New Release - Hey There Pumpkin - Halloween cards - Creepy Creatures collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Monday everyone... I hope that you had a lovely weekend!

It's Halloween Week and I've still got lots of Spooky Cute cards to share with you so I might have to do a couple each day...apologies in advance but I really want to share them all with you.

Both of my cards today are created using the brand new Creepy Creatures collection  by Polkadoodles.  

For my first card I've used the Pumpkin Head digital stamp from the Creepy Things bundle, brightly coloured with Promarkers and fussy cut out....I love using fun bright colours for Halloween, its doesn't always have to be all about dark grunge.

For my simply spooky card I chose one of the fabulous background papers from the collection, resizing this to fit my smaller 6" x 6" card, punching the corners out and then layering onto magenta card stock.

I printed out the sentiment and then applied hot pink foil to it before fussy cutting out.

The cute little pre-coloured  Happy Pumpkin was printed out and fussy cut before tucking behind the little Pumpkin head boy...I added glossy accents to make his eyes pop out.

The finishing touches were some fluorescent yellow gel pens to the pumpkins eyes and nose to make him extra spooky, the tops of the tree and bats and in the windows of the spooky mansion.

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: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Cute and Creepy bundle - Pumpkin Head

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Creepy Creatures collection - Happy Pumpkin

Polkadoodles digital  sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Polkadoodles digital paper - Creepy Creatures collection - Paper bundle 2

glossy accents

Minc foil - hot pink

candy confetti

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

Wendy x

New Release - Halloween card - Too Cute to Spook - Scruffy Cat - Creepy Creatures collection with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Thursday...  So we have a yellow warning for rain and storms in the area starting this afternoon but looking at the sky at the moment its a beautiful day with a few clouds starting to build up over the mountains so who knows.

I hope by now you have seen the brand new release from Polkadoodles, it's perfect for all those Halloween projects.  Creepy Creatures collection is a fantastic collection of 3 bundles.  Cute & Creepy, Witches & Broomsticks and Creepy Things, 

Inside the collection you’ll find everything from pumpkins, ghosts, skeletons, mummies, bats, monsters and creepy dolls, to witches, broomsticks, cauldrons, spell books, black cats and potion bottles. Perfect for trick or treat cards, party invites, scrapbook layouts, junk journal spreads, stickers, planner pages and DIY stationery.

Each design comes as both pre-coloured images for quick makes and black & white digital stamps for colouring at home. Every bundle also includes free SVG outlines, making them ideal for Cricut, Silhouette Cameo and Brother ScanNCut.

For my card today I chose to use the the Witches Scruffy Cat digital image - I love cats especially black ones, there's just something about them.... perhaps its my inner witch clambering to get out LOL

It's a smaller A6 card so I resized the kitty to suite my design and then printed out on alcohol marker friendly card before colouring with my promarkers.. I added one of the sentiments to the bottom of the panel and then used a circular die to partially cut out the kitty, fussy cutting around the kitty.

I added some brickwork stencilling to this panel and used a green ink to stencil clouds onto the card base.

To finish off the design I added glossy accents to the kitties eyes and green foil to the sentiment.

A simple but spooky card!

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 stamp - Cute and Creepy Bundle - Scruffy Cat

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Distress Ink - lucky clover, black soot, weathered wood

Lawn Fawn cloud stencil

Hero arts brick stencil

glossy accents

Minc foil - green

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

Wendy x

World Cardmaking Day - Autumn Crafting - Freddy Fox collection with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Saturday... its also World Card Making day too and I hope that you are joining in with the fun and creating something today.

It might be the 4th October but its a beautiful sunny Autumnal day here today and the temperature is expected to climb to 30C which is lovely but a little unexpected.  

I decided to share a couple of Autumn cards I made recently using the Ephemera bundle from the fantastic Freddy Freddy Fox collection  to celebrate the colours of Autumn.

