Polka Doodles...a little bit of doodling & Happy Birthday

My turn to set the

Polka Doodles

challenge this week so we are going

for some doodling on your creation!

We would also like a birthday theme as its

our birthday week this week! Yeah!

I have used the Sundae of Seasons cd for

my toadstool image

and the Sugarplum daisy cd for

those adorable lady bugs!

I'd like to share this with

Ladybug Crafts ink - things with wings

A wee bit personal...no pun intended.

I think it would be fair to say lately my heart hasn't been in blogging. I know through so many of the lovely people that I have met through blog land that folks lives are full of complications. A lot of us use our craft as stress release and I know for me when I don't have time to make cards life just isn't the same.
Anyhow I hope having at last received an appointment for middle child Caleb at Yorkhill (the children's hospital in Glasgow) that things will get a little easier. We discovered at Christmas that Caleb's toileting problems were not habitual as originally believed but medical. What happened after that has been a roller coaster that seemed to only be heading downwards. Hopefully now it's on its way back up ......
Maybe I'll be a better blogger soon but if not please bear with me and normal service will eventually resume!

Polka Doodles 3 today! Big Birthday candy alert !!!!!!

Happy Birthday to Polka Doodles

My special birthday card uses lots of Polka Doodles

elements from magazine freebies and also

from that fab new cd

Sugar Plum Daisy

with Promarkers and some added doodles

Yes can you believe it!

Polka Doodles is 3 years old today

Nikky has quite rightly decided this is a special

something to celebrate, so there is

loads of candy to be had at 

Polka Doodles

Some words from Nikky:

So to celebrate this fabulous occasion we're having a BIG celebration and you can win over £220 worth of blog candy - so make sure you enter today's EXTRA challenge to be in with a chance to get some wonderful candy! woooohoooo!! We want to take the opportunity to thank each and every one of you who regularly enter our challenges from all across the globe for all your fabulous support over the past 3 years, here's raising a glass to another 3 and beyond!

So, of course, today's challenge is very simple - you need to make us a Special Birthday Card incorporating No. 3 to help us mark the occasion! The 3 can be 3 ribbons, 3 papers, 3 brads...you get the idea!...

Polka Doodles watch this space!

Watch this space indeedy!

There is something very special happening

at Polka Doodles this week.

Come back tomorrow to find out what it's

all about

.........you won't be disappointed!

Polka Doodles - Wedding Creation......

How pretty is this fab range from the

lovely Polka doodles Love & Cherish Cd!

I have created a confetti box

and gift tag as a project for 

Lou's challenge this week,

At Polka Doodles

Something Old (Plastic box from moisturiser)

Something New (images printed on new sheet of Safmat!)

Something Borrowed (Frantage Iced shavings for confetti)

Something Blue (tiny hearts)

Crafty Creations - Male Birthday!

Crafty Creations

challenge you to create a male birthday

card this week!

I have used Spud Shark to paperpiece my card

using Tim Holtz papers. 

A little Shaping to spud to make him 'swim'.

A few hand coloured leather underwater die cuts

and a doodled sentiment and border.

I (Hope Jacare) am sponsoring Crafty Creations

this week and the winner will recieve

their choice of any 3 doodles.

There is also a freebie at Crafty Creations

and anyone using a Hope Jacare doodle

will also go into a draw for the handcoloured die-cuts

in the picture above and another doodle of choice.

I'd like to share this with

Lolipop Crafts - Just for him

Gingerloft - Under the sea

Allsorts - Card for a man or boy

Craft Your Days away - All creatures great and small

My Favourite technique.....dedication card!

Quite unusual for me to use only rubber

to create a card.

However this best sums up my most favourite techniques

- Paper piecing and colouring.

I love them both in equal amounts so this card

was a joy to create.

I'd like to share this with

The Stamp Man

who are looking for creations using your favourite technique!

Little Miss Muffet - flowers

Pixie Dust Challenge - flowers

I have used Basic Grey paper

to paper piece the dress on my gorgeous girl

and the butterflies.

My pens of choice are Promarkers

(I still love my copics but I am finding 

I go for my promarkers more and more)

Please cold go away...I feel like my head is going to explode!

Happy Anniversary Reuben and winner of my Birthday candy!

