Polka Doodles Challenge

I popped over to the Polka Doodles Blog yesterday and decided to take part in their latest challenge.  This week the challenge is to make something with a secret - either a hidden message or image.

I had some of the backing papers that I had printed off from the Sugar Birdies CD Rom left over from my previous card so, rather than put them away, I used them as the base for this card. 

The digi stamp is one of Mo Mannings - The Tooth Fairy. I  used Promarkers to colour and Stickles glitter glue to cover the wings. 

The sentiment implies that that the tooth fairy has left something - Is it the card itself?  No, when you look inside you see that there is a verse with a message from her and a little envelope which will contain the 5 pence ( who am I kidding) that she has left.

Now, I have a couple of pieces of backing paper left over. What could I do with these?

Polka Doodle ....dandy

I decided that my first card made from the Polka Doodles Sugar Birdies CD , had to include the flowers that had been cut from my Silhouette.

I particulary like the colour tones on all of the Polka Doodles CDs. Even when they are bright, they have a subtlety to them.

The little girl is a digi stamp incuded on the cd and I used Promarkers, choosing colours that matched the papers.

The other materials used were:

jute string , pink button and 2 Nestabilities dies

Today's Post, Today

This is the second post of today..........but the first one was yesterday's.....

My husband bought me a Silhouette for my birthday in February. I had been debating with myself for years about the decision to buy a digital die cutter.

There was the Cricut.... then the Cricut Expression...........then the Pazzles and of course the Craft Robo. I really wanted the option of creating my own designs but the Cricut was so tempting.

In the end, the decision was taken out of my hands and I was pleased about that because I would have still been "haavering" still.

I have not had a lot of time to get to know what this machine can do. Friend, Susy has a Craft Robo and gave me and introductory lesson. My husband is intrigued by it and has had several goes.


Today they were demonstrating the Silhouette on Create and Craft and I learned that you could take the graphic from a CD Rom into the software where you could print and cut.
As I was watching the show, I was cutting out flowers from Polka Doodles Sugar Birdies CD Rom---with scissors.
This is when my husband got involved and worked out how to cut them out digitally. Here are the results of scissor cutting - time taken - approx 20min

Now, here are the flowers that were cut by the Silhouette. Time taken - approx 1min.