This weeks challenge over at polka doodles was set by Lou. The challenge was to. . . deep breath. . . abandon our designer papers!!!! ARGH!!!!!! As soon as I recovered from the shock I decided that this was in fact a fab idea!!! We had to create our cards using nowt but stamps!!!! So I set to work with Gracie. I stamped her onto a scallop die cut and gave her a cute lady bug for company!!! Nest I just cut freehand some grass and then layered her up! I used my promarkers from Hobbycraft to colour her in, I decided to stick with red and black as they work so well together! The background is not so much stamped as it is punched!!! I used a circle punch to create a ladybug background for my card finished off with some fab ribbon again from Hobbycraft!!!

June 17th was Konrads 32nd birthday! I always struggle with his cards as he sees what I do everyday, but I am pleased with this years effort!!! It is more skulls shock horror!!! They have been cut on the cricut using Indie Arts and stamped and inked around the edges but to be a bit different I have used my tonic studios butterfly punch and punched some from an old copy of Mid Summer Night's Dream ( think it is an old copy from Konrads school - it has a library stamp inside ) oh well at 32 I don't think he will be returning it now!!! the butterflies are backed onto some brown butterflies and finished with pink pearls!!! The inside is also stamped and inked but has been written in so there is no pic x x x

I am a bit late with posting my samples but have just been super super busy!!! Here are my samples for the latest CD from Nikky at Polka Doodles. The CD is called Paper Boutique 2 - Creative Christmas. If you loved Paper Boutique then you will juat adore this! I have used 1 of the images that come pre coloured but they other 2 cards I used some of the other polka doodles papers to give peapole and idead of how else they can be used! The pressies are just so cool that they should not be limited to just xmas, so I used some papers from the all around and everywhere CD. There is just so so much and this disc please check out the blog and the shop gallery for some awesome inspiration! Nikky will also be on Ideal world Thursday at 9am!!!

I am totally in love with all things fimo at the moment, here are some more versions of the dolls heads that I posted last week! These are for sale so if you are interested please just let me know!!!

I would like you to meet some new friends of mine!!! They are freshly baked today! Firstly we have the Lil Schitz!!! They are super cute fimo poops but they are flat backed as opposed to my other poops which were not! They will be featured on a whole range of things from cards to hair slides!!! More pics coming soon!




Secondly we have Betty Brooch! She is the first attempt at a face and I love her!!! Today she is just a brooch but as with the Lil Schitz she will be on all manner of things!!!

No waffling from me today!!! Just some pics of cards I have made recently! The cupcake card has space for a name to be added when needed!!!

Firstly I must say a huge welcome to the noobs at Polka Doodles this week!!! Its too late now ladies there is no turning back!!! Welcoma aboard Lisa, Jenny and Tracy!!!

This weeks challenge has been set by Lou who is celebrating a wedding anniversary this week!!! Congratulations Lou!!! Her challenge was to make her a modern / retro card! Now I have made an anniversary card but I must confess Lou it is for my husband! It is our 4 year anniversary this september so I thought lets be different and get organised!!! As soon as I saw this paper on the Not For Girls CD I knew that this was the one! He is such a huge comic book fan, so mush so that he has transformers tattooed all down his left arm!!! I decided that he needed to know how special he was a bit early this year so here is his card! The greeting is made in word with a simple explosion that I have added text to then layered onto red car then cut out! I used wire which I wrapped around a pencil for the wobblers!!!

So here he is my wonderfull husband of 4 years ( been together for 9 ) he is amazing and looks after me so well. . . Love you Konrad x x x

This weeks challenge over at Polka Doodles has been set by Fliss and tha challenge was to make something with mum in mind and use the colours orange ( or peach ) and blue! No anyone who knows me will know that my Mum and I do not speak ( long story for another day ) so I have used my Nan as my inspiration! She is amazing! She is still a dinner lady at 72, she still finds time to do everything for everyone and she still looks amazing, she looks younger now than she does in the picture!!! I found this fab pic of her with me when I was younger ( I am not much taller now he he! ) and I happen to be wearing a peach dress! So I decided that this was the time to go nuts and make a scrapbook page!!!

The page is 8" x 8" and tha base is co-ordinations cardstock which I got reduced at HobbyCraft. The orange gingham is from All Around and Everywhere. I have stamped the corners and inked along the edges of the page for some added texture. The flowers I love and to make them I printed out some of the small blue dotty paper from the same CD, I cut 16 small scallop circles with my nesties and inked the edges with a darker blu ink. Next I used my newly purchased Tim Hotlz mini misters and saoked them with water ( note to self - next time wait for the ink to dry ) then I scrunched them all up into tiny wet balls. Before they dried I carefully unwrapped them and layered them up into 2 piles of 8. I secured them all together with a brad and did a bit more scrunching ubtil they looked like flowers!!! When they were all dry I just added some stickles for some sparkle! The word Nanny has been printed form All Around and Everywhere, I printed some more blue dotty paper than printed the alphies onto that then just punched them out with a 1" circle punch! The picture has been die vut with nesties and layered up and for a finishing touch I made a swirl using shades of blue eyeleys!!! Phew and relax!!!!

I have had this page sat on my desk for a few months now and always felt is was missing something! Then I gound this awesome digital stamps from the greeting farm and knew he was what was missing!!! No I coloured him in before I had my promarkers but for a first attempt he is so cute! My very own sparkly Edward!!! I am so emo when it comes to twilight!!! The page is 8" x 8" it is black card with red layered ontop. I have stamped and inked the red layer. I have cut a smaller piece of red card and stamped and inked this also. Onto this I have put a shimmer card which has been embossed with divine swirls. To finish off I have used some eyelets and treaded some red ribbon through! The only thing missing is the wedding photo of Edward and I.