Autumn and Fall Card Making Ideas - New Release - You Make the world a Better Place - Hello Autumn collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Monday  everyone... I hope that you have had a great weekend.   

After a few slightly cooler days the temperature has ramped up again and it's really humid too which isn't helping.  I am now longing to see a little rain and cooler nights too.

I'm super excited to share another card today using the brand new digital release by Polkadoodles called Hello Autumn.

The Hello Autumn Collection is a cute and whimsical mix of Autumn and Halloween digital craft supplies featuring adorable woodland animals, pumpkins, witches, ghosts and spooky seasonal fun. Perfect for card making, scrapbooking, Cricut and ScanNCut projects, paper crafts and printable crafts, the collection includes digital stamps, pre-coloured clipart, printable papers, scene backgrounds, toppers and 160 greetings and sentiments. 


From cosy Autumn / Fall makes to cute Halloween cards, Hello Autumn is packed with everything you need for creative seasonal crafting.

This is the most adorable Hedgehog Sunflowers and what a huge bouquet of flowers he is carrying.  I love sunflowers, they are such happy flowers and bring a smile to everyone face.  They were one of my mums favourite flowers too !

Once again I have the pre-coloured image from the collection, partly because using my promarkers in the heat we have been experiencing has been a nightmare but also because I know that a lot of my crafty friends love using the pre-coloured digital images...they are perfectly coloured by Nikky too !

My card is a beautiful 6" x 6" Upright Easel card, made from a Kraft card base and layered with pretty autumn papers from the collection.

The main hedgehog image was printed out a couple of times so I could fussy cut out the bouquet to add on top of the image and I have blended a little warm yellow distress ink over the edges of the image panel to tone down the whiteness of the card.

The coloured sentiment was printed and added to a panel of Kraft card and then this adhered to the centre of a strip of card and paper to act as the easel stopper. I decided to embellish the card with die cut Kraft card flourishes and little gold vellum flowers.

To finish off my card today I've added clear sparkle pen over the bouquet of flowers and coffee coloured confetti around the design.


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:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Hello Autumn - Hedgehog Sunflowers
Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Hello Autumn - Greetings bundle
Polkadoodles digital papers - Hello Autumn - paper set 1 & paper set 6
Spellbinders confetti - latte
Spectrum Noir sparkle pen - clear
flower punch
swirl die



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


Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Udderly Glad we're Friends - Double Z Fold - Friendship - Udderley Cute Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far and that the weather is being kind to you.  The start of September and here's hoping some cooler days and maybe a little rain too.

this year has definitely been a hot one and the garden is crying out for a little relief from the high Summer temperatures.

It's time for the Design Team to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog. 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 by Nikky was Friendship and I'm I've decided that I'm going to send this card to my best friend in the UK as I miss seeing her so much. 

My Friendship card today features the absolutely gorgeous Udderly Cute Collection. 

I started by creating an A7 Fold card base and then cut a second smaller Z-fold card from chocolate brown card.

The Kraft card base was scored at 2 1/2" on the front panel, folded back on itself and burnished.

For the smaller card that has the main image I cut a piece of card measuring 10" x 5" scoring this at 2" and 4" again, folding and burnishing. The smaller card will be adhered onto the base card after decorating the panels with patterned papers.

I chose a wood grain paper from the collection and the pretty paper with lots of presents and hearts to mat onto the crd base with chocolate brown panels.

I have used the very sweet Gift and Balloons digital stamp, adding one of the sentiments over the top of the image, before printing out and colouring with promarkers to match the pretty papers.

Then main coloured image was adhered to the front panel of the card.

I decided to print out one of the ephemera sheets from the collection, fussy cutting out a couple of the daisy flowers, a label and a little heart, adding these to the design along with a few little die cut hearts and gems and white gelly roll pen highlights.

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 !

Card recipe: Polkadoodles digital stamp - Udderly Cute - Gift and Balloons

Polkadoodles digital papers - Udderly Cute - paper pack 3 & pack 5

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Udderly Cute - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Udderly Cute - coloured ephemera pack

tiny pink gems from my stash

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

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #853 - Faux or Real stitching - Autumn Birthday Wishes - Sponsored by Dis Digital Stamps

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all I hope that you are having a lovely week so far!

Oh it's been a lovely few days with lovely sunshine in the day, cooler nights and refreshingly cool mornings....a little hotter this week but I can cope with that. LOL

I'm here today to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog.

