Bon Voyage! ......Sea, Sand and Sunshine!

Happy Friday everyone! Today project was inspired for a friend that is leaving the UK to live abroad! using Flip Flop embellishments and Sea Shells  from The Polkadoodle Shop!. I created the sand and sea background using texture paste over a stencil and is painted using acrylics paints! the sentiment was taken from Winne celebrations sentiment bundle 2.  I created the mason jar by hand drawing onto acetate with a sharpie pen and fussy cutting out.

Day and Final card! a little crazy ...Mixing it up

Hi everyone:  Day 11 and final make with  clean and simple make of my personal challenge !

CHALLENGE COMPLETED!!

one page of toppers or two max 

no design paper to be  used.

make as many cards as you can ( approx 5- 6 per sheet)

post one a day on my blog. DONE 

total makes/personal best!  (  6 per sheet)

My go to Topper collection is Posy doodles  paper Pad from Polka doodles and you can purchase this HERE and my favourite go to stamps for any occasion Tim Holtz crazy Birds! So here is my  post.....FINAL DAY  card 11!

day 10 clean and simple ... mixing it up

Hi everyone:  Day 10 clean and simple make of my personal challenge !

one page of toppers 

no design paper to be  used.

make as many cards as you can

post one a day on my blog.

total makes/personal best!

My go to Topper collection is Posy doodles  paper Pad from Polka doodles and you can purchase this HERE and my favourite go to stamps for any occasion Tim Holtz crazy Birds! So here is my  post.....day 10 card 10!

Day 9 Clean and simple.... Mixing it up

Hi everyone:  Day 9 clean and simple make of my personal challenge !

one page of toppers 

no design paper to be  used.

make as many cards as you can

post one a day on my blog.

total makes/personal best!

My go to Topper collection is Posy doodles  paper Pad from Polka doodles and you can purchase this HERE and my favourite go to stamps for any occasion Tim Holtz crazy Birds! So here is my  post.....day 9 card 9!

Day 8 Clean and simple....Mixing it up

Hi everyone:  Day 8 clean and simple make of my personal challenge !

one page of toppers 

no design paper to be  used.

make as many cards as you can

post one a day on my blog.

total makes/personal best!

My go to Topper collection is Posy doodles  paper Pad from Polka doodles and you can purchase this HERE and my favourite go to stamps for any occasion Tim Holtz crazy Birds! So here is my  post.....day 8 card 8!

Day 7 of Crazy! ...Mixing it up !

Evening everyone:  Day 7 clean and simple make of my personal challenge !

one page of toppers 

no design paper to be  used.

make as many cards as you can

post one a day on my blog.

total makes/personal best!

My go to Topper collection is Posy doodles  paper Pad from Polka doodles and you can purchase this HERE and my favourite go to stamps for any occasion Tim Holtz crazy Birds! So here is my  post.....day 7 card 7!

Day 6 of Crazy...Mixing it up!

Evening everyone:  Day 6 clean and simple make of my personal challenge !

one page of toppers 

no design paper to be  used.

make as many cards as you can

post one a day on my blog.

total makes/personal best!

My go to Topper collection is Posy doodles  paper Pad from Polka doodles and you can purchase this HERE and my favourite go to stamps for any occasion Tim Holtz crazy Birds! So here is my  post.....day 6 card 6!

Day 5 of Crazy...Mixing ip up!

Evening everyone:  Day 5 clean and simple make of my personal challenge !

one page of toppers 

no design paper to be  used.

make as many cards as you can

post one a day on my blog.

total makes/personal best!

My go to Topper collection is Posy doodles  paper Pad from Polka doodles and you can purchase this HERE and my favourite go to stamps for any occasion Tim Holtz crazy Birds! So here is my  post.....day 5 card 5 !

USA Mothers Day: flowers and Foliage

Hi Everyone: My project this week is using Flowers and foliage digi kit from Polkadoodles, I printed a few A4 sheets and cut them on my Scan n cut machine: I aslo cut the pots and tray on my cutting machine from a SVG cut file and you can find it HERE. The embellishments and sentiment was taken from The Picknix collection, and the backing papers was taken from The Pretty Tuff CD the flowers have been edged using Distress inks. Wishing all Mom's in America a very happy Mothers day !

