The Little Mermaid

Hi everyone, hope all is good with you!

Well I’m back again (2 posts in 2 days! Blimey!) and I am on the POLKADOODLES BLOG today sharing a tag decorated with a slight nod to Disney’s The Little Mermaid.

Digi Choosday Challenge –Be a Mermaid!

Good morning everybody! 

It’s Choosday which means it’s time for a new ‘Anything Goes’ challenge over at POLKADOODLES DIGI CHOOSDAY and as always we have a wonderful prize on offer for our lucky winner so check out the BLOG for details.   

Don’t forget it is also DISCOUNT DAY so you need to grab the code on THE BLOG to get a MASSIVE reduction in the POLKADOODLES SHOP! It’s for a limited time only so be quick!

I really love to play with ink, paint and pigment powders to create backgrounds but this is my first attempt with alcohol inks on plastic craft paper… and I absolutely love it.  It's great fun but do wear gloves as you will stain your hands. Ask me how I know this??!!

So my card today features the stunning MERIBELLE SWISHY TAIL and I have cropped her and placed her inside the card, over my inky background.

I also cut an aperture in the front of the card so that you can just see her peeping through and used the flower stamps from the BEST OF DAYS to create an underwater/other-worldly sort of look. I think you get what I mean.

Ingredients:

Polkadoodles Goodies:

Digi Image: MERIBELLE SWISHY TAIL

Colouring Paper: ULTIMATE GRAPHIC

Sentiment: ULA’S LIFE

Papers: GREAT OUTDOORS PAPER PACK

Dies: FANCIFUL CIRCLES & STITCHED & PIERCED CIRCLES

Polymer Stamps: BEST OF DAYS & HEART SING

Other Stuff:

Colouring: Copics (Digi) – Zig Real Brush Markers (Stamps)

The Rest: Versafine Ink - Watercolour Paper - Grafix Plastic Craft Paper – Alcohol Inks – Distress Oxides - Clear Dewdrops – Black Card

So visit THE BLOG where you can join in with our challenge and see all the gorgeous projects from the DT.   And don’t forget to grab the DISCOUNT CODE and visit the STORE!

And if you want to hear about more special offers and discounts sign up to the newsletter HERE! That way you will never miss out! And for tons of inspiration take a look at our GALLERY!!

And why not join us on our other Polkadoodles  challenge blogs!
It's always Anything Goes!

Polkadoodles Blog

A Gem of a Challenge

We Love 2 Create

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to leave such kind comments; I really do appreciate it!  Have a wonderful day!

See ya!

Jane xxx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

LEMON SHORTBREAD – Challenge #91: Anything Goes

CRAFTY CREATIONS – Challenge #388: Anything Goes

CRAFT STAMPER - Take It Make It Challenge: Anything Goes

CLASSIC DT OPEN CHALLENGE – 3rd Birthday Challenge #4: Anything Goes
CRAFTING FROM THE HEART – Challenge #241: Anything Goes

THROUGH THE CRAFTROOM DOOR – April 16: Anything Goes 

Digi Choosday Challenge Week 8 – Anything Goes!

Good morning everybody!  Hope all is well with you and yours!

It is Choosday which means it’s time for a new challenge over at DIGI CHOOSDAY and our theme is Anything Goes and as always we have a wonderful prize on offer for our lucky winner so check out the BLOG for details.   

Don’t forget it is also DISCOUNT DAY so you need to grab the code on THE BLOG to get a MASSIVE reduction in the POLKADOODLES SHOP! It’s a limited offer so hurry!!

Our challenge is always ‘Anything Goes’ but the DT theme this week was to use more than 1 image so I made it easy on myself and chose to use 3 … hmmm! 

These super gorgeous ladies (some of my absolute faves from Nikky) are from the stunning MERIBELLE MERMAID RANGE. 

