A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #795 - Beach Vibes - Sponsored by Uniko Stamps

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope you are all well and the week has started well.  Its my son's birthday today - he's 28 years old which I cant quite believe as it makes me feel very old indeed!  

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 being sponsored by Uniko stamps and our theme of 'Beach Vibes' this week was chosen for team 2 by Me...

I think spending days at the beach in the Summer is the perfect way to cool off - especially when the beaches are quieter ! 

For my challenge I chose to use one of my favourite digital images by Krista Leigh Smith aka Saturated Canary - this is called Toes in the sand. Sadly Krista has closed her shop due to other commitments but she's promised us shell pop up every now and then with images for us to colour. 

I have created a simple A7 card with a distress oxide ink background to coordinate with the fun surfer girl image.  I wanted to give the effect of sun rays from behind the surfer girl so used a stencil and a baby wipe to lift some of the ink off the sky section of the design.

I resized the image to suit my card blank and then printed out onto alcohol friendly card stock before colouring with my Promarkers and fussy cutting out.  The digital sentiment was added to the panel before printing.  The image was adhered to the card with foam tape for dimension.

I added white gelly  roll pen highlights to the water and some sparkly sequins around the design.

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:

Krista Leigh Smith digital stamp - Toes in the sand

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles - sentiment bundle

Distress Oxides - dried marigold, scattered straw, salty ocean, salvaged patina, wild honey

Clearly Besotted stencil - shooting star

Sugar & spice sequins - unicorn mix

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

Get Well Soon - Waving Animals - Flower Pockets with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Saturday....I hope you are enjoying the weekend so far... we're both under the weather at the moment with horrid coughs and colds and the high temperatures outside are definitely not helping so my card today is perfect for us.

I'm here today with a sweet little card for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) featuring a cute little kitty  from the Waving Animals digital stamp set available in the Etsy shop.

It's a huge set of 18 cute little waving animals - you will be spoilt for choice and there are 30 sentiments included too.

Its a perfect set for so many different occasions so I would definitely recommend it. The design of the card was inspired by a crafty friend and I thought the little kitty would be perfect combined with one of the Flower Pockets

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers for the kitty and distress inks for the pocket and simple fussy cutting out...I used foam tape to adhere the little pocket and 3D glue gel to add the kitty into the pocket.

The background paper is from an older collection of watercolour papers by Craftwork Cards (sadly no longer in business)

Finishing touches were some clear iridescent sequins 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  - Waving Animals

LOTV Digital stamp set - Flower Pockets

Craftwork cards designer paper - Watercolour washes

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn mix

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 - Honey Bee Dreams - Craft Fairs - Coasters - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good 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 create something that you could sell at a craft fair........hmm that really got me thinking as I tend to make cards and not much else.

I decided to do a bit or upcycling.....I have had some old charity coasters sat in my crafty room for ages waiting to be reused in some way - as we do LOL.

I thought I would try to turn them in to Buzzy Bee drink coasters using the brand new Honey Bee Dreams collection.

These are the original coasters before I started work..... 

I chose a selection of papers from the Honey Bee Dreams collection, roughly resizing them to fit my coasters before simply printing out.

Next I adhered the papers to the coasters and let them dry.  Once dried completely I trimmed off any excess and then used an old emery nail file to neaten the edges.

I also printed out one of the honeycomb papers from the brand new Bee Buzzy collection and adhered this to the reverse of the coasters and also removed any excess.

Once completely dry I applied gold gilding wax to the edge of each coaster and then Exterior Mod Podge to each coaster, top and bottom - hopefully this will protect from any moisture.

I'm really pleased how these turned out and they will be perfect coasters in the garden over summer.

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 !

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

Polkadoodles digital papers - Honey Bee Dreams - Junk Journaling printable

Bee Buzzy Gnome - Honeycomb papers

Pebeo gilding wax - empire gold

Mod Podge - Exterior

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 #793 - Animals - Sponsored by All Dressed Up

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope you are all well and the week has started well.  I seem to be spending a lot of time trying to keep cool at the moment - its very hot and humid here at the moment.

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 being sponsored by All Dressed Up stamps and our theme of 'Animals' this week was chosen for team 2 by Natalie... 

I chose to use a really sweet image called A Time to give. 

I have created a simple A6 card using a lovely party themed die for the frame of my card, cutting it from lime green card stock.

I resized the image to suit my card blank and then printed out onto alcohol friendly card stock before colouring with my Promarkers....I decided to use some zesty colours to match the card frame.  I used a stencil and distress inks to stencil a party background.

I added glossy accents to the little balloons, a little sparkle to the bunting and some clear iridescent sequins around the design.

