BACK TO SCHOOL

 Good morning and welcome to my blog, and thanks so much for visiting.  

Today I have a card for back to school.  Once your children have finished their schooling, graduated from university, and are now working, we forget about school holidays unless you have grandchildren.

A quick peek at the inside of my card.

An Apple for the teacher.

Challenges I'm Entering:

1. A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge 07-2026 Anything Goes

2. 613 Avenue Creative Challenge July 2026 Anything Goes

3. A Place To Start Challenge July 2026 Anything Goes

4. Classic Design Challenge 07 July Anything Goes 

5. Crafty Catz Challenge #718 Anything Goes 

6. Pattie's Creations Design Challenge # 244 Anything Goes

7. Paper Rocks Scissors Challenge #18 Anything Goes

8. Tic Tac Toe Challenge #297 Summertime, Free, Layers

9. Moving Along With The Time Challenge #191 Using A Colour Medium

10. Mix It Up Challenge Anything Goes

11. Sweet Stampin Challenge for the Children

12. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #282 Polkadoodles

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White French linen card stock.

2. Coloured Card: American Craft Emerald

3. Design Papers: Polkadoodles 

DLPD 10004 Graduation School Student

4. Image: Polkadoodles DLPD10022 Cute Girls with Stationery.

5. Colour Medium: Copic Ciao Markers: C1, E000, E00, E02, E31, E33, E37, E43, E50, RV10, YG03, G02, G05, G07, B05, BV02, Y06, Y35, YR04, R27

6. Tools Used:

7. Dies: Round Ovals unbranded dies.

8. Embellishments:

The embellishments were buttons I had in my stash, so I

photocopied them and fussy cut them and mounted them on foam tape.  The blackboards inside the card were handmade.  The green satin ribbon was from my stash.

9. Inside of the card:

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend and happy crafting.

CHRISTMAS GNOME

Good morning and welcome to my blog.  Today I have my first Christmas card for the year for Polkadoodles.  Here it is; July already, and only 23 more Fridays until Christmas Day.  Isn't that scary?

 Isn't this a cute Gnome with her candy cane?

Here's a quick look inside the card.

Don't forget to pop over to DigiChoosday and check out what the design team have created using the Christmas theme.

Challenges I'm Entering:

1. A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge 07-2026 Anything Goes

2. 613 Avenue Creative Challenge July 2026 Anything Goes

3. A Place To Start Challenge July 2026 Anything Goes

4. Crafts Galore Encore Challenge July 2026 Anything Goes

5. Crafty Catz Challenge #717 Anything Goes 

6. Pattie's Creations Design Challenge # 244 Anything Goes

7. Paper Rocks Scissors Challenge #18 Anything Goes

8. We Love Stamping July 2026 Summertime

9. Moving Along With The Time Challenge #191 Using A Colour Medium

10. Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge July Anything Goes

11. Mix It Up Challenge Anything Goes

12.  Make My Monday Challenge #291 Blend 2 - 3 Colours 

13. Sweet Stampin Challenge Christmas in July

14. Dragonfly Dreams Christmas In July with Glitter or Sparkle

15. Merry Little Christmas Challenge #69 Anything Christmas

16. Sparkles Christmas Challenge #186 Monochrome Winter Wishes

17. Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #641 Christmas In July 

18. Krafty Chicks Challenge #828 Christmas

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White French Linen card stock.

2. Coloured Card: American Craft Cascade and Silver Mirror card.

3. Design Papers: By Polkadoodles Digital Paper

DPLD 9438 Beary Christmas papers.

4. Image: Gnome Candy Cane by Polkadoodles

5. Colour Medium: Copic Ciao, silver and white gel pens.

6. Sentiment: By Polkadoodles Christmas sentiments.

Festive Wishes from this house to yours.

7. Dies Used: All dies are from an unbranded source.

      

8. Tools Used:

9. Inside and the back of the card:

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend and happy crafting.

ASTERS

 Good morning and welcome to my blog.

Today I have another of my Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 

design and team cards.

Yes, I'm the one behind all the monthly sketches for

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.   I've been designing these sketches for about 7 -8 years now and really enjoy it.  My best thoughts are usually in the shower.

