Even more Birthday celebrations!

Hello once again, yes I'm back with even more birthday celebrations for Polkadoodles today. As well as creating our own merged images we were also given someone elses merged images to use. We weren't told who had created them to keep it as a surprise for us, and they weren't told as a surprise for them! So here is the mash up I was given.

 The girl image is the cute Amelia Rose which you can get HERE. The arch seat is from one of my fave collections which is Rose Budd and you can get that HERE on download and HERE on CD. The paper and embellies I have used are from the Little Kingdom collection. And the tree is from the ever so cute Sugarplum Daisy CD.

Ultimate Graphic 160gsm (NS)

Little Kingdom CD-Rom

Amelia Roses digistamp

Rose Budd download collection

Anything But Square

It's Tuesday again already which means it's 

So time for a new challenge and a new discount code!

Here is my make for this weeks challenge which is "Anything But Square"

 It's one of those 50p wooden hearts again from Matalan, told you I'd bought loads of them lol

Anyway I've used the new Little Kingdom CD. I've glued a background paper onto the heart, distressed it a little bit and added a stitch line around the edges. I've then printed the home word art and mounted it on 3D foam. I've added a little Wink of Stella to the word. Then I sat and cut lots and lots of flowers out, layered them up with some leaves and glued around the edge. Finally I cut some butterflies out, shaped them and glued them in place.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:
A Place To Start - Upcycle
Artistic Inspirations - ATG
Crafting From the Heart - ATG
Craft You Passion - ATG
Critters and Creatures - Must have a Critter or Creature

Swirls and Flourishes

Good morning everyone, did you manage to catch Nikky's show on Create and Craft on Wednesday? If not you can catch it HERE. It's well worth a watch as there are some fabulous new products on there that you won't want to miss!
So today I have some mid challenge inspiration for you from the challenge at the Polkadoodles challenge blog that started last week, and the challenge is "Swirls and Flourishes" and here is my make.

I've used the fab new Little Kingdom collection that was on the show on Wednesday. The whirls and flourishes are on the fabulous toadstools and I have added some dried flowers as added flourishes to the little scene. To create this I used a box that had some little shot glasses in and started off my painting it black to frame the lovely bright colours I knew I was going to use. I cut out lots of flowers, embellies, toadstools and houses. I layered up some of the items to make them pop out. Then I decided on the arrangement in to box and stuck everything down with either 3D foam or glue. I added some Wink Of Stella pen to the butterfly and home sentiment to make them sparkle. I then added some dried flowers along the bottom of the box and behind the flowers. Finally I finished it off by adding a bow of bakers twine.

Here are a few close ups for you to see the detail better.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Jade's Sparkling Butterflies - ATG

Crafty Girls - ATG

Creative Hands - ATG

Creative Knockouts - Lots Of Layers