New Release - Peeping Animals - Peeping Cat & Peeping Dog - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday - I hope that you have had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend ahead.  Another busy week here and lunch out with friends yesterday to a lovely Sushi restaurant on the coast - ate far too much but that seems to be the norm LOL.

We are at the hospital tomorrow to see a consultant about JJs cough which he's had since November and then were taking some friends to Granada on Saturday for lunch at a wonderful vegetarian restaurant we like.  

The weather has been very mixed again with cloudy days and spots of rain but I'm not going to complain as it will be too hot soon.

I'm back today with two cuties using the new Peeping Animals collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop. There are 6 peeping animals to choose from and they are so easy to colour you'll love them.

Whichever animal you choose I'm sure you will find them very easy to colour and personalise as you like.  

Each animal stamp includes some coordinating sentiments 

Both cards today  are very simple, combining patterned papers from my stash on each.

For the Peeping Cat I have cut around the kitties paw and then adhered the entire panel with foam tape onto the card with a layer of pretty floral paper.  The Kitty has been coloured in grey with a blue wash as it will be a friends birthday card and they have two absolutely gorgeous Russian Blue cats.

For the Peeping Dog I cut the right side off the panel and added the patterned paper to the inside of the card.

Both are really quick to create and I'm sure both will be loved by their recipients.

Finishing touches were some little clay hearts for the cat and stamped hearts for the dog, white gel pen highlights and glossy accents to the dog's nose and cats eyes.

I hope that you like my cards 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  - Peeping Dog

LOTV Digital stamp  - Peeping Cat

Patterned Papers - Me to You with Love, Papermania Verde Capsule Collection 

Glossy accents

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear, lichen

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Clay hearts

     

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 #836 - Furry Friends - Sponsored by Dis Digital Stamps

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day and a beautiful week ahead!

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

This weeks challenge theme of 'Furry Friends' has been chosen by Me for team 2 and is being sponsored by Dis Digital Stamps

I love the adorable images that Di creates for us and am definitely drawn to the cute furry friends so decided to make a simple card today using one of the fabulous freebies that Di gives away every now and then in her Facebook group DisDigiStamps

Why not have a look at some of the fabulous digital stamps in her Etsy store, I'm sure you will be spoilt for choice!

I chose to use the sweet little mouse with his bouquet of pretty daisies from February this year so started by resizing the image to suite my A6 card base and printing out onto alcohol marker friendly card before colouring with promarkers. 

I chose a pretty floral paper from my stash and used this to choose the colours for the flowers on the image.

To keep the design simple I layered a piece of the paper on my card blank and then cut two simple diamonds of white card adding a little distress ink to the bottom layer before adding to the card.   Using a plain background on the pretty but busy floral paper works well with the image so it doesn't get lost on the card.

The sweet little mouse was cut out on my ScanNCut machine before adding to the card along with a simple sentiment strip that spanned the width of the card.

The finishing touches were some simple white pen highlights around the design, teal confetti and glossy accents to the centres of the daisies.

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: 

Dis Digital Stamp - Etsy Store

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Honeypie Just lovely - sentiment bundle

Dovecraft Paper - Sugar & Spice

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

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

Digi Choosday - Graduation - Congratulations - Male Card - Graduation School Student Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far......its nearly the end of April and the garden is blooming.  Everywhere has really benefitted from the early heavy rains we had so fingers crossed the plants are ready for the high temperatures of the Summer months.

It's that time of the week to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog so I hope you are going to join in and don't forget the amazing Digi Choosday discount off all crafty printable downloads!  

Don't Forget that our challenges our now 4 weekly so there's loads of time for you to join in and more chances to win too!

The theme set for the DT this week is to make a graduation card so I decided to use one of the fab images from the Graduation School Student collection

When I left school many years back (1985 to be precise!) graduation definitely wasn't a thing....just for graduation from University, how times have changed.  Its very popular now though - even little ones have graduations from nursery !

So I don't really make or send many of these cards but its always good to have some in my stash just in case.

Its a super cute little boy with his graduation gown and cap - definitely reminds me of my own son Jack when he graduated from Portsmouth University...must be the glasses and the scruffy hair...LOL

I created an arched doorway from dies and went with a gold, black and silver theme for my card today, colouring the image with promarkers and fussy cutting out before assembling the card.  The congratulations banner was also coloured in the same palette before fussy cutting out.

To finish off the card I added confetti around the design and added some glossy accents to the boys glasses and white gel 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 - Graduation School Student - Cute boy with spectacles

Polkadoodles digital paper - Graduation School Student - paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Graduation School Student - clipart bundle

Spellbinders confetti - gold

distress ink - black soot

Pebeo gilding wax - silver

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

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #834 - Dots and/or Stripes - Sponsored by Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day !

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

This weeks challenge theme of 'Dots and/or Stripes' has been chosen by Natalie for team 2 and is being sponsored by Polkadoodles. 

