New Release - Party Animals - Happy Birthday - Birthday Card - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday I hope that you are having a great week.

I've got a yoga class this morning that I'm looking forward to and then we are off out with friends up the mountain to a small village above ours for a few drinks and a catch up.

Its been an extremely hectic few days  - it was hubbies birthday on Monday and his son and grandson arrived on Saturday for a surprise visit....as you can imagine we are both shattered but had a great time.

We also managed to sneak a night away on the coast at one of our favourite hotels to celebrate - it was wonderful but were both glad to get back to normal LOL.  

I'm back with another cute card using one of the party animals from the recent March release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop.

My fun birthday card today features the bunny with a scrumptious looking cake.

There are 4 little characters...perfect for loads of different occasions....I hope you have had a look at them by now - they are so easy to colour in.

I added a sweet LOTV sentiment to the panel below the bunny before printing out

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers before cutting out with an arched die, partially cutting around the bunny ears. I adhered the bunny panel to the card using a low profile foam tape.

I've used a bright colour dotty paper from my stash to create my simple card and finishing touches added of white gel pen highlights, sparkle pen to the birthday cake and clear sparkly gems around the design. 

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 set - Party Animals - Bunny

LOTV Digital sentiment - 

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

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

Bunny Happy Returns - Bunny Birthday Photo Strip - Accordion Gate Fold with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday and a great weekend ahead......We're off walking tomorrow with our local walking group - we set off in the coach at 6:30am so its an early night tonight and I'm definitely not looking forward to such an early start but hopefully it will be a fun day ahead....I'll let you know how we get on as its our first proper walk after the Summer so I'm sure well have achy legs on Sunday LOL

I thought we'd have a change from Halloween cards to I'm back today with a sweet little Bunny card using the Bunny Birthday Photo Strip by Lili of the Valley (LOTV)  available in the Etsy shop. 

Its a new card fold for me too and I'm really pleased how its worked out. The fold is called an Accordion Gate Fold and I watched a tutorial by Lisa's Stamp Studio but there are loads of tutorials out there and its a really easy card to construct.

This is the video on YouTube that I followed for the measurements etc. The finished card when folded fits neatly into a C6 size envelope.

For my card today  I have used some fun purple and magenta card to create the card base and then used  an old paper pad from my stash to layer onto the panels.

Its such a pretty paper pad from years ago (2014) called Bonnets & Bowties but was perfect for the colours and the card theme. I used the paper pad to help me choose the colours for the little bunny panels, colouring with promarkers before cutting out.

Finishing touches were some clear sparkle, purple confetti and white gelly roll pen highlights around the card.

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   - Bunny Birthday Photo Strip

LOTV Designer Paper - Bonnets & Bowties

LHC small envelop die

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - sugar plum

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 #793 - Animals - Sponsored by All Dressed Up

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope you are all well and the week has started well.  I seem to be spending a lot of time trying to keep cool at the moment - its very hot and humid here at the moment.

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 being sponsored by All Dressed Up stamps and our theme of 'Animals' this week was chosen for team 2 by Natalie... 

I chose to use a really sweet image called A Time to give. 

I have created a simple A6 card using a lovely party themed die for the frame of my card, cutting it from lime green card stock.

I resized the image to suit my card blank and then printed out onto alcohol friendly card stock before colouring with my Promarkers....I decided to use some zesty colours to match the card frame.  I used a stencil and distress inks to stencil a party background.

I added glossy accents to the little balloons, a little sparkle to the bunting and some clear iridescent sequins around the design.

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:

All Dressed Up digital stamp - A Time to Give

Spectrum Noir sparkle pen - clear

distress ink - squeezed lemonade, worn lipstick, twisted citron

Studio light dies - party

Studio light mask - exploding confetti

Sugar & spice sequins - unicorn mix

glossy accents

     

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Wednesdays - Valentines - Love Always with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....

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 Valentines and to include some paper weaving - not something I've done for a very long time!

My card today is a larger A7 5" x 7" card with a wide border of white around the design.  I have used a die to cut a panel from bright pink card to frame my paper weaved panel.

