New Release - Christmas - Photo Strip - Reindeer with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Saturday ....I hope you are having a good weekend.

Today I'm sharing another cute DL Christmas card  made for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using another of the new Photo booth digital stamp sets.

These cards feature a very funny Reindeer, its the  Reindeer Photo Strip set available in the Etsy shop.

I really love all of these Christmas stamps as they are such versatile stamps and can be used all together as one image or you can split them to create 4 separate cards....its really hard to choose a favourite!

Just look at this naughty reindeer pretending to be Rudolph!  I hope he doesn't find out....

I resized the images to fit my landscape DL card and then coloured with my promarkers before fussy cutting each little image out.

For my landscape card I die cut a frame of aqua glitter card and the cut a panel of aqua paper from the Snow Princess collection for the background.  The little images were then adhered into the frame, some flat to the panel and some on foam tape for dimension.

I die cut the Christmas word from the glitter card and then adhered this to the bottom of the card.

Finishing touches were some glittery sparkle on the reindeers hat, white gel pen highlights, glossy accents for the nose and I added some iridescent sparkle after all you can never have too much at Christmas.

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

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley #LOTVDT

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set  - Reindeer Photo Strip

LOTV Digital paper - Snow Princess

Buttons Galore & More - All is Calm

Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

Lisa Horton Crafts - Layered Words - Christmas

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Christmas - Photo Strip - Robin with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Tuesday....I hope you are having a good week so far... we've got family staying so having a few days being tourists, trying to keep cool and eating too much as usual ! I'm missing my crafty time so managed to sneak some quiet chilling time to myself today to create a little and catch up with the blog.

Today I'm sharing a cute DL Christmas card  made for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using another of the new Photo booth digital stamp sets.

These cards feature a very funny Robin, its the  Robin Photo Strip set available in the Etsy shop.

I really love all of these Christmas stamps as they are such versatile stamps and can be used all together as one image or you can split them to create 4 separate cards.

I remember seeing a die last year or so that created a strip of film roll so I wanted to create this as I think the Robin looks like he's trying to make a film of him flying in with his Christmas banners.

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers and then I used a small square die to create the notches in each side of the card panel.  Once I had cut all these out I used my black promarker to create the fil strip effect.

Finishing touches were some glittery sparkle on the robins hat and I used a white Posca pen to create the snow in the scene.

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

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley #LOTVDT

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set  - Robin Photo Strip

Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

Posca 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 #799 - Die Cuts / Punches - Sponsored by Di's Digi Stamps

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - Were nearly at the end of July so I thought I would squeeze in another Christmas in July post.

There's 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 'Use die cuts / punches' has been chosen by Karen for team 2 and is being sponsored by Dis Digi Stamps

I've had a cute little hedgehog digital stamp from Di for a while now just waiting to be used.  I think this little cutie may have been a freebie from Di in her Facebook group!

The cute little Festive Hedgy was coloured with Promarkers to begin with and then I've used a stencil to add the confetti over the background with some distress inks. I foiled the sentiment in the balloon with silver foil and added some white gelly roll 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.

Dis Digi Stamps - Festive Hedgy 

Distress inks - candied apple, mustard seed, mowed lawn

Minc foil - silver

Studiolight layered mask - Exploding confetti

Studiolight Cutting Die - party card shape

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

New Release - Christmas in July - Photo Strip - Penguin with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday....I hope you have all had a great week....we finally both seem to be over our nasty cough and colds - its been about 8 weeks and I thought it was never going away...fingers crossed.

We've ordered our acequia water today so I'm off to help out with the watering - hopefully the plants will love it!

I'm here today with another Christmas card for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the new Photo booth digital stamp sets.

This card feature the Penguin Photo Strip set set available in the Etsy shop.

These are such versatile stamps and can be used all together as one image or you can split them as I have done to create my card today......did I mention that I think are adorable and there's a sale on in the shop at the moment until 31st July so don't miss out!

This is the front of the card which is an A7 Landscape card, I've used one of the gorgeous papers from the Essential Papers Frosty Christmas set, layered onto silver glitter card.  The sentiment was stamped and cut out and I used a very old snowflake punch to add a little detail around the word. 

A beautiful card in itself but then when you open up the card you get a wonderful surprise!

Its the silly penguin trying to get photos of himself in the photo booth - oh my goodness what is he doing.. LOL

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers and matting with coloured card.  I added each little panel to the pop out W strip a little wonky and I think it works really well.

The paper on the inside of my card is from an old paper pad but I thought the design was perfect for this penguins antics.

Finishing touches were some glittery sparkle on the penguins hat and little punched snowflakes.

