Tuesday, 13 October 2026

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #859 - Birthday - Have a Bee-autiful birthday - Sponsored by Dies to Die for

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all I hope that you are having a lovely week so far!

I can't quite believe its almost the middle of October - Why does time seem to get faster as we get older...I've never really understood the concept.

We are now busy in the last few days before we head off on our tour of Japan but I wanted to make sure I had my card ready for the current challenge which has just started over on the Passion for Markers Blog.  Fingers crossed technology works and this posts ok LOL.

I do hope that you will join in the challenge !



This week our challenge is being sponsored by Dies to Die For and the theme chosen by Elaine for team 2 is Birthday, we always need more birthday cards don't we so this must be an easy one for you all.












For my gorgeous little birthday card today I chose to use a sweet little bee gnome digital stamp by Polkadoodles from the Buzzy Bee collection.

This is Buddies and just look at that sweet little Gnome Fairy with her little bee friend, doesn't she look happy.

I resized the digital stamp for a smaller A6 card size, along with a sweet sentiment from the collection before printing out and colouring with my promarkers.  Both the image and the sentiment were then fussy cut out by hand.

I chose some of the pretty papers from the Buzzy Bee collection, printing these out and then cutting out with a stitched hexagon die for my background.  First I used a honeycomb stencil with yellow distress ink , stencilling directly onto the white card blank.  Next I used some gold metallic paint, splattering across the background and then adhered the little hexagons onto the dried panel.  The little Bee Gnome Fairy was adhered to the card using foam tape for dimension and then a small grass border was die-cut from the collection and adhered at the bottom of the card.

The sentiment was added at the bottom and then the card was finished off with gold confetti, clear sparkle to the wings of the gnome and bee and glossy accents on the flowers.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my sweet birthday 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 

You could win a prize.


Hasta luego 👋 


Enjoy the rest of your day !


Card recipe:

Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Buzzy Bee collection - Buddies 
Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Buzzy Bee collection - Papers
Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Buzzy Bee collection - sentiment bundle
Polkadoodles stencil - Funky Rosy Posy 
Distress ink - squeezed lemonade, dried marmalade
LHC watercolour paints - gold metallic
Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear
Glossy accents
Spellbinders confett- - gold
          

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


 Wendy x