A Meowy Christmas to you all with Mama Elephant

Hello everyone happy Tuesday!  

You all know how much we love our kitties...we have 5 now although our newest edition to the family Marmalade is an absolute terror at times - she's a sweetheart most of the time and then a complete drama queen at 7 months old.

When I saw this stamp I know it would be perfect for a few of my cards this year and I m really pleased with how its turned out.

I decided to stamp the main image and the sentiment onto some Kraft card and have then coloured it in using my wonderful Polychromos pencils.

I kept the design really simple adding little touches of sparkle to the baubles and stars.

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

Mama Elephant stamp - Oh Kitty Tree

Polychromos 120 pencils

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

It's the most magical time of the year with Mama Elephant

Happy Saturday everyone... I hope that you are all well and are having a lovely weekend.

I'm back today with another Christmas card to add to my stash of cards for sending this year.

I treated myself a week or so to a couple of new stamps for Christmas and some stencils and this is the first of the cards I've had chance to make - I cant believe how busy we have been lately and were hoping to start harvesting the olives next week...so no rest for the wicked as they say.

Its a CAS or clean and simple card, the large sentiment stamped onto the card panel and then the cute image stamped onto separate card before being fussy cut out and adhered with foam tape for dimension.  Both have been simply coloured with coloured pencils for no fuss and I've added some sparkle to the little pom poms and in the background for that festive look.

The set includes a second large sentiment and some extra little shape stamps too!

The panel was layered with red card onto the A6 landscape card base. Definitely a good card for batch making!

I do hope that you like my card for today.

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.

Mama Elephant stamp - Holiday Block set

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

Sakura gelly roll - White Pen

Derwent Academy - coloured pencils

                  

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

Wendy x

Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog - Guest Designer - Stamps - Lesia Zgharda - Beach Bunnies don't care about Mondays

Hello everyone happy Thursday ... I hope that your week has gone well so far...not long to go now until the weekend.

I'm super excited today to be joining the Krafty Chicks as Guest Chick for the month of September and today I'm sharing my first card for them.

Every Thursday there is a new challenge on the Krafty Chicks blog and this week the challenge is to use stamps. This can be physical or digital stamps.

You can check out all the rules over on the blog itself and it would be wonderful if you join in with the fun.

So here is my first card project and I hope that you like it!

I treated myself to some super cute new stamps a few weeks back from the amazingly talented Lesia Zgharda and this was the perfect opportunity to use them in my card for toddy.  There are some gorgeous stamps in her shop and there is also a sale on currently so I would highly recommend taking a look! The hardest part is deciding what to order.  The postage from Ukraine to Spain was perfect too and really quick.

I have used the super cute Bunny Girl on a Swim Ring, stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne ink onto a pre-cut card tag.  The sweet sentiment is from a small sentiment set Beach bunnies don't care about Mondays.  

The image was then coloured using my brand new Polychromos pencils.... oh my goodness I am in love with these pencils and was very lucky to get these for my birthday from my amazing hubby. I have listed the colours used below.

Once the colouring was complete I blended distress ink around the edge of the tag and added a silver eyelet to to top along with some natural twine.  

My card today is a standard white. UK A6 card blank. Next I created the card background by die cutting a panel of mint green card stock with a stitched border. 

I then used a water stencil to emboss the card and finally used white dye based ink to blend through the stencil to give a subtle look. 

I added a little white gelly roll pen to highlight the waves, before adhering the background panel to the card blank.

Finally I adhered the tag to my card, on an angle using foam tape for dimension.

To finish off my card today I've added glossy accents around the design and to the bunny's sunglasses.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card for today and will drop by again to see my next project.

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.

Lesia Zgharda Stamp - Bunny Girl on a Swim Ring

Lesia Zgharda Stamp - Beach bunnies don't care about Mondays

Faber Castell Polychromos 120 pencils (Craftstash UK) 120 Polychromos (Craftelier)
Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white

Distress Ink - salty ocean , salvaged patina

Creative Craft Products - Collectables Water Stencil

Lisa Horton Crafts - Premium Dye Based Matt Blending ink - Falling Snow

Ranger Glossy Accents

Polychromos used:

129 - pink madder lake

128 - light purple pink

132 - beige red

191 - Pompeian red

271 - warm grey II

179 - bistre

280 - burnt umber

177 - walnut brown

111 - cadmium orange

107 - cadmium yellow

102 - cream

137 - blue violet

231 - cold grey II

123 - fuchsia

125 - middle purple pink

101 - white

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

 Wendy x 

Halloween card - Ghastly Ghosts - Digi Choosday with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday. I hope you are enjoying the week so far.  Even though were still enjoying the Summer here, as crafters its time to start thinking of Autumn and Halloween!

