Tuesday, 19 May 2026

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 ๐Ÿ‘‹


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

Sunday, 17 May 2026

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 ๐Ÿ‘‹


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






Saturday, 16 May 2026

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 ๐Ÿ‘‹


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






Wednesday, 13 May 2026

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 t
he 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 ๐Ÿ‘‹ 


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

Sunday, 10 May 2026

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 ๐Ÿ‘‹


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






Friday, 8 May 2026

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 shopThere 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 ๐Ÿ‘‹


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






Tuesday, 5 May 2026

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 ๐Ÿ‘‹ 


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