Halloween Card Making Ideas - New Release - Bad to the Bone - Hello Autumn collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Friday  everyone... I hope that you have had a great week and are enjoying the weather.

We've finally had a few slightly cooler days which I have to say is a relief - even sleeping at night has been a little easier so Im hoping it lasts.

I'm super excited to share my first 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 makes to cute Halloween cards, Hello Autumn is packed with everything you need for creative seasonal crafting.

Here is my first card using the collection - This is the cute Bear & Mouse in a Pumpkin Car and as soon as I saw this digital stamp I had the music Bad to the Bone running through my head - If you don't know it then google it and I apologise in advance for passing not he ear worm.  LOL

I made a decision for this new collection to use the pre-coloured images in 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 !

I die cut a shaped card from Kraft as I think this is the perfect colour of card with the entire collection and then chose a couple of the patterned papers to layer onto this card base.

I know we are all thinking of postage costs these days so I've kept the layers simple, to cut down on the weight of the finished card.

The main image was resized in Canva and then printed out a couple of times as I wanted to layer up the wheels and the furry dice.

Going with the theme of Bad to the Bone, I can imagine these two cuties driving around the town causing mayhem with their pumpkin Chopper so I decided to add a pennant style Boo banner at the back of the Chopper.  I cut the sentiment from the multi sentiment download and fastened this to a small piece of Kraft card with some gem stone brads for that touch of the biker feel.

It's a simple wooden skewer, coloured with a black brush marker and then attached to the cutout Boo banner

To finish off my card today I've added glossy accents to the pumpkin wheel caps, mouses goggles and the furry dice and scattered gold 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 - Cute Bear & Mouse in a Pumpkin Car

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Hello Autumn - Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Hello Autumn - paper set 1

Spellbinders confetti - gold

glossy accents

gem brads

wooden skewer

Ecoline Brush Pen - black

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

Wendy x

Fluffy Kisses - It's Your Birthday - Floral Bunny - New Release with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday.... I hope you are having a great weekend.

The sun is shining and its lovely and warm in the full sun but ooh its freezing in the shade and in the house too LOL

I'm back today with a card project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous  stamps from the brand new release  called Fluffy Kisses and is full of fluffy bunnies.

There are digi stamps for you to colour and there is also an A5 set of of Polymer stamps which is available to pre-order now from the Etsy shop.  

If you don't like to colour then there are also beautifully coloured Simply Prints available too so something for everyone.

My card today is using one of the sweetest digital stamps stamps from the Fluffy Kisses collection . This image is Bunny Flowers and perfect for my birthday card today.

This is a larger A7 or 5" x 7" floral card with a luxurious touch of shine.  I printed the image on my LaserJet printer onto Neenah Desert Storm card for a more natural feel and then coloured with my Promarkers,  

To add texture and extra fluffiness I used Polychromos pencils over the bunny for fur detail.  Then I have added black foil over the bunny and gold foil over the sentiment. Its so difficult to see in the photo which is quite annoying as its beautiful in real life.  Here's a close up to hopefully show the shine.

The card design has been kept simple without too much extra fluff as I really do prefer a simpler cleaner look these days but I chose a pretty floral paper from my stash for the background.

I matted the paper onto a dark raspberry card and die cut a tin arched frame to draw the eye into the main image.

Finishing touches were some dark plum coloured gems around the design for a touch of sparkle.

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 - Fluffy Kisses collection - Bunny Flowers

Craftwork Cards designer paper - Floral Boutique (no longer in business sadly)

Minc Foil - black, gold

Plum gems

  

   

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

 Wendy x

Autumn Birthday Wishes - Autumn Wreath - with Pattie's Creations

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

The first 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 September is School Days, 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 September project, I chose  to use the Autumn Wreath digital stamps to create a 6" x 6 " card. 

This is definitely a more traditional style of card and quite different to my recent creations but I'm pleased with how its turned out.

I resized the image to suit my card size and added an autumn sentiment into the centre of the panel before printing out on my LaserJet printer.  As I was going to create some extra layering I printed out some of the leaves a second time. 

I then used a selection of distress inks to colour the leaves with an autumnal palette before fussy cutting them out.

I then applied gold foil to the extra leaves that would be popped up on foam tape for dimension and used rose gold foil for the sentiment in the centre. 

For the background I used a linen effect embossing folder to add texture to Kraft card and then applied white dye ink over the texture to soften the look.

To finish off the card I added some white gelly roll pen highlights to the acorns and scattered gold confetti 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:

Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Autumn Wreath

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Freddy Fox Collection

Distress inks -  weathered wood,  gathered twigs, old paper, barn door,             fossilized amber , crushed olive ,  rustic wilderness, 

Minc Foil - Gold, rose gold

Embossing folder - Linen

Lisa Horton Crafts - Cloud 9 Dye ink - falling snow

Sakura Gelly Roll - White Pen

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - gold

                  

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

Wendy x

May Birthstone card - Emerald - Easel Card - Octavia collection - Digi Choosday - Big Bunches of Love 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 an easel card for a May Birthday with the birthstone Emerald.  I have to say green isn't my first choice for a colour palette but I do love the colour.  

I started off with a 6" 6" Kraft card base and folded this to create a twisted easel card. I then chose a couple of papers, one with gorgeous leaves from the Noodle Panda collection and the purple polka dot paper is from a new Winnie Collection due to be released very soon.  

