Cute Creatures - Make a Splash - Set 2 with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone happy Sunday - I hope you are having a lovely weekend.

Last night we went on an adventure, a night walk.... we went walking with one of the local groups to explore The Sierra de Lújar mine  which is an active underground operation located in the mountains above Órgiva. The mine, Minera de Órgiva, S.L., it is one of the few sustainable fluorite mines in Europe, extracting high-quality fluorspar and the operation is known for its environmental practices, such as recycling 90% of its water and backfilling waste into old tunnels.

The mine is located in the mountains opposite are house and we can often see dust clouds as vehicles make their slow way up and down.

My goodness it definitely was an adventure...the group met just down the road at the Camping restaurant around 7pm and we set off in a couple of mini busses and a few 4x4 vehicles too.  It took around an hour to get to the mine entrance high up in the clouds as the track was very bumpy, and dusty and out poor minibus really struggle...the driver was amazing and we only had to get out once while the engine cooled a little and he manoeuvred over a difficult stretch of track.  

The views from the top were spectacular so it was well worth me having my eyes closed most of the journey up LOL. It was a really strange experience walking in the dark with torches and quite strenuous in places but Im so glad we went, despite getting home at midnight and being shattered.....we decided to skip the food after the walk as we were so tired. There are loads of photos on my Facebook page if you are interested.

It's a lot cooler here today thankfully with temperatures due to reach 34C this afternoon but after the high heat we've had it's a welcome relief and there even a chance of light rain next week ..... yippee !

I'm back today to share a fun 5" x 7" underwater scene card using some of the little sea creatures from the Cute Creatures collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). Both sets are available now from the Etsy shop with a fabulous 50% discount

 

If you haven't had a look yet it's a fantastic collection of 2 sets of images, that you can buy separately or as a complete collection - I know which I would choose as its a fantastic price for what's included.  Each set contains 93 cute little creatures or you can get all 186 creatures.

I chose a hammerhead shark, a great white and the sweet little manta ray resizing them to suite my card before printing out onto alcohol friendly card and fussy cutting out.

Next I created my underwater background, using lots of distress oxide inks, blending to create rays of light and a bank of sand at the bottom...its was loads of fun !

I used a stencil from my stash to create the coral at the bottom of the card adding little white highlights.

I added a stamped sentiment in the top corner of the panel and  finished off the card with glossy accents bubbles and clear shimmer pen on the sharks and ray.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from Lili of the Valley (LOTV)


Hasta luego 👋

Enjoy the rest of your day !

    

              

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp  - Cute Creatures - set 2

Distress Oxide Ink - broken china, salty ocean, chipped sapphire, blueprint, sketch, cracked pistachio, antique lined, frayed burlap, mowed lawn, twisted citron, black soot, abandoned coral, spiced marmalade

Lawn Fawn stamps - Beary Rainy Day

Woodware Craft Collection Stamps - Sea Elements

TCW Stencil - Golf coast Florida

crafters companion sparkle pen - clear

Glossy Accents

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

 #lotv #liliofthevalley #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

 Wendy x

One Leg Up, Worries Down - Flamingo - May Release - Amara by Freakin' Cute

Hello and a happy  Friday everyone ! I hope that you have all had a great week, not too hot if you are based in Europe!

Today I'm super excited to share a tropical themed card that I have made which is just perfect for this hot weather we are having.

I was very lucky to win  the May digital stop release by Freakin' Cute and this cutie is Amara...isn't she gorgeous and doesn't she know it too !

You can grab here I the Ko-fi shop !

If you know me then you know how much I love bold strong colours and I decided to embrace them for this card.

I created a hot tropical background blending distress inks on a panel of white card and then used a tropical themed die to cut out that leafy border frame from green card, adding green distress ink to this to add extra depth.

I used my ScannCut to cut out Amara and the sentiment.

I added a couple of extra leaves and the fabulous sentiment that comes with Amara, finishing off my card with a few clear sparkly gems around the design.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my tropical card today and will drop by again to see my next project.


