Pollycraft Monday #123 - Bingo Challenge!

Good morning!  I hope everyone had a great weekend and did you all enjoy the Tiddly Inks blog hop?  It was fun to see all those fabulous creations out there in blogland!

Today it's time for a new challenge at Pollycraft and the lovely Cazza has set a bingo board!  You just have to choose three squares in a row to participate (vertical, horizontal or diagonal).

This week's prize is a fabulous 10 digis of your choice from our very own Paula at Pollycraft!  Do head over to the Pollycraft challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from my lovely teamies!

For my card today, I chose to use Ribbon, Pollycraft image and Pearls (diagonal from top left).

This is Chester in Love... one of my favourite Pollycraft images.  The card is a small one to fit in the box I made last week... 11cm x 11cm.  The papers are from October Afternoon and the seam binding is from The Ribbon Girl.  The tag is from Maya Rd and the sentiment is an old stamp from my stash.  I have coloured Chester with copics (see details below) and added Glossy Accents to his eyes and heart.

Here's a close-up of the cute little guy:

And here are the copics I used:

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges: Anything Goes

Gingerloft Challenge #31: Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time #96: Anything Goes

Pile it On Challenge #3: Fuzzy Friends

Sentimental Sundays #89: Ribbon

That's all from me today my friends!  I hope you can join us for the challenge this week!

Have a lovely week!

Arabella

Pollycraft Monday #117: Anything Goes

Good Monday Morning!  Another week has flown by and over here the temperature has dropped a little bit more.  It looks like we might be in for a cold winter!

It's time for a new Pollycraft Monday Challenge!  We had loads of great entries into our Spooky Goings On challenge last week!  It was great to see so many people getting into the spirit of Halloween.  

This week it was Marit's turn to choose and she chose everyone's favourite challenge... Anything Goes!   Our sponsor this week is Letraset and the winner will receive a pack of 5 Promakers.

Head on over to the Pollycraft Challenge blog and check out the fabulous projects our DT has to show you this week!  Also, did you know that Paula is having a bundle sale on in the Pollycraft shop?  You can get some amazing deals there at the moment!  For example you can get all four of the Christmas Chesters for £2.50!!!

I decided to try to start getting ahead with my Christmas cards and I used one of the adorable Chesters. 

The papers I have used are from Crate Paper and October Afternoon.  I coloured Chester with copics and highlighted around him by flicking out from the image with B0000 and B000.  I added Stickles to his hat.  The charm is from The Secret Garden on Da Wanda and the sentiment is a stamp from Lili of the Valley and I think the ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The Ribbon Girl: Jingle all the way to Christmas
One Stitch at a Time #86: Christmas
Dream Valley Challenges #19: Anything Goes
Come and Get it Challenges: Anything Goes
Little Claire's Designs #14: Christmas

Here's a close-up of Chester:

And here are the copics I used:

Have a lovely week!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece  

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #116 Spooky Goings On

Good morning all!  It's another beautiful autumnal day here in Athens and the garbage in our street is finally being removed!  Yay!  I can't help but think that they have created a lot of extra work for themselves though as the bins were full weeks ago and people have been dumping rubbish bags in the streets in the general vicinity of the bins instead.  

It's time for a new challenge at Pollycraft Monday.  We had loads of fabulous entries into our Girls Girls Girls challenge last week.  This week it was Mary J's turn to choose the theme and in honour of the upcoming Halloween celebrations she chose:

Spooky Goings On!

This weeks prize is a very cool 10 digis from our very own Pollycraft!  

My teamies have once again created some fabulous projects for your inspiration.  Head on over to the Pollycraft Monday blog for a look!

For my card, I decided to use Lil Spook from the Swings and Slides collection...  He's just so cute!

I have followed this week's sketch from Sketch Saturday (a tricky one I thought) and added a cobweb in thread over the top.  The papers are a mixture of Webster's Pages, Crate Paper and Cosmo Cricket.  The buttons are by Jenni Bowlin and I have inked the edges around my image with Memento Tuxedo black ink.  The sentiment is made with Pollycraft sentiment stamps and Doodlbug rub ons and googly eyes.

Hhhmmm.... and now that I see the picture, I can see that one of my black pearls has fallen off from the far right of the card.... I will have to have a hunt for it and glue it back on!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday: Week #178

Card Cupids: Halloween (this is for a Halloween birthday)

Dream Valley Challenges # 18: Halloween (this is for a Halloween birthday)

Gingerloft Challenge #27: Halloween or Fall (this is for a Halloween birthday)

Here Come the Boys #13: Halloween (this is for a Halloween birthday)

Sentimental Sundays #78: Halloween (this is for a Halloween birthday)

The Crafty Pad #144: Halloween (this is for a Halloween birthday)

Here are the copics I used:

And here's a close up of my Lil Spook...

