A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #857 - Add some Sparkle - Never let anyone dull your Sparkle - Sponsored by All Dressed Up

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

September is almost at an end and we had na fabulous time with my cousin and her hubby at our town Feria.  We've even had a little rain too which has been lovely, with some cooler days and nights.  Life is slowly returning to normal and we're starting now to think of our trip to Japan in October.

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

This week our challenge is being sponsored by All Dressed Up and the theme chosen by Me for team 2 is Add Some Sparkle, My absolute favourite type of card to mark. I think we all need to add more Sparkle in our lives LOL, well I do anyway.

For my very girly sparkly card today I chose to use a set ballerina image called Sassy.  I wanted to create a very clean and simple card today with lots of white space to focus on the image.  

I resized the digital stamp and added a sparkly sentiment into the corner before printing out and colouring with my promarkers.  It's a very simply colour palette too.  The gold glitter frame was die cut and adhered onto the card base and then glitter gel added on the pretty ballerina and around the design.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my sparkly 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:

All Dressed Up Digital Stamp - Sassy

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - freebie

Ranger Stickles - diamond

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

Wedding card Idea - You and Me Forever - Happily Ever After - Confetti acetate - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Tuesday - It's our town Feria this week and my cousin and her hubby are going to be joining us for the fun....it's going to be an exciting few days with lots of music, eating and probably far too much drinking but then we have a few quieter days chilling and recovering before they head back to the UK.  

I'm looking forward to the Feria as I have a new Flamenco dress to wear this year although it's looking like it's going to be a hot day for dressing up with predicts temperatures of 32C.

It's definitely cooled off in the evenings and the mornings are lovely but still a bit too hot to do loads of work in the garden....good job we'll be in holiday mode for a few days LOL.

  

I'm back today to share a sweet A7 or 5x7 wedding card.  I don't actually make many wedding cards, usually when I need one really but a while ago I was gifted a lovely piece of acetate that has confetti embedded into it and I decided it was perfect for this design in my head.

I chose one of the gorgeous digital stamps from the recent wedding / anniversary release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV) available from the Etsy shop. 

This image is called You and Me Forever, resized and then coloured with Promarkers before fussy cutting out. 

The collection includes 11 gorgeous little images that come in black and white line art for you to colour and they are just perfect for weddings or anniversaries.

 

I adhered the panel of confetti acetate on the card base and then used an arched die to cut out a window from a piece of white card.  A brick wall stencil was used with a pale grey distress ink to add texture to the background and then a pale grey card arch was cut to create the look of a doorway.

I adhered the brick wall panel onto the card base with foam tape and then the little couple were mounted on foam at the bottom of the archway.  I wanted to create the look of the couple standing in a doorway with confetti falling behind them and am really please how it came out.

Finishing touches of clear sparkle on the wedding dress, veil and head dress, clear sparkly gems and the sweetest little 'Happily ever After' sentiment.

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



Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set - You and Me Forever

Confetti acetate

Distress Ink - weathered wood

Stickles - stardust

Hero Arts Stencil - Brick Wall

Buttons Galore & More gems - Island Breeze

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - clear star

     

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

 Wendy x

#lotv #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt #liliofthevalley 

Digi Choosday - You're sweet like pumpkin pie - Autumn is Here - Fluffy Friends Cute Collection - with Polkadoodles

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

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

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

The theme set for the DT this week by Nikky was Autumn is Here !. I'm not quite ready for Autumn yet but I am definitely longing for the cooler days and nights.

For my Autumn card today I decided to use one of the sweet images from the recent Fluffy Friends collection.

It's a simple A7 card base using a couple of more autumnal papers from the collection and layers of a rusty coloured card stock for the matt layer and the arch behind the fluffy friends

I have used the very sweet Monty bear and Rusty fox digital stamp colouring with promarkers to match the pretty papers and fussy cutting out by hand

I decided to add a couple of mushrooms from the Spring is Here SVG, adding a little brown distress ink to these for shading and a also a large blue butterfly from one of the papers in the collection.  I think the mushrooms give the card the autumnal feel along with Rusty fox and the coordinating rust coloured card.
 