Hasta luego 👋 


Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Freakin' Cute digital stamp - Amara - May Release 2026

Studio Light Die Cut - CD208

Distress Ink - squeezed lemonade, spiced marmalade, picked raspberry, wilted violet, rustic wilderness

Buttons Galore & More - Coconut Palms Mix

          

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Sorry. Cant. Shopping. Bye - Shopping Card - Stand & Pop Card - Rebel & Wanda Collections - with Polkadoodles

 

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week.

So June is nearly at an end and the weather here has been wonderful....sunny and hot but not too hot at night just yet.  We had a wonderful time last week with my lovely cousin and her hubby staying with us for a few days, lots of good food, relaxing by the pool and a little sightseeing too, probably far too much alcohol but hey ho.

It's that time of the week to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog so I hope you are going to join in and don't forget the amazing Digi Choosday discount off all crafty printable downloads!

Don't Forget that our challenges our now 4 weekly so there's loads of time for you to join in and more chances to win too!

The theme set for the DT this week is to make a shopping themed card so I decided to use one of the very cute pre-coloured images from the Rebel Girl Collection

I am not a lover of shopping, never have been, I find it really stressful but my cousin loves it with a passion, so this will be her birthday card in December.

My card today is a Stand and Pop card and Im loving how it looks - it was really easy to construct too and when folded flat fits into an A7 envelope (5" x 7"). If you'd like to make one then I would recommend watching a Youtube video by Sam Calcott - she has tutorials to make a few different sizes too!

The basic card measurements and shorelines are as follows.

Cardstock measuring as follows

• 7 " x 4 1/2"
• 9 " x 4 1/2" scored at 1" & 3"
• 6 1/4" x 3" scored at 1/4" 1 1/4" 5 1/4"
• 5" x 2"
• 3" x 1" scored at 1/2", 2 1/2"
• 4 1/4" x 6 7/8"

The card base was made from a lavender blue cardstock and I have used papers from the Rebel collection to decorate it.

The main Rebel Shopping image is pre-coloured and I have printed her twice and then decoupaged for dimension.

The little shopping bags and sentiments have been taken from the Wanda collection adding the sentiments to the bags in Canva before printing out and cutting out with my ScanNCut, there was a little bit of hand cutting for the bag handles as I haven't worked out how to do this yet LOL!

To finish off my card today I've scattered lots of pink confetti around the design to tie in with the pink colour palette.

I hope that you like my project today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: Polkadoodles digital stamp - Rebel Girl - pre-coloured Rebel Shopping

Polkadoodles digital papers - Rebel Girl - paper bundle 2 & paper bundle 3

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Wanda - ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiments - Wanda - sentiment bundle

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - friendship

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

Wendy x

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #843 - Use Flowers - Hope your day is buzzing with Joy - Sponsored by Polkadoodles

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all I hope that you are having a lovely week !

Oh my goodness it's been a very hot few days ...temperatures around 40C for a few days on the run now so fingers crossed the high heat breaks soon and we can have a little cooling respite.  It's even been a little too hot to be outside for very long and the kitties are struggling to keep cool too.  

I'm here today to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog.

This week our challenge is being sponsored by Polkadoodles Clearly and the theme chosen by Kitty for team 2 is Use Flowers.

I decided to create a bridge fold card to create a little garden scene and have use the Blooming digital stamp from the Buzzy Bee collection as it was perfect for the challenge theme.  I resized the image for my 5" x 7" card and coloured with promarkers before printing out and fussy cutting out by hand.

The bridge fold card was created from a piece of yellow card stock, measuring 9" x 5" scored at 1" on either of the long edges.  The big section for the front was a pice of yellow card measuring 8" x 1" again score at 1" on either end.

I used a couple of papers from the collection and adhered these to the card base along with some die cut flowers, a sun and a little picket fence to create my garden scene.

