Silly Snowman - Freebie Digital Stamp - with Julia McNeil Designs

Hello everyone Happy Friday! I hope that you've had a great week and you are nearly ready for Christmas.

Today I'm back to share a Christmas card for JMC Designs  that I've made using the December freebie digital stamp - this is the Silly Snowman and I think he's perfect for a few people I know after a little too much festive partying.

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 to register and download this months digital stamp.

If you have missed any of the previous freebies then Julia has kindly put together a list of them all with the links for each so you can download them and don't forget to share your projects in the group as we would love to see them.  Here is the full list of the freebies 

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

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.

JMC Designs - Silly Snowman digital freebie

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - 

Distress Inks - peacock feathers

Lawn Fawn Hillside stencil

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Posca pen - white

Sakura Gelly roll - White Pen

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

Wendy x

New Release - Snowy Days - Theo Penguin - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Thursday everyone

I hope that your had a good week.... I'm back today with another cute card using the brand new Snowy Days collection 

Theo Penguin is perfect for all of those Winter celebrations, definitely not just for Christmas! and is packed with 28 adorable characters, icy scenes, and snowy designs—perfect for Christmas, Winter birthdays, and seasonal celebrations. 

The collection includes colouring pages, pre-coloured clipart, greeting stamps, paper patterns and more for card making, digital scrapbooking, junk journals, and printable craft stickers. 

There's loads of inspiration from the Polkadoodles Design team on the website in the gallery too if you are looking for some more ideas and don't miss out on the discounts too still available on this collection.

This is a super cute 5" x 7"  landscape card using another of the wonderful wintery scenes from the collection, resizing this for my card before printing out.  

Theo with his friend the Walrus was resized and printed out onto alcohol friendly card before colouring with my Promarkers (see below for colours) and then fussy cutting out by hand. 

I used clear and blue glitter to add sparkle the background scene which was mat and layered onto silver and blue card.

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

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.

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Snowy Days collection -  Sealed with a gift

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Snowy Days collection - Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital background - Snowy Days collection - Pre-coloured scenes

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Blue filament glitter

Promarkers Used:

Theo:             lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                     pale pink

                     blue black, cool grey 7,5

                     gold, ivory

Present:         burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                     pear green, lime green, lime zest

Scarf:             gold, sunflower, buttercup

                     pear green, lime green, lime zest

                       

Walrus:          warm grey 4, 3, 1

                     baby pink

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

Wendy x

Happy Christmas from All of Us- Snowmen - Happy Christmas with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday.... Oh my goodness our Christmas decorations still aren't up - that's a first in I don't know how many years... there's been so much going on and I've not really felt up to it but hopefully over the weekend.

I'm back today with a card project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous sets of digital stamps, this is a cute set of Snowmen from the Etsy shop. and I decided to create a landscape DL card.

The set includes 8 different snowmen and I loved the way they were peeking over a snowy bank.  I combined two images to  create this card, reversing one of the images before printing out and colouring with Promarkers.

The sentiment that I have used is from the Snow Cute set  and I used a piece snowflake of paper from the Frosty Christmas backing paper set.  The frame was die cut from white glitter card and I blended a little blue distress ink over the patterned paper.

Finishing touches were some glitter to the snowmen's hats.

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 - Snowmen 

LOTV digital sentiment - Snow Cute set 

LOTV digital paper - Frosty Christmas backing paper

Distress ink - salty ocean

Comic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - icicle blue

Promarkers Used:

Snowmen:       cool aqua

                      pale blossom

                      orange, bright orange, ginger

Hats:              burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                      lavender, ivory

     

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Wednesdays - December birthday - Snowy Days Theo Hello with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....not long until Christmas day now so I hope that you have been good this year. 

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 December birthday using this colour palette. 

I decided to create a Z-Fold Bookbinding card - I'm enjoying making these at the moment!

I started by creating the card base from a blue card, two pieces of card 1  measuring 11 1/2" x 5 7/8" and the second piece measuring 3 1/2 " x 5 7/8"

Next I scored the larger piece as follows along the long side: 

• 2 1/8", 4 1/4" , 5 1/2"

The card was folded and burnished and then the book binding edge was glued down to create the folded card.

I then chose some orange papers from the Freddy Fox collection and adhered these to my card base, leaving a small amount of the blue card showing.

In my graphics software, I then resized the Theo Hello penguin image from the brand new Snowy Days collection and printed this out onto alcohol marker friendly card along with the birthday sentiment from the collection.

I die cut an arched frame from the same blue card and mat and layered the birthday sentiment at the bottom of the arch.  I used the waste from the arched frame to add to the inside of the card.

Theo was coloured with my promarkers before being fussy cut out and adhering into the arch with foam tape.

I then used a balloon and bunting dies set to add details to my happy birthday card, ink blending the balloons fro dimension.

To finish off my card I added some gold confetti around the design , clear sparkle to the bunting and white gelly roll pen highlights to Theo.