Ooh look, a tower of mermaids....LOL

Ingredients:

Images: MERIBELLE MERMAIDS

Colouring Paper: ULTIMATE GRAPHIC

Colouring Medium: Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils

Paper & Sentiment: WINNIE STARFISH & SANDCASTLES COLLECTION  

Printing Card: ULTIMATE SMOOTH

Dies: POLKADOODLES ‘CHERRY BLOSSOM’  - Marianne Designs Creatables ‘Seaside’ - Tattered Lace ‘Pin Point Circles’

Others: Tonic Nuvo Drops – Clear Dewdrops

So flipper over to THE BLOG where you can join in with our challenge; the Anything Goes theme means there’s no reason not to! And don’t forget to visit the STORE  and as it’s….                   

….. but be quick to grab that DISCOUNT CODE from THE BLOG as it’s for a limited period only!

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to leave such kind comments!  Have a lovely day!

See ya!

Jane xxx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

CLASSIC DT OPEN CHALLENGE – Challenge #11: Anything Goes

SIMPLY PAPERCRAFT – Challenge #43: Anything Goes

CREATES & MAKES – Challenge #8: Anything Goes

LOVE TO CRAFT – Challenge #7: February Anything Goes

JULIA SPIRI – Challenge #29: Anything Goes With a Twist

THE CRAFTY ADDICTS – Challenge #33: Anything Goes /Add a Sentiment

CRAFTY GIRLS CREATIONS – Challenge #33: Anything Goes

CREATIVE LADYBIRD CREATIONS – Challenge #23: Anything Goes

SWEET STAMPERS - Challenge #4: Add a Sentiment
CRAFTY CREATIONS – Challenge #335: Anything Goes
INSPIRATION DESTINATION – Challenge #122: Anything Goes
ALPHABET CHALLENGE – Y for You Choose
CRAFTY FRIENDS – Challenge #51: Anything Goes
CRAFTING FROM THE HEART – Challenge #147: Anything Goes
ARTISTIC INSPIRATIONS – Challenge #173: Anything Goes
THROUGH THE CRAFTROOM DOOR – Challenge Week Feb 21^st – Anything Goes
LEMON SHORTBREAD – Challenge #35: Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge Week 35 – Anything Goes!

Good morning everybody!  Hope all is well with you and yours?

It is Choosday which means it’s time for a new challenge over at DIGI CHOOSDAY and our theme is Anything Goes and as always we have a wonderful prize on offer for our lucky winner so check out the BLOG for details.   You could also win a Feather in Your Cap look for all the info HERE.

Don’t forget it is also DISCOUNT DAY so you need to grab the code on THE BLOG to get a MASSIVE reduction in the POLKADOODLES SHOP! It’s a limited offer so hurry!!

This week the DT have gone ‘Back to School’ and I have created a little Fish School or School of Fish (!) with Miss Meribelle in charge! She is actually doing housework (sorry…didn’t mean to swear) but I thought she looked as if she could be teaching the little minnows a spot of Maths using shells as a visual aid!! You know…as you do!

So it’s digi manipulation time again! Meribelle is matted onto a pre-coloured blackboard which in turn is matted onto a ‘fishy’ backing paper.  I also gave Miss Meribelle spectacles so that she could channel her inner Elton John!!

Oh course these aquatic ‘kids’ will be using their fish fingers to count and they are behaving themselves so nothing fishy is going on.  They are good pupils and that’s o-fish-al…..Ok I’ll stop now!

Ingredients:

Main image: MERIBELLE HOUSEWORK

Backing paper & fish: WINNIE STARFISH AND SANDCASTLES VIP BUNDLE

Spectacles: STICKS AND BONES

Colouring Card: Neenah Solar White

Colouring: LYRA REMBRANDT POLYCOLOR PENCILS

Colours used: Skin: 76, 89, 31, 32 + 90 – Orange: 76, 87, 15, 13, 9 – Green: 65, 63, 62, 61 – Browns: 76, 80, 82, 87 – Blue: 51, 50, 47 – Yellow: 87, 83, 84, 85 – Black/Grey: 99, 97, 96, 95

Books digi, pre-coloured blackboard and sentiment: WORK AND PLAY 3

Dies: Tonic circle

Others: Kraft card - Dew drops - Pearls

So swim over to THE BLOG and join in with our challenge.  The Anything Goes theme means there’s no reason not to! And don’t forget to visit the STORE  and as it’s….                             

