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

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #815 - Christmas - Sponsored by Lili of the Valley

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - I hope that week is going well for you.  My goodness we've had so much rain over the last couple of days - everywhere is feeling very soggy and could do with a bit of drying time. 

We're starting phase two of our olive picking this week, assuming the rain stops long enough LOL 

The first batch of Olives has given us 200 litres of delicious extra Virgin Olive Oil and we'll probably get another 100 litres or so with the remaining trees to pick - not a bad yield at all.

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 'Christmas' it had to be really has been chosen by Me for team 2 and is being sponsored by Lili of the Valley.

For my card today I decided to create a snowy scene for one of the cutest snowmen -  the Top Hat Snowman

He's definitely such a happy looking chap.... I wonder if he's off to a Christmas party ?

I created a landscape stair step card using a standard A6 card blank and then for the step section I cut a piece of card  10" by 5 3/4" scoring this at 1", 2" 4" and 6"

The step section was then adhered into the inside of the card blank before decorating with a starry sky paper that I've had in my stash for years, for the middle and back panel and then used white card die cut to create snow banks, edging these with blue distress ink

The snowman and the trees were coloured with promarkers and fussy cut out, adhering to the middle panel.  The little star from the image was adhered using a strip of acetate so it floats in the sky above the snowman.

I added a couple of die cut trees to the card, these were coloured with distress ink and then the card was finished off with lots of lovely snowy sparkle.

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:

Lili of the Valley - Top Hat Snowman

Lili of the Valley - Cute Christmas sentiments

Distress ink -  salty ocean, twisted citron, rustic wilderness, brushed corduroy

Cosmic Shimmer 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 - Big Hat Day - Non Traditional Christmas colours - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....So, November is here and I think it's about time we got a little bit more Christmassy...it's not long to go after all and those cards need to be made and posted.

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 Anything with non traditional Christmas or Winter colours.

I decided to use a cute little digital stamp from the Theo Penguin collection for this weeks card making a Winter card that could easily be used at Christmas too!

The main Theo image is  called Big Hat Day and he was, resized and coloured with promarkers before fussy cutting out.

For the background I chose 3 alcohol markers in purple, teal and blue and used these to scribble onto a piece of vellum, adding alcohol to the scribbles to get the colours to blend and flow. It's a really fun technique and gives some fabulous effects.  

When I was happy with the overall effect and before the ink was completely dry I applied some electric blue foil to the areas that were still tacky.  I decided I wanted more foil so then splattered foil glue across the panel and once this has gone tacky applied more of the same foil.  It's super shiny and I love how it looks.

The coloured sentiment from the collection was printed and layered onto the pale aqua card after die cutting a stitched wavy border 

To finish off the design I added some sparkly aqua blue gems and white pen highlights around the design.

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 - Big Hat Day

Polkadoodles digital sentiment -  Theo Penguin - sentiment bundle

Cosmic Shimmer - cosmic twinkles - Icicle blue

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Alcohol markers  - purple, blue, teal & alcohol

Crafters Companion foul - electric blue

Gilding flake glue

Lawn Fawn die  - stitched wavy border

Echo Park Snowflake dies

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Aqua gems

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 #813 - Spots / Stripes - Sponsored by Dr Digis House of Stamps Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - I hope that week is going well for you.  Were busy working in the garden, hopefully getting our olives picked if the mill has opened so it'll be a very busy couple of weeks with no time for craft and lots of achy bones LOL

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 'Spots / stripes' has been chosen by Nat for team 2 and is being sponsored by Dis Digi Stamps

For my card today I decided to create a masculine card for my step son - its his birthday in December and he does painting and decorating as an extra job  in his spare time.... I hope he likes the card. I chose to use the Dunderton Decorators Ltd digital stamp

My card today features papers from my stash for the wall paper and the floor and I created a little wooden frame for the sentiment and a wooden dado rail for the little room

The image was coloured with promarkers, fussy cut out and adhered with foam tape.

Just some glossy accents added to his glasses to finish off the card.

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:

Dr Digis House of Stamps - Dunderton Decorators Ltd

Polkadoodles Digital sentiment - lily bug lady bird collection - sentiment bundle

LHC Frame Die

Distress ink - tea dye

Glossy Accents

   

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Have a bewitching Halloween - Halloween cards - Creepy Creatures collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Friday everyone... It's Halloween - I hope that you are having a Spooky day today.

I'm sharing another 2 of my projects today, two cards both created using the brand new Creepy Creatures collection  by Polkadoodles.  

