World Cardmaking Day - Autumn Crafting - Freddy Fox collection with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Saturday... its also World Card Making day too and I hope that you are joining in with the fun and creating something today.

It might be the 4th October but its a beautiful sunny Autumnal day here today and the temperature is expected to climb to 30C which is lovely but a little unexpected.  

I decided to share a couple of Autumn cards I made recently using the Ephemera bundle from the fantastic Freddy Freddy Fox collection  to celebrate the colours of Autumn.

The ephemera set is jam packed with images for you to colour or comes with pre-coloured images too if you prefer not to colour. 

For the first card I chose a couple of the butterflies from the bundle, colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out.  For the simply block background I used some pieces of masking tape to create four rectangles on the panel and then used distress oxides to blend colour over these from light to dark - I love the striking look and its such a simple but effective design.  

To create the shadow behind the butterflies I printed the two butterflies onto the base panel before inking and then simply coloured them in with a black marker pen before adhering the butterflies on top.

The sentiment, from the collection was added to the centre of the card before printing too and I applied rose gold foil using my Minc.  The panel was then layered onto my card blank with a mat of black glitter card.

To finish off this simple design I added some rose gold confetti around the the card.

For my second Autumn card I decided to create a fun inky background so on a piece of vellum I scribbles some alcohol markers in patches and then added a little alcohol to this, using my Tim Holtz blower to move the ink around, adding more colour until I was happy with the overall effect.  Once dried I added a splatter of wet glue on the panel and when the glue was tacky I applied gold foil to the splatter - it give a very delicate look but I think this works well with the vellum.

For the main image I chose the bird house with sunflowers and a couple of the little crows from the ephemera bundle, colouring these in again with my promarkers before fussy cutting out and adding to my card.

I printed out one of the sentiments from the collection and adhered this across the bottom of the card to give a ground for my design to sit on.

To finish off the design I added white gelly roll pen highlights around the the card.

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 !

recipe: Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Polkadoodles digital stamps - Freddy Fox Collection - Ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Freddy Fox Collection -  Sentiment bundle

Distress Oxide - dried marigold, wild honey, crackling campfire, festive berries, rusty hinge

Minc foil - rose gold

Crafters Companion foil - gold

Spellbinders confetti - rose gold

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

Wendy x

New Release - Autumn Girls - Leaves are Falling - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Monday......

Autumn has officially arrived so what better way to celebrate with a brand new collection of stamps by Lili of the Valley (LOTV)  

There are 10 absolutely gorgeous new Autumn girls now available in the Etsy shop and I know you will love them all so why not have a look.

 

For my card today I've used the adorable Pumpkin Girl coloured with my promarkers.  These gorgeous images don't really need much so I used distress inks blended across the background with a little ink splattering for texture.

The sentiment I have used is from the Autumn Sentiments set and I have applied rose gold foil to this.

I decided to mat a layer of pretty paper from the Secret Garden collection onto my card blank and adhered the panel at an angle with foam tape.

Finishing touches were some champagne confetti and white gelly roll pen highlights.

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

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley # LOTVdt

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp   - Autumn Girls - Pumpkin girl

LOTV Designer Paper - Secret Garden

LOTV Digital sentiment - Autumn Sentiments set

Distress Ink - salty ocean

Minc Foil - rose gold

Spellbinders confetti - champagne

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 BlogSpot #761 - Autumn Friends - Di's Digi Stamps

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day and welcome to October !

Today I'm here to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and I hope that you will join in.

This weeks challenge theme of 'Autumn Friends' has been chosen by Me for team 2 and is being sponsored by Di's Digi Stamps

For my card today I have used a very sweet digital image that was a freebie from Di Carubia in the Kit & Clowder Facebook group in August 2022.

This is an A7 or 5" x 7" scene card, with a simple scalloped frame die cut from sky blue card.

The image was resized to suit the card and printed on alcohol friendly card stock, no fussy cutting with this card.  I have coloured with my Promarkers (see below for colours used).

To create my scene I used a blue distress ink to add clouds into the background and die cut a tree adding green ink to the bottom edge of the leaf clusters and brown ink to the trunk of the tree for dimension.

The sentiment is from Polkadoodles, with a little brown distress ink blended over the edges.

The finishing touches were some glossy simple white gel pen highlights around the design.

