Mice Party - Summit to Celebrate - Let's Celebrate - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Wednesday - I hope that you are having a lovely weekend and the weather is being kind where you are....we're currently having a few slightly cooler days which is lovely only 37C today LOL....and there is even a possibility of a few drops of rain for Thursday and Friday....I wish....

Everyone seems to have gone Eclipse crazy...trying to buy glasses last minute to be able to watch the event tonight!

It's going to be a total eclipse over Mallorca tonight and we had wanted to go and stay for a few days to see but it's crazy. the hotels were charging sooo much and inviting on a weeks stay.  So were gong to go up on to the house roof to watch.

We're only expecting a partial eclipse of about 95.8% here where we live with the event starting at 7:42 pm, maximum eclipse at 8:38pm ending at 9:09pm. Then the sundial set at 9:13....so I think it's going to be pretty special to see.

  

I'm back today with another cute card using one of the super cute digital stamps from the Mice Party Spring release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV) available from the Etsy shop. The collection includes 12 sweet  little mice, all ready to celebrate.

My fun and colourful card features the Summit to Celebrate Mouse image, coloured with my promarkers and I have added lots of lovely sparkle to make my card extra special.

I adhered a layer of co-ordinating striped paper from my stash to the 5" x 7" card base, covering it completely and then used a wavy stitched border die to cut out the mouse panel layering this onto the card base.

Finishing touches of white gel pen highlights, sparkly confetti and clear sparkle on the cake and a little drop of glossy accents to the mouses 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 Digital stamp set - Mice Party - Summit to Celebrate

DoCrafts Paper - Daisy & Dandelion - Picnic Patch

Lawn Fawn Border Die - stitched wavy edge

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - friendship mix

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

glossy accents

     

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

 Wendy x

#lotv #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt #liliofthevalley #sssigchallenge

Cute Creatures - Sending Paper Hugs - Peacock - Set 1 with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone happy Friday - The last day of July is here and I hope you have had a great month.

I'm off to my very relaxing yoga class this morning and then we are going to Granada for the day, shopping, eating and to watch the new Spiderman film and cool off a little LOL.

I'm back today to share another cute and fun A6 card using another of the very cute creatures from the Cute Creatures collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). Both sets are available now from the Etsy shop

If you haven't had a look, it's a fantastic collection of 2 sets of images, that you can buy separately or as a complete collection - I know which I would choose as its a fantastic price for what's included. Each set contains 93 cute little creatures or you can get all 186 creatures.

Today for my fun and colourful card I have used the gorgeous little peacock from set 1.  

I resized the little peacock for a landscape A6 card printing out and colouring with my promarkers before fussy cutting out.

Next I created an embossed background panel.  Ive had the peacock feather embossing folder in my stash for many many years LOL so cut a panel of white card and then inked the raised feathers with distress oxide ink before running through my cutting machine.  I wanted to add a little more colour so added more green ink and passed the folder through the machine a second time.  Next I used a deep blue acrylic paint and my brayer to add the dark paint over the panel, carefully applying a thin layer and building up the coverage slowly so not to fill the green feathers with pain. I love the matt texture this gives to the card.

I created a split panel landscape card, cutting the front panel of the card adding the embossed panel to the top with a strip of acetate in the middle.

The sentiment sticker was added to the acetate, so it appears to flow and the coloured peacock was adhered across the two panels.

To finish off the card I have added gold confetti, white a metallic gold gel pen and clear sparkle pen.

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  - Cute Creatures - set 1

LHC sentiment strip

Distress Oxide -  peacock feathers

Crafters Companion embossing folder - Kimono Collection - Peacock feathers

Artis Cromatica acrylic paint - marino

Spellbinders confetti - gold

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, gold

crafters companion sparkle pen - clear

 #lotv #liliofthevalley #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - This is the beginning of Anything - Back to School card - Teepee card - Graduation/Student Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far and that the weather is treating you well.

