Back to School with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone……wishing you all a lovely Tuesday with lots of lovely sunshine....

The Summer seems to be flying by so fast and it wont be long before the start of the new term at School! so with that in mind I'm back today with my Polkadoodles Design Team project for the Digi Choosday Tuesday Challenge 

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Every Tuesday is DIGI CHOOSDAY! over at Polkadoodles which means not only a brand new crafty 'Anything goes' challenge but also that you get an amazing discount off all crafty printable downloads until midnight today! 

To take advantage of the offer head over to the blog to find the discount offer for today and also to enter the challenge!

DON'T MISS IT!

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This week the DT was asked to make a 'Back to School' themed card so I decided to use the Lou the Teacher digital stamp bundle. 

 

I decided to make a larger 5" x 7" card for today's project so started off by resizing the black and white digital stamp in my graphics software before printing her out. I coloured her in using my Promarkers (see below for the colours I've used)

This Polkadoodles digital stamp comes in a bundle with 5 beautiful co-ordinating papers too. 

I wanted to make a shaker panel for this card that looked a little like a black board/chalk board so started by first using the Lisa Horton Crafts mini slimline die to cut out a frame from Neenah Desert Storm card.  

I've then added some extra strong tape to the reverse of this frame and cut a piece of acetate to fit this frame.

To make the frame look like woodgrain I've used my distress inks to swipe across the frame - I used Tea Dye and  Ground Espresso inks to get the effect and colour that I wanted.

For the back panel of my shaker I die cut a rectangle of black cardstock using the same panel die as before but this time I didn't cut out the centre piece and I have stamped the words from my new  Blooming Blossoms stamps in white embossing powder before heat setting.

Top Tip 💡: don't forget to wipe anti static powder over the card before stamping in embossing ink as this will stop any unwanted embossing powder from sticking to your card.
 

I like to build my shaker panels from the bottom up, so once the embossing had cooled I wiped off any excess antistatic powder from the card using a dry cloth and then added foam tape around the edge of the panel to form a well for my sprinkles.

Top Tip 💡: remove the protective backing from the foam before adding the sprinkles onto the panel to prevent any from sticking to the foam tape.  If you look closely I've used the off cuts from the panels that I die cut and added some sequins to my shaker well.  I also like to stick a few of the shaker elements to the back of the panel so there will always be some visible when the card is stood upright !

Next, I carefully lined up the top frame with the acetate window to cover my panel and encase the shaker elements.

  

The completed panel is ready now to be adhered to the card base but first I chose one of the papers from the bundle and cut this to size, matting it with a piece of black card to tie this into the shaker panel.

Top Tip 💡: don't forget to cut out a panel from the card that will be hidden below the designer paper, there's no point wasting it after all and it will be completely hidden once the card is finished !

I then used a wet glue to adhere the shaker panel to my card on an angle.

The simple sentiment strip is from the Winnie Daisy Fairy greeting bundle matted onto a strip of black card.

Any finally, I adhered Lou to my card, adding some star sequins around the card for a little extra sparkle and used glossy accents to fill the glass in her glasses.

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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!

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Lou the Teacher 

Polkadoodles Sentiment - Winnie Daisy Fairy greetings bundle

Blooming Blossoms Stamps - small sentiment in shaker panel

LHC Mini Slimline Die - Decreasing Stripes

Promarkers - see below

Distress Inks - Tea Dye, Ground espresso

Star confetti & sequins

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black

Glossy accents

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Promarkers used:

Skin: Ivory, Almond, Satin, Dusky Pink, Sun kissed Pink

Hair: 

Hangar: Cool Grey 1,3

Shoes: 

Dress: Pumpkin, Orange, Sunflower, Yellow

Blush: Pale Pink, Dusky Rose

Hair: Pastel Yellow, Buttercup, Sandstone, Caramel

 

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I am entering this card in the following challenges:

ilovepromarkers challenge-512 (31)

Creative Fingers challenge (241)

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes (52)

Moving Along With The Times - Anything Goes (78)

Pearly Sparkles Challenge  (55)

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge - Anything Goes (136)

Colour Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes (2)

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes (110)

Classic Design Challenge - Anything Goes (142)

