Octopus kisses

Hello crafters

Another fortnight has passed so it's time again for another Polkadoodles challenge over on our blog.  You can choose any theme and any project to share with us for a chance to win images.

I have today used one of my all-time favourite images - Winnie Octopus kisses   I have seen some comments recently about people not feeling confident to colour, so just as a reminder - Polkadoodles also do pre-coloured versions of most of the images, so if you lack confidence, or even if you need a quick card in an emergency, the pre-coloured images are amazing!

If you do like to colour - then for this image I used Copic markers for a base colour.  I used a couple of shades but didn't do much blending.  Over the top, I then used polychromos pencils to add depth to the shadows and texture across the image.  They are great for adding small detail too such as flicks in the hair. It really helped with the effect of pearlescence on the tail.  it looks like it shimmers between the purple and the turquoise. Finally, I added a white gel pen for a glittery effect

The papers are from my polkadoodles stash, when I print out digi images that have matching papers I keep them in a pile on my desk so I can pull them out when needed so I don't waste anything.

All then finished with twine, stickles glitter and some Nuvo drops.

I'd like to enter this into:

Creative fingers - Anything goes

Creative Inspiration challenges - Anything goes

Ally's Angels - anything goes

Crafts galore encore - Anything goes

Love to craft - Anything goes

Thanks so much for joining me - I hope to see your entries o our blog.

If you like my work then you can follow me on Instagram, Pinterest of facebook - the links are above.

See you all soon

Rachael 

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mini moo challenge 2023

 Hi Crafting friends

I have something a bit different to share.  For the last month, I have been participating in the mini moo challenge over at Vera Lane Facebook group.  A mini moo is a little card measuring 2.75 by 1.25 inches so it's tiny.

You really have to think about positioning and how to create texture in the background on a very small scale.

Each day there was a different theme or prompt and the idea was to use Vera lane artwork and a few other craft supplies to make a set of cards to enter a challenge.

The prompts to match the photo below were:

Girly	Dog gone it	winter	crafter	birthday	garden	Holiday	Cats
Home	Black and white	flowers	transportation	Go fish	love	Oh boy	Spring
Face it	Yellow	Lets fly	Monochrome	Dee-licious	For the birds	Vacation	Halloween
Bright colours	Got the blues	sunshine	Fairy tale	trave	Song title	Good books

Each time I look at them I have a new favourite! Today it's the pink one with the flamingo for the beach!  

My plan is to now add them to a journal and keep them as artwork

Thank you to #veralanedesigns for a fantastic challenge!

Crafting hugs

Rachael

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Lily pad fairy

 Hi everyone

We have our latest challenge now on over at all dressed up Facebook, and the theme is to embellish it.  You can use whatever you like, as long as you use an All dressed up image, and add some embellies to brighten your card.

Here is my inspiration using lily pad fairy - available here from Esty

I coloured the image using a combination of copics and Polychromos pencils, before fussy cutting her out.

The oval die and the water lilies are from heartfelf=t creations.  I cut the flowers out and inked them before shaping them into water lilies.  I also added some ribbon from my stash to embellish this card.

Isn't she so cute?

I hope you will join in the fun over at our challenge, you can also enter our All dressed up blog challenge too, the theme is always anything goes, so you'll get two chances of winning and an image from the fabulous collection.

I'd like to enter this into: 

Paper Minutes - favourite color (Purple)

Shopping our stash - Flowers (The heartfelt creations flowers are really old from my stash)

Pammies pinky inkies - Anything goes

Lil patch of crafty friends - anything goes

The fairy and the unicorn - anything fantasy (fairy)

Thanks for stopping by - please leave me a comment if you do land here, and follow my other Social media channels for quicker updates and inspiration.

See you soon! Crafting hugs

Rachael 

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Autumn vibe

 Hey everyone

So in case you hadn't noticed the Autumn releases are all on their way!  loads of new stamps from all companies for Autumn and Halloween.

I have a couple of cards in the next few days to share starting with this one I made for a create and craft show on behalf of Oakwood direct.