For my first card arched shaped - Have a bewitching Halloween. I've used the wonderful tree stump with Witches cat - you know me and kitties LOL, coloured with promarkers and then fussy cut out.

I created an arch shaped card and then die cut a black frame.  The background paper is from the collection and I've used a stencil and black distress ink to add texture to the background.

My second card today is a pop up frame card - I do love making these.  The background is a paper from the collection and the main character digital stamp is the spooky  from the Creepy Things bundle

The finishing touches were some gems and white pen highlights.

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: 

Have a Bewitching Halloween:

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Creepy Creatures collection  

Polkadoodles digital paper - Creepy Creatures collection  

Polkadoodles digital  sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Polkadoodles Stencil - Funky Vortex grid

Distress ink - black soot

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - galaxy

Hope your Day is Filled with treats:

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Creepy Creatures collection  

Polkadoodles digital paper - Creepy Creatures collection  - Paper Bundle 2A

Polkadoodles digital  sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Distress ink - weathered wood

LCH tree Die

Pretty Pink Posh gems - grapefruit

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

Wendy x

New Release - Trick or Treat - BOO - Creepy Halloween card - Creepy Creatures collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Thursday everyone... It's Halloween Eve and I hope that you are getting ready for Halloween if you celebrate....I know its not everyone's cup of tea...I think were off to a party in our local bar but it depends how we feel tomorrow as JJ hasn't been well all week.  

Fingers and claws crossed LOL

I have a really creepy circular card for you today created using the brand new Creepy Creatures collection  by Polkadoodles.  

For this card I have used one of the pre-coloured  from the Creepy Things bundle, printed out twice and then decoupaged for dimension.

I blended a little orange ink around the background and layered onto one of the papers from the collection.

Simply and definitely creepy! Just love the two little mice on top of the skulls head.

The finishing touches were some confetti around the card.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Creepy Creatures collection  - Creepy Things 

Polkadoodles digital paper - Creepy Creatures collection  

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Distress ink - carved pumpkin

Spellbinders confetti - latte

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

Wendy x

New Release - Spooky Time & Spooky Season - Halloween card & Tag - Creepy Creatures collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Tuesday everyone... I hope that you are having a good week so far - we are expecting some lovely rain this afternoon - yeah !  I know it's a bit strange wishing for the rain LOL

It's Halloween Week so today I'm sharing 2 of my projects - a card and a tag. which have both been created using the brand new Creepy Creatures collection  by Polkadoodles.  

For my first card - Spooky Time I've used the strange and creepy little Candy Corns from the Creepy Things bundle

 

I resized them to create 3 different  creepies and printed them out before colouring with Promarkers and fussy cutting out....we didn't have Candy Corn really in the UK and definitely not here in Spain but these are super spooky with their little rabbit ears .

I used papers from the collection to mat and layer onto the DL card leaving a torn edge on the striped paper for texture.

The SPOOKY word was die cut from black card and then sprayed with Distress Mica Spray

The little candy corns were tucked around the word and the card was finished off with sparkly gems.

A fun and cute Spooky card I think....

My second Halloween make today is a cute and simple little tag - perfect for a Halloween gift or goody bag

The cute little Bat boy dressed up was resized to suit my tag and then I decided to colour him him dressing up as a tiger...its actually a little bat costume but all I could see was a kitty or a tiger.  Coloured with promarkers and fussy cut out.

The tag background was created with distress inks and the mica sprays.

The finishing touches were some gems, glossy accents, wool for the tag and the sentiment, cut out and inked with lime green ink

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Spooky Time card:

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Creepy Creatures collection - Creepy Things bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Creepy Creatures collection  - Paper Bundle 1C

Polkadoodles digital  sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Wink of Stella - black

Pretty Pink Posh gems - grapefruit

LHC alphabet dies

Distress Mica spray - antique bronze

Spooky Season tag:

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Creepy Creatures collection Bat Boy

Polkadoodles digital  sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Polkadoodles digital paper - Creepy Creatures collection - Paper bundle 2

Distress ink - black soot, weathered wood, twisted citron

Distress Mica spray - antique bronze, brushed pewter

glossy accents

Pretty Pink Posh gems - grapefruit

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Freddy Fox collection - November Birthday - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....We're nearly at the end of October and well into Autumn now, the leaves around the garden are falling fast and lots of the plants are starting to think about resting over Winter.  It's been a long hot Summer so a well earned rest I think

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 November Birthday - and as its still officially Autumn until December 21st I thought I would choose to create something with one of my favourite collections especially for this time of the year

It's of course the  Freddy Fox collection and I have created a DL card for my friend back in the UK.

