Mice Party - Summit to Celebrate - Let's Celebrate - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Wednesday - I hope that you are having a lovely weekend and the weather is being kind where you are....we're currently having a few slightly cooler days which is lovely only 37C today LOL....and there is even a possibility of a few drops of rain for Thursday and Friday....I wish....

Everyone seems to have gone Eclipse crazy...trying to buy glasses last minute to be able to watch the event tonight!

It's going to be a total eclipse over Mallorca tonight and we had wanted to go and stay for a few days to see but it's crazy. the hotels were charging sooo much and inviting on a weeks stay.  So were gong to go up on to the house roof to watch.

We're only expecting a partial eclipse of about 95.8% here where we live with the event starting at 7:42 pm, maximum eclipse at 8:38pm ending at 9:09pm. Then the sundial set at 9:13....so I think it's going to be pretty special to see.

  

I'm back today with another cute card using one of the super cute digital stamps from the Mice Party Spring release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV) available from the Etsy shop. The collection includes 12 sweet  little mice, all ready to celebrate.

My fun and colourful card features the Summit to Celebrate Mouse image, coloured with my promarkers and I have added lots of lovely sparkle to make my card extra special.

I adhered a layer of co-ordinating striped paper from my stash to the 5" x 7" card base, covering it completely and then used a wavy stitched border die to cut out the mouse panel layering this onto the card base.

Finishing touches of white gel pen highlights, sparkly confetti and clear sparkle on the cake and a little drop of glossy accents to the mouses nose.

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






Hasta luego 👋

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set - Mice Party - Summit to Celebrate

DoCrafts Paper - Daisy & Dandelion - Picnic Patch

Lawn Fawn Border Die - stitched wavy edge

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - friendship mix

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

glossy accents

     

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

 Wendy x

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A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #836 - Furry Friends - Sponsored by Dis Digital Stamps

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day and a beautiful week ahead!

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

This weeks challenge theme of 'Furry Friends' has been chosen by Me for team 2 and is being sponsored by Dis Digital Stamps

I love the adorable images that Di creates for us and am definitely drawn to the cute furry friends so decided to make a simple card today using one of the fabulous freebies that Di gives away every now and then in her Facebook group DisDigiStamps

Why not have a look at some of the fabulous digital stamps in her Etsy store, I'm sure you will be spoilt for choice!

I chose to use the sweet little mouse with his bouquet of pretty daisies from February this year so started by resizing the image to suite my A6 card base and printing out onto alcohol marker friendly card before colouring with promarkers. 

I chose a pretty floral paper from my stash and used this to choose the colours for the flowers on the image.

To keep the design simple I layered a piece of the paper on my card blank and then cut two simple diamonds of white card adding a little distress ink to the bottom layer before adding to the card.   Using a plain background on the pretty but busy floral paper works well with the image so it doesn't get lost on the card.

The sweet little mouse was cut out on my ScanNCut machine before adding to the card along with a simple sentiment strip that spanned the width of the card.

The finishing touches were some simple white pen highlights around the design, teal confetti and glossy accents to the centres of the daisies.

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: 

Dis Digital Stamp - Etsy Store

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Honeypie Just lovely - sentiment bundle

Dovecraft Paper - Sugar & Spice

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

glossy accents

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 - Mice Party - Mouse Fanfare - Happy Birthday - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday - I hope that you are having a lovely weekend and the weather is being kind where you are.  

It actually feels like Summer has arrived here after our cold and wet Winter and cooler Spring....the temperatures during the day have changed and its even shorts weather now LOL

The pool is sparkling and looking very inviting but its a tad too cool for me still - I'm such a wuss but ill be in it soon I'm sure.  Its lovely sitting out in the evening and no mosquitoes spotted just yet fingers crossed we don't have a bad year.

  

I'm back today with another cute card using one of the brand new Party Mice from the Spring release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop. There are 12 brand new little mice, all ready to celebrate.

My very clean and simple, one layer birthday card today features the Mouse Fanfare image, coloured with my promarkers....just look at all those sweet little hearts pouring out. 

I carefully blended a little distress ink over the panel for the sky and then added two sweet clay hearts to finish off the design.

The sentiment is from the LOTV Everyday Greetings collection.

Finishing touches added of white gel pen highlights and clear sparkle below the little mouse and to his trumpet.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set - Mice Party - Mouse Fanfare

LOTV Digital sentiment - Everyday Greetings

Distress ink - salty ocean

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Clay hearts

     

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 #822 - Use Ribbon or Lace - Sponsored by RAM Stamps

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - We've had a few days now of cold, wind and rain and there's more to come this week - I do love days when I can craft and catch up with my blog especially when its too cold to be outside. 

So glad we have our log burner for the evenings and we've also treated ourselves to a huge electric blanket for the sofa too - it makes such a big difference and a couple of the kitties are also in love with it LOL.

Today I'm here to let you know that there's a new week long challenge on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and I hope that you will join in as there is a prize up for grabs.