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:

All Dressed Up digital stamp - A Time to Give

Spectrum Noir sparkle pen - clear

distress ink - squeezed lemonade, worn lipstick, twisted citron

Studio light dies - party

Studio light mask - exploding confetti

Sugar & spice sequins - unicorn mix

glossy accents

     

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles - Ice Creams - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....We're loving being in the summer sunshine here with hot days and lovely warm nights too and what better way to celebrate the Summer than with a yummy ice cream !  The difficult part is always choosing the flavour....

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!  

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 create a Ice Cream themed card.

I decided to use a sweet simple image from the  Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles collection - this is a simple Ice Cream digital that i have printed out 5 times and coloured with my promarkers before fussy cutting out.

I created my background by blending distress oxide inks over a panel of card to fit an A7 or 5" x 7" card blank. I used stencils to create my cloudy sky and the ripples of the sea.

Next I used a rectangular die to create a frame, adhering the centre panel direct to the card and then popping up the outer frame with foam tape for dimension.

I added sea foam to the waters edge with a little white gesso on  my finger tip and a white gelly roll pen.

The ice creams were distributed in rainbow order at the bottom of the design in the sand and the sentiment also from the collection was adhered to the top panel after a little ink blending.

To finish off my project I added some sequins around the design 

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 image  - Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles - Ice Cream digi

Polkadoodles digital sentiment -  Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles - Sentiments

Distress Oxide inks - salty ocean, cracked pistachio, scattered straw, wild honey

Sugar & Spice Sequins - mojito mix

Lawn Fawn stencil - cloudy

Clarity Stamps - hills stencil

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

Wendy x

New Release - Honey Bee Dreams - Buzzy Bee Gnomes - Bee Well Soon with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday.... I hope that you are having a good week....I'm off to Pilates this morning and I'm not really looking forward to it as its soooo hot in the room but I'm meeting my lovely friend after class for breakfast so its not all bad.

There's two brand new digital collections newly released by Polkadoodles and they are just wonderful - if you love bees then these are perfect for you.

 

The Buzzy Bee Gnomes collection is packed with everything you need to create stunning Gnome & bee-themed crafts. Featuring 18 pre-coloured Bee Buzzy Gnome digital stamps, 18 black and white versions for colouring, sentiment sheets, SVG cutting files, printable papers, clipart, and more, this is the ultimate all-in-one value pack.

Perfect for junk journaling, card making, scrapbooking, digital crafts and DIY stationery, this bundle delivers incredible variety and flexibility with beautiful hand-drawn artwork in high-resolution format.

Honey Bee Dreams is a huge printable junk journal kit which includes the full Honey Bee Dreams collection in one value-packed download. With 71 high-quality pages, this bundle is perfect for bee-themed junk journaling, scrapbooking, cardmaking, and all kinds of creative paper crafts. 

This stunning collection includes coordinating printable papers, tags, ephemera, envelopes/pockets, toppers, fussy cuts, embellishments, and clipart. It also features both portrait and landscape pages for easy printing and folding, making it ideal for constructing handmade journals. All elements are designed in a warm, shabby chic bee and floral style with watercolour textures and vintage charm. 

Includes 71 high-resolution JPG/PNG printables at 300 dpi. Compatible with Cricut, Silhouette, ScanNCut, or hand-cutting.

My get Bee well soon card today is a pretty hexagonal shaped card with a layer of paper from the Honey Bee Dreams collection  for the card background.

The main image with the bees is a fantastic digital stamp from the Buzzy Bee Gnomes collection.    The digital stamp Must Bee Tea Time has been coloured with promarkers and fussy cut out before mounting on the card with foam tape for dimension.

The finishing touches were glossy accents to the flowers centres, clear sparkle to the bees and honey coloured sequins around the design.

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 -Buzzy Bee Gnomes collection - Must Bee Tea Time

Polkadoodles digital sentiment -Buzzy Bee Gnomes collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper -  Honey Bee Dreams collection

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen

Craft Consortium sequins

glossy accents

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

Wendy x

No One's Perfect - Purrfect - Kitties with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Saturday....I hope you are enjoying the weekend so far - it's a hot one here for us so lots of cooling time inside and maybe a dip in the pool too.

I'm here today with a sweet little kitty card for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) featuring three of the quirky kitties from the Purrfect digital stamp set - Sadly this isn't available in the Etsy shop  but I'm sure that many of you may have got this if you were lucky enough to get hold of the fabulous bundle of store images.

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers and fussy cutting out to raise the kitties on the card background with foam tape.

I added a little stencilling in the background to the panel, a little grey shadow beneath the kitties and foiled the sentiment in blue.

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  - Purrfect

Lawn Fawn stencil - falling hearts

Distress ink - tumbled glass, weathered wood

Minc Foil - blue

     

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

 Wendy x

Quick Cards - Toppers - Bumble Buzz Digital collection with Julia McNeill Designs

Hello everyone Happy Friday - I hope you have all had a great week!

