Make It Monday sponsored by Meljen's Designs!

Time for a new Make It Monday linky party!  And this week we are being sponsored by the sweet, whimsical Meljen's Designs! For my DT make, I using Little Pocket Mice...

I love this cute image and knew it would be perfect for a mini circle card!  I think the denim digi paper is a freebie from a mag, but I can't remember which one!

 

 I hope you can join us this week - we love seeing your creativity!  Meljen Designs Digital Stamps  are giving away the lovely prize of the winner's choice of 4 single digis!

Onto my pick of the week!  I chose this beautiful card by Berit of Berit's Hobbykrok...

Created by Berit of Berit's Hobbykrok

As my regular visitors know, I am a HUGE fan of MilkCoffee Stamps and I think Berit has done wonders with this gorgeous gal!  Lovin' the flowers, the colours, the lace, the pearls - everything!  Thx for sharing with us Berit!

Okay, that's it from me for now, see you later with my Pollycrafts Monday DT post!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

• Totally Papercrafts - no pesky girls allowed
• Whimsy Stamps - make it pop
• Papertake Weekly - cute, cute, cute (he sure is!)
• Crafts and Me - punches and die cuts
• The Paper Shelter - anything goes
• Allsorts -  for a man or boy
• Crafty Emma's Store - anything goes
• Waste Not Wednesdays - use your stash (that bit of square stringy thing!)

Make It Monday sponsored by Meljen Designs!

It's time for a new linky party over at Make It Monday and today we are being sponsored by the wonderful and whimsical Meljen's Designs!  For my make this week, I used Window Kitty...

I loved making this card but it made me feel sad too!!  Bless, someone let that cat in!!!  And what do you think of my clean and simple card?  I just wanted to add some buttons or ribbon but I kept to the less is more and just gave the image and sentiment some depth with foam pads instead.  And I love my wall stamp but I can't remember what the make it - so annoying when that happens!

Anyhoo, I hope to see you share more of your inspiring makes with us again this week!  Meljen Designs Digital Stamps are giving away the lovely prize of the winner's choice of 4 single digis!

I didn't have time to choose a pick of the week as I've been away for the weekend so I'll make it up for next week by choosing two then!

See you later with my Pollycrafts Monday DT card!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

• Creative Craft Crew - kraft
• Scrapbook Sisters - anything goes
• Fab 'n Funky - animals
• Show Me Thursdays
• Wags 'n Whiskers - anything goes
• Prairie Fairy Fridays - anything goes
• Paper Sundaes - anything goes

Make It Monday sponsored by Meljen Designs!

A new linky party has opened over at Make It Monday and this week we aer eing sponsored once again by the everfun and cute Meljen Designs Digital Stamps!  So here is my make using their very cute Fuzzer the Monster...

For a monster, he's not very scary, is he?!!  I just adore him!  The lucky winner of this week's challenge will get their choice of 4 single digis from the Meljen Designs Digital Stamps store!

So onto my pick of last week's entrants.  I've chosen this lovely card by Claire of Cardz By Claire...

Created by Claire of Cardz By Claire

I love the brown mono and how she's inked up that gorgeous butterfly to give it so much depth!  And it reminds me that I should make cards and NOT stamp!  Thx for sharing with us Claire!

That's it from me for now, back later with my Pollycrafts Monday DT post!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

• Anything Goes - boyz to men
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes
• Creative Card Crew - humour
• The Paper Shelter - anything goes
• Divas By Design - favourite things (cards for boys, colour orange, monster images)
• Totally Papercrafts - favourite things (as above!)
• Catch the Bug - humour
• Kraftin' Kimmies - case a DT card (Kerry's below - layout)

 

Created by Kerry

Make It Monday sponsored by Meljen Designs!

It's Monday which means a new linky party is open over at Make It Monday! And we have again as our sponsors the lovely Meljen Designs Digital Stamps so today I used Meljen Design's Squiggy The Alien....

Ooooh, he's hardly scarey, but he's as cute as anything!  I used papers from the October Afternoon Seaside collection and the sentiment is made up of American Craft rub on alphas.

Meljen Designs Digital Stamps are giving away the lovely prize of the winner's choice of 4 single digis!

Okay, so for my pick of the week I chose this gorgeous card by Jayne of Eskimo Frosting...

