Jellypark Stamp Spotlight - Giraffe

The Jellypark Stamp Spotlight feature this week is a real cute one and also is one of my favourites!  It's called Toy Giraffe and can be bought from the store for only £1.25!

I've printed mine onto linen effect white card from Papermill Direct and then coloured it with Promarkers.  I've used an X Cut die for the oval and then added dots of liquid pearls around the edge.

The kraft bag is from a pack of 10 that I bought from the pound shop for, yes, £1!!  I've also made some cards to go inside but those will be shown next week as its my DT sample!!

Don't forget - if you've made something with the Stamp Spotlight digi then head over to the Jellypark blog and link up your creation!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Hanna and Friends:  Anything Goes
Southern Girls Challenge:  Animal Antics
Whimsical Designs:  Bug or Animal
Creative Moments:  Anything But A Card
The Stampin Chef:  No Cards Allowed

Image:  Jellypark, coloured with Promarkers
Dies:  X Cut
Kraft bag:  Poundshop
Everything else:  My stash

Get Funky - Anything Goes (with a Funky Hand Product)

It's my turn to provide some inspiration for this months challenge:

Anything Goes with Funky Hand Products

Please remember that you can make ANYTHING you like as long as you've used a Funky Hand product within your creation.  If you've not got anything, then you can snag the freebie that Anice offers each month which fits in with the challenge theme.

The winner gets to choose a Funky Hand download!

I've made something a little different!  I've used papers from Wishes and Kisses and printed them directly onto some photo transfer paper, cut them up using a Union Jack Template and created this:

It's a double sided canvas bag with a Funky Union Jack design!  The size of the Union Jack is A5 so I printed 3 different patterned papers onto the T-shirt Transfer Paper from Photo Paper Direct, cut them down to A5 and then used a Union Jack template (google is good!) to cut them out (I layered the three sheets together and took my time!)

I laid out the three papers and swopped elements over - the third one I made as a bag for myself!  A hot iron and a flat surface - worktop - and it was finished fairly quickly!  I bought the canvas bags from ebay.

Good luck with the challenge - and don't forget to use a FUNKY HAND PRODUCT!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

DL.ART challenge:  Use Fabric
Moving Along With The Times:  Anything But Square
Paper Crafting Journey:  Anything Goes
Shelly's Images:  Colour Inspiration
Little Red Wagon:  Upcycle
Stampin Royalty:  Fabric
Sarah Hurley Challenges:  Alter Something

• Papers:  Wishes and Kisses cd from Funky Hand
• Cotton Bag:  Ebay
• T-shirt Transfer Paper:  Photo Paper Direct

Polkadoodle Challenge 28 - Olympic Theme - Red, White & Blue & BLOG HOP!

Right! I promise that this will be my fourth and last post for today! It's like buses - I don't blog for a few days (work really gets in the way sometimes) and then four come along all at once!

A new Polkadoodle challenge is launched today and the theme is:

Red, White and Blue with an Olympic theme

But that is not all!  We're having a blog hop to celebrate!  So if you have arrived at my blog from the Challenge blog then you are going in the right direction!

You need to leave me a comment and then hop to Shell and leave her a comment too.  There are no letters to collect, but you must comment on each of the stops along the way AND enter the challenge.  For more details on the actual challenge pop back to the challenge blog.

I've used a trusty brown takeaway bag for my project, and don't worry, it hasn't been used!  I've used the Britannia download which was a freebie on our facebook page a while ago and used an X cut die for the fancy shape.  The letters have been cut with my Sizzix Round a Bout alphabet dies and from matt gold card.  A bit of organza ribbon has been tied to the handle.

I gave this to my cousin Claire and her new husband Ross just before they left to live in Germany for a few years.  Obviously it wasn't empty (I'm not that bad!) - it had a tea towel in with Keep Calm and Eat Cake emblem on it!

Good luck with the challenge and don't forget to leave me a comment - there are some fab prizes on offer - and don't forget to enter the challenge as well!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Flourishes:  Sentiment as Main Focus
Paper and Such:  Red, White and Blue
Use Your Stuff:  Patriotic Colours
Critter Challenges:  Colour Palette inspiration
Dream Valley Challenges:  Anything But Square

• Papers:  Britannia download
• Dies:  X Cut and Sizzix alphabet
• Everything else:  My stash

Polkadoodle Challenge 25 - Trooping The Colour

Time for another Polkadoodle challenge and this week the theme is:

Trooping The Colour

So this week we are looking for lots of colour!

I've used the kit from the Pen and Paper Circle, kit 1, which is no longer available (sorry!)  The stamp and sentiment is also from the kit and I've altered a brown takeaway bag.  The image has been coloured with Promarkers and I've used my scalloped Nesties for layering plus some faux stitching and embroidery thread.

Good luck with the challenge!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz:  Summer
Forever Friends:  Anything Goes with an Animal
Creative Belli:  Anything But A Card
Little Red Wagon:  Kraft
Simon Says Stamp:  Anything But A Card
Celebrate the Occasion:  Welcome Summer

• All papers and images / sentiment:  Pen and Paper Circle kit 1 (retired)
• Dies:  Spellbinder Nestabilities
• Everything else:  My stash

Polkadoodle Challenge 11 - Card and Gift Combination

And yes! It's Friday again - it's Polkadoodle time!! For the challenge this week (and we are at week 11!) the DT were asked to make a card which could be a gift as well.

I decided to make a scalloped gift bag with a small bar of chocolate inside. Now although this photo looks fine, I can tell you that I had to hold the bag down with a fair bit of blu-tac because the chocolate made it fall over. And you will note that the little fastener thing is almost bursting open. Will make me think more carefully what to put in it next time! Mind you, that particular bar of chocolate won't be in it anyway.......hehehe, long gone!

I did make it for my friend who has a Birthday mid August and she is a very girly girl too and will love this!

Anyway, all paper based elements are from Candy Doodles. The handbag has been printed onto white hammered card and the edges have been inked. The fastener is one of my prized Queen & Co items (they were half price when I bought them so didn't feel too lavish!) I've tied the tag to the handle with some wide pink stiff organza ribbon and some lovely black thin satin ribbon.

The butterflies have been layered - bottom is printed onto card, cut out and then a vellum layer has been added. I've just glued the body bits so the wings can flap out. They did have antenna but I chopped them off - way too fiddly for me!

So there you go! Pop on over to the Polkadoodle blog for further details on this week's challenge and don't forget, you have until Sunday 9 August to enter. Good luck!

• All paper based elements: Candy Doodles
• Everything else: From my stash (or in my tummy!)
  
  
  

Get A Load Of This!!!

You can imagine how exited I was when Lynsey said she had another (oh yes!) BIG bag of stuff for me - result of a major craft room tidy up. She dropped the bag off on Friday afternoon before we and the collective kids went to a play area. I had to wait until the boys were in bed before I could have a look at what she'd given me.

This is how the bag (heavy) arrived

And this is some of what was inside:

Big Thank You to Lynsey for all this - much appreciated!