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

Bunny Happy Returns - Bunny Birthday Photo Strip - Accordion Gate Fold with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday and a great weekend ahead......We're off walking tomorrow with our local walking group - we set off in the coach at 6:30am so its an early night tonight and I'm definitely not looking forward to such an early start but hopefully it will be a fun day ahead....I'll let you know how we get on as its our first proper walk after the Summer so I'm sure well have achy legs on Sunday LOL

I thought we'd have a change from Halloween cards to I'm back today with a sweet little Bunny card using the Bunny Birthday Photo Strip by Lili of the Valley (LOTV)  available in the Etsy shop. 

Its a new card fold for me too and I'm really pleased how its worked out. The fold is called an Accordion Gate Fold and I watched a tutorial by Lisa's Stamp Studio but there are loads of tutorials out there and its a really easy card to construct.

This is the video on YouTube that I followed for the measurements etc. The finished card when folded fits neatly into a C6 size envelope.

For my card today  I have used some fun purple and magenta card to create the card base and then used  an old paper pad from my stash to layer onto the panels.

Its such a pretty paper pad from years ago (2014) called Bonnets & Bowties but was perfect for the colours and the card theme. I used the paper pad to help me choose the colours for the little bunny panels, colouring with promarkers before cutting out.

Finishing touches were some clear sparkle, purple confetti and white gelly roll pen highlights around the card.

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   - Bunny Birthday Photo Strip

LOTV Designer Paper - Bonnets & Bowties

LHC small envelop die

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - sugar plum

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

New Release - Boo - Halloween card - Spooky Owl - Shaker card - Creepy Creatures collection with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday everyone... I hope that you are having a great week...we're off to Granada today with friends, taking them to a wonderful restaurant that we went to last week - yes we loved it so much were going back.  The views of the Alhambra are breath-taking and the food was perfect - I hope they like it too....fingers crossed

I'm back with another card from the brand new Creepy Creatures collection  by Polkadoodles.  

For my spooky shaker card today I chose to use the Spooky Owl  from the Cute and Creepy Bundle.  I resized the image to suit my A6 Portrait card and then added the large Boo sentiment under the owl before printing out and colouring with my Promarkers. 

I fussy cut out the centres of the large BOO letters so I could make a little shaker window behind using some clear acetate and Halloween coloured sequins.  I added a little orange distress ink around the owl and a few more sequins for additional shine.

The background paper is from the collection too.

The finishing touches were some glossy accents to the Owls eyes so they really stand out .

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 - Spooky Owl

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Polkadoodles digital paper - Creepy Creatures collection - Paper bundle 1c

Distress Ink - spiced marmalade.

glossy accents

sequins

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 #811 - Fun Folds - Sponsored by Dis Digital Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - I hope that week is going well for you, October is definitely flying by - it'll be you know what before long 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 'Fun Folds' has been chosen by Kitty for team 2 and is being sponsored by Dis Digi Stamps

For my Fun fold card today I decided to create an A6 size pop up card using a sweet image by Polkadoodles. This is Flower Fairy from the Winnie Daisy Fairy collection 

My pop up card today is really easy to make but I think fun, its a smaller C6 size and folds flat for posting.

The card base is a piece of card measuring 5 1/2" x 9" scored at 2" on both sides, then flip the card over and score at 3 1/4" on both sides   

You can obviously adjust these measurements to create a larger or smaller version.

Winnie was resized to suit the card base and printed out onto alcohol friendly card before colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out.

I used the pretty papers to decorate the panels of the card , die cut oval shapes for Winnie to be adhered to and also created flowers from the papers to decorate the design, adding candi and glossy accents to the flower centres.

Finishing touches were some gold confetti around the design and white gelly roll pen highlights.

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

Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Winnie Daisy Fairy - Flower Fairy

Polkadoodles Digital papers - Winnie Daisy Fairy - Paper set 2 & paper set 4

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment- Winnie Daisy Fairy - Everyday Greetings  

Spellbinders confetti - gold

Flower Die

Glossy Accents

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

New Release - Scary Things - Halloween card - Creepy bird in a hat - Creepy Creatures collection with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Monday... I hope that you have all had a great weekend.  I've got loads of admin to do on the computer this week... I've been bad not been keeping on top of things so I'm hoping to sort that out soon and then I can craft again....fingers crossed.

I'm back with another card from the brand new Creepy Creatures collection  by Polkadoodles.  It's a fantastic collection of 3 bundles.  Cute & Creepy, Witches & Broomsticks and Creepy Things, 

Inside the collection you’ll find everything from pumpkins, ghosts, skeletons, mummies, bats, monsters and creepy dolls, to witches, broomsticks, cauldrons, spell books, black cats and potion bottles. Perfect for trick or treat cards, party invites, scrapbook layouts, junk journal spreads, stickers, planner pages and DIY stationery.

Each design comes as both pre-coloured images for quick makes and black & white digital stamps for colouring at home. Every bundle also includes free SVG outlines, making them ideal for Cricut, Silhouette Cameo and Brother ScanNCut.

For my spooky card today I chose to use the Creepy Bird in a hat  from the Cute and Creepy Bundle.  I resized the image to suit my A6 landscape card and then duplicated the image, flipping one so the two birds face each other.  I also added one of the spooky sentiments to the panel before printing out onto alcohol friendly cardstock and colouring with my Promarkers.

I wanted to create a spooky night time scene so I fussy cut out the top of the birds creating a small hill and then used distress inks to colour this.  I added a little green splatter to the grass for detail.

For the background panel I used a moon mask & Stencil and distress inks, adding water splatter to add texture.

I used foam tape to mount the bird design over the moon panel - a really simple but spooky 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: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Cute and Creepy bundle - Creepy Bird in hat

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Distress Ink - milled lavender, wilted violet, villainous potion, twisted citron, rustic wilderness.

Tim Holtz Moon Mask and stencil

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

Wendy x