May - Guest Designer - Jan's Digi Stamps Blog

Hi there everyone Happy Monday! I hope that you are all ok and having a great week ahead planned.

We had a lovely day yesterday as we were invited to our Spanish neighbours for lunch - Paella of course and lots of beer and wine - I made my latest favourite Chocolate cake to take and it went down very well I'm glad to say.

Happy Labour Day for my Spanish friends or International Worker's Day and happy May Day for everyone in the UK.

I'm super excited to tell you that I was invited to be a Guest Designer for Jan's Digi Stamps in May and I'm here to share the card that I've made for this months challenge.

There are some fabulous digital stamps in Jan Mahew's shop and I chose to use the set Alone Together.

 

The theme for the May challenge is Father's Day and as I don't make these anymore I decided to make a card that I would have sent to my Dad. He loved nothing more that sitting in his garden with a good book or snoozing under I tree so this would have been the perfect card for him. 

It's a great all round masculine design I think !

To make this 5" x 7" card I started by adding one of the lovely digital recliners from the set to a digital background.

I wanted an English country garden feel for my card and found this perfect digital background in my Polkadoodles collection from the Rose Budd collection which is an older set but perfect for the look I was going for.

I chose a digital sentiment from Lets Hang Out collection and added this to the background before printing out on Alcohol marker friendly card stock.

The recliner was coloured in with my Promarkers (see below for colours) and then I have added this to my card base matting with a layer of Kraft card.

I then used a couple of my tree and branch dies to create a tree for my scene, cutting out of Kraft card and using pens to add some shading to the branches.

Next I cut out lots of leaves from a couple of pieces of green card and again added some shading with my promarkers.

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 challenges over on Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Jan's Digi Stamps - Alone Together

Polkadoodles Digital paper - Rose Budd collection

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Lets Hang Out greeting bundle

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Garden Greenery

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Petite Petals

Crafters Companion Leaf die

Sheena Die - Autumn branches

Promarkers used :

Chair:                sandstone, caramel, umber

Cushion:            gold, mustard, buttercup

Seat:                 violet, bluebell, blue pearl

Leaves:             forest green, bright green, meadow green

Grass  

  

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

Wendy x

Silly Penguins with Pattie's Creations

Happy Friday everyone and a happy December too - not long to go now!

Today 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 as long as you use a digital or stamped image in your project,  so 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, I couldn't resist using the Silly Penguins 

Did I mention just how much I love penguins?

I thought these silly penguins would look prefect on a simple landscape DL card and I've used another of the background papers that I've had in my stash for ages.

The sentiment is from the Polkadoodles Gingerbread Holly sentiment bundle and I've added some sparkle to the snowy scene - it is nearly Christmas !

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Silly Penguins

DoCrafts designer Paper 

Polkadoodles Sentiment - Gingerbread Holly

Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles - Icicle blue

Distress ink - tumbled glass

Sakura Gelly roll pen - black, white

glossy accents

Promarkers used :

Penguin 1:         lavender, ivory

                        black, cool grey 5,4,2

                        gold, pumpkin, ivory

                        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red   

Penguin 2:         lavender, ivory

                        black, cool grey 5,4,2

                        gold, pumpkin, ivory

                        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red   

                        forest green, bright green, leaf green

                       

Penguin 3:        lavender, ivory

                        black, cool grey 5,4,2

                        gold, pumpkin, ivory

                        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red   

                        forest green, bright green, leaf green  

                        

 

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

 Wendy x

Oops ! where have they all gone ?

Due to a slight technical glitch ........ my previous blog posts have disappeared 

I am reinstating them but please bear with me as this may take me a little while to recover

Here's a beautiful view from where we live in the interim x

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

Wendy x