WL2C – A Well Rocket!

Hello! Happy um…  Monday although this should have published on Sunday! Ooops!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

So today (although it should have been yesterday) I have a strange card to show you that I made some time ago.  I have used stamps from the MAGICAL WISHING WELL WISHES set to create an outer space scene that includes a rocket, odd shaped planets and an alien craft.

Why did I do it? Well as someone who frequently orbits Planet Weird, I thought ‘Why not’?!  

 Ingredients:

Polkadoodles Goodies:

Clear Stamps: MAGICAL WISHING WELL WISHES – EVERLASTING SENTIMENTS (that are on a fab sale price!)

Colouring Medium: KARIN MARKERS

Other Stuff:

The Rest: Distress Oxides

 

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to comment!

I would like to enter the following challenges:

CREATIVE MOMENTS – Challenge #221: Anything Goes

LEMON SHORTBREAD – Challenge #153: Anything Goes

THE CREATIVE CRAFTERS – Challenge #43: Anything Goes

WORLD WIDE OPEN DT CHALLENGE - #08: Anything Goes

WL2C – A Winnie Tag!

Hello! Happy Sunday! Hope everything is good with you!  

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

Today I have a mixed media tag showcasing one of the brand new Polkadoodles Winnie digis from the WINNIE LET’S HANG OUT collection called WINNIE BLOSSOMING.

WL2C – Tag & Dies!

Hello! Happy Sunday! Hope everything is good with you!  

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

Today I am sharing a greyboard tag.

The background was created with ink then I piled on dies, some that I cut down to fit.  After sticking everything down I added splashes of paint and some very wilful microbeads.  Wow those things get everywhere.

Ingredients:

Polkadoodles Goodies:

Clear Stamps: EVERLASTING SENTIMENTS

Dies: TAGS – SQUAREY SWIRLY HEARTS

Other Stuff:

Greyboard Tag – Distress Oxides – Gauze – Microbeads – Ribbon – Twine - Bow

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to comment! 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

CRAFTY SENTIMENTS – Anything Goes Challenge

KRAFTY CHICKS – Challenge #556: All Occasions

CLASSIC DESIGN – 5^th Birthday Challenge: #4 April

A PERFECT TIME TO CRAFT – Challenge #4 – 2021: Anything Goes

CREATIVE MOMENTS – Challenge #213: Anything Goes

WL2C –Chill Weirdre!

Hello! Happy Sunday! Hope you are staying safe and well!  

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

A very simple card from me today using one of the fabulous WEIRDRE stamps.

I created the background by mopping up Distress Oxides and doodled around the edge.

Ingredients:

Polkadoodles Goodies:

Clear Stamp: WEIRDRE ICE CREAM CHANGES EVERYTHING

Colouring Medium: KARIN MARKERS

Other Stuff:

The Rest: Watercolour Paper – Distress Oxides - Black & White Gel Pens

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to comment!

I would like to enter the following challenges:

CRAFTY SENTIMENTS – Anything Goes

KRAFTY CHICKS – Challenge #548: All Occasions

CREATIVE MOMENTS – Challenge #209: Anything Goes

LEMON SHORTBREAD – Challenge #140: Anything Goes

THE SISTERHOOD OF CRAFTERS – Anything Goes  

WL2C – Reach for the Stars!

 Hello! Happy Sunday! Hope things are going ok!
 
Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.
 
For today’s project I have used one of the super cute UNICORN SPARKLES images, adding some clear stamps to create a scene. 

WL2C – Scary Mary the Queen of Eternity!

Hello! Happy Sunday! Hope things are going ok!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

For today’s project I hope you have a strong stomach as something frightful has made its way into my journal.

WL2C – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep!

Hello! Happy Sunday! Hope things are going ok!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

I have a tutorial for you today, showing how I created this triptych design.

WL2C – Time to Fly!

Hello! Happy Sunday! Hope things are going ok!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

I have a tutorial for you today, showing how I created this card.