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:Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Snowy Days collection - Theo Hello DLPD9856

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Snowy Days collection  - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Freddy Fox collection - paper pack 2 & paper pack 3

Spellbinders Cutting dies - essential arches

Studiolight cutting dies - Party Card shape

Distress ink - spiced marmalade, salty ocean

Sakura Gelly Roll - white

Posca pen - white

Spellbinders confetti - gold

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - 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 Blog Spot Challenge #769 - Anything Goes - Mega Christmas Challenge

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope your week is going well....I cant quite believe how soon Christmas day will be here...this year has gone so fast.

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

This weeks challenge is our Mega Christmas Challenge for both teams and being sponsored by lots of lovely and very generous companies. I chose to use a gorgeous image by Polkadoodles

The theme this week is - Anything goes

I chose to use a really cute image from the latest Theo Penguin - Snowy Days collection - Who can resist a cute penguin.  This is image is Waiting for Christmas

Its a larger A7 or 5" x 7"  size card with a  background layer of wintery paper from the collection.

I created a Christmas bauble for my card using a couple of circle nested dies, cutting from silver card and then blending distress oxide inks across a circle of white card to create my wintery scene.  The little fir trees where simply hand painted using a dark grey Brush pen and then I added snow to the trees using a white posca pen.

These are all our wonderful sponsors that you could win a prize from so don't forget to join in

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:
Polkadoodles Digital stamp - Theo Penguin - Snowy Days - Waiting for Christmas 

Polkadoodles Digital paper - Theo Penguin - Snowy Days - Classic Winter Paper Set 1

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Theo Penguin - Snowy Days - greetings bundle

Promarkers Used:

Theo:             lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                     pale pink

                     blue black, cool grey 7,5

                     gold, ivory

Bow:               burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Scarf:    pear green, lime green, lime zest

Bells:      gold, sunflower, buttercup

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Snowy Days - Theo Penguin - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Saturday everyone

I hope that your had a good week.... I'm back today with another cute card using the brand new Snowy Days collection 

Theo Penguin is perfect for all of those Winter celebrations, definitely not just for Christmas! and is packed with 28 adorable characters, icy scenes, and snowy designs—perfect for Christmas, Winter birthdays, and seasonal celebrations. 

The collection includes colouring pages, pre-coloured clipart, greeting stamps, paper patterns and more for card making, digital scrapbooking, junk journals, and printable craft stickers. 

There's loads of inspiration from the Polkadoodles Design team on the website in the gallery too if you are looking for some more ideas

Here's a gorgeous 6" x 6" card using another of the wonderful wintery scenes from the collection, resizing this for my card before printing out.  These scenes make cards so easy to create I'm sure you will love them.

Theo with his cocktail taking in the sunshine was resized and printed out onto alcohol friendly card before colouring with my Promarkers (see below for colours) and then fussy cutting out by hand.  I adhered him to the card, blending a little distress ink around the snow to give some shadows and then adding lots of lovely sparkly for the snow in the sky and on the ground.

I used a white gelly roll pen to add snow to the trees in the background and then glossy accents to Theo's sunglasses.

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

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.

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Snowy Days collection - Sunbathing Days

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Snowy Days collection - Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital background - Snowy Days collection - Pre-coloured scenes

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Glossy Accents

Promarkers Used:

Theo:             lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                     pale pink

                     blue black, cool grey 7,5

                     gold, ivory

Hat:               burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Sunglasses:    pear green, lime green, lime zest

Deckchair:      gold, sunflower, buttercup

                       

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

Wendy x

Merry and Bright - Winter Cottage Snow Globe - with Pattie's Creations

Happy Friday everyone I hope that you are all well and have had a lovely first week of December

I hope that you are starting to get into the Christmas spirit - we'll be putting our tree and decorations up hopefully over the weekend.

The 1st Friday of the month marks the start of a new Challenge for December over on the Pattie's Creations Design Challenge blog 

The challenge runs from the first Friday of the month and its an Anything Goes challenge or our theme for December is Winter Around the World, so as long as you use a digital or stamped image in your project, why not join in the challenge.

Winners of the challenge will receive 2 digital stamps of your choice from Pattie's shop.

Pattie has some wonderful digital stamps in her Etsy Shop pattiescreations and there is also a freebie every month on the blog that you can use in your project if you want to! 

For my December project and to add to my stash of Christmas cards, I chose  to use the Winter Cottage Sow Globe digital stamp to create this pretty A7 or 5" x 7" card.

I resized the image to suit my card size and printed it out before colouring with Promarkers.  I then fussy cut out the base of the snow globe and set aside.

Next I used a circular die to cut an aperture from a peice of snowflake patterned paper.  I adhered the glass part of the snow globe directly to the card base and then adhered the patterned paper over the top of this.

As the patterned paper is quite busy I cut a panel of vellum to adhere over the top, running it through a snowflake embossing folder for texture.  I applied a little Kraft coloured ink to accentuate some of the snowflakes.

