New Release - Cute Creatures - Bundle Offer - You are my favourite person - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone happy Friday - I hope you have all had a lovely week and have  a lovely weekend planned.  

We've had another really busy week with various appointments and keeping up with jobs around the house and garden so I'm looking forward to lunch today with fiends at our favourite restaurant nearby.

I'm back today to share a sweet little A6 card using one of the cute little critters from the brand new  Cute Creatures collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop.

 

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.

My sweet card has been made using the little love bird from set 1.  I resized him and created a reversed copy as I wanted the two little birds to be facing each other.

All of these little images are so easy to colour and you can really use your imagination with them.

The two little birds were printed out onto alcohol friendly card and coloured with my promarkers before cutting out with my ScanNCut.

Next I created my background, using a cloud stencil and distress inks to create a magical sky to complete my rainbow of colours used.

I die cut a little branch and some leaves, adding distress ink to these for some shading.

The sentiment was cut out in a little cloud shape on my ScanNCut and I blended ink over this too.

Finishing touches were some little clear sparkly gems, a little clay heart and white gel pen highlights 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  - Cute Creatures - set 1

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Wings of Love - Sentiment bundle

Distress Ink - shaded lilac, salvaged patina, kitsch flamingo, rustic wilderness, frayed burlap

Sheena Die - leaf and branch

Lawn Fawn stencil - cloudy

Buttons Galore & More gems  - All is Calm

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

clay heart

 #lotv #liliofthevalley #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Hope your Day is Buzzing - With Wraparound - Twist & Pop Card - Honey Bee Dreams - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far......I cant quite believe it's the end of May already...its definitely true when they say that time flies!

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 project with a wraparound.

I decided I would make a new card style - well new to me at least....LOL  This interactive card has been around for ages but I've never made one before so I thought I would give it a go.  It's an A6 sized Twist and Pop Card and I was surprised how well it came together.  I have learnt a few things as well whilst making it so have a few tips to make it.

I chose to use the Honey Bee Dreams and Busy Bee Gnomes collections for my card today using papers, a sentiment and ephemera to all coordinate.

The actual card itself was constructed using a yellow card and is made from 3 main pieces.

One thing I will do next time I make this style is convert it into inches as my scoreboard is imperial and it was tricky to get the score lines in the right places.

The card base measured 10cm x 30cm scored at 15cm.

The inner panel measured 9cm x 26cm scored at 6.5, 13 and 19.5cm

The mechanism measured 9cm x 20cm.  On the 9cm side scored at 4.5cm t create a centre fold. Then on the long edge mark each end at 5.5cm.

Score a cross diagonally between these marks then fold and burnish the folds.

If you want some better instructions and to see how the card is assembled I would suggest watching this video on YouTube 

I used some pretty floral papers and a sentiment from the Buzzy Bee Gnomes collection and the ephemera on the panels inside are from the Honey Bee Dreams collection

Next time I make this card I will also avoid the edging trim on the panels of the card as this catches slightly on the mechanism as the card is closed but it's good to learn !

 

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 paper - Buzzy Bee - paper pack 1
Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Buzzy Bee - sentiment bundle
Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Honey Bee Dreams collection
Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear
Craft Consortium 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 #839 - Happy Birthday - It's Cake Day! - Sponsored by The Paper Shelter

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

The summer has arrived here in Spain and across most of Europe too so I hope everyone enjoys the wonderful weather and keeps cool and hydrated.

We went walking on Sunday with our local walking group and I had far too much sun so Im keeping out of it today as much as possible.

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

This weeks challenge is sponsored by The Paper Shelter however very sadly they have now decided to close down their shop so this weeks prize will be the digital stamp that has been used by the design team - A Curious Cake.  It's a wonderful image however and great for both male and female celebrations.

