Did you see them?

Good morning, peeps!  I hope you are all well and enjoying a little sunshine on this Bank Holiday morning.  Did you see the River Pageant yesterday?  Our brave Queen looked absolutely perished, I hope she had her thermals on!

The other programme on the TV yesterday was the Stamping with Clarity Show and these are the cards I managed to make this month:

This was made from the Beach Huts Kit but I also included the Street from the Harbour Kit that featured on a past show.

I love making backgrounds and this one was created with Twinkling H2Os.  Barbara and Dean said it reminded them of Tales of the Unexpected opening sequence and it really does but I hadn't thought of that when I made the card.  If you remember that old TV programme don't admit to it, it was years and years ago!

This photograph didn't come out too well because of the light from my lamps reflecting on the mica surface but, after colouring the fish and coral with Copics, I sprayed Glimmer Mist over the surface and then decoupaged two more fish on top of that.  The idea was to make it look as though there were fish in the sea in the background and then the decoupaged ones were supposed to be in the foreground.  It worked IRL but it didn't show properly in the photograph.

This card was from the Classroom kit for June and since we have Wimbledon later this month, I chose to use the tennis player and tennis balls.  If you saw the show, you'll know that Barbara and Dean only just survived talking about the Sport and Balls Kit without totally corpsing!

Finally, there was my lady diver card and I chose to use this image with the Union Flag Set, which is so easy to use.  My clever teamie, Linda created the swimmers' costumes from this flag image but I chose to paper piece the cozzie here.

Thanks for looking at this latest batch of goodies in my DT work - I do hope you enjoyed them and enjoy the rest of this Bank Holiday break.

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Happy birthday to us!

Good morning, peeps!

Yes, it's happy birthday to Team Doodle today because we're celebrating our third birthday and we're asking you to join in the celebrations by entering our challenge to make a birthday card for a special friend!  The only other proviso is that you must use 3 of something - easy to spot my three on this card:

Well actually, there's two lots of three - roses and leaves both made with a Marianne Creatables Die and these are my first attempt at rolled roses and I can say that the process was not as bad as I feared and I was actually quite please with the result.

Everything else was printed from the lovely Sugar Plum Daisy CD and layered on to Stampin' Up card and finished with some matching Stampin' Up seam binding ribbon.

If you haven't yet tried a Polka Doodles CD yet, I would heartily recommend them.  I work slowly and it usually takes many hours to make most of the cards you see here but these CDs make life so much easier even for a slowcoach like me!

Thanks for looking today.

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A final taster

Good evening, peeps!

Well I thought I'd just pop in and give you another glimpse of the lovelies you can buy for yourselves tomorrow if you can't resist, which I'm sure you can't!  Yes, it's another of the cards I've made for the lovely Sheena's shows tomorrow and I thought we'd have a look at the Provence plate again.

This card reminded me of a touring holiday we had in Switzerland, Italy and France a few years ago.  We went in September/October and the sunflowers were in full bloom.....oh, happy days!!

Like me, I'm sure you can't wait to see the shows!

Hugs

Wedding Card with a Difference

Good morning, peeps and I'm back with a new Polka Doodles Challenge, which is to create a Wedding Card with a Difference.  Here's my example:

To join us in this challenge, your card must have something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue so now I must explain to you how my card fits these criteria!

Something old - I used the PD Love and Cherish CD, which has been around for a while now but is absolutely invaluable for any 'loving' occasion and that's from where I took the central picture with the wedding rings.  The second thing in this category is the Spun Sugar DI used to distress the edges of the card.

Something new - I opened my new packets of Which Craft 'Additions', both the Rectangle and Squares and the Heart Toppers.  These are so useful when you need a quick but different card.

Something borrowed - similar to the above, in a way.  When I bought the Additions, there was a young lady demonstrating on the stand and she had used the Rectangle and Square Additions to make a twisted easel card so I 'borrowed' the idea from her - I hope this counts!!

Something blue - well this one's fairly obvious!  Firstly, there are blue hearts in the lovely paper on the base of the card, which was one of those on the CD that was part of Pen and Paper Circle Issue 2 - not available now but at least you can pre-order issue 3!  I then picked up that blue in the flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The lovely leaves underneath the flowers were cut with a Marianne Creatables Die.  This is a die I use fairly frequently because I do love the swirly style of it.

The ticket sentiment is from the Sugarplum Daisy CD.  There's a wonderful selection of these sentiments - one for every occasion and I just love them!

Well, I hope you like my wedding card with a difference and that it's helped to inspire you to make your own and join in the challenge fun!

Thank you for looking today.

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This may be the last one....

Good afternoon, peeps - or is it evening?  Anyhoo, I know I'm being a bit late today with showing you another sneaky peek at another of the lovely Sheena's new stamp designs:

The images on this card are from the 50s plate.  They're coloured with my beloved Copics, mounted over some Craft Creations DP and finished off with some poppies from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Why might it be the last one?  Well the stamps are being launched on Saturday so it's not long at all now until you'll see all the cards from the whole DT on the telly and I may not get to post another one tomorrow.

Whatever you're doing tomorrow, enjoy it and don't miss Sheena's shows over the weekend.

Hugs

Bonne sante from Provence

Good morning peeps and a lovely fine and sunny one it is too!

Don't be deceived, I'm not on holiday but the sneeky peek I 'ave pour vous aujourd'hui (oops, sorry! it's becoming an 'abit but I'll slap myself and get back to normal!) is from the other stamp plate that Sheena is presenting on Saturday on C & C TV, which has Provence as its theme:

I can just imagine sitting under the shade of vines heavy with grapes and drinking the odd glass of the juice!  Hey ho!  Never mind - I'll just get back to my work, not that you can really call crafting work - so many cards, so little time!

The shows are on at 11.00 a.m., 4.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m. so don't forget to tune in or set to record - they'll be a real treat!

See you all again tomorrow!

Hugs

Bonjour mes amis!

Or in other words, good morning, peeps! ..... and what's the reason for this O Level French I'm sure you're asking yourself?  Well it's to give you a little sneeky peek of the treat that's awaiting you at the weekend when Sheena appears on Create and Craft TV to launch the latest wonderful stamp plates that she's created.
Here's just one morsel to delight your palettes and I'm sure I'll be tempting you with a few more delicacies as the week progresses:

This only shows a couple of the images and one of the sentiments and there are two inspiring A5 plates with loadsa individual stamps on them - you know how generous Sheena always is with the images!

Anyhoo, I'll be back with more to show you soon.  The tree, by the way, is a Memory Box die called 'Orchard Tree Frame' and the DP is Melissa Frances.

Hugs