Dude Time Doodles - Challenge 7 - Sketch

It's the first Wednesday of the month which can only mean a Dude Time Doodles sketch challenge! For my card I've used Golfin' Greg which is a new release in the store. He's been coloured with Promarkers and I've added my own sentiment underneath 'No point crying over lost balls'.


As it is the first Wednesday, the challenge theme is to follow the sketch and of course to make your creation male! So be as butch as you want as long as it is dude related then its fine!

The papers are from Funky Daze from Funky Hand plus a little doodling and some card candy to finish it off - bit like brads but without the legs!

Good luck for the challenge - pop over to Dude Time Doodles for more inspiration from the Design Team!

• Image: Golfin' Greg from Dude Time Doodles, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: Funky Daze from Funky Hand
• Everything else: My stash
  

Craft Juice Tuesday - Week 50

Welcome to another Tuesday and a Craft Juice Tuesday too! To find out more about each item, just click on the picture and you will be taken to Craft Juice which is an online community where you can showcase your own work and it is totally free! Link from your own blog, website or other sales site and watch your traffic (and sales!) grow!

As we are now in February and all the shops are gearing up towards Valentines day, I thought I would share some of my favourites from Craft Juice:

Beautiful red and black combo on this glass soap dish from BPRDesigns

I just love the 'bits' inside this! From HeyKayKay

Or what about a love medallion from OneHeartArt?

See you next week for more Craft Juice Tuesday!

Poppies

Sometimes I'm really organised and get cards made as they are ordered but when they give me loads of notice I leave it to the last minute. And this one is no exception! The request was for poppies, so poppies they got!

The image is from Delicious Doodles and I've coloured it with Promarkers plus some inking around the edges. The stamp is from the Our Betty Your Special Day set from Funky Hand and all the papers and ribbon are from my stash.


And I've used the Sweet Sketch Wednesday for inspiration:


And that's it!!

• Image: Delicious Doodles, coloured with Promarkers
• Sentiment: Our Betty Your Special Day Stamp set
• Everything else: My stash
  

Christmas Decorations

I'm getting withdrawal symptoms as it is a week or two since I entered a Christmas challenge, plus I bought some fantastic bargains in the sales - all of which feature on this card! There is a great simple but strangely complicated (because it has to work just right!) sketch on Jingle Belles Rock this week.

I've used papers from the Dovecraft Let It Snow 12x12 stack and no, I cut into the sheet fine! I normally cannot bring myself to cut a part from such a large sheet but this time, I was ok! I bought the pad half price - £7.50 from Boundary Mill in the sales. Plus the 6x4 version too! This sheet is glittered although my very bad and blurred photo does not do the paper justice.

I've used two Christmas tree decorations too, which, yes you've guessed, I bought in the sales! The bottom one came in as part of a pack of 8 - 2 of each colour in equally vibrant pink, green and yellow from Sainsbury's. The top star with gem was from Matalan. And I am now quite sparkly myself!

The gem taken from the underside of the silver star has been added along with a few other gems to the top left of the cad. Waste not want not!

Ah, and here is the sketch!I think I'll be using this sketch again as I'm now in the mood for more Christmas cards! It won't last long, so don't worry!

• Paper: 12x12 Dovecraft Let It Snow stack
• Embellishments: Christmas tree decorations from Sainsbury's and Matalan
• Everything else: My stash
  

Craft The Year Away!

Anice at Funky Hand has a new cd for release today! If you missed the show earlier this morning on Create and Craft then you will have missed just how wonderful this new cd - Craft The Year Away is!

It's the third cd in the Papercraft Factory format, but its had a mini makeover! You can now create your own verses and text to match the papers and there are some templates on the cd too - wobble cards and door hangers!

Each of the twelve colour collections are suited to a month of the year and to make this exploding box and baby shoes, I've used Evening In June and made the templates up as I've gone along. And it wasn't that plain sailing either as I managed to make two left feet, but I had enough paper printed to make another one!

The flowers have been cut using a Cuttlebug die and I've added buttons and string for detail.

The lid on the exploding box is a rather snug fit as I forgot to allow enough overhang!! But aren't the colours lovely?!

You'll have to wait until 1pm before you can buy the cd but the wait will be worth it! Some peeks of the cd have been shown on Get Funky! which is our challenge blog that runs from the funky fifteenth of the month for a whole month! You do need to use a Funky Hand element but with a freebie each month on offer that ties in with the challenge, you really are on a winner! And talking of winners, the top project gets a £20 voucher to spend on Funky Hand products!!

• All paperbased products: Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand
• Dies: Cuttlebug flowers
  
• Everything else: My stash
  

Going Buggy - Blog Hop - My Winner!!

