you like as much as I do xx

This bag and tag was made for the following:
Creative Craft Challenges2 challenge blog,
just follow this link:
http://creativecraftchallenges2.blogspot.co.uk/

From Tia: Diddy Doodles time again, for May 2012

Hi, it's Tia and it must mean that it is Polka Doodles junior blog challenge called
Diddy Doodles!!!
As you might be aware, Im on the design team for Diddy Doodles and each month
we have a Junior Blog Challenge open to any child under the age of 16 to design
and make an item based on the theme that Nikky Hall (owner and designer of Polka
Doodles) who sponsers this challenge, Thank you Nikky.

Our task this month was to make a card/design based on the theme of:
Garden & Growing (flowers, gardening etc) chosen this month by my design team
member Caitlin.

For this card I used a standard A4 sheet of white card folded in half and stuck on
background paper printed from "All around and Everywhere" cdrom by
www.polkadoodles.co.uk ., printed off another background sheet from the same cdrom,
cut it down to the size I wanted and then stuck that down as well.
I then scrolled through the "Double Spinkle of Craft", again from www.polkadoodles.co.uk
cdrom and saw the toadstools image (below) and decided that would fit lovely into my
design!  I shrunk the image down as it was was too big when the toadstools image and
weeds were "cut out" of the cdrom page using the Snapshot tool.  I coloured the tree
image and the toadstools/weeds using my mums promarker pens (shes brought loads
more since our last challenge so Im happy!!! lol)  I then, obviously stuck the toadstools
and weeds on to the card.
The final touch was a hot pink coloured flower, the purple large gem butterfly and
sentiment that I found in my mums stock...she will soon regret (not) for letting me loose
on her card making stash if I keep this up lol, as much as I love my mum I dont think
she will love me as much for much longer. I might get a break from looking after
her so much (as shes disabled)  ;)   I love you mum xxxxxxx

The link to the Junior Blog for this challenge is:

http://diddydoodles.blogspot.co.uk/

Blog Challenge 23-Four Legged Friends April 2012/entry 2

Another entry into this months Crafters Companion Blog Challenge: Four Legged Friend


For this months challenge I decided to use an A4 piece of lilac pearlescent
card and fold it in half to form a landscape card. I then added 2 different
sized strips of a darker lilac paper to the right hand side of the card to give
a lovely effect. The purple circle on which the Beatrix Potter Character
Mrs Tiddywinkle sits is from my own stock of ready cut dies brought before
I brought my own Spellbinders dies of the same design. I used glue gel and
"bent" the images slightly to give the image some character. I added some
white lace to the full width of the card but I wanted to "do something else
other than put the lace straight on to the card" so I used my Borderability dies
to form the scalloped pale pink border on which I placed the lace and then stuck
it down. te next stage was the smaller image of which I just added the image
(ready made with the circle edging) and then put the "Happy Birthday"
sentiment onto a Spellbinders die cut label shape in lilac.
Overall a lovely card...which I am entering into the Crafters Companion
Blog Challenge, number 23 for April 2012:

http://ccmonthlychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/challenge-23four-legged-friends.html

Creative Craft Challenges2, my entry number 2 w/c Tues 24th April 2012

I decided, again this week, to enter another card into the
Creative Craft Challenges2 Blog Challenge for this week:
Lets See Some Animal Antics!!

I made this little card (measuring a whole 3inches square) from a piece of scrap
pearlescent white card to make a wedding acceptance card for my eldest daughter
to give back one of her friends who is getting married next month. I stamped the
above image from a stamp I won in a competition (I cant remember where from)
but the stamp is part of the Holly Hill range. I just so happened to have put this stamp,
along with some basic sets before I left home one morning last week. I didnt, however,
have any promarkers or pencil crayons with me so I added a few extra lines with a fine
liner black pen from Letraset (which is always kept in my basic tool set) to the grooms
trousers, jacket lapel and pocket and his top hat. I added the red colour on the 3 hearts
using a red biro pen which again, is always in my basic tool set. The brides veil and tiara,
I wanted to do something with this but all I had left, colourwise in my basic tool set, was
a green fine liner, black & blue biros and a jelly roll pen in a stardust glitter which, of course
is just right for the veil and tiara! The little verse is on the same stamp.

I am entering the above card, as my number 2 entry, into the following
Creative Craft Challenges2 Blog Challenge:

http://creativecraftchallenges2.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/lets-see-some-animal-antics.html

Creative Craft Challenges2 blog challenge, entry number 1, w/c:Tues 24th April 2012

Well, another challenge for me to enter!!!! Im loving this as I love to enter as many
blog challenges as I can, maybe it wont be so many this week as I have a large craft
fair to attend this coming weekend and I still need to make some stock of cards that
I will need to stock! Its at a local pub in my town so Im hoping to catch lots of local
guys that will keep me in mind for cards for their other halves/wives/girlfriends etc,
and also their children. Its a beer festival, family fun, craft fair weekend all in aid of
the Midlands Air Ambulance.
Anyway, back to this challenge: Lets See Some Animal Antics:

This was made with the hot pink gingham card folded into half making a basic
landscape A5 card, I added a Borderbility (from Spellbinders) edge of ivory paper
which I embellished with small hot pink faux pearls and a coordinating grossgrain
ribbon. The stamp is a Lily of the Valley entitled "Me and my Horse" which I
coloured in using promarkers and topped it onto a Polkadoodles.co.uk pale green
polka dot paper cie cut shape from my stash of Spellbinders. The sentiment, is from
my own stash topped onto 2 die cut shapes, the first green scalloped is from
Spllbinders and the white lacy doiley is from Marianne Designs. I topped the whole
sentiment with the same hot pink faux pearls that I used on the Borderbility.
The overall look is both simple but effective for which I am entering into the following
Creative Craft Challenges2 Blog Challenge:

http://creativecraftchallenges2.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/lets-see-some-animal-antics.html

Crafters Companion Blog Challenge 23 (April 2012)

Another challenge for me, "Four Legged Friends" from Crafters Companion
Blog for April 2012.

I used a mouse stamp from an old set Id got, its from the Cute Companions
range, a set called "Wonderful News" drawn by Jayne Nestorenko.

The card is from my stash which came as a set including green and pink cards.
The pearls, lace and sentiment are also from my stash. The scalloped circles
were cut using a nestabilitie, Grande Nestabilie and my Grande Calibur.

I am entering this into the monthly blog challenge:

http://ccmonthlychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/challenge-23four-legged-friends.html