A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #818 - Mega Christmas Challenge

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - I hope that week is going well for you.  Oh my goodness its nearly Christmas Day so I hope you are all ready for the celebrations , your cards are posted and presents wrapped.

I'm looking forward to having a few days chilling to be honest and on Christmas Day itself we are off to a fabulous hotel in Granada as a special treat.

There's a month long Mega Christmas challenge on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and I hope that you will join in.

Our very special 'Mega Christmas challenge' which runs for a whole month ends on 6th January 2026! with a really easy theme of 'Add a sentiment' and is being sponsored by lots of wonderful sponsors so there are loads of prized up for grabs.

We don't mind what you create for this challenge, as long as you colour with your markers!  You are welcome to make Christmas creations but as the challenge will still be running after the ‘BIG’ day you can of course make any type of creation.

As time is precious for the DT at this time of year we are limiting the number of entries you can make to just 3 for this month long challenge.  Please remember to be eligible for our prizes you must include a hand-coloured image using your markers such as Promarkers, Copics, Spectrum Noir, Karin, Zig Clean Color etc. 

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Dies to Die For are offering 1 lucky winner a £25.00 gift voucher

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Uniko Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 1 product of your choice (must be in stock)

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Leann’s World 101 are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

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All Dressed Up stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

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Polkadoodles are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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Sheepski Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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RAM Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a £10.00 voucher

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Di's Digi Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a £6.00 voucher

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Colour of Love Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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So for my card today I decided to use a really cute image from my favourite Polkadoodles Gingerbread Cookie Collection - this is Build a Snowman, coloured with my Promarkers and then fussy cut out, leaving the bank of snow at the bottom for them to stand on.

I created the background scene blending distress inks and then adding water splatter and white ink splatter.

The finishing touches were some white gelly roll pen highlights, sparkly confetti and lots of wonderful sparkle to the hats and the snow and of course a Happy Christmas sentiment.

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas !

I hope that you join in with the challenge as there is a prize from the sponsor for our lucky winner!

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 - Gingerbread Cookie - Build a Snowman

Distress ink - wilted violet, villainous potion, tumbled glass, uncharted mariner

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy ink - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - icicle blue

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - galaxy

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

Sending lots of Christmas Cheer - Freebie Digital image - Winter Snail - with Julia McNeil Designs

Hello everyone Happy Tuesday !  

I hope you are enjoying the week so far.

I thought today I  would share a cute little Christmas card that I have made using the Freebie digital stamp for December by JMC Designs .  If you haven't seen it yet then don't worry here is the link to download the digital stamp.

https://mailchi.mp/5974ab4aaf01/jmcfreedigiwintersnail

As well as the freebie, there is also a video to watch that shows how the digital stamp evolved - here is the link

I added a Christmas sentiment to the bottom of the image before printing out and colouring with my Promarkers and then fussy cutting out, leaving a snowy bank of card at the bottom of the design.

Next I created my Wintery background, blending distress oxide inks to create a Winter Alpine scene with mountains, fir trees and lots of snow

Finishing touches were some glitter to the snails ear muffs and his spots.

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

We would love to see what you make with this cute little winter snail so why not get creating and then upload it to the Facebook page JMCs Crazy Crafty Hive

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Distress Oxides - salvaged patina speckled egg. cracked pistachio, rustic wilderness, lucky clover, salty ocean

Pebeo gesso - white

Cosmic Shimmer - cosmic twinkles

Sunny studio stencil - forest trees

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

Wendy x

New Release - Winter Birthday - Festive & Christmas cards - Mabel collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Sunday everyone... Were off out today for a Christmas lunch with the walking group, it's going to be extremely noisy but good food and fun too.  Great for practising our Spanish too.

I'm sure that by now you have seen the brand new release by Polkadoodles, such a cute collection.

The Mabel Collection is a heart-warming range of cute girl character printables designed for card makers, planner lovers and creative crafters. 

The collection includes digital stamps, pre-coloured clipart, SVG cutting files, digital papers, sentiments and big-value bundles that are perfect for Christmas holiday cards, New Year celebrations, winter birthdays and year-round celebrations. 

Whether you prefer colouring black-and-white digi stamps or using ready-to-go pre-coloured images, these designs are ideal for making thoughtful handmade cards, printable craft stickers, planner stickers, junk journals, scrapbook pages, party décor and small-business craft makes.

There are 5 mini collections for you to choose from  Woodland Winter, Festive Wishes, Starry Celebrations, Cosy Cocoa and Pawsitively Festive but I definitely couldn't choose a favourite.