….. but you must quickly grab that DISCOUNT CODE as it’s for a limited period only! Just add up all those savings!!

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to say such nice things!  Have a lovely day!

See ya!

Jane xxx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

FAB ‘N’ FUNKY – Challenge #316: Anything Goes

ALPHABET CHALLENGE – M for Mythical

JULIA SPIRI – Challenge #23: Anything Goes

WORLD WIDE OPEN DT - Challenge #13: Anything Goes

CRAFT – Challenge #378: Back to School

4 CRAFTY CHICKS – Challenge #313: Let’s Get Sentimental

LITTLE MISS MUFFET – Challenge #145: Anything Goes

CRAFTS AND ME- August Challenge: Anything Goes

CREATIVE LADYBIRDS CREATIONS – Challenge #18: Anything Goes

GLITTER ‘N’ SPARKLE – Challenge #203:  Back to School
CRAFTING FROM THE HEART - Challenge #125: Anything Goes
CRAFT YOUR PASSION - Challenge #327: Always Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge – Punches/Die-cuts or Anything Goes!

Good morning everybody!  Hope all is well with you and yours?

It is Choosday which means it’s time for a new challenge over at DIGI CHOOSDAY and our theme this time is Punches/Die-cuts!  How will I cope!! lol However if you are not like me and DON’T throw a die at just about everything you make J then from now on our challenges will also be Anything Goes! So no excuse not to enter!

As always we have a wonderful prize on offer for our lucky winner so check out the BLOG for details.   And don’t forget you could also win a Feather in Your Cap! See all the details HERE.

And if that wasn’t all it is also DISCOUNT DAY so you need to grab the code to get a MASSIVE reduction in the POLKADOODLES SHOP! It’s a limited offer so be quick!!

If you have visited me just recently then you will have already seen the three projects I made for the Facebook launch of Nikky’s GORGEOUS new mermaid.   She is called Meribelle and has 10 different guises and you can get them all HERE.

Well I could not resist using another for my make this week so meet MERIBELLE SWISHY TAIL!! Isn’t she fab; although she has found herself washed up on the shore in a bottle.  Bit careless! J

I used the DRINK ME BOTTLE from the fab WINNIE IN WONDERLAND COLLECTION, making it into a png and resizing it to fit MERIBELLE inside.  And because there was no way that I could produce such a delicious underwater world I used the B/W digi that comes with a pre-coloured background.

Ingredients:

Digis: MERIBELLE SWISHY TAIL, STARFISH, BOTTLE

Colouring Card: Neenah Solar White

Colouring: LYRA REMBRANDT POLYCOLOR PENCILS

Colours used: Skin: 90, 89, 32 + 30 – Red/Pink: 92, 26, 24, 18 – Yellow: 87, 83, 84, 85 – Brown: 76, 80, 82 – Green: 65, 67, 71 – Grey: 99, 98, 97, 96

Paper, sentiment, pre-coloured shells and lighthouse: WINNIE STARFISH AND SANDCASTLES

Dies: Spellbinders ‘Grand Labels One’, ‘A2 Curved Borders 2’, ‘Inverted Circles’ and ‘Cherry Blossom’ – Tattered Lace ‘Bucket and Spade’ - First Edition ‘Under the Sea’ – Memory Box ‘Puffy Clouds’

Others: Kraft card – Twine – Pearls

So don’t ‘bottle it’ and swim along to THE BLOG where you can join in with our fab challenge.   And don’t forget to visit the STORE  and as it’s….                                

….. but you must quickly grab that DISCOUNT CODE as it’s for a limited period only!

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to leave such kind comments!  Have a lovely day!

See ya!