I decided to make an upright easel card, creating my card base from a Kraft card 6 x6" card base.

I decided to start by choosing some pretty striped and dotty papers by Polkadoodles from the Tons of Love collection, using these to mat and layer onto my card base with a burgundy cardstock to contrast.  

I then resized the main Helga Hippo image to suit my card printing out onto alcohol marker friendly card before colouring with promarkers.

I die cut lots of hearts from the patterned paper and the card and used these to decorate the card along with lots of burgundy gems.  

The finishing touches were some simple white pen highlights around the design.

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 - Helga Hippo - Study work hard Helga

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Helga Hippo  - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles Digital papers - Tons of love - Paper pack 1 & Paper pack 2

Kaiser craft gems - wine

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 - Mice Party - Mouse Fanfare - Happy Birthday - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday - I hope that you are having a lovely weekend and the weather is being kind where you are.  

It actually feels like Summer has arrived here after our cold and wet Winter and cooler Spring....the temperatures during the day have changed and its even shorts weather now LOL

The pool is sparkling and looking very inviting but its a tad too cool for me still - I'm such a wuss but ill be in it soon I'm sure.  Its lovely sitting out in the evening and no mosquitoes spotted just yet fingers crossed we don't have a bad year.

  

I'm back today with another cute card using one of the brand new Party Mice from the Spring release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop. There are 12 brand new little mice, all ready to celebrate.

My very clean and simple, one layer birthday card today features the Mouse Fanfare image, coloured with my promarkers....just look at all those sweet little hearts pouring out. 

I carefully blended a little distress ink over the panel for the sky and then added two sweet clay hearts to finish off the design.

The sentiment is from the LOTV Everyday Greetings collection.

Finishing touches added of white gel pen highlights and clear sparkle below the little mouse and to his trumpet.

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 - Mouse Fanfare

LOTV Digital sentiment - Everyday Greetings

Distress ink - salty ocean

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Clay hearts

     

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - SVG Spring is Here - Birthday Card - Pop up Card with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week.  It's the nearly the end of April and I'm not sure where the time is going really.

We seem to have been so busy the past few weeks, working in the garden, celebrating Easter and then with friends staying.  Loads of fun and far better than working in the UK 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 to make a Mothers Day or Mothers birthday card.

I decided to create another card using the Spring is Here Digital Print and Cut Files, cutting with my ScanNCut machine which I definitely love using now.

I printed out the file and cut with my Scan N Cut and then used distress inks to add shading to the elements before assembling together.

Next I created the card base, the finished card folds flat and fits an A6 envelope.  

From a 12" x 12" piece of yellow card I cut a piece 4 1/2" x 11 1/2" scoring this at 2", 2 1/2", 4 1/2", 5 " & 11"

These score lines created a small flap at the top to create the base card and the folded box section at the base of the front panel.  For the back panel of the card I cut card measuring 6" x 4 1/2", gluing this to the small flap to create a tent fold card base.

For the smaller box section the card piece was 4" x 4 1/2" scored at 1", 1 1/2", 2 1/2" & 3"

I chose a colourful spotty paper from the Springtime smiles collection for the back panels of the card adhering this before adhering the floral elements to create the pop up display card.

I'm not sure what the card is called but I love the style and its a great way to display these pretty flowers and pots.

To finish off the card I added sparkly gems around the design and a sentiment printed from the Rebel girl collection.

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 Print & Cut File -  Spring is Here

Polkadoodles digital paper - Springtime Smiles - Paper Pack

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Rebel Girl - sentiment pack

distress ink - spiced marmalade, mustard seed, twisted citron, mowed lawn, picked raspberry, spun sugar

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 - Party Animals - Happy Birthday - Birthday Card - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday I hope that you are having a great week.  Its been a weird few days with the weather, we have had a sudden drop in temperature with dark cloudy skies and a little rain.  Thankfully not too much of the Saharan sand (Calima) has arrived with the rain .....a few nicer days are needed now to start warming us up .

I'm back with my final card using the very cute party animals from the March release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available from the Etsy shop.

Another fun more masculine birthday card today features the super cute penguin bunny with a scrumptious looking cake.  I'm struggling to decide which is my favourite of these cuties.

There are 4 little characters...perfect for loads of different occasions....I hope you have had a look at them by now - they are so easy to colour in.  Did I ever mention how much I love penguins LOL

I added a sweet LOTV sentiment to the panel below the bunny before printing out and colouring with my promarkers.  I decided to do a little partial die cutting and then adhere the panel above a sparkly water paper that I have in my stash.  In my imagination the penguin is stood on the ice and you can see the water below.

 out with an arched die, partially cutting around the bunny ears. I adhered the bunny panel to the card using a low profile foam tape.

Finishing touches of sparkle pen and teal sequins around the design. 

