New Release - Christmas - Photo Strip - Robin with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Tuesday....I hope you are having a good week so far... we've got family staying so having a few days being tourists, trying to keep cool and eating too much as usual ! I'm missing my crafty time so managed to sneak some quiet chilling time to myself today to create a little and catch up with the blog.

Today I'm sharing a cute DL Christmas card  made for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using another of the new Photo booth digital stamp sets.

These cards feature a very funny Robin, its the  Robin Photo Strip set available in the Etsy shop.

I really love all of these Christmas stamps as they are such versatile stamps and can be used all together as one image or you can split them to create 4 separate cards.

I remember seeing a die last year or so that created a strip of film roll so I wanted to create this as I think the Robin looks like he's trying to make a film of him flying in with his Christmas banners.

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers and then I used a small square die to create the notches in each side of the card panel.  Once I had cut all these out I used my black promarker to create the fil strip effect.

Finishing touches were some glittery sparkle on the robins hat and I used a white Posca pen to create the snow in the scene.

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

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley #LOTVDT

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set  - Robin Photo Strip

Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

Posca pen - white

     

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Bella Bear Christmas - Christmas in July - Not a Card - Christmas rosettes with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....My goodness the heat has been so high here now for weeks...I cant really imagine it getting much hotter but its only the first week of July !

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 create something to celebrate Christmas in July but not a card - hmm....that got me thinking but I'm up for a challenge.

I decided to make a little home décor for Christmas so created 3 little Christmas rosettes 

I chose to use the Bella Bear Christmas collection for my sweet and easy project today.

I chose 2 snowflake papers, one is from the Bella Bear Christmas collection and the other is from the Gingerbread Holly collection

I decided to create 3 rosettes, the larger one is made from 2" wide strips of paper, I cut 2 each measuring 2" x 11".  The smaller two rosettes are using 1 1/2" strips, cutting 4 strips measuring 1 1/2" x 11".

Each strip of paper was scored at 1/2" all the way along and concertina folded, then I have joined 2 strips together with wet glue to form loops.  I die cut 4 small circles of card and then used these on the backs of each rosette applying hot glue and holding each in shape while drying.

Once the rosettes were formed I added some cream twine to each so they could be hung from a tree at Christmas but they would make perfect gift tags too for special presents.  

Next I chose 2 pre-coloured ephemera images and one of the pre-coloured Bella Bear images, printing each one out twice. 

I die cute the image, layered onto die cut card and then used the hot glue to adhere these to the rosettes.

I then fussy cut out the images again and layered these onto the bottom image with foam tape.

The finishing touches were some sparkly stickles on each image and glossy accents onto Bella's nose and the holly berries.

I'm really pleased how these turned out and I'll definitely be making some more for this Christmas.

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 !

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

Polkadoodles digital paper - Bella Bear Christmas - Set 2 bundle

Polkadoodles digital image - Bella Bear Christmas - Gift Box Bella - Pre-coloured

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Bella Bear Christmas - Ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Gingerbread Holly - paper set 1

Stickles - star dust

glossy accents

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Flowers - Orange - Darling Buds with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....

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!  

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 create a project/card using flowers and the colour orange......not a colour I naturally turn to but I do love how vibrant it is...perfect to get us in the mood for warmer weather.

I decided to create a larger A7 5" x 7" card today.  I chose one of the wonderful papers from the Freddy Fox collection and in my graphics software I colourized this turning the flowers orange before printing out.  I also chose a sentiment from the Darling Buds collection and added this to some teal paper and printed this also along with the pre-coloured Marigold - I love how vibrant she is.

I die cut a circle, offset from the floral paper and layered this over the teal paper adding an orange frame to the circle.  Next I used my Polychromos pencils adding lots of orange to the image to make it more vibrant and then fussy cut her out before adding over the card with foam tape for dimension.

To finish off my project I added some super sparkly glitter to some of the flowers and some orange gems around the design.

 

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 pre-coloured digital image  - Darling Buds - Marigold

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Darling Buds - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Freddy Fox collection 

Kaiser craft gems - orange

Stickles - platinum

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

Wendy x

Sweet Wishes - Fairy Calendar January with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday.... I hope that you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year and made the most of the holiday too.

I'm back today with a card project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous digital stamps from the Fairy Calendar collection, January is a perfect magical image to celebrate the New Year available from the Etsy shop

I resized the image to suit my 6" x 6" Bookbinding Z-fold card before printing out onto alcohol friendly card, colouring with Promarkers and then fussy cutting out by hand.

The sentiment that I have used is from the Fairy sentiments set  and I used papers from the Sweet Candy backing paper collection

Finishing touches were some glitter and sparkle around the design and glossy accents on the champagne glass.

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.