Its been so hot here this week and the temperatures are rising each day - it'll soon be 40C phew!  We had a lovely day out yesterday in Granada, wandering around streets we haven't explored and revisiting a small plaza that we first went to 19 years ago - needless to say there have been a lot of changes and one of our favourite little restaurants has been revamped and now has new owners ! sad but things change....

Today I'm sharing a couple of cards for JMC Designs  that I've created using the absolutely gorgeous Bumble Buzz Digital Collection.  I have to say I think this is probably my favourite of the digital collections - who doesn't love bees as they are such important little insects.

The gorgeous digital collection contains 

• 15 Digital Stamps
• 15 Pre Coloured Digital Stamps
• 6 Ephemera Sheets
• 5 Topper Sheets
• 4 Sentiment Sheets
• 23 papers.

and I think there's definitely something for everyone, if you love to colour or not.

I needed to make a couple of quick but pretty cards so I decided to use one of the topper sheets from the collection.  I printed out the sheet twice and adhered two toppers directly to may card bases leaving a small white outline around each.

Then I fussy cut out the floral elements and then adhered these onto each card for a little extra dimension.

To make the cards extra special I printed out a couple of sentiments and then foiled these with gold foil.

The finishing touches for both cards were some drops of glossy accents on the flowers, clear sparkle pen over the bees and a few pieces of gold confetti around the designs.

Two quick and simple cards all ready to post out next week.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

JMC Designs - Bumble Buzz Digital collection

Spellbinders confetti - gold

Glossy Accents

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 #791 - Get in Shape - Sponsored by LeAnn's World 101

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope that your week has started well.

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 being sponsored by LeAnn's World 101 and our theme of 'Shaped Cards' this week was chosen for team 2 by Kitty. 

I chose to use a really sweet image called Belly Dancing Bella coloured with Promarkers, before fussy cutting out.  The fabulous sentiment is from a set of stamps by Mama Elephant called Shall we Dance 

I decided to keep the colour palette bright and simple but there is lots of added sparkle which is far better in real life.

I have a confession to make ! - I misunderstood the theme for todays challenge - Get in Shape and went off on a tangent - my Get in Shape was really a play on words and rather than a simple arch shaped card, I added my arch to a panel of Moroccan styled paper to match the belly dancing image. 

After all dancing is supposed to be one of the best ways to Get in Shape !

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:

LeAnn's World 101 digital stamp - Belly Dancing Bella

Mama Elephant Stamp - Shall we Dance

Craftwork Cards Papers - Flying High

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, gold

     

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Horace & Boo - Fathers Day - Masculine card - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good 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!  

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 create a Father's Day card.

I decided to use a sweet image from the Horace & Boo collection - this is Horace  to create a more masculine pop up A6 card.

I chose a couple of papers from the Winnie Daisy Fairy 2 collection to layer onto the pop up card panels and then used a fancy edged die to cut out a centre panel.  I ink blended clouds over this white card.

The image was resized along with a sentiment from the Gnome Feeding Birds kit before printing out and colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out, layering at the bottom of the fancy panel.

To finish off my project I added some teal sequins and some die cut balloons.

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 image  - Horace & Boo collection - Horace

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Gnome Feeding Bird & Mouse bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Winnie Daisy Fairy 2 - Paper bundle 2

Sugar & Spice Sequins - unicorn mix

Distress Ink - salty ocean

Lawn Fawn stencil - cloudy

Studiolight - balloon die

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

Wendy x

Carnival Mermaid - May Freebie Digital Stamp - with Julia McNeil Designs

Hello everyone Happy Friday! I hope that you've had a great week and the weather has been kind where you are.... It's definitely Summer here with temperatures around 30C most days now.  The pool is starting to look very inviting too!  We're off down the the beach today for lunch with friends so I best get a wriggle on.

Today I'm back to share a card for JMC Designs  that I've made using the May freebie digital stamp - this is the Carnival Mermaid .... celebrating everything MerMay !

 

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 

To create my Mermaid card for today today I've used a piece of the watery paper from the aquatic adventures kit on the inside of an A6 card blank. I cut an arched aperture in the front of the card and then used the stencil to add bubbles to a piece of vellum, adding white pen highlights to the bubbles.  The acetate was adhered behind the aperture.

The mermaid was coloured with my Promarkers and fussy cut out and adhered using a strip of acetate into the frame.

The finishing touches were some little pen details to the mermaid tail, , coral from the digital kit and lots of sparkle.

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 - Carnival Mermaid Freebie digital stamp

JMC Designs - Aquatic Adventures digital kit

JMC Designs stencil - Evergreen Berries

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Winnie Mermazing - Sentiment bundle

Distress Ink - Salty Ocean

Posca pen - white

Sugar & Spice sequins - Under the Sea

LHC Mermaid tails - waterfall

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

Wendy x