WHITEOUT - Polka Doodles Challenge Wk 37

OK I went hunting for challenges yesterday and found out that Polka Doodles (who I love and have to have everything they make) have their very own weekly challenge (its amazing what you find when you look!). And then I saw there was a prize as well - its only their latest CD Pretty Sweet - which I really need to have but due to my promise to my Hubby (see first ever post for more info) I just cannot justify buying at the moment - ohhhhh!

So my mind was made up I was going to enter and win - obviously (only joking, but I can hope can't I?). But then came the stumbling block - the theme was "Whiteout - we want to see white cards (great Christmas theme!) and only a little tiny bit of colour will be allowed. You can use as much texture, bling and glitter as you like, just remember to keep it white" and I was stumped. I always use colour and normally lots of it - pretty patterned papers, bright coloured images or stamped images coloured with my beautiful promarkers - what was I going to do?

I hunted through the mountain of Polka Doodles CD's I have (If I'm honest I have everyone except the latest Pretty Sweet) and printed out loads of different images of snowmen etc. However snowmen images had been used on lots of the examples by the design team so I decided I wanted something different. Then I found it - a beautiful swirly butterfly on  the Back to Nature CD Rom available here.

Heres my creation - I hope you like it:-

I glittered up a digi stamped butterfly from the CD and then added this to a circle of gloss white card which I had embossed using a cuttlebug folder. To the edge I added some beautiful white lace to add even more texture. I stuck a wide white organza ribbon to the centre of a large scalloped cardblank and then mounted the lace circle onto this. Finally I added a craftwork cards greeting and white pearlecent candi and finished off with a few gloss card punched flowers.

Hope you like it and fingers crossed that I win. Happy designing and crafting x

Happiness Blooms Card and Notepad Set - A Challenge

Well I'm back again after a couple of days (what a great start this blog is off too!!) with a card and notepad set I created for a challenge over at Designed 2 Delight.

The challenge was to use the beautiful Happiness Blooms images available from their store and found here.

Here's a pic of my creations:-

I loved working with this digi stamp. Its such a lovely, versatile image and so easy to colour.

I chose to create a card using a colour scheme I don't use very often (I'm much more pinks, lilacs and blue tones usually!) and then also created a little notepad by cutting out the image and mounting it to a piece of strong card the same size as the Wilkinsons Notepad I used as the base. The pad was only 15p so a bit of a bargain. Even though I do say so myself, I quite like them.

Hope you all do too. Happy designing.

Emma x