New Release - Boo - Halloween card - Spooky Owl - Shaker card - Creepy Creatures collection with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday everyone... I hope that you are having a great week...we're off to Granada today with friends, taking them to a wonderful restaurant that we went to last week - yes we loved it so much were going back.  The views of the Alhambra are breath-taking and the food was perfect - I hope they like it too....fingers crossed

I'm back with another card from the brand new Creepy Creatures collection  by Polkadoodles.  

For my spooky shaker card today I chose to use the Spooky Owl  from the Cute and Creepy Bundle.  I resized the image to suit my A6 Portrait card and then added the large Boo sentiment under the owl before printing out and colouring with my Promarkers. 

I fussy cut out the centres of the large BOO letters so I could make a little shaker window behind using some clear acetate and Halloween coloured sequins.  I added a little orange distress ink around the owl and a few more sequins for additional shine.

The background paper is from the collection too.

The finishing touches were some glossy accents to the Owls eyes so they really stand out .

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: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Cute and Creepy bundle - Spooky Owl

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Polkadoodles digital paper - Creepy Creatures collection - Paper bundle 1c

Distress Ink - spiced marmalade.

glossy accents

sequins

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

New Release - Hocus Pocus Witches - Don't forget your Broomstick with Polkadoodles

Happy Monday and a happy Halloween Eve everyone! 

I hope that you are all set for tomorrow nights fun and celebrations.  We're off into our village as there's loads of fun organised including a procession around the different streets, a tunnel of horror, Dracula's tomb (not sure what that will be), roasted chestnuts and anise and of course some music.

Hoping the weather is kind and not too much wind or there will be witches hats everywhere!

This is my final Halloween card for the year and of course it had to be a cute witches kitty on his broom stick.

The main image is from the Hocus Pocus Witches collection and the little batty friends are from the Autumn Fall Halloween Treats collection all coloured with my promarkers (see below) 

I decided for this cute kitty I would make a simple shaker card which I've filled with shiny star and moon confetti from my stash - I knew it would come in handy one day.

I adhered a few pieces of confetti around the design for a little bit of extra magic.

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 final card today from the new Hocus Pocus Halloween Collection by Polkadoodles and remember 

Don't forget your Broomstick !

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Hocus Pocus Witches

Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Autumn Fall Halloween Treats 

Polkadoodles Paper Pack - Going Batty collection - loose sheets - Green Boos

Polkadoodles Paper Pack - 

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Halloween Trick or Treat - Sentiment bundle

This Calls For Confetti - Galaxy

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black, metallic orange

Promarkers Used:

Hat:                 prussian, violet, bluebell

                       burnt orange, bright orange, ginger

                       gold, sunflower, buttercup

                       lush green, emerald, mint green

Kitty:               pink camelia

                       blue black, ice grey 7, 5

Wand:              gold

Bats:                blue black, ice grey 7, 5

                        warm grey 5,4,2

                        pink camelia

                      

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

Wendy x

Sparkle All the Way with Amanda Jayne Designs

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Saturday! 

It's getting pretty hot again here after a very brief respite so I thought today I would share another Christmas project made for Amanda Jayne Designs Only a few days left of Christmas is July.

I just cant get enough of this super cute penguin - called Gift Penguin but this is my last card with him ( I promise !) well for now at least, I cant promise he wont pop up again sometime.

 

For my third card I decided to create a traditional shaker A6 (UK size) card with lots of extra sparkle.

The papers I have used are from the Mint Christmas collection and I have added a sentiment from the Christmas Sentiments set at the bottom of my design

These beautiful pre-coloured images are so adorable and I think they don't need much adding to create a wonderful card.

To finish off my card I have added some sparkly sequins over the outside panel to match the sequins inside the shaker itself.

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:
Amanda Jayne Designs - Gift Penguin -Pre-coloured image

Amanda Jayne Designs Paper Collection - Mint Christmas

Amanda Jayne Designs Sentiment - Christmas Sentiments

Sugar & Spice Sequins - Unicorn

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Wanda Girl - Birthday with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Sunday everyone...I hope that you are all enjoying the weekend.

I'm back today on my blog to share of my cards using the fabulous new Wanda Girl Collection by Polkadoodles I think she is best friends with Rebel and I can imagine them sat drinking cocktails in a posh bar somewhere.  

Don't forget for a limited time there is a 40% discount available off this collection so I would encourage you to take a look.

