Digi Choosday - Winnie Mermazing - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....

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!  

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 a Mermaid themed card. 

I decided to use an image from the Winnie Mermazing collection - this is Collecting shells to create a pretty 5" x7" or A7 card.

I chose one of the papers from the collection to layer onto my card cutting out two circular apertures, one for a sentiment and another for the sweet dolphins (coloured with promarkers) which is from the Coral Mermaid collection.  I used teal foil for the sentiment and then adhered these onto the card base under the circular apertures.

The main image was resized along with a number of seashells before printing out and colouring in with promarkers and fussy cutting out, layering at the bottom of my card panel.

To finish off my project I added some clear sparkle pen to the shells and her tail and teal confetti  around the design.

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 image  - Winnie Mermazing - Collecting Shells

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Winnie Mermazing - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Winnie Mermazing - Paper Bundle

Polkadoodles digital image - Coral Mermaid - Dolphins

Polkadoodles digital images - Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles - Stamp bundle shells

Minc foil - teal

Spellbinders confetti - Lagoon

Spectrum noir sparkle pen - clear

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

Wendy x

Ocean themed picture - Coral Mermaid - Digi Choosday - Keep calm and think Beach with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday.  I hope that you have a lovely day today and that you enjoy your week ahead.

It's that time of the week when we launch a brand new '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 discount off all crafty printable downloads until midnight today!

The theme set for the DT this week is to create a Ocean themed project but not a square or rectangular card so as it's still May for a few more days and we are still celebrating everything MerMay I decided to make a picture instead of a card. Just a few more days to join in with the MerMay2024 celebrations across the arty world.

I decided to use one of the gorgeous mermaids from the Coral Mermaid collection, this digital stamp is Coral Mermaid on the rocks  I started off by resizing the digital stamp to suit my frame which is 5" x 7" in size and colouring her in with promarkers - don't you just love her hair ! 

Next I chose one of the papers from the collection and used this to cover the background of my picture frame - I've removed the glass that was in the frame as I like being able to touch the design.  

To add more dimension I fussy cut out some of the coral from the paper and adhered these around the design and adhered the mermaid sat on her rock using foam tape for dimension

The sentiment is from the Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles collection and I've used teal foil to add shine and sparkle with a clear sparkle pen. 

This would make a perfect gift for someone (but I might just keep it for myself !)

Finishing touches where some teal confetti around the design, clear sparkle on Corals tail and some of the coral and white  gel pen highlights.  

I hope that you like my project today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from Polkadoodles

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Promarkers Used:

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

Blush:         pale pink

Hair:           orange, mango, peach

Tail:            Verdigris, pebble blue, pastel blue

Starfish:      gold, sunflower, buttercup

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Flowers:       sunflower, poppy, lipstick red

Coral:          burnt orange, ginger, bisque

Seaweed:     petrol blue, marine, turquoise

Leaves:        pear green, lime green, lime zest

Rocks:         ice grey 00, 3, 5

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Coral Mermaid collection - Coral Mermaid on Rocks

Polkadoodles digital paper - Coral Mermaid collection - paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles Collection - sentiment bundle

Minc Foil - teal

Spectrum Noir sparkle pen - clear

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

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

Be so awesome people think you're a Myth - New Release - Aquatic Adventures with Julia McNeill Designs

Hello everyone Happy Monday I hope that you had a great weekend.  

It's time for me to post an project for JMC Designs  and also its my final MerMay project. There's still a few days left of May so plenty of time to join in with the challenge and don't forget there will be a prize awarded to someone.

 

The prompt for today from JMC Designs is 'Mythical & Magical' so I decided to create a magical scene using the pre-coloured images from the brand new digital collection Aquatic Adventures. 

Several years ago we were very lucky to be at a wedding in the Monterey Bay Aquarium California and at the time there was the most amazing jellyfish experience/exhibition with tanks full of the most amazing jellyfish and they were definitely magical with their glowing neon lights.

I started by choosing one of the papers from the collection and then resized this to fit a 5" x 7" card blank.  To give my design dimension I added a couple of jellyfish, and making them smaller to appear in the background. 

I added a third larger jellyfish towards the bottom centre of the design, to appear in the foreground and also resized the gorgeous mermaid Oceania so she would appear to sit on the bridge.  

I added a little starfish at the bottom of the image. 

Then I separated the mermaid and the larger jellyfish from the design and made an exact copy of the coral and rocks at the bottom before printing out. 

