Feeling Festive!

Hi all, well it's been another month gone by! I'm averaging one card a month at the moment, I just need more hours in my day! Today I'm sharing a Christmas card for the Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge, which is anything goes using a Rick St. Dennis image. This fun, happy chappy is called 'Star Elf', and you can find him in Rick's Zibbet shop.

I coloured him woth Polychromos pencils, and teamed him with some festive paper from My Mind's Eye, and some stripy ribbon from Stampin' Up!.

I used some red baker's twine and attached a little tree charm to it, and topped with a red Christmas rose and some white pearly flowers from my stash. The leaves are a die cut from Sue Wilson Designs.

The sentiment is from Darcies and is cut using a S.U punch, and I added some red gemstones to the label.

I am also entering this into the Facebook Rick St. Dennis challenge.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge

Hi all, I'm back today with a card made for the Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge. The wonderful image is called Belle et Bete and is from the Rick St Dennis shop at Etsy.

I coloured them with Polychromos pencils, and matted with some black card. I was going to add some more panels, ribbon, glitter and pearls, but the image is quite big, and the papers from Graphic 45 are quite busy, and are too pretty to cover up, so i left it as it is! A relatively CAS design from me with this beautiful image!

Do check out the Progressive challenge if you haven't already done so - if a new player you will have to purchase Belle et Bete, but next month yopu will get an image for free to play with in the next challenge.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

20 Winks..

Good morning bloggers! Well, it's been a while since my last post here, nearly two months! But I'm here today with a card for my daughter's friend who turns 15 today, and I'm also entering this into the Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge, over at Sparkle and Glitter.

The RSD image I have used is called 20 Winks, and I've coloured her with Polychromos pencils.

I layered her with some pretty Prima papers, and used some lovely Tattered lace border dies, and a Cheery Lynn Doily die.

The butterflies were cut using a Stampin' Up! punch, and the die cut 'Dream' is from Serendipity Stamps.

For some extra sparkle and glitter, I added some sparkly gems.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Feeling Nautical!

Hi all, it's been a while since my last post, just busy with kids, work and lack of a crafting mojo!! I'm here with a card made for Rick St. Dennis Facebook Group and for his own personal challenge to create using a mermaid theme. I have used one of Rick's newest digi stamps called Lemuria, and you can find her here in his Zibbet shop.

 I coloured her with Polychromos pencils, and teamed her with beautiful nautical papers from Graphic 45.

 The frame behind her was cut using a Tonic die, and the little sea themed charms were cut using dies from a new to me company called  All Occasion Dies, from Robert Addams shop.

I cut one of the little clam shells from the DP to put in her hair, and used liquid pearls for her jewellery.

I added some stickles to her starfish bikini top and some crystals to the ship wheels, also from All Occasion Dies.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

Serendipity Stamps & The Twinery Blog Hop

 Hi all, and welcome to my post for a joint blog hop - Serendipity Stamps and The Twinery have joined together for a special 3 day blog hop event, and today is my day! You should have arrived here from Katarina Damm- Blomberg, and after me you should next visit Anita Mulcahy.

Do stop by both The Twinery and Serendipity Stamps for some awesome twine, stamps and dies!

Click on the pics to go to the shops!

Here's my card using The Ladybug die and Stamps set, and the stamped flower is from the  Flower Pops cling set. I cut the Ladybug in pink swiss dot Bazzill card, and after adhering to the card base, I added some Glamour Dust to the 'spots' for some sparkle.

I stamped the sentiment 3 times in pink Raspberry Adirondack ink, and wrapped the twine in
Blossom Solid Mini Bundle and Flax Stripe Mini Bundle colours.

Finally I added a pink faceted button to the flower centre.

