I'll take a coffee with a cup of sunshine with Pink Gem Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Saturday!

On my blog today I thought I'd share a non Christmas card made for Pink Gem Designs using a digital stamp from one of favourite sets the Busy Owls.   I have used the black line art stamp from this fabulous set which includes 6 different owls and the leafy branch for them to sit on.

If you don't like to colour then don't worry as there is a pre-coloured version of this set too. 

This is Olivia Owl and she's sending a special cup of sunshine wishes. 

This is a one layer card made by resizing Olivia the owl sitting on her branch to suit an A6 card, I positioned a circle in the sky for the sun and added a digital Sentiment across the panel.

I used a cloud stencil and blue distress ink to create my background and finally added glossy accents to Olivia's eyes to make them pop of the page.

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 Busy Owls digital stamp set

Pink Gem Designs Sentiment - Birthday Owls set

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment

Lawn Fawn Clipping stencil - Slimline Cloudy

Distress Ink - salty ocean

Sakura Gelly roll pen - black, white

Glossy Accents

Promarkers used :

Owl

Eyes:                gold, buttercup

Beak:                mandarin, buttercup

Wings:              umber, praline, pastel beige

Breast & head:   caramel, burnt sienna, pastel beige

Feet:                 umber, praline, pastel beige

Branch:             umber, cocoa, burnt sienna

                        forest green, bright green, leaf green

Bow:                antique pink, salmon prink, pastel pink

Coffee cup:        

                        burnt sienna, cocoa, 

                        pastel beige

Sun:                gold, amber, buttercup

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

 Wendy x 

Ho Ho Ho - Bella Bear Christmas with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Friday everyone...... 3 More Sleeps !

I'm back today to share one of my Christmas cards using the fabulous Bella Bear Christmas Collection by Polkadoodles 

If you are in need of a quick card, I always seem to need the odd one or two last minutes ones ! then why not have a look at the pre-coloured images that are available in this collection. They are super cute and wonderfully coloured by Nikky Hall of Polkadoodles

Today's card  is a 6" x 6" Joy Fold card.   I used several of the fabulous papers from the collection to cover the panels of the card.

For the main image of Bella Bear which is a pre-coloured image today called Reindeer Dress up, I resized and added this to one of the digital papers along with one of he sentiments. 

One the inside flap of the card I added another of the sentiments matting with red glitter card. 

 

Just for extra fun I added the same image of Bella inside the card with a fussy cut out sentiment.

She looks like shes been dressed up and isn't too happy about it really - how embarrassing being a reindeer!

 

I've used a small square of brown glitter card on the inside and added Bella on foam tape for dimension.

The finishing touches were card candii with  glossy accents and glossy accents on Bella's nose.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from the new Bella Bear Christmas Collection by Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - (Pre-coloured) Bella Bear Christmas - Reindeer Dress up

Polkadoodles digital paper - Bella Bear Christmas - 

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Bella Bear Christmas - Sentiment Bundle

Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black

Craftwork Cards Candii

Glossy accents

                       

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

Wendy x

Christmas Wishes - Bella Bear Christmas with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a happy Thursday! 

I'm back today to share one of my Christmas cards using the fabulous Bella Bear Christmas Collection by Polkadoodles 

Bella Bear is just perfect I think for all of your Christmas Projects - It's a fun collection of digital stamps, pre-coloured and black and white for you to colour !

This is a 5 x 7 card which I have created with some simple mat and layering using one of the beautiful papers from the collection and a coordinating aqua cardstock, I've also die cut a frame from the the aqua card to add detail to the design.

The Bella image was resized to suit the card design and then coloured with my promarkers before fussy cutting out and adhering to the card with foam tape for dimension.

I added sparkly twinkles to the white fur of Bella's outfit, glossy accents to the star, a few coordinating sequins and a white gel pen to add highlights and details to the image.

The sentiment is from the bundle and has been die cut using a stitched edge wavy border die 

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from the new Bella Bear Christmas Collection by Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Bella Bear Christmas - Fairy Bella 

Polkadoodles digital paper - Bella Bear Christmas - Paper Set 2

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Bella Bear Christmas - Sentiment Bundle

Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black

Sugar & Spice Sequins - Unicorn

Glossy accents

Promarkers Used:

Bella:            cocoa, burnt sienna (nose)

                    salmon pink, pale pink (ears)

                    caramel, praline, sandstone

White Fur:     lavender, ivory

Wings

Coat:            marine, turquoise, pastel green

Hat

Holly:            lush green, emerald, mint green   

                    burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Star:             sunflower, mustard, pastel yellow

                    burnt sienna, caramel, sandstone

                        

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

Wendy x

New Release - Jolly Santa - Santa Bicycle with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Tuesday everyone......Are you nearly ready for the festive celebrations ? - 6 more sleeps to go..... I hope that your are nearly ready as Santa is definitely on his Way ! 