The sentiment has been taken from the Freddy Fox collection and I added a little cross stitched border for a little texture.

Finishing touches were a few coffee coloured pieces of confetti and some white gelly roll 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 stamp - Fluffy Friends - Monty bear and Rusty fox digital stamp

Polkadoodles digital papers - Fluffy Friends - paper set 1 and paper set 4 

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Freddy Fox -  sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles SVG print and cut - Spring is here

distress ink - tea dye

Spellbinders confetti - latte

Lawn Fawn edge die - cross stitch

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

Autumn and Fall Card & Crafting Ideas - New Release - Winnie Autumn Wishes collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Tuesday everyone... I hope that you had a great weekend and the week has got off to a good start. 

I'm relieved to say the slightly cooler days returned and the nights are definitely easier now for sleeping - still with the window open but that's not such a hardship.

Off to the coast today with friends for lunch and a good catch up as we haven't seen them since around May. 

We're so lucky as Nikky is really spoiling is with another new release from Polkadoodles called Winnie Autumn Wishes and I have to say its gorgeous !.

Winnie Autumn Wishes – is a fabulous original collection of cute Digital Stamps, Clipart & Card Making Printables including Autumn/Fall digital stamps, pre-coloured clipart, printable papers, greetings and ephemera.

The collection is perfect for card making, colouring/colouring, junk journals, printable stationery, scrapbooking and digital scrapbooking. Colour the black and white digi stamps with Copics, Spectrum Noir or Ohuhu/alcohol markers, Prismacolor pencils and watercolour/watercolour pencils, or choose the ready-to-use coloured clipart and pre-coloured images. 

The high-resolution 300 dpi PNG files are easy to print, resize and use in your favourite projects, with transparent backgrounds where applicable. Look out for SVG and cutting files for Cricut, Brother Scan N Cut and Silhouette Cameo too. Create beautiful handmade cards, colouring pages, junk journals, planners, printed stationery, and digi scrapbooking projects with original, unique Polkadoodles artwork designed to mix and match throughout the collection.

There's loads of inspiration for you to see in the Inspiration Gallery on the Polkadoodles Website.

I've been really enjoying using the pre-coloured images for a change so I have carried on with this collection .  My first project today is a stunning little picture that I've made for my craft room using the pre-coloured image Crafting Autumn.  It's a really easy project and cost next to nothing to create.

I started off with a simple black mat photo frame that cost me about £1 from one those bargain shops - we have loads here usually Chinese Bazaars and its great what you can pick up for crafting projects.  I started off by removing the glass from the frame and then used some gilding wax gently rubbing this over the black frame - it's given it a really antiqued and quite expensive look.

Next I resized the pre-coloured image of Winnie Crafting to suite the 4" x 6" frame size and added the sweet sentiment into the corner before printing out.

I decided to embellish the frame fussy cutting out leaves, mushrooms, the robin and flowers from the ephemera set 1, layering these on the frame with 3D glue gel.

I added strips of the washi style tape onto the background before mounting the image into the frame.

To finish off my photo frame today I've added clear sparkle pen over the Winnie image and glossy accents here and there.

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 - Winnie Autumn Wishes - Crafting Autumn

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Winnie Autumn Wishes - ephemera  set 1

Black photo frame

Pebeo gilding wax - antique gold

Spectrum Noir sparkle pen - clear

Glossy accents



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 #855 - Masculine Card - New Job, New Beginnings - Sponsored by Polkadoodles

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

The middle of September is here and we're still having lovely weather - lots of sunshine in the day, cooler nights and refreshingly cooler mornings. 

It will soon be time for our town Feria at the end of the month so I'm hoping for a few cooler days as wearing a flamenco dress in the sun will be a little uncomfortable LOL

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

This week our challenge is being sponsored by Polkadoodles and the theme chosen by Natalie for team 2 is Masculine, cards I think we all need to make more of, well I do anyway.

