Digi Choosday - Hocus Pocus collection - Halloween is coming - Witch & Kitty card - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....Its September already and were already starting to think about Autumn and Halloween...sad really as the Summer months go by so fast although Ill be glad for the lower temperatures 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 / Autumn is coming so I decided to use the Hocus Pocus collection for my shaped card today.... I don't make lots of Halloween cards but this was fun to create.

It's the perfect collection of digital stamps, sentiments and ephemera and comes in black and white images for you to colour but also in pre-coloured format.

I wanted to create the look of a spiders web for my card so used some of my nesting dies to create a shaped card cutting from black card.  Next I cut a slightly smaller piece of white card  and then used the fabulous Funky Vortex stencil to create my swirling pattern using black, orange, lime green and purple distress inks.  Once I was happy with the depth of colour, I used a couple of Posca pens to add little dots to the swirls to look like magic swirling into the centre of the design.

For some extra interest I die cut two smaller frames from black card and adhered these over the panel to give the look of a cobweb.

For the main focal image I merged the little witch in the pumpkin and the kitty in the pumpkin together before printing out on alcohol marker friendly cardstock, colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out.

I adhered the witch and kitty to the shaped card base using foam tape for dimension along with one of the sentiments from the collection.

To finish off the design I added white gelly roll pen highlights and some purple confetti 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 - Hocus Pocus collection - Witches bundle

Polkadoodles stencil - Funky Vortex 

Distress Ink - black soot, carved pumpkin, twisted citron, wilted violet

Distress Oxide ink - spiced marmalade

Posca pen- white, orange

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - Galaxy

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 - Work & Play painter bundle - new - Painter / decorator - Boy - DIY themed card with Polkadoodles

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

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 with a DIY/Gardening theme so I decided to use the Work & Play decorating bundle for my card today....it's the perfect digi bundle, with papers, sentiments, ephemera and digital character images.

I used the sweet decorator boy for my card resizing him to fit my larger 5" x 7" A7 card.  I wanted the card to look like he was in a room hanging wallpaper.

I started by choosing one of the sentiments from the collection and added this to the top left corner of a panel of card, I used 3 distress inks to swipe a littles ink over the corner, I think it kind of looks like brush marks.  The main image was printed out onto alcohol marker friendly card and coloured with promarkers before fussy cutting out.

Next I cut 3 strips of patterned paper from the collection and adhered these to the white sentiment panel, I left 2 pieces of the wallpaper unglued at the top and then rolled these so it looks like the wallpaper is falling off the walls. I'm sure we've all had moments like these ! 

I cut a strip of flooring from a paper pad, to look like the skirting board.

To finish off the design I printed out a couple of the extra paint cans and brushes, fussy cutting these out and adding to 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 paper, image, sentiment - Work & Play decorating bundle

Distress Ink - speckled egg, shaded lilac, prize ribbon

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Digi Deal Flower Meadow - In the garden - Butterflies with Polkadoodles

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

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 using butterflies with am In the garden theme.

I love being in the garden and seeing the beautiful butterflies flying around so this was the perfect theme for me.  I decided to combine some digital papers, a stencil and a beautiful stamp for todays challenge.

I created an upright easel card and started off by choosing a floral gorgeous paper from the Flower Meadow digital kit to layer onto my card with a matt layer of purple card stock.  For the upright panel I used the pale lilac striped paper from the kit as I wanted to add stencilling to this.

I die cut a frame from purple card and used distress inks to add a darker shade at the bottom of the frame.

Next I stamped the beautiful butterfly from the Hearts and Flowers Butterfly stamp set, I wanted a deep purple so used a dark blue ink and a lighter purple over the top to get the colour I wanted.

I used distress inks over the butterfly before cutting out and adhering to the panel with foam tape.

The card stopped is a simple strip of card with a sentiment printed out from the  collection.

Finishing touches were a few pieces of purple confetti around the card and some sparkle to the butterflies.