This week our challenge is being sponsored by DisDigiStamps and the theme chosen by Kitty for team 2 is Faux or Real Stitching.

I quite often like to use dies that give a stitched edge as I love the texture they add to a design and I also love stamping stitches too so for my card today I decided to combine the two.

For my Autumnal birthday card I chose a sweet little image of a Squirrel carrying a huge acorn - this is Sammy's Surprise and its was a freebie that Di very kindly gave to her Facebook group members.

The image was coloured with a my promarkers and then I fussy cut him out adding foam tape to the back for dimension.

Next I create the background for the design, using an A2 ivory card blank and adding a layer of wood grain papers onto the front of the card.  I stamped a stitched border onto this in brown and then used a stitched edge die to cut a layer of leafy paper, adhering this on an angle.  Then I used a smaller stitched edge die to cut a second layer of woodgrain paper, adding a stamped stitched border to this before adhering to the base card agin on an angle.  The sentiment was cut as a wedge shape and I used the same stitched edge to add detail before inking with yellow and then orange distress ink.

Finally I added the sentiment and Sammy to the card.

The design was finished off with coffee coloured confetti, glossy accents to Sammy's nose, white gelly pen highlights and some little fussy cut out leaves from the leafy paper.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card packed with flowers 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:

DisDigiStamps - Sammy's Surprise

Polkadoodles sentiment 

Hot Off The Press Stamps - Stamped Stitches

Pink fresh Studios essential dies - Diagonal Stitched rectangles

CWC Designer paper - Frozen Forest

Mo's Digital Pencil paper - freebie

Distress ink - Carved pumpkin, squeezed lemonade

Versafine Clair Ink - Pinecone

Spellbinders confetti - latte

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

Hello card Ideas - Little Ballerinas - Just a Little Note to say Hi - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday - I hope that you have had a lovely week and something nice planned for the weekend.

We've had such a busy week again, walking with friends on Monday and then shopping  on Wednesday down on the coast for furniture for our new terrace upstairs.  Hopefully its going to be delivered next week so JJ is busy finishing off the pergola roof and making a cabinet for the fridge to go it.  It going to be lovely place to sit in the evenings.  I also went to my very relaxing yoga class this morning so I'm now feeling very chilled and looking forward to our Friday night Date Night in town.

The weather has finally started to cool down thankfully so sleeping it definitely getting easier and we will soon be able to get some tidying done in the garden too.  Lots of the plants are looking very tired indeed so I'm hoping we will get some rain soon too to revive them.

The cooler days will also mean I can start colouring with my promarkers again - they definitely do not like the heat at all.

  

I'm back today to share a sweet little hello card using one of the digital stamps from the recent little Ballerinas release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV) available from the Etsy shop. The collection includes 9 gorgeous little images that come in black and white line art for you to colour and they are also available recoloured too if you prefer.

My little hello card today features the Little Ballerina Shy digital stamp coloured with my promarkers and then fussy cut out by hand.  

I adhered a layer of co-ordinating plain paper and an embossed panel of purple card at the top, keeping the background simple so the sweet little girl is the focal point of the card.  I sanded back the embossed area and added a touch of pink distress ink to show the embossed detail.

Finishing touches of white gel pen highlights, clear sparkle on the ballerinas dress and the sweetest little hello sentiment.

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 - Little Ballerinas - Little Ballerina Shy

Lily of the Valley Paper - Bonnets & Bowties

Distress Ink - Kitsch Flamingo

Crafts Too Embossing folder

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - Sugar Plum

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

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

#lotv #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt #liliofthevalley 

Halloween Card Making Ideas - New Release - Bad to the Bone - Hello Autumn collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Friday  everyone... I hope that you have had a great week and are enjoying the weather.

We've finally had a few slightly cooler days which I have to say is a relief - even sleeping at night has been a little easier so Im hoping it lasts.

I'm super excited to share my first card today using the brand new digital release by Polkadoodles called Hello Autumn.

The Hello Autumn Collection is a cute and whimsical mix of Autumn and Halloween digital craft supplies featuring adorable woodland animals, pumpkins, witches, ghosts and spooky seasonal fun. Perfect for card making, scrapbooking, Cricut and ScanNCut projects, paper crafts and printable crafts, the collection includes digital stamps, pre-coloured clipart, printable papers, scene backgrounds, toppers and 160 greetings and sentiments.


From cosy Autumn makes to cute Halloween cards, Hello Autumn is packed with everything you need for creative seasonal crafting.