Day 4 of Crazy ....Mixing it up!

Hi everyone:  Day 4 clean and simple make of my personal challenge !

one page of toppers 

no design paper to be  used.

make as many cards as you can

post one a day on my blog.

total makes/personal best!

My go to Topper collection is Posy doodles  paper Pad from Polka doodles and you can purchase this HERE and my favourite go to stamps for any occasion Tim Holtz crazy Birds! So here is my  post.....day 4 card 4!

day 3 of Crazy ....mixing it up

Evening everyone:  Day 3 clean and simple make of my personal challenge !

one page of toppers 

no design paper to be  used.

make as many cards as you can

post one a day on my blog.

total makes/personal best!

My go to Topper collection is Posy doodles  paper Pad from Polka doodles and you can purchase this HERE and my favourite go to stamps for any occasion Tim Holtz crazy Birds! So here is my  post.....day 3 card 3!

day two .....of crazy! mixing it up

Evening everyone:  Day two clean and simple make of my personal challenge !

one page of toppers 

no design paper to be  used.

make as many cards as you can

post one a day on my blog.

total makes/personal best!

My go to Topper collection is Posy doodles  paper Pad from Polka doodles and you can purchase this HERE and my favourite go to stamps for any occasion Tim Holtz crazy Birds! So here is my second post.....day Two!

7 days or more of Crazy! mixing it up !

Evening everyone: I have set myself  the following personal challenge !

one page of toppers 

no design paper to be  used.

make as many cards as you can

post one a day on my blog.

total makes/personal best!

My go to Topper collection is Posy doodles  paper Pad from Polka doodles and you can purchase this  HERE and my favourite go to stamps for any occasion Tim Holtz crazy Birds! So here is my first post.....day one!

Easter chocolate Dispenser gift box.

My project for Easter always has to involve chocolate of some kind so using Cherry Blossom Lane CD Collection I printed and fussy cut many elements and design papers images and created a Dispenser gift box. this a a Fabulous collection if your looking for inspiration to create Easter Gifts and very versatile for all occasions.

For a Lady

For today project i coloured up some lady images from Fredericka Mini CD collection using coloured markers: the large flower i created using the  heart shaped stamp from the Stamp Soup Stamp Collection sentiment is also from the Cd collection. I think she looks very sophisticated this lady don't you?

Lots of Green St Patrick theme

For the "lots of green" theme  over at the Anything Goes Polkadoodle challenge I've used a cutting Swirly Leaf  .  I printed a few of these and cut several,  Then napplying a floating die appearance inspired by  Jenifer Macguire and you can see how this is created HERE The Jar of flower & butterflies image are taken from the Lemonade Fizz CD collection: sentiment is printed onto vellum also taken from the CD. This card will be for a special St Patrick day birthday for a family member. Hope this inspires you for the upcoming St Patricks day celebrations !

Recycle VHS Case - Mini Album

Fridays recycle team challenge inspired me to create a mini photo album using an old VHS video case using The Lemonade Fizz CD and " you are beautiful " and other small stamps in the Stamp soup collection for the sentiment and front cover : I loved making this photo album and is a first for me ! Why don't you pop over to the Polkadoodles Challenge this week where "anything goes" for this for you! Until next time "carry on crafting folks" lots of love Nelly x

Off the page Wedding!

Nelly - This week I have used Wedding Car Digi Image. Papers and sentiment using Love and Cherish CD Coloured with Marker pens.

I created the card by placing the coloured image on the front facing centre fold and drew and cut  around the right side of the coloured image folded this back and trimmed it away from the card.  I covered the front with a design paper from the CD, Next opening the card  fully (front facing) i adhered the coloured image into place. When opened it sits off the page and   you can still see the whole image ( fig2) Decorate as desired.