Created by Jayne of Eskimo Frosting

Obviously gorgeous colouring and amazing flower, but I love the quirky way Jayne has doen the sentiment as well as shape the bottom of the card - beautifully put together!  Thx for sharing with us Jayne honey!!  Go check out more of her gorgossity over at her blog here!

Back later with my Pollycraft Monday DT post!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

• Meljen Designs - anything goes
• Creative Card Crew - masculine
• The Stamping Boutique - stitching
• Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
• Whimsy Stamps - anything but square
• Allsorts - anything goes

Make It Monday sponsored by Meljen Designs!

Phew!  Last week was hard - work made it seem to last a month and next week doesn't look good either!  So apologies to you all now that I'm not getting around to see you as much as I usually do - believe me when I say I'd rather blog than work!!

This week over at Make It Monday we have another fab new sponsor for 2012 - Meljen Designs Digital Stamps!  I love their whimsical and sweet makes so it's great to have an excuse to use the numerous digis I own by them!  Today I used Meljen Design's Over The Moon...

Oh, I just loved playing with this sweetie!  It is just perfect for a baby card, don't cha think?  I used a lovely sentiment from Ladybug Crafts Ink's Baby Baby clear stamp set (it's currently half price, so I would get over there and get this sweet set!) and the paper inside is from the October Afternoon Seaside collection.  The base is a Grand Nestabilities scallop cirle die - I am so in love with my Grand Nesties at the moment!  I usually make my fave 4.5" x 4.5" cards but I've run out of envelopes to fit these so I'm trying to make smaller cards for my smaller envelope stock!

Anyhoo, I hope you can join us this week - you know how much we LOVE to see your projects!  Each week, I'm always overwhelmed by how talented you all are!  I definitely find inspiration every week from you!  And if you do join us this week, you can win your very own Meljen Designs digi!

Meljen Designs Digital Stamps are giving away the lovely prize of the winner's choice of 4 single digis!

Okay, so for my pick of the week, I chose this beautiful creation by Meihsia Liu of Simply Paper Crafts....

Created by by Meihsia Liu of Simply Paper Crafts

Isn't it wonderful how she has used the colours and love the layout with the simple stamping - just lovely!  Thanks for sharing with us Meihsia Liu!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

• Meljen Designs - anything goes
• Papertake Weekly - die cuts (my Grand Nesties!)
• Fab 'n' Funky - recycle it (that white button is from one of my old work shirts)
• Divas By Design - new beginnings (a baby!)
• Dare To Be Sassy - let's celebrate (a newborn baby!)
• CRAFT challenge - celebrations (a newborn baby!)
• Whimsie Doodles monthly challenge - What's New?  (a newborn baby!)
• Paper Sundaes - your fave PS challenge from last year (#101 something old (ribbon), something new - digi)

Get bright over at Flutter By Wednesday!

There's a new challenge over at Flutter By Wednesday - get rid of those winter blahs by using bright colours - and don't forget to use your fairies, angels or butterflies!  So here is my take on  it...

You can't get much brighter than yellow!  I used Meljen Designs Flutterby Fairy (yes, a newbie for me!) along with various sizes of Stitched Fan Flowers with lots of Glamour Dust and matched up with BasicGrey Lemonade papers.  Voila - a bright and cheery card!


Go take a look at more fluttery gorgossity over at the Flutter By Wednesday blog!


I am entering my card into the following challenges:

• Kraftin' Kimmie - use three different shapes
• Craft Your Passion - mythical creatures (fairy, or is it a pixie?!)
• Fairy Fun Fridays - things with sparkly wings (Glamour Dust on her spots on the wings!)
• Catch The Bug - anything goes
• Crafty Emma's Store - anything goes
• BasicGrey challenge - something new (the digi) and used Lemonade papers

Blast from the past over at Meljen Designs!

(Go here for my post on the Pollycrafts Rockin' blog hop and a chance to win candy!)

Firstly, a HUGE thank you for all of the sweet wishes I received for my birthday yesterday!  I also received beautiful cards and pressies from some of my blog mates and will post a piccie of them soon!  So that's enough celebrating for this year, roll on the next one!

This week's Meljen Designs challenge is to show the very first card you ever made using their image - so here is mine using Sleepy Time bear which I think was made for High Hopes...