Next I fussy cut out the mermaid, the larger jellyfish and some of the coral at the bottom of the design.  

Don't worry if you're not great at fussy cutting, you can always use a dark grey or black marker pen to carefully outline the edge and no one will ever know. 

To assemble the card I adhered the background peice onto a peice of teal metallic card and then used foam squares to adhere the mermaid, jellyfish and the coral at the bottom of the panel.  

I splattered the card with a pearl silver watercolour paint and added extra metallic bubbles around the design.  

The sentiment was printed out and cut into 3 simple strips, blending a little blue ink to tone down the white of the card, before adhering to the card.

The finishing touches to the card were some teal confetti around the design, glossy accents to the bubbles in the water and white gel pen highlights.

I really hope that you like my project 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 - Aquatic Adventures 

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

Distress Ink - salty ocean

Craftelier watercolour paint - gold collection - pearl silver

Sakura Gelly Roll pen -  white, clear star

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 BlogSpot Anniversary Challenge #740 Anything Goes

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all !

I'm here today to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and its a special Anniversary challenge.

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by 7 wonderful and very generous sponsors.

I decided as it's still May and we are celebrating everything Mermaid I would create a card using a gorgeous new digital mermaid from the brand new digital kit Aquatic Adventures from JMC Designs

This gorgeous mermaid is called Aquaria and I have created a simple but beautiful underwater background for her to swim in using distress inks smooshed onto watercolour card stock.  

Once I was happy with the layering I then added some fabulous Brushos and spritzed with water to give the look of the sea.  Next I resized the digital stamp to suit my card before colouring her in with Promarkers and fussy cutting out. 
The sentiment is also from the digital collection, printed out and then foiled with aqua foil.

The mermaid and sentiment have been adhered to the card using foam tape for dimension and then I have added teal confetti around the design.  

The finishing touches are some super sparkly mermaid tails glitter and white gel pen highlights to add sparkle to her hair.

Why not take a look at all these fabulous stores and join in with our Anything goes Anniversary challenge.  Don't forget there will be a prize for the Winner of the challenge - there are more details over on the Passion for Markers blog.

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:
JMC Designs digital stamp - Aquatic Adventures collection

JMC Designs digital sentiment- Aquatic Adventures collection

Distress Ink - villainous potion, shaded lilac, evergreen bough, salvaged patina, salty ocean

Brushos - ultramarine, turquoise,emerald green

Lisa Horton Crafts - Mermaid Tails - Waterfall

Minc Foil - teal

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

Spectrum Noir - Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

Promarkers used :

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

Blush:    pale pink  

Hair:      gold, sunflower, buttercup

             purple, fuchsia pink, pink pearl

Tail:       verdigris, pebble blue, pastel blue

             purple, fuchsia pink, pink pearl    

Roses:   burgundy, poppy, lipstick red   

          

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

 Wendy x

Make Waves, Dive Deep - New Release - Aquatic Adventures with Julia McNeill Designs

Hello everyone Happy Sunday I hope that you are enjoying your weekend.  

It's time for me to post an extra project for JMC Designs  and also my next MerMay creation. There's still plenty of time to join in with the challenge and don't forget there will be a prize awarded to someone.

 

The prompt for today from JMC Designs is 'Shape of the sea' so I decided to create and underwater cave scene for the gorgeous mermaid Serephina from the brand new digital collection Aquatic Adventures.  

I think she reminds me of Marilyn Monroe, with her gorgeous shapely curves.  I started by choosing one of beautiful papers from the collection that looks like a cave and resized this to fit an A7 5" x 7" card blank. 

I printed the paper out twice as I wanted to fussy cut some of the coral at the bottom of the paper to decoupage for extra dimension.  I cut a piece of black cardstock to fit my card blank and then handcut a cave shape.  This card would create a frame around the design. 

Next I resized Serephina to fit inside the frame of the underwater cave and coloured her with Promarkers before fussy cutting out.

The sentiments at the top and bottom of my design are also from the collection,  printed out and adhered to the design after adding a little blue distress ink to tone down the white of the card. 

I used some black stickles to add details around the edge of the cave frame for a bit of extra sparkle. 

The finishing touches to the card were some clear iridescent sequins around the design to add sparkle and shine, white gel pen to highlight Serephina's hair and I've added extra sparkle to the mermaid tail  and to some of the coral at the bottom.