I'm back today on my blog to share another of my cards using the fabulous new Jolly Santa Collection by Polkadoodles 

It's a great collection for all of your Christmas projects.  As always there are black and white digital stamps for you to colour, pre-coloured versions if you prefer, 2 paper bundles and a fabulous bundle of sentiments.  

Don't forget if you want some more inspiration for this collection why not have a look in the Inspiration Gallery on the website.

This is Santa Bicycle and it's a really cute image I think, looks like Santa has been making improvements to his transport with a fun ski attachment.

This is a 5" x 7" card with a couple of the papers from the collection used for the sky and the frame around the image.

The Santa image was resized, printed on alcohol marker friendly cardstock before colouring with my Promarkers.

I fussy cut out the top portion of the image, leaving the snow bank at the bottom and then raised this up on foam tape for dimension.

I hope that you like my Christmas card today from this wonderful new Santa collection by Polkadoodles and you'll be back to see another card from me very soon.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Jolly Santa - Santa Penguin presents

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Jolly Santa - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Jolly Santa - Paper Bundle 1 

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn

lawn Fawn clippings stitched border die

Craftelier Basics frame die

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - black, white, clear star

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

   

                 

Promarkers Used:

Skin:                almond, dusky rose, soft peach, blush

Beard:              cool grey 00, 1, 2

White Fur:        cool aqua, blender

Suit:                burgundy, poppy, lipstick red, antique pink

Hats

Boots:              blue black, cool grey 7, 5

Gloves

Belt:                gold, sunflower, buttercup

    

Penguin:           lavender, ivory

                        pumpkin, sunflower

                        blue black, cool grey 7,5

Presents:          forest green, bright green, leaf green

                       gold, sunflower, buttercup

                       burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

  

Candy Cane:    burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                       lavender, ivory

Holly:               holly, lush green

Bike:                blue black, cool grey 7,5

                       cool grey 00, 1, 2

                       burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                       forest green, bright green, leaf green

                       buttercup

Snow:              cool aqua, blender

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

Wendy x

New Release - Jolly Santa - Penguin Presents with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Thursday everyone..I hope that your week is going well.

I'm back today on my blog to share another of my cards using the fabulous new Jolly Santa Collection by Polkadoodles 

It's a great collection for all of your Christmas projects.  As always there are black and white digital stamps for you to colour, pre-coloured versions if you prefer, 2 paper bundles and a fabulous bundle of sentiments.  

Don't forget if you want some more inspiration for this collection why not have a look in the Inspiration Gallery on the website.

This is a simple 5" x 7" card  coloured with Promarkers (see below for colours), the image has been fussy cut out leaving a white snowy border at the bottom of the card.  

The Wintery nighttime sky background has been created from distress inks blended with water splatters and white and metallic blue watercolour paint splatters for the snow. 

The sentiment is also from the collection and I have added sparkle to the fur on Santa and the penguins clothes.

I hope that you like my Christmas card today from this wonderful new Jolly Santa collection by Polkadoodles and you'll be back to see another card from me very soon.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Jolly Santa - Santa Penguin gifts

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Jolly Santa - Christmas Greetings

Distress Inks - chipped sapphire, prize ribbon , picked raspberry, kitsch flamingo

Lisa Horton Crafts - Euphoria watercolour paints - white, metallic blue

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - black, white, clear star

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

   

                 

Promarkers Used:

Skin:                almond, dusky rose, soft peach, blush

Beard:              cool grey 00, 1, 2

White Fur:        cool aqua, blender

Suit:                burgundy, poppy, lipstick red, antique pink

Hats

Boots:              blue black, cool grey 7, 5

Gloves

Belt:                gold, sunflower, buttercup

    

Penguin:            lavender, ivory

                        pumpkin, sunflower

                        blue black, cool grey 7,5

Presents:          forest green, bright green, leaf green

                       gold, sunflower, buttercup

                       burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

  

Bauble:            burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                       forest green, bright green, leaf green

                       gold, sunflower, buttercup

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

Wendy x

I love Promarkers #549 For the Men Sponsored by Dr Digi's House of Stamps

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Wednesday! I hope that you are having a lovely week, not long now until Christmas 

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 Dr. Digi's House of Stamps

Here is my inspiration card for the current blog challenge with the theme - For the Men, using the super cute Patient Pets digital stamp.  I cant decide if they want to go out and play in the snow or stay all warm and cozy inside - I  know what our kitties would choose!

It's a larger 5 " x 7"  scene card created using papers from my stash for the wallpaper and the flooring of the room.

The image was coloured using Promarkers and then fussy cut out.  To create my window I've used a small piece of white card, blending distress inks to create a snowy sky and snow hills and then I've freehand drawn in some fir trees onto the hills.  To create the snow I've splattered the panel with white ink.

For the window I cut a small piece of acetate, adding snow with a posca pen and then assembled this onto the card.

The sentiment has been cut out and adhered to the top of the card to look like a piece of hanging wall art, with brass drops for the fittings.

