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

Digi Choosday - Hope your Day is Buzzing - With Wraparound - Twist & Pop Card - Honey Bee Dreams - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far......I cant quite believe it's the end of May already...its definitely true when they say that time flies!

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 project with a wraparound.

I decided I would make a new card style - well new to me at least....LOL  This interactive card has been around for ages but I've never made one before so I thought I would give it a go.  It's an A6 sized Twist and Pop Card and I was surprised how well it came together.  I have learnt a few things as well whilst making it so have a few tips to make it.

I chose to use the Honey Bee Dreams and Busy Bee Gnomes collections for my card today using papers, a sentiment and ephemera to all coordinate.

The actual card itself was constructed using a yellow card and is made from 3 main pieces.

One thing I will do next time I make this style is convert it into inches as my scoreboard is imperial and it was tricky to get the score lines in the right places.

The card base measured 10cm x 30cm scored at 15cm.

The inner panel measured 9cm x 26cm scored at 6.5, 13 and 19.5cm

The mechanism measured 9cm x 20cm.  On the 9cm side scored at 4.5cm t create a centre fold. Then on the long edge mark each end at 5.5cm.

Score a cross diagonally between these marks then fold and burnish the folds.

If you want some better instructions and to see how the card is assembled I would suggest watching this video on YouTube 

I used some pretty floral papers and a sentiment from the Buzzy Bee Gnomes collection and the ephemera on the panels inside are from the Honey Bee Dreams collection

Next time I make this card I will also avoid the edging trim on the panels of the card as this catches slightly on the mechanism as the card is closed but it's good to learn !

 

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 paper - Buzzy Bee - paper pack 1
Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Buzzy Bee - sentiment bundle
Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Honey Bee Dreams collection
Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear
Craft Consortium sequins

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

Wendy x

With Love - Hi Honey - A5 Stamp Set - New Release with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday....I hope the weekend has been fun.

I'm here today with another cute card for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using stamps  from the new A5 Polymer stamp sets Hi Honey available in the Etsy shop 

My absolute favourite childhood bear was of course Winnie the Pooh so I decided to create a card based around Pooh and his absolute love of honey and of course those important little bees. 

I stamped several images from the set along with some pots of honey and coloured these with Promarkers to resemble Pooh bear fussy cutting them out.

I chose a patterned paper from the Craft Consortium collection Cottage Garden for the background and then from a panel of yellow card die cut hexagonal apertures before adhering these to an A7 or 5" x 7" card base....I wanted it to look like the bees were busy the the hive making their honey. 

Next I die cut the letters for Hi Honey and adhered these to the card using foam tape.

Finally the little bears and the bee were added around the honeycomb.

The sweet little With Love sentiment is from the Flower Pockets set of polymer stamps

Finishing touches were some gold confetti around the design, clear sparkle to th bees wings and glossy accents to the bears nose.

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 polymer A5 stamp set  - Hi Honey 

LOTV polymer A5 stamp set - Flower Pockets

Craft Consortium paper pad - Cottage Garden

LHC Euphoria Glitter card

LHC Large Stitched alphabet dies

glossy accents

Spectrum Noir sparkle

Spellbinders 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 - Friendship and flowers with Polkadoodles

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

Are you looking forward to Autumn ? I love all the seasons but the Autumn colours are my favourite and I adore the poppies that we get here although they tend to be in Spring.

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 a Friendship themed card so I decided to create a one layer card using the fabulous and very cute Freddy Fox release..... I just love all the warm tones of Autumn so this is one of my favourite collections.

It's a very simple A6 card with the design panel mounted onto a layer of red card.  To create the image I started by adding the fox and poppy image to a panel in my graphics software (I've also flipped this through 90 for a different look and then added 3 little bees and the cute little duck to create my scene.  Finally I chose a friendship themed sentiment from the collection before printing on alcohol marker friendly cardstock and colouring with promarkers.

Just a few touches of clear sparkle were added to the little bees and I used yellow glossy drops to add details to the poppy stamens.

