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

Digi Choosday - Wednesdays - December birthday - Snowy Days Theo Hello with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....not long until Christmas day now so I hope that you have been good this year. 

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 December birthday using this colour palette. 

I decided to create a Z-Fold Bookbinding card - I'm enjoying making these at the moment!

I started by creating the card base from a blue card, two pieces of card 1  measuring 11 1/2" x 5 7/8" and the second piece measuring 3 1/2 " x 5 7/8"

Next I scored the larger piece as follows along the long side: 

• 2 1/8", 4 1/4" , 5 1/2"

The card was folded and burnished and then the book binding edge was glued down to create the folded card.

I then chose some orange papers from the Freddy Fox collection and adhered these to my card base, leaving a small amount of the blue card showing.

In my graphics software, I then resized the Theo Hello penguin image from the brand new Snowy Days collection and printed this out onto alcohol marker friendly card along with the birthday sentiment from the collection.

I die cut an arched frame from the same blue card and mat and layered the birthday sentiment at the bottom of the arch.  I used the waste from the arched frame to add to the inside of the card.

Theo was coloured with my promarkers before being fussy cut out and adhering into the arch with foam tape.

I then used a balloon and bunting dies set to add details to my happy birthday card, ink blending the balloons fro dimension.

To finish off my card I added some gold confetti around the design , clear sparkle to the bunting and white gelly roll pen highlights to Theo.

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 - Snowy Days collection - Theo Hello DLPD9856

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Snowy Days collection  - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Freddy Fox collection - paper pack 2 & paper pack 3

Spellbinders Cutting dies - essential arches

Studiolight cutting dies - Party Card shape

Distress ink - spiced marmalade, salty ocean

Sakura Gelly Roll - white

Posca pen - white

Spellbinders confetti - gold

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

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

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

New Release - Snowy Days - Theo Penguin - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Sunday I hope that your having a good weekend.

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 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 I'm sharing my first card  perfect for all those Winter celebrations and very easy to create.  It's an adorable and super sparkly A6 landscape (UK size) card.

I've used one of the wonderful wintery scenes from the collection, resizing this for my card before printing out.  Then I have added a peice of double sided sticky sheet over the entire background before covering with super sparkly fine glitter. 

Its an old bit magical technique called the Cracked Ice technique and perfect for those hoards of glitter that I'm sure we all have!  If you want a demonstration of this technique then there is a great YouTube video from 3 years ago by Jamie Rodgers that's worth a watch - here is the link

Once the background scene was complete and all the glitter completely burnished onto the card I adhered this panel to my card blank.  Theo with his ice cream 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 added a die cute frame of silver mirri card to the card before adhering Theo at the bottom of the scene with foam tape for dimension.

The winter sentiment was layered onto more silver mirri card and added to the top left corner of the card.

The finishing touches were some white gelly roll pen highlights to Theo.  A super simple and very sparkly Winter 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 - Ice Skating

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Snowy Days collection - Greetings bundle

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

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Promarkers Used:

Theo:            lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                    pale pink

                    blue black, cool grey 7,5

                    gold, ivory

Scarf:           burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Ice cream:    pear green, lime green, lime zest

                    caramel, pastel beige

                        

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Christmas In July with Polkadoodles (yes I know its not July anymore !)

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday.  Wishing you all a lovely day today and that you enjoy the 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 make a Christmas in July card using this colour palette. I know its not July when this is posted but it was made in July 😅😅😅

  

As I absolutely adore penguins I decided to use Theo the Penguin for my card today choosing Sweet Candy Stick Theo for my focal image

I started by choosing one of the papers from the set for my background, I chose the Snowflake paper as it was perfect for this colour palette and in my graphics software I created a panel to suit a 5 x 7 card and added one of the sentiments from the collection to the top of this panel. 

I then adhered this to my card blank adding a layer of navy cardstock for a small mat layer

I also printed out the cute Theo image on alcohol marker friendly card stock and coloured this with my promarkers, sticking to the given colour palette - well apart from Theo obviously !

Next I die cut some snowflakes from glitter cardstock and adhered these to the panel finally mounting my fussy cut our Theo on foam tape.

To finish off the card I added just a few co-ordinating sequins. 