I really hope that you like my project 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 - Aquatic Adventures 

Sugar & Spice Sequins - Enchanted

Distress Ink - prize ribbon

Stickles - black diamond

Sakura Gelly Roll pen -  white, clear star

Lisa Horton Crafts - Mermaid Tails - Waterfall

 

Promarkers Used:

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

Hair:    gold, sunflower, buttercup

Tail:     verdigris, pebble blue, pastel blue

            lime zest, lime green, pear green

Shell:    mandarin, buttercup

                      

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

Wendy x

Mermaid Kisses, Starfish Wishes - New Release - Aquatic Adventures with Julia McNeill Designs

Hello everyone Happy Monday I hope that you had a great weekend.  

It's time for me to post my next project for JMC Designs .  There is a brand new digital collection called Aquatic Adventures and  I think you are going to love it as much as I do!  

Perfect timing too if you love to create for MerMay! 

It's a fabulous collection of 29 Digital stamps, 29 Pre Coloured Stamps, 11 ephemera sheets, 18 papers, 5 topper sheets and 4 sentiment sheets, so you will be spoilt for choice.

It's amazing value for money and there is a special 20% discount off the kit until midnight tonight (GMT) using the code aqua20 at the checkout

I decided for my first project with this new collection to make a bridge fold card so I could create an underwater scene, so cut a piece of aqua cardstock 7" x 7" and then scored this at 1", 2", 5" and 6".  The bridge section is a piece of card 5" x 1".  Its a really simple fold but perfect I think for this design. 

I printed out one of the papers from the collection and used this to cover the card base and the bridge section. 

Next I resized some the the pre-coloured elements from the collection and then printed them out before fussy cutting out.  

I used a dark grey pen to cover the white edges ( great if you aren't too good at fussy cutting as it hides any mistakes! ) 

The ephemera and digital images were then adhered to the card, some flat, some with foam tape and I also used acetate so the mermaid and the fish appear to be floating in the sea.  

The sweet sentiment also from the collection was printed out and then I've applied teal foil for the underwater look.

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The finishing touches to the card were some sequins around the design to add sparkle and shine.

I really hope that you like my project 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 - Aquatic Adventures 

Minc foil - teal

Sugar & Spice Sequins - Under the Sea

Promarkers used :

                      

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

Wendy x

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

Digi Choosday - Beat the Heat with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday.  Wishing you all a lovely day today and I hope that you enjoy the week ahead....We have loads to do this week as we have family staying next week so lots of cleaning in the house and tidying around in the garden.

It's that time of the week when we launch a brand new '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 discount off all crafty printable downloads until midnight today!

The theme set for the DT this week is Beat the Heat / Water themed card which given the current high heat levels here in Spain was perfect so I chose to use a sweet little Lil Miss Mermaid with Dolphin digital image from the Lil Miss Sugarpops collection

I wanted to create a 3D Underwater scene and I was inspired by a YouTube tutorial by Jennifer McGuire, to make a popup up frame card.

If you haven't seen the video here is the link,  I would highly recommend watching as it's really easy to make and you can easily adapt the instructions to suit loads of different sizes of cards. Mine is a larger 5 x 7 card with a circular aperture on the front.  

I created the base for the card and then chose two papers from the Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles collection, one for the outside frame and one for the inside of the scene.

Before assembling the card I used a circular die to create an aperture in the front panel.

Next I resized the Lil Miss Mermaid image to fit my aperture and also created a small group of sea shells to add extra interest to the card before printing out onto alcohol marker friendly card stock.  These were coloured with Promarkers (see below for colours)

I also chose one of the sentiments from the Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles collection which I have printed onto white card and die cut, adding to the top of the card with foam tape. 

Once the main images were coloured I have fussy cut these out and used a thin strip of acetate mounted inside the pop up frame to add the little mermaid so she is floating in the scene.  The cluster of shells was adhered flat to the pop up frame.

I then adhered this to my card blank adding a layer of navy cardstock for a small mat layer

To finish off the card I added just a few co-ordinating sequins, some glossy accents and a little clear sparkle here and there. 

I have a very special DT discount code that you can use for all your shopping on the Polkadoodles online shop at checkout use WENDYJ-10 and you will get 10% of your entire purchase (not in conjunction with other discount codes!)

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:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Lil Miss Sugarpops - Lil Miss Mermaid & Dolphin

Polkadoodles Digital Paper - Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles - Paper Bundle 4

Polkadoodles Digital Paper - Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles - Greetings Bundle

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Torn Edge Circles

Sugar and Spice sequins - Under the Sea

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black, pink metallic, green metallic

Glossy accents

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

Wendy x