Jane xxx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

CLASSIC DT OPEN CHALLENGE – Challenge #4: Anything Goes

CRAFTING WITH FRIENDS – Challenge #25: Anything Goes

INCY WINCY – Something Magical

AS YOU LIKE IT – Trademark Style (Quirky is probably the best description :) I often try to look for the ‘angle’ and to do something a bit different. I also usually like to colour hair in crazy colours too)
LITTLE MISS MUFFET – Challenge #142: Anything Goes

AUD SENTIMENTS – Challenge #160: Anything Goes plus a Sentiment

CRAFTY GIRLS CREATIONS – Challenge #23: Anything Goes

CRAFTY CREATIONS – Challenge #320: Ombre

CREATIVE MOMENTS – Challenge #98: Anything Goes

LEMON SHORTBREAD – Challenge #20: Anything Goes

CREATIVE CRAFT COTTAGE – Challenge #68: Anything Goes

COLOUR CRAZY CRAFT CHALLENGE – Week #18: Anything Goes
CRAFTY FRIENDS – Challenge #36: Use Your Dies
CREATALICIOUS – Challenge #95: Anything Goes/Flowers
CRAFTING FROM THE HEART – Challenge #122: Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Meribelle Mermaid – Part 3!!!

Hello everybody!  How are things!

So here is another of Nikky Hall’s exquisite mermaids and she is called MERIBELLE.

There are 10 of these wonderful ladies to choose from coming either fully pre-coloured, as a B/W digi on a coloured background or as a single B/W digi! But if you want them all you can buy them in a fabulous value set HERE that includes all 30 options. Wow!

So I went a little lovely bubbly for my make this time and used elements from the amazing WINNIE STARFISH AND SANDCASTLES collection as it goes so perfectly with these stunning images.

Now don’t ask me why I coloured her skin blue, I wasn’t trying to zombiefy her honestly! J

Ingredients:

Image: MERIBELLE

Paper, sentiment and pre-coloured seahorse: WINNIE STARFISH AND SANDCASTLES

Colouring Card: Neenah Solar White

Colouring: LYRA REMBRANDT POLYCOLOR PENCILS

Colours used: Greens: 61, 63, 62 – Blues: 49, 48, 47 – Pinks: 24, 28, 29

Dies/Punches: Tonic ‘Nesting Circles’ - First Edition ‘Under the Sea’ – Tattered Lace ‘Tuck In Circles’

Others: Liquid Pearls – Pearls – Stormy Sky and Peacock Feathers DI

Thanks so much for looking and have a great day!

See ya!

Jane xxx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

ECLECTIC ELLAPU – July Challenge: Anything Goes

LEINZLOVE TEAR BEARS – July Challenge #7: Anything Goes

INSPIRATION DESTINATION – Challenge #94: Anything Goes

CRAFTING WITH FRIENDS – Challenge #25: Anything Goes

GLITTER N SPARKLE – Challenge #197: Anything Goes

CRAFTY FRIENDS – Challenge #36: Use Your Dies
INCY WINCY - Something Magical
CRAFTING FROM THE HEART – Challenge #121: Anything Goes
CRAFT YOUR PASSION – Challenge #321: Always Anything Goes
WORLD WIDE OPEN DT - Challenge #12: Anything Goes
CLASSIC DT OPEN CHALLENGE – Challenge #4: Anything Goes
UNICORN - Challenge #11: Make it Pearly
CREATALICIOUS – Challenge #95: Anything Goes/Flowers
CRAFTING WITH AN ATTITUDE – Challenge #17: Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Meribelle Mermaid – Part 2!!!

Good morning everybody!  Me again!

So here is another of Nikky Hall’s sublime mermaids and she is called MERIBELLE SWIMMING AROUND…..and she is! J

There are 10 of these gorgeous ladies coming either fully pre-coloured, a B/W digi on a coloured background or as a single B/W digi! And they are all as swoon-worthy as each other!!!