 

I love Meljen Designs and I must say I'm quite proud of this very first card I made with their goodies!  

 

Going dotty!

Hope you are all having a fabby week!  Our British summer has kept true to form by teasing us with a few gorgeous days and now it's back to rain, rain, rain!  No wonder this darn place is so green....

But enough moaning!  Here is a new baby card I made...

 

 

Now the reason why I called this post "going dotty" isn't just because I used gorgeous papers from the Fresh Polkas digi paper collection by Cupcake Cards and Crafts - it's because I made loads of boo boos while making this card!!  First I stuck down the matting before putting the ribbon on, then I placed the image in the wrong place so had to unstick it and place it properly AND THEN I got black bl**dy ink on the bloomin' corner!!!  Well this last mistake was harder to rectify so managed to fix most of it but I lost the will to live and just left that little smudge in the bottom right hand corner!  I will fix it when my patience comes back....!  Even Steve learned some new swear words!!

LOL!  You gotta laugh or you'd cry...so of course this is another DT card for this month's Cupcake Craftroom challenge to use polka dots.  I hope you get a chance to play along - would love to see your makes on this theme!


I am entering this card into the following challenges:

• Digis with Attitude - anything goes
• St Luke's - black and white and one other colour
• Fuzzy Wuzzy - animal with get punchy
• Catch The Bug - anything goes

Paper/cardstock: Bazzill cardstock, Cupcake Cards and Crafts Fresh Polkas paper collection

Stamps:  Meljen Designs Giraffe Necktie (freebie), LCI Baby Baby set

Mediums: Copics

Accents: ribbon from stash, 4mm flat backed pearls
Tools: Corner Chomper, EK Success border punch, Nestabilities dies

Uber long card!

Happy Sunday everyone - I hope you are all having a lovely weekend!  It is hot and sunny here in East Sussex, UK and I'm looking forward to a day of gardening (NOT!!).

So onto today's card!  I saw Make It Monday DT pal's Chrissy take on the Meljen Designs challenge to make a business sized card - a mega long card around 9.5" x 4"!  Well, that sounded like a scarey challenge to me but Chrissy's take on it is just gorgeous (see second card on her post here) - she inspired me to have a go!

  

 
I was going to have my post title as "happy as a pig sitting in...[bleep]" but Steve said that was too rude!  So I changed it to a more acceptable one - he is such a prude sometimes, lol!!

Anyway, that is it from me today - enjoy the rest of the weekend and see you tomorrow with my Make It Monday DT card!

I am also entering my card into the Catch the Bug challenge for anything goes.

Paper/cardstock: Bazzill bling pink cardstock, Doodlebug white cardstock, My Minds Eye Alphabet Soup (buy here from Quixotic Paperie)

Stamps: Meljen Piggy Bath (digi you can buy here), pc printed sentiment in Ali Edwards font (you can download it for free here)

Mediums: Copics
Accents: gingham ribbon from stash
Tools: Martha Stewart and Fiskars border punch, Nestabilitie rectangle die

And they call it puppy love....

"...oh I guess they'll never know..." - oh no, that song is gonna be stuck in my head all day long now!!  And who sang it anyway?  The Osmonds?!!  Anyway, there is a reason for my rambling....I made this card for this week's Meljen's Designs challenge for 'masculine'...

 

 

Does it count?!  It's more boyish than manly, lol!  But I wanted to make this for my young nephew who loves my Ladbradors.  Unfortunately, he lives in Hong Kong so only gets to see them once a year.  This year I won't see him so I thought I'd send him some puppy love instead!

I am also entering my card into That's Krafty Thursday (yep, used my krafty stock again!)

Paper/cardstock: Bazzill cardstock, DCWV Pet Stack

Stamps: Meljen's Designs freebie

Mediums: Copics, brown chalk ink pad

Accents: none

Tools: Corner Chomper, Nestabilities label die inside card

All creatures great and small over at A Spoonful of Sugar!

The challenge over at A Spoonful of Sugar today is "all creatures great and small" - easy peasy!  For my DT card, I decided to use one of those ever cute Meljens Designs digis...

 

 

Too cute, huh?!!  This is Cuddle Bun Birthday and I just love how he's cuddling that cupcake - my favourite kinda food, lol!!  You can see the other DT inspiration here - enjoy!