Wanda Girl is a fabulous and fun collection of digital stamps, topper sheets, planner elements, papers and sentiments and I think you will love them as there is definitely something for everyone and she is available in pre-coloured and black and white for you to colour.

For todays card I have used Wanda Girl Birthday to make a shaker card using one of the papers and a sentiment from the collection.

I added my sentiment to the digital paper in my graphics software before printing this out onto a lightweight card stock.  Next I have die cut two rectangles from the panel and created a simple shaker card filling each panel with a different colour of coordinating sequins. 

Behind each shaker window I have used one of the Polkadoodles stencils to add a pattern using distress inks.

Wanda was resized and then printed out onto alcohol marker friendly cardstock, before colouring with my Promarkers (see below for colours) and then fussy cutting out

Just a touch of sparkle was added to the image to finish it off.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from the Wanda Girl collection by Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Wanda Birthday

Polkadoodles digital paper - Wanda set 2

Polkadoodles digital messages and quotes bundle

Polkadoodles Creative stencil - Funky Vortex Grid

Distress ink - picked raspberry, peacock feathers, mustard seed

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black, metallic

Sequins

Promarkers used :

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

                        

Blush:               pale pink

Eyes:                lavender, pale cream

Hair:                mulberry, hot pink, carmine

Shoes

Dress:              midnight blue, true blue, sky blue

Present:           midnight blue, true blue, sky blue

                       pumpkin, sunflower, mustard

Cake:               grass, apple, meadow green

                       caramel, praline, sandstone

                       ice grey 3, 1, 00

Candle:           hot pink, true blue

                      pumpkin, sunflower, mustard

                          

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

Wendy x

Let's Eat Cake from Celebration Hamsters by Mama Elephant

Happy Wednesday everyone…… wishing you all a lovely day today.

I was at my Spanish ladies group last night and I cant wait to show you what I am working on - I'm loving learning another new skill and this is definitely something I will do again.

We had more wonderful rain and amazing thunder and lightning last night which is fantastic for the garden but not as good for sleeping and it's definitely very hot and humid today. 

JJ has been busy in the garden re-routing some of the watering system and building new steps - he never stops !

Today I am sharing a sweet shaker card that I've made using a set of clear stamps by Mama Elephant called Celebration Hamsters.

The card design has been inspired by a card sketch challenge for the month of June in a Facebook group I belong to. 

I stamped the sweet little hamsters onto alcohol marker friendly cardstock using memento ink and then used my Promarkers to colour them in (see below for colours used) before fussy cutting out with my scissors. A little fiddly but that's part of the challenge that was set.

I've used my new stitched dies to create the shaker panel, adding a piece of pink striped paper to the card base to begin with.

I used 2 other dies to create the shaker window, the larger dies to cut the outside edge and then one of the smaller dies in the set to cut 4 windows.  

Its really easy to create this look without having to use an expensive die plate - just a little careful measuring and preparation for the shaker window.   Each window has ben filled with a different colour of sequin / confetti.

I hope that you like my card today.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day ☀️

Card recipe: (Contains some Affiliate links)

Mama Elephant Stamps - Celebration Hamsters

Promarkers (see below for colours)

Memento ink - tuxedo black (Craftstash)

Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black (Craftelier)

Card Making Magic - A6 Nesting Die Set

Designer Series Paper - from a craft magazine

Stickles - diamond

Clay confetti

Craftelier sequins

Sakura gelly roll pen - black , white

Promarkers used:

Hamster:        spice, henna, chestnut

                     satin, almond

                     pastel pink  

Presents:       lemon, tulip yellow

                     prussian, violet

                     cyan, sky blue

Hats:             prussian, violet.

                     cerise, pink carnation

                    lemon, tulip yellow

Sparklers:     lemon, tulip yellow

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Spring into Easter - Chocolate Time Chick with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you a very happy Tuesday and I hope that you are all enjoying the week and looking forward to the Easter weekend.

It's that time again 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 Easter so I chose to use one of the sweet little Chicks from the latest collection called Spring into Easter for my card today.

This naughty little chick is called Chocolate Time Chick - isn't he naughty eating all that chocolate and blaming it on poor Bunny!

I've used a couple of the papers from the new collection from set 2 and set 3 to create a background for my sweet chick adding a cheeky sentiment from the Spring into Easter Messages bundle to the striped background before printing it out.  

I decided to make a fun shaker card so die cut an oval from this striped panel - to look like an egg and added yellow and pink sequins into my shaker element.  I like to adhere some of the sequins to the background card, this make sure that there are always sequins in view in the window when the card is stood up for display.