I then cut 1/4 " strips of striped paper from the Lily Bug collection and adhered these to a panel of card, weaving each strip to create a closed weaved panel.

My sweet bunny is from the Love Always collection - its called Love you this much and he was resized and printed out before colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting him out.  

I've used my Polychromos pencils to add texture to his fur.

The sentiment is also from the Love Always collection, printed out and fussy cut out.

To finish off my card I added some teal confetti around the design and glossy accents to the sunglasses.

I hope that you like my bright and cheerful card today that's full of love and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from 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 - Love Always collection - Love you this much

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Love Always collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Lilybug Ladybird collection - paper set 4

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

LHC Mini Slimline die - Decreasing stripes

glossy accents

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

Wendy x

Spring Colours - Cute Animal - Digi Choosday - Spring is in the Air with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday.  I hope that you have a lovely day today and that you enjoy your week ahead...

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 use Spring Colours and an animal, there are so many gorgeous cuties on the website to choose from so it was quite difficult.

Today's card features one of the gorgeous digital stamps from the Springtime Smiles Collection - this collection is packed with cute chicks and bunnies do perfect for this weeks theme. I chose a couple of pretty pastel papers from the collection and then used these pastel shades as inspiration to colour the image with Promarkers, picking out the lemon and green as my main colours (see below for the colours used). 

 

I've said but that I don't often make pastel coloured cards, opting for brighter richer shades but I enjoyed this design and I wanted to colour the bunny white. 

This is a 5" x 7" card  with a scalloped frame die cut and diamond die cuts too to draw the eye to the bunny who is the feature after all. 

The smaller centre panel of the diamonds was embossed using a new 3D embossing folder that I bought with prize money from Simon Says Stamp and its the first time I have used it.  

I adhered the papers, diamond borders and the embossed panel to the card blank and then added the cute bunny to the embossed diamond using foam tape for dimension 

The sentiment is from the Darling Buds collection and after printing I have foiled this with a mint foil before adding the simple sentiment panel to the card.

  

To finish the inside of the card I decided to die cut a floral border from the white card, adding this to the edges of the card panels covered with lilac paper. 

Finishing touches where some super sparkly and coordination sequins and white  gel pen highlights.  

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Promarkers Used:

Bunny:     pale Blossom

               salmon pink, misty rose

Dress:      soft green, pastel green, teas green

Rose:        primrose, lemon, yellow

                forest green, bright green, leaf green

Leaves:    pear green, lime green

Ladybird:  poppy. lipstick red

                Blue black, ice grey 7

Envelope:  cool grey 1, 3

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Springtime Smiles collection - Bunny Rabbit with Roses

Polkadoodles digital papers - Springtime Smiles collection - Paper collection

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Darling Buds collection - Spring Flowers/Mothers Day collection

Spellbinders Dies - Essential Diamonds

Craftelier  - Essential Dies - Frames

Minc Foil - Mint

Simon Says Stamp- 3D Embossing Folder - Margot tile

Craft Consortium Sequins

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

You Are a Star - Birthday Bunnies with Pink Gem Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a happy Friday... I hope that your week has gone ok....nearly the Weekend !  Were more or less back to normal now after our trip away and the holiday washing is finally all dried and put away.

The rain this week has been wonderful and the garden it looking so refreshed - hopefully we'll have a little more but I'm not greedy.

Today I am sharing a card that I have made for for Pink Gem Designs using the very cute Bunnies digital stamp set   

This fabulous set includes 7 black Line art images and 2 sentiments for you to use.

I decided for todays card to create a stencilled background using a beautiful starburst stencil from Clearly besotted. It comes in two parts, the starburst rays and the star so its a really versatile stencil to use.

I used 2 distress inks to create the starburst
effect and then used a stitched rectangle die to cut out the panel before mounting this onto an A2 (US Size) card blank. 

Before adding my bunny to the card I stamped the sentiment towards the bottom right of the card and then positioned the bunny on low profile foam tape over the central star.

I added a little clear sparkle to the bunnies wings and then just a few pieces of gold confetti were scattered around the design for extra bling.

