Christmas wishes

I hope everyone had lovely Christmas Day and I hope Santa was good to you all! He was very good to me and my gang! Would just like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and all the best for 2009!

Pam xx

Kiera's 1st pollycraft card

My nine year old has started making cards aswell using all of my crafting bits n bobs. This time she decided she wanted to use a pollycraft design to make her card which was for her Granny & Grandads christmas. So I thought that I'd post it on here to let all of you see how talented she is probably better than I am lol

Pam xx

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #5

This is my contribution to challenge no 5.

I have used a blue pearlescent card

I have punched out stars down the right hand side as a border.

I then used the big headz boy topper with the no 8 to this I used a couple of star embellishments and highlighted parts with a silver pen.

I used peel offs for the writing and glued on 2 musical notes as my son will be 8 on his next birthday and he loves his music. Hope you like it.

Blog Candy up for graps courtesy of Paula (Pollycraft designs)

Look at what Paula is offering one of us to win!!!

http://pollycraftdesigns.blogspot.com/2008/12/woodland-elvesooak-candy-to-be-won.html

Isn't this book just gorgeous and those elves are just sooo adorable! Which ever one of us wins this fab candy is a very lucky person! Go on take a look and enter you never know u might be that lucky winner!

Pam xx

Emma's candy

Hi everyone take a look at wot Emma has on offer for one of us to win!

http://craftyemma.blogspot.com/2008/11/want-to-win-some-blog-candy.html

Thots of fun to be had by one lucky winner!

Pam xx

Pollycraft Monday Challenge # 4

This is my design for the Monday Challenge # 4.

For this I thought I'd use the Snowperson stamp that I won on challenge #2.

The background I used a holly leaf design backing paper, with red ribbon. I cut the longer rectangle from striped green and red backing paper then the other with plain green paper on to this I stuck my snowperson. I added 3 star/snowflake embellishments to the side for the sentiment I used a merry christmas embellishment in the shape of a scarf.

Kate's Great Ormond Street Hospital Card Appeal

This is my latest creation but its for such a worthy cause! Take a look http://kate-lewis.blogspot.com/2008/11/great-ormond-street-hospital-card.html

Once I read this post on Kate's blog I had to contribute to it! Just the idea of putting a smile on the face of a poorly child at Christmas Time meant I couldn't ignore Kate's plee! Well done Kate on this amazing appeal. I hope that enough people contribute to the appeal to put smile's on as many sick childrens faces as possible this christmas.

Pam xx

My husbands Birthday Card

It was my husbands birthday yesterday so made this card for him! He is always chuffed when I make him a card instead of buying him one. Its pretty basic as I left it to the last minute but Richard liked it so thats the main thing.

Monday Challenge no 3 entry

This is my entry for the Monday Challenge 3- Three Circles.

I used the Pink 4 Paws Niklaus Winter Wishes Design and put it on Dark silver card.

On the card I used a rollagraph to get the christmas tree design then embossed it using clear embossing powder after this I used some christmas snowflake/star peel offs which I coloured pink. I also used a pink Merry Christmas Bauble and made a string for it to hang from using fine wire and some pink & cream beads.

Anyway here goes hope u like it.

Pam xx

Another pollycraft design card

Well folks this is a card I made quite a while ago for my Mum to give to my Niece! I was looking at the cards I've scanned into the pc and found it so decided to post it on here. It was probably one of the first pollycraft designs I used!

RE Stripes Challenge

Hi all I have blocked all comments on the stripes challenge post below as someone left a weird comment on it which was pointed out to me by Paula! Thanks Paula

I wasn't sure how or if I could delete the comment on its own so have blocked all comments! Thanks to the rest of you who left the lovely comments about my design! If anyone wants to leave a comment about the design please leave it here instead as I have added the monitor all comments feature!