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 - Poppy Flowers

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Freddy Fox - Sentiment Bundle

Polkadoodles digital Ephemera - Freddy Fox -  Bundle

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black

Tonic Nuvo Crystal Drops - English mustard

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Promarkers Used:

Freddy:         cedar brown, burnt orange, orange, mandarin

                    salmon pink, pale pink 

                    lemon chiffon, pale cream

Scarf :          verdigris, grey green, mint green

Duck:           gold, sunflower, buttercup

                   mandarin, burnt orange

Bees:           gold, sunflower, buttercup

                    blue black, cool grey 7, 5

                    lime zest 

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

Wendy x

I Love Promarkers #562 - Use pink, blue & yellow - Sponsored by Colour of Love

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Wednesday! 

I'm on my blog today for the new bi-weekly I Love Promarkers blog challenge , it would be wonderful if you joined us over there if you love to colour with alcohol markers and don't forget there are prizes up for grabs.  

You can find all of the rules and details for the challenge over on the blog. 

This fortnight long challenge is being sponsored by Colour of Love

Here is my inspiration card for the current blog challenge with the theme - Use pink, blue & yellow, so the primary colours, using this very sweet digital stamp of this sleepy little bee in the flower.  This is Sleepy time Buzlee

Its such a sweet card and perfect for the chosen colour palette.  This is an A7 or 5" x 7" card and I started by resizing the digital image and adding a sentiment to the bottom of the panel before printing out and colouring with 

promarkers (see below for colours).  

Next I used some distress ink and a cloud stencil to create a simple background.  

I used a scalloped die to cut a frame from pink card stock and then assembled my card, matting the design panel on a panel of sky blue card.  

To add dimension I used foam square to adhere the scalloped frame.

The finishing touches were white, gelly roll pen highlights, clear sparkle to the little bee's wings and some clear iridescent sequins around the design.

I really hope that you like 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 I Love Markers blog

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Colour of Love Digital Stamp - Sleepy time Buzzlee

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Lilybug Ladybird collection - sentiment bundle

distress ink - salty ocean

Lawn Fawn Stencil - slimline cloudy

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn mix

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Promarkers used :

Bee:            yellow, buttercup, primrose

                   blue black, cool grey 7, 5

                   cool aqua

        

Flower:        hot pink, carmine, cerise

                   gold, sunflower, buttercup

                   marine, ocean teal, mint green, cool aqua

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

 Wendy x

Bee the Sunshine in Someones Day - Bumble Buzz Collection with Julia McNeill Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Monday, I hope that you had a lovely weekend.  

I'm here today to share another project for JMC Designs using the gorgeous new Bumble Buzz Digital Collection, which is now available to purchase in the online store.

This huge digital collection contains: 15 Digital Stamps, 15 Pre Coloured Digital Stamps, 6 Ephemera Sheets, 5 Topper Sheets, 4 Sentiment Sheets and 23 papers and I'm sure you will be blown away by these sweet littles bees.

For my card today I've used the Bumble Buzz Digital collection again, I love working with digital collections as its so easy and extremely versatile and I can resize anything in the collection to suite my project.

This is an A6 ( UK Size ) card, I started by adding one of the gorgeous pre-coloured digital stamps to one of the toppers from the collection and then printing this out twice.

I added one of these layers to my card blank, with a layer of black card leaving a narrow black margin all around the design.  

Next I fussy cut out the sweet little bee house and some of the flowers at the bottom and added these to the card using foam squares to give dimension. 

 I resized the very cute Flower for You bee digital to suit the card and coloured with my Promarkers, before fussy cutting out.

I added clear sparkle to the bees wings, a white gel pen to add highlights and glossy accents to the bees antenna. 

This little bee is taking one of the pretty flowers home I think to decorate and add some beautiful fragrance, also for a midnight snack maybe !

The sentiment from the digital collection was printed out and foiled in not pink to coordinate with the card and added to the design.

The finishing touches were a few pieces of rose pink confetti around the design.