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 !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital paper - Digi Deal - Flower Meadow

Polkadoodles stencil - Wildflower Meadow

Polkadoodles Stamp - Hearts and Flowers Butterfly stamp

Polkadoodles sentiment - Winnie Daisy Fairy - greetings bundle

Distress Ink - twisted citron, mowed lawn, wilted violet, villainous potion, mustard seed, salty ocean

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - sugar plum

Posca Pen - white, purple

Wink of Stella pen - purple

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Love Always Bunnies - Sports - colour palette with Polkadoodles

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

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 with a sporting theme and also to follow a colour palette.

I'm not a bit sport fan but I have been known to watch a little of Wimbledon so I decided to use the very cute Love Always Bunnies collection.  The image is called Love All and I decided to use my distress inks to watercolour for a change.

Not my forte but its always good to try new things and step out of our comfort zones from time to time - think I need a bit more practice as the background seemed a little too blue for the look I was trying to achieve, but its not bad at all.

I chose distress ink colours to match the colour palette and also some papers from the Let's Hang Out collection to co-ordinate with the design.  Just some vey simple mat and layering and a few pieces of card candi to finish off my card today.

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 - Lets Hang Out - Paper Bundle

Polkadoodles digital image - Love Always Bunnies - Love All

Distress Ink - twisted citron, kitsch flamingo, picked raspberry, seedless preserves, crushed olive, salty ocean, speckled egg, pumice stone. mustard seed, saltwater taffy

Craftwork Cards - Candi

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

Wendy x

New Release - Graduation /school/ college - Hooray card with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful day - I hope the weather is being kind to you....it's still so hot here, too hot really to be outside much past 2pm...I have been trying to get a bit of work done in the garden first thing before the sun is too strong but its not easy. 

Some of the plants are starting to look very weary too especially as we have been having hot winds too which sadly is drying out the plants even more.  hoping for a break in the weather and maybe a thunderstorm to freshen things up but I suspect it will be like this now until September.

I'm sure you've already seen the brand new release by Polkadoodles crafting It's all about Graduation School Student New jobs.

It’s a bumper kit with fabulous papers, ephemera, word art and of course the wonderful characters (line art and pre-coloured)….. perfect for all those celebrations not just traditional graduation!

Fun, colourful elements perfect for graduation cards, teacher thank you gifts, school leavers' memory books, and end-of-term projects. With 100's of high-resolution digital assets, including clipart characters, coordinating papers, printable sentiments, ephemera, and both black & white and pre-coloured digi stamps, this bundle is ideal for card making, junk journaling, digital scrapbooking, planner pages and more.

If you are looking for more inspiration then why not head over to the Polkadoodles gallery where I'm sure you'll find some inspiration.

My next card features a real cutie celebrating in style with all those balloons and bottles of fizz.....she definitely deserves it after all the hard work.

 

I've used a fabulous Polkadoodles Funky Vortex stencil for my background with pretty distress inks to co-ordinate with the balloons.

The main image is the Cute girl Graduation gown and I also printed out 3 bottles of fizz and lots of balloons, all fussy cut out by hand after colouring with promarkers.  

I've added some clear sparkle to the balloons and bottles of fizz and some clear iridescent sequins around the design.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Graduation / School kit -  Cute girl Graduation gown

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Graduation / School kit - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital clip art- Graduation / School kit - Clip art pack

Polkadoodles stencil -  Funky Vortex stencil

Distress inks - kitsch flamingo, squeezed lemonade, salty ocean

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn

Spectrum Noir sparkle - clear

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

Wendy x

New Release - Graduation /school/ college /new job card with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful day - my goodness its so hot here at the moment...I have to keep escaping the heat to cool off inside, even the pool water isn't very cooling at 32C

There’s a brand new release by Polkadoodles crafting just launched and here is my first card using the Graduation School Student digital collection.

It’s a bumper kit with fabulous papers, ephemera, word art and of course the wonderful characters (line art and pre-coloured)….. perfect for all those celebrations not just traditional graduation!

Fun, colourful elements perfect for graduation cards, teacher thank you gifts, school leavers' memory books, and end-of-term projects. With 100's of high-resolution digital assets, including clipart characters, coordinating papers, printable sentiments, ephemera, and both black & white and pre-coloured digi stamps, this bundle is ideal for card making, junk journaling, digital scrapbooking, planner pages and more.

