New Release - Friends are Everything - Friendship card - Fluffy Friends collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Friday everyone... The Summer temperatures are ramping up fast and we have our first heatwave across most of Spain this weekend,  with temperatures of 40C where we live...so lots of time indoors I think, crafting, keeping cool and some chilling off in the pool!

There's a brand new digital release by Polkadoodles and I think you are going to love it !  It's called Fluffy Friends and there are loads of adorable images for you to colour or pre-coloured if you prefer.

Hurry too as there's currently a huge 40% discount using the code FF40

Here's my first card from the new collection using the very sweet Monty Bear. When I was little I remember having a blue teddy bear and Monty reminded me of him so I've used my promarkers to create my blue bear and decided that yellow roses would be the perfect compliment.

My simple 5" x 7" or A7 card has a layer of pretty teal paper from the collection and one of the sentiments that I have added onto teal in Canva before cutting out.

I fussy cut Monty by hand and added him to my card using foam tape for dimension with a teal die cut frame and an inky background created with Pixie powders for sparkle.

The finishing touches for the card of sparkly gems and some extra die cut hearts and a little glossy accents for Monty's nose.

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 - Fluffy Friends - Monty Bear flower bunch

Polkadoodles digital paper - Fluffy Friends - paper set 2

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Fluffy Friends - greetings bundle

Cosmic Shimmer - Pixie Powders - Peacock Green

Buttons Galore & More Gems - Sailors Sky

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 - You Passed - Congrats - Graduation card - Upright Easel - Graduation/Student Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far.

Summer has definitely arrived here and we've been very busy lately with my wonderful cousin and hubby staying with us for a few days.  She's more like a sister to me really and I miss seeing her but its great catching up too when we can - the boys don't really get chance to talk 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 graduation themed card/project so I decided to use one of the very cute images from the Graduation School Student collection  Its a jam packed collection of images, clip art, sentiments, word art and of course fun papers and perfect for lots of different educational and new job celebrations.   

I've used the very sweet Cute Boy  for my card today and resized this in my graphics software (I'm using the free version of Canva if you are interested !) I decided to add 3 piles of books from the clipart in the collection, so the little boy was standing on top like he's on top of the world and added a couple of extra mortar board hats in too before printing out and colouring with promarkers.

He looks like he feels on top of the world after all the hard work studying - very well deserved!

The card base is a 6" x 6" upright easel today with layers of a lime green/yellow and burgundy card and different fun and bright papers from the collection.

I decided to use the sentiment strips in the collection printing on my LaserJet printer so I could foil them in gold.

To finish off my card today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights and scattered lots of gold confetti around the design to tie in with the foiled sentiment strips.

  

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 Student collection - Cute Boy Graduate

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Graduation Student collection - Clip art bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Graduation Student collection - paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Graduation Student collection - sentiment bundle

Minc foil - gold

spellbinders confetti - gold

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 #841 - Favourite Colour combination - Hope your day is buzzing with Joy - Sponsored by Clearly Besotted

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

The weather has been wonderful so far, lovely and hot during the day but not too hot at night - so far LOL.

We are busy preparing the house for my cousin and her husband arriving on Thursday and Im really looking forward to seeing her again - we have loads to catch up on.

We have lots of days planned, lots of meals and drinking and obviously chilling by the pool too.  Im hoping to persuade her to come to Yoga with me too on Friday.

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 Clearly Besotted Stamps and the theme this week is Favourite colour combination. - I find this really difficult as I have lots of colour combinations that I love and it all depends on how I feel at them time but for today as the bees are busy in the garden I chose to Pink, Green and lemon for my card today.

It's a simple circular card made using one of the gorgeous images from the Buzzy Bee collection by Polkadoodles.  This is Buzzy Talk, coloured with my promarkers.

The circular card was die cut from yellow card stock and I used a layer of paper from the collection as my base layer.

To finish off my fun Buzzy Bee card I added sequins around the design, lots of sparkle and lots of glossy accents to the little bees.

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 - Buzzy Bee - Buzzy Talk 

Polkadoodles Designs digital stamp - Buzzy Bee  - Leaves and Flowers paper bundle

Polkadoodles Designs digital stamp - Buzzy Bee  - sentiment bundle

Distress Ink - salty ocean

Spectrum Noir - Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

glossy accents

Sugar and Spice sequins - mojito collection

          

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 - 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