Hello peeps, hope you are well.
I would like to wish a very warm welcome to my new email follower, I'm thrilled to have you here.
There has been a launch party going on over the weekend at the Polkadoodles Facebook page for a fabulous new collection called 'Starfish and Sandcastles'.
We lucky girlies on the DT have had the VIP XXL collection to play with (also available as a CD).
The collection is choc full of gorgeous seaside images, papers and sentiments - you're spoilt for choice. As soon as I spotted the "You're fab!" sentiment though my first card was decided. I loved these lollies as a child and you know I like my puns.
I coloured Winnie in with a mix of Promarkers and Graph'Its and layered her up on one of the 'Not So Plain Janes' papers. I printed the top of the lolly digi onto white card and also two patterned papers, then paper pieced it before adding some brown beads for sprinkles (attached with Anita's Tacky glue)
There are a few fabulous weathered board papers in the collection but none in the colour combo I wanted, so I dragged the red, white & blue version into Craft Artist. First I chopped off the blue boards on one copy, then left just the blue boards on another which I then 'coloured' brown before merging them back together. I adjusted the transparency to fade it a little so it didn't overpower the foreground images.
And here's my finished card, complete with a real (washed!) lolly stick.
I would like to wish a very warm welcome to my new email follower, I'm thrilled to have you here.
There has been a launch party going on over the weekend at the Polkadoodles Facebook page for a fabulous new collection called 'Starfish and Sandcastles'.
We lucky girlies on the DT have had the VIP XXL collection to play with (also available as a CD).
The collection is choc full of gorgeous seaside images, papers and sentiments - you're spoilt for choice. As soon as I spotted the "You're fab!" sentiment though my first card was decided. I loved these lollies as a child and you know I like my puns.
I coloured Winnie in with a mix of Promarkers and Graph'Its and layered her up on one of the 'Not So Plain Janes' papers. I printed the top of the lolly digi onto white card and also two patterned papers, then paper pieced it before adding some brown beads for sprinkles (attached with Anita's Tacky glue)
There are a few fabulous weathered board papers in the collection but none in the colour combo I wanted, so I dragged the red, white & blue version into Craft Artist. First I chopped off the blue boards on one copy, then left just the blue boards on another which I then 'coloured' brown before merging them back together. I adjusted the transparency to fade it a little so it didn't overpower the foreground images.
And here's my finished card, complete with a real (washed!) lolly stick.
I would like to enter the following challenges:
Crafty Boots - Summer Time
Melonheadz Friends Challenge Off to the Beach
Star Stampz Challenge Here comes summer
Open-Minded Challenges #6 Seasons/Holidays
A Snowflakes Promise #25 Summer
Creative Moments #95 Anything Goes w/optional twist Summer
613 Avenue Create #183 Anything Goes w/Optional Twist: American Beauty - Add a Rose
Inkspirational #112 Anything goes with Red
Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes or "life's a beach"
Color Throwdown Color Challenge ctd399
Crafty Boots - Summer Time
Melonheadz Friends Challenge Off to the Beach
Star Stampz Challenge Here comes summer
Open-Minded Challenges #6 Seasons/Holidays
A Snowflakes Promise #25 Summer
Creative Moments #95 Anything Goes w/optional twist Summer
613 Avenue Create #183 Anything Goes w/Optional Twist: American Beauty - Add a Rose
Inkspirational #112 Anything goes with Red
Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes or "life's a beach"
Color Throwdown Color Challenge ctd399
Thank you so much for stopping by,
Katrina x