It was my birthday last Wednesday and we had a fantastic time in Granada (my favourite city), wandering around, lunch at my favourite bar Castanedas and then went to see Sting in Plaza de Toros (the bull ring, very sadly still use for Bull fights but a great venue for music concerts and other extravaganzas ) - it was wonderful and then we were booked into a lovely hotel for the night...good job with all the cocktails and food LOL.

Summer is in full flow but I'm sure if you have children / grandchildren etc then thoughts are already turning to going back to school or starting school for the first time so my card today would be perfect for that.

It's time for the Design Team to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog.  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 Back to school themed card/project so I decided to use another of the very cute images from the Graduation School Student collection  It's a jam packed collection of images, clip art, sentiments, word art and of course fun papers and perfect for lots of different educational and new job celebrations.   

For my Teepee card today I've used the very sweet Cute Girl with Glasses resized this in my graphics software (I'm using the free version of Canva if you are interested !) She was printed out along with 2 of the apples from the digital stamp bundle before colouring in with promarkers and fussy cutting  out by hand.

The card base folds flat to fit into a standard 5" x 7" envelope and is very easy to create.  I created the base from a green cardstock and then used the cute apple paper to cover this.

If you would like to make a teepee car then  would suggest watching one of  Sam Calcott's tutorials on Youtube, here is a link

Next I printed out some of the ephemera and a couple of the sentiments to add to the card, layering everything up for interest.

To finish off my card today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights, scattered lots of gold confetti around the design and glossy accents to the little girls glasses.

  

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 stamp - Graduation Student collection - Cute Girl with Glasses

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Graduation Student collection - Clip art bundle

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Graduation Student collection - stamp bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Graduation Student collection - paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Graduation Student collection - sentiment bundle

glossy accents

spellbinders confetti - gold

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

Digi Choosday - Sorry. Cant. Shopping. Bye - Shopping Card - Stand & Pop Card - Rebel & Wanda Collections - with Polkadoodles

 

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week.

So June is nearly at an end and the weather here has been wonderful....sunny and hot but not too hot at night just yet.  We had a wonderful time last week with my lovely cousin and her hubby staying with us for a few days, lots of good food, relaxing by the pool and a little sightseeing too, probably far too much alcohol but hey ho.

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 shopping themed card so I decided to use one of the very cute pre-coloured images from the Rebel Girl Collection

I am not a lover of shopping, never have been, I find it really stressful but my cousin loves it with a passion, so this will be her birthday card in December.

My card today is a Stand and Pop card and Im loving how it looks - it was really easy to construct too and when folded flat fits into an A7 envelope (5" x 7"). If you'd like to make one then I would recommend watching a Youtube video by Sam Calcott - she has tutorials to make a few different sizes too!

The basic card measurements and shorelines are as follows.

Cardstock measuring as follows

• 7 " x 4 1/2"
• 9 " x 4 1/2" scored at 1" & 3"
• 6 1/4" x 3" scored at 1/4" 1 1/4" 5 1/4"
• 5" x 2"
• 3" x 1" scored at 1/2", 2 1/2"
• 4 1/4" x 6 7/8"

The card base was made from a lavender blue cardstock and I have used papers from the Rebel collection to decorate it.

The main Rebel Shopping image is pre-coloured and I have printed her twice and then decoupaged for dimension.

The little shopping bags and sentiments have been taken from the Wanda collection adding the sentiments to the bags in Canva before printing out and cutting out with my ScanNCut, there was a little bit of hand cutting for the bag handles as I haven't worked out how to do this yet LOL!

To finish off my card today I've scattered lots of pink confetti around the design to tie in with the pink colour palette.

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 stamp - Rebel Girl - pre-coloured Rebel Shopping

Polkadoodles digital papers - Rebel Girl - paper bundle 2 & paper bundle 3

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Wanda - ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiments - Wanda - sentiment bundle

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - friendship

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - You Passed - Congrats - Graduation card - Upright Easel - Graduation/Student Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far.

Summer has definitely arrived here and we've been very busy lately with my wonderful cousin and hubby staying with us for a few days.  She's more like a sister to me really and I miss seeing her but its great catching up too when we can - the boys don't really get chance to talk LOL.

