Pollycraft Monday Challenge/ Fiskarettes DT - Chill out!

Hello Everyone! Sorry I am quite late with my Pollycraft Monday Challenge post today. I am still feeling awful but I went the Doctor's today and I have some antibiotics now so hopefully I will start to feel better soon. I have a nasty cough now which is keeping everyone awake so I am not very popular!  The lovely Anita has chosen our theme this week which is:

Chill Out!

I have made a card using the lovely Ronnie who is relaxing in his chair and some new October Afternoon Papers I recently acquired. 

I added some of my usual stitching in red this time and using some of my favourite Fiskars punches, the scalloped lace border punch and the star squeeze punch. 

I coloured Ronnie with my Promarkers, the sentiment is from an old Elzybells set. 

The fabulous ribbon and the star stick pin are from The Ribbon Girl. I have run out of the gorgeous black gingham now so I need to get some more! It has become a new favourite of mine and it looks fab with my old favourites...the spotty buttons!
I hope you will be able to join in with our Challenge this week our fabulous sponsor is 

My Mum's Craft Shop

who is offering a 10.00 voucher for their fabulous shop! I will be staying in Dorset near the shop twice this year and I can't wait to pop in see the new shop in Poundbury.

If you want to see the step by step instructions on how to make this card, you can see them on the Fiskarettes blog. I hope you have a lovely Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Anything but a card

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend, mine was very busy and very productive, I feel like I didn't sit down for more then 5 minutes all weekend but it was worth it when I look at everything I have done! We are back to weekly Challenges from this week on the Pollycraft Monday Challenge and this week it is my turn to set to the theme! I have chosen...

Anything but a card

I decided to try and get ahead and decorate a money envelope for my Son's birthday next month, I just need to make sure I don't lose it before then :-) I have used the fab Jerry Kisses 'Tune' and some fun and funky Echo Park Happy days papers. I love the fab colours!

The sentiment is one I used last week from Crafter's Companion and I stamped it onto Kraft cardstock this time before cutting it out. Jerry was coloured with Promarkers. The money envelope started life as a gift card that came with an Ipod touch and I rescued it from the bin this weekend!


I punched holes and set eyelets in two of the flaps and tied a bow through the holes with gingham ribbon to match the front. I added a tag created using a Whimsy stamp.
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge, we are being sponsored by the fabulous Hayley from Funky Farm Scrapbook Barn!


There is a fab sale going on at Funky Farm Scrapbook barn with lots of fab goodies at fab prices!
I have been a customer of Hayley's fab shop for a couple of years now and her service and range of products she stocks are amazing and I cannot recommend her enough, she is brilliant and I am so chuffed she is sponsoring my Challenge week. Make sure you check out the blog for all the details of the Challenge and how you can win the £10.00 voucher for Funky Farm Scrapbook barn.
Have a lovely Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Friends and Friendship

Hi Everyone! I can't believe it is Monday morning, I need another weekend already! There is one good thing about Mondays...it's time for a new Pollycraft Challenge! This week the lovely Joey has chosen our theme and she has chosen....Friends and Friendship.

I have made a card for this week using the adorable Swings and Slides Sweet Love image. I used Echo Park papers and did a bit of sewing with my machine and some turquoise thread. The sentiment I used is from Pink Petticoat and the ribbon was bought from Tesco's a long time ago. I added a little wooden flower topped with a button as a finishing touch.

This week we are sponsored by the lovely Elaine from Quixotic Paperie who is offering the winner a £10 voucher :) The fabulous Design Team have created some fabulous cards to inspire you this week. You can check them all out on the Challenge blog here.
Have a great Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Cazza's sketch

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend. I have been struggling with my mojo lately and didn't get as much crafting done as I would have liked but I have had a massive clear up and tidy of my craft stash so things are a bit easier to find now. I didn't make it to the NEC but I do hope to go there next March.

Monday is Pollycraft Challenge day of course and we have a great sketch by Cazza for you this week. I have used the cheeky Chester for my card and some My Mind's Eye Christmas papers with a Pink Petticoat sentiment.

I added some flowers as an extra and some gems and tied the card with twine topping the bow with a tiny brown button.
Here is Cazza's lovely Sketch:

Make sure you pop over to the Challenge blog to check out all the lovely cards from the DT and I hope you will be able to join in with this week's Challenge, if you do, you could win a whopping ten Digital Images from Pollycraft:

Have a great Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Bookmarks and Tags

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are well Sorry my post is a little late today. I had a lovely birthday weekend but have caught the lurgy from my Son so am feeling very under the weather today. Monday is Pollycraft Challenge day and we have something a little bit different for you today. Our theme this week is

'Tags and Bookmarks'.