The ephemera set is jam packed with images for you to colour or comes with pre-coloured images too if you prefer not to colour. 

For the first card I chose a couple of the butterflies from the bundle, colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out.  For the simply block background I used some pieces of masking tape to create four rectangles on the panel and then used distress oxides to blend colour over these from light to dark - I love the striking look and its such a simple but effective design.  

To create the shadow behind the butterflies I printed the two butterflies onto the base panel before inking and then simply coloured them in with a black marker pen before adhering the butterflies on top.

The sentiment, from the collection was added to the centre of the card before printing too and I applied rose gold foil using my Minc.  The panel was then layered onto my card blank with a mat of black glitter card.

To finish off this simple design I added some rose gold confetti around the the card.

For my second Autumn card I decided to create a fun inky background so on a piece of vellum I scribbles some alcohol markers in patches and then added a little alcohol to this, using my Tim Holtz blower to move the ink around, adding more colour until I was happy with the overall effect.  Once dried I added a splatter of wet glue on the panel and when the glue was tacky I applied gold foil to the splatter - it give a very delicate look but I think this works well with the vellum.

For the main image I chose the bird house with sunflowers and a couple of the little crows from the ephemera bundle, colouring these in again with my promarkers before fussy cutting out and adding to my card.

I printed out one of the sentiments from the collection and adhered this across the bottom of the card to give a ground for my design to sit on.

To finish off the design I added white gelly roll pen highlights around the the card.

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 stamps - Freddy Fox Collection - Ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Freddy Fox Collection -  Sentiment bundle

Distress Oxide - dried marigold, wild honey, crackling campfire, festive berries, rusty hinge

Minc foil - rose gold

Crafters Companion foil - gold

Spellbinders confetti - rose gold

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Hocus Pocus collection - Halloween Pumpkins - Happy Halloween card - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....We're currently away on holiday in Mallorca (last day today) so I hope my blog has posted ok....fingers crossed.  

It's strange to be thinking about Halloween whilst we are enjoying the sea and sun on an absolutely gorgeous little Spanish island.... it's so easy and quick for us to get here too - this time we flew from Granada airport which is so much nicer and smaller than Malaga.

It'll be our town Feria soon too so lots of fun to come !

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 Halloween Pumpkins......loved carving a pumpkin when we lived in the UK to put outside the front door but its not really a big celebration here and the children only really Trick or Trick within the little town itself.... thankfully so we don't have to buy loads of sweets !

I reached for the Hocus Pocus collection again (one of my favourite spooky sets I think) and selected the different scary pumpkins from a couple of the sets in the collection.

On my computer I resized them to suite a landscape DL card and merged together to create a row of scary pumpkins before printing them out and colouring with my promarkers.  For the eyes and mouths I've used a couple of fluorescent gel pens to give the look of scary glowing faces - it would be great with glow in the dark pens .....hmm I must have a look for some.

I also printed out one of the wonderful sentiments from the Ghastly Ghosts set onto a DL panel.  Next I used 5 distress inks to create my spooky Halloween background and finally foiled the sentiment in gold.

The row of pumpkins was added to my card and I've finished it off with a white gel pen and some black gems.

It's the perfect collection of 3 sets of digital stamps, sentiments and ephemera and comes in black and white images for you to colour but also in pre-coloured format...there's Autumn Fall Halloween Treat, Ghastly Ghosts and Hocus Pocus Witches. 

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 stamps - Hocus Pocus collection - Witches bundle

Polkadoodles digital stamps - Hocus Pocus collection - Ghastly Ghosts

Distress Ink - black soot, carved pumpkin, seedless preserves, villainous potion, mustard seed

Minc Foil - gold

Pretty Pink Posh gems - Midnight black

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 #805 - For a boy - Sponsored by RAM Stamps

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope you are all well and the 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 RAM stamps and our theme of 'For a Boy' this week was chosen for team 2 by Me ... 

