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Tuesday, 23 April 2024

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #764 - For a Boy Sponsored by Di's Digis

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day !

Today I'm here to let you know that 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 'For a Man or a boy' has been chosen by Me for team 2 and the prize this week is being given by

This is a simple A2 (US size) card today and I have used a super cute digital stamp from Pink Gem Designs called Dani Dragon with Balloon.

I think he's a perfect dragon for a little boy (or a big boy come to that) and I wanted to create a little nighttime scene for my dragon and was given some pretty dark sky designer paper a few years ago that I thought would be perfect for it. I decided to stick to yellow, green and blue colours too for my more masculine card.

I started by cutting a piece of the paper to fit my card base and then used a circular die to cut an aperture. I then used a moon stencil to create the moon that would fill the aperture using distress ink.

I resized the digital image of Dani and coloured him with promarkers before fussy cutting out. I then adhered the coloured dragon with foam tape for dimension.

The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed on a piece of white card then I have blended distress ink over the top to blend in with the card.

The finishing touches were some pieces of gold confetti around the design, grey metallic gelly roll pen for the balloon string and white gel pen highlights.

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:
Pink Gem Designs - Dani Dragon with Balloon

Tim Holtz - Stampers Anonymous Layering Mask - Moon Mask

Auchan Supermarket - Clear Stamp

Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder - Olympic Gold Lustre

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens - Metallic grey, white, black

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - gold

Promarkers used :

Dani: gold, sunflower, lemon

forest green, bright green, lime zest

french navy, azure, arctic blue

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

Wendy x

Tuesday, 26 March 2024

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #732 - 3 of Anythings Sponsored by LeAnn's World

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day !

Today I'm here to let you know that 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 '3 of Anything' has been chosen by Linda for team 2 and being sponsored by LeAnn's World 101

I chose to use one of the beautiful fantasy digital images called Alesea for my card today....there's something magical about mermaids after all and I had the idea for the card in my head as soon as I saw the theme. This is a 5 x 7 portrait card with a fabulous inky background for my underwater scene.

I used a peice of 300gsm watercolour card and began by creating an inky background using lots of distress inks, drying in between each layer. Once I was happy with the layers and the depth of colour I spritzed the panel with water and then carefully sprinkled Brushos over the design.

These really are wonderful pigment powders that help to create my watery scene really easily. I wanted the water to look like it was swirling and bubbling around the main image. I then used distress oxide inks to stamp 3 corals at the bottom of the design and 3 shoals of fish, these are my 3 of anything to tie in with the theme of this challenge then to add details and highlights I used metallic and neon gel pens to the fish and coral.

Next I resized the mermaid image to suit the card, printed on a laser printer and then coloured with my Promarkers (see below for colours used).

The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed onto a strip of blue card and the final touches were some sparkly details to her hair a few pieces of teal confetti around the design.

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:
LeAnn's World Designs Digital stamp - Alesea

Distress Inks - peacock feathers, tumbled glass, salty ocean, uncharted mariner, twisted citron, shabby shutters, bundled sage

Distress Oxides - crackling campfire, abandoned coral, chipped sapphire, prize ribbon

Woodware Craft Collection Stamps - Francoise Read Sea Elements

Avery Elle stamps - Bubbles

Lisa Horton Crafts - Coloured Gel Ink Pens

Lisa Horton Crafts - Fineliner pens

Brushos - turquoise, ultramarine, emerald green

WoW Embossing Powder - Opaque Bright White Super Fine

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Spellbinders confetti - Lagoon

Promarkers used :

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

Blush: pale pink

Hair: primrose, lemon, sunflower

Eyes: Egyptian blue, azure

Tail: ocean teal, pastel green, tea green

Clothes: orange, mango, soft peach

Beads: coral

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

Wendy x

Wednesday, 21 February 2024

I Love Promarkers #553 - Under the Sea - Sponsored by Colour of Love

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Wednesday!

I'm on my blog today for the new bi-weekly I Love Promarkers blog challenge , it would be wonderful if you joined us over there if you love to colour with alcohol markers and don't forget there are prizes up for grabs.

You can find all of the rules and details for the challenge over on the blog.

This challenge is being sponsored by Colour of Love

Here is my inspiration card for the current blog challenge with the theme - Under the Sea, using this super cute digital stamp Eleanor Mer's Whale Love

Todays card is a 5" x 7" with two layers of sparkly glitter card with a die cute arch in the centre to create my magical Under the Sea scene.

The digital image was resized and printed before colouring with promarkers before mounting directly onto the card blank.

The layers of glitter card were adhered over the top to frame the image.

Leaf dies were then used to cut out the leaves to represent more seaweed and I used distress ink to add detail and shading.

The seaweed was then added at the bottom of the card over the top of the image.

The sentiment was stamped onto black card and heat embossed in white before cutting into a simple strip and mounting towards the bottom of the design.

To finish off my card I added glossy accents to the water bubbles, sparkle to the mermaid and a few pieces of confetti around the card.

I really hope that you like 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 I Love Markers blog

Hasta luego 👋

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Colour of Love Digital Stamp - Eleanor Mer's Whale Love

Avery Elle stamp - Bubbles

Distress Ink - Peacock feathers, mowed lawn

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - Galaxy

Card Making Magic Dies - Spring -Summer Stamp & Die set

Glossy accents

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, metallic blue

Promarkers used :

Skin: almond, blush. oatmeal, soft peach, dusky rose

Blush: pale pink

Hair: vanilla, buttercup, tulip yellow, gold

Dolphin: cool grey 4, 2, 0

pastel blue

Mermaid tail: petrol blue, verdigris, pebble blue, pastel blue

Top: dusky rose, muted pink

Seaweed: holly, mint green, pastel green

Starfish: apricot, bisque

Berries: coral, muted pink

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

Wendy x

Tuesday, 9 August 2022

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.