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 graduation themed card/project so I decided to use one of the very cute images from the Graduation School Student collection  Its a jam packed collection of images, clip art, sentiments, word art and of course fun papers and perfect for lots of different educational and new job celebrations.   

I've used the very sweet Cute Boy  for my card today and resized this in my graphics software (I'm using the free version of Canva if you are interested !) I decided to add 3 piles of books from the clipart in the collection, so the little boy was standing on top like he's on top of the world and added a couple of extra mortar board hats in too before printing out and colouring with promarkers.

He looks like he feels on top of the world after all the hard work studying - very well deserved!

The card base is a 6" x 6" upright easel today with layers of a lime green/yellow and burgundy card and different fun and bright papers from the collection.

I decided to use the sentiment strips in the collection printing on my LaserJet printer so I could foil them in gold.

To finish off my card today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights and scattered lots of gold confetti around the design to tie in with the foiled sentiment strips.

  

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 stamp - Graduation Student collection - Cute Boy Graduate

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Graduation Student collection - Clip art bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Graduation Student collection - paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Graduation Student collection - sentiment bundle

Minc foil - gold

spellbinders confetti - gold

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 #839 - Happy Birthday - It's Cake Day! - Sponsored by The Paper Shelter

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all I hope that you are having a lovely week !

The summer has arrived here in Spain and across most of Europe too so I hope everyone enjoys the wonderful weather and keeps cool and hydrated.

We went walking on Sunday with our local walking group and I had far too much sun so Im keeping out of it today as much as possible.

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 The Paper Shelter however very sadly they have now decided to close down their shop so this weeks prize will be the digital stamp that has been used by the design team - A Curious Cake.  It's a wonderful image however and great for both male and female celebrations.

Out theme this week is Happy Birthday and has been chosen for Team 2 by our lovely Elaine - we all need lots of birthday cards don't we LOL

I decided for my birthdy card today to create a fun pop up card from an aqua cardstock.  The card  was cut at 6" x 9" and then scored on the long side at 2" on either end.  The card was flipped over and then scored at 3 1/4" either end to create a central pop out panel.

I used some fun foiled papers to decorate the card panels and then resized the image to fill the front panel printing this out on alcohol marker friendly card stock before colouring in with my Promarkers.

I used my ScanNCut to cut out the coloured image and then matted this onto the card with a couple of diamond panels cut from the aqua card and white. The fun sentiment is from Polkadoodles from the Coffee, Tea and Cake collection, again cut out with my ScanNCut.

To finish off my fun birthday card I added a few pieces of confetti around the design, lots of sparkle and lots of glossy accents little.

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:
The Paper Shelter digital stamp - A Curious Cake

Polkadoodles Designs digital sentiment - Coffee Tea Cake - Sentiment bundle

Crafty Things Creative Paper

Spectrum Noir - Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

glossy accents

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

          

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 #836 - Furry Friends - Sponsored by Dis Digital Stamps

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day and a beautiful week ahead!

There's a new week long challenge started over on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and I hope that you will join in.

This weeks challenge theme of 'Furry Friends' has been chosen by Me for team 2 and is being sponsored by Dis Digital Stamps

I love the adorable images that Di creates for us and am definitely drawn to the cute furry friends so decided to make a simple card today using one of the fabulous freebies that Di gives away every now and then in her Facebook group DisDigiStamps

Why not have a look at some of the fabulous digital stamps in her Etsy store, I'm sure you will be spoilt for choice!

I chose to use the sweet little mouse with his bouquet of pretty daisies from February this year so started by resizing the image to suite my A6 card base and printing out onto alcohol marker friendly card before colouring with promarkers. 

I chose a pretty floral paper from my stash and used this to choose the colours for the flowers on the image.

To keep the design simple I layered a piece of the paper on my card blank and then cut two simple diamonds of white card adding a little distress ink to the bottom layer before adding to the card.   Using a plain background on the pretty but busy floral paper works well with the image so it doesn't get lost on the card.

The sweet little mouse was cut out on my ScanNCut machine before adding to the card along with a simple sentiment strip that spanned the width of the card.