I have made a corner bookmark using some paper scraps and a Luna Bitterfrost 'Robots Rock' image.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and cut it out leaving a small border. The button and letter stickers are from my stash and the lovely lace is from The Ribbon Girl.

Here is a closing up on my image. The colours on the main photo look a bit funny, this photo looks a bit better! I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge. This week, we are sponsored by The Crimson Cloud and the prize for this week is 3 packs of die cuts.

Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for lots of inspiration from the DT! Have a good Monday.
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Swirls and Pearls

Morning Everyone! I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Mine was busy, I went to the Craft Show at Sandown yesterday and bought lots of new goodies I am looking forward to playing with this week!
Monday means it's time for a new Pollycraft Challenge and our theme this week chosen by the lovely Anita is

'Swirls and Pearls'

I have chose a Luna Bitterfrost Hearts Rock image to use on my card, it took me over two hours to get this card looking ok and I am still not 100% happy with it! I used a mix of papers from Echo Park and My Mind's Eye some pearls from The Ribbon Girl and a few other bits and bobs from my stash.

I loved colouring this image, her clothes are just so much fun and I love her little crown. I was going to colour her in just greys and red but felt it needed something else so added a little green. The flowers and label holder are from my stash. I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge, our sponsot this week is Crafty Emma's Store and if you take part, you may win a £10.00 voucher to spend on some lovely goodies which Emma has in the shop.

Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for lots of inspiration from the DT.
Have a great Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge -Autumn colours

Hi Everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend. I spent most of mine crafting! Heaven! It is Monday which means it is time for another Pollycraft Monday Challenge. This week the lovely Sheenas has chosen our theme and she has gone with AUTUMN COLOURS so we want to see reds, oranges, browns, etc in your creations. Ihave made a card using the adorable Swings and Slides 'Little Sprout'. She is such a little cutie!
I have used papers from a few different manufacturers and pads to get the right mix of Autumn colours.

I followed the great sketch from this week's Sketch Saturday Challenge which was lots of fun with the 'wonky' layers. I added a bow and a couple of little flowers as extras.

I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge. This week we are delighted to be sponsored by

who are offering the lucky winner £10 voucher to spend. Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for all the details and some wonderful inspiration from the DT.
Have a great Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Distressing

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend. I am slowly getting back to our normal routine after our holiday and have nearly finished all the washing! I had a little bit of crafting time at the weekend and made some Design Team cards and did some work on my commissions, just need to put the steps copy together before sending them off then I will be free to have a play! The theme for this week's Pollycraft Challenge chosen by the lovely Maria is .... Distressing. I don't do much distressing on my cards normally so it was great to do something a bit different this week. For my card, I used some My Mind's Eye papers from two different pads and some spotty paper which was in my scraps box.

I distressed the papers with my distressing tool and distress ink and I used this week's fabulous sketch from Sunday Sketch and stamp after spotting it on the very talented Donna's blog I just had to use it!

The sentiment is by Hero Arts and I used a Sonny Honeycloud image called 'My Way' I have never used before and printed her on textured card and coloured her in with Promarkers. I added some flowers from my stash and some string and a couple of little pearls. I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge, you could choose 10 Digis from the Pollycraft Shop if you are this weeks lucky winner!

Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for all the details and some fabulous inspiration from the Design Team! Have a great Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - The Great Outdoors + digi winner!

Hello again! I am back with my DT card for this week's Pollycraft Monday Challenge. This week, the lovely Emma has chosen our theme and it is 'The Great Outdoors'. I have made a card using the gorgeous Sonny Honeycloud Rainy Days image.

I used some leftover Pink Paislee papers from a magazine commission and some raindrop paper by Echo Park which was layered up with Die cut kraft which I cut with a Whiff of Joy border die. The gingham was a present from a crafty friend and I die cut the Pink Petticoat sentiment with a My Favourite things Die-namics die. The netting was from my local craft shop and the flowers from my stash, oh and one last thing...the charm and button are from The Ribbon girl! I certainly piled it all on for this card but I love the finished result!
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge. We are sponsored this week by Crafty Emma's store which stock so many lovely goodies including ALL my favourite paper collections, it's no surprise I never have any money with all tempting goodies Emma has in store!