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:
Pink Gem Designs digital stamp - Hoppy Birthday Bunnies

Clearly Besotted Stencil - Shooting Star

Mama Elephant sentiment stamp - Shall we dance

Distress ink - squeezed lemonade, spiced marmalade

pretty pink posh confetti - gold

Pinkfresh studio essentials dies - diagonal stitched rectangles

Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pens - white, black, gold

Promarkers used :

Bunny:               warm grey 4, 3, 2, 1

                         cocktail pink, pale pink

Dress:                soft green, mint green, tea green

Star:                  gold, pastel yellow, buttercup

Wings:                tea green

                       

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

Wendy x

Springtime Smiles Bunny and Easter Cake with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you a very happy Tuesday.  I hope that you are all enjoying the week so far.

We've had a really busy couple of weeks here with Easter and then lots of shopping for a wedding we are going to in May.  I'm really looking forward to it as it's in France and we are extending the trip too after the wedding for a little sightseeing and relaxing.

We haven't had a real holiday since we moved to Spain (I suppose every day is like a holiday really - but we do work hard most days in the garden).

It's that time again 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 Mum,  sadly I don't make any of these cards anymore and I rarely get asked to make them either but I am still inspired to create cards that I think my Mum would love to have received and ones I would like to get too.  I also think this would make a perfect birthday card.

So for todays card I chose to use a sweet little bunny from the Springtime Smiles collection called Bunny Rabbit with Easter Cake, I think a perfect image for a card for a Mum and I've teamed it with a perfect sentiment from the Lets Hang Out collection.

I've kept my card really simple, a panel of pretty floral paper from Winnie Sunshine Delights Paper Pack 1  for the background and the sentiment is on a floating panel at the bottom of the card.  I've used a wavy border die to cut the edge of the sentiment panel for interest, blending a little distress ink on the edge of the border and mounting it on foam tape off the card.

The sweet bunny image was coloured with my promarkers (see below for colours) and I've fussy cut this out to mirror the sentiment panel.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Springtime Smiles - Bunny Rabbit with Easter cake

Polkadoodles digital paper - Winnie Sunshine Delights paper pack 1 

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Lets Hang Out sentiments bundle

Lawn Fawn Custom Craft Dies - Stitched Border

Lawn Fawn Custom Craft Dies - Stitched Simple Wavy Borders

Distress Ink - antique linen

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - Sugar Plum

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black

Promarkers used :

Bunny:                caramel, champagne, pastel beige

                          cocktail pink , pale pink

T-shirt:                soft green, mint green, tea green

Daisy:                 amethyst, lilac, lavender

                          gold, pastel yellow, buttercup

Cake:                  cocoa, cinnamon, praline

Icing:                  amethyst, lilac, lavender

                           dusky rose, cocktail pink, pale pink

Plate:                  ice grey 1,2,4

   

Glass:                ice grey 1

                         buttercup

                         pale pink

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

Wendy x

Have a lovely day with Last Minute Manda and #Kendrascardchallenge9

Hello everyone wishing you all a happy Monday.... I hope that you had a great weekend.

Its Monday which means I'm here with my DT inspiration card for Last Minute Manda and another card for #Kendrascardchallenge9.

If you would like to know more about the challenge then I would recommend visiting Kendra's YouTube Channel as there are some great tutorials explaining what it's all about and how to join in.

This is #card3 for the challenge and this time I've used a sweet little bunny from the Bunny Patch set again coloured with my new Chromatek Watercolour pens 

Don't forget if you head over to the new Last Minute Manda store use my special discount code Wendy25 to get 25% off your shopping.

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:
Last Minute Manda digital stamp - Bunny Patch

Chromatek brush pens

Dovecraft Designer Series Paper - Sugar 7 Spice 

Spellbinders M-Bossibilities Embossing folder - ES 009

Lawn Fawn Slimline Stencil - cloudy

Craft Magazine Sentiment Stamp 

distress ink - tumbled glass

Spectrum Noir Colorista pen - cyan

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - black, white

Glossy accents

Sugar & Spice sequins - unicorn

  

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

 Wendy x