Polkadoodles Challenge

Well here is my entry for the Polkadoodles week 15 challenge - Tie the knot.

Although I am a massive fan of Nikky at Polkaddodles  (I have all of her CD's) I have never entered a challenge before as when I see the high standard of the other entries I end up putting mine back in the box. Next to some of the fabulous creations mine are somewhat basic by comparrison. But I have decided to bite the bullet and here are some of my attempts. 

I don't know if you're allowed to enter more than one creation or not so forgive me if I have got carried away!

For this design I have used the Love & Cherish CD and printed the main card and the topper onto pearlecent card. The edge is punched using a Martha Stewart punch and I have laid black card behind so that the pattern shows up and I've used this for the matting the topper too. I have glittered most of the hearts with couple of shades of pink Martha Stewart glitter and some pink gemstones. To finish (Like that's not enough glitter right?) I have used a rhinestone heart threaded onto some black grosgrain ribbon.

For this card I've used the Love & Cherish CD again but I have cropped and printed the image straight onto pearlecent cardstock (using Serif craft artist programme) and added the names of the couple in a fancy text. I've used glossy accents on the heart and Martha Stewart brownstone glitter on the flowers and leaves. It was a labour of love with the quickie glue pen, but I love this design so much I didn't think it needed anything else. 

On this card I've used a digital stamp from MCS and enhanced it with some Martha Stewart Glitter (I Know I am obsessed with sparkly stuff but hey there are worse things I could be addicted to like cake... oh yeah I'm kinda addicted to that too!)

Out of all the cards I've created this week this is probably the one I like the most. I know it's not very exciting and doesn't require a great deal of skill but I love the pink against the off white and the sparkly brooch can be taken off and worn! a card and a gift!

I've also made these which are wedding related for a project for work that you can see on my other blog and a load of other weddingy stuff!

These were all created out of White pearlecent card, a quickie glue pen and some ... Yes you guessed it Martha Stewart glitter, with some ribbon for good measure. The pattern I used was from an old card that I then scaled up and down depending on the project and then traced it onto the cardstock using a ballpoint tool and then went over in the glue pen and glitter. As you can see on some of the items I just used certain sections of the design and twisted it round on others. It took a while but I think the results are worth it.

Well that's it. I'd love to hear your comments good or bad.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Trish

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