I chose to use a really fun called Stacked Frogs, they look like they are having so much fun, perfect for a card for a little boy

I have created a simple DL card for today, resizing the image to suit before printing onto alcohol friendly card stock and then colouring with my Promarkers.

I decided to go for a rainbow of frogs, they do come in loads of fabulous colours after all...not just green !

Once the frogs had been coloured I used a blue distress ink to create a cloudy sky and added foil at the bottom for the ripples of water.  I used a quickie glue pen to create the water ripples.

Next I used a frame die to cut out the panel before layering onto the card blank, adding foam tape to the centre panel for dimension.

The sentiment was stamped using blue ink and finally I added glossy accents to the frogs eyes.

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:

RAM Stamps digital stamp -Stacked Frogs

Polkadoodles stamp - Toadal Sweetheart

distress ink - salty ocean

Lawn Fawn stencil - cloudy

Crafters Companion foil - electric blue

glossy accents

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Believe in Magic - Halloween card - Cute Halloween Bundle - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday......The weeks are absolutely flying past...till soon be you know what !

It's time to share another cutie for Lili of the Valley (LOTV)  using their latest  Cute Halloween bundle featuring 35 very cute Ghosties, ghoulies and witches, definitely everything you need to create some fantastic Halloween projects.

The huge bundle is now available in the Etsy shop and don't forget the amazing special offer.....

As well as this fabulous new bundle for a limited time, if you spend £25 on digital stamps, including this new set then you will receive £200 worth of digital sets,  that's 39 sets with over 600 images so don't miss out.

For my second card I've used the cute little Kitty with her witches hat....It had to be a black cat for Halloween.

I resized her to fit my A6 card and then printed out, colouring with promarkers before fussy cutting out....I also printed out a fabulous spooky sentiment too.

I wanted to create a scene for the kitty so used distress oxides and a couple of stencils to create the hill and supersized moon.  The panel was splattered with water and I also adhered some silver foil to the background for extra magic.

Finishing touches were some glossy accents to the kitty eyes and some clear sparkle for her collar.

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 set  - Cute Halloween bundle

Distress Oxides - chipped sapphire, black soot, villainous potion, shaded lilac

Distress Ink - rustic wilderness, mowed lawn, twisted citron

Tim Holt moon stencil

Crafters Companion foil - 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

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #803 - Special Occasions - 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. 

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 'Special Occasions' this week was chosen for team 2 by Natalie... 

I chose to use a really sweet image called Over the Moon 

I have created a simple 6" x 6" A6 tent fold card and then added a layer of white card and a layer of pretty paper.  I used a circle die to cut an aperture on the paper and also to cut a thin frame from sparkly silver card.

I resized the image to suit my card blank so it will sit in the window and then printed out onto alcohol friendly card stock before colouring with my Promarkers.

I wanted it to look like the couples legs were dangling over the edge of the moon so I carefully fussy cut the bottom of the image and then adhered the panel behind the window with the legs on the outside.

To add some extra sparkly I added little dots of gilding paste mixture to the paper panel and then once ready applied silver foil, creating lots of extra little stars.

The sentiment was printed out and foiled in silver too after blending purple and blue ink to coordinate with the paper.

I think this wold be the perfect card to celebrate an engagement, wedding or anniversary

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 - Over the Moon

LOTV designer paper - Cosmic

Pebeo Gilding paste mix

Crafters Companion foil - silver

Minc foil - silver

distress ink - salty ocean, wilted violet

     

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

 Wendy x

Just a little Hello - Sending Happy thoughts with Altenew

Hello everyone happy Tuesday!  

I hope you are having a lovely week - I treated myself some time ago to a Build a Garden collection by Altenew.

The set is called the Daisy Crown collection and I bought the stamp set, layering stencils and coordinating dies, but I've been so busy with other projects I've never got round to playing with it.

So I decided to have a play whilst hiding indoors to try to keep cool.