Have a lovely week!  

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #114

Good morning!  I thought I was on top of things now that we have pretty much finished moving and setting up our new apartment, but then I went and forgot that it was Monday!

Our challenge for you this week at Pollycraft is a super easy one chosen by Faye...  It's Boys Boys Boys!  We are sponsored this week by Letraset and the lucky winner will receive a 5-pack of Promarkers!

Head on over to the Pollycraft Monday blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the lovely Design Team ladies!

Here's my card:

This is Lil Monster from the Swings and Slides collection.  I think he's just gorgeous.  The papers I have used are from October Afternoon and Crate Paper.  The ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl and the charms are from Da Wanda.  The sentiment is from Pollycraft and I have added googly eyes to the image.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
I Did it Creations: Anything Goes
Birthday Sundaes #30: Fall Colours Birthday Card
One Stitch at a Time #83: Anything Goes
Sentimental Sunday's #86: Anything Goes


Here's a close up of the Little Monster:

Here are the copics I used:

Righty ho!  Gotta go and do some work!  We would love it if you could enter the challenge this week!  We are looking forward to seeing your creations!

Have a lovely week!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

Pollycraft Monday is back! Challenge #110!

Hello!  Did you miss the Pollycraft Monday challenge last week?  It was the perfect time to have a week off for us girls though I think... Everyone has been so busy lately.  

We're back this week with a great new challenge by DT member Kylie...  She has chosen Baby Love as the theme!  Our sponsor this week is My Mum's Craft Shop and they are offering a £10 voucher to the winner!  But don't forget... you've got to be in to win!

I decided to use Little Stars - Moon Lullaby for this challenge:

The papers are from October Afternoon and the ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl.  I have coloured this sweet image with copics (see details below) and was inspired by one of Amy's mermaid body tutorials to colour the moon with a mixture of yellows and blues and add craters.  The little charm is from my local craft shop in NZ and I cut the cloud shaped using my Slice machine.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Catch the Bug Challenge Blog: Let's Get Punchy (Punches or Die cuts)

Just Some Lines: Saturday Challenge - New Baby

My Sheri Crafts Challenge #68: Special Delivery

Card Making Mammas Challenge #28: Go Digital 

Here's a close up of this wee baby:

And here are the copics I used:

Happy Monday!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

Paula's Tuesday Treat!

Hey, it's Tuesday!  That means Paula has a special treat for her blog readers today...

Today only in a one-time-only-special-can't-be-missed-super-duper-offer Paula is selling 3 brand spanking new mystery digis (as in you won't know what they are before you buy them) for the super low price of 99p!  That's 3 digis for the price of 1 and believe me... these are very cool digis.   EEEKKK!!!!  I can't wait to use them all!

Hint:  They're Halloween themed

Head on over to the Pollycraft shop quick smart!  You know you want to...

Happy Tuesday all.  We're off apartment viewing again tonight.  Finger's crossed we'll find a good one.

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

Free Pollycraft Sentiments!

Hello!  Happy Tuesday!

This is just a quick one... 

I wanted to stop by and tell you all that Paula is offering free digi sentiments on her blog today as a special Tuesday treat.  Head on over and check them out.  These will go perfectly with some of the new release stamps that are available in the shop now!

Ciao!

Arabella Chickie in Lavrio, Greece

It's blog hop day at Pollycraft!!!

Hello!  It's blog hop day at Pollycraft!!!  We are all super excited today to show you the awesome new images Paula has created... she has been very busy! If you came here from Emma's blog then you are on the right track.  If you have you no idea what I am talking about then head over to Cazza's blog to start at the very beginning!  You don't want to miss out on these prizes and you've GOT to see all these cool images!  

• 1st Prize ALL of the new release images
• 2nd prize the 6 Luna Bitterfrost images
• 3rd prize the new Swings and Slides images 
• 4th prize the 2 Casper images

So, what do you need to do to win?  Well... just visit all the DT blogs on the hop, leave us some lovely comments and add this logo:

to your blog sidebar with a link to the Pollycraft website.  Simples!!!

So here's my card:

This is Luna Bitterfrost - Science Rocks from the new Luna Bitterfrost Dare to be Different collection.   She is just perfect for a whole load of my friends who are all scientists!  I followed the sketch from Sketch Saturday challenge #169.  

The papers are mainly from My Mind's Eye Lost and Found that just arrived on my doorstep from Crafty Emma's Store.  Thanks again Emma!  The ric rac, button and brad are from my stash and I made the felt flower by cutting circles out of felt.  The Tim Holtz bulldog clip also just arrived in the mail from Quixotic Paperie.

So, do you like Luna Science Rocks?  Well if you leave me a comment, you could win her!  I am going to get my husband to the be the random comment selector.  The draw will close Sunday night 10pm GMT and I will announce the winner on Monday morning with the weekly challenge post, so don't forget to check back then! 