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set - Party Animals - Penguin

LOTV Digital sentiment - Everyday Greetings

Crafty Things - Creative Paper

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn mix 

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - gold sparkle

     

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 #832 - Not Square /rectangular - Sponsored by SheepSki Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - Well I hope that you all had a lovely Easter.

We've been very busy working in the garden, trying to get things tidied up after the Winter.  The weather has been really mixed for the past couple of weeks, really warm in the sun but quite chilly still in the shade and at night in the house but hoping it settles soon.

We've opened up the pool and its looking lovely and clean after a couple of days cleaning just only 16C so not ready for a swim yet brrr!

We've got a busy couple of weeks coming up too with 2 lots of friends from work in the UK visiting and then a catch up with our friends in the next village planned. It's that time of year 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 'Not Square or rectangular' has been chosen by Kitty for team 2 and is being sponsored by Sheepski Designs. The online Etsy store is now sadly closed but the lucky winner will be sent a link to download their chosen 3 images.

I decided to make a heart shaped easel card, creating my card base from a teal cardstock.

I chose to use the Floral Heart image, colouring with my promarkers before cutting out with my ScanNCut.  The image also comes with a sweet little butterfly that I used and also cut out.

The main sentiment is from Polkadoodles from the Darling Buds collection, fussy cut by hand. 

I used a stencil to add a little detail to the centre of the heart using a teal distress ink.

The paper I have used on the heart easel base is from my stash and I've added a stamped heart to the easel stopper.

The finishing touches were some matching sequins and clear glitter pen to the butterfly and the violas.

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: 

SheepSki Designs Digital stamp - Floral Heart

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Darling Buds - sentiment bundle

Lisa Horton Crafts - Hearts of Happiness - stamp & Die set

Craftwork Cards Paper - Inky Backgrounds

Distress inks - peacock feathers

Studio light - stencil/mask - floral pattern.

Sugar and Spice sequins - Unicorn mix

spectrum noir Sparkle - clear

   

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Spring Animals - Lucy Monkman - Spring Card - Bunny & Birds - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week.  Wishing you all a very happy April too. 

It's nearly time to celebrate Easter, only a couple of days away and that will mark the end of our 2 weeks of Semana Santa here in Spain.

It's that time of the week to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog so I hope you are going to join in and don't forget the amazing Digi Choosday discount off all crafty printable downloads!  

Don't Forget that our challenges our now 4 weekly so there's loads of time for you to join in and more chances to win too!

The theme set for the DT this week is to make a Spring Animals themed project or card. Springtime is such a wonderful time as the garden really seems to come alive and the colours and smells from all the blossom around the garden is amazing - all the rain we had earlier on in the year has really helped the plants.  

I decided to create a very simple one layer card today using one of the gorgeous quirky designs from the Lucy Monkman collection.  These are just the sweetest images and they really don't need lots of difficult colouring and I think are perfect when you want to create something quick simple and fun.

I chose the Bunny and Birds image, printing it out onto an A6 panel of alcohol marker friendly card.  I also printed out the same image on paper too as I was planning on creating some masks for my design.

I coloured the images with my promarkers and then fussy cut out the masks from paper, adhering these over my coloured images using a repositionable glue.  I added glossy accents to the musical notes rather than cutting masks and allowed this to completely dry.

Next I created the background gently blending distress inks to create a pretty cloudy sky and some hills.

Once I was happy with the background I carefully removed the little masks.

To finish off the card I added little white gel 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 !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital image - Lucy Monkman - Bunny and Birds

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Gnome for Spring - sentiment bundle

distress ink - wilted violet, salty ocean, twisted citron, mowed lawn

Lawn Fawn Stencils - cloudy, hillside

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 - Mice Party - Mouse with Balloon - Sweet Wishes - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Tuesday I hope that you are having a great week. Its the end of March already and the garden it starting to look wonderful, brightly coloured flowers everywhere and the orange trees are in blossom so the smell is amazing.  We even have a fabulous display of white and blue wisteria this year - must have been all the rain earlier in the year.

It's a beautiful sunny day here today and the temperature is slowly going up - still chilly in the evenings but I'm not complaining.

I'm back today with another cute card using one of the brand new Party Mice from the recent March release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop. There are 12 brand new little mice, all ready to celebrate.

My fun birthday DL  card today features the Mouse with Balloon, its looks like it might lift him away up into the clouds if he's not careful.

I created 2 simple paper masks and then stencilled the clouds into the background using distress ink.

I added a sweet LOTV sentiment from the Sweet Wishes collection to the panel below the mouse before printing out

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers for these sweet little images  with finishing touches added of white gel pen highlights, blue sparkle to the balloon string, sparkle pen to the balloon, glossy accents to the stars  and clear sparkly sequins around the design. 

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set - Mice Party - Mouse with Balloon

LOTV Digital sentiment - Sweet Wishes

Distress ink - salty ocean, salvaged patina

Lawn Fawn stencil - cloudy

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white. sparkly blue

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn Mix

     

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

 Wendy x