To finish off my fun Buzzy Bee card I added sequins around the design, lots of sparkle and lots of glossy accents to the flowers.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card packed with flowers today and will drop by again to see my next project and don't forget to join in with the challenge over on the Passion for Markers blog


Hasta luego 👋 


Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Polkadoodles Designs digital stamp - Buzzy Bee - Blooming

Polkadoodles Designs digital paper - Buzzy Bee -  Paper pack 1

Polkadoodles Designs digital paper - Buzzy Bee -  Stripes and Gingham papers

Polkadoodles Designs digital sentiment - Buzzy Bee - sentiment bundle

LHC dies - flowers, sun, fence

Distress Ink - squeezed lemonade

Spectrum Noir - Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

glossy accents

Craft Consortium sequins - tell It to the Bees

          

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

 Wendy x

New Release - Keep chasing the sunshine - Fluffy Friends collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Monday everyone... I hope that you had a great weekend and are enjoying the weather...its extremely hot here so we've been spending more time indoors keeping cool but this morning I'm off to my yoga class then we have shopping to do, so fingers crossed its not too hot.

I'm sure that you've seen the brand new digital release by Polkadoodles - called Fluffy Friends.  There
are loads of adorable images for you to colour or pre-coloured if you prefer.

Hurry too as there's currently a huge 40% discount using the code FF40

I thought as the weather is so hot I would share a DL card that Ive made, using one of the very cute digital stamps. This is Peaches Cat but I've turned him into our kitty Foxy.  He loves lying in the sun so I've created him a beach scene with distress inks.  I love his very cool sunglasses and delicious looking drink - probably a very fishy cocktail.

The finishing touches for the card were clear sparkle pen and glossy accents for the sunglasses.

I hope that you like my projects today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Fluffy Friends - Peaches Cat with sunglasses

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Fluffy Friends - greetings bundle

distress inks - salvaged patina, salty ocean, old paper, scattered straw

Lawn Fawn Stencil - slimline cloudy

glossy accents

sakura gelly roll pen - white

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

Wendy x

Cute Creatures - From All the Gang - Set 1 & set 2 with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone happy Sunday - I hope you are having a lovely weekend.......its a scorcher here today with temperatures due to reach 40C this afternoon so my card today has definitely got those desert vibes.

I'm back today to share a fun 6" x 6" card using some of the little dinosaurs from the Cute Creatures collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop with a fabulous 50% discount

 

If you haven't had a look yet it's a fantastic collection of 2 sets of images, that you can buy separately or as a complete collection - I know which I would choose as its a fantastic price for what's included.  Each set contains 93 cute little creatures or you can get all 186 creatures.

I chose several of the dinosaurs and resized them to suite my card before printing out onto alcohol friendly card and cutting out with my ScanNCut.

One of the Pterodactyl's was reversed and made smaller so it looks like a little one with its mum/dad

All of the little critters in the collection are so easy to colour and you can really use your imagination with them...especially with the dinosaurs, after all whose going to know if the colours aren't correct LOL

Next I created my background, using a fantastic Simon Hurley layering stencil I treated myself to and distress inks to create my desert sunset scene.

You know me with bold colours, I just can't help myself..... LOL

I added a sentiment from the collection in the top corner of the panel and little white gelly roll pen highlights to the cactus in the foreground.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from Lili of the Valley (LOTV)


Hasta luego 👋

Enjoy the rest of your day !

    

              

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp  - Cute Creatures - set 1 and set 2

LOTV digital sentiment - Safari set

Distress Ink - scorched timber, vintage photo, rusty hinge, fossilised amber, spiced marmalade, picked raspberry, wilted violet, chipped sapphire

Simon Hurley Layering Stencil - Sedona

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

 #lotv #liliofthevalley #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

 Wendy x

New Release - Friends are Everything - Friendship card - Fluffy Friends collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Friday everyone... The Summer temperatures are ramping up fast and we have our first heatwave across most of Spain this weekend,  with temperatures of 40C where we live...so lots of time indoors I think, crafting, keeping cool and some chilling off in the pool!

There's a brand new digital release by Polkadoodles and I think you are going to love it !  It's called Fluffy Friends and there are loads of adorable images for you to colour or pre-coloured if you prefer.

Hurry too as there's currently a huge 40% discount using the code FF40

Here's my first card from the new collection using the very sweet Monty Bear. When I was little I remember having a blue teddy bear and Monty reminded me of him so I've used my promarkers to create my blue bear and decided that yellow roses would be the perfect compliment.

My simple 5" x 7" or A7 card has a layer of pretty teal paper from the collection and one of the sentiments that I have added onto teal in Canva before cutting out.