Before I go, just to let you know that Rainbow Studios is giving away two prizes (see piccie below) to celebrate their new release - they are very sweet!  It is open up to 15 April and you can see what you need to do for a chance to win here - good luck if you join in!

Thanks for visiting and hope to **see** you again soon!


I am entering mycard into this week's Meljen's Designs challenge for Easter inspired (the rabbit of course!) and Totally Stampalicious for anything goes (we all like these ones!!)


Paper/cardstock: Bazzill cardstock, BasicGrey Sugar Rush
Stamps:  Meljen's Designs Cuddle Bun Birthday, CC Designs sentiment
Mediums: Copics 
Accents: ribbon from stash
Tools: Nestabilities circle and label dies, Fiskars border punch
  

Easter celebration over at A Spoonful of Sugar!

(Please scroll down for my Totally Ladybug Tuesday DT card)

Over at A Spoonful of Sugar we are celebrating with an Easter theme!  For my DT card, I used the super sweet Meljens Designs' Hello Bunny String - and it's super free to download here!  Here is what I did with it...

 

A different style for me!  I am always inspired by Paula of Flowers and Flutterby's - she has such a natural, original style.  When I saw this card here I just had the urge to do some doodling and I knew a Meljen digi would work well with it!  I think I need a bit more practice, but it was fun to do and I'm pleased the way it has turned out.  As you can see, I kept it to a CAS style to showcase the image and simply used Aquamarkers, the doodling and my trusty opaque white Viva Decor gloss pen to create teeny tiny pearls around the rabbit. I hope Paula approves!

You can see the other DT gorgeous makes here - go take a look, you won't be disappointed!

I am entering my card into Meljen Design's challenge to use punches, Karen's Doodles for Easter and Make it Monday where you can just share your creations!  

Paper/cardstock: Bazzill cardstock

Stamps: Meljens Designs' Hello Bunny String, free to download here

Mediums: black fine liner pen, Aquamarkers, Viva Decor Gloss Pen

Accents: none!

Tools: Martha Stewart border punch, Tim Holtz distressing tool

Sweet dragon!

I've been wanting to create something with this sweet, sweet dragon by Meljen Designs for aaages and this week's challenge over at their blog is to use green - what a perfect match!

I just adore him with that lickle, ickle butterfly!!!  I teamed him up with pink because he's far too cute for a male card!  And look at all those flowers!  I don't often use flowers but I needed some depth and these were perfet for it!  You can just about see the white opaque pearls on the pattern - I used Viva Decor gloss gel pen in white - it looks gorgeous IRL!

That's it from me today - enjoy the rest of your day and see you tomorrow with my DT posts for Quixotic Inspirations and By LoRi Designs!

I am also entering this card into this month's Sir Stampalot's challenge to use greens, yellow and/or blossom pinks - I got all three!
  

Paper/cardstock: Bazzill cardstock

Stamps: Meljen Designs Dragon's Little Friend, Pink Pettitcoat digi stamp

Mediums: Copics, Sakura white gel pen

Accents: ribbons from stash

Tools: Martha Stewart border punchs, Stampin Up window punch, Nestabilities scallop rectangle and rectangle dies

    

Love is sweet - but better than chocolate?!

I love chocolate - in any form, but mainly in bar form!  When I saw this gorgeous Meljen Designs image, I just had to have it!  And here is my first card made with it...

Yum, huh?!!  It makes my mouth water just looking at it!  right, now to do some paid work!!


I am entering this ito the following challenges:

• Meljens Designs challenge - food! (and chocolate is my fav food ever)
• Whmsey Inspirations - any Whimsey creations
• Simon Says Stamp and Show - whatever that makes you happy (chocolate! And I also love the colouring)
• Make it Monday - share your creativity!
• Aud Sentiments - something you are thankful for (chocolate! It unfailing makes me feel content!)
• Stamp Something - use a digi
• Paper Sundaes challenge - use at least two (punches and ribbon)

   

Paper/cardstock: Bazzill cardstock, checked paper from stash
Image/stamps: Meljen Designs Bear with Heart (includes sentiment), Elzybells sentiment (inside card)
Mediums: Promarkers, Sakura white gel pen
Accents: buttons from stash, Stampin Up ribbon
Tools: Martha Stewart heart lace border punch, Fiskars scallop border punch, Nestabilities rectangle die (inside card)