I then adhered the base of the snow globe to the card using foam tape for dimension, adding a small bow from bakers twine.

The sweet banner sentiment was heat embossed in rose pink and added below the image.

To finish off the card I added lots of sparkle around the design 

I do hope that you like my card for today and don't forget to join in with this months challenge over on the blog.

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.

Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Winter Cottage Sow Globe

LOTV - Patterned Paper - Krafty Christmas

Lisa Horton Crafts - Embossing folder

Ranger Adirondack Dye Ink - Latte

Stickles - Star Dust

Bakers Twine

Promarkers Used:

                  

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

Wendy x

Gingerbread Cookie - It's the most Wonderful Time of the Year - Sweet Gingerbread with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday I hope that your having a good week so far.

For today's card I have used the Sweet Gingerbread kit from the recently released Gingerbread Cookie collection .

There's loads of inspiration from the Polkadoodles Design team on the website in the gallery if you are looking for some ideas

To create this card I've used one of the papers from the collection, adding a small strip to the base of the card.  The digital stamp is from the Sweet Gingerbread kit was resized, printing out onto alcohol marker friendly card before colouring with my promarkers and then fussy cutting out.

I also printed out the pre-coloured string of fairy lights and one of the sentiments. and foliage and used these to decorate the card.   I blended a little yellow ink behind each fairy light before adhering these to the card.

To finish off the card I have added a few touches of white gel pen, glossy accents to the ginger breads icing and some coffee coloured confetti around the design.

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

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.

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Gingerbread Cookie - Sweet Gingerbread Kit

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment -  Gingerbread Cookie - Sweet Gingerbread Kit

Polkadoodles digital Ephemera - Gingerbread Cookie - Sweet Gingerbread Kit

Polkadoodles digital paper - Gingerbread Cookie - Sweet Gingerbread Kit

distress ink - squeezed lemonade

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

glossy accents

Promarkers Used:

Gingerbread:    vanilla, lavender

                       burnt sienna, caramel, sandstone

                       antique pink, bright green, ginger

Hat:                forest green, bright green, leaf green

                      burnt orange, orange, ginger

Bowtie:           burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Jacket:            forest green, bright green, leaf green

                      burnt orange, orange, ginger

                      

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

Wendy x

A Meowy Christmas to you all with Mama Elephant

Hello everyone happy Tuesday!  

You all know how much we love our kitties...we have 5 now although our newest edition to the family Marmalade is an absolute terror at times - she's a sweetheart most of the time and then a complete drama queen at 7 months old.

When I saw this stamp I know it would be perfect for a few of my cards this year and I m really pleased with how its turned out.

I decided to stamp the main image and the sentiment onto some Kraft card and have then coloured it in using my wonderful Polychromos pencils.

I kept the design really simple adding little touches of sparkle to the baubles and stars.

I hope that you like my project today and you'll come back to see my next project 

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Project recipe:Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Mama Elephant stamp - Oh Kitty Tree

Polychromos 120 pencils

Spectrum noir sparkle pen - clear

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

Wendy x

New Release - Theo Penguin - Snowy Days - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Monday everyone I hope that your had a good weekend.... I have so many gorgeous Christmas cards to share so I'm going to try to share one each day...fingers crossed.

I hope you have heard the news already in your VIP email from Polkadoodles but if not then you are going to love this - everyone's favourite penguin Theo is back in a brand new collection of adorable images.....and for a limited time there is a 45% discount.

The brand new Snowy Days collection Theo Penguin is perfect for all of those Winter celebrations, definitely not just for Christmas! and is packed with 28 adorable characters, icy scenes, and snowy designs—perfect for Christmas, Winter birthdays, and seasonal celebrations. 

The collection includes colouring pages, pre-coloured clipart, greeting stamps, paper patterns and more for card making, digital scrapbooking, junk journals, and printable craft stickers. 

There's loads of inspiration from the Polkadoodles Design team on the website in the gallery if you are looking for more ideas

Today's card features Theo with his Christmas pudding.  I've created a polaroid style card and used a pop up for the main design panel.  The image is coloured with my promarkers and I've used one of the gorgeous papers from the collection along with lots of sparkle.

  

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

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.

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Snowy Days collection - Christmas Pudding Sleigh

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Snowy Days collection - Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Snowy Days collection - Icy Winter papers set 2

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn Mix

Promarkers Used:

Theo:            lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                    pale pink

                    blue black, cool grey 7,5

                    gold, ivory

Scarf:           gold, sunflower, buttercup

Christmas 

Pudding:       burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                    pear green, lime green, lime zest

Sleigh:          caramel, pastel beige

                    

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

Wendy x

New Release - Stamps - Happy Christmas with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday .... Oh my goodness December is finally here, this year has gone so fast x

I'm back today with some design team projects for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using the super cute A5 stamp set called Happy Christmas , sadly this has now sold out, but there are lots of super cute stamps and digital stamps in the Etsy shop.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                      

                        

     

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

 Wendy x