I fussy cut Monty by hand and added him to my card using foam tape for dimension with a teal die cut frame and an inky background created with Pixie powders for sparkle.

The finishing touches for the card of sparkly gems and some extra die cut hearts and a little glossy accents for Monty's nose.

I hope that you like my projects today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Fluffy Friends - Monty Bear flower bunch

Polkadoodles digital paper - Fluffy Friends - paper set 2

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Fluffy Friends - greetings bundle

Cosmic Shimmer - Pixie Powders - Peacock Green

Buttons Galore & More Gems - Sailors Sky

glossy accents

sakura gelly roll pen - white

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - You Passed - Congrats - Graduation card - Upright Easel - Graduation/Student Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far.

Summer has definitely arrived here and we've been very busy lately with my wonderful cousin and hubby staying with us for a few days.  She's more like a sister to me really and I miss seeing her but its great catching up too when we can - the boys don't really get chance to talk LOL.

It's that time of the week to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog so I hope you are going to join in and don't forget the amazing Digi Choosday discount off all crafty printable downloads!  

Don't Forget that our challenges our now 4 weekly so there's loads of time for you to join in and more chances to win too!

The theme set for the DT this week is to make a graduation themed card/project so I decided to use one of the very cute images from the Graduation School Student collection  Its a jam packed collection of images, clip art, sentiments, word art and of course fun papers and perfect for lots of different educational and new job celebrations.   

I've used the very sweet Cute Boy  for my card today and resized this in my graphics software (I'm using the free version of Canva if you are interested !) I decided to add 3 piles of books from the clipart in the collection, so the little boy was standing on top like he's on top of the world and added a couple of extra mortar board hats in too before printing out and colouring with promarkers.

He looks like he feels on top of the world after all the hard work studying - very well deserved!

The card base is a 6" x 6" upright easel today with layers of a lime green/yellow and burgundy card and different fun and bright papers from the collection.

I decided to use the sentiment strips in the collection printing on my LaserJet printer so I could foil them in gold.

To finish off my card today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights and scattered lots of gold confetti around the design to tie in with the foiled sentiment strips.

  

I hope that you like my project today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Graduation Student collection - Cute Boy Graduate

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Graduation Student collection - Clip art bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Graduation Student collection - paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Graduation Student collection - sentiment bundle

Minc foil - gold

spellbinders confetti - gold

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

Wendy x

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #841 - Favourite Colour combination - Hope your day is buzzing with Joy - Sponsored by Clearly Besotted

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all I hope that you are having a lovely week !

The weather has been wonderful so far, lovely and hot during the day but not too hot at night - so far LOL.

We are busy preparing the house for my cousin and her husband arriving on Thursday and Im really looking forward to seeing her again - we have loads to catch up on.

We have lots of days planned, lots of meals and drinking and obviously chilling by the pool too.  Im hoping to persuade her to come to Yoga with me too on Friday.

I'm here today to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog.

This weeks challenge is sponsored by Clearly Besotted Stamps and the theme this week is Favourite colour combination. - I find this really difficult as I have lots of colour combinations that I love and it all depends on how I feel at them time but for today as the bees are busy in the garden I chose to Pink, Green and lemon for my card today.

It's a simple circular card made using one of the gorgeous images from the Buzzy Bee collection by Polkadoodles.  This is Buzzy Talk, coloured with my promarkers.

The circular card was die cut from yellow card stock and I used a layer of paper from the collection as my base layer.

To finish off my fun Buzzy Bee card I added sequins around the design, lots of sparkle and lots of glossy accents to the little bees.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card today and will drop by again to see my next project and don't forget to join in with the challenge over on the Passion for Markers blog


Hasta luego 👋 


Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Polkadoodles Designs digital stamp - Buzzy Bee - Buzzy Talk 

Polkadoodles Designs digital stamp - Buzzy Bee  - Leaves and Flowers paper bundle

Polkadoodles Designs digital stamp - Buzzy Bee  - sentiment bundle

Distress Ink - salty ocean

Spectrum Noir - Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

glossy accents

Sugar and Spice sequins - mojito collection

          

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

 Wendy x