This collection is packed with cute little chicks that I think are perfect for loads of different Spring occasions and not just for Easter cards and I'm sure that you are going to love them.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from this cute new Easter / Spring collection

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Spring into Easter- Chocolate Time Chick

Polkadoodles digital paper - Spring into Easter- paper bundles set 2 and set 3

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Spring into Easter - messages bundle

X-cut Oval Die

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black

Craft Consortium sequins 

Promarkers used :

Chick:               gold, sunflower, lemon, soft lime

                        orange, mandarin, amber

Leaf & grass:     forest green, bright green, meadow green

Chocolate Egg:  umber, burnt sienna, cocoa

                        

Wrapped egg:    marine, turquoise, pastel green

                        antique pink, salmon pink, pale pink

These are the challenges I am entering

dis digi designs challenge Weekly wings/tails (18) (1 of 3)
lil patch of crafty friends Weekly (28) (1 of 3)
Creative Fingers challenge (141) (1 of 3)
Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes - (11) (1 of 5)
Moving Along With The Times  #() ( of 5)
Pearly Sparkles Challenge unlimited (18)
A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge - Anything Goes unlimited (72)
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes (54) (1 of 3)
Classic Design Challenge - Anything Goes (64) unlimited
Avenue 613 Anything Goes (32) (1 of 8)
Sheep ski designs Anything Goes die cuts () ( of 3)
Mirtillamente Challenge -   () (of 5)
LeAnn's World 101 Challenge (5) unlimited
colorful options pastels (21) unlimited
through the purple haze () ( of 3)
Critter Crazy Challenge (40) (1 of 5)
We love stamping Spring (22) (1 of 3)
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge (72) (1 of 3)
Dragonfly Dreams colour palette () ( of 3)
Crafty Calendar Challenge die cuts (0) (0 of 3)
crafting happiness challenges rainy weather ()

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

Wendy x

New Release - Flower Rebel Girl - with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Tuesday everyone...

I'm back today to share another of my cards using the fabulous New Release Rebel Girl Collection over at Polkadoodles and this is definitively one of my favourites collections.

Rebel Girl is a huge new collection of digital stamps, topper sheets, planner elements, papers and sentiments and I think you will love them 

For todays card I have used Flower Rebel girl  to make a 6" x 6" shaker card... I don't make lots of shaker cards but I think this fun flower girl deserved one and I had the perfect flower confetti in my crafty stash. 

With this new collection, Rebel comes as a clean lines or sketchy lines digital stamp and is also available as a pre-coloured digital too if you don't want to colour.

There are some beautiful new papers and fabulous sassy sentiments in the collection - I'm sure you will find something perfect!

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from this  new Rebel - Girl with Attitude collection by Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Flower Rebel - Girl with Attitude

Polkadoodles digital paper - Paper bundle 3

Polkadoodles digital sentiment sentiment bundle

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Nested Torn Edge Circles

glossy accents

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black, metallic grey

Flower confetti - from my stash

Promarkers used :

Skin:                 ivory, almond, satin, dusky pink, sunkissed pink

                        pale pink, antique pink

Eyes:                ivory, pale pink

Hair:                 amethyst, lilac, lavender

Bow:                soft green, mint green, pastel green

Boots:              amethyst, lilac, lavender

                          

Dress:              salmon pink, pastel pink, pale pink

Flower:            salmon pink, pastel pink, pale pink

                       gold, pastel yellow, buttercup

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

Wendy x

Never tool old for candy with Last Minute Manda

Hello everyone - wishing you a lovely Saturday ! 

I hope that you have had a great week...we've been really busy as things get back to normal after the long hot Summer.

Our almonds have been picked and sorted ready to be shelled and eaten - my favourite snack, roasted with olive oil, a little salt and smoked paprika..  JJ has been busy fixing burst water pipes (again !), making storage shelves in the garage and a cover for our new pergola sail and I'm back at my twice weekly Pilates routine and enjoying it !

I'm not a huge Halloween fan as I never really celebrated it in the U.K. when I was growing up, its not really a big celebration here in Spain either, but I couldn't resist making cards with these cute images from Last Minute Manda.

I've got 6 cards that I'll be sharing with you over the next few weeks that I have made using the Ghostly Good Time digital stamp set and I hope that you like them.

Here is the first installment in this mini Halloween card series.

One of the things that I love is the triadic Halloween colour combination of purple, orange and green - who would have thought these colours would work so well together but they absolutely do and I've stuck with this colour palette for all of my Halloween cards.

