Digi Choosday - Gnome Trick or Treat collection - Spiders - pop up frame card - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....Its October 1st already and after a fantastic Feria in our town thoughts are now turning to the Autumn..... Schools return after the long hot holidays and classes get back to normal.

I'm hoping to get a place in the Pilates class but its always such a popular class and places are limited - fingers crossed !

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 Spiders !!! Yuck ...I'm definitely not a fan at all of spiders...even little ones ...I'm actually not sure what I dislike the most spiders or snakes...its a tough one but this is still a cute card even with the spiders LOL

Anyway I always like a challenge so I decided to use the Gnome Trick or Treat collection for spooky spider card today.... as you already know I don't make lots of Halloween cards but this was fun to create and I'm sure it will be loved by it's recipient.

I chose the Spider Web Gnome and decided to create a pop up frame card so that the gnome could hang from the spiders web on the card.

I resized the main focal image to fit my 6" x 6" card and added a sentiment at the bottom of my square panel before printing out on alcohol marker friendly cardstock and colouring with promarkers. I coloured the pumpkin eyes and mouth with a fluorescent gelly roll pen.

I then used a square die to partially cut an aperture on the panel and then fussy cut out the image of the gnome so he is suspended from the cobweb.

Next I added grey distress ink over the frame and create some little pop up hinges from black card.

I chose a cobweb and spider paper from the Boo Halloween collection, adhering a panel to the base of my card blank.  Once dry I then adhered the cut out panel to the card .

I love these pop up frame cards as they give loads of dimension but fold flat for posting.

To finish off the design I added glossy accents, white gelly roll pen highlights and some black sparkly gems 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 - Gnome Trick or Treat collection - Spider Gnome

Polkadoodles digital paper - Boo Halloween collection - paper bundle

Polkadoodles stencil - Funky Vortex 

Distress Ink - weathered wood

Fluorescent gelly roll pen - yellow

Pretty Pink Posh gems - Midnight black

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

Fluffy Kisses - Love you to the Moon - Bunny Rocket - New Release with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday.... I hope you have had a lovely week and have something nice planned for the weekend.

I'm back today with a card project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous  stamps from the brand new release  called Fluffy Kisses and is full of fluffy bunnies.

There are digi stamps for you to colour and there is also an A5 set of of Polymer stamps which is available to pre-order now from the Etsy shop.  

If you don't like to colour then there are also beautifully coloured Simply Prints available too so something for everyone.

My card today is using one of the sweetest digital stamps stamps from the Fluffy Kisses collection . This image is Bunny Rocket  and I think this would be perfect for an anniversary card or just to send lots of love to someone special.  

As well as the launch of these fabulous new digital and Polymer bunny stamps there are some gorgeous new backing papers too.  I have used one of the galaxy style papers for my card today from the Cosmic collection.

This is a larger A7 or 5" x 7" pop up frame card - they are really easy to create.... I have cut the pop up frame from a piece of purple card...here are the dimensions if you want them.

Cardstock measuring 8 1/2" x 5" scored along the long edge at 1/4", 1/2" and 3/4 "  on both sides.  Then use a rectangular die to create the aperture, before folding and burnishing the edge of the frame.

I adhered a layer of the Cosmic paper to the card blank before adhering the popup frame on top.

I printed the image on my LaserJet printer onto Neenah Desert Storm card for a more natural feel and then coloured with my Promarkers, adding texture and extra fluffiness to the bunny with my Polychromos pencils.

Then I have added black foil over the bunny and gold foil over the flame from the rocket. Its so difficult to see in the photo which is quite annoying as its beautiful in real life.  

I die cut and extra fluffy cloud to adhere to the bottom of the frame, blending distress inks to match the Cosmic paper background.

I cut a strip of acetate and adhered this into the concertina folds of the frame, across the aperture and then adhered the bunny to the acetate strip.  The sentiment was printed onto dessert storm card and adhered to the bottom of the frame.

Finishing touches were some stickles on the cosmic shimmer background to highlight the stars and a scattering of galaxy confetti around the design.

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.

LOTV digital stamp - Fluffy Kisses collection - Bunny Rocket

LOTV digital background - Cosmic  

Minc Foil - black, gold

Distress Inks - shaded lilac, villainous potion

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - galaxy

Stickles - diamond

  

   

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

 Wendy x

Autumn /Fall card - Freddy Fox - Winter Latte Freddy - Digi Choosday with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday. It's still the middle of Summer here and I hope that you Summer weather is treating you ok too....I hate to say it but Autumn won't be that far away now.