Here is my first card using the collection - This is the cute Bear & Mouse in a Pumpkin Car and as soon as I saw this digital stamp I had the music Bad to the Bone running through my head - If you don't know it then google it and I apologise in advance for passing not he ear worm.  LOL

I made a decision for this new collection to use the pre-coloured images in the collection, partly because using my promarkers in the heat we have been experiencing has been a nightmare but also because I know that a lot of my crafty friends love using the pre-coloured digital images...they are perfectly coloured by Nikky too !

I die cut a shaped card from Kraft as I think this is the perfect colour of card with the entire collection and then chose a couple of the patterned papers to layer onto this card base.

I know we are all thinking of postage costs these days so I've kept the layers simple, to cut down on the weight of the finished card.

The main image was resized in Canva and then printed out a couple of times as I wanted to layer up the wheels and the furry dice.

Going with the theme of Bad to the Bone, I can imagine these two cuties driving around the town causing mayhem with their pumpkin Chopper so I decided to add a pennant style Boo banner at the back of the Chopper.  I cut the sentiment from the multi sentiment download and fastened this to a small piece of Kraft card with some gem stone brads for that touch of the biker feel.

It's a simple wooden skewer, coloured with a black brush marker and then attached to the cutout Boo banner

To finish off my card today I've added glossy accents to the pumpkin wheel caps, mouses goggles and the furry dice and scattered gold confetti around the design.

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: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Hello Autumn - Cute Bear & Mouse in a Pumpkin Car

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Hello Autumn - Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Hello Autumn - paper set 1

Spellbinders confetti - gold

glossy accents

gem brads

wooden skewer

Ecoline Brush Pen - black

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Magic is something you make - Book Cover - Magical Fantasy - Serenity Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far and that the weather is being kind to you.  The Middle of august already and its definitely a hot year LOL

It's time for the Design Team to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog. 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 by Nikky was Magical Fantasy Autumn.  

As a rule I'm a card maker, it's what I love doing to relax and keep my brain busy but I have so many cards, more than I could ever send so I wanted to create something different.

I was inspired by a lovely crafty friend and her recent projects to create myself a little art/card book and as I love all things magical I thought this would be the perfect theme for my project today and chose to use the Serenity collection.

I treated myself a few weeks ago to a disc binding punch and a few sets of discs and then began by creating the front and back covers for my little book.

    The floral papers used for the reverse of my book covers were from the Octavia Moonfly collection

I printed out the Serenity Fairy Princess digital stamp onto alcohol friendly card stock along with a couple of the sentiments from the collection, colouring her in and fussy cutting out.

My next step was to use the disc punch to create the holes in the panels ready to add the binding discs later on.

I added some pink distress ink around the edges of the panel and a little stencilling with cream acrylic paint for texture.

I then used a couple of extra papers, cutting these out and layering onto the front panel before adding the fussy cut Serenity fairy onto the cover with foam tape.

To finish off my book cover today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights, lots of sparkle, a torn strip of washi tape,  a little strip of grosgrain ribbon and scattered lottos of sparkly gems around the design as I always love a little sparkle, finally adding the discs to join the front and back covers of my book.

I'm really please with my little art book and I'm looking forward to filling it with lots of lovely pages of inspiration.

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 !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Serenity Collection - Serenity Fairy Princess

Polkadoodles digital papers - Serenity Collection - Paper heaven 3 & Paper heaven 2

Polkadoodles digital papers - Octavia Moonfly Collection - Paper bundle 5

Polkadoodles digital sentiments - Serenity Collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles Craft Stencil - Boho Daisy Love

Artis Decor Planner disc punch

Artis Decor Planner discs - pink hearts

Washi tape

acrylic paint - cream

Distress Ink - tattered rose

Distress Oxide ink - milled lavender 

Sequins and gems from my stash

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

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #851 - Floral Vibes - Just a little note from me to you - Sponsored by SheepSki Designs

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all I hope that you are having a lovely week so far!

It's another busy week here again, despite the heat Granada again yesterday to collect my new flamenco dress ready for our town Feria at the end of September and off out today with friends, down to the coast to try a new restaurant, then Wednesday we have hospital appointments for John and the regular yoga classes for me and Karate for John...its a hard life being retired LOL, I don't know how we had time to go to work.

I'm here today to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog.

