Saturday, 21 February 2026

 Hi everyone.  

I'm back again sharing some inspiration from the bright and beautiful collection from @polkadoodles.



I love a CAS card, and this collection was made for this! 

Using the circle shutter die, and the dahlia flower die I was able to make this beautiful wedding card.  I just cut the dies from white card stock, colouring the flowers with alcohol markers.  

The great thing about these flower dies is they can be simple like this, or inked. layered and shaped for more realistic looking blooms! 

Once I have die cut the circle shutter, I then used a stencil to emboss the background for a bit of texture.

I glued and layered everything together with a sentiment from the tying the knot stamp set (also from Polkadoodles) which was white heat embossed onto black card for a bold look.

I hope you like it - please do check out this release over on the polkadoodles webstie.

I'd like to enter this into:


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See you all soon

Crafting hugs

Rachael 



Saturday, 7 February 2026

Udderly cute cow

 Hi crafting friends

Did you see the latest release from Polkadoodles the 'udderly cute'collection. It has some of the most adorable cows, waiting to be coloured in a variety of colours and with some gorgeous papers too.  I loooove the cow print paper on this!


I printed the digi image onto watercolour card stock in a light grey (you can adjust the transparency of the image to change the colour)

I then used a combination of watercolour paints and coloured pencils for detail to bring this cutie to life, before fussing with cutting out, leaving a small white border.

I then mounted it on a white rectangle, cutting a larger rectangle from the cow print paper.  All finished with a daisy and a sentiment (also in the bundle)

There are so many cute cows to choose from. Check out the full bundle here, or you can buy them individually.  There will definitely be something you 'need'! 

Id like to enter this into:

Crafty calender - Love is in the air

Crafty Catz - Anything goes

Cut it up - This makes me happy - (dies used flowers and stitched rectangle background) card making just makes me happy and so does this image.  it really made me smile when i saw it!

C.R.A.F.T - love/anything goes

Little red wagon - Love

Hope to see you soon, thanks so much for dropping by.  If you do land here, please leave me some love - it makes my day to read them!

Crafting hugs

Rachael