Polkadoodle Challenge - Anything Goes or Butterflies

It's time for a new Polkadoodle challenge and this week the theme is

Anything Goes

The DT were challenged to use Butterflies in their projects so I've gone for clean and simple card, using some really glittery (but old as the glitter was a bit loose) gold card cut using one of the butterflies from the Butterfly Trio die.  To hide the missing glitter and the fact that it was virtually luminous, I cut three vellum layers and added some AB tiny gemstones to the body (the vellum wasn't stuck down properly when I took the photo so its a bit wonky!)  The little butterflies - Dotted Wings Butterfly - have been cut from better quality white glitter card.  The sentiment is from the Sentimentals 6x6 Paper Pack and it and the layer beneath have been cut with the Squarey Swirly Hearts Die

Good luck with the challenge!

Colour Crazy Challenge Week 31 - A Day For Daisies

It's time for a new Colour Crazy challenge and the theme as always for the fortnight is

Anything Goes

This week we are sponsored by A Day For Daisies and I've used Green Rabbit, coloured with Promarkers, and made two cute new baby cards, again, using papers from my stash.  The pink themed one uses papers from Craft Sensations - Pastels and Whites 6x6 pad and the little butterflies are a Stitched Butterflies die from LDRS.  The half pearls, embroidery thread and charm are all from my stash.

The boy themed one uses papers from my stash that I've had for an age plus I've used a die cut stars banner - I cut two and snipped one in half so it would fit across the top of the card - the joins are masked by the half pearls.

Good luck with the challenge!  I'd like to enter the following:

Craft Rocket:  Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday:  Circles
Creative Knockouts:  Furry Friends
2 Crafty Crazy Critters:  Anything Goes
Ching-Chou Kuik:  Four Legged Friends

Daring Card Makers - May Elemental Inspiration

It's the first Friday of the month so its time for an Elemental Inspiration challenge from the Daring Cardmakers!

You need to pick three elements from the board below - colours count as one element.

I've used:  Fairy, Butterflies, Iridescent (the tiny pearls in the centre of the butterflies), Flowers and the colour Purple.  The image is from Ching-Chou Kuik - Spring Flower and I've coloured her with Promarkers plus pink stickles on her wings and dotted liquid pearls on the flower centres.

The butterflies are from an LDRS stitched butterfly die and I used some offcuts of card for them, flowers, ribbon and gems are all from my stash.  Good luck with the challenge!

I'd like to enter the following:

Crafting With An Attitude:  Anything Goes
The Creative Playground:  Anything Goes
Southern Girls:  Anything Goes
A2Z Scrapbooking:  May Flowers
Die Cutting Diva's:  Die Cuts and Flowers

Summery Daisy Friends

I do like making clean and simple cards and with using this stunning Daisy Friends stamp, then its so easy!  I first of all made the card blank with white linen effect card and cut the aperture with a circle die.  The Daisy Friends stamp was inked up and I stamped it directly through the aperture, coloured it with Promarkers and then used dry watercolour pencils for the background.  The sentiments were stamped on off-cuts of the same card and then added around the frame.

And to give it a bit more interest, I added some cute die cut LDRS Dotted Wings Butterflies, added some half pearls from the Magic Sparkles embellishment pack to their centres and five around the top left of the circle aperture.

I'd like to enter the following:

Crafty Girls Creations:  Anything Goes
Create and Inspire:  Anything Goes
Creative Ladybirds:  Anything Goes
Crafting With Friends:  Anything Goes

Stampin' Unicorn - Blossom

I have a really quick and easy card to share, made using the Blossom stamp set from Stampin' Unicorn and the Daisy Friends Happy Birthday sentiment  You really do get a lot for your money with the Blossom Stamp set!

I've used Promarkers to colour the image after I've stamped it directly onto my white linen effect cardstock.  For some reason I seem to have a rather lot of random seed beads in my stash so used some of them up here by sticking them on with glossy accents.

I stamped the sentiments from Daisy Friends on off-cuts of card and then added them to the panel with foam pads for extra depth.  Around the edge of the panel I've added a dotted line with a black fineliner pen and to finish off, a little LDRS butterfly die cut plus a little white half pearl from the embellishment pack.

This has got to be one of those stamps that I will go to time and time again - so lovely to use and colour up and it stamped perfectly for me every time!

Don't forget to tune in to Hochanda tomorrow (3 December) at 8am and 12noon GMT for a new release that the Design Team have had lots of fun with!  If you like this stamp then you will love the new release!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks:  Anything Goes
Seize The Birthday:  Anything Goes  BIRTHDAY HONOUR
Southern Girls:  Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs:  Anything Goes
Sunny Day Crafting:  V is for Violet  TOP PICK