This week our challenge is being sponsored by SheepSki Designs and the theme chosen by Karen for team 2 is Floral Vibes - everyone loves flowers so were hoping for lots of lovely entries this week.

For my floral card decided I chose to use the Fuchsias Digital stamp, its such a pretty image and I love the flowers, I have never been very successful here in Spain sadly, possibly its too hot for them.

I wanted to keep the card clean and simple today so resized the image before printing out so the flowers were in a little window area on the card, adding a sweet sentiment below the flowers.  The image was coloured with a bold fuchsia pink and pale pink, these were my favourite flowers and then I used a paler grey blue to colour the small background area.

The design was finished with a gold die cut frame, white gelly roll pen highlights on the flowers and a few clear - blue gems.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card packed with flowers 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:

SheepSki Designs digital stamp - Fuchsias

Polkadoodles sentiment - Gnome for Spring

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

Buttons Galore & More sequins - All is Calm mix

          

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

 Wendy x

Mice Party - Summit to Celebrate - Let's Celebrate - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Wednesday - I hope that you are having a lovely weekend and the weather is being kind where you are....we're currently having a few slightly cooler days which is lovely only 37C today LOL....and there is even a possibility of a few drops of rain for Thursday and Friday....I wish....

Everyone seems to have gone Eclipse crazy...trying to buy glasses last minute to be able to watch the event tonight!

It's going to be a total eclipse over Mallorca tonight and we had wanted to go and stay for a few days to see but it's crazy. the hotels were charging sooo much and inviting on a weeks stay.  So were gong to go up on to the house roof to watch.

We're only expecting a partial eclipse of about 95.8% here where we live with the event starting at 7:42 pm, maximum eclipse at 8:38pm ending at 9:09pm. Then the sundial set at 9:13....so I think it's going to be pretty special to see.

  

I'm back today with another cute card using one of the super cute digital stamps from the Mice Party Spring release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV) available from the Etsy shop. The collection includes 12 sweet  little mice, all ready to celebrate.

My fun and colourful card features the Summit to Celebrate Mouse image, coloured with my promarkers and I have added lots of lovely sparkle to make my card extra special.

I adhered a layer of co-ordinating striped paper from my stash to the 5" x 7" card base, covering it completely and then used a wavy stitched border die to cut out the mouse panel layering this onto the card base.

Finishing touches of white gel pen highlights, sparkly confetti and clear sparkle on the cake and a little drop of glossy accents to the mouses nose.

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 - Mice Party - Summit to Celebrate

DoCrafts Paper - Daisy & Dandelion - Picnic Patch

Lawn Fawn Border Die - stitched wavy edge

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - friendship mix

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

glossy accents

     

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

 Wendy x

#lotv #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt #liliofthevalley #sssigchallenge

Digi Choosday - Hello Autumn - Yellow & Orange - Autumn is Coming card - Freddy Fox Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far and that the weather is being kind to you.

I know its still the middle of Summer but as a card maker we try to get ahead and that sometimes feels like were making cards at the wrong time of the year...but I promise you it makes sense in the craft world LOL

It's time for the Design Team to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog. 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 by Nikky was Autumn is coming...using Yellow and Orange !.  I love the garden in the Autumn, the colours around are amazing and the high temperatures of the summer have started to subside.  I decided to reach for a digital stamp from the Freddy Fox Autumn / Fall Collection for my card today as he has the perfect colourings.

The digital stamp I have chosen is Apple Barrel Fox, resized for my smaller A6 card before printing out and colouring with Promarkers. I then used my ScannCut to cut out Freddy although it could easily be cut by hand.

I wanted to create lots of layers and textures for my card today so used lots yellow and orange distress inks to create an ink smooshed panel on watercolour card, allowing each colour to dry before adding the next colour, building up layers slowly.  

Next I added interest to this panel, stamping leaves and dots in distress oxide inks and added some gold stencilling too here and there.

I tore down the right hand side of the inked panel, leaving the white core exposed and then chose a couple of papers from the collection adding strips below the inked panel again with torn edges.

I used an arched dies to create a frame, in yellow and orange card and adhered this to the panel on the card.

My coloured Freddy image was mounted onto the card with foam tape.

I then stamped leaves from the leftover distress ink panel and hand cut these out.  I had a few mushrooms left over from another project so decided to colour these with orange and yellow alcohol pens to coordinate with the theme and layered these at the bottom of the card, along with a sentiment from the Freddy Fox collection.