Lots of Love GDT Polkadoodles challenge week

Shush its a secret ! I've made this for my Husband (still sticking with the male theme lol! Its a heart shaped stepper card using Twiggy and Toots Digi image for this week Challenge theme over at Polkadoodles, the heart shapes are cut also from th epapers in the set and palced randomly on each layer, the papers are using the distress ink bundle found HERE  and the sentiments can also be found HERE.  Have some fun and enter this weeks challenge, ill be looking for you :-)

Winter Birthday Boy!

Just love crafty Fridays ! this week theme over at Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge is a " Winter Birthday" now having mainly males within my family I've set myself a goal to focus on Male themed cards this year, which is not easy as we all struggle with this, don't we?  so inspired by the star shaped easy card which you can find  the how too video HERE  don't be put off it is much easier then it looks!!  This style was perfect to use the  Little Dudes Digi bundle as you get the added bonus of papers too, and i coloured him in using pro markers!  Give this a go and enter the challenge competition Ill be looking  and commenting on your makes !!!!

Heart themed notepad Bookmark

Happy Friday all! this weeks theme was " Hearts" and thought i would do something different this time: using all the papers from the  Distress ink paper bundle printed and folded into  quarters, using a  heart shaped die ( or cut by hand)  carefully place approx 1/2 inch  before the folded point , print and cut cut several pages, when opened it looks like a flower!! Cut the front and back heart from a cereal packet and covered this also using the papers, glued onto a strip of hessian and carefully adhering the folded  hearts shaped pages  you have a notepad on the go in your favourite diary/notebook : the sentiment is using my " go to" sensational everyday stamps which is a " must have set"  flowers are used using punches from my stash and the left over scraps, go on give this a go its quite simple and useful project! until next time Happy Crafting all :-)

Thanks for everything

Hi Everyone:

How exciting I'm a new guest designer with Polkadoodles and we are going to have lots of fun ! This first post is a Thank you card which is adorable don't you think?, the image is  from the Twiggy and Hoots Digi stamp and you can find it by clicking HERE,  Taking the  image into Serif and  using the circle punch tab I punched two circles into the image !  So easy and so much you can  do with this image . The sentiment " Thank you for everything can also be found on the  Winnie celebrations 2 collection there is so much to choose from in this collection! The backing paper is also found on the website by clicking HERE This collection will coordinate with your Tim Holtz distress or oxide inks. I hope you like my first project and is inspirational. bye for now, Nelly

Foam Roses

Well what can i say is been almost a year since I blogged ! ...naughty Nelly :-)  I intend to correct that  from now on ill post on a Wednesday evening my crafty make for that week:

So just for starters (to right the wrong) I have a quick post of some white roses ( my favourite rose) made form Foamiran : Foam was cut into petals and coloured lightly with a green pastel oil crayon, finger rolled and adhered with hot glue. I  hope you like them as much as I  do....now im off to plan next weeks post ....erm what shall i make?

Foamirian flowers and stamens.

Hi Everyone,



 Recently i attended a foam flower making beginners class  and i acquired another addiction :-)  i decided to share my journey with you!  the pictures below are not the flowers i made at the class, instead i opted to have a go myself.

I started by making the stamens: i first took some cotton thread and brushed the cotton with clear drying pva glue, next i placed liquid pearls on the ends and dipped into mirco beads and left to dry.

I didn't want to use my finer foam just yet as I'm only practising, so i cut 1mm foam into love heart shapes (10 petals in total, i coloured the ends with Faber Castell Gelatos in Raspberry, then i warmed on an ordinary iron on silk setting, rolled and shaped each love heart by hand, ensuring the very top of the petals was rolled tightly, gently stretch out taking care not to stretch out the tips of the petals or they will go smooth again.

Once my stamens was dry i wrapped fine wire around them to make the centre, i had also cut a fine fringe from a strip of foam and rolled also with my stamens.

Next i glued the pointed tips of my love hearts only onto the created stamen centre, working 5 petals around the centre and 5 more around the outside.

next time i hop to show a step by step guide . hope you like the flower :-)