Polkadoodle Challenge 48 - All About The Sentiment

It's Friday again and time for another Polkadoodle challenge! Have you checked the winners post from the blog hop to see if you were lucky? This week the challenge is set by the lovely Claire who has asked:

All About The Sentiment

So the sentiment has to be the focal point of the card. I've used just a sentiment on mine - a more is less kinda card! The sentiment is from Sundae of Seasons and I've added some sort of tartan blue ribbon and buttons over the printed embellishments as it will be going to one of my cousins who lives near Edinburgh who has just become a Dad.


I've added some seed beads underneath as it looked like it needed something and I've dotted a blue gel pen around the edges of the card blank.

I've printed a few of these sentiments off including the baby girl one as I've realised my baby card stash is looking a little woeful and in need of expanding!

Hope you can join in with the challenge this week - its open until Sunday 12 December at 12noon GMT, please follow the theme and our 10 challenge rule and no back linking to previous projects to be in with a chance of winning some fab Polkadoodle stash!

Good luck!

• Sentiment tile: Sundae of Seasons
• Everything else: My stash

Baby Boy

This cute baby boy card was made especially for Amanda and her little (at 9lb 10oz!) arrival just before the start of the New Year! It also fits the current Lexi's Creations Challenge which is:

Pastel Colours

And although the photo makes the card look a bit radioactive, it really is pastel colours! I've used papers from Polkadoodles Candy Doodles cd with a Martha Stewart border punch, organza ribbon from my stash and I've made the little hat pin.


The little baby in a pram stamp is from Woodware and was a generous de-stashing donation from Lynsey (thank you!). I've coloured it with watercolour paints and then pencil over the top with a bit of Liquid Pearls.

I'd like to say thank you to Lexi as I was the winner of the second challenge and won a Joanna Sheen gift voucher - Lexi went the extra mile to make sure everything was ok - thank you so much for your kindness and I'll have fun choosing what to use the voucher on!

Congratulations Amanda, and the card is in the post to you!

• Backing papers: Candy Doodles from Polkadoodles
• Image: Woodware, coloured with watercolour paints and pencils
• Punches: Martha Stewart
• Everything else: My stash

Tilda & Co Challenge 32 - Cold as Ice

I think I must be doing something right at the moment because cards are not taking me that long to make - everything is just falling into place!

The Tilda & Co Challenge 32 is

Cold as ice...
The sun is now drifting away very fast and soon it will be as cold as ice....
Using the colours Blue & white Only . Show us how cold your projects can feel this week.

The backing paper is from the beautiful Deep Blue collection from Vicki's blog and I printed it off so it would fit the cardstock perfectly. The pale blue snowflake backing card is a download from Mad About Cards (I think a freebie too) and is one I printed off last year with such good intentions and never used it! Tilda (from Jozza) has been coloured with watercolour paints and I've added a bit of silver glitter sparkle to her wings and shoes.

The snowflake is cut with my Sizzix die and from vellum with added white fibres around the points and a square blue blingy gem to hide the 3d foam pads underneath! The sentiment I found so I don't know where it came from and the ribbon threading overlay was sent to me by my fellow Funky Hand DT mate Kath. Blue grosgrain ribbon from my stash.

Tilda actually has a bit of a blue shiner - I was over zealous in daubing a bit of colour on her cheeks and must have had blue paint on my finger too! Ah well, its in keeping with the blue theme!

• Backing paper: Deep Blue collection from Vicki's Blog and download from Mad About Cards
• Image: Water coloured Tilda
• Ribbon & fibres: Both from my stash (and previously Blackburn market)
• Embellishments: Sizzix snowflake cut from transparent vellum