LOTV digital stamp - Fairy Calendar January

LOTV digital sentiment - Fairy sentiments set 

LOTV digital paper - Sweet Candy backing paper collection

Spellbinders confetti - gold

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Glossy accents

Comic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - icicle blue

Promarkers Used:

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Snowy Days - Theo Penguin - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Thursday everyone

I hope that your had a good week.... I'm back today with another cute card using the brand new Snowy Days collection 

Theo Penguin is perfect for all of those Winter celebrations, definitely not just for Christmas! and is packed with 28 adorable characters, icy scenes, and snowy designs—perfect for Christmas, Winter birthdays, and seasonal celebrations. 

The collection includes colouring pages, pre-coloured clipart, greeting stamps, paper patterns and more for card making, digital scrapbooking, junk journals, and printable craft stickers. 

There's loads of inspiration from the Polkadoodles Design team on the website in the gallery too if you are looking for some more ideas and don't miss out on the discounts too still available on this collection.

This is a super cute 5" x 7"  landscape card using another of the wonderful wintery scenes from the collection, resizing this for my card before printing out.  

Theo with his friend the Walrus was resized and printed out onto alcohol friendly card before colouring with my Promarkers (see below for colours) and then fussy cutting out by hand. 

I used clear and blue glitter to add sparkle the background scene which was mat and layered onto silver and blue card.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from the new Snowy Days collection by 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 - Snowy Days collection -  Sealed with a gift

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Snowy Days collection - Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital background - Snowy Days collection - Pre-coloured scenes

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Blue filament glitter

Promarkers Used:

Theo:             lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                     pale pink

                     blue black, cool grey 7,5

                     gold, ivory

Present:         burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                     pear green, lime green, lime zest

Scarf:             gold, sunflower, buttercup

                     pear green, lime green, lime zest

                       

Walrus:          warm grey 4, 3, 1

                     baby pink

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

Wendy x

Happy Christmas from All of Us- Snowmen - Happy Christmas with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday.... Oh my goodness our Christmas decorations still aren't up - that's a first in I don't know how many years... there's been so much going on and I've not really felt up to it but hopefully over the weekend.

I'm back today with a card project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous sets of digital stamps, this is a cute set of Snowmen from the Etsy shop. and I decided to create a landscape DL card.

The set includes 8 different snowmen and I loved the way they were peeking over a snowy bank.  I combined two images to  create this card, reversing one of the images before printing out and colouring with Promarkers.

The sentiment that I have used is from the Snow Cute set  and I used a piece snowflake of paper from the Frosty Christmas backing paper set.  The frame was die cut from white glitter card and I blended a little blue distress ink over the patterned paper.

Finishing touches were some glitter to the snowmen's hats.

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.

LOTV digital stamp - Snowmen 

LOTV digital sentiment - Snow Cute set 

LOTV digital paper - Frosty Christmas backing paper

Distress ink - salty ocean

Comic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - icicle blue

Promarkers Used:

Snowmen:       cool aqua

                      pale blossom

                      orange, bright orange, ginger

Hats:              burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                      lavender, ivory

     

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 #769 - Anything Goes - Mega Christmas Challenge

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope your week is going well....I cant quite believe how soon Christmas day will be here...this year has gone so fast.

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

This weeks challenge is our Mega Christmas Challenge for both teams and being sponsored by lots of lovely and very generous companies. I chose to use a gorgeous image by Polkadoodles

The theme this week is - Anything goes

I chose to use a really cute image from the latest Theo Penguin - Snowy Days collection - Who can resist a cute penguin.  This is image is Waiting for Christmas

Its a larger A7 or 5" x 7"  size card with a  background layer of wintery paper from the collection.

I created a Christmas bauble for my card using a couple of circle nested dies, cutting from silver card and then blending distress oxide inks across a circle of white card to create my wintery scene.  The little fir trees where simply hand painted using a dark grey Brush pen and then I added snow to the trees using a white posca pen.

These are all our wonderful sponsors that you could win a prize from so don't forget to join in

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 - Theo Penguin - Snowy Days - Waiting for Christmas 

Polkadoodles Digital paper - Theo Penguin - Snowy Days - Classic Winter Paper Set 1

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Theo Penguin - Snowy Days - greetings bundle

Promarkers Used:

Theo:             lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                     pale pink

                     blue black, cool grey 7,5

                     gold, ivory

Bow:               burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Scarf:    pear green, lime green, lime zest

Bells:      gold, sunflower, buttercup

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Snowy Days - Theo Penguin - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Saturday everyone

I hope that your had a good week.... I'm back today with another cute card using the brand new Snowy Days collection 

Theo Penguin is perfect for all of those Winter celebrations, definitely not just for Christmas! and is packed with 28 adorable characters, icy scenes, and snowy designs—perfect for Christmas, Winter birthdays, and seasonal celebrations. 

The collection includes colouring pages, pre-coloured clipart, greeting stamps, paper patterns and more for card making, digital scrapbooking, junk journals, and printable craft stickers. 