I really hope that you like my card today and it would be lovely if you you leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
JMC Designs digital collection - Bumble Buzz  Digital Collection - Flower for You Bee

JMC Designs digital collection - Bumble Buzz Digital Collection - digital Topper

Minc foil - hot pink

Gelly Roll pen - white

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Spellbinders Confetti - Rose

Glossy accents

Promarkers used :

Bee:       gold, sunflower, buttercup

              blue-black, cool grey 7, 6

              pale pink

Flower:   forest green, bright green, leaf green

              antique pink, salmon pink, pale pink

Wings:    cool aqua

                      

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

Wendy x

New Release - Bumble Buzz Collection with JMC Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Friday and a lovely weekend ahead.  

I'm here today to share another project for JMC Designs using the gorgeous Bumble Buzz Collection.

The fabulous Bumble Buzz collection has loads to offer and includes stamps, papers, ephemera and a digital collection and I absolutely love it.

The collection will be launching today on Create & Craft TV at 12 noon and 5pm in two special anniversary shows with Julia McNeill Crafts, so not long to wait !

There will be a deal of the day and 20% off across all JMC Designs products on C&Cs website, so don't forget to watch and grab a bargain..

Don't forget if you would like to see what's in the collection before the launch shows then Julia did a Product launch on YouTube, if you missed it then here is the link for you to watch

YouTube Product Launch

For my card today I've used the Bumble Buzz Digital collection again, I love working with digital collections as its so easy and extremely versatile and I can resize anything in the collection to suite my project.

This is a larger 5 x 7 card which has had a piece of the pink and black striped paper adhered to the card blank leaving a narrow white margin all around.

This is the very cute Sleepy Bee digital, which I have resized to suit the card and coloured with my Promarkers, before fussy cutting out.

The background for my little scene is one of the toppers from the digital collection which I have resized and printed out twice, the base layer being adhered to my card blank with a layer of black card as a mat layer - I love the contrast this gives to the design.

The second topper has been fussy cut out, cutting the flowers around the edge so I could nestle my little bee in amongst the flowers.

I added clear sparkle to the bees wings, a white gel pen to add highlights and glossy accents to the bees antenna.  This little bee is so tired after collecting all the pollen so he's having a nap safe in amongst the flowers.

The sentiment from the digital collection was printed out and foiled in gold to coordinate with the card and added to the design, again matting on a piece of black card.

My sleepy bee was then adhered onto the design with foam tape for extra dimension and I have added the flowers around him.

The finishing touches were a few pieces of rose pink confetti around the design.

I really hope that you like my card today and it would be lovely if you you leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
JMC Designs digital collection - Bumble Buzz Collection - Sleepy Bee

JMC Designs digital collection - Bumble Buzz Collection - Striped Paper

JMC Designs digital collection - Bumble Buzz Collection - digital Topper

Minc foil - gold

Gelly Roll pen - white

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Spellbinders Confetti = Rose

Glossy accents

Promarkers used :

Bee:         gold, sunflower, buttercup

                blue-black, cool grey 7, 6

                pale pink

Wings:       cool aqua

Cloud

                      

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

Wendy x

New Release - Bumble Buzz Collection with JMC Designs

Hello everyone I hope you had a lovely weekend.  

Its my turn to share another project for JMC Designs and I couldn't resist another cute bee card.

The fabulous Bumble Buzz collection has loads to offer and includes stamps, papers, ephemera and a digital collection and I absolutely love it.

The collection will be launching on Create & Craft TV on Friday the 9th of February at 12 noon and 5pm in two special anniversary shows with Julia McNeill Crafts.

There will be a deal of the day and 20% off across all JMC Designs products on C&Cs website, so make a note in your diaries to watch and grab a bargain as I would hate for you to miss out.

Don't forget if you would like to see what's in the collection then Julia did a Product launch on YouTube, if you missed it then here is the link for you to watch

YouTube Product Launch

For my card today I've used the Bumble Buzz Digital collection, to create a super sparkly card with apertures filled with lots of lovely honey. 

Where would we be without our wonderful bees, they are definitely something to be treasured and taken care of.

