Christmas in July - Caroling Snowman with Paper Nest Dolls

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Sunday! I hope that you are having a lovely weekend. 

I'm on my blog today with another Christmas in July card and this today I've used an image that I previously coloured with alcohol markers but again I've reached for my coloured pencils to colour a gorgeous image called Caroling Snowman by Paper Nest Dolls

This is an A7 or  5" x 7"  card created with a simple mat layer of black card.  

I started off by resizing the sweet image and printing out onto Neenah Desert Storm cardstock, before using my Spectrum Noir pencils to colour the image.

For my wintery scene I have blended distress inks around the background to create a nighttime sky.  I used a hillside stencil and some white dye based ink at the bottom of the panel for my snow scene and then to finish of the card I splattered white pearlescent paint for the snow.

I added white gel pen highlights here and there to finish off my card for today.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my  card for today and will drop by again to see my next project.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Paper Nest Dolls digital stamp - Caroling Snowman

Distress Ink - salty ocean, chipped sapphire

Craftelier Watercolour paints - gold selection - pearl silver

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white, black

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

 Wendy x

Flip Flop Signs - The beach is my happy place with Pattie's Creations

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

The first 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 July is Summer Fun, 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 July project, I chose  to use one of the beautiful Flip Flop Signs digital stamps to create a DL card (UK size). I wanted to create the look of a window in a cabin at the beach with the sign hanging in the window frame and I have to say I'm really pleased with how this card turned out.

 

I resized the image to suit my DL base card, printed it out onto alcohol marker friendly card stock before colouring with Promarkers and then fussy cutting out.

Next I created my beach scene by masking off sections and using distress inks to create the sky, the sea and then the sand. 

I added a slightly darker ink at the water line to show the wet sand and used a white gel pen to represent the water foam at the edge.  I added some dots of brown and sand coloured pen for the sand detail.

To create my window frame, I used a couple of nesting dies cutting a thin frame from a wood effect card and adhered this to the background scene before hanging my Flip Flip sign in the window.

To finish off the card I added some clear sparkle pen to the flip flop straps. 

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:

Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Flip Flop Signs

Distress Ink - scattered straw, vintage photo, salvaged patina, salty ocean, peacock feathers

Spellbinders confetti - Latte

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Spectrum Aqua Pens - terracotta, desert

Promarkers used :

Flip Flops:     hot pink, cerise, wild orchid

                    gold, sunflower, buttercup

                    marine, ocean teal, soft green

                    aubergine, amethyst, pink pearl

                    

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

Wendy x

Christmas in July - Have a Tree-mendous Christmas - Pickles Hedgehog with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday ! 

Its going to be a hot day today here so I'm channelling my inner cool with a snowy scene card - not sure it will work though 

I'm here today to share another Christmas card, this time using a digital image from the very cute Pickles Hedgehog collection by Polkadoodles.  Its a great collection and this one is definitely not just for Christmas

This is an A7 or  5" x 7"  card created with a simple mat layer of black card.  

I decided to dig out my coloured pencils to create this card so started off by resizing the sweet image of Pickles with his Christmas tree  and adding a sentiment from the Bella Bear Christmas collection at the top before printing out onto Neenah Desert Storm cardstock.

I used my Spectrum Noir pencils and had loads of fun colouring the image before blending distress inks around the background to create a wintery nighttime sky.  I used a hillside stencil and some white dye based ink at the bottom of the panel for my snow scene and then to finish of the card I splattered white pearlescent paint for the snow.

I added white gel pen highlights here and there to finish off my card for today and I have to say I'm loving the look of this and its a nice change from my alcohol markers which definitely don't like the heat much!

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share for Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Pickles Hedgehog -  Christmas Tree

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Bella Bear Christmas - Sentiment Bundle

Distress Inks - tumbled glass, weathered wood, uncharted mariner, chipped sapphire

Lisa Horton Crafts - Cloud 9 Ink - Falling Snow

Craftelier Watercolour paints - gold selection - Pearl silver

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, silver

    

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

Wendy x

Christmas in July - 'Tis the Season - Bella Bear Christmas with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a happy Monday and Happy July!  IT's my son's 27th birthday today too and that's made me feel very old indeed today.

Did someone say  its July ? 

Well then it must be time for 'Christmas in July' !!!  

No I'm not going potty but its that time of year again when crafters all around the world have fun sharing Christmas in July projects - plus its only 6 months to go....eek 

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

Bella Bear is one of my favourite characters and I think she is just perfect for those Christmas Projects - It's a fun collection of digital stamps, pre-coloured and black and white for you to colour !

This is a  smaller A2 (US size) card which I have created.  I choose a paper from the collection with turquoise stripes and red hearts and added a strip of this on the left hand side of my design panel in my graphics software.  Next I resized Bella Bear with her Big Gift, adding her over the top of the paper strip and chose one of the sentiments from the collection adding this into the top right corner before printing out onto alcohol marker friendly cardstock.

I added sparkly glitter to Bella's hat fur and pompom and a white gel pen highlights.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share for Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Bella Bear Christmas - Big Gift / Parcel

Polkadoodles digital paper - Bella Bear Christmas - Paper Set 1

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Bella Bear Christmas - Sentiment Bundle

Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Promarkers Used:

Bella:            cocoa, burnt sienna (nose)

                    salmon pink, pale pink (ears)

                    caramel, praline, sandstone

White Fur:     lavender, ivory

Hat:              forest green, bright green, leaf green

Present:        marine, turquoise, pastel green

Ribbon:         burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Dress:          sunflower, mustard, pastel yellow

                                            

    

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

Wendy x