I'm ok with cute masculine cards for boys or cheeky ones but always seem to struggle with ideas for general cards but there are loads of amazing digital stamps on the Polkadoodles website that are perfect for boys of all ages.

For my Masculine card today I decided I would make a masculine new job card using one of the digital stamps from the Graduation School Student collection.

This is Cute Boy with Pencil & Paper - he definitely looks like he's about to start a new job, with his paperwork in his hand.

The card is a Double Pop out Gatefold card and you can get the instructions for this card in Mixed Up Craft website or there is an excellent tutorial on Youtube 

Basically the card is constructed from 2 pieces of cardstock to give the larger card but it still fits into a standard A7 or 5" x 7" envelope.

Each piece measures 7 3/4 x 7" scored at 2 1/2", 5", 7 1/4".  after folding and burnishing, the two pieces are adhered together in the small centre strip.

Next I chose three papers from the collection and used these to layer onto the card base using a yellow card as an accent colour.  I also die cut several stars in yellow card to decorate the card adding patterned papers and strip sentiments.

The image was coloured with a my promarkers and then I fussy cut him out adding foam tape to the back for dimension, before adding the little boy to the star on the centre pop out strip of the card.  

When the card is closed flat you don't see the little boy, only the stars on the front, then the recipient gets a nice surprise when the card is opened up.

I decided to not add any extra bling to the card, my nod to it being a masculine card simply adding white gelly pen highlights on the image...My hubby says he prefers card with less frou-frou 

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card packed with flowers today and will drop by again to see my next project and don't forget to join in with the challenge over on the Passion for Markers blog

Hasta luego 👋 


Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Graduation School Student collection - Cute Boy with Pencil & paper

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Graduation School Student collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles Digital Paper - Graduation School Student collection - paper bundle

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


I hope that you like my projects today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.


Hasta luego 👋


Enjoy the rest of your day !


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



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


Wendy x

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

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

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

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

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

The theme set for the DT this week by Nikky was Friendship and I'm I've decided that I'm going to send this card to my best friend in the UK as I miss seeing her so much. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I hope that you like my project today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

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

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

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Udderly Cute - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Udderly Cute - coloured ephemera pack

tiny pink gems from my stash

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

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

Wendy x

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finally I added the sentiment and Sammy to the card.

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

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card packed with flowers today and will drop by again to see my next project and don't forget to join in with the challenge over on the Passion for Markers blog

Hasta luego 👋 


Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

DisDigiStamps - Sammy's Surprise

Polkadoodles sentiment 

Hot Off The Press Stamps - Stamped Stitches

Pink fresh Studios essential dies - Diagonal Stitched rectangles

CWC Designer paper - Frozen Forest

Mo's Digital Pencil paper - freebie

Distress ink - Carved pumpkin, squeezed lemonade

Versafine Clair Ink - Pinecone

Spellbinders confetti - latte

Glossy Accents

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

          

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

 Wendy x

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

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

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

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






Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set - Little Ballerinas - Little Ballerina Shy

Lily of the Valley Paper - Bonnets & Bowties

Distress Ink - Kitsch Flamingo

Crafts Too Embossing folder

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - Sugar Plum

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

     

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

 Wendy x

#lotv #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt #liliofthevalley 

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I hope that you like my projects today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

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

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Hello Autumn - Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Hello Autumn - paper set 1

Spellbinders confetti - gold

glossy accents

gem brads

wooden skewer

Ecoline Brush Pen - black

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

Wendy x

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

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

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

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

The theme set for the DT this week by Nikky was Magical Fantasy Autumn.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I hope that you like my project today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Serenity Collection - Serenity Fairy Princess

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

Polkadoodles digital papers - Octavia Moonfly Collection - Paper bundle 5

Polkadoodles digital sentiments - Serenity Collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles Craft Stencil - Boho Daisy Love

Artis Decor Planner disc punch

Artis Decor Planner discs - pink hearts

Washi tape

acrylic paint - cream

Distress Ink - tattered rose

Distress Oxide ink - milled lavender 

Sequins and gems from my stash

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

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

Wendy x