This is my second card using the new release but as always there's loads more inspiration for you in the gallery on the Polkadoodles website

My Christmas card today uses the Festive Wishes collection.  I coloured Mabel with my Promarkers before die cutting the panel with an arched die.

The card fits a standard 6" x 6" envelope and I've used a couple of the pretty papers from the bundle to layer onto the card and one of the sentiments

The finishing touches for the card was lots of extra sparkle to Mabel, white highlights to the image and some die cut snowflakes in red and gold to coordinate with the papers.

I hope that you like my projects today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Happy Halloween

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital kit- Mabel Collection - Festive Wishes 

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

gems

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - White

Echo Park - Snowflake dies

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

Wendy x

Ho Ho Ho - Juggling Penguins with Lili of the Valley

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday I hope you have had a great week and have a wonderful weekend planned.

I’m back adding to my Penguin obsession with another card for Lili of the Valley….. these happy friends look like they’re having loads of fun.

This image is called Juggling Penguins, coloured with Promarkers and a distress ink background

I've added the sentiment from the Cute Christmas sentiments to the bottom of the cute over the edge image before printing out and colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out, leaving the snow bank at the bottom of the design.

To create the background panel I blended distress inks from purple up to blue and then used a stencil over the top of this to add a little texture.  I splattered a little water and then once dry splattered the panel with white gesso.  Once completely dry the snowman and penguins were adhered to the coloured panel with foam tape 

Finishing touches were some clear sparkle to the hats and ear muffs and snow on the ground. 

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share for Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley # LOTVdt

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp   - Juggling Penguins

LOTV Digital Sentiment - Cute Christmas Sentiments

Distress ink - shaded lilac, wilted violet, villainous potion, uncharted mariner

Pebeo Gesso - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue 

Creative Craft Products - stencil Falling triangles

     

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Theo Penguin collection - December Birthday - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....I'm definitely getting into the Christmas mood, our tree is up and were off to our first Christmas meal in a few days time with the local walking group.   It will be fun and extremely noisy no doubt LOL

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 December birthday so I thought I would create another card using one of the cute little digital stamps from the Theo Penguin collection this could easily be used at Christmas too but I love that the images are not just for Christmas.

My card today uses Theo Just for You resized  and coloured with promarkers before fussy cutting out....I wanted to create a simple card for today so chose a spotty paper for the bottom of the card and then added some stencilling to the top of the card with red distress ink.

I added some red metallic splatter across the panel and adhered the birthday sentiment strip with a fine border of silver metallic card.

to finish the card I added some silver confetti and a small strip of colourful bunting.

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 stamps - Theo Penguin - Just For You

Polkadoodles digital paper -  Theo Penguin - Classic Winter Paper set 

Polkadoodles digital sentiment -  Theo Penguin - sentiment bundle

red metallic watercolour paint

Distress ink - candied apple

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - silver

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 #817 - Add some bling - Sponsored by Clearly Besotted

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - I hope that week is going well for you.  I'm slowly getting back into the rhythm of blogging again - not sure why its so hard at the moment - even though we have finished the olives there is still so much to do everyday.  Just all the Winter jobs on the campo !

There's a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and I hope that you will join in.

This weeks challenge theme of 'Add some bling' has been chosen by Elaine for team 2 and is being sponsored by Clearly Besotted

The perfect theme for all those Winter celebration and Christmas cards don't you think 

For my card today I decided to create a snowy scene for a couple of very cute penguins - they look like they are having loads of fun sliding down the snowy slopes.

I chose one of the fabulous pre-coloured winter backgrounds for my 5" x7" card matting this with silver card.  Next I die cute some super sparkly snowy slopes from silver glitter card, layering these onto the bottom of the card.

I die cut a couple of Christmas trees using one of the green papers from the collection adding these to the scene.

Next, I resized the Snow Day image to suite my design colouring with promarkers before fussy cutting out and adding to the scene.

This image just makes me smile - it's so cute !

The finishing touches were some white gelly roll pen highlights on the penguins and then some extra bling teal and clear sequins.

Its definitely a card packed with bling !

I hope that you join in with the challenge as there is a prize from the sponsor for our lucky winner!

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 Collection - Snow Day

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Theo Penguin Collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Theo Penguin Collection - background bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Theo Penguin Collection - paper bundle 2

Sugar and 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

Winter Wishes - Snow Cute with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Monday and a happy December too!

I thought today I'd share another of my Christmas cards for the year. - My next job is to get some written and in the post before its too late.