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 Halloween or Autumn themed card so I decided to create a Halloween card.  We don't really celebrate Halloween but I have enjoyed making a few cards over the last few years, so I decided to use the Ghastly Ghosts from the Hocus Pocus collection for today - these cute little ghosts are definitely not Ghastly!

This is a DL shaker card, created with 3 little circular apertures, behind each window I have stencilled in black ink a spooky pattern using the vortex stencil.  For an extra spooky feel I have hand drawn little cobwebs on the acetate for each little window. 

I chose 3 of the little ghosts, printing them out and colouring them with my spectrum noir pencils in a bright lime green colour so they definitely glow.  I used purple card stock to create little frames around the windows and filled the shaker with purple and clear iridescent sequins. 

The finishing touches were little highlights of white pen and gold sparkle pen on the ghosts and I used a grey metallic pen for the spooky sentiments.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Hocus Pocus - Ghastly Ghosts

Polkadoodles digital paper - Gnome Trick or Treat - Paper set 2

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Gnome Trick or Treat - Sentiment Bundle

Polkadoodles Creative Stencil - Funky Vortex grid

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Nested Torn Edge Slims

Distress Ink - black soot

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black, metallic grey, gold

Spectrum Aqua pen - purple

Craftelier sequin mix

                      

                      

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

Wendy x

Hope your day goes with a Splash - Scuba girls Latisha and Lisa - with Pattie's Creations

Happy Friday everyone I hope that you are all well and have had a lovely week.

The first Friday of the month marks the start of a new Challenge for December over on the Pattie's Creations Design Challenge blog 

The challenge runs from the first Friday of the month and its an Anything Goes challenge or our theme for August is Beach or Under the Sea, so as long as you use a digital or stamped image in your project, why not join in the challenge.

Winners of the challenge will receive 2 digital stamps of your choice from Pattie's shop.

Pattie has some wonderful digital stamps in her Etsy Shop pattiescreations and there is also a freebie every month on the blog that you can use in your project if you want to! 

For my July project, I chose  to use one of the sweet Scuba Girls Latisha and Lisa digital stamps to create a larger 5" x 7"  or A7 card. 

These two little girls look like they are having so much fun in the water.  The background paper is a bubble paper from JMC Designs and I thought it was perfect as it is, simple with some extra white highlights on the bubbles.

I resized the image to suit my card size and printed them out before colouring with my Spectrum Noir pencils.

After fussy cutting them out, the two little girls were adhered using foam tape for dimension. I've mat and layered the background paper onto some teal card and also layered the sentiment onto teal card to coordinate. To finish off the card I added some glossy accent bubbles coming out of the snorkel tubes and also to the diving masks. 

I do hope that you like my card for today and don't forget to join in with this months challenge over on the blog.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Scuba Girls Latisha and Lisa

Polkadoodles Freebie Sentiment when you sign up for the Newsletter

JMC Designs - Bubble Paper - Aquatic Adventures Digital Collection

Spectrum Noir pencils

Glossy Accents

POSCA Pen - white

                  

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

Wendy x

Hope your day goes with a splash with DisDigitalStamps

Hello everyone happy Friday... I hope that your week has gone well and you have some nice things planned for the weekend or maybe just some lovely time chilling.

Today I'm sharing a cute little card that I've made using a sweet little digital stamp that was a freebie from Di's Digis.  

Di very generously gave all of her Facebook group members this digital stamp after her holidays and well you know me and kitties.

It's a simple A6 (UK Size) card coloured with my Spectrum Noir pencils (still taking a break from my Promarkers with the heat !)

I've coloured him to look like Foxy out ginger boy - he adores the pool water when the cover is on, running around so it splashes and chases after him!

I added a digital sentiment in the top left corner before printing out and colouring in.

To finish off my card today I've added white highlights and glossy accents to the kitties sunglasses

If you aren't a member of Di's lovely Facebook group then here is the link for you to join Join here

Here's a link to her Etsy shop too as there are some fabulous digital stamps

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card for today and will drop by again to see my next project.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Di'd Digital Stamp - Freebie

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Freebie

Spectrum Noir Pencils

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white

Posca Paint pen - white

Ranger Glossy Accents

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

 Wendy x 

Christmas in July - Have a Jolly Christmas - July Digital Stamp Freebie with Blessed Crafters

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Saturday!

