Back to Basics - Baptism Card - Crafters Companion - Bebunni - Baby Collection - Digital Crafting

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Wednesday - I'm a bit late posting my blog today as we were busy in the garden pruning the olive trees and then I've been watching a few  YouTube tutorials - my goal this year is to get to grips with my Scan n Cut machine (properly !)....I have had it for several years now and only really used it to cut out images for colouring but there is so much more that I could be doing with it.

When I was card making around 12 years ago - digital crafting was my main thing. I coloured a little but mostly used pre-coloured images in my cards and I'm ashamed to say I have so much stuff that hasn't been touched in years but I cant bear to get rid of it!

Anyway to prove a point, we were invited to a baptism here in the village and I thought - I'll make a quick card as I'm bound to have something I can colour.

To my horror I couldn't find anything suitable - then I remembered a CD from Crafters Companion from their Bebunni range - (it dates back to 2014) that was all to do with babies so I loaded it into my pc and sure enough there was a sweet baptism image.

Thank goodness!

So here is the card I made, using a decoupage sheet and paper from the Baby Collection CD.  The sentiment was added to the paper before printing out.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

Crafters Companion Paper crafting CD - Bebunni - Baby Collection

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Sequins - Sugar & Spice - enchanted mix

   

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 #807 - Anything floral - Sponsored by SheepSki Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - So after a wonderful holiday in Mallorca I'm back and raring to go !  Ha Ha Ha ....not quite!, I've not quite got my crafty mojo back - its probably sunning itself on holiday still! but hopefully it will return soon as I have lots of new goodies to play with.

So to get things moving there's a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and I hope that you will join in.

This weeks challenge theme of 'Anything floral' has been chosen by Elaine for team 2 and is being sponsored by Sheepski Designs. The online Etsy store is now sadly closed but the lucky winner will be sent a link to download their chosen 3 images.

If you know me then you know I love strong vibrant colours but I decided to create a more delicate looking card for today and chose to use this fabulous Daisy Panel image.

We have some beautiful daisy type flowers in our garden in some striking vibrant colours...I always thought they were called Livingstone Daisies or Mesembryanthemums but I'm not so sure now so I will have to do a bit of research.  There are some white ones too which have a hint of shocking pink at the centre so that's my inspiration for today.

The image was resized to suit the DL card, printing onto alcohol friendly card stock before colouring  with my Promarkers.  I also printed out 5 extra flowers and fussy cut these out, layering up with foam squares for dimension.

To create the background I used a pale teal green promarker around the flowers, blending out to white. Then I chose a couple of distress inks and blended these into the design.   I splattered some distress ink around the flowers and the finishing touches were some clear drops around the flowers.

The sentiment was printed directly onto the panel.

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: Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

SheepSki Designs Digital stamp - Daisy Panel

LOTV digital sentiment - Fairy Sentiments

Distress inks - weathered wood, speckled egg, picked raspberry

Button Galore gems - Island Breeze

Posca Pen - white

   

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

 Wendy x

Hugs - Sleepy Bug - The Ladybug Collection - Bumble Buzz collection - with Julia McNeil Designs

Hello everyone Happy Friday everyone !  I hope you are enjoying the last few weeks of the Summer - it's a little bit cooler here  today - only 34C (LOL) but the heat still hasn't dropped off completely yet.

Today I have a whimsical floral card made using a combination of digital papers and one of the cute stamp sets.

I love when I can mix and match physical and digital products and they work so well together.

I started off by stamping Sleepy Bug in grey Versafine ink onto a piece of paper from  the Bumble Buzz collection and then layered this onto my card blank on a piece of grey satin card.

Next I chose one of the papers from the Chocolate & Marshmallow paper pad and stamps the flowers onto this with the grey ink.  I then fussy cut out the flowers to add to the bottom of the card using foam tape for dimension.

I used some coloured pencils to colour the flower stem, ladybug and the flower centres adding some subtle shading with darker shades.

I then used 3D glue gel to add the flowers to the card, curling up the edges of the petals for dimension.  

I used a word die to cut out hugs twice, layering these together before adding to my design.

Finishing touches were some pale pink gems.

I do hope that you like my card for today and I'd love it if you'd leave me a comment. 

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.