This sketch I'm using today is

Sketch # 331

This is another great sketch for using up some of those scrap pieces of design paper we all love and just can't throw out, as we love it so much.  My problem is cutting up a new sheet of 12 x 12, as I don't want to part with it.

This card is totally made from scraps out of my scrap folders.   It's also an easy sketch; it just looks harder with all those layers.

Here's a quick look inside the card.

Don't forget to drop by 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and check out

what Anne & Kelly have created.

Challenges I'm Entering:

1. A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge 07-2026 Anything Goes

2. 613 Avenue Creative Challenge July 2026 Anything Goes

3. A Place To Start Challenge July 2026 Anything Goes

4. Crafts Galore Encore Challenge July 2026 Anything Goes

5. Crafty Catz Challenge #717 Anything Goes 

6. Pattie's Creations Design Challenge # 244 Anything Goes

7. Paper Rocks Scissors Challenge #18 Anything Goes

8. We Love Stamping July 2026 Summertime

9. Moving Along With The Time Challenge #191 Using A Colour Medium

10. Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge July Anything Goes

11. Mix It Up Challenge Anything Goes

12.  Make My Monday Challenge #291 Blend 2 - 3 Colours 

13. Just Us Girls Challenge #830 Die Week

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White French linen card stock.

2. Coloured card: American Craft Taffy (hot pink) and

Key Lime (green)

3. Design Papers: Crafters Choice Garden

Recollections Spring Posies

Polkadoodles digital paper.

4. Image: Asters by Fred She Said

5. Colour Medium: Copics

6. Tools Used:

7. Dies Used:  Spellbinders Petite Ovals, Large & Small

8. Embellishments:

9. Inside and the back of the card:

Wishing you all a wonderful week and happy crafting.

BUNNY WITH FLOWER

 Good morning and welcome to my blog.  Thanks so much for visiting.  Today I have this cutest little Rabbit.  This is an image I won from Lee Holland.  What a treat; he has so many wonderful images to choose from. I was totally spoilt for choice.

Today this card is for Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2, and it was my sketch, and I really had to think about putting it together, and I got the right pieces in the right place.

Here's the sketch:

Sketch # 330

Please note: This isn't a hard sketch; it was me not being in a creative mood, and I had lost my Mojo.

Here's a quick peek inside the card.

Don't forget to drop by Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and check out Anne's and Kelly's cards this month.

Challenges I'm Entering:

1. A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge 07-2026 Anything Goes

2. 613 Avenue Creative Challenge July 2026 Anything Goes

3. A Place To Start Challenge July 2026 Anything Goes

4. Crafts Galore Encore Challenge July 2026 Anything Goes

5. Crafty Catz Challenge #717 Anything Goes 

6. Pattie's Creations Design Challenge # 244 Anything Goes

7. Paper Rocks Scissors Challenge #18 Anything Goes

8. We Love Stamping July 2026 Summertime

9. Moving Along With The Time Challenge #191 Using A Colour Medium

10. Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge July Anything Goes

11. Mix It Up Challenge Anything Goes

12. Critter Crazy Challenge #112 Featuring a Bunny

13. Crafty Annimals Challenge #107 A Bunny 

14. Make My Monday Challenge #291 Blend 2 - 3 Colours 

15. Just Us Girl's Challenge #830 Die Week

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White French Linen card stock.

2. Coloured card: 

Green = Kiwi Crush  Bazzil 

 Pink = Taffy by American Craft.

3. Design Papers:

Check = Polkadoodles Digital Paper

Striped = Polkadoodles Digital Paper

Gingham = Sketching Stamper Digital Paper

The striped and gingham were all scraps.

4. Image: Bunny With Flower by Lee Hollands

5. Colour Medium: Copic Ciao and a black gel pen.

6. Tools Used:

7. Dies Used: Tim Holtz Moulded Circles and Spellbinders

Large and small squares and Joy Craft Corner die.

8. Embellishments: Joy Craft corner and Pink crystal Gems from my stash.

9. Inside and the back of the card.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend and happy crafting.