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

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.

I've got a yoga class this morning that I'm looking forward to and then we are off out with friends up the mountain to a small village above ours for a few drinks and a catch up.

Its been an extremely hectic few days  - it was hubbies birthday on Monday and his son and grandson arrived on Saturday for a surprise visit....as you can imagine we are both shattered but had a great time.

We also managed to sneak a night away on the coast at one of our favourite hotels to celebrate - it was wonderful but were both glad to get back to normal LOL.  

I'm back with another cute card using one of the party animals from the recent March release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop.

My fun birthday card today features the bunny with a scrumptious looking cake.

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.

I added a sweet LOTV sentiment to the panel below the bunny before printing out

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers before cutting 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.

I've used a bright colour dotty paper from my stash to create my simple card and finishing touches added of white gel pen highlights, sparkle pen to the birthday cake and clear sparkly gems 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 - Bunny

LOTV Digital sentiment - 

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

Digi Choosday - SVG Spring is Here - Spring Card - 3d Pop up Card - Gnome for Spring Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week.  It's the middle of March and its definitely beginning to look a lot like Spring here - buds on the trees starting to burst open, beautiful fragrant almond blossom and there's a definite buzz in the garden now.

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 or Easter themed card and to use this colour palette 

One of my crafting goals this year, as you know is to use my ScanNCut machine more so I set myself the challenge to use one of the wonderful Digital Print and Cut Files and make a 3D pop up card.  Two completely new things for me to learn and I am so happy with the end result.

I started off with the Files from the Spring is Here download and worked out how to print these and use the Cut file included to cut out the images....

The really simple way was was to print out the coloured image file, scan in the image and then use this direct to cut tool, but I discovered that the detailed cuts were missing.  

Not a huge problem I know and the elements as still beautiful as they are but I wanted to get the detailed cuts too.  It took me a few attempts to work out which files to use with my ScanNCut machine but I did it in the end using the high quality png file and the dxf cut line only was the combination that worked for me.

But then I wanted to push myself further as the coloured images didn't match the colour palette Nikky had asked us to use.  So I set to work again, working out which file I needed to use that I could edit and alter the colours, I also wanted extra copies of the butterflies and tulips for my design.  Once I was happy I  recreated the cut file, using the original version to suit my new image.

I'm so happy it worked - took me a few hours to work out what I was doing but it was so worth it and will be quicker next time !

Next I designed my Pop Up Box in the Brother CanvasWorkspace and once cut out set to decorating my Spring card.

The finished card folds flat and  fits an A6 or 6" x 4" envelope.  

I adhered some of the wood grain paper from the Udderly Cute collection to the card inserts - I think they look like benches in a little greenhouse.  The back Arched panel of the pop up was covered with one of the lilac papers from the Flower Meadow bundle.

I assembled all the cut out elements, adding a little distress ink here and there to emphasise the shadows etc.

To finish off the card I added confetti around the design and added some clear sparkle to the butterflies.

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 - Udderly Cute Cows  - Paper Pack 5

Polkadoodles digital paper - Flower Meadow bundle

Polkadoodles digital print & cut SVG file - Spring is Here

distress ink - shaded lilac, wilted violet, mustard seed, twisted citron, mowed lawn, salty ocean

Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen - clear

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - sugar plum

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 Monday I hope that you have a great week ahead.

I've got a gentle yoga class this morning that I'm looking forward to and a bit of shopping - the things we forgot to get on Friday LOL  

I'm back with another cute card using one of the party animals from the New Release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop.

My fun birthday card that I've made featuring the cute cow - who could resist that face !

There are 4 little characters...perfect for loads of different occasions.

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers before fussy cutting out. 

I've used papers from my stash to create my simple card and finishing touches added of white gel pen highlights, clear sparkle and purple gems. 

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 - Cow

LOTV Digital sentiment - 

Pretty Pink Posh gems - blue lagoon 

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 - Cute Girls - Hello - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday - we had awful winds here again yesterday so hunkered down in the house but today the sun is shining so were out in the garden getting on with more tidying up.  We only have a few more weeks to get all the tree prunings burned so lots to do. 

Just a quick post from me today to share a sweet little card using the second New Release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV) , This sweetheart is one of the new Cute Girls, just launched and available now from the Etsy shop - there are 3 sets of  Cute Girls, each comes in a number of different variations, with and without flowers, so perfect for all sorts of occasions.

I chose to make a sweet Hello card using Cute Girl 3

I chose a pretty floral paper from my stash and adhered this directly to a card blank.  

The little girl was resized and I added a simple block sentiment before printing out and colouring with promarkers.  for a different look I used one of my larger fancy edge dies t cut out the image before adhering this off to the left side of the card with foam tape.

I hand fussy cut some of the little flowers from the background paper and adhered these around the design.

Finishing touches were white gel pen highlights and glossy accents to the flowers.

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 - Cute Girls - Cute Girl 3

LOTV Digital sentiment - Block Sentiments

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

Positive Vibes - It's Okay - Mama Elephant stamps

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Friday ...... I hope the week has been kind to you.

Here’s a sweet little card I’ve made to send someone some special caring vibes.

Sometimes we all just need a hug or some kinds words and these wonderful shelf stamps by Mama Elephant were just what I needed for my card today.

I wanted to create a fairly simple calming card today so chose a pretty blue background paper and then stamped the little shelf elements onto marker friendly card before colouring with promarkers.

The stamps come with dies but I don't have them so I used my ScanNCut to cut out the little elements before adhering them to the card, some flat and some with foam tape.

To finish off the card I added a few pieces of sparkly confetti.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

Mama Elephant - It's Okay

Mama Elephant - Little succulent agenda

Dovecraft designer series paper - Sugar & Spice

Tim Holtz Ideology - sentiment stickers - Small Talk

Buttons Galore & More confetti - All is calm

  

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

 Wendy x