JMC Designs - The Ladybug Collection - Sleepy Bug

JMC Designs - Bumble buzz Digital collection

JMC Designs - Chocolate & Marshmallow A5 paper pad

Buttons Galore & More gems - All is calm

Spectrum Noir Colouring pencils - Colorista collection

Versafine Clair - Morning mist

LHC Slimline Multi envelope die - hugs word

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Bella Bear Christmas - Christmas in July - Not a Card - Christmas rosettes with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....My goodness the heat has been so high here now for weeks...I cant really imagine it getting much hotter but its only the first week of July !

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 create something to celebrate Christmas in July but not a card - hmm....that got me thinking but I'm up for a challenge.

I decided to make a little home décor for Christmas so created 3 little Christmas rosettes 

I chose to use the Bella Bear Christmas collection for my sweet and easy project today.

I chose 2 snowflake papers, one is from the Bella Bear Christmas collection and the other is from the Gingerbread Holly collection

I decided to create 3 rosettes, the larger one is made from 2" wide strips of paper, I cut 2 each measuring 2" x 11".  The smaller two rosettes are using 1 1/2" strips, cutting 4 strips measuring 1 1/2" x 11".

Each strip of paper was scored at 1/2" all the way along and concertina folded, then I have joined 2 strips together with wet glue to form loops.  I die cut 4 small circles of card and then used these on the backs of each rosette applying hot glue and holding each in shape while drying.

Once the rosettes were formed I added some cream twine to each so they could be hung from a tree at Christmas but they would make perfect gift tags too for special presents.  

Next I chose 2 pre-coloured ephemera images and one of the pre-coloured Bella Bear images, printing each one out twice. 

I die cute the image, layered onto die cut card and then used the hot glue to adhere these to the rosettes.

I then fussy cut out the images again and layered these onto the bottom image with foam tape.

The finishing touches were some sparkly stickles on each image and glossy accents onto Bella's nose and the holly berries.

I'm really pleased how these turned out and I'll definitely be making some more for this Christmas.

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 !

recipe: Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Polkadoodles digital paper - Bella Bear Christmas - Set 2 bundle

Polkadoodles digital image - Bella Bear Christmas - Gift Box Bella - Pre-coloured

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Bella Bear Christmas - Ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Gingerbread Holly - paper set 1

Stickles - star dust

glossy accents

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

Wendy x

Quick Cards - Toppers - Bumble Buzz Digital collection with Julia McNeill Designs

Hello everyone Happy Friday - I hope you have all had a great week!

Its been so hot here this week and the temperatures are rising each day - it'll soon be 40C phew!  We had a lovely day out yesterday in Granada, wandering around streets we haven't explored and revisiting a small plaza that we first went to 19 years ago - needless to say there have been a lot of changes and one of our favourite little restaurants has been revamped and now has new owners ! sad but things change....

Today I'm sharing a couple of cards for JMC Designs  that I've created using the absolutely gorgeous Bumble Buzz Digital Collection.  I have to say I think this is probably my favourite of the digital collections - who doesn't love bees as they are such important little insects.

The gorgeous digital collection contains 

• 15 Digital Stamps
• 15 Pre Coloured Digital Stamps
• 6 Ephemera Sheets
• 5 Topper Sheets
• 4 Sentiment Sheets
• 23 papers.

and I think there's definitely something for everyone, if you love to colour or not.

I needed to make a couple of quick but pretty cards so I decided to use one of the topper sheets from the collection.  I printed out the sheet twice and adhered two toppers directly to may card bases leaving a small white outline around each.

Then I fussy cut out the floral elements and then adhered these onto each card for a little extra dimension.

To make the cards extra special I printed out a couple of sentiments and then foiled these with gold foil.

The finishing touches for both cards were some drops of glossy accents on the flowers, clear sparkle pen over the bees and a few pieces of gold confetti around the designs.

Two quick and simple cards all ready to post out next week.

I do hope that you like my cards for today and Id love it if you'd leave me a comment. 

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

JMC Designs - Bumble Buzz Digital collection

Spellbinders confetti - gold

Glossy Accents

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 #782 - Anything but birthday - Sponsored by Uniko Stamps

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope that your week has started well.

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 Uniko Stamps and our theme of 'Anything but birthday' this week was chosen for team 2 by Natalie. 

I chose to use a really sweet image by Polkadoodles from the Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep collection.

I've created a DL card for today so resized the sweet chick image to suit my card and added a couple of sentiments to the main panel before printing out.  I also printed out the chick image a second time to decoupage. The images were coloured with Promarkers and then I fussy cut out the top of the egg, beak and bows.  