The wonderful WINNIE STARFISH AND SANDCASTLES is a perfect match for these incredible images and the paper and embellies I’ve used are from that bundle.  There are also some wonderful new beach themed stamps in store that you must check out HERE.

Ingredients:

Image: MERIBELLE SWIMMING AROUND

Paper, sentiment and pre-coloured shell and seahorse: WINNIE STARFISH AND SANDCASTLES

Colouring Card: Neenah Solar White

Colouring: LYRA REMBRANDT POLYCOLOR PENCILS

Colours used: Skin: 91, 89, 32 + 30 – Greens: 61, 63, 62 – Blues: 49, 48, 47 – Pinks: 33, 24, 28, 29 - Yellow: 84 – Shading: 97

Dies/Punches: Tonic ‘Indulgence Thank You Sentiment Set’ and ‘Nesting Circles

Others: Liquid Pearls – Ribbon – Pearls - Shells

Thanks so much for looking!  Enjoy your weekend!

See ya!

Jane xxx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

ECLECTIC ELLAPU – July Challenge: Anything Goes

LEINZLOVE TEAR BEARS – July Challenge #7: Anything Goes

ARTISTIC INSPIRATIONS – Challenge #160: Anything Goes

AUD SENTIMENTS – Challenge #159: For a Girl plus a Sentiment

CRAFTING FROM THE HEART – Challenge #120: Anything Goes

CRAFT YOUR PASSION – Challenge #320: Always Anything Goes

INSPIRATION DESTINATION – Challenge #94: Anything Goes

CRAFTY CATZ – Challenge #333: Add Bling

SIMPLY PAPERCRAFTS – Challenge #33: Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Meribelle Mermaid!!!

Good morning everybody!  How are things!

O.M.G!!! Mermaids!!! I adore mermaids and our fabulous Nikky Hall has designed the most DELICIOUS young ladies for us to play with and they are new today!

There are 10 in total coming either fully pre-coloured, a B/W digi on a coloured background or as a single B/W digi on its own! Yum!!!

My make uses the very aptly named MERIBELLE PRETTY and I have used the B/W digi that comes with a gorgeous coloured background.

The fabulous WINNIE STARFISH AND SANDCASTLES works so perfectly with these lovely ladies and that is what I have used here.  There are also some wonderful new beach themed stamps in store that you must check out HERE.

Ingredients:

Image: MERIBELLE PRETTY

Fish B/W digis, pre-coloured shells and sentiment: WINNIE STARFISH AND SANDCASTLES

Colouring Card: Neenah Solar White

Colouring: LYRA REMBRANDT POLYCOLOR PENCILS

Colours used: Skin: 91, 89, 32 + 30 – Greens: 61, 63, 62 – Purple: 41, 37, 38 – Yellow: 87, 83, 84

Dies/Punches: Tattered Lace ‘Snow globe’ – Spellbinders ‘Cherry Blossom’

Others: DOODLES DEWDROPS – Liquid Pearls - Twine

Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to leave such kind comments!  Enjoy your day!

See ya!

Jane xxx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

ECLECTIC ELLAPU – July Challenge: Anything Goes

LEINZLOVE TEAR BEARS – July Challenge #7: Anything Goes

JULIA SPIRI – Challenge #22: Anything Goes/At the Beach or Sea

CREATE AND INSPIRE – Challenge #49: Anything Goes

ARTISTIC INSPIRATIONS – Challenge #160: Anything Goes

CREATIVE MOMENTS – Challenge #97: Anything Goes

AUD SENTIMENTS – Challenge #159: For a Girl plus a Sentiment

CRAFTING FROM THE HEART – Challenge #120: Anything Goes

CRAFT YOUR PASSION – Challenge #320: Always Anything Goes

INSPIRATION DESTINATION – Challenge #94: Anything Goes

CRAFTY CATZ – Challenge #333: Add Bling

SIMPLY PAPERCRAFTS – Challenge #33: Anything Goes

CRAFTING WITH FRIENDS – Challenge #25: Anything Goes