They have shows with Stampendous stamps, and I was sent this one to complete samples for.  Its a large slimline stamp called Harvest ride, but I liked the bicycle so didn't use the whole thing for this card.

I also though it would look great layered up, so I stamped it three times and coloured up sections before fussy cutting them so I could decoupage it.

It was coloured with a combo of copic markers and polychromos pencils, before I layered it, and added it to a card base with a beautiful yellow mat and layer.

The sentiment is from a Hunkydory pad with little strips you cut up.  i thought this one was perfect for the card.

I'd like to enter this into:

Krafty Chicks - all occasions

Double D - wheels/Mood board

Crafty Calender - anything goes

Taylor made cards 4 U - transport

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

Creative crafters - Anything goes

I hope you like my card - if so please leave a bit of love either below or on on my other social media sites - to access these click on the link top right!

See you very soon

Rachael 

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Floating away

 Hi everyone

Today is the new challenge over on the all dressed up Facebook Page.  The theme is holidays.  I know this means different things to different countries, but as I'm from the UK, Holidays mean sun, sea, sand and sangria!

I made my card using Pool party 

I printed out my image and coloured her with a combination of copics and Polychromos pencils.

I then cut a 6inch circle, and folded it in half for my base card.  Using the lawn fawn wave dies, I cut three colours of blue, stuck them together and then used the same 6inch die to cut out the base.  stuck these together.  I fussy cut my image including inside the ring and stuck her on.  I used a sentiment on my desk (not sure where this one even comes from its from my pile of bits I print/stamp/cut etc and don't use. They go into a pot and I occasionally pick something out!  Do you do this too?)

To finish the image I used a white gel pen for highlights and some glossy accents on her glasses

I love how bright and vibrant this turned out. 

I'd like to enter her into:

Through the craft room door - anything goes

Passion for markers - occasion other than birthday

Crafty Galz - anything goes 

Aud sentiment - summer 

Creative fingers - anything goes

QKR stampede - anything goes

Thanks so much for stopping by - please do check out our Facebook page for more dressy girls inspiration and to enter our challenge!

See you soon

Crafting hugs

Rachael 

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Birthday beach fun!

 Hello friends

Welcome back to my blog and more ramblings from the glittery pink craft room.

Today I'm sharing this super cutie made to inspire you to enter our all dressed up challenge on Facebook.

Every month on the 1st, we try and inspire you to use an all dressed up image and enter this challenge to win three of Wendy's amazing images - including new releases!

Our theme for June is pick a colour... an guess my colours!  Yes raspberry and black.  I just love these colours!!!

I printed her out and coloured her with a combo of copics and Polychromos pencils.

The back ground is a stamp from stampendous called Pop dots available from @Oakwooddirect.  The sentiment is from Claire manning designs

I did an inky background using picked raspberry distress oxide and speckled some on the page along with some black gouache.

A bit of sticky foam and I finished my card!

Please do stop by the Facebook page and check out the other DT inspiration, and then enter our lovely challenge!

I'd like to enter this into:

Through the craft room door - anything goes

Crafty calendar - anything goes

Crafty Catz - anything goes - twist all about the girls

Daring card makers - flair not square

See you all soon

Rachael

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Flower fairy new release all dressed up

Hello crafting friends

just sharing with you my inspiration for the latest all dressed up releases.

This gorgeous girl is called flower fairy, and she joins so many other beautiful images in the Etsy gallery and can be found here

I printed her out and coloured her with copics and Polychromos pencils for added depth.  I then fussy cut her out.  I dug through my stash and found some leave dies, a Kaiser craft frame and some fleurs flower dies.  I coloured the flowers with Victorian velvet distress oxide and shaped and added some stems.

The stamp is a bitty birthday sentiment stamp from MFT.  I finished the card by adding some clear glitter pen from Oakwood archer. 

Also in this new release are:

Garden Boy

Butterfly hairdo

Aren't they just amazing!

There is still time to enter both the Facebook challenge here and the blog challenge, for a chance to win images (including these new release ones!) 