If you are looking for more inspiration then why not head over to the Polkadoodles gallery where I'm sure you'll find some inspiration.

This little girl is a real cutie with her pens and pencils, coloured with Promarkers….just ready to start school with loads of dreams and lots of ambitions.

I've used a couple of the papers from the collection to decorate my upright Z-fold card for my card today, foiling one of them in teal foil for a touch of shine.  

For the main image I selected the pencil clip art and enlarged this to create a rainbow of huge pencils behind the little girl. I also added an extra pot of pencils to the image before printing out and colouring with promarkers - a girl can never have too much stationery after all ! 

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Graduation / School kit -  Cute Girl with stationery

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Graduation / School kit - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Graduation / School kit - Paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital clip art- Graduation / School kit - Clip art pack

Minc foil - teal

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

Digi Choosday - Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles - Ice Creams - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....We're loving being in the summer sunshine here with hot days and lovely warm nights too and what better way to celebrate the Summer than with a yummy ice cream !  The difficult part is always choosing the flavour....

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 Ice Cream themed card.

I decided to use a sweet simple image from the  Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles collection - this is a simple Ice Cream digital that i have printed out 5 times and coloured with my promarkers before fussy cutting out.

I created my background by blending distress oxide inks over a panel of card to fit an A7 or 5" x 7" card blank. I used stencils to create my cloudy sky and the ripples of the sea.

Next I used a rectangular die to create a frame, adhering the centre panel direct to the card and then popping up the outer frame with foam tape for dimension.

I added sea foam to the waters edge with a little white gesso on  my finger tip and a white gelly roll pen.

The ice creams were distributed in rainbow order at the bottom of the design in the sand and the sentiment also from the collection was adhered to the top panel after a little ink blending.

To finish off my project I added some sequins 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 Starfish & Sandcastles - Ice Cream digi

Polkadoodles digital sentiment -  Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles - Sentiments

Distress Oxide inks - salty ocean, cracked pistachio, scattered straw, wild honey

Sugar & Spice Sequins - mojito mix

Lawn Fawn stencil - cloudy

Clarity Stamps - hills stencil

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Horace & Boo - Fathers Day - Masculine card - 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 Father's Day card.

I decided to use a sweet image from the Horace & Boo collection - this is Horace  to create a more masculine pop up A6 card.

I chose a couple of papers from the Winnie Daisy Fairy 2 collection to layer onto the pop up card panels and then used a fancy edged die to cut out a centre panel.  I ink blended clouds over this white card.

The image was resized along with a sentiment from the Gnome Feeding Birds kit before printing out and colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out, layering at the bottom of the fancy panel.

To finish off my project I added some teal sequins and some die cut balloons.

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  - Horace & Boo collection - Horace

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Gnome Feeding Bird & Mouse bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Winnie Daisy Fairy 2 - Paper bundle 2

Sugar & Spice Sequins - unicorn mix

Distress Ink - salty ocean

Lawn Fawn stencil - cloudy

Studiolight - balloon die

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Coffee/Drinks - Puns - Love you a Latte - 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 Coffee or Drinks themed card with a matching pun. 

I chose the Latte Coffee Cup from the Coffee Tea Cake Collection, resizing the cup image to entirely fill an A6 card front.  I also added a couple of the cute puns from the collection, one to the lid of the cup and one to the cardboard holder before printing out and colouring with my Promarkers.

Can you guess what my favourite coffee outlet was in the UK ?  We had one on site at work and I used to go everyday for a large latte !

I adhered the panel to the front of the card blank and then fussy cut out the right hand side of the panel adding a piece of red check paper from the collection to the inside panel of the card.

Next I added some coffee splatters around the edge with distress ink and a stencil.

 

To finish off my project I added some card candi and a die cut heart before covering these with glossy accents.

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  - Coffee Tea and Cake collection - Latte Coffee Cup

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Coffee Tea and Cake collection - greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Coffee Tea and Cake collection - paper bundle

Distress Ink - tea dye

Text-ures by Lou Collins - Coffee rings stencil

Craftwork Cards Candi

glossy accents

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

Wendy x