WL2C – A Weirdre Art Journal Page!!

Hello! Happy Sunday! Hope you are safe and well!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

Today I decorated a page in my art journal using some of the funkier stamp sets available in the store.

WL2C – Neon Glasses!!

Hello! Happy Sunday! Hope you are safe and well!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

I have made a seriously bright, neon project today; you will need your sunglasses methinks. 

WL2C – Celebrate the New Year with a Tag!

Hello! Happy New Year everyone!  I’ve been off the blogging grid for a few weeks now (having a very nice crafty Christmas) but now I’m back and will be visiting all your amazing blogs as soon as possible.

So New Year, new decade a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

I must confess that I created this tag quite a while ago, but I thought it had an appropriate sentiment for the start of 2020, so I have posted it today.

WL2C – A Christmas Card Using a Topper Kit and Dies!

Hello! Happy December!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

Sometimes you don’t want to colour, you don’t want to stamp and you don’t want to peel texture paste off your craft mat! Therefore this is the time to get out a fabulous topper kit and get busy with the scissors.

A Sepia Mixed Media Project with a Gorgeous Mushroom House!

Hello! Happy Sunday!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

So I have gone a little sepia today for this month’s project, decorating a 6X6 piece of whiteboard for Christmas. 

We Love 2 Create – Time to Fly!

Hello! Happy Sunday!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

I have decorated a page in my A6 journal again this time and even played with my underused gel press. Lots of stamping and a bit of stencilling with Distress Oxides makes up my background…

We Love 2 Create – Sparkle & Shine!

Hello! Happy Sunday!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

I confess to owning quite a few art journals/messing around books at the moment and here I have used my little A6 version.

We Love 2 Create – Flamenco Angel!

Hello! Happy Sunday!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

Now I created this project some time ago for the Hochanda launch of the BELIEVE IN ANGELS COLLECTION but never blogged it.  So here we are my version of a flamenco dancer.

I stamped the angel and coloured with watercolours.  I used the fabulous CREATIVE ANGEL stencil to make multiples of the dress using shimmer texture paste and then cut them all out.

I edged each dress piece with the border of one of the FANCIFUL CIRCLES dies and made her sleeves and collar with some of the cut offs.  I layered up my dresses to create a ‘flowy’ feel and added some flowers to her hair stamped from the FLOWER POWER 1 set gave her an exotic look. 

I mounted everything onto a slim canvas covered with paper from one of the gorgeous POSY DOODLES A4 KITS.

 Ingredients:

Polkadoodles Goodies:

Stamps: BELIEVE IN ANGELS & FLOWER POWER 1

Stencil: CREATIVE ANGEL

Dies: FANCIFUL CIRCLES

Other Stuff:

Ink: Versafine

The Rest: Canvas - Watercolours

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to comment; I really do appreciate it! Enjoy what’s left of the weekend!

See ya!

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

CRAFTING FROM THE HEART – Challenge #243: Anything Goes 

CRAFTY SENTIMENTS – Anything Goes

CLASSIC DT CHALLENGE – Challenge #4: Anything Goes

THROUGH THE CRAFTROOM DOOR – May 21: Anything Goes

LOVE TO CRAFT – Challenge #34: May - Anything Goes

CRAFTY FRIENDS – Challenge #110: Anything Goes

WORLD WIDE OPEN DT CHALLENGE – Challenge #05: Anything Goes

We Love 2 Create –Believe in Magic!

Hello! Happy Sunday!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

Now ever since I was little (yes, I can remember that far back; just) I have loved shadow puppets (!). My parents even bought me a shadow theatre complete with odd looking characters and I played with it constantly...well until it sort of disintegrated.  And I think that is where my love for silhouettes comes from.  So how could I possibly resist these GORGEOUS new Polkadoodles stamps that were premiered on Hochanda recently?

The beauty of a silhouette stamp is that it cries out for an interesting background.  So step up please all those mop-up, stencil cleaning & general experimenting bits of paper that have accumulated in my ‘oooh-must-do-something-with-that’ drawer.