Avenue 613 Anything Goes (43)

tic tac toe challenge #tictactoechallenge #tttc174 (Die Cut, Free, Embossing) (4)

Through The Craft Room Door (142)

Patties Creations Design Challenge #197 Anything Goes (15)

Creative Knockouts 465 (4)

Sheepskidesigns Anything Goes - August (35)

Mirtillamente Challenge #12 - August 2022 - anything goes (32)

lil patch of crafty friends (77)

intaas

timeoutchallenges

LeAnn's World 101 Challenge (31)

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

Wendy x

Christmas in July

Hello everyone……wishing you all a lovely Tuesday with lots of sunshine..... although as its Christmas in July....maybe not too much sunshine 😆😆

I'm back today with another Polkadoodles Design Team project for the Digi Choosday Tuesday Challenge 

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Every Tuesday is DIGI CHOOSDAY! over at Polkadoodles which means not only a brand new crafty 'Anything goes' challenge but also that you get an amazing discount off all crafty printable downloads until midnight today! 

To take advantage of the offer head over to the blog to find the discount offer for today and also to enter the challenge!

DON'T MISS IT!

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This week the DT was asked to design a card with a Christmas theme - I have to say that making a Christmas card in temperatures of around 36C wasn't straight forward - especially having my fan on to keep me cool in my craft room - not great for using glitter 😆😆😆

Every year I say I will start my Christmas cards early but every year I put it off so this year starting in July has to be a bonus.

If you are like me I usually have loads of Christmas cards to make so I like them to be quick to make but look wonderful so for todays DT project I decided to use one of the cute pre-coloured images called 

Bella Bear delivering Gifts from the Christmas Holiday Too Cute collection.  

The pre-coloured images are so easy to use, simply print out and fussy cut by hand or you can use the SVG cut file that is included with the downloadable image with your electronic cutting machine....they are also great for anyone that doesn't like colouring too.

For my project today I created a very simple easel card from a 6" x 6" card base - I have simply scored on one of the panels at 3" and then folded to create my card base.

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I started by covering my card base in a couple of different papers from the  Winnie White Christmas Paper 3 collection, mat and layered with thin red cardstock (to keep the weight of the card down), leaving a narrow border.

I wanted my cute little bear carrying his present and card to be set in a little scene so decided to die cut 3 triangles using the same red cardstock.   I have die cut slightly smaller triangles using more of the patterned paper from the collection and inlaid these onto the triangles.  

The Seasons Greeting sentiment is a wonderful freebie that you can download from the  Polkadoodles website.   I added this to one of the papers on my computer in my graphics software before printing it out for my smallest triangle.

The largest triangle was adhered to the bottom half of my easel card, applying wet glue only to the bottom half and the 2 smaller triangles were adhered to the base of the easel using small card pop-up mechanisms so the card will fold flat for posting but the trees will pop-up when opened for display.

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For my cute bear I have resized him on my computer before printing out a couple of times to allow me to decoupage his hat and coat for extra dimension.  I added sparkle to his hat and scarf using luxury interference glitter dust from Lisa Horton Crafts.

I created a similar pop up mechanism to sit behind my bear and adhered him to the card base in the same way.

To add some decoration to my Christmas trees I dug out some chain style gold peel off stickers from my stash and decided to colour them with a red alcohol pen to coordinate with the red cardstock.  

I added some snow to the base of the trees and around my little bears feet using wet glue and  Hunkydory Diamond Sparkle Soft Snowdrift.

You can imagine the mess I was in with all this glitter and my fan - snow and glitter everywhere ! 😅

Finally I added some sparkly red and silver clear gems to the larger tree so that when the card is folded flat it still looks decorated.

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I hope you liked my card for today and will join us with this challenge over at the DIGI CHOOSDAY BLOG!

Hasta luego 👋 and Feliz Navidad !

Enjoy the rest of your day !