I love the Octopode Factory images,

I bought these a while back and guess I have been saving them for a

special occasion...this must be it!

Married 16 years today has to be something to celebrate.

We are looking forward to a lovely meal out

with kids and all tonight in Largs, thanks for all the lovely

Anniversary wishes - much appreciated!

And my Birthday candy has been won by

Clairebears

Please e-mail me at

hopejacare@yahoo.com

and I will get your prize off to you.

3 short years .....It's passed me by...Birthday candy alert!

Please check below for more recent posts.

Birthday Candy Alert!

Where has the last 3 years gone?

Please take my Art Nouveau Rose heart

as a wee gift if you would like it...

I'd love to see anything you create with it!

It will be here until 4th May.

Also a special Birthday discount at my

Etsy store - 33% off any purchase just add

3RDBIRTHDAY as your code. 

This will be available until the 4th May 

(another anniversary for me - 16 years married!)

Lastly any anyone that leaves a comment and is a follower

will be entered into my birthday draw

 to win 33 of my digi images 

of your choice!

Crafty Creations are looking for those

very special Mothers Day

projects this week.

Here in the UK Mother's Day

has long passed, but we can always

make a card for a Mum.

I have been dying to try a bit of Frantage

after seeing the woman herself on Create and Craft

last week.

This is all a bit spooky actually.....if you have 

this months copy of Craft Stamper have a

wee look at the preview of next months magazine.....

weird or what!( I made mine about 5 days before

my mag turned up.)

Anyhow I have some great chipboard flowers and flourishes

that I played with alongside Vintage embossing powders

and mica flakes.

A lovely corner stamp, some sticky alphas,

little ceramic flowers and my trusty Sakura pen

to doodle.

Crafty Creations are a great team of girls....

pop by and see what they are up to.

I had to make my project early so appologies

for not using the sponsors images this week.

But the lucky winner will recieve some fab digi stamps

by

Sans Designs

A touch of Vintage/ Shabby Chic

Polka Doodles are looking to see your

Vintage/Shabby Chic projects this week.

I seem to be surrounded by new babies at the moment,

so a great opportunity to use the gorgeous

baby boy from Sundae of Seasons cd.

I have used Marianne design dp and the lovely

LR0116 dies to create the flourishes and

frame for my image.

Sentiment tag from the Candy Doodles Collectors edition.

Tiny ceramic flowers, brads and paper doiley.

Pop by Polka Doodles to see what

fab creations the rest of the dt have come up with.

The winner of this challenge will recieve a 

pretty sweet cd!

I'd like to share this with

Paper Crafting Journey - Vintage

Bearly Mine - Baby days

DTC - Winter/Blues

Magical People make Magical days.....Polka Doodles

A very quick card using the lovely Sugarplum Daisy Cd

by Nikky at Polka Doodles.

A Kraft base with a dp attached,

it's hard to see in photo but I then added a layer

of printed Vellum with the lovely

spotted halo effect.

Little birds and alphas printed on Safmat then stuck on.

Great sentiment circle also from the cd

tied on with silver raffiia.

Crafty Creations ...Yellow plus 1

Crafty Creations 

challenge this week is a

Yellow plus 1 other colour challenge.

Thanks Bernie - fab combo!

I have opted for red

and used elements from the lovely

new Polka doodles cd

Sugarplum Daisy

for my card.

The bees are printed on safmat

and cut out as

translucent stickers.

How cute are those bees

and it has some really lovely sentiment

circles on the cd.

It's a very apt combination for this time of year

....yellow plus 1....

so please come and join us this week

at Crafty Creations

Thanks Bernie for this weeks super prize......

Just some fun......Moshi Ninja

Just a little bit of fun....but I enjoyed doing it!

For a friends daughter who is really into Moshi Monsters

especially the Ninja's!

Hand drawn Moshi Ninja with

Dp's and elements from Crate papers.

Created as a gatefold card.

Polkadoodles...everythings pink and girly

Everything has come over all

pink and girly at

Polka doodles this week.

Pretty sweet provides plenty of lovely girls

just ideal for this. I have coloured her with Promarkers

to suit my dp's used.

I have used the fab layered cake

and backing papers from 

Paper Boutique Vol 1.