Don't forget to plant lots of bee friendly plants in your garden!

This is the very cute Picasso Bee digital stamp, which was resized to suit an A6 (UK size) card and coloured with my Promarkers, before fussy cutting out.

I added clear sparkle to my little bees wings and used a white gel pen to add highlights and i have added glossy accents to the honey.  This little bee is hard at work making sure the hive is filled with lovely honey.

The background for my card is one of the gorgeous papers from the collection, printed out and cut to size. I then used a hexagon die to cut out some of the honeycomb and then mounted this panel on a piece of lovely golden glitter card.

I added a few lemon coloured sequins into the apertures to look like pollen.

My sweet little bee was then adhered onto the design with foam tape for extra dimension.

The sentiment from the digital collection was printed out and foiled in gold to coordinate with the card and added to the design.

I really hope that you like my card today and it would be lovely if you you leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
JMC Designs digital collection - Bumble Buzz - Picasso Bee

Lisa Horton Crafts - Euphoria Glitter cardstock

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Minc foil - gold

Gelly Roll pen - white, metallic grey

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Craft Consortium sequins - Tell it to the bees

Glossy accents

Promarkers used :

Bee:         gold, sunflower, buttercup

                blue-black, cool grey 7, 6

Wings:       cool aqua

Honey:       bisque, honeycomb

 

Brush:       caramel, sandstone, khaki, champagne

                      

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

Wendy x

More Busy Bees with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone.... wishing you all a wonderful Friday 🍯

So we all know how important the bees are and I had some embellies left over from my last Polkadoodles DT project that I didn't want to waste so I couldn't resist making another Buzzy Bee card and I hope that you like it.

To make my background panel for the card I created a homemade stencil, die cutting a honeycomb pattern using a small hexagonal die and then I've used a combination of distress inks to blend over the stencil.  The stitched lines are hand drawn using a fine liner pen.

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The bees, flowers and the sentiment are all taken from the Winnie Fruit Punch Bundle which is a wonderful collection of black and white digital stamps, coloured images and loads of embellies - its one of my favourite collections.

I've then layered up the flowers and bees over their honeycomb and added glossy accents to the centre of the flowers.

Its a simple card but I'm so pleased with it !

I hope you liked my card for today and don't forget to join in with the 'Anything goes' challenge over at the DIGI CHOOSDAY BLOG!

 

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Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles Embellies - Winnie Fruit Punch bundle

Pinkfresh Studio Essentials dies - diagonal stitched rectangles

Hexagonal die

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - black

Stabilo fine liner - orange

Distress Inks - Squeezed Lemonade, spiced marmalade

Orange Candi

Glossy accents

black gems

Spectrum noir Sparkle pen -  clear 

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I am entering this card in the following challenges:

dis digi designs challenge (40)

intaas ()

lil patch of crafty friends ()

time out challenges ()

i love promarkers challenge  ()

Creative Fingers challenge ()

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes ()

Moving Along With The Times - Anything Goes ()

Pearly Sparkles Challenge  ()

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge - Anything Goes ()

Colour Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes ()

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes () Max of 3 in August

Classic Design Challenge - Anything Goes ()

Avenue 613 Anything Goes ()

tic tac toe challenge #tictactoechallenge #tttc () ()

Through The Craft Room Door ()

Patties Creations Design Challenge  Anything Goes () Max of 3 in August

Creative Knockouts ()

Sheep ski designs Anything Goes () Max of 3 in August

Mirtillamente Challenge #12 - August 2022 - anything goes ()

LeAnn's World 101 Challenge ()

colorful options ()

through the purple haze ()

pammies inky pinkies ()

arty divas ()

aud sentiments ()

taylormadecards4u ()

diesruschallenge ()

mftstamps Colour Challenge ()

Critter Crazy Challenge ()

We love stamping ()

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge ()

Dragonfly Dreams  ()

Crafty Calendar Challenge ()

world wide open design team ()

crafting happiness challenges ()

A passion for markers challenge ()

Paper Craft Crew ()

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

Wendy x