I think as crafters sometimes we are chasing the next season but I suppose it takes time for us to make cards....

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 an Autumn of Fall themed card.

The colours on the mountain sides and in the forests are stunning in the Autumn here so I thought that today I would share a card using the Freddy Fox release.

This is a pop up frame card that I've made using the gorgeous digital stamp Winter Latte

The pop up frame cards are probably my favourite style and this is a 6" x 6" card.  They are really easy to make and there are some fabulous instructions by Jennifer McGuire if you would like to give it a go.

Once you've made one, its really easy to alter the dimensions to suit the card size that you want to create.

There is a great tutorial on YouTube tutorial by Jennifer McGuire, showing how to make these make a popup up frame cards.   If you haven't seen the video here is the link.

I planned on cutting out the centre of the  wreath design and then popping up my focal image in the centre of the card panel, using a small card pop up element. Basically a strip of card that is folded and adhered to the card that pops up but folds flat too.

I decided to create a floral wreath for my frame so started by adding elements from the ephemera bundle to create a wreath shape onto one of the gorgeous papers from the collection in my graphics software, before printing this out, I copied  some of the flower elements so I could fussy cut these out for my design.

I coloured the Freddy Fox image using Promarkers and then fussy cut him out mounting him in the centre of the aperture.

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 - Freddy Fox - Winter Latte

Polkadoodles digital paper - Freddy Fox - Autumn Fall Papers Set 1 & paper set 2

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Freddy Fox - Sentiment Bundle

Polkadoodles digital Ephemera - Freddy Fox -  Ephemera Bundle

Distress Ink - spiced marmalade

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black, metallic grey

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - rose gold

Ranger Stickles - Icicle

Glossy accents

Promarkers Used:

Freddy:                 cedar brown, burnt orange, orange, mandarin

                            salmon pink, pale pink 

                            lemon chiffon, pale cream

Hat:                      ocean teal, green, mint green

                            verdigris, grey green, tea green

                    

Pom Pom:             lemon chiffon, pale cream

Latte:                   dusky rose, antique pink, sunkissed pink

                            deep mocha, coffee, raw sienna

Chocolate sticks:   deep mocha, coffee, raw sienna

                           lemon chiffon, pale cream

                      

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

Wendy x

Home is my favourite place - April Freebie - Strawberry Villas with Julia McNeill Designs

Hello everyone Happy Monday I hope that you had a great weekend.  We went on a charity walk yesterday with an organised group from our town, raising money and awareness of Cancer and had a wonderful day however after 23,912k steps and 16km my feet and legs are a little achy today.  After the walk a group of us went for a fantastic meal so all in all it was a great weekend.

It's time for me to post my next project for JMC Designs and its something very sweet and fruity today.  I love strawberries...definitely one of my favourite fruits and they are delicious here at the moment.

Its currently a card but I've decided I'm going to put the finished project in a box frame and keep it, it will look great on my craft room wall and I cant bear to part with it !  I will share a photo once its framed.

I have used the April Freebie called  Strawberry Villa and I think this digital stamp would make the perfect new home card.

At the start of every month Julia McNeill very generously gives away a fabulous digital stamp, which is available to everyone in her Facebook group JMC's Crazy Crafty Hive and also to her followers via Instagram, all you need is to use your email address to register for the stamp. Here is the link for you if you haven't grabbed your freebie yet.

I decided I wanted to create a scene with the little strawberry house so resized this to suit a larger A5 panel before printing out on alcohol marker friendly cardstock along with an earlier freebie from Julia from August 2022 called Bubbled Berries, you can still grab her here in the Facebook group too Freebie.  

I resized Bubbled Berries so she appears to be in front, so larger and the strawberry house smaller as this will be at the back to give perspective to my scene.

The  card itself is a pop up frame card - one of my favourites to create and perfect for scenes.  For this one I've used a simple dotty textured cardstock, which coordinated with my strawberries.

After colouring in the two main images I also decided to print out extra strawberries and colour these to match.  Once all the colouring was complete I fussy cut out all the images and then put these to one side. 

Next I took a piece of watercolour card and used distress inks to create an ink smooshed background with blues at the top of the panel and greens at the bottom. 

