Olive Farm Crafts: Celebrations

Tuesday, 22 July 2025

New Release - Graduation /school/ college - Hooray card with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful day - I hope the weather is being kind to you....it's still so hot here, too hot really to be outside much past 2pm...I have been trying to get a bit of work done in the garden first thing before the sun is too strong but its not easy.

Some of the plants are starting to look very weary too especially as we have been having hot winds too which sadly is drying out the plants even more. hoping for a break in the weather and maybe a thunderstorm to freshen things up but I suspect it will be like this now until September.

I'm sure you've already seen the brand new release by Polkadoodles crafting It's all about Graduation School Student New jobs.

It’s a bumper kit with fabulous papers, ephemera, word art and of course the wonderful characters (line art and pre-coloured)….. perfect for all those celebrations not just traditional graduation!

Fun, colourful elements perfect for graduation cards, teacher thank you gifts, school leavers' memory books, and end-of-term projects. With 100's of high-resolution digital assets, including clipart characters, coordinating papers, printable sentiments, ephemera, and both black & white and pre-coloured digi stamps, this bundle is ideal for card making, junk journaling, digital scrapbooking, planner pages and more.

If you are looking for more inspiration then why not head over to the Polkadoodles gallery where I'm sure you'll find some inspiration.

My next card features a real cutie celebrating in style with all those balloons and bottles of fizz.....she definitely deserves it after all the hard work.

I've used a fabulous Polkadoodles Funky Vortex stencil for my background with pretty distress inks to co-ordinate with the balloons.

The main image is the Cute girl Graduation gown and I also printed out 3 bottles of fizz and lots of balloons, all fussy cut out by hand after colouring with promarkers.

I've added some clear sparkle to the balloons and bottles of fizz and some clear iridescent sequins around the design.

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

Hasta luego 👋

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Graduation / School kit - Cute girl Graduation gown

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Graduation / School kit - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital clip art- Graduation / School kit - Clip art pack

Polkadoodles stencil - Funky Vortex stencil

Distress inks - kitsch flamingo, squeezed lemonade, salty ocean

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn

Spectrum Noir sparkle - clear

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

Wendy x

Sunday, 9 June 2024

Have a Fantastic Day - Craftwork Cards - Celebrations

Hello....Happy Sunday everyone I hope you are enjoying your weekend !

I have a fun birthday card to share with you today, that I made for a special friends 75th birthday yesterday.

I'm not sure of the name of the style of card but I was inspired to create it after watching a tutorial by a friend on her Facebook group Nifty Noodles Crafting

I made very slight changes to the tutorial dimensions so I could use my scoreboard which shows imperial rather than metric measurements, but the completed card still folds to fit into a standard C6 envelope.

For my card base I chose a bright orange card cutting 4 pieces as follows

12" x 4" scored at 2" & 4 "
6" x 4" for the card base
3 1/2" x 3 1/2 "
3 1/4" x 31/4"

I've used a colourful paper pad and some ephemera from a collection by Craftwork Cards (no longer in business sadly), to decorate the panels of the card

To finish off I added some silver confetti around the design.

I hope that you like my fun and colourful card today and you'll enjoy the next card that I share, made using this set.