I hope that you like my cards 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 set  - Penguin Photo Strip

LOTV Essential Papers - Frosty Christmas

Craftwork Cards paper pad - Watercolour Washes

Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

LHC - Festive double layered word stamps and dies

Versafine Clair ink - twilight

Black pen

Buttons Galore and More - Sailors Sky

Baker Ross Snowflake punch

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Christmas in July - Photo Strip - Snowman with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday....I hope you are enjoying the weekend...its very hot here at the moment so I've been having quite a bit of time in the shade and trying to keep cool with lots of water to drink lol.

I'm here today with 4 sweet little Christmas cards for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the new Photo booth digital stamp sets.

These cards feature the Snowman Photo Strip set set available in the Etsy shop.

These are such versatile stamps and can be used all together as one image or you can split them as I have done to create 4 separate cards that I think are adorable.

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers and matting with coloured card.  I die cut little windows for the images and used embossing folders to create texture at the bottom of the panels.

The sentiments I've used for each card are from Cute Christmas sentiment set and I've foiled each one to match the card.

Finishing touches were some glittery sparkle on the snowman's hat.

I hope that you like my cards 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 set  - Snowman Photo Strip

LOTV Digital stamp set - Cute Christmas

Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

     

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Bella Bear Christmas - Christmas in July - Not a Card - Christmas rosettes with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....My goodness the heat has been so high here now for weeks...I cant really imagine it getting much hotter but its only the first week of July !

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 create something to celebrate Christmas in July but not a card - hmm....that got me thinking but I'm up for a challenge.

I decided to make a little home décor for Christmas so created 3 little Christmas rosettes 

I chose to use the Bella Bear Christmas collection for my sweet and easy project today.

I chose 2 snowflake papers, one is from the Bella Bear Christmas collection and the other is from the Gingerbread Holly collection

I decided to create 3 rosettes, the larger one is made from 2" wide strips of paper, I cut 2 each measuring 2" x 11".  The smaller two rosettes are using 1 1/2" strips, cutting 4 strips measuring 1 1/2" x 11".

Each strip of paper was scored at 1/2" all the way along and concertina folded, then I have joined 2 strips together with wet glue to form loops.  I die cut 4 small circles of card and then used these on the backs of each rosette applying hot glue and holding each in shape while drying.

Once the rosettes were formed I added some cream twine to each so they could be hung from a tree at Christmas but they would make perfect gift tags too for special presents.  

Next I chose 2 pre-coloured ephemera images and one of the pre-coloured Bella Bear images, printing each one out twice. 

I die cute the image, layered onto die cut card and then used the hot glue to adhere these to the rosettes.

I then fussy cut out the images again and layered these onto the bottom image with foam tape.

The finishing touches were some sparkly stickles on each image and glossy accents onto Bella's nose and the holly berries.

I'm really pleased how these turned out and I'll definitely be making some more for this Christmas.

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 paper - Bella Bear Christmas - Set 2 bundle

Polkadoodles digital image - Bella Bear Christmas - Gift Box Bella - Pre-coloured

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Bella Bear Christmas - Ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Gingerbread Holly - paper set 1

Stickles - star dust

glossy accents

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

Wendy x

Silly Snowman - Freebie Digital Stamp - with Julia McNeil Designs

Hello everyone Happy Friday! I hope that you've had a great week and you are nearly ready for Christmas.

Today I'm back to share a Christmas card for JMC Designs  that I've made using the December freebie digital stamp - this is the Silly Snowman and I think he's perfect for a few people I know after a little too much festive partying.

Every month Julia McNeill very generously gives away a fabulous digital stamp, which is available to everyone in her Facebook group JMC's Crazy Crafty Hive and also to her followers via Instagram, all you need is to use your email address to register for the stamp. 

Here is the link to register and download this months digital stamp.

If you have missed any of the previous freebies then Julia has kindly put together a list of them all with the links for each so you can download them and don't forget to share your projects in the group as we would love to see them.  Here is the full list of the freebies 

I do hope that you like my card for today and I'd love it if you'd leave me a comment. 

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.

JMC Designs - Silly Snowman digital freebie

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - 

Distress Inks - peacock feathers

Lawn Fawn Hillside stencil

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Posca pen - white

Sakura Gelly roll - White Pen

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

Wendy x

Happy Christmas from All of Us- Snowmen - Happy Christmas with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday.... Oh my goodness our Christmas decorations still aren't up - that's a first in I don't know how many years... there's been so much going on and I've not really felt up to it but hopefully over the weekend.

I'm back today with a card project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous sets of digital stamps, this is a cute set of Snowmen from the Etsy shop. and I decided to create a landscape DL card.

The set includes 8 different snowmen and I loved the way they were peeking over a snowy bank.  I combined two images to  create this card, reversing one of the images before printing out and colouring with Promarkers.

The sentiment that I have used is from the Snow Cute set  and I used a piece snowflake of paper from the Frosty Christmas backing paper set.  The frame was die cut from white glitter card and I blended a little blue distress ink over the patterned paper.

Finishing touches were some glitter to the snowmen's hats.

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.