Out theme this week is Happy Birthday and has been chosen for Team 2 by our lovely Elaine - we all need lots of birthday cards don't we LOL

I decided for my birthdy card today to create a fun pop up card from an aqua cardstock.  The card  was cut at 6" x 9" and then scored on the long side at 2" on either end.  The card was flipped over and then scored at 3 1/4" either end to create a central pop out panel.

I used some fun foiled papers to decorate the card panels and then resized the image to fill the front panel printing this out on alcohol marker friendly card stock before colouring in with my Promarkers.

I used my ScanNCut to cut out the coloured image and then matted this onto the card with a couple of diamond panels cut from the aqua card and white. The fun sentiment is from Polkadoodles from the Coffee, Tea and Cake collection, again cut out with my ScanNCut.

To finish off my fun birthday card I added a few pieces of confetti around the design, lots of sparkle and lots of glossy accents little.

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:
The Paper Shelter digital stamp - A Curious Cake

Polkadoodles Designs digital sentiment - Coffee Tea Cake - Sentiment bundle

Crafty Things Creative Paper

Spectrum Noir - Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

glossy accents

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

          

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 #838 - Anniversary Challenge - Multiple Sponsors

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

I'm here today to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and it's our special Anniversary challenge.

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by 7 wonderful and very generous sponsors.

I decided for my special card today I would create a fun card using one of the fantastic digital stamps by Polkadoodles from the recent Udderly Cute collection. 

This cutie is called Love Moo Bunches and I have resized her for my card before printing out onto alcohol friendly card and colouring with promarkers.

My card base today is an upright easel card and I've chosen papers from the collection, layering these onto a deep cherry red card layer.

I added a few pieces of ephemera from the collection around the design, lots of sparkle and lots of little gems.

The stopper for the easel is simple die cut hearts and layered papers from the collection.

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 Designs digital stamp - Udderly Cute - Love Moo Bunches

Polkadoodles Designs digital sentiment - Udderly Cute  - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles Designs digital stamp - Udderly Cute  - paper pack 4

Polkadoodles Designs digital ephemera - Udderly Cute  - ephemera pack

Spectrum Noir - Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

glossy accents

gems

          

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Cute Creatures - Bundle Offer - Batty About you - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone happy Sunday - I hope the weekend is going ok for you.  

We were out last night at our favourite bar - normally date night is Friday but we swapped this week and it was nice for a change.

I'm in the middle of preparing for the arrival of my new computer - I'm really excited as the one I have at the moment is really struggling and on its last legs but feeling a little apprehensive too trying to get everything running on the new one. Ill keep you posted hopefully, assuming I can get onto my blog that is LOL

Today I'm sharing another a sweet little A6 card using one of the cute little critters from the brand new  Cute Creatures collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop.

 

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.

My sweet little bat card has been made using set 1 resizing him and then printing onto alcohol friendly card and colouring with with my promarkers before cutting out with my ScanNCut.

Who ever said that bats are just for Halloween.

Next I created my background, I printed out a piece of paper from the Cosmic paper set and used a circular die to cut an aperture in the paper and then used a moon stencil to create the moon with distress ink.

The little branch that the bat is sat on was die cut from black card and I added a white gel pen highlight to the top of the branch.

Finishing touches were some sparkly gems and white gel pen highlights around the design.

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  - Cute Creatures - set 1

LOTV Digital paper - Cosmic collection

Polkadoodles Digital sentiment - 

Tim Holtz Moon stencil

Distress Ink - hickory smoke

Lisa Horton Crafts die - Petite Petals

Pretty Pink Posh gems - midnight black

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

 #lotv #liliofthevalley #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Cute Creatures - Bundle Offer - Don't Let the little things bug you - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone happy Saturday - wishing you all a great weekend.  

We've had such a busy week with various appointments, trips to Granada and things to do around the house and garden so I'm feeling completely out of sink, not entirely sure what day it is really....LOL

It was so windy yesterday too, I got blown home from my yoga class and ended up with loads of dust and grit in my eyes, hoping for a less blustery day today.

