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

I'm Your biggest fan - Peacock - May Release - Cooflix by Freakin' Cute

Hello and a happy Tuesday everyone ! I hope that your week has started well...it's cooled off little here thankfully, for a few days at least..only 32C today LOL but the temperatures are set to sore again at the end of the week due to the persistent heat dome over Europe.

Today I'm super excited to share another colourful card that I have made using Cooflix from the May digital stop release by Freakin' Cute.

Isn't she just gorgeous  or should I say he as its the male peacocks that have those fabulous tail feathers.

When we went walking above Granada a few weeks back we visited a little church the hermita de los tres Juanes) at the top of the mountain where there were several peacocks and their ladies hens strutting around. It was beautiful and I love these birds and how they strut around,

You can grab the digital stamp in the Ko-fi shop !

I've gone with my favourite bold strong colours and I decided to embrace them for this card, colouring up Cooflix in shades of jade, blue and gold and then fussy cut out the image.

I wanted to emphasise the gorgeous tail feather so created a fan to site behind the bird.  I don't have any specific feather dies sp used several oval shaped dies to create the look I was going for.

It's an A7 size easel card and the centre pops up to show Cooflix and his feathers off.

The card base was a simple score on the top panel of the card and then I have used co-ordinating paper from my stash to layer onto the card base creating a stopper panel where the sentiment was adhered to.

I finished off the card with some sparkly gems around the design, a swirl of leaves, white gelly roll pen and glossy accents for the eyes.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my tropical card today and will drop by again to see my next project.


Hasta luego 👋 


Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Freakin' Cute digital stamp - Cooflix- May Release 2026

glossy accents

Craft Consortium Paper - Ink drops vivid

sakura gelly roll pen - white

Buttons Galore & More - Sailors Sky Mix

          

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 #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

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #834 - Dots and/or Stripes - Sponsored by Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day !

There's a new challenge started over on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and I hope that you will join in.

This weeks challenge theme of 'Dots and/or Stripes' has been chosen by Natalie for team 2 and is being sponsored by Polkadoodles. 

I decided to make an upright easel card, creating my card base from a Kraft card 6 x6" card base.

I decided to start by choosing some pretty striped and dotty papers by Polkadoodles from the Tons of Love collection, using these to mat and layer onto my card base with a burgundy cardstock to contrast.  

I then resized the main Helga Hippo image to suit my card printing out onto alcohol marker friendly card before colouring with promarkers.

I die cut lots of hearts from the patterned paper and the card and used these to decorate the card along with lots of burgundy gems.  

The finishing touches were some simple white pen highlights around the design.

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: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Helga Hippo - Study work hard Helga

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Helga Hippo  - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles Digital papers - Tons of love - Paper pack 1 & Paper pack 2

Kaiser craft gems - wine

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 #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 - Wednesdays - November birthday Easel card with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday I hope that your having a good week so far....

It's that time of the week when we launch a brand new '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 discount off all crafty printable downloads until midnight today!

The theme set for the DT this week is to create an easel card for a November birthday with no red.  

It's my best friends birthday in November and we both love a witchy film called Practical Magic, it might be the Midnight Margaritas half way through the film but I decided to make her a card using Matilda from the Spellbinding Witches collection.  I have included a link for you to watch the film clip just in case - here 

Who says witches are just for Halloween !

I created the simple easel card from a 6" x 6" Kraft card blank and then chose several papers from a couple of collections to add to the card base, matting each with black card.  I used the papers to choose my colours for the witch colouring with Promarkers (see below for colours used)

I added a sentiment from the Rebel Girl collection as it was perfect for our midnight margaritas song.

To add some extra witchyiness (is that actually a word ?) to the card I added a black cat, a couple of potion flasks and extra sentiments from the Hocus Pocus Witches collection.