The finishing touches were some simple white pen highlights around the design, teal confetti and glossy accents to the centres of the daisies.

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: 

Dis Digital Stamp - Etsy Store

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Honeypie Just lovely - sentiment bundle

Dovecraft Paper - Sugar & Spice

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

glossy accents

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

Digi Choosday - Graduation - Congratulations - Male Card - Graduation School Student Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far......its nearly the end of April and the garden is blooming.  Everywhere has really benefitted from the early heavy rains we had so fingers crossed the plants are ready for the high temperatures of the Summer months.

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 graduation card so I decided to use one of the fab images from the Graduation School Student collection

When I left school many years back (1985 to be precise!) graduation definitely wasn't a thing....just for graduation from University, how times have changed.  Its very popular now though - even little ones have graduations from nursery !

So I don't really make or send many of these cards but its always good to have some in my stash just in case.

Its a super cute little boy with his graduation gown and cap - definitely reminds me of my own son Jack when he graduated from Portsmouth University...must be the glasses and the scruffy hair...LOL

I created an arched doorway from dies and went with a gold, black and silver theme for my card today, colouring the image with promarkers and fussy cutting out before assembling the card.  The congratulations banner was also coloured in the same palette before fussy cutting out.

To finish off the card I added confetti around the design and added some glossy accents to the boys glasses and white gel pen highlights.

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 stamp - Graduation School Student - Cute boy with spectacles

Polkadoodles digital paper - Graduation School Student - paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Graduation School Student - clipart bundle

Spellbinders confetti - gold

distress ink - black soot

Pebeo gilding wax - silver

glossy accents

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

Digi Choosday - SVG Spring is Here - Spring Card - 3d Pop up Card - Gnome for Spring Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week.  It's the middle of March and its definitely beginning to look a lot like Spring here - buds on the trees starting to burst open, beautiful fragrant almond blossom and there's a definite buzz in the garden now.

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 Spring or Easter themed card and to use this colour palette 

One of my crafting goals this year, as you know is to use my ScanNCut machine more so I set myself the challenge to use one of the wonderful Digital Print and Cut Files and make a 3D pop up card.  Two completely new things for me to learn and I am so happy with the end result.

I started off with the Files from the Spring is Here download and worked out how to print these and use the Cut file included to cut out the images....

The really simple way was was to print out the coloured image file, scan in the image and then use this direct to cut tool, but I discovered that the detailed cuts were missing.  

Not a huge problem I know and the elements as still beautiful as they are but I wanted to get the detailed cuts too.  It took me a few attempts to work out which files to use with my ScanNCut machine but I did it in the end using the high quality png file and the dxf cut line only was the combination that worked for me.

But then I wanted to push myself further as the coloured images didn't match the colour palette Nikky had asked us to use.  So I set to work again, working out which file I needed to use that I could edit and alter the colours, I also wanted extra copies of the butterflies and tulips for my design.  Once I was happy I  recreated the cut file, using the original version to suit my new image.

I'm so happy it worked - took me a few hours to work out what I was doing but it was so worth it and will be quicker next time !

Next I designed my Pop Up Box in the Brother CanvasWorkspace and once cut out set to decorating my Spring card.

The finished card folds flat and  fits an A6 or 6" x 4" envelope.  

I adhered some of the wood grain paper from the Udderly Cute collection to the card inserts - I think they look like benches in a little greenhouse.  The back Arched panel of the pop up was covered with one of the lilac papers from the Flower Meadow bundle.

I assembled all the cut out elements, adding a little distress ink here and there to emphasise the shadows etc.

To finish off the card I added confetti around the design and added some clear sparkle to the butterflies.

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 Print & Cut File -  Spring is Here

Polkadoodles digital paper - Udderly Cute Cows  - Paper Pack 5

Polkadoodles digital paper - Flower Meadow bundle

Polkadoodles digital print & cut SVG file - Spring is Here

distress ink - shaded lilac, wilted violet, mustard seed, twisted citron, mowed lawn, salty ocean

Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen - clear

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - sugar plum

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

Wendy x