Please hop over to these pages for loads more inspiration from the DT and i'll see you back here again very soon

Crafting hugs

Rachael 

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Flower fairy

 Hello everyone

It is time again for another ADU challenge on our friendly Facebookgroup.  Every month on the 1^st we have a new theme and this month its ‘flowers’

This challenge shouldn’t be too hard to enter, after all so many of the stunning images either have flowers on them, or you can add flowers to your background or scene. Our own rule is that you must use an all dressed up image.

I chose to use magic fairy (check out Etsy for loads more images you can use) and a floral background. 

I used craft artist to import some floral embellishments from a digi kit into the background, and I then added the image to my scene.  I decided I wanted a pencilled sketchy look, so I used the transparency tool and made it 70% lighter, then printed it and coloured with Copics and Polychromos pencils.

I then fussy cut her out before using foam pads to lift her off the card.

 

You can also enter out anything goes challenge on our blog.  This is open until the 15^th of every month.  If you are not into challenges, then both Facebook and the challenge blog have loads of inspiration from the talented DT team.

 I hope you like her – I think she’s super cute!

 I’d like to enter this into:

•  Classic design challenge - anything goes
• crafts galore encore - anything goes
• Love to craft - anything goes
• we love stamping -  for a lady of a girl
• Crafty Katz - anything goes
• Creative fingers - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by, it means a lot – especially if you comment, or follow me on FB, Instagram or Pinterest. 

See you soon!

Rachael

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Play date

 Hello friends

Me again - with a just for fun colouring of playdate from All dressed up (you can find here here on Etsy)

I just love this image - she's so sassy.  She looks like she has bags of attitude and I couldn't wait to colour her in!

Ingredients

• All dressed up digi stamp - playdate
• pink spotty paper from my stash
• Lili of the valley - everyday sentiments 
• Coloured with copics and Polychromos pencils
• Tattered lace stitched rectangle die

I printed her out and coloured her with a base of copics.  I used a couple of different shades for each, but only to put in basic shadows.  I then went over it with my Faber Castel Polychromos pencils to add more depth to the image and build up the texture in her hair.  I used the white pencil to add extra highlight on the bow and her skirt.  I just love the effect.

I fussy cut her out and mounted her onto a piece of black card and added just a hint of white pigment ink behind her (just what was left on my brush) to soften the black.

Matted and layered the pink spotty also on black and fussy cut out the sentiment from the sheet I printed and then using glue and foam pads assembled the card.  Once I had left it overnight I realised I wanted her to have super black sunglasses so I used my black Nuvo drops to add shine and dimension.

I hope you love this image as much as I do.  

I'd like to enter this into:

• A bit more time to craft - anything goes
•  perfect time to craft -Anything goes
• Creations in pink - anything goes in pink
• Dragonfly dreams - anything goes
• creative fingers - anything goes

I'm so glad you dropped by - it means so much when people visit.  Please like and follow, and also if you go back to my home page click on other SM sites to find more examples of my work. 

See you again very soon

Crafting hugs

Rachael 

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Exciting news - GDT at colour crazy

 Hello everyone

So.... I have some super exciting news.... I have been invited to take part in a three month Guest Designer Team spot with the colour crazy challenge.

These ladies have made me feel so welcome already and have some amazing sponsors lined up. The challenge is Anything goes, you just need to colour something!  so simple and easy!

My first post is using this adorable image from Ching-Chou Kuik and it is called Snowflake Dollie 

Ingredients

• Digi image Ching-Chou-Kuik 
• Coloured with copics and Polychromos pencils
• Digi printed sentiment 
• Background splatters with a Sheena Douglas shimmer pen (summer sky)

This image was so detailed and intricate I didn’t want to distract from her with loads of embellishments and patterns, but I did know she needed to sparkle, and then sparkle some more!

I printed the background panel after designing it on Craft artist, and then printed two further images so I could colour and decoupage them for dimension.

Each was coloured firstly with copics then details added with my pencils to add depth, especially on her folds of her dress.