I used quite a textured watercolour paper so stamping the silhouettes was never going to be easy.  Thank goodness for a stamping platform, how did I manage without one? 

Ingredients:

Polkadoodles Goodies:

Stamps: GRACEFUL FLOWER GIRL 2 POLYMER STAMPS , GRACEFUL FLOWER GIRL 3 POLYMER STAMPS , MAGICAL CORNER POLYMER STAMPS & TEXTURES GALORE POLYMER STAMPS

Stencils: MAGICAL GRASSES STENCIL

Dies: RIBBON/GIFT FRAMES& CORNERS DIE SET

Other Stuff:

Background: Distress Oxide ‘mop-up’ on textured watercolour paper

Ink: Versafine – Candid Apple, Carved Pumpkin & Walnut Stain Distress Oxides

The Rest: Posca Pens – Chipboard Corners

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to comment; I really do appreciate it! Enjoy what’s left of the weekend!

See ya!

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

CLASSIC DT OPEN CHALLENGE – 3^rd Birthday Challenge #4: Anything Goes 

CRAFTY SENTIMENTS – Anything Goes

MORE MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE – Anything Goes Optional Yellow

CREATIVE MOMENTS – Challenge #167: Anything Goes/Animals

LEMON SHORTBREAD – Challenge #92: Anything Goes

CRAFTY CREATIONS – Challenge #389: Anything Goes
LOVE TO CRAFT – Challenge #33: April Anything Goes

We Love 2 Create –Hoppy Easter!

Hello! Happy Mothering Sunday to all the mums out there!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

So Easter is approaching and I have an Easter themed project to show you today.

I used texture paste and stencils to cover a canvas panel and then added different paints until I was happy with the effect.  I attached the door from the CHIPBOARD FAIRY DOOR KIT and used more texture paste through the TREES/FOLIAGE STENCIL to give it a gnarly wooden tree door sort of effect.

I even added some Flowersoft (which I am currently picking out of the carpet) and lots of lovely POLKADOODLES STAMPS SETS. 

I just had to include some rabbit kids, peeping round the door, waiting for Mummy Bunny to return!!  There are lots more of them inside of course!! LOL

Ingredients:

Polkadoodles Goodies:

Stamps: 24 CARROT FRIEND – PRETTY PERFECT – EVERY WISH IN THE WORLD

Stencils: TREES/FOLIAGE

Dies: SUPER SPRIGS

Sentiment: WINNIE SUGAR SPRINKLES

The Rest: CHIPBOARD FAIRY DOOR KIT

Other Stuff:

Colouring: Watercolour Palette

Colouring Paper: Spectrum Noir Watercolour Card

Ink: Versafine

The Rest: Gesso - Imagination Crafts Starlight Paints, Texture Paste and Stone Wall Stencil - Flowersoft

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to comment; I really do appreciate it! Enjoy what’s left of the weekend!

See ya!

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:
LOVE TO CRAFT – Challenge #32: March Anything Goes

AUD SENTIMENTS – Challenge #223: Any Sentiment except Happy Birthday

THROUGH THE CRAFTROOM DOOR – Challenge March 26: Anything Goes

CRAFTY SENTIMENTS – Anything Goes

SIMON SAYS STAMP – Weds Challenge: Anything Goes

CUT IT UP – Challenge #170: Flowers

MORE MIXED MEDIA – Anything Goes with Optional Green

CRAFTY FRIENDS – Challenge #106: Spring Colours

{PIN}SPIRATIONAL – Challenge #235: Picture Inspiration  

LEMON SHORTBREAD – Challenge #90: Anything Goes

THE SISTERHOOD OF CRAFTERS - Let’s Celebrate Spring

CRAFTY CREATIONS – Challenge #387: Anything Goes

CARDZ 4 GALZ – Challenge #93: Flora or Fauna

CREATIVE MOMENTS – Challenge #165: Anything Goes

WORLD WIDE OPEN DT CHALLENGE – Challenge #03: Anything Goes

ALPHABET CHALLENGE – A is for Animals
SWEET STAMPERS – Challenge #30: Easter/Spring

We Love 2 Create –Enjoy the Little Moments!