Then I assembled my scene adding die cut white clouds (tinted with a little blue ink) and some simple die cut grass at the bottom.  

The finishing touches to the project were white gel pen and metallic orange highlights and a simple sentiment from the Bumble Buzz digital collection

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 stamp - April 2024 Freebie - Strawberry Villas

JMC Designs digital stamp - August 2022 Freebie - Bubbled Berries

JMC Designs digital stamp - Cocktail Divas Collection - Retired

JMC Designs digital stamp - Bumble Buzz Digital Collection

Distress Inks - prize ribbon, stormy sky, salty ocean, twisted citron, rustic wilderness, mowed lawn

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Set the Scene - Garden Greenery

Lawn Fawn Clippings dies - stitched rainbow

Gelly Roll pen - white, metallic orange

Promarkers used :

                      

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

Wendy x

Take time to enjoy the simple things in life - Bumble Buzz Collection with Julia McNeill Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Monday, I hope that you had a lovely weekend...I managed to get out in the garden yesterday to do a bit of tidying - first time in ages with horrid bugs and colds, it was lovely being in the glorious sunshine and watching all the bees buzzing around the flowers.   

I'm here today to share another project for JMC Designs using the gorgeous new Bumble Buzz Digital Collection, which is available to purchase in the online store.

It's a huge digital collection contains: 15 Digital Stamps, 15 Pre Coloured Digital Stamps, 6 Ephemera Sheets, 5 Topper Sheets, 4 Sentiment Sheets and 23 papers full of fabulous little bees and flowers.

For my card today I've used the Bumble Buzz Digital collection.

I love working with digital collections as its so easy and extremely versatile and I can resize anything in the collection to suite my project. 

This is an 6" x 6" card with a pop up aperture frame on the front and perfect for the scene I wanted to create. I started off by adhering a piece of the honeycomb paper directly to my card blank.  

Next I created the pop up frame element from pale blue cardstock, adhering a piece of pretty floral paper from the collection to the front panel.  Next I used a hexagon die to cut a window in the front panel and then adhered the pop up to the card blank over the honeycomb paper.

I resized the sweet little bee on a swing before colouring with Promarkers and then fussy cutting out.  I adhered the little bee into the aperture so he is swinging in the flowers. 

I fussy cut out a few more of the blossoms and branches and mounted these on the front panel with foam tape for dimension.  

The sentiment from the collection was printed out, mounted onto blue card and adhered in the top corner of the card. 

To complete my design I added clear sparkle to the bees wings, a white gel pen to add highlights and glossy accents to the bees antenna. 

The finishing touches were a few pieces of pink and yellow sequins around the design and some sparkles to the flower centers. I really hope that you like my card 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 - Bumble Buzz  Digital Collection - Bumble Swing Bee

JMC Designs digital collection - Bumble Buzz Digital Collection - Papers

Gelly Roll pen - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Craft Consortium sequins

Promarkers used :

Bee:       gold, sunflower, buttercup

              blue-black, cool grey 7, 6

              pale pink

Flower:   forest green, bright green, leaf green

              hot pink, carmine, cerise

Wings:    cool aqua

Swing:    umber, caramel, sandstone

                      

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

Wendy x

Love, chocolate and sunshine - Easter Swing Gnome with Pink Gem Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Saturday and a great weekend.

I'm here today to share a sweet Easter card that I've made using a very cute new digital stamp called Easter Swing Gnome by  Pink Gem Designs

This is a simple 6" x6" card with a popup frame.  I covered the frame and the base of the card with a couple of designer papers and assembled the pop up element onto my Kraft card blank.

The Gnome on the swing was resized and then printed out onto alcohol marker friendly cardstock, before colouring with my promarkers (see below for colours) and fussy cutting out.

I have attached the gnome on a strip of acetate, gluing only along the branch fro the swing so that the image hangs in the card aperture.

The sentiment from Polkadoodles was printed out and foiled and then adhered flat to the card panel, with a layer of green cardstock.

