Digi Choosday - Hocus Pocus collection - Halloween is coming - Witch & Kitty card - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....Its September already and were already starting to think about Autumn and Halloween...sad really as the Summer months go by so fast although Ill be glad for the lower temperatures to come.

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 Halloween / Autumn is coming so I decided to use the Hocus Pocus collection for my shaped card today.... I don't make lots of Halloween cards but this was fun to create.

It's the perfect collection of digital stamps, sentiments and ephemera and comes in black and white images for you to colour but also in pre-coloured format.

I wanted to create the look of a spiders web for my card so used some of my nesting dies to create a shaped card cutting from black card.  Next I cut a slightly smaller piece of white card  and then used the fabulous Funky Vortex stencil to create my swirling pattern using black, orange, lime green and purple distress inks.  Once I was happy with the depth of colour, I used a couple of Posca pens to add little dots to the swirls to look like magic swirling into the centre of the design.

For some extra interest I die cut two smaller frames from black card and adhered these over the panel to give the look of a cobweb.

For the main focal image I merged the little witch in the pumpkin and the kitty in the pumpkin together before printing out on alcohol marker friendly cardstock, colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out.

I adhered the witch and kitty to the shaped card base using foam tape for dimension along with one of the sentiments from the collection.

To finish off the design I added white gelly roll pen highlights and some purple confetti around the the card.

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 stamps - Hocus Pocus collection - Witches bundle

Polkadoodles stencil - Funky Vortex 

Distress Ink - black soot, carved pumpkin, twisted citron, wilted violet

Distress Oxide ink - spiced marmalade

Posca pen- white, orange

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - Galaxy

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

New Release - Hocus Pocus Witches with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Wednesday everyone!  I hope that you are having a lovely day.

The high winds have returned here again with a vengeance - it always seems to happen just as our olives are ready for harvesting!  That means once again there are lots already on the floor around the trees....hopefully the winds will die down enough so we can start to pick over the coming weekend, and get them to the olive mill for pressing.

Todays card has been created using images from the Hocus Pocus Witches collection (the witch on her broomstick) and the Autumn Halloween Treats collection (the moon and cloud).

 

In my graphics software I started by resizing the images to create a panel for a 5 x 7 card, layering the moon and cloud image behind the witch  - I use Serif CraftArtist2 but there are many other programs that you can use including Microsoft Word and Paint and its really easy to do.

This was then printed out onto alcohol marker friendly card and coloured using my promarkers for a single layer design.

I added the sentiment towards the top of the design overlapping the moon for added interest.  I used a metallic pen to add some sparkle to the sentiment once the design was complete.

Once this was complete I then carefully blended a couple of distress inks over the panel to give it a spooky look.

Then design was then adhered to the card blank with a panel of coordinating paper and layers of black cardstock.

The finishing touch was some super sparkly confetti and a little glossy accents to the centre of the flower of the witches hat.

I have a very special DT discount code that you can use for all your shopping on the Polkadoodles online shop at checkout use WENDYJ-10 and you will get 10% of your entire purchase (not in conjunction with other discount codes!)

I hope that you like my card today and you'll be back for my final card on Halloween  from the new Hocus Pocus Halloween Collection by Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Hocus Pocus Witches collection

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Autumn Fall Halloween Treat collection

Polkadoodles digital paper - Gnome Halloween trick or Treat - Bundle 2

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Gnome Halloween trick or Treat - Sentiment bundle 

Distress Ink - Wilted violet, villainous potion

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black, metallic grey

This Calls For Confetti - Galaxy

Glossy accents

Promarkers Used:

Skin:                almond, blush, oatmeal, soft peach, dusky rose

Blush:              dusky rose            

Hair:                pastel beige, sandstone, caramel, saffron

Hat:                 prussian, violet, bluebell

                       burnt orange, bright orange, ginger

Sunflower:        gold, sunflower, buttercup

                        burnt orange, bright orange, ginger

                        lush green, emerald, mint green

Robe:               blue black, ice grey 7, 5

Dress:              lush green, emerald, mint green

Cloud:              ice grey 3, 1, 00

Moon:               saffron, pastel yellow, vanilla

                        ice grey 00

Broom:            burnt sienna, caramel, sandstone

Bow:                burnt orange, bright orange, ginger

Stockings:        burnt orange, bright orange, ginger

                       prussian, violet, bluebell

                       

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

Wendy x