Todays card uses on the very cute over the edge designs  from the Snow Cute collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV)  available in the Etsy shop. 

There's some special savings in the store today so don't miss out !

I've used one of the large Christmas sentiments , adding this to the bottom of the cute over the edge image before printing out and colouring with promarkers.  I fussy cut out the top portion of the image.

Next I chose one of the snowflake papers from the Icy Snowflakes collection adding this to the card blank on a layer of teal card.

Finishing touches were some clear sparkle to the hat and ear muffs and some die cut snowflakes. 

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share for Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley # LOTVdt

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp   - Snow Cute

LOTV Digital Sentiment - large Christmas sentiments

LOTV Digital Paper - Icy Snowflakes

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue 

Snowflake punch

Gems

Echo Park Snowflake die

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Winter Birthday - Festive & Christmas cards - Mabel collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Sunday everyone... It's the last day of November and I'm actually getting a little bit excited now about Christmas - I think all the work on the campo has made us both a bit shell shocked to its nice having work at a slower pace now and we can hopefully enjoy the trips out, Christmas meals  and the big day itself.

I'm still not quite back into a routine again with my blogging, I keep forgetting completely so apologies but hopefully it will get better - fingers crossed. LOL

There's a brand new release by Polkadoodles and its so cute you will love it I'm sure. I  would like to introduce you to Mabel - isn't she adorable.

The Mabel Collection is a heart-warming range of cute girl character printables designed for card makers, planner lovers and creative crafters. 

The collection includes digital stamps, pre-coloured clipart, SVG cutting files, digital papers, sentiments and big-value bundles that are perfect for Christmas holiday cards, New Year celebrations, winter birthdays and year-round celebrations. 

Whether you prefer colouring black-and-white digi stamps or using ready-to-go pre-coloured images, these designs are ideal for making thoughtful handmade cards, printable craft stickers, planner stickers, junk journals, scrapbook pages, party décor and small-business craft makes.

There are 5 mini collections for you to choose from  Woodland Winter, Festive Wishes, Starry Celebrations, Cosy Cocoa and Pawsitively Festive but I definitely couldn't choose a favourite.

This is my first card using the new release but as always there's loads more inspiration for you in the gallery on the Polkadoodles website

My Winter birthday card today uses the Woodland  Winter collection.  I coloured Mabel with my Promarkers before  fussy cutting her out.

The background was created using distress Oxides, blending to create a Wintery sky for the scene before splattering with water and then white ink.

I die cute a couple of snowy hills, one of these I had added the sentiment to before printing, adding a little lilac ink to the top edge and lots of sparkly snow.

The finishing touches for the card was lots of extra sparkle to Mabel's hat and scarf.

I hope that you like my projects today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Happy Halloween

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital kit- Mabel Collection - Woodland Winter 

Distress Oxide - shaded lilac, iced spruce, speckled egg, wilted violet

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy ink - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - icicle blue

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Theo Penguin collection - Sparkle & Shine - Christmas - with Polkadoodles

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

I cant quite believe that November is nearly over - this year has gone extremely fast and we seem to have been constantly busy. Autumn and Winter are always busy in the garden, picking the olives then pruning all the trees ready for the Winter. I'm looking forward to a bit more relaxation over December - fingers crossed LOL

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 Sparkle and Shine so I decided to create a Winter card using one of the cute little digital stamps from the Theo Penguin collection this could easily be used at Christmas too!

The main Theo image is called Skating Along and I have resized him 3 times and coloured with promarkers before fussy cutting out....I wanted to create a scene for Theo and his friends with them skating down an icy stream on a DL card.

For the background I chose one of the icy looking papers from the collection, cutting it to fit my DL card.  Next I cut a wavy peice of double sided adhesive sheet and adhered this to the card.  To create the ice path I applied sparkly glitter to the adhesive sheet, burnishing it to the sheet with the back of the adhesive sheet.

I love how much this sparkles and it looks like an icy stream flowing down the card.

I die cut a border frame from silver glitter card and also the coloured sentiment from the collection was printed and layered onto a piece of silver glitter card and adhered across the card.

Finally I added Theo and his friends to the card

This is one of my favourite Winter cards and it was so easy to create.

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 stamps - Theo Penguin - Skating Along 

Polkadoodles digital paper -  Theo Penguin - Icy Winter paper set 1

Polkadoodles digital sentiment -  Theo Penguin - sentiment bundle

LHC Mermaid Tails - Waterfall

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

Wendy x