We'd love to see all your pink and girly

creations over at Polka Doodles!

Crafty Creations - Flower Power!

Flower Power is our challenge at Crafty Creations this week!

My Golden Wedding card has some fun

Gold foil flowers created with peel offs

something I rarely use.

Papers are a mix of Crate Paper and DCWV.

Sticky alphas, gem brads for flower centres,

punched greenery, sticky gems and pearls.

We are really pleased to have

Whiff of Joy 

sponsoring this week

and the winner will recieve this cute stamp.

Come play at Crafty Creations!

Birthday girl!

A recent card for my friend Jo's 40th!

I am going through a really bad phase again

of forgetting to take photo's before cards

head of to their destination.....ahhhhhh!

This uses a gorgeous Mo Manning image

coloured with Promarkers.

Chipboard shapes sprayed with cosmic shimmers,

fabric flowers with Basic grey fabric brad.

I'd like to share this with

Cardmad Fairy Digi Day - Diecuts or punches

Little Miss Muffet - Spring colours/ Pastels

Polka Doodles blog hop

If you are looking for the Polka Doodles blog hop post please pop here.

Crafty Creations - Spring Greens

Crafty Creations are looking for

Spring Greens

as your inspiration this week!

It was one of my friends 40th this week

and I made her a canvas to go with the new colours in

her kitchen.

Using my twiggy vase image, paper pieced with

Basic Grey papers, stickles,

Cosmic shimmer mists

and alcohol inks.

Come play at Crafty Creations!

You could win this weeks fab prize.....

Polka Doodles Challenge and Blog hop......

This week its going to be a bit different at Polka Doodles - we still have our regular challenge but we also have a blog hop which is also part of the challenge!! And you know what that means - LOADS of candy!! 

Our fabulous sponsors Marianne Design are giving you the chance to win this adorable Garden themed Creatable as part of our blog hop!
Creatables are handy stencils that cut and/or emboss. They can be used in many machines, with all kinds of paper. The cut-out and embossed shapes are ideal to make your cards and other creative projects even more beautiful. We also have this lovely cuter than cute Snoesjes stamp, a fabulous 32 page paper pack and we adore this stunning flower ribbon - this candy is just scrumptious!!

CHALLENGE STAGE 1: Now, we know not everyone like to do a hop for whatever reason, so we still have our normal challenge for the week which is EASTER themed - you must make a card or project which is Easter themed.

Oh my how cute is this fab image by Nikky

on the new Sugarplum daisy cd?

I have printed my ribbon at bottom of card on Safmat.

Coloured with Promarkers and some pearly doodles

for the bunnies tails!

But that's not all...

CHALLENGE STAGE 2: Our second challenge is the blog hop - if you hop along with us this week you will find that the Easter Bunny has arrived early and left some hidden goodies on some of the Design Teams blogs - but you have to hop though the whole list to find who the Easter Bunny has visited! 

You need to complete both the Easter themed challenge and the blog hop to be in with a chance of winning one of the fantastic prizes on offer! You need to go to the challenge blog to see what is on offer but it is fabulous! There will be one grand prize winner and two second place winners!

If you've never taken part in a blog hop before it's easy peasy...all you need to do is visit each blog in turn and for this hop each Polkadoodler will give you a LETTER (be careful - some of the Polkadoodlers may have more than one!) Now add all the letters together, unscramble them and leave a comment on the Polkadoodle Challenge Blog (comments will be moderated!) with what the word is. 

Your entry will automatically be judged for the Easter themed challenge BUT we will know if you have completed the Blog Hop so if you haven't you will still only be eligible for the random blog candy hidden amongst some of the Polkadoodlers. FOR THE EASTER THEMED CHALLENGE JUST LEAVE YOUR ENTRY AS NORMAL USING THE INLINKZ BUTTON, WE WILL SORT THROUGH THE ENTRIES AS WE WILL KNOW IF YOU FOLLOWED THE HOP OR NOT! ; )

If you have arrived at my blog from Anne then you are on the right track! The letter you require from me is U- keep it safe and now jump to Doreen. Good luck! If you get stuck, please go back to the Polkadoodle Challenge blog where you will find the full list of Polkadoodlers.