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Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Bella Bear delivering Christmas gifts 
Polkadoodles Sentiment - Seasons Greetings freebie

LHC Nested Triangles dies

LHC luxury interference glitter dust - Rainbow Sparkle

Hunkydory Diamond Sparkles - Soft Snowdrift

Spectrum Noir colorista pen - lipstick

Gold peel off strips

Red and silver gems

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 I am entering this card in the following challenges:

creative fingers challenge 236

we love stamping july-challenge

ttcrd atg-challenge-19th-july

world wide open design team challenge

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

Wendy x

Ellie with Ice Cream from Pink Gem Designs

Hello everyone I hope that you are having a lovely day….. I had my Spanish class this morning which went well and I’m just chilling before I make lunch then I’m off for a walk at 7pm with the town’s walking group….. the temperature here is ramping up and work around the garden is getting slower and we are having to stop earlier each day.

We had our first acequia water yesterday for weeks… we are supposed to get 3 hours every Wednesday afternoon…. It’s the water that we can use to irrigate the garden and the olive trees etc…. But our acequia isn’t one of the better ones in the area sadly and doesn’t run for very long each year…. It definitely makes you appreciate water and Rain living here !

Here is a cute easel card that I’ve made using a freebie digital stamp from Pink Gem Designs called Ellie and ice cream.

I’ve used my Promarkers to colour her in and created a heart shaped easel card with a dies from Lisa Horton Crafts 

The papers and ice cream toppers are from an old set from my stash from a magazine in 2014 🙄 but I thought were perfect for this card.

The sentiment and flower are from a Polkadoodles collection.

Enjoy the rest of your day 🍦 🍦 

Hasta luego 

Card recipe:

Pink Gem Designs - Ellie and ice cream 

Promarkers (see below for colours)

Distress inks - fossilised amber, picked raspberry

Craftwork cards stencil - script and lace

LHC dies - Nested stitched hearts

Tonic corner rounder

Polkadoodles sentiment - Winnie Daisy fairy 

Spectrum noir sparkle pens - clear, firefly, cornflower blue, pink garnet 

Enamel dots - local shop

Spectrum noir colorista pen - magenta

Tonic Nuvo crystal drops - dandelion yellow  

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

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Promarkers used :

Skin: Almond, blush, oatmeal , soft peach, dusky rose

Blush: pale pink

Hair: vanilla, caramel, sandstone,umber 

Dress: lavender, lilac, bluebell

Shoes: hot pink, carmine, ice grey 1,3,5

Flowers: mandarin , orange, hot pink, pale pink 

Hat: vanilla, pastel yellow, mustard, gold (Turner’s yellow blend from Kit and Clowder Online Colouring Classes

Ice cream cone: caramel, sandstone 

Ice cream: turquoise, mint green, pastel green 

Chocolate: umber, caramel, sandstone 

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

 Wendy x

Lavender from Krista Smith

Hello everyone I hope that you’ve had a lovely weekend…. We’ve been busy this weekend tidying and cleaning around the pool after all the renovation work and things are starting to get back to normal after the calima from a few weeks ago…. JJ has been busy painting and I’ve been cleaning more windows … it feels never ending but hopefully there won’t be any more bad dust/mud falls

I just wanted to share a work in progress with you today… it’s another beautiful image from Krista Leigh Smith called Lavendar that I’ve finished colouring today…. She just needs to be added to a card now.

I do love being able to sit outside and colour … it’s so relaxing listening to all the birds….
I’ve used my Winsor & Newton Promarkers to colour her in and I’m pleased with her so far

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Enjoy the rest of your day
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Promarkers used:
Skin - ivory, almond, satin, dusky rose , sunkissed pink
Blush & lips - dusky rose, pale pink
Hair - pastel yellow, ginger, coral, mango, walnut
Eyes - midnight blue, China blue, pastel blue
Hat & basket - vanilla, pastel yellow, mustard, gold (Turners yellow blend from Kit and Clowder Online Colouring Classes
Leaves- bright green , forest green
Lavender - violet, lavender
Dress - powder blue, blue pearl, china blue

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

Wendy x

The start of my crafting journey in Spain.......

My blog is going to be mostly about the cards and other things that I make here in little crafting haven in Spain….but I’ll also be sharing a little of our life here too ❤️
Since moving here permanently from the U.K. in October 2017, my crafting has sometimes taken somewhat of a back seat as there has been so much to do on the olive farm…but creating is always how I relax. 
Each time I make a card or other project I will add a picture and some details.
Thanks so much for stopping by and reading my blog.
Wendy x