LOTV digital stamp - Snowmen 

LOTV digital sentiment - Snow Cute set 

LOTV digital paper - Frosty Christmas backing paper

Distress ink - salty ocean

Comic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - icicle blue

Promarkers Used:

Snowmen:       cool aqua

                      pale blossom

                      orange, bright orange, ginger

Hats:              burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                      lavender, ivory

     

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 #769 - Anything Goes - Mega Christmas Challenge

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope your week is going well....I cant quite believe how soon Christmas day will be here...this year has gone so fast.

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

This weeks challenge is our Mega Christmas Challenge for both teams and being sponsored by lots of lovely and very generous companies. I chose to use a gorgeous image by Polkadoodles

The theme this week is - Anything goes

I chose to use a really cute image from the latest Theo Penguin - Snowy Days collection - Who can resist a cute penguin.  This is image is Waiting for Christmas

Its a larger A7 or 5" x 7"  size card with a  background layer of wintery paper from the collection.

I created a Christmas bauble for my card using a couple of circle nested dies, cutting from silver card and then blending distress oxide inks across a circle of white card to create my wintery scene.  The little fir trees where simply hand painted using a dark grey Brush pen and then I added snow to the trees using a white posca pen.

These are all our wonderful sponsors that you could win a prize from so don't forget to join in

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 Digital stamp - Theo Penguin - Snowy Days - Waiting for Christmas 

Polkadoodles Digital paper - Theo Penguin - Snowy Days - Classic Winter Paper Set 1

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Theo Penguin - Snowy Days - greetings bundle

Promarkers Used:

Theo:             lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                     pale pink

                     blue black, cool grey 7,5

                     gold, ivory

Bow:               burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Scarf:    pear green, lime green, lime zest

Bells:      gold, sunflower, buttercup

     

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

 Wendy x

Merry and Bright - Winter Cottage Snow Globe - with Pattie's Creations

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

I hope that you are starting to get into the Christmas spirit - we'll be putting our tree and decorations up hopefully over the weekend.

The 1st 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 December is Winter Around the World, 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 December project and to add to my stash of Christmas cards, I chose  to use the Winter Cottage Sow Globe digital stamp to create this pretty A7 or 5" x 7" card.

I resized the image to suit my card size and printed it out before colouring with Promarkers.  I then fussy cut out the base of the snow globe and set aside.

Next I used a circular die to cut an aperture from a peice of snowflake patterned paper.  I adhered the glass part of the snow globe directly to the card base and then adhered the patterned paper over the top of this.

As the patterned paper is quite busy I cut a panel of vellum to adhere over the top, running it through a snowflake embossing folder for texture.  I applied a little Kraft coloured ink to accentuate some of the snowflakes.

I then adhered the base of the snow globe to the card using foam tape for dimension, adding a small bow from bakers twine.

The sweet banner sentiment was heat embossed in rose pink and added below the image.

To finish off the card I added lots of sparkle 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:Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Winter Cottage Sow Globe

LOTV - Patterned Paper - Krafty Christmas

Lisa Horton Crafts - Embossing folder

Ranger Adirondack Dye Ink - Latte

Stickles - Star Dust

Bakers Twine

Promarkers Used:

                  

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

Wendy x

Gingerbread Cookie - It's the most Wonderful Time of the Year - Sweet Gingerbread with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday I hope that your having a good week so far.

For today's card I have used the Sweet Gingerbread kit from the recently released Gingerbread Cookie collection .

There's loads of inspiration from the Polkadoodles Design team on the website in the gallery if you are looking for some ideas

To create this card I've used one of the papers from the collection, adding a small strip to the base of the card.  The digital stamp is from the Sweet Gingerbread kit was resized, printing out onto alcohol marker friendly card before colouring with my promarkers and then fussy cutting out.

I also printed out the pre-coloured string of fairy lights and one of the sentiments. and foliage and used these to decorate the card.   I blended a little yellow ink behind each fairy light before adhering these to the card.

To finish off the card I have added a few touches of white gel pen, glossy accents to the ginger breads icing and some coffee coloured confetti around the design.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from the new Gingerbread Cookie 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 - Gingerbread Cookie - Sweet Gingerbread Kit

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment -  Gingerbread Cookie - Sweet Gingerbread Kit

Polkadoodles digital Ephemera - Gingerbread Cookie - Sweet Gingerbread Kit

Polkadoodles digital paper - Gingerbread Cookie - Sweet Gingerbread Kit

distress ink - squeezed lemonade

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

glossy accents

Promarkers Used:

Gingerbread:    vanilla, lavender

                       burnt sienna, caramel, sandstone

                       antique pink, bright green, ginger

Hat:                forest green, bright green, leaf green

                      burnt orange, orange, ginger

Bowtie:           burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Jacket:            forest green, bright green, leaf green

                      burnt orange, orange, ginger

                      

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

Wendy x