I hope that you join in with the challenge as there is a prize from the sponsor for our lucky winner!

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:Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Di's Digi stamps 

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Freddy Fox Collection - sentiment bundle

Distress ink - tumbled glass, gathered twigs, rustic wilderness

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Set the scene - garden greenery

Sakura Gelly roll - White Pen

Glossy Accents

Promarkers used :

     

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

 Wendy x

Autumn Birthday Wishes - Autumn Wreath - with Pattie's Creations

Happy Friday everyone I hope that you are all well and have had a lovely week.

The first Friday of the month marks the start of a new Challenge for December over on the Pattie's Creations Design Challenge blog 

The challenge runs from the first Friday of the month and its an Anything Goes challenge or our theme for September is School Days, so as long as you use a digital or stamped image in your project, why not join in the challenge.

Winners of the challenge will receive 2 digital stamps of your choice from Pattie's shop.

Pattie has some wonderful digital stamps in her Etsy Shop pattiescreations and there is also a freebie every month on the blog that you can use in your project if you want to! 

For my September project, I chose  to use the Autumn Wreath digital stamps to create a 6" x 6 " card. 

This is definitely a more traditional style of card and quite different to my recent creations but I'm pleased with how its turned out.

I resized the image to suit my card size and added an autumn sentiment into the centre of the panel before printing out on my LaserJet printer.  As I was going to create some extra layering I printed out some of the leaves a second time. 

I then used a selection of distress inks to colour the leaves with an autumnal palette before fussy cutting them out.

I then applied gold foil to the extra leaves that would be popped up on foam tape for dimension and used rose gold foil for the sentiment in the centre. 

For the background I used a linen effect embossing folder to add texture to Kraft card and then applied white dye ink over the texture to soften the look.

To finish off the card I added some white gelly roll pen highlights to the acorns and scattered gold confetti around the design.

 

I do hope that you like my card for today and don't forget to join in with this months challenge over on the blog.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Autumn Wreath

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Freddy Fox Collection

Distress inks -  weathered wood,  gathered twigs, old paper, barn door,             fossilized amber , crushed olive ,  rustic wilderness, 

Minc Foil - Gold, rose gold

Embossing folder - Linen

Lisa Horton Crafts - Cloud 9 Dye ink - falling snow

Sakura Gelly Roll - White Pen

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - gold

                  

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Freddy Fox - Welcome Autumn With Friends Freddy with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday. It's September and Autumn is now definitely on it's way... the leaves are turning and falling fast after out hot long Summer.

It's that time of the week when we launch a brand new '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 discount off all crafty printable downloads until midnight today!

The theme set for the DT this week is to create an Autumn or Halloween themed card so I chose Autumn as the colours around the garden and the mountains are some of my favourites.

I thought that today I would share a card using the fabulous and very cute Freddy Fox release.

Its a very simple bridge fold card that fits into a standard 6" x 6" envelope.  I have used 3 papers from the collection to decorate the panels and the bridge section.  The sweet image of Freddy with his friend was resized to suit the card before printing on alcohol marker friendly cardstock, colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out.

I also printed some of the pre-coloured ephemera from the collection and used this to decorate the card, adding one of the little bees on a strip of acetate so he flies over the heads of Freddy and his friend.  The sentiment adhered to the back of the card has also been printed from the collection and cut into a simple banner.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from the new Freddy the Fox Collection by Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Freddy Fox - Friends Autumn Fall Fox

Polkadoodles digital paper - Freddy Fox - Set 2

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Freddy Fox - Sentiment Bundle

Polkadoodles digital Ephemera - Freddy Fox -  Bundle

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black, metallic grey

Craft Consortium sequins

Promarkers Used:

Freddy:         cocoa, burnt sienna (nose)

Friend           salmon pink, pale pink (ears & feet)

                    caramel, praline, sandstone

Dress:          verdigris, grey green, mint green

Dungarees:   ocean teal, green, mint green

                    dusky rose, antique pink, sunkissed pink

Bird:            true blue, sky blue, cool aqua

                   deep mocha, coffee, raw sienna

Bunting:       verdigris, grey green, mint green   

                    ocean teal, green, mint green

                    dusky rose, antique pink, sunkissed pink

                       

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

Wendy x