The fabulous sentiments are from Polkadoodles from the Tons of Love collection 

I created a simple background with stencils and distress inks and then foiled the sentiments for special shine. 

The decoupage elements were added to the main image using foam tape for dimension.

To finish off the card I added white highlights around the design and glossy accents to the flower centre.

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 digital stamp - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep 

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Tons of Love - Sentiment bundle

lawn fawn stencil - cloudy, hillside

Distress inks - tumbled glass, salty ocean, twisted citron, mowed lawn

Minc Foil - teal

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 - Wednesdays - Christmas Adult birthday with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... 

It's that time of the week when we share some inspiration for the current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog so I hope you are going to join in.  We've had a few changes to the blog challenge and its now a month long challenge and you can enter up to 4 times.  The design team will still be sharing weekly inspiration for you all

 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 Christmas birthday card for an adult.  I've always felt quite sorry for anyone with a birthday at Christmas as I think far too often their celebration gets lumped in with Christmas so I'm pleased mine is in July.  This card will be winging its way over to the UK for my cousins birthday at the end of December.

Because we have been so busy lately with the olives and I haven't had much time for crafting, I decided for my card today to use one of the gorgeous pre-coloured images poinsettia swags from the Poinsettia Wreath bundle.  

In my graphics software, I started with a piece of digital paper from the Jolly Santa collection, resizing this to suit a 5" x 7" or A7 card blank.  Next I added the poinsettia swag, resizing to suit the panel and also added one of the sentiments from the new Theo Penguin collection.  To create extra dimension I decided to print out two extra poinsettias and then fussy cut these out, adding to my design using 3D glue gel.

The panel was layered onto gold mirri card and I then splattered gold and silver metallic watercolour paint over the design.

To finish off my card I added some stickles to the centre of the flowers for a little extra sparkle.

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:Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Poinsettia Wreath - 

Polkadoodles digital papers - Jolly Santa - Paper Pack 1

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - new Theo penguin collection

Craftelier Watercolours - gold collection

Stickles - diamond

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

Celebrate You - January Freebie with JMC Designs

Hello everyone Happy Monday I hope that you had a great weekend.  It's time for me to post my project for JMC Designs 

For my card today I have used the January Freebie and I think this would make the perfect celebration card with a wonderful glass of Cava to celebrate.

At the start of every month Julia McNeill very generously gives away a fabulous digital stamp, which is available to everyone in her Facebook group JMC's Crazy Crafty Hive and also to her followers via Instagram, all you need is to use your email address to register for the stamp. 

This is an A6 card and I started by creating myself a colourful inky background using distress inks, adding them to my glass matt, spritzing with water and then swiping across the water colour card. 

Drying with my heat gun in between each application of colour allows the layers to be built up on the panel.

I created extra details by adding ink directly to a small piece of acetate and then applying these to the panel, to create different textures.  I used a couple of different circular lids to create some rings and then used a small brush to colour these in to resemble bubbles. 

I then used a black fine liner pen to add little bubbles around the panel and used gold Nuvo drops to add texture.

Once I was happy with the overall look I mounted this onto a panel of black card and then adhered this to my card base leaving a large white border.

The digital image was resized to suit my card and printed out twice on my LaserJet printer. 

One of the images was foiled with gold before colouring in with my promarkers (see below for colours). 

Once coloured both images were fussy cut out and then layered onto my card.  I added some strands of gold thread beneath the glass.

For a bit of extra detail, I have added some hand drawn circles of card that were coloured with yellow sparkle pen.

A simple sentiment was added to finish off my card, along with gold confetti and a litter glitter pen. 

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 stamp - January Freebie

Distress Inks - squeezed lemonade, dried marigold, carved pumpkin, picked raspberry, mustard seed

Black Fineliner pen

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear, firefly

Minc foil - gold

Pretty Pink Posh Confetti - gold

Gold thread

Tonic Nuvo Cryptal drops - bright gold

Gelly Roll pen - clear star

Promarkers used :

Glass:        cool aqua

Cava:        lemon chiffon, pale cream

Leaves:     forest green, bright green, leaf green

Flowers:    antique pink, salmon pink, pastel pink

                gold, sunflower, buttercup

Orange:    orange, bright orange, pumpkin

Cherries:   hot pink, carmine, cerise

                      

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

Wendy x