Hello, happy Sunday!

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

My DT contribution this time is a MDF tag, covered with a piece of ‘mop up’ rice paper and dabbed over with texture mousse.

The gorgeous stamps were embossed in gold and coloured and ‘splashed’ with watercolours.

Ingredients:

Polkadoodles Stamps: Butterfly - EVERY WISH IN THE WORLD – Flower – PRETTY PERFECT – Sentiment – PERFECT WISHES

Colouring: Watercolours

Colouring Paper: Watercolour Card

The Rest: MDF Tag – Rice Paper -  Nuvo Embellishment Mousse – Nuvo Crystal Drops – Glass Glitter – WOW Embossing Powder

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to comment; I really do appreciate it! Enjoy what’s left of the weekend!

See ya!

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:
SIMON SAYS STAMP – Weds Challenge: Anything Goes
KRAFTY CHICKS – Challenge #444: Anything Goes/Simmer & Shine
CRAFTY FRIENDS – Challenge #104: Gemstones/Pearls (hope the liquid type counts)
WORLD WIDE OPEN DT – Challenge #02: Anything Goes
CRAFTY CREATIONS – Challenge #385: Anything Goes
CRAFT STAMPER – March: Take it Make it Challenge

We Love 2 Create –Fly; You Are Special!

Hello, how’s it going?

Time for a new monthly challenge at WE LOVE 2 CREATE which is always ‘Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes’ and we are sponsored by the awesome POLKADOODLES!! Our winner will receive a fabulous prize so check out the blog for details.

So my DT project today has the dubious honour of being my first ever art journal page.  However, I am reluctant to refer to it as ‘art’ or a ‘journal’ really so it’s official title will be my ‘Messing Around Book’! Yes much more ME!! 

So this started life as an inked and stamped pattern created on my gel press using Distress Oxides and stamps.  I used Versamark ink through my stencils to emboss the angel wings and unicorn horns and used starlight paint for the feathers.  I think I was going for a slight nod towards the film Maleficent….at least that’s what I’m saying!

Ok so it’s a bit ‘out there’ but isn’t that what Art Journaling....sorry Messing Around...is all about??!! 

Ingredients:

Main Polkadoodles Stamp Image: BELIEVE IN ANGELS

Colouring: F C Polychromo Pencils

Colouring Paper: Watercolour

Ink: Versafine Smokey Grey - Distress Oxides

Dies: FLUFFY CLOUDS

Other Polkadoodles Stamps: HEART SING – TIME TO BLOOM

Polkadoodles Stencils: BELIEVE IN ANGELS COLLECTION - ACCENTS

The Rest: Imagination Crafts Starlight Paints & Texture Paste – Posca Pens – WOW Embossing Powder – Sakura Stardust Pens

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to comment; I really do appreciate it! Enjoy what’s left of the weekend!

See ya!

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

MORE MIXED MEDIA –  Anything Goes Option Blues

CRAFTING FROM THE HEART – Challenge #235: Anything Goes

EVERYBODY ART – Challenge #439: Anything Goes

AUD SENTIMENTS – Challenge #219: Anything Goes + A Sentiment

CRAFTY SENTIMENTS – Anything Goes

THROUGH THE CRAFTROOM – January 29: Anything Goes

CREATIVE MOMENTS – Challenge #161: Anything Goes

CRAFT – Challenge #499: Anything Goes

KRAFTY CHICKS – Challenge #440: Crazy Egg/Anything Goes

WORLD WIDE OPEN DT – Challenge #1: Anything Goes

LEMON SHORTBREAD – Challenge #86: Anything Goes

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES – Challenge #90: Add a Sentiment
ALPHABET CHALLENGE - W is for Wings