Pam xx

Stripes - Monday Challenge

I thought I'd take part in Pollycrafts Monday Challenge. I decided to use the Paws 'From Our Family to Yours' design. Of course the Stripes design is included I used a stripe effect backing paper along with the stripe design strip that comes with this particular Paws design. To this I then framed the pictyre with red ribbon and added green stars to the corners and a couple of gold stars aswell. From here I added some glitter to the holly berries and to the pom pom on the hat then added a few peel off snow flakes which I coloured to match the design.

I hope you like my design.

Craft Exhibition Glasgow SECC

Well folks Tracey and I got back last night from a Craft Exhibition at Glasgow's SECC it was great! There were plenty of exhibitors demonstrating their products and ideas! They are having another event in March just click on the link below for details.
http://www.ichf.co.uk/hobbycrafts/index.php#dates

Of course Tracey and I had to buy some. So watch this space and Traceys http://craftsncapers.blogspot.com/ for our creations using our new purchases.

One of the stalls were called Glitter Magic and from the title u can imagine they sell glitter. This glitter is very fine, is anti-static and can be machine washed on fabric at 30 degrees. Its great this glitter is so fine it wont mix together allowing you to add multiple colours one after the other without waiting for the rest to dry. Gives such a great effect to any crafters work. Unfortunately they dont have a website but if anyone would like their e-mail address give me a shout.

The following link gives u a list of exhibitors who were at this weekends event.
http://www.ichf.co.uk/exhibitors_list.php?show=49

At the event we found one stall selling the cutest of gifts its called Dippity Doo Dahs selling soft toys which have been hand dipped in scented candle wax they are soo cute and have some lovely smells of course we each bought one! take a look at their website http://www.dippitydoodahs.co.uk/

I'll stop boring you for now but keep watching for samples made using our new toys!

Pam x

Granddaughter birthday card

This is my latest creation! A card I made for my friend to give to her granddaughter for her 1st birthday. I have to say the photo doesn't do the card much justice! I really like this card design and think its probably the best one I've made yet! Its not made with a Polly craft design but I like it all the same! And thankfully my friend Jackie loved it which is the main thing!

I made it as a 3 fold card as you can see in the photo opposite.

Wedding invitations

A friend of mine has asked me to make her wedding invitations, menu's, orders of service etc for her wedding next year! Which I am really excited about! I have of course asked Tracey to help me as they will get done alot quicker if 2 of us are making them!

Shona only wants a simple design so I have decided after a discussion with Tracey to have quite a plain design! Once we have discussed colour schemes with the bride-to-be (as she keeps changing her mind) I will prepare a sample and post on here for you all to see!

Anniversary Card

I recently made this card for my sister & brother-in-laws Anniversary! I used a Pollycraft design (hope you like it Paula). I have to confess that it was made in a bit of a rush as you can probably tell! lol Tracey and I need to get on with our Christmas collection! Dont we Tracey??? So hopefully we'll get started soon and get some of our ideas posted here!

Other cards

After the swap forum I told you about I really got into my card making! It is so relaxing and great fun! Its amazing what you can come up with when you sit and just put bits n pieces together! You can see some of my designs above hope you like them!

Swap Forum

Earlier in the year my friend Tracey introduced me to a swap forum called Hugware swaps on a website called http://www.pccrafter.com/. This was so much fun I had a ball making all the different pages. The swap was done over 3 months with 13 of us involved meaning that we each had 4 sets (1 set = 2pages) of pages to do each month. This was my first ever swap which probably showed in my designs but I had great fun anyway! Thanks Tracey. Above are some of my designs.

Baby Gift Thankyou Card

My sister asked me to make her 25 thankyou cards for her to give to family and friends after she her Ryan the newest addition to our family! This is the design I eventually came up with! It took me a while to have all of them ready due to them being decoupage! I used one of the designs from Pollycraft designs which is a fantastic site www.pollycraftdesigns.co.uk ! Paula designs all of her characters then sells them as downloads whichis fab as it means once you have bought them they are yours to use over and over again.