There's loads of inspiration from the Polkadoodles Design team on the website in the gallery too if you are looking for some more ideas

Here's a gorgeous 6" x 6" card using another of the wonderful wintery scenes from the collection, resizing this for my card before printing out.  These scenes make cards so easy to create I'm sure you will love them.

Theo with his cocktail taking in the sunshine was resized and printed out onto alcohol friendly card before colouring with my Promarkers (see below for colours) and then fussy cutting out by hand.  I adhered him to the card, blending a little distress ink around the snow to give some shadows and then adding lots of lovely sparkly for the snow in the sky and on the ground.

I used a white gelly roll pen to add snow to the trees in the background and then glossy accents to Theo's sunglasses.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from the new Snowy Days collection by 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 - Snowy Days collection - Sunbathing Days

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Snowy Days collection - Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital background - Snowy Days collection - Pre-coloured scenes

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Glossy Accents

Promarkers Used:

Theo:             lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                     pale pink

                     blue black, cool grey 7,5

                     gold, ivory

Hat:               burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Sunglasses:    pear green, lime green, lime zest

Deckchair:      gold, sunflower, buttercup

                       

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

Wendy x

Merry and Bright - Winter Cottage Snow Globe - with Pattie's Creations

Happy Friday everyone I hope that you are all well and have had a lovely first week of December

I hope that you are starting to get into the Christmas spirit - we'll be putting our tree and decorations up hopefully over the weekend.

The 1st Friday of the month marks the start of a new Challenge for December over on the Pattie's Creations Design Challenge blog 

The challenge runs from the first Friday of the month and its an Anything Goes challenge or our theme for December is Winter Around the World, so as long as you use a digital or stamped image in your project, why not join in the challenge.

Winners of the challenge will receive 2 digital stamps of your choice from Pattie's shop.

Pattie has some wonderful digital stamps in her Etsy Shop pattiescreations and there is also a freebie every month on the blog that you can use in your project if you want to! 

For my December project and to add to my stash of Christmas cards, I chose  to use the Winter Cottage Sow Globe digital stamp to create this pretty A7 or 5" x 7" card.

I resized the image to suit my card size and printed it out before colouring with Promarkers.  I then fussy cut out the base of the snow globe and set aside.

Next I used a circular die to cut an aperture from a peice of snowflake patterned paper.  I adhered the glass part of the snow globe directly to the card base and then adhered the patterned paper over the top of this.

As the patterned paper is quite busy I cut a panel of vellum to adhere over the top, running it through a snowflake embossing folder for texture.  I applied a little Kraft coloured ink to accentuate some of the snowflakes.

I then adhered the base of the snow globe to the card using foam tape for dimension, adding a small bow from bakers twine.

The sweet banner sentiment was heat embossed in rose pink and added below the image.

To finish off the card I added lots of sparkle around the design 

I do hope that you like my card for today and don't forget to join in with this months challenge over on the blog.

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.

Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Winter Cottage Sow Globe

LOTV - Patterned Paper - Krafty Christmas

Lisa Horton Crafts - Embossing folder

Ranger Adirondack Dye Ink - Latte

Stickles - Star Dust

Bakers Twine

Promarkers Used:

                  

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

Wendy x

New Release - Theo Penguin - Snowy Days - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Monday everyone I hope that your had a good weekend.... I have so many gorgeous Christmas cards to share so I'm going to try to share one each day...fingers crossed.

I hope you have heard the news already in your VIP email from Polkadoodles but if not then you are going to love this - everyone's favourite penguin Theo is back in a brand new collection of adorable images.....and for a limited time there is a 45% discount.

The brand new Snowy Days collection Theo Penguin is perfect for all of those Winter celebrations, definitely not just for Christmas! and is packed with 28 adorable characters, icy scenes, and snowy designs—perfect for Christmas, Winter birthdays, and seasonal celebrations. 

The collection includes colouring pages, pre-coloured clipart, greeting stamps, paper patterns and more for card making, digital scrapbooking, junk journals, and printable craft stickers. 

There's loads of inspiration from the Polkadoodles Design team on the website in the gallery if you are looking for more ideas

Today's card features Theo with his Christmas pudding.  I've created a polaroid style card and used a pop up for the main design panel.  The image is coloured with my promarkers and I've used one of the gorgeous papers from the collection along with lots of sparkle.

  

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from the new Snowy Days collection by 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 - Snowy Days collection - Christmas Pudding Sleigh

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Snowy Days collection - Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Snowy Days collection - Icy Winter papers set 2

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn Mix

Promarkers Used:

Theo:            lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                    pale pink

                    blue black, cool grey 7,5

                    gold, ivory

Scarf:           gold, sunflower, buttercup

Christmas 

Pudding:       burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                    pear green, lime green, lime zest

Sleigh:          caramel, pastel beige

                    

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

Wendy x