I used these papers along with some green and emerald green card to created mats and layers on the card and also to choose my colour palette for the main focal image, with Promarkers (see below for colours).

 

I wanted to use a beautiful image from the Octavia collection.  It's not a collection I have used before but there are some gorgeous digital images and papers that you will love.  

I'm loving this bright and colourful combination of purple and emerald and I think her emerald green hair is amazing.  

I used a little distress ink around the edges of the leafy paper to take away some of the whiteness.

Finishing touches where some super sparkly purple and green sequins from my stash, a piece of recycled green twine and white and metallic green 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:

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

Blush:     pale pink

Eyes:      lush green, emerald, mint green

Hair:       holly, pine, emerald, mint green

Dress:     plum, mulberry, wild orchid

Owl:        amber, bisque

               cocoa, caramel, bisque, pastel beige

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Octavia collection - Best Friends

Polkadoodles digital paper - New Winnie collection - 

Polkadoodles digital paper - Noodle Panda collection - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Noodle Panda collection - Set 3

Distress Ink - mowed lawn

Craftelier Basics Crafts Dies - Nested Hexagons

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white, black, metallic green

Sequins - green, magenta

green twine

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

Wendy x

Sugary Sweet Cookies with Last Minute Manda

Hello Everyone its Monday and today Last Minute Manda is sponsoring a freebie over on Kit and Clowder Facebook group for the members advent calendar.  Every day up to the 25th December there are wonderful freebies, discounts and prizes so its well worth heading over to have a look and joining the group.

My card inspiration today is using the digital stamp set from the Sugary Sweet Cookies set that I have coloured using my Promarkers before cutting out.  

The card is an A2 (US size) with papers from Lili of the Valley Essentials.  I have die cut a simple circle of Kraft card and then embossed this before using white die ink to highlight the snowflakes.

The cute gingerbread digi is doing some last minute Christmas baking and has been coloured with my promarkers (see below for colours) adhered to the card with foam tape and then some simple gold confetti sequins added to finish off the card.

Don't forget if you head over to the new Last Minute Manda store use my special discount code Wendy25 to get 25% off your shopping.

I really hope that you like my card today and it would be lovely if you you leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Last Minute Manda digital stamp - Sugary Sweet Cookies

Posca Pen - white

Lili of the Valley Essentials papers - Krafty Christmas

LHC 3D Embossing folder - Snowflakes

LHC Washi sentiment

Spectrum Aqua pen - Chestnut

Gesso - White

Distress Ink - Picket Fence

glossy accents

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - gold

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, clear star

Promarkers used :

Gingerbread:                 caramel, sandstone, pastel beige

                                    pale pink

Eyes:                           cobalt blue, arctic blue, blue pearl

Dress:                          burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Hat:                              lavender, ivory 

                                    poppy

Holly:                           forest green, bright green, leaf green

                         

Berries:                        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Apron:                          forest green, bright green, leaf green

Bowls:                          lavender, ivory, poppy

                                    burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                                    forest green, bright green, leaf green

 Ricrac:                         lavender, ivory 

Spatula:                        warm grey4,3

                                    burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Icing bottles:                warm grey 4,1

                                   burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                                   forest green, bright green, leaf green, black

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

  Wendy x

New Release - Gingerbread Holly - Ginger Cutie with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone - Wishing you all a lovely Sunday - I hope you are having a great weekend.  It's still lovely warm and sunny here during the day, so we've been doing a little gardening each day trying to get on top of the weeds. I'm hoping to go back to Pilates tomorrow too fingers crossed!

I'm here today with another of my card samples made for the latest new digital release from Polkadoodles. 

There is lots more inspiration for you for this new collection from the DT over on the Polkadoodles ideas gallery. 

I'm certain you are going to love them for your Christmas projects and don't forget if you don't like colouring the collection is also available with pre-coloured digital images.

Today's card is another larger 5 x 7 card that I've made using a combination of papers from the new collection and a previous collection Baked With Love -I really love how these two digital collections work so well together.

The background paper is from an earlier bundle called Baked with love, I've layered this onto some Kraft card as I think this is perfect for these sweet gingerbread digitals.

I've then used heart shaped dies to cut a panel of Kraft card and a smaller panel of paper from the new Gingerbread Holly Papers 1 I printed out a poinsettia and some holly leaves from the Baked with Love foliage set and adhered this to my heart panel which has been adhered to the background panel offset to the right.

I cut some card ricrac from Kraft card using a wavy border die for the left side of my card and used the Delicate Daisy Corner die  again cut in Kraft card to add beneath my poinsettia - don't be afraid to snip into your die cuts like this one so the tendrils can be positioned where you want them !

The sentiment I've used is from the Baked with Love sentiment bundle

The finishing touches are some red sequins scattered over the card and some Nuvo drops in gold on my leafy swirl and the centre of the poinsettia.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Ginger Cutie

Polkadoodles digital papers and sentiment

Crafters Companion wavy border die

Lisa Horton Crafts dies - nested stitched hearts

Tonic Nuvo Crystal drops - bright gold

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Red sequins

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - stardust, white, black

Glossy accents

Promarkers used :

Ginger:            pastel beige, sandstone, caramel

                       pale pink

Ricrac:             lavender, ivory

Dress:             forest green, bright green, leaf green   

                       

Hat:                burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Bow:                   burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

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

Wendy x