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 enjoy the next cards I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Theo the Penguin - Sweet Candy Stick Theo

Polkadoodles Digital Paper - Theo the Penguin - Paper Bundle 4

Polkadoodles Digital Paper - Theo the Penguin - Greetings Bundle

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Large Snowflake

Sugar and Spice sequins - unicorn

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

New Release - Theo the Penguin - Mistletoe Kiss with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and a Happy Friday to you all - Christmas day is now just around the corner so today I have my last card this year from the Theo the Penguin collection from Polkadoodles.

I don't think that it  can get any cuter than this heart shaped easel card made with the digital stamp called Mistletoe Kiss

  

Just a simple heart shaped easel card decorated with papers and the cute sentiment are all from the Theo the Penguin collection.

The image is as always coloured with my promarkers (see below) and I have mounted the Mistletoe on a thin strip of acetate so it hovers above the heads of this cute penguin couple.  

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Theo the Penguin - Mistletoe Kiss

Polkadoodles digital paper - Theo the Penguin- paper bundles 3 & 4 

Lisa Horton crafts dies - nested hearts

Distress Oxide Ink - candied apple

Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - Clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black, blue

Craftwork cards Candi

Glossy accents

Promarkers used :

Penguins:         lavender, ivory, warm grey 2

                       pale pink

                       pumpkin, gold, ivory

                       black, ice grey 5, 4, 2

Mistletoe:         forest green, bright green, leaf green

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

Wendy x

New Release - Theo the Penguin - Skiing with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone happy Wednesday and a Happy Winter Solstice too! 

Do you love to Ski? 

I'd like to be able to say.....ooh yes we go skiing every year, especially as there is a wonderful Ski resort only about 1 hour away above Granada in the Sierra Nevada mountain range...but sadly we don't.

I have had lessons when I was younger on dry slopes and up in Scotland in Aviemore on real snow but its just not for me.

I'm terrified of the feeling of moving downhill, walking too !  I think its because of my poor balance and vertigo and its definitely got worse over recent years.

Oh well I'll stick to more sedate activities on level ground 😆😆 

Today I have a wintery card for you using the cute digital Ski Theo coloured with my promarkers and then fussy cut out.

The sentiment and wintery paper are also from the Theo the Penguin collection and I've added the sentiment to my paper panel on the computer before printing it out.

Its a simple 5" x7" card for today with a simple design but I think this would be a great winter birthday card too especially for anyone that loves to Ski.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Theo the Penguin - Ski

Polkadoodles digital paper - Theo the Penguin - paper bundle 4

Polkadoodles sentiment - Theo the Penguin

Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Glossy Accents

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black

Candi - Silver

Promarkers used :

Penguin:          lavender, ivory, warm grey 2

                       pale pink

                       pumpkin, gold, ivory

                       black, ice grey 5, 4, 2

Scarf:              marine, turquoise, tea green

Hat:                marine, turquoise, tea green

                      lavender, ivory

Goggles:          burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                       gold, pumpkin, ivory

                       warm grey, 4, 2, 1 

Skis:                marine, turquoise, tea green

Ski Poles:         burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                       ice grey 3,1

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

Wendy x

New Release - Theo the Penguin - Build a snowman with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Wednesday

Today I have another Christmas card using the new digital release Theo the Penguin collection from Polkadoodles.

Its a fax stepper card today made with the digital stamp called Build a Snowman

To make my stepper card I cut 2 pieces of ice blue coloured card stock

• 7" x 9 1/2" scored at 3 1/4", 6 1/2" & 8"
• 5" x 10" scored at 5"

This card fits a 5 x7 envelope and has a slightly larger centre panel. This is actually a Faux Stepper card as its a lot easier to make and there are loads of instructions on the internet and YouTube if you want to make one similar - mixed up craft has some easy to follow instructions for different versions and sizes.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Theo the Penguin - Build a snowman

Polkadoodles digital paper - Theo the Penguin collection - Set 1 & 2

Lisa Horton Crafts dies - Large snowflake

Lisa Horton Crafts Euphoria glitter cardstock

Distress Ink - tumbled glass

Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black

Craftelier sequins

Promarkers used :

Theo:               lavender, ivory, warm grey 2

                       pale pink

                       pumpkin, gold, ivory

                       black, ice grey 5, 4, 2

Scarf:              forest green, bright green, leaf green

                       

Snowman:       pastel blue, blender

Robin:              caramel, sandstone, walnut

                       poppy, lipstick red

                       gold

Carrot:            forest green, bright green

                      pumpkin, gold, ivory

Bow tie:           burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

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

Wendy x