This week we are being sponsored by RAM Stamps and our theme is very simple - Use Ribbon or Lace being hosted by Kitty for Team 2.

As we've had so much rain over recent days I decided today to use the very sweet Friendship Mouse printed out and coloured with my Promarkers before fussy cutting out.

I have absolutely loads of ribbons but very rarely use them in my cards these days - something else I need to use more to create some space LOL.

The white top panel is a pre-cut panel that I've had for many years from Craftwork cards so I started by stencilling s few rain drops onto this before wrapping a small piece of sheer blue ribbon around the bottom of the panel.  I added a peice of blue paper to the card base and stamped a sentiment in the bottom right corner of the card

The stencilled panel was adhered to the card base with foam tape and then the sweet little mouse adhered onto the rain drops again with foam tape.

The finishing touches were some clear sparkle onto the puddle and the rain drops and glossy accents to the little lady bird.

Wishing you all a wonderful week!

I hope that you join in with the challenge as don't forget 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:

RAM stamps - Friendship Mouse

Distress ink - Salty ocean

Lawn Fawn Stencil - rainy sky

Craftwork Cards paper - Celebrations collection

Craftwork Cards die cut panel

Polkadoodles stamp - Hello Sunshine

Blue Sheer Ribbon

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

glossy accents

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

 Wendy x

So sweet - Have a Mice Day - New Release with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Monday.... I hope that you had a great weekend.

I'm back today with 2 cards for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous  stamps from the new release of Polymer stamps which is available to order now from the Etsy shop (despatching from 21st January).  There are 4 gorgeous A5 sets and you can buy in a bundle or individually.  

My simple card today is using stamps from the Have a Mice Day set to create a sweet card with the little mouse in a simple die cut heart, layered with red card for a clean and simple design.

I splattered black metallic watercolour over the background panel and added a few black glossy drops around the design.

 

To finish of this card I added glossy accents to the little hearts. 

For my second card today I wanted the design to look a little like and envelope.  I stamped the sentiment from the set into the envelope the mouse is holding and added a little red die cut heart into the corner for the stamp.

I added a little tea dye distress ink around the edges of the card panel before layering this with red card stock.

I then die cut little envelopes from thin red card and adhered these at the bottom of the panel before finally adding 3 more little hearts to the main panel.

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 polymer A5 stamp set  - Have a Mice Day

LHC slimline envelope die set

distress ink - tea dye

black glossy drops 

Glossy accents

     

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

 Wendy x

Just For You - Have a Mice Day - New Release with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday.... we've been in the garden this morning, tidying up the pots under the porch after all the building work, they are starting to look a lot better and thankfully most of the plants have survived so far.

I'm back today with a card project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous  stamps from the new release of Polymer stamps which is available to order now from the Etsy shop (despatching from 21st January).  There are 4 gorgeous A5 sets and you can buy in a bundle or individually.  

My simple card today is using stamps from the Have a Mice Day set to create a sweet card with the little mouse peeking over the paper.  The digital paper is from the Vintage Circus set and I thought perfect for this cheerful little Just for You card.

 

I layered the patterned paper onto red card and then fussy cut the bottom of the sweet little mouse, adding this on top with low profile foam tape and an extra strip of red card to separate the design.   The little sentiment from the set was die cut with a little stamp style die and layered on multiple layers of card.

Finishing touches were some clear glossy accents to the red hearts of the paper and some clear drops around the design.

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 polymer A5 stamp set  - Have a Mice Day

LOTV Digital Background paper - Vintage Circus

Clear drops 

Glossy accents

     

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

 Wendy x

Happy Holidays with Pink Gem Designs

Hello everyone and a happy Monday... I hope that you had a lovely weekend.

We went out for dinner last night to celebrate the birthday of one of our friends and then cooled off in our pool with music and cocktails - it was a great night but were both feeling a little jaded today - too much heat, food and alcohol, so were currently chilling and snoozing to catch up on some sleep.

It was another hot day up at 38C and I think the heat it taking it's toll now too.

As its the last day of July I had to post another Christmas card as the Christmas in July draws to a close so I  decided to make a card made for for Pink Gem Designs using the newly released Christmas Kittens digital stamp set.

You all know how much we love our kitties so this is the perfect set of stamps for me!

The set of digital stamps and includes 8 black line art images and 2 sentiments for you to use.  

This is a sweet card A2 (US Size), with a simple striped background on the card base. 

I created the design using my graphics software adding one of the kittens the tree and a little mouse, resizing each to suit my design before printing out on alcohol friendly card and colouring with my promarkers (see below for colours)

To create my scene for the card I cut a panel of white cardstock using a stitched edge border die and then blended a little blue ink onto this behind the focal image and used the same distress ink to add snowy hills.

Just a simple strip sentiment and then some sparkle and shimmer were added to the snowflakes, baubles and the star.  I've blended a tiny amount of yellow distress ink behind the star too to give it a glow. 