Here is the hop list for today:

The Twinery - http://thetwinery.com/blog

Serendipity Stamps - http://serendipitystamps.com/blog

Julie Ranae - http://juliesopenwindow.blogspot.com/

Monika Wright - http://www.iloveitallwithmonikawright.com/

Jenny Gropp - http://onekraftykat.blogspot.com/search/label/Serendipity%20Stamps   

Marybeth Lopez - http://marybethstimeforpaper.blogspot.com/search/label/Serendipity%20Stamps

Christine Meyer - http://scrappingwithchristine.blogspot.com/

Miriam Napier - http://miriamsdelirium.blogspot.com/search/label/Serendipity%20Stamps      

Katarina Damm-Blomberg - http://krumeluran.wordpress.com/

Pauline Pollington - http://pauline-littlemrsp.blogspot.fr/search/label/Serendipity%20stamps   

Anita Mulcahey - http://happypapercrafthappenings.blogspot.com/

Rebecca Greco - http://hugsarefun.com/

 Serendipity Stamps is also offering a $20 gift certificate on Facebook to one lucky person who “likes” Serendipity Stamps and LEAVES A COMMENT.  You must do both to be entered to win. So Plenty of opportunity to win some goodies!

Serendipity Stamps is also having a sale during the blog hop  - 20% off all items in the “Garden” category through August 3! 

Thanks for stopping by today, don't forget to visit Anita Mulcahy next!

Pauline

Red, White & Blue for RIck!

Hi all, it's been a while! Mr. Mojo has upped and left the building I'm afraid, maybe away for a hoilday, who knows?!!

 I coloured up Starry Suzi by Rick St. Dennis, available from I Brake for Stamps, using Rick's personal Challenge over on the Facebook Rick St. Dennis Group, to use Red, White and Blue. For the layout, I used this week's Sketch from Friday sketch Challenge.

I used Faber Castell Polychromos pencils, and blended with mineral solution. She is my first image coloured with these new to me pencils, and I'm fairly happy with how she turned out.

I layered her onto silver, red and blue glittered paper, and a red, white and blue patterned paper as a base.

For the bordaer I cut lots of little glittery stars using Spellbinders, and the sentiment is by Impression Obsession. Finally I added a little red and white striped ribbon bow, from The Ribbon Reel shop.

Well, I got the Stars and Stripes in, and want to wish my American friends a very happy Independance Day!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Friday Sketch Challenge.
R.S.D Facebook Challenge Red, White and Blue.
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
Twisted Tuesday - Red, White & Blue with stars
Paper Pretties - Red, White & Blue

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

SSCB #32

Hi all, I'm here for the second D.T post for this month's Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog. For my card I have made an accordian style card. I have used lots of different S.S images and dies, so apologies for the photo heavy post!

 This is one side of the card, featuring mostly die cuts, and one panel of stamped images.

 One the other side I used mainly stamps, and one panel with die cuts.

 Here are the close ups of the stamped images:

For the panel featuring the Heart and sentiment, I used some glittered embossing powder.

This is the end panel, and the Dragonfly is also embossed with the glittered E.P.

 On the other side, I used the same E.P for some more Dragonflies and Butterflies, cutting them out with the matching dies, and teaming them with the new sentiment dies.

I used the Orchid stamped image, along with the corresponding 'Butterfly Kisses' sentiment.

For the end panel, I used all three sentiment die cuts, layered over the Rosebud stamped panel.

Here is a close up of the glittery embossing powder. To finish I added a range of sparkly gems and flat back pearls.

Here is the list of products I used from the Serendipity Stamps shop:

Dies:
Imagine die.
Love die.
Dream die.
Believe die. 
Butterfly solid die.
Dragonfly solid die.
Floral Frame Embellishment die (mini dragonfly from this set.)

Stamps:
Double Cloisonne Butterflies.
Floral Dragonfly.
Floral Butterfly.
Calico Background.
Orchid.
Butterfly Kisses.
Mason Jar Cling Set.
Victorian Heart Set.
Live Well sentiment.
Jar Label.

Phew, I think that's everything!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline