New Release - Party Animals - Happy Birthday - Birthday Card - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday I hope that you are having a great week.

I've got a yoga class this morning that I'm looking forward to and then we are off out with friends up the mountain to a small village above ours for a few drinks and a catch up.

Its been an extremely hectic few days  - it was hubbies birthday on Monday and his son and grandson arrived on Saturday for a surprise visit....as you can imagine we are both shattered but had a great time.

We also managed to sneak a night away on the coast at one of our favourite hotels to celebrate - it was wonderful but were both glad to get back to normal LOL.  

I'm back with another cute card using one of the party animals from the recent March release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop.

My fun birthday card today features the bunny with a scrumptious looking cake.

There are 4 little characters...perfect for loads of different occasions....I hope you have had a look at them by now - they are so easy to colour in.

I added a sweet LOTV sentiment to the panel below the bunny before printing out

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers before cutting out with an arched die, partially cutting around the bunny ears. I adhered the bunny panel to the card using a low profile foam tape.

I've used a bright colour dotty paper from my stash to create my simple card and finishing touches added of white gel pen highlights, sparkle pen to the birthday cake and clear sparkly gems around the design. 

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set - Party Animals - Bunny

LOTV Digital sentiment - 

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

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 - SVG Spring is Here - Spring Card - 3d Pop up Card - Gnome for Spring Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week.  It's the middle of March and its definitely beginning to look a lot like Spring here - buds on the trees starting to burst open, beautiful fragrant almond blossom and there's a definite buzz in the garden now.

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 make a Spring or Easter themed card and to use this colour palette 

One of my crafting goals this year, as you know is to use my ScanNCut machine more so I set myself the challenge to use one of the wonderful Digital Print and Cut Files and make a 3D pop up card.  Two completely new things for me to learn and I am so happy with the end result.

I started off with the Files from the Spring is Here download and worked out how to print these and use the Cut file included to cut out the images....

The really simple way was was to print out the coloured image file, scan in the image and then use this direct to cut tool, but I discovered that the detailed cuts were missing.  

Not a huge problem I know and the elements as still beautiful as they are but I wanted to get the detailed cuts too.  It took me a few attempts to work out which files to use with my ScanNCut machine but I did it in the end using the high quality png file and the dxf cut line only was the combination that worked for me.

But then I wanted to push myself further as the coloured images didn't match the colour palette Nikky had asked us to use.  So I set to work again, working out which file I needed to use that I could edit and alter the colours, I also wanted extra copies of the butterflies and tulips for my design.  Once I was happy I  recreated the cut file, using the original version to suit my new image.

I'm so happy it worked - took me a few hours to work out what I was doing but it was so worth it and will be quicker next time !

Next I designed my Pop Up Box in the Brother CanvasWorkspace and once cut out set to decorating my Spring card.

The finished card folds flat and  fits an A6 or 6" x 4" envelope.  

I adhered some of the wood grain paper from the Udderly Cute collection to the card inserts - I think they look like benches in a little greenhouse.  The back Arched panel of the pop up was covered with one of the lilac papers from the Flower Meadow bundle.

I assembled all the cut out elements, adding a little distress ink here and there to emphasise the shadows etc.

To finish off the card I added confetti around the design and added some clear 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 Print & Cut File -  Spring is Here

Polkadoodles digital paper - Udderly Cute Cows  - Paper Pack 5

Polkadoodles digital paper - Flower Meadow bundle

Polkadoodles digital print & cut SVG file - Spring is Here

distress ink - shaded lilac, wilted violet, mustard seed, twisted citron, mowed lawn, salty ocean

Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen - clear

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - sugar plum

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Thinking of you always - Mothers Day - Birthday Card - Fence Card - Udderly Cute Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week.  It was our wedding anniversary yesterday so we had a quick trip down to the coast for a walk on the beach and a lovely lunch.  I love the sound of the waves and the sunshine reflecting on the water so it sparkles - very special to see.

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 make a Mothers Day or Mothers Birthday card...my Mum absolutely loved her garden and I think anything with flowers always reminds me of her.  I decided that I would create a Fence Card or Lattice card as it would be perfect with the papers and ephemera from the Udderly Cute Collection

The finished card fits an A7 or 5" x 7" envelope.  I started with a piece of white card measuring 4 3/4" x 11 1/2" scoring this at 5 3/8 to create the base card.  On the shorter side of the card I then cut off 6 strips each measuring  1/2".  I also cut 2 strips measuring 3/4 " width by 4 3/4", these are for the fence posts.

I adhered some of the wood grain paper from the collection to the wood posts and planks and then adhered them to the card using a strip of masking tape to hold the card in position whilst the glue dried.  There are loads of tutorials on YouTube explaining how to create this type of card as it definitely was very popular last year. Have a look here on YouTube for a variation of the fence or lattice style card.

I used another of the floral papers to decorate the top section and the inside of the card.

Next I used my ScanNCut to cut out the elements from the Spring is Here SVG pack and blended a little distress ink to the sides of the plant pot to give it dimension.

The pretty daisy ephemera from the collection was perfect for my design so I arranged this on the fence panel before adding the little plant pot over the top of the bottom of the stems.

To finish off the card I added one of the little strip sentiments and some of the heart ephemera to the design.

to give the card a special look I scatted sparkly gems around the design and added some clear sparkle to the hearts.

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 ephemera - ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Udderly Cute Cows  - Paper Pack 2 & Paper Pack 5

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - sentiment pack

Polkadoodles digital print & cut SVG file - Spring is Here

distress ink - antique linen, tea dye, ground espresso

glossy accents

Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen - clear

Pretty Pink Posh gems - grapefruit

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Just Thinking about you - Mothers Day Card - Udderly Cute Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great 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!  

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 make a Mothers Day card following this colour palette.

I don't really make Mothers Day cards, I prefer to make a thinking of you card instead as it' can be a difficult time for lots of people - I like to create a card that I think my mum would have loved to receive .

When I saw the colour palette I immediately thought of the the brand new Udderly Cute Collection  and specifically the ephemera.

The card is a simple smaller A6 card with a layer of pretty floral paper from the collection in the background.

I die cut an arched panel and a circular panel from grey and white cardstock, stamping the sentiment onto the circular panel 

I challenged myself this year to start using my Scan n Cut machine rather than fussy cutting by hand and the ephemera sheets were so easy to cut on the machine.

I chose one of the ephemera sheets cutting out the elements and then layered these onto my card some flat and some adhered with foam tape.

To finish off the card I added lovely sparkle to the macaron and the hearts and a scattering of sparkly pink sequins.

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 ephemera - ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Udderly Cute Cows  - Paper Pack 1

Polkadoodles stamp - Funky Rosy Posy

Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen - clear

Sugar & Spice sequins - candy floss mix

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

Wendy x

Wonderful Birthday Wishes - Mushroom Village - Freebie Digital image - with Julia McNeil Designs

Hello everyone Happy Saturday!  

I hope you are enjoying the weekend.....Well its the last day of January and its flown by...I'm ready for some better spring weather now but we've a few more windy and rainy days ahead.

I thought today I  would share a sweet little 3D pop up birthday card that I have made using the Freebie digital stamp for January by JMC Designs .  If you haven't seen it yet then don't worry here is the link to download the digital stamp.

https://mailchi.mp/9e777d6649dd/jmcfreedigimushroomvillage

I resized the image and printed it 3 times before colouring with distress inks for a vibrant spring like feel.

I then hand fussy cut out the 3 layers for my pop up card, adhering each to the card base.

Finishing touches were a stamped sentiment at the bottom, some sparkle to the clouds and windows and white gel pen highlights.

I do hope that you like my card for today and I'd love it if you'd leave me a comment. 

We would love to see what you make with this cute little winter snail so why not get creating and then upload it to the Facebook page JMCs Crazy Crafty Hive

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Distress inks

Spectrum Noir sparkle pen - clear

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 - Darling Buds collection - Thank you card - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you all had a Wonderful Christmas and New Year! 

The Polkadoodles DT has been taking a well earned break and I'm hoping that Nikky got to enjoy Christmas too but it must be so difficult when its your own business to get a good balance between work and relaxation.

Today the team is back and we're here to kick off the new Digi Choosday challenges for 2026 - I hope you will join in as you could win a fantastic prize.

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 Thank you so I d4ecided to create a special card for my best friend back in the UK - to say thank you for being such a wonderful friend.  I don't get to see her much since we moved to Spain and she doesn't really like to travel so I miss her loads but I know that she is there if I need her and we do chat from time to time via messenger.

I chose to use one of the beautiful girls from the Darling Buds collection - this is one of my absolute favourites - Crocus Flower girl.  I adore crocuses especially the yellow and purple ones.  We have a few in our garden here that I brought with us when we moved and they are just so pretty in bloom.  I was hoping they would spread more but I think the pesky fruit rats eat the bulbs - naughty things!  My BFF loves the garden and flowers so I think she'll love this card - fingers crossed.

I resized the Crocus girl to suit my DL card before colouring in with promarkers, using a yellow and purple colour palette before fussy cutting out.

Next I decided to create a fresh looking background directly onto the card base starting with one of the Switchable stencils.  I used the Triptych Square  stencils and yellow and purple distress ink to create my design.

 

I splattered a little yellow and purple ink across the panel and  then blended more yellow ink around the edge of the card.

To finish off the background I used one of the Funky Borders stamps and purple Distress Oxide ink to stamp into each of the corners, adding some very sparkly glitter to the little circles.

Next I adhered my little Crocus girl to the card base using foam tape for dimension and the sentiment was tucked into the design towards the bottom.

To finish the card I added some sparkly gems, more stickles to the dress, white pen highlights and clear sparkle pen to the flowers.  I wish you could see the sparkle as its so pretty but photos don't do it justice.

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 stamp - Darling Buds collection  - Crocus Flower girl

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Darling Buds collection  - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles Creative Stencil - Switchable - Triptych Squares

Polkadoodles Craft Stamp - Funky Borders

Distress Oxide ink - wilted violet

Distress ink - fossilized amber, villainous potion

stickles - diamond

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Gems

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

Wendy x

Bunny Happy Returns - Bunny Birthday Photo Strip - Accordion Gate Fold with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday and a great weekend ahead......We're off walking tomorrow with our local walking group - we set off in the coach at 6:30am so its an early night tonight and I'm definitely not looking forward to such an early start but hopefully it will be a fun day ahead....I'll let you know how we get on as its our first proper walk after the Summer so I'm sure well have achy legs on Sunday LOL

I thought we'd have a change from Halloween cards to I'm back today with a sweet little Bunny card using the Bunny Birthday Photo Strip by Lili of the Valley (LOTV)  available in the Etsy shop. 

Its a new card fold for me too and I'm really pleased how its worked out. The fold is called an Accordion Gate Fold and I watched a tutorial by Lisa's Stamp Studio but there are loads of tutorials out there and its a really easy card to construct.

This is the video on YouTube that I followed for the measurements etc. The finished card when folded fits neatly into a C6 size envelope.

For my card today  I have used some fun purple and magenta card to create the card base and then used  an old paper pad from my stash to layer onto the panels.

Its such a pretty paper pad from years ago (2014) called Bonnets & Bowties but was perfect for the colours and the card theme. I used the paper pad to help me choose the colours for the little bunny panels, colouring with promarkers before cutting out.

Finishing touches were some clear sparkle, purple confetti and white gelly roll pen highlights around the card.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share for Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley # LOTVdt

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp   - Bunny Birthday Photo Strip

LOTV Designer Paper - Bonnets & Bowties

LHC small envelop die

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - sugar plum

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

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

A Passion for Markers BlogSpot #767 - Fall or Winter - Sponsored by Colour of Love

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Tuesday and a wonderful week!

Well we have started pruning the olive trees... OK, I have to admit its been John pruning so far as I haven't felt too good lately with one thing and another but I'm starting to have a bit more energy so hoping to get outside this morning to help.

Today I'm here to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and I hope that you will join in.

This weeks challenge theme of 'Fall or Winter' has been chosen by Kitty for team 2 and is being sponsored by Colour of Love

For my card today I chose to use a sweet digital image called Little Pumpkin Fairy  I'm probably a little late with an Autumn or Fall card in some parts but its definitely Autumnal here during the day time with lovely sunshine to work in...definitely more Wintery at night though...brr  

But its Thanksgiving in the USA on 28th November so perfect timing for any of my US friends, it can be a virtual card for them !

This is a simple A6 card. The image was resized to suit the card and printed out onto alcohol friendly card stock  before being coloured with my Promarkers.

I then adhered the entire panel to a card blank behind an arched frame cut from green patterned paper that was left over from an earlier project.

Once finished I added some clear sparkle to the little fairies wings and a very simple strip sentiment.  I was going to add a few extra die cut leaves to the design but I decided less is more as its such a pretty image on its own.

I hope that you join in with the challenge as there is a prize from the sponsor for our lucky winner!

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:
Colour of Love digital stamps - Little Pumpkin Fairy

Craftwork Cards Paper - Hedgerow collection

Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen - Clear

Promarkers used :

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

Hair:            umber, caramel, sandstone, vanilla

Eyes:            french navy, storm cloud

Wings:          pastel green, tea green

Jumper:        marine, turquoise, sky blue, pastel green

                    burnt orange, orange, pumpkin

Pumpkins:     burnt orange, orange, pumpkin

                    lavender, lemon chiffon

                    khaki, caramel

                    pesto, moss, pear green

Sunflowers:    sunflower, tulip yellow, buttercup

                    saddle brown, deep mocha

Flowers:        french navy, storm cloud

                    burnt orange, pumpkin

                    

Sky:              sky blue, cool aqua

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

 Wendy x