To complete my card I added some shiny green sequins and a few highlights around the design with a white gelly roll pen.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Pink Gem Designs - Easter Swing Gnome

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Springtime Smiles collection - 

Polkadoodles Digital Paper

Lisa Horton Crafts Designer Papers - Boxset

Sugar & Spice sequins - Mojito

Minc Foil - gold

Promarkers used :

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

Beard:

Hat:        gold, sunflower, buttercup

               carmine

Boots:

Flowers:    hot pink, carmine, cerise

                gold, buttercup

                 forest green, bright green, leaf green

Swing:

Eggs:        Egyptian blue, bluebell, 

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

 Wendy x 

Fairy Lights on Winter Nights with JMC Designs

Hello everyone I hope that you have are having lovely day today.

It's Monday so that means time for me to post another project on the Guest Design Team for JMC Designs 

Today I'm here to share a Pop up frame card made using one of the super sweet and quirky image from the digital Autumn Allspice Collection  called Clove Close  and I've teamed this with one of the cute kitties from the collection, Ginger.  

It's a 5" x 7" card with lots of lovely Christmas sparkle.

I started by creating the galaxy / Northern Lights background for the card, blending distress inks over the panel to start before adding black distress ink.  

Next I splattered this with water and then white ink. I think its so pretty and a shame to cover  it up really. I love all the fabulous colours against the black ink.  

The Popup frame was created from a piece of blue cardstock measuring 10" x 5".  Scored along the long edge at 1/2 ", 1" & 1 1/2" on both edges, this would create the concertina fold for the panel.  

Next I used a die to cut out the centre of the card to create my frame and then splattered this with white ink.

For extra sparkle I die cut a snowflake border and some snowy banks for the the top and bottom of the card and adhered Ginger the card to the bottom - he reminds me of our cheeky boy Foxy up to some sort of mischief in the snow.

I really hope that you like my card 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 stamp - Autumn Allspice Collection

Lisa Horton Crafts Edgecutz - essential edges dies

Crafters Companion - Die'sire Snowflake border die

Distress Ink -squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry, peacock feathers, black soot

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy ink - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Glossy accents

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - white, black, metallic grey, metallic orange

Promarkers used :

Ginger:         ginger, apricot, saffron

                    salmon pink, pale pink

Hat

Scarf:            burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                    forest green, bright green, leaf green

Pom Poms:    cool aqua

Clove close:    ginger, apricot, saffron

                     burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                     forest green, bright green, leaf green

                     royal blue, cobalt blue, china blue

                      

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

Wendy x

I love Promarkers #545 Wings or Tails Sponsored by Sheepski Designs

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Wednesday! I hope that you are having a lovely week. 

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 SheepSki Designs 

Here is my inspiration card for the current blog challenge with the theme - Wings or Tails, using the wonderful digital stamp called Hanging Around, this is definitely one of our kitties. 

Foxy is our youngest ginger tabby and he sadly loves chasing little birds so this is very appropriate, fortunately for the birds he's not very good climbing trees as a result of an injured hip.

I wanted to make an A6 popup frame card to create a little landscape tree scene for todays image.

For the pop up element I have used a piece of chocolate brown measuring 8 3/4 " x 4 1/4" cardstock , scoring this along the long edge at 1/2", 1 & 1 1/2" on both ends.

There is a great tutorial on YouTube tutorial by Jennifer McGuire, showing how to make these make a popup up frame cards.   If you haven't seen the video here is the link.

The aperture in the frame part of the card was cut using a fancy corner die and I added some leafy pattern paper to the base of the card before adding my popup frame. 

Once my base card was created it was time for some inky fun!  

I printed out the cat image onto alcohol friendly card stock before colouring with my promarkers and fussy cutting out.

I then adhered this to my popup frame attaching the trunk of the tree to the outside of the frame and securing the kitty on to a thin strip of acetate which is secured into the popup mechanisms on either side of the frame.

I also decided to add a few die cut leaves to the frame to continue the scene with a few coordinating sequins adhered  onto the background panel. 

The sentiment was hand cut and then mounted at the bottom and I added a little glossy accents to the kitties eyes to finish off today's design.

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:

SheepSki Designs - Hanging around

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - 

Designer paper - from my stash

Marianne designs Creatables - Leaf Dies

glossy accents

Sugar and Spice sequins - Mojito

Promarkers used :

Kitty:        ginger, apricot, saffron

                pale pink

                warm grey 4

                green, pastel green, blue black

Robin:       firebrick, poppy, lipstick red

                deep mocha, burnt sienna, raw sienna

                orange

                warm grey 4

Tree:        umber, caramel, deep mocha

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

 Wendy x