On last week's Challenge, I offered the chance to win the Little Stars digi I used on my card to be drawn from one of the commenters on the post. Random org picked no7 from the 21 comments which is Carly!
Can you please send me an email to milliesmarvels@gmail.com and I will arrange for your image to be sent to you. Have a great Day!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Travel/Holidays

Morning Everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend, mine was very busy, I made 10 cards for a commission on Friday, got a new phone on Saturday and spent a fab afternoon and evening with my Best Friend and her little boy and went out for lunch with Hubby and the kids for Father's Day yesterday. I will be back tomorrow to share the card I made for him this year. It's a shame the weekend had to end but the good thing about Mondays is that we bring you a new Pollycraft Challenge and the theme this weeks chosen by our new DT member Cazza is:

Travel /Holidays

It took me a while to decide what I was going to make and then settled on one of the fabulous new Sonny Honeycloud images, this one is called Life's a Beach so I just had to create a beach scene for her to stand in!

I used scraps from my scrap box layered up with lot of sewing to create a sandy beach and tucked a flower between the layers before sewing them together. I used some sentiment stamps to stamp into a ticket which I had stamped onto Kraft card and added it to the bottom right hand corner of the card. I printed Sonny onto smooth card and then coloured her in with Promarkers before cutting her out and adding her to the card with foam pads. The finishing touch was a ribbon tab topped with a spotty button. I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge for the chance to win a voucher for My Mum's Craft shop who are opening a Bricks and Mortar shop in one of my favourite places...Poundbury in Dorset!


Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for all the details and lots of inspiration from the DT!
Have a great Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Be My Teddy Bear

It's Monday and time for the Pollycraft Monday Challenge. I am so happy it is a Bank Holiday and I have set aside lots of Crafting time for today, I will be making Wedding and Baby cards. The Challenge theme this week on the Pollycraft Monday Challenge has been picked by the lovely Lynsey and she has chosen 'Be My Teddy Bear' which is perfect timing as Paula at Pollycraft is releasing some adorable new images today, some cute little bears called Spencer and Claudia.

I have used the adorable Ballerina Claudia on my card with some papers I have had in my stash for ages and a gorgeous pink ribbon from The Ribbon Girl. There is no stitching on this card which made it very quick to put together. The little sentiment is by Craftwork Cards and I used a Papermania scalloped blank for my card base.
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge for the chance to win a full set of Spencer and Claudia images. Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for all the details and some inspiration from the DT!
Have a great Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Boyz to Men

Morning Everyone! I hope you are all well and had a lovely weekend. Mine was very relaxing, I saw my Family, did a bit of shopping and had a lovely lunch with my Hubby :-) It's Monday already which means we have brand new Challenge theme on the Pollycraft Challenge blog. This week the lovely Joanne has chosen the theme 'Boyz to Men' so I have made another Father's Day card using the adorable little Chester.

I made an easel card using some of the fabulous new My Mind's Eye papers. I LOVE them! This star paper is just perfect for Men's cards.

I coloured Chester in with my Promarkers and cut him out before adding him to my card with foam pads. I used a Hero Arts sentiment and letter stickers, one of my favourite buttons and some Prima letter stickers to spell out 'Daddy'.
The finishing touch was some glitter glue on the heart.

I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge. We are sponsored by the Secret Crafter this week and if you take part in the Challenge you will have the chance to win 3 digis.
Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for all the details and some wonderful inspiration from the DT.
Have a great Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Fun and Games

It's Monday which means it is time for a new Pollycraft Challenge! I hope you had a lovely Easter Sunday, I spent a lovely day with my Family and also managed to fit in some crafting, my mojo came back and my commissions are nearly finished! The theme for this week's Pollycraft Challenge chosen by our lovely Emma is....

Fun and Games

I decided to take the theme litterally and made a game, our very own Pollycraft version of 'Noughts and Crosses'....Critters and Cogs!!

I made a board using a bargain offcut of mount board I picked up on my holiday for 10 pence a piece, I inked the edges with distress inks and then covered it with American Crafts paper. I made a grid with ribbon and gems on more American Crafts paper, mounted it on to brown card and then added it to the middle of the board.

I made counters by printing and colouring 4 each of my favourite Critters and Cogs, I coloured them in, cut them out with Nesties and then mounted them on to brown card and flooded them with glossy accents to make them more durable.
The letters I used are by American Crafts and I finished with a couple more embellishments I found in my stash.
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge, the prize for one lucky winner is a £10 voucher to spend over at Crafty Emma's Store.

(Please note p&p not included)

Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for lots of inspiration from the DT!
Have a lovely Bank Holiday Monday, right, I'm off now to finish my Commissions before my lot get up!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Sketch and Vintage

It's Monday which means it's time for a brand new Pollycraft Challenge and this week Maria has chosen our theme and has made a sketch for us and wants is to follow a Vintage theme.
I have used the lovely Cherry Kisses 'Tea in the 20's' image which is available here from the Pollycraft Shop for my card with some fabulous vintage Craftwork cards papers.