Are you loving these new digis as much as we are?  Well, if you don't win them in this blog hop, they will all be available in the store from Monday 29th August.  

It's time to take the jump to the next blog on the hop... the lovely Sheena!

Ciao!

Arabella Chickie in Lavrio, Greece

A spot of gardening...

Hello... Happy Monday!  

Today Emma has set the challenge at Pollycraft and the theme she has chosen is 'The Great Outdoors'.  

So we would love to see your creations featuring anything to do with outdoor activities, just generally enjoying being outdoors or anything you may see whilst being outdoors.

The prize for one lucky winner is a £10 voucher (exc p&p) to spend over at Crafty Emma's Store.

I wish I was good with plants, but unfortunately I don't seem to have green fingers at all...  I think Flo probably does though... so I decided to use her for my Great Outdoors card for Challenge #101 at Pollycraft.

The two images I have used for this card are Flo and Mavis - The Simple Things and Spring Things - Blossoming Friendship.  

I have coloured the images with copics (see details below) and added Stickles to the cherry blossoms.  The papers I have used are from October Afternoon and the ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl.

Head on over to the Pollycraft Monday Challenge blog and check out the wonderful creations from the DT!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Catered Crop FTR16: Recipe - I used copics, checked/gingham paper and ribbon, stitching and birthday theme

One Stitch at a Time: Anything Goes

MySheriCrafts: Faithful companions

Here are the close ups:

And here are the copics I used:

So... do you want to know who won the Cuthbert Balloons digi from my blog from last week?    Well after ruling out the DT comments, I had 21 comments... the random number generator (my husband) chose number 21... Jen Zeeb!  Congratulations Jen!  Send me an email (chickiechirps@gmail.com) and I or Paula will send you Cuthbert with Balloons!

Bye for now!  

Arabella Chickie in Lavrio, Greece

PS Tomorrow I will post my card for this week for Karber Digital (or you could pop over here and see it now).

Ciao!

Pollycraft Challenge #100!!!

Good morning!  Today is my very first challenge post as a designer for Pollycraft Stamps and it's an awesome challenge week to be joining the team!  This is the 100th Pollycraft challenge at the Pollycraft Monday Challenge blog and Paula has an awesome prize lined up for the challenge winner this week!

Here is a pic of the prize package:

But here's the best part... Paula is also throwing in a CD of 100 Pollycraft digital images!!!

So what are you waiting for? The theme this week is Celebrations with and optional theme of Stars and Stripes...   head over to the Challenge blog to check out all the awesome cards from the DT!

Here is my card using the sweet Cuthbert Balloons:

The papers I have used are mainly from Crate Paper and October Afternoon and the ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl.  I have coloured Cuthbert with copics (see details below) and added Stickles to the heart on his shirt and Glossy Accents to the balloons.  The Go Wild sentiment is from Pollycraft.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges - Must use a ribbon somewhere

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Free and Easy July - Anything Goes

2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Birthdays

Now, are you still with me?  If you are that's great... because Paula has given me (and all the other DT members) the digi stamp we used on our cards to give away to one lucky commenter!   So, if you leave a comment below (and a way to contact you) you could win Cuthbert Balloons.

Here is a close up of Cuthbert:

And these are the copics I used:

Happy Monday!

Arabella Chickie in Glyfada, Greece

Little Stars

Good morning all! It's a lovely morning here in Rinia, but a little bit windy. We have five guests on board... about half as many as we usually have, so it should be a relatively easy trip for us. Yay!

In other news... Guess what?! I am super excited about this... I have just joined the Pollycraft Design Team!!! I have been a long time fan of Paula's images and the fabulous cards produced by her design team, so I am so stoked to be a part of the team too!

So, for my first post as a Pollycraft designer, I have a sneak preview to show you of one of the Little Stars images that Paula will be releasing on Monday. You really don't want to miss Monday's challenge post at the Pollycraft Challenge Blog. It will be our 100th challenge and there are some awesome prizes up for grabs!!!

There are four images in the Little Stars collection... here is a sneak peak of 'Superstar':

How cute is he (or she... since you get to decide)?  The papers I have used for this card are mostly from October Afternoon.  The seam binding is from The Ribbon Girl and the ribbon is from my stash.  The cute little rocking horse charm is from Telford's Direct.  I have coloured the image with copics (see details below).

You would not believe how long this card took me to make!  I just couldn't decide on which papers to use... Hhhmmmm do you think that means I have too many to choose from or not enough?

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Clearly Inspired Challenges - Punches, die cuts and cut outs
Digis with Attitude - Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks - Stitching

Here are the copics I used:

Happy Saturday!

Arabella Chickie in Rinia, Greece