The main Freddy image for todays card is Birthday Balloons, resized and coloured with promarkers before fussy cutting out.

For the background I chose 3 papers from the collection, layering these up for my scene of Freddy floating through the sky.  The pre-coloured butterflies from the ephemera bundle were added to the sky paper before printing out.

I added little cross stitched borders to the paper layers for extra details.

The sentiment from the collection was printed as a simple strip and added  towards the bottom of the card.

To finish off the design I added some sparkle to the butterflies and some pretty sequins around the design.

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 - Freddy Fox Collection - Birthday Balloons

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Freddy Fox Collection -  Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - - Freddy Fox Collection - paper bundle 2 & paper bundle 3

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Freddy Fox Collection - ephemera bundle

Cosmic Shimmer - cosmic twinkles - Icicle blue

Lawn fawn Stitched border die

Iridescent sequins

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

Wendy x

New Release - Hey There Pumpkin - Halloween cards - Creepy Creatures collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Monday everyone... I hope that you had a lovely weekend!

It's Halloween Week and I've still got lots of Spooky Cute cards to share with you so I might have to do a couple each day...apologies in advance but I really want to share them all with you.

Both of my cards today are created using the brand new Creepy Creatures collection  by Polkadoodles.  

For my first card I've used the Pumpkin Head digital stamp from the Creepy Things bundle, brightly coloured with Promarkers and fussy cut out....I love using fun bright colours for Halloween, its doesn't always have to be all about dark grunge.

For my simply spooky card I chose one of the fabulous background papers from the collection, resizing this to fit my smaller 6" x 6" card, punching the corners out and then layering onto magenta card stock.

I printed out the sentiment and then applied hot pink foil to it before fussy cutting out.

The cute little pre-coloured  Happy Pumpkin was printed out and fussy cut before tucking behind the little Pumpkin head boy...I added glossy accents to make his eyes pop out.

The finishing touches were some fluorescent yellow gel pens to the pumpkins eyes and nose to make him extra spooky, the tops of the tree and bats and in the windows of the spooky mansion.

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: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Cute and Creepy bundle - Pumpkin Head

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Creepy Creatures collection - Happy Pumpkin

Polkadoodles digital  sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Polkadoodles digital paper - Creepy Creatures collection - Paper bundle 2

glossy accents

Minc foil - hot pink

candy confetti

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

Wendy x

Christmas Tree....Oh! - It wasn't me! - New stamps with Creative Ember Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday I hope you're having a good weekend.

We had a great walk yesterday despite having to be up at 5:45 to catch the coach....it was quite a long drive to a town called Zafarraya and a hot day too - we walked 12km followed by a great lunch in the town in a large carpa or marquee specially erected for the event....there were loads of people there walking and two routes a short and a long one....so as you can image today we're both a little tired.   Good job the clocks went back and gave us an extra hour today..... A day to relax so I thought I would share a card I've made using some great new products from a brand new company Creative Ember Designs by Leonie Pujol.

When I saw these fantastic kitties I had to splash out and I love them - so quirky and just like our kitties !

I treated myself to a couple of the  stamps sets and a fab stencil that's definitely not just for Christmas. Todays card is featuring our sweet ginger boy Foxy and we  see him investigating the Christmas Tree each year but thankfully no breakages so far.

I thought I would keep a simple colour palette of greens and oranges and I'm really pleased with the end result.  The background panel was inked with distress inks and then I added some Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders for shine.  To finish off the panel I stamped the Christmas tee in green Versafine Clair ink and then splattered the panel with more ink for texture.

Next I used dies to create a frame or window, I wanted it to look like someone looking in at the scene and Foxy saying 'it wasn't me!'

The frame was coloured with inks and then I used the stencil to add some words and texture.

Foxy was stamped using distress Oxide ink and then I've used to water brush to pull out the colour .

I finished Foxy off by using a white pastel pencil to add his stripes and then fussy cut him out.

The frame and Foxy were adhered to the card using foam tape and then I added the sentiment, stamped

on card with inked edges.

Finishing touches were glossy accents to Foxy's eyes and the baubles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

Creative Ember Designs stamps- Hap-paw Christmas

Creative Ember Designs stamps - Oh! Christmas Tree

Creative Ember Designs stencil - Wordy

Distress Oxide ink - rusty hinge, lucky clover, scattered straw

Distress ink - peacock feathers, salvaged patina, cracked pistachio, kitsch flamingo, ground espresso

Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powder - peacock green, silver dream

Derwent pastel pencil - titanium white

Versafine Clair ink - rainforest

glossy accents

    

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

 Wendy x