To finish off my card today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights and scattered orange gems around the design as I always love a little sparkle on my cards.

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 !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Freddy Fox Collection - Apple Barrel Fox

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Freddy Fox Collection - Paper set 2

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Freddy Fox Collection  - sentiment bundle

Distress Ink - scattered straw, mustard seed, fossilised amber, carved pumpkin, dried marigold

Distress Oxide ink - spiced marmalade, abandoned coral

Gold acrylic paint

Polkadoodles Craft Stamp - Funky Daisy Smile (dots)

Polkadoodles Craft Stamp - Just a little note (leaves)

Polkadoodles Craft Stencil - Honey Bees

Polkadoodles Craft SVG Print and Cut File - Spring is Here

Pretty Pink Posh gems - grapefruit

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

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #849 - Favourite embellishments - Keep Calm and Think Beach - Sponsored by Dr Digi

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all I hope that you are having a lovely week !

I'm definitely not complaining but it's still really hot here, this week the temperature is hovering around 37C so thankfully a little cooler LOL, which means we can get a bit more done in the garden.  It would be lovely for a little rain as everywhere is so dry and crispy in the garden and the plants are really struggling sadly despite being watered, but with cloudless skies I suspect there's none coming soon.

We are off to Granada again on Wednesday so hoping it's not too uncomfortable there.

I'm here today to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog.

This week our challenge is being sponsored by Dr Digi's House of Stamps and the theme chosen by Elaine for team 2 is Favourite Embellishment.

For my card decided I chose to use Surfin Santa , resizing the image to suit my A6 card before printing out on alcohol friendly card and colouring with promarkers and cutting out with my ScannCut machine. 

Next I created the background scene using 3 distress inks, a little masking tape and a cloud stencil.

I added a little cream and white acrylic paint along the water line for texture to create the look of the sea foam on the sand.

My favourite embellishment are sequins and confetti as I think they go with everything, even this more masculine beach themed card.  I have used clear iridescent sequins on my card but they don't show up very well in my photo.

The card was simply finished with white gelly roll pen highlights and a brown fine liner pen to gibe the appearance of texture to the sand. 

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card packed with flowers 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 Digi digital stamp - Surfin Santa

Distress Ink - salty ocean, salvaged patina, scattered straw

Lawn Fawn stencil - cloudy

DoCrafts Artiste acrylic paint - linen

Pebeo gesso - white

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

Buttons Galore & More sequins - island breeze

          

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

 Wendy x

Cute Creatures - Sending Paper Hugs - Peacock - Set 1 with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone happy Friday - The last day of July is here and I hope you have had a great month.

I'm off to my very relaxing yoga class this morning and then we are going to Granada for the day, shopping, eating and to watch the new Spiderman film and cool off a little LOL.

I'm back today to share another cute and fun A6 card using another of the very cute creatures from the Cute Creatures collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). Both sets are available now from the Etsy shop

If you haven't had a look, it's a fantastic collection of 2 sets of images, that you can buy separately or as a complete collection - I know which I would choose as its a fantastic price for what's included. Each set contains 93 cute little creatures or you can get all 186 creatures.

Today for my fun and colourful card I have used the gorgeous little peacock from set 1.  

I resized the little peacock for a landscape A6 card printing out and colouring with my promarkers before fussy cutting out.

Next I created an embossed background panel.  Ive had the peacock feather embossing folder in my stash for many many years LOL so cut a panel of white card and then inked the raised feathers with distress oxide ink before running through my cutting machine.  I wanted to add a little more colour so added more green ink and passed the folder through the machine a second time.  Next I used a deep blue acrylic paint and my brayer to add the dark paint over the panel, carefully applying a thin layer and building up the coverage slowly so not to fill the green feathers with pain. I love the matt texture this gives to the card.

I created a split panel landscape card, cutting the front panel of the card adding the embossed panel to the top with a strip of acetate in the middle.

The sentiment sticker was added to the acetate, so it appears to flow and the coloured peacock was adhered across the two panels.

To finish off the card I have added gold confetti, white a metallic gold gel pen and clear sparkle pen.

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  - Cute Creatures - set 1

LHC sentiment strip

Distress Oxide -  peacock feathers

Crafters Companion embossing folder - Kimono Collection - Peacock feathers

Artis Cromatica acrylic paint - marino

Spellbinders confetti - gold

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, gold

crafters companion sparkle pen - clear

 #lotv #liliofthevalley #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt

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

 Wendy x