It's very different from my normal cute cards but I do love to make floral cards.

I used the smaller of the floral images for this card and I've got loads more ideas just need to have the time - who knew being retired would be so busy... LOL

I stamped the smaller floral spray in a light grey distress ink and then used the layering stencils to colour the design before cutting out with the matching die.

The background is a piece of fabulous ink drop paper that I have been hoarding but thought it was about time I used some !...the design has the look of gold foiling but I decided to add more, splattering the panel with foiling flake glue before adding gold foil.

The sentiment were stamped using purple Versafine Clair ink, one directly onto the card blank and the other die cut and then mounted with foam. Finishing touches were a few pieces of gold confetti around the design.

I hope that you like my project today and you'll come back to see my next project 

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Project recipe:

Altenew - Build a Garden - Daisy Crown - stencil & dies

Distress Inks - black soot, mustard seed, wild honey, worn lipstick, aged mahogany, twisted citron, mowed lawn. hickory smoke

Craft Consortium Papers - Ink Drops - Vivid

Crafters Companion - gold foil

Pebeo gilding paste

Versafine Clair - monarch

Spellbinders confetti -  gold

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 #801 - For a Child - Sponsored by LeAnn's World 101

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope that your week is going well so far.

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 LeAnn's World 101 and our theme of 'For a Child' this week was chosen for team 2 by Kitty. 

I chose to use a really sweet image called Annette coloured with Promarkers, before fussy cutting out.  The sentiments are from Polkadoodles Rebel Girl collection.

I decided to keep the colour palette bright and simple using stencils and distress inks to create the background beach scene.   To add detail to the foam on the waters edge I've used a little white gesso on my finger and white gel pen on the waves.

 Anette was coloured with my promarkers before fussy cutting out and adding to the scene with glossy accents on the bobbles in her hair.

The two sentiments have been foiled  for a touch of shine.

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:

LeAnn's World 101 digital stamp - Anette

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Rebel Girl Collection - Sentiment bundle

Distress Ink - Salty ocean, cracked pistachio

Distress Oxide Ink - scattered straw, wild honey

Pebeo Artist Gesso - white

Minc foil - rose gold, teal

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

New Release - Christmas in July - Photo Strip - Snowman with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday....I hope you are enjoying the weekend...its very hot here at the moment so I've been having quite a bit of time in the shade and trying to keep cool with lots of water to drink lol.

I'm here today with 4 sweet little Christmas cards for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the new Photo booth digital stamp sets.

These cards feature the Snowman Photo Strip set set available in the Etsy shop.

These are such versatile stamps and can be used all together as one image or you can split them as I have done to create 4 separate cards that I think are adorable.

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers and matting with coloured card.  I die cut little windows for the images and used embossing folders to create texture at the bottom of the panels.

The sentiments I've used for each card are from Cute Christmas sentiment set and I've foiled each one to match the card.

Finishing touches were some glittery sparkle on the snowman's hat.

I hope that you like my cards 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  - Snowman Photo Strip

LOTV Digital stamp set - Cute Christmas

Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

     

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

 Wendy x

No One's Perfect - Purrfect - Kitties with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Saturday....I hope you are enjoying the weekend so far - it's a hot one here for us so lots of cooling time inside and maybe a dip in the pool too.

I'm here today with a sweet little kitty card for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) featuring three of the quirky kitties from the Purrfect digital stamp set - Sadly this isn't available in the Etsy shop  but I'm sure that many of you may have got this if you were lucky enough to get hold of the fabulous bundle of store images.

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers and fussy cutting out to raise the kitties on the card background with foam tape.

I added a little stencilling in the background to the panel, a little grey shadow beneath the kitties and foiled the sentiment in blue.

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  - Purrfect

Lawn Fawn stencil - falling hearts

Distress ink - tumbled glass, weathered wood

Minc Foil - blue

     

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

 Wendy x