Huge apologies for all those who have been wondering and waiting for me to announce who won my blog candy as part of Enfys' Blog Hop.

I'd not forgotten. Well, I did, then remembered and then forgot again. But I have remembered again!

I used a random number generator but can't get a screen shot for some reason, but it picked

KAT!!!

Congratulations! Please email me your postal details to tiptoptoppers@btinternet.com and I can get some candy off to you!

Thank you to all who joined in and to all my new followers! I hope you like what you see and that you continue to follow me!!!

Simply Create Challenge 36 - Show Us Your Heart!

It's time for a new challenge on Simply Create! Judging by the amount of entries for our last challenge, you like our themes! Thank you for entering each time and I will get round to leaving comments - it's just the last two weeks have passed in a blur but I'm back on top of things now!

Anyway, the challenge this fortnight is

Show Us Your Heart

I've made this very easy card using a Kraft card blank (oh how I am enjoying these!) a bit of doodling around the edges plus some off cuts of patterned card I found in my stash from Kirsty Wisemans Patti Picklicious cd.

I've punched the two red hearts, glued the bunting and hearts to the string and then added some brads. You may think it is very similar to a card I showed earlier in the week - well, that one came first and this one second!

The stamp is a freebie I got from a magazine a while ago. Good luck with the challenge - for further details and how to enter, pop over to Simply Create and have a look whilst you are there at the other Design Team samples - very fantastic they are!

Good luck!

• Card Blank: The Range
• Patterned papers: Patti Picklicious cd from Kirsty Wiseman
• Sentiment: Freebie stamp
  
• Everything else: My stash
  

Polkadoodle Challenge 4 - Party Time!

It's Friday so time for another Polkadoodle challenge! This week it's all about parties! Tracie is throwing a Birthday party for her two boys this week so the theme is:

Party Time

My two boys have their Birthday's within a week of each other so I can understand what Tracie is going through with the planning and organisation! Our last joint party had around 40 kids!! I've used the very wonderful Paper Boutique Vol 3 as my inspiration this week. The space rocket is A5 in size and I've added the planet via a strip of acetate so that it boings around.


The card is double sided so which ever way you look at the card, it looks fab! I've also added some craft wire and threaded buttons through them for extra interest.

I have a feeling that I'll be making more of these rockets as they are great and easy to make too!

Good luck with the challenge - it is open until Sunday 6 February at 12noon GMT!

• All paperbased items: Paper Boutique Vol 3 from Polkadoodles
• Everything else: My stash

Cider Monster

A quick card made in for an order and the recipient happens to be one of my cousins who likes his cider!! I've used the Sketch and Stash challenge for the layout inspiration:


And made this card using a freebie Pollycraft image that I have changed slightly - rubbed out the 'beer' word on the t-shirt and added cider instead. He's been coloured with Promarkers and I've used papers from Funky Hand - Funky Daze cd - Son Day collection. I just never tire of using these papers for male cards (thank you Anice!)

I decided to go with random pointy bits at the bottom of the card rather than scallops as its more manly! The sentiment stamp is from Our Betty - Your Special Day stamp set, again from Funky Hand. Brads are from my stash. A bit of inking and edge doodling and its all complete!

• Backing papers: Funky Daze from Funky Hand
• Image: Pollycraft freebie coloured with Promarkers
• Sentiment: Our Betty Your Special Day stamp set from Funky Hand
• Everything else: My stash
  

Dude Time Doodles - February New Release & Blog Hop!

It's the third Wednesday of the month so it is time for the Dude Time Doodles Blog Hop and a preview of the new releases for February!

For my card, I've used a Kraft card blank with an off-cut of corrugated card that I found in my stash. The garden twine adds that bit of male-ness to it! And the brads are Papermania.


The image is Harold Hammock and I've added my own computer generated sentiment. The image has been coloured with Promarkers and is great for those male cards or to send as a get well soon card too!


If you've arrived at my blog from Cleota then you are on the right track, although the hop does not have a start or end point, and if you get distracted you can always start from the beginning! One member of the Design Team will be chosen as the Mystery Hostess and a lucky commentator from that blog will win a Dude Time Doodles image! So, you never know - that Mystery Hostess could be me - you have to be in it to win it, so leave me a comment!!

You now need to hop over to Hetty!

This is the last time Nancy will be taking part with the Dudettes as she is stepping down from the team - we wish her well - and from me - thanks for all your support! We are welcoming Chrissy D as our Guest Designer - hello!!

Good luck!

• Image: Harold Hammock, coloured with Promarkers
• Everything else: My stash