Like A Rhinestone Cowgirl...

.........Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo....ok, ok I know it's a Rhinestone Cowboy, but that song was stuck in my head the whole time I was colouring up this little cutie for today's challenge over at the Graphic Marker Blog. As you may have already guessed our theme is PINK! Remember you don't need to use Graph 'It markers to enter, simply follow the theme.

Also, don't forget we have our fantastic Blog Candy up for grabs - you can win £200 of stash HERE!! 

Oh and I need to give you a heads up to tune into Create and Craft TV on 8th May for another fabulous Graph'It TV show with Nikky! If you can't watch on Sky 671, Freeview 36 you can watch online at www.createandcraft.tv both live during the show and online after the show on catchup so don't worry about missing it!

As if that wasn't enough Polkadoodles is celebrating it's 5th Birthday today, so to celebrate there is a blog hop, but not any old blog hop this one has freebies along the way..... here's a little taster of what's up for grabs, so I really hope you'll come and join in the fun.

After all that excitement I almost forgot to show you my card! Lol! This was a fairly quick and easy card to make and the best part was I got to play with loads of new products :D

I coloured the cowgirl from the new Work & Play Collection 3 CD (which is also available as a digi download) using the following Graph 'It Markers:

Hair 1110,1270, 3245

Skin 4170, 4155, 4135, 4115

Clothes/Embellishments 5130, 5115, 5110

The star sentiment also came from the CD, and was coloured with a 5130 Graph 'It pen and blinged up with some gemstones.

I die cut the bunting using the fantastic Doobadoo Fabric (which has a fused plastic backing and so cuts really easily and doesn't fray). The star and heart button emblishments are laser papercuts from Doobadoo which have again been coloured with a Graph 'It Marker. The lasso is made from a piece of bakers twine.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Claire x

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I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes

Just B Creative Crazy - Anything Goes

Crafting By Design - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Crafting From The heart - Anything Goes

Building Igloo's!!

It's time for another challenge over at Polka Doodles and this week we want to see a bird on your creation. As you've probably noticed I'm in full Christmas mode at the moment and when I spotted this adorable little penguin on the Here Comes Christmas CD I knew I had to find a project to use him/her in. As luck would have it Emma Canning also released some Chrimbo cuties and I thought that Snow Race would fit perfectly on the card I had in mind! The only thing was I couldn't find an Igloo digi, so I thought I'd make my own - I have to say I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. What do you think?

The card base is of course a simple stepper card. I roughly sketched the igloo onto white card and then cut out each individual ice block. To give an icy look to the blocks I edged them with Distress Ink and Stickles before gluing them onto place on the back step of the card. I then tore several strips of white card to create the snow banks and again edged them with DI's and Stickles.

All of the images have been coloured with Promarkers and accents added with Sakura Glitter Pens and a Sakura Glaze Pen (I cannot recommend these pens highly enough). They've then been mounted onto the card using foam pads. The sentiment comes from the Here Comes Christmas CD and has been die cut with my Oval Nesties. To finish I added some fabric snowflakes that I found in the pound store and then glued some blue gemstones into the centres.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. We've got a friends birthday party to attend, so I have a feeling that I may have sore head come Sunday!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Claire x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Aud Sentiments Challenge - Christmas
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything goes
Just Keep On Creating - Christmas
Creative Card Crew - Christmas
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything goes
Crafty Cardmakers - Anything goes
Fashionista Challenge - Kids
Make It Monday - Anything goes

There's a fairy at the bottom of my garden.....

and her name is Wendy Woo...... OK so I know the words to song are really "there's a worm at the bottom of my garden and his name is Wiggly Woo..." but for some reason I couldn't stop singing my version of it whilst making this card. I drove myself and everyone else in the house nuts with it :/ but hey it got the job done! So can you guess what this weeks challenge over at Polka Doodles is? Yep it's Fairies, Flitter & Fantasy. I do hope that you'll come and play with us, remember you don't need to use a Polka Doodles image, but we'd love it you did! Also you could win yourself some new stash.

This is what I've come up with this week - it's a stepper card with masses of cut out images (I sooo need to treat myself to a Craft Robo, there was way too much hand cutting involved in this card!) 

I started out by printing out the fairy and foliage from the All Around & Everywhere CD and the watering can, window & door (which is the window with the shutters chopped off) from the new Studio 12 Picknix Heavenly Garden Kit. I then coloured the images with Promarkers. Because I needed masses of foliage and believe it or not I do have something that resembles a life outside of crafting, I cheated and scanned the coloured image in and then printed out several flipped and resized copies. I then set about the gargantuan task of cutting everything out :/

The images are assembled onto a simple stepper card base using glue and pop dots (yes I really needed to add more dimension to the piece!). I'm not sure that my pictures show the Stickles on the wings or the Glossy Accents on the glass window - so you'll have to use your imagination.

Right that's me done for this week, so thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic weekend. I'm off to the Craft Barn on Sunday and I'm hoping to catch up albeit it briefly with the lovely Nikky Hall. If you spot me there, come and say "Hi".

Claire xxx

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bearly Mine - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - Things with wings

Creative Mondays - Mermaids & Fairies

Fashionista Challenge - Winged Things

Hooked On Crafts - All that glitters

Incy Wincy - Anything goes

Love to Create - Anything goes

Make It Monday - Anything goes

Whoopsie Daisy - Things with wings

Dream Valley - Things with wings

The Crafty Pad - More than one fold

That Craft Place - It's all green

The Squirrel and the Fox - Make it sparkle

I ♥ ProMarkers - Anything goes