I'm starting off with a super cute shaker card filled with orange, silver and purple star confetti.

The main image and the sweets have all been coloured with my Promarkers (see below for colours used)

The Ricrac border has been cut from coordinating orange card using a simple wavy border die from Crafters Companion.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share in this series.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Last Minute Manda digital stamp - Ghostly Good Time

Spotty paper - craft magazine

Crafters Companion die - wavy border

Woodware Stamp - Birthday strips

Spectrum Aqua pen - amber

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Promarkers used :

Ghost:             meadow green, blender

                       dusky rose, pale pink, pale blossom

Waistcoat:        prussian, violet, bluebell

                        

Sweets:           burnt orange, mandarin, pumpkin

                       leaf green, bright green, meadow green

                       gold, mustard, buttercup

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

Wendy x

Squirrel and pumpkins with Last Minute Manda

Happy Saturday everyone ! I hope that you have had a good week and have a lovely weekend ahead planned.

Today I am sharing my latest DT make for Last minute Manda and I've decided to stick with the Autumn theme for todays card...must be something in the air!

To create this cute and very simple shaker card I've used the Autumn Friends collection

I coloured all of the elements with my Promarkers for this card - even the background which I don't normally do but its good to try new things and learn new techniques. 

I found some mulberry paper leaves that I have in my stash for far too many years probably around 25!...I bought them from a shop in the UK Lakeland Plastics when they used to have a craft section which has sadly long gone..... its about time they finally got used.

To make them more autumnal, I've used distress inks blended over the tope and am really pleased with the end result as it adds a lovely texture to the scene.

I hope that you like my card today 🌞

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Last Minute Manda digital stamps - Autumn friends collection 

Dovecraft papers - Sugar and Spice

Tonic square scalloped edge dies

Distress Ink - tumbled glass, tea dye, ground espresso, carved pumpkin, picket fence

Julie Hickey Designs - sentiment stamp - Frame Floral Fancy

Versafine Clair - Twilight

Cosmic Shimmer Detail Embossing Powder - clear

MiTiendedearte sequins

Mulberry paper leaves from stash

Promarkers (see below)

Sakura Gelly roll pen - white

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Promarkers used :

Squirrel: satin, praline, spice, umber, burnt orange, honeycomb, sunkissed pink, dusty rose

Bluebird: Warn Grey 5,3,1, cobalt blue , blue pearl

Pumpkin: Vanilla, pumpkin, bright orange, orange, mustard, lavender, burnt sienna, henna, praline

Ground: Almond, satin, sandstone

Falling leaves: lime green, forest green, burnt sienna, mustard

Acorn: pastel beige, sandstone, cinnamon, shale, umber, honeycomb, gold, pear green

Toadstool: Burgundy, berry red, lipstick red, lavender, satin. pear green

Grass: herb green olive green

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

dis digi designs challenge (21) (3 of 3)

intaas Ch  () ( of 3)

lil patch of crafty friends () ( of 3)

i love promarkers challenge #518 (17) (2 of 3) WINNER !

Creative Fingers challenge  () (0 of 3

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes - September (86) (3 of 5) 

Moving Along With The Times #146  (83) (2 of 5)

Pearly Sparkles Challenge  September unlimited ()

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge - Anything Goes unlimited (301)

Colour Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes Week  () ( of 2)

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes September (168)  (3 of 3)

Classic Design Challenge - Anything Goes September (306) unlimited (Special Mention !

Avenue 613 Anything Goes September (192) (3 of 8)

tic tac toe challenge #tictactoechallenge #tttc () ()

Through The Craft Room Door (137) (3 of 4)

Patties Creations Design Challenge  Anything Goes (53) (3 of 3)

Sheep ski designs Anything Goes (69) (3 of 3)

Mirtillamente Challenge - anything goes September (22) (3 of 5)

LeAnn's World 101 Challenge September (74) unlimited

colorful options (40) unlimited

through the purple haze September () (1 of 3)

arty divas () ( of 3) 19th September

aud sentiments ()

mftstamps Colour Challenge ()

Critter Crazy Challenge () ( of 5)

We love stamping (140) (3 of 3)

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge ()

Dragonfly Dreams  (58) (1 of 3)

Crafty Calendar Challenge (169) (2 of 3)

world wide open design team (55)  (2 of 3)

crafting happiness challenges ()

A passion for markers challenge () 

Paper Craft Crew ()

not2shabby (20) (2 of 3)

inspiration station challenge () Unlimited

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

Wendy x