I then added splatters to the background panel and layered the princess together using foam pads.

The while thing was matted onto some silver glitter card, and extra sparkle added with simmer pens, and stickles in a variety of colours.  The photos don’t do the sparkle justice on this.  It shines!

I'd like to enter this into

• CAS on Friday - CAS Christmas
• Crafty Catz - Anything goes with a twist of non traditional Christmas colour
• Your next stamp - sparkle and shine
• Aud sentiment - anything goes with a sentiment
• Creative knockouts - Christmas delight

If you want more information on the sponsors than please visit their Etsy page, otherwise, I'd love to see what you create and enter into our challenge.

Leave me some love, either here on on my other Social media pages, otherwise I'll see you back here for more makes from the desk of the glittery pink craft room!

Rachael 

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All dressed up latest release November 2021

 Hello crafting friends

I hope your Christmas card makes are coming along nicely, if you need some inspiration or even some new images, then Wendy has released some gorgeous ones this month.

Our fabulous DT launched them at the beginning of the month, and here is my inspiration for you using a super cute image called Fairy star

Ingredients

• Digi image - Fairy start available from here on Etsy
• Coloured with spectrum noir triblend brush markers and Polychromos pencils
• The circles were cut on my scan and cut
• Backing paper from simply creative paper pad called festive chic
• Sentiment - Lili of the valley scripty Christmas sentiments 
• Embellishments Creative expressions dies stitched collection - wreath

This card was supposed to be a shaker card.  I coloured her and cut out the circles, the frame and the acetate and filled it with sparkles, but then I realised you just couldn't see her in all her splendid glory, so I pulled the whole things apart and started again!

To cover up the glue mess around the edge I cut another frame on my scan and cut, and using the same purple card stock, matted and layered and added the detail across the middle. 

This super cute image is one of three, here are the others.

Aren't they just adorable.

You can enter our challenge here.  The only rules are it must follow the theme and use an all dressed up image.

Our blog challenge runs until the 15th and they have an anything goes challenge, so you can enter both to double your chances of winning some images. 

There is loads of inspiration on these channels but also on our Pinterest page. Please hop over and check out the DTs other fabulous creations. 

I'd like to enter this into.

Thanks so much for stopping by and reading my long post!  for shorter posts you might want to try Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest.  Links  are top right on my home page.  Otherwise, if you've made it this far you might as well leave me a comment, and follow me for more ramblings  until then....

Crafting hugs

Rachael

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All my polkadoodles love

Hello everyone

I'm trying to use some of what I have in my craft room, rather than buying new and decided to do a search through my computer to see what I had on there. I've been crafting for so long that I have folders that I haven't even been into since 2010! 

While I was searching through my digi stash and found a whole kit I had totally forgotten about, and they're just super cute!

This is from a Winnie sugar sprinkles collection from Polkadoodles.  

 Ingredients

• Stencil - the range
• Ink - distress ink Kitsch Flamingo
• Scalloped circle die - lawn lawn
• Sentiment - Mama elephant big sending hugs stamp set 
• Coloured with Spectrum noir triblend brush markers and
• Polychromos pencils for detail

I printed her and coloured her, adding detail with my pencils to add depth after laying the alcohol pens down.  I then cut her out using my scan and cut (with a 1mm border)

I took a piece of plan card and using a stencil, added the tiny hearts to the background fading the colour out to the edges.  I die cut the circle from a grey card stock ad also stamped and heat embossed the sentiment onto the same card.  To make this pop, I also matted the main panel onto it too.

Everything was then layered with a combination of glue and foam pads for extra dimension.

I just love her - this is one of those cards you just don't want to give away!

I'd like to enter her into:

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes 

A perfect time to craft - anything goes 

The crafters cafe - anything goes

creations in pink - anything goes 

Digi chooseday - anything goes

Cutie pie challenge - anything cute

Thanks for stopping by - if you want to see more, there is other Social Media channels linked on my home page, or just follow my blog for regular inspiration all from the desk of The Glittery Pink Craft Room!

See you soon

Crafting Hugs

Rachael 

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