I'm back today to share a sweet little A6 card using one of the cute little critters from the brand new  Cute Creatures collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop.

 

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.

My sweet little caterpillar card has been made using set 1 and I have to say they are so easy to colour and make really cute cards - I'm sure you'll love them and the hardest part is what to create with first.

I resized the caterpillar and then printed him out onto alcohol friendly card and colouring with with my promarkers before cutting out with my ScanNCut.

Next I created my background, I wanted the little caterpillar to be nestled in amongst the leaves but with a bite taken out so I used a stencil to create the leafy pattern and then die cut a shape out of the side of the panel.

Finishing touches were some little sparkly gems and white gel pen highlights around the design.

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  - Cute Creatures - set 1

Polkadoodles Digital sentiment - Lily Bug Ladybird collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles stencil - Leaf 

Distress Ink - twisted citron, rustic wilderness

floral die

buttons Galore & More gems  - Coconut Palms

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

 #lotv #liliofthevalley #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Have a great Day - Colour Palette - CAS Card - Noodle Panda Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far......I cant quite believe it's the middle of May already !

Summer has definitely arrived here and we've been so busy lately with friends staying, trying to get gardening done and even a little walking in the mountains.

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 card using the following colour palette

It's such a pretty set of colours, reminds me of ice cream flavours.... must be the heat LOL.  I decided to use one of the very cute images from the Noodle Panda Collection I know I probably shouldn't say but Noodle is probably my favourite character.   

I wanted to create 2 really simple cards at once (why make one when you can make two ) so started off with a strip of card roughly 1 1/2 " in width and then adhered 1/2 " strips of coloured card to this to create a striped patterned, then cut this strip in half adhering each of these, on an angle to a panel of white card that I had already printed the sentiment onto. 

Next I chose the sweet Gift Parcel Noodle, printing him out and colouring him with promarkers.  I decided to create 2 similar cards so resized the image to suit an A6 landscape card, flipping the image through 180 to create a different image.  

The colours used were coordinate with the colour palette, each of my pandas having a slightly different colour palette.

To finish  off my clean and simple cards I added some fun clay swirls around the design, white gelly roll pen highlights and clear sparkle to the presents bows.

 

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 - Noodle Panda Collection - Gift Parcel Noodle

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Noodle Panda Collection - Sentiment bundle

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

clay confetti

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

Wendy x

New Release - Summer Fun - Launch Bundle Offer - Sea Life - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday - I hope that you are having a great weekend.  I don't know about you but I'm definitely ready for some Summer sunshine maybe a trip or two to the beach and a little splashing around in the sea - its been a mixed Winter and Spring here so far which has been quite unusual.

I'm back today with a fun A7 (5" x 7") underwater scene card using some of the little Sea Life icons from the new Summer Fun collection.

Its a fantastic bundle of 3 sets of images - Summer Days, Sea Life and At the Beach by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop. 

There are loads of cute images to play with in the collection and they are so easy to colour and make really cute cards - I'm sure you'll love them and the whole bundle is still on offer. The sentiment I chose to use is from the Dragons and Unicorns set 

I printed out the sea creatures and the sentiment onto alcohol friendly card and coloured these with my promarkers before cutting out with my ScanNCut.

Next I created my sea and sand for the scene, using Brushos and watercolour card allowing this to try completely before assembling my card.

I matted the water and sand onto a panel of dark navy card as I love the contrast this gives.

Finishing touches were some little glossy accents bubbles and white gel pen highlights around the design.

The shimmer from the Pixie Powder is absolutely gorgeous and perfect for the water.

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  - Summer Fun Bundle - Sea Life

LOTV Digital sentiment - Dragons & Unicorns

Brushos - purple, ultramarine, emerald green, turquoise, sandstone, lemon, yellow, yellow ochre

Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powder - Silver Dream

Glossy accents

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

 #lotv #liliofthevalley #weloveliliofthevalley # lotvdt

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

 Wendy x

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