The die cut stars cut from black card have been given extra sparkle and I have scattered black sparkly gems around the design along with some glitter pen on her hat buckle and laces and a few touches of white gelly roll pen.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Spellbinding Witches - Matilda

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Rebel Girl - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Gnome Trick or Treat - paper set 2

Polkadoodles digital papers - Winnie Wednesday Halloween - paper set 1

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Hocus Pocus bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Autumn/Fall Halloween treats bundle

Pretty Pink Posh gems - Midnight black

Wink of Stella pen - glitter black

Ecoline Brush pen - deep grey

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black , gold

Promarkers Used:

Skin:        ivory, blush, soft peach, dusky rose

Hair:        warm grey 7, 5, 4

Dress:       lime zest, lime green, bright green, forest green

                yellow, pumpkin, ginger, orange

                aubergine, plum, mulberry, orchid

Bow:        yellow, pumpkin, ginger, orange

Bag

tights:     lime zest, lime green, bright green, forest green

Boots:     aubergine, plum, mulberry, orchid

               yellow, pumpkin, ginger, orange

Broom:     honeycomb, raw sienna, burnt sienna, umber    

belt

Hat:        aubergine, plum, mulberry, orchid

               lime zest, lime green, bright green, forest green

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

Wendy x

Flowers - No Pink- circular Easel Card - Butterfly Flowerpots - Digi Choosday - Be Simply Beautiful with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday.  I hope that you have a lovely day today and that you enjoy your week ahead...

It's that time of the week when we launch a brand new '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 discount off all crafty printable downloads until midnight today!

The theme set for the DT this week is to create a card with flowers but to use no pink!

I started off by creating a circular easel card with a deep purple card stock and then used one of the gorgeous blue papers from the Helga Hippo collection to mat and layer onto the bottom of the easel. 

Next I resized the beautiful Butterfly Flowerpots image to fit the easel and then printed this out onto alcohol friendly card stock. 

I coloured the image with promarkers to match the purple card and blue paper and then used one of the dies to cut out the panel.  I blended a little blue distress ink around the edge of the panel and then adhered it to my easel card.  

The sentiment from the Lilybug collection was printed out onto card, layered on to the same purple card and then adhered to act as the stopper for the easel so it stands up.  

For extra detail I printed out two of the pre-coloured butterflies from the Helga Hippo ephemera bundle, fussy cutting these out and adhered to the card so that the wings are lifted off the design. 

Finishing touches where some shiny teal confetti and white gel pen highlights.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Promarkers Used:

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Butterfly Flowerpots 

Polkadoodles digital paper - Helga Hippo collection - Set 2

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Lilybug collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Helga Hippo collection - Ephemera bundle

Distress Ink - salty ocean

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Nested Torn Circles

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white

Fineliner pen - green

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

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

Wendy x

Mother's Day card - Noodle Panda - Digi Choosday - Picked just for you with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday.  I hope that you have a lovely day today and that you enjoy your week ahead...

It's that time of the week when we launch a brand new '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 discount off all crafty printable downloads until midnight today!

The theme set for the DT this week is to create a Mother's Day card.  Isn't it strange that Mother's Day falls on different days around the world.  

In the UK its on March 10th, whereas in the US its May 12th.  Here in Spain its May 5th.  For my card today I chose to use one of my favourite recent collections Noodle Panda - he's such a cutie and who wouldn't want a bouquet of flowers from a cute panda. 

This is a bright and cheerful easel card with yellow and hot pink cardstock which I've used to add layers of die cut hearts.  One of the hearts has a layer of Vellum in the centre.

The papers that I've used are from a New Release of Winne that's coming out very soon - so a little sneaky peak - shh don't tell Nikky !  

The sentiment is from the Darling Buds collection and I've used hot pink foil to add shine.  The card when folded flat fits perfectly into an a6 envelope.

Finishing touches where some super sparkly hot pink gems and, hot pink foiled candi and white  gel pen highlights.  

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Promarkers Used:

Noodle:     blue black, ice grey 7, 6

                warm grey 2, 00

                dusky rose, pale pink

                china blue

Flowers:    hot pink, carmine, cerise

                gold, sunflower, buttercup

Leaves:     ocean teal, pastel green

                forest green, bright green, leaf green

                holly, pine

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Noodle Panda collection - Flower Bouquet

Polkadoodles digital paper - New Winnie collection

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Darling Buds collection - Spring Flowers/Mothers Day collection

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Nested Stitched Hearts

Crafters Companion border die

Craftelier  - Essential Dies - Frames

Minc Foil - Hot Pink

Pink Gems

Craftwork Cards - Card Candii

Craft Consortium Sequins

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