I don't do vintage very often but I really enjoyed making this card. I added lace and flowers from my stash and a Whimsy stamps sentiment ticket stamp and finished with lots of pearls.

I hope you will be able to join us this week and use Maria's wonderful sketch. The prize this week is a £10.00 gift voucher from The Creative Cottage

Have a lovely Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Easter

Morning everyone! It's Monday and it's time for a new Pollycraft Challenge and this week's theme is 'Easter'. I love Easter eggs, in fact I love any chocolate!
I have used 'Fluffy Wabbit' who seems to be a bit of a Chocoholic as well! I don't think that Easter Bunny disguise is fooling anyone!

I made a card blank from Kraft using my Grand Nestabilities and used Echo Park and Funky Hand papers which I sewed together. I used Ribbon Girl ribbon and finished with a touch of glossy accents on the egg and a couple of stick on pearls.
Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for lots of lovely inspiration from the fabulous Pollycraft DT. I hope you will be able to join us for the chance to win 3 digis from The Secret Crafter.

Have a great Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Old/Neglected Image

It's Monday already! The weekend went really quickly for me, I went to Hampton Court yesterday morning with my family for a look around and some lunch. I hadn't been there for years and it was great fun walking through all Henry the VIII rooms, especially as I have been watching the Tudors lately.
We have a brand new Pollycraft Challenge for you today and the theme is 'Old/Neglected Stamp or Image' I picked the Felicity and Friends 'Codi Stylin' image I used when I applied for the Pollycraft DT as I have not coloured her in for a while.

I used some of my new Fancy Pants papers and some Kraft card and coloured the image to match using my Promarkers. I stamped a sentiment ticket on Kraft and cut it out and finished with a felt flower topped with a small wooden button.
Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for lots of lovely cards from the DT. Paula is sponsoring this week's Challenge and if you take part you will have the chance to win some of the gorgeous new Swings and Slides images that are being released over at Pollycraft today.
Have a great Monday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Swirls and Pearls

The theme this week on the Pollycraft Monday Challenge is 'Swirls and Pearls' and I instantly thought Weddings! I have used the adorable Cuthbert and Kiki on their Wedding day for my card and have gone to town with lots of pretty embellishments!

The sentiment I used is from Lili of the Valley and I used Prima papers and flowers to match the glittered My Mind's Eye vintage style backing paper.
The swirl is a Marianne Design die and I decorated it with glitter glue and a few pearls.
I hope you will be able to join in with this week's Challenge. We have a fantastic prize of 10 Pollycraft digis for one lucky winner.
Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for lots of inspiration from the DT!
Have a great Monday.
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Fly me to the moon

Hi Everyone! Did you enjoy the Pollycraft Swings and Slides new release blog hop? The new digis will be available today in the Pollycraft shop. Paula has chosen the Challenge theme for us this week and it is a great one to dig out your Critters and Cogs images for...the theme is....

'Fly me to the Moon'

I decided to try something new for my card, I am pretty sure I have never used acetate on a card and I decided to make a moonscape with Zoom the little alien hanging over the edge of the moon resting on the acetate.

To make the card, I drew around a plate onto the front of a 6x6 card base to get the shape for the moon and cut it out with scissors. I then used this as a template to cut the moon from cream card. I stamped the sentiment and then embossed the moon and sewed around the edges with my machine.

I sandwiched the acetate between the two moon shapes leaving a tab along the spine which I stuck to the inside of the back of the card before covering it with Magnolia Star paper. I then printed, coloured in and cut out Zoom before adding him to the card with foam pads and finished off with a green pearl.
I hope you will be able to join us for this Challenge for the chance to win your choice of 10 Pollycraft digis. Make sure you check out the blog for lots of inspiration from the DT and to see how we all interpreted the theme.
I will be back later to announce the winners of the digis from the blog hop.
Have a good Monday.
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Three circles

Morning! Hope you had a good weekend. It's Monday already and time for a new Pollycraft Challenge. Joanne has chosen our theme and she would like to see 'Three Circles' on your projects this week.
I have used the gorgeous Maurice for my card with my favourite My Mind's Eye Papers. I used some distress ink to frame the image before I coloured it with Promarkers and then set it into a Polaroid style frame cut from Kraft card which I had stamped with a sentiment.


I sewed some patterned papers to a square of Kraft card for the card base and then added three circles cut from scraps of papers. I finished with some gorgeous buttons from Crafty Emma's store.
I hope you will be able to join us for this Challenge. We are sponsored this week by Quixotic Paperie and the winner will receive a 6x6 Prima paper pad.

Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for all the Challenge details and lots of inspiration from the DT.
Have a great Monday!
Jane
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