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:
Pink Gem Designs digital stamp - Christmas Kittens

Lawn Fawn Clippings Stencil - Slimline Hillside

Distress Ink - tumbled glass, squeezed lemonade

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens - Black, White

Pinkfresh Studio essentials die - 

Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles - Icicle blue

Lisa Horton Crafts sentiment strip

Promarkers used :

Kitten:                salmon pink, pale pink

                          ice grey 4, 3, 00

Mouse:               warm grey 4, 3, 2, 1

                          salmon pink, pale pink

Clothes:              hot pink, carmine, cerise

                          petrol blue, marine, turquoise

Christmas Tree:    pine, forest green, bright green

Star:                   gold, sunflower, mustard

                    

Baubles:              gold, sunflower, mustard

                          hot pink, carmine, cerise

                          petrol blue, marine, turquoise

                      

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

Wendy x

Get Well Wishes with Last Minute Manda

Hello everyone wishing you all a happy Thursday I hope that you have a lovely day.

I'm a bit out of sync with my blog posts at the moment after our trip to France  but I wanted to share my latest DT inspiration card for Last Minute Manda 

I have made today's card for a special friend who isn't feeling too well at the moment and I wanted to send her a little hug. 

I have used a very sweet set of digital stamps called Get Well Wishes 

It's a simple A2 (US size) card.

I have used a hearts stencil and 3 primary colour distress inks in rainbow order to create my background for this card, overlapping each one gives me 2 additional colours then cutting out the panel with a stitched edge die for detail.

The poorly mouse was coloured with my promarkers and I have then fussy cut him out, adding to my card with low profile foam tape.

I chose a sentiment strip from Lisa Horton crafts and sat the mouse on top of the sentiment towards the bottom of the card 

To keep the card simple just a few sparkly sequins scattered around the design to finish it off.

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 - Get Well Wishes

Lawn Fawn Clippings Stencil - Falling Hearts

Distress Ink - picked raspberry, squeezed lemonade, peacock feathers

Pinkfresh Studio - Essentials dies - Diagonal stitched rectangles

Lisa Horton Crafts sentiment strip

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - black, white

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - Clear

Craftelier sequins

Promarkers used :

Mouse:         warm grey 4,3,2,1

                   pale pink, cocktail pink

Blanket

Compress:    holly, ocean teal, pastel green

                   cool grey 3,1

Mug:            prussian, violet, bluebell

Spoon:         cool grey 3,1  

Tea:             praline, caramel

            

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

 Wendy x

A Passion for Markers BlogSpot Challenge #686 - In the Garden

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all !

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

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by the wonderful Lili of the Valley

I've loved their rubber and photopolymer stamps for many, many years (I have lots and lots in my stash), so I was really happy to find out that we would be using one of their digital stamps for this challenge.

There are loads of lovely images in the Etsy store, so why not take a look and join in with the challenge.  Don't forget there will be a prize for the Winner of the challenge - there are more details over on the blog.

It was my turn to choose the theme for Team 2 this week and because this week is World Earth Day (Saturday 22nd April) I decided to pick 'In the Garden' as the theme for this challenge.  Gardens are so important to our environment especially when we plant bee and other insect friendly plants and where would we be without the bees. 

This is my DT inspiration for the challenge made using the digital image Magical Flute...This sweet mouse playing his flute in the garden for the insects and just look at the flowers dancing for him too!

I like to imagine that our garden here comes alive with magical little creatures like these when we aren't around to watch.

The beautiful image was coloured with my Promarkers (see below for colours used) and I added some  additional die cut wild flowers around the sides of the panel, for some extra detail. 

It's a larger 5" x 7" card and I've used Pan pastels to gently tint the background of the image, adding the design panel onto a layer of green cardstock.

The sentiment stamp is from Crafters companion and has been in my stash for ages but I thought was perfect for my card, stamped with a blue Versafine Clair ink.

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:
LOTV digital stamp - Magic Flute

Pan Pastels - Phthalo blue, permanent red, Chrom. Ox. Green 

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Mini Slimline Swirling Daisy

Lawn Fawn Custom Craft Dies - Stitched borders 

Sizzix Thinlits - Wildflowers

Spectrum Aqua pens - chestnut, desert, black

Crafters Companion Stamp - Spring Garden

Versafine Clair - Twilights

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - metallic blue, metallic grey

Promarkers used :

Mouse:              warm grey 3,2,1

                        pale pink, salmon pink

Leaves:             forest green, bright green, meadow green

Stems:

Flowers:            burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                        midnight blue, cobalt blue, china blue

Flute:                cool grey 3,2,1

Butterflies:        midnight blue, cobalt blue, china blue

                        champagne, ice grey 2

                        gold, sunflower, ivory

Mushrooms:       caramel, sandstone, champagne

Bow:                 midnight blue, cobalt blue, china blue

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

 Wendy x