I blended a little brown distress ink over the background for extra detail and added some copper sequins to tie the design together.

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:

Dr.Digi's House of stamps - Patient Pets

Polkadoodles  Designer Papers - Peeling Paint

Craft Sensations Paper Pad - Grunge

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy ink - white

Spectrum noir Colorista pens - forest green, umber

Distress Ink - tumbled glass, uncharted mariner, tea dye

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white, black

Lisa Horton Crafts - Washi tape sentiment

Nuvo Crystal Drops - copper penny

Posca pen - white

Sugar and Spice sequins - Alloy

Promarkers used :

Curtains:        royal blue, china blue, cobalt blue

Kitty:             ginger, apricot, saffron

Bulldog:         warm grey 4, 3, 2, 1

                     burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Labrador:        caramel, buttercup, primrose

                      forest green, bright green, leaf green

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - We Wish you a Merry Christmas - Colours of Christmas with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday.  Wishing you all a lovely day today and that you enjoy the week ahead.

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 Santa / North Pole & Colours of Christmas and we were given this colour palette to use.  

I love making Christmas cards using non traditional colours so really enjoyed this challenge.

For todays card I decided to use one of the fabulous older images from the Winnie Winter land collection of digital stamps.  There are some absolutely gorgeous digital stamps and a great selection of pre-coloured craft sheets too if you prefer not to colour.

Its a simple 5" x 7" card with a scalloped frame of magenta glitter card, keeping the scene the main focus of my card.

I coloured the image with Promarkers (see below for colours) and then blended distress inks over the background to create a  wintery North Pole sky.

The sentiment was printed onto vellum so it wouldn't detract from the scene and adhered into the top corner of my design.

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 card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Winnie Winter land - Winter Fox

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Winnie White Christmas sentiment bundle

Distress Ink - tumbled glass, weathered wood, uncharted mariner

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy Ink - White

Sakura Gelly Roll pens - black, white, metallic grey

Promarkers Used:

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

Hair:         vanilla, caramel, sandstone, umber

Hat:          petrol blue, verdigris, pastel blue

boots

Scarf:        forest green, bright green, leaf green

tights

Holly:        forest green, bright green, leaf green

                burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Coat:        plum, mulberry, orchid

Dress:       gold, sunflower, buttercup

Sleigh:      vanilla, caramel, sandstone, umber

                gold, sunflower, buttercup

Fox:          cool grey 7, 5, 3, 00

                pastel blue, verdigris

Bow:         gold, sunflower, buttercup

Presents:     plum, mulberry, orchid

                petrol blue, verdigris, pastel blue

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

Magic is in the Air with Pink Gem Designs

Hello everyone and a happy Saturday...I hope that you have had a great week and  are looking forward to the weekend.

Today I'm here with a Christmas card for Pink Gem Designs using a very cute digital stamp from the Christmas Kittens set of stamps.

This is a gorgeous set of stamps that includes 10 black line images and 2 sentiments.  If you prefer not to colour then there is a pre-coloured version also available.

Today's card is a 6" x 6" snow globe aperture card  with a wintery scene. This would make a perfect shaker card too.

I have created a landscape A6 (UK Size), resizing the image to suit and adding one of the sentiments, before printing out onto alcohol friendly cardstock.

I normally use Transotype Perfect Colouring Paper 250g/m2  for my colouring printing it out at a reduced black intensity of around 40%  to prevent any bleeding and give a softer grey outline which I prefer.

Once coloured in with my Promarkers (see below for the colours), I fussy cut the kitten and mouse image, before mounting this in the snow globe using foam tape for dimension.

To create the card I used a couple of nesting circle dies to create the aperture in a piece of cardstock and die cut a thin silver frame for the edge of the snow globe. I added snowy dots around the panel using a stencil and distress ink, blending around the edge of the panel also.

I used distress inks to create my wintery background splattering with white ink for snow before adhering this to the card blank behind the aperture window. 

The Christmas trees are pre-coloured ephemera from my collection of Polkadoodles images, fussy cut out and adhered to the background.

I've added extra sparkle to the Christmas trees and the pom pom of the mouses hat and added gems to the snow globe base and around the scene.

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:
Pink Gem Designs digital stamp - Christmas Kittens

Polkadoodles Ephemera - Bella Bear Christmas - Christmas Bear Ephemera

Echo park designer stencil - Christmas Cheer

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy Ink - White

Lisa Horton Crafts - Sentiment strip

Distress ink -  tumbled glass, uncharted mariner

hillside mask

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens - black, white, clear star, metallic pink 

Pretty Pink Posh Gems - Sugar Plum

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Promarkers used :

Kitten:            salmon pink, pale pink

                      ice grey 4, 3 00

Mouse:            salmon pink, pale pink

                       warm grey 4, 2 1

Mug:                burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                       walnut

Clothes:            forest green, bright green, leaf green

                        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                      

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

Wendy x