I'm on my blog today with another Christmas in July card - this time using a sweet Polar Bear from the Blessed Crafters Facebook Group.  

Each month Mynn Kitchen very generously gives a digital stamp to her group members and there is a Month long themed challenge in the group.  Why not head over, join the group and enter the challenge as you could win a digital stamp set.

Here is the link to join the group Blessed Crafters Facebook Group/

This is a simple A6 (UK Size) card created with a mat layer of aqua glitter card on a white card blank.  

I started off by resizing the polar bear digital stamp and then creating a panel adding the digital sentiment at the top and the mermaid rocks digital stamp at the bottom before printing out on my LaserJet printer.  I planned to foil the rocks and the sentiment using mint foil as i thought the rocks at the bottom look a little like an ice berg with the polar bear floating on it!

I used distress inks to create my background before foiling and then adding white gel pen highlights for the water and stickles to the ice to make it sparkle.

Next I coloured in the polar bear with my coloured pencils - colouring with my Promarkers in 38C temperatures is just not working ! and I'm loving using different mediums to create with.

Once the polar bear was coloured I fussy cut him out and then adhered him to the card using foam tape before splattering white paint over the whole card.

Finally I added white gel pen highlights here and there and some stickles to the bears pompom to finish off my card for today.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card for today and will drop by again to see my next project.

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.

Blessed Crafters Facebook Group - July Freebie digital stamp - polar bear

Sweet November Stamps - Digital Stamp - Mermaid Rock

Spectrum Noir coloured pencils

Distress Ink - salty ocean, salvaged patina, shaded lilac

Posca Paint pen - white

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Gingerbread Holly collection - Sentiment bundle

Stickles - star dust

Minc Foil - mint

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

Christmas in July - Caroling Snowman with Paper Nest Dolls

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Sunday! I hope that you are having a lovely weekend. 

I'm on my blog today with another Christmas in July card and this today I've used an image that I previously coloured with alcohol markers but again I've reached for my coloured pencils to colour a gorgeous image called Caroling Snowman by Paper Nest Dolls

This is an A7 or  5" x 7"  card created with a simple mat layer of black card.  

I started off by resizing the sweet image and printing out onto Neenah Desert Storm cardstock, before using my Spectrum Noir pencils to colour the image.

For my wintery scene I have blended distress inks around the background to create a nighttime sky.  I used a hillside stencil and some white dye based ink at the bottom of the panel for my snow scene and then to finish of the card I splattered white pearlescent paint for the snow.

I added white gel pen highlights here and there to finish off my card for today.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my  card for today and will drop by again to see my next project.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Paper Nest Dolls digital stamp - Caroling Snowman

Distress Ink - salty ocean, chipped sapphire

Craftelier Watercolour paints - gold selection - pearl silver

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white, black

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

 Wendy x

Christmas in July - Have a Tree-mendous Christmas - Pickles Hedgehog with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday ! 

Its going to be a hot day today here so I'm channelling my inner cool with a snowy scene card - not sure it will work though 

I'm here today to share another Christmas card, this time using a digital image from the very cute Pickles Hedgehog collection by Polkadoodles.  Its a great collection and this one is definitely not just for Christmas

This is an A7 or  5" x 7"  card created with a simple mat layer of black card.  

I decided to dig out my coloured pencils to create this card so started off by resizing the sweet image of Pickles with his Christmas tree  and adding a sentiment from the Bella Bear Christmas collection at the top before printing out onto Neenah Desert Storm cardstock.

I used my Spectrum Noir pencils and had loads of fun colouring the image before blending distress inks around the background to create a wintery nighttime sky.  I used a hillside stencil and some white dye based ink at the bottom of the panel for my snow scene and then to finish of the card I splattered white pearlescent paint for the snow.

I added white gel pen highlights here and there to finish off my card for today and I have to say I'm loving the look of this and its a nice change from my alcohol markers which definitely don't like the heat much!

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share for Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Pickles Hedgehog -  Christmas Tree

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Bella Bear Christmas - Sentiment Bundle

Distress Inks - tumbled glass, weathered wood, uncharted mariner, chipped sapphire

Lisa Horton Crafts - Cloud 9 Ink - Falling Snow

Craftelier Watercolour paints - gold selection - Pearl silver

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, silver

    

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

Wendy x