A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #847 - Under the Sea - Collect Beautiful Moments - Sponsored by LeAnn's World 101

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all I hope that you are having a lovely week !

So the heatwave is continuing all this week with consecutive days over 40 and it's very difficult indeed....We have been trying to get up a little earlier to get some jobs done early before it's really unbearable and difficult sleeping even with the Zircon in our bedroom....... I think by the end of this week the temperature is predicted to be 44C so I suspect we will be doing less and less each day.

It's even too warm to sit in the porch with the fan on and trying to persuade the kitties to come indoors is a nightmare !

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

This week our challenge is being sponsored by LeAnn's World 101  and the theme chosen by Me for team 2 is Under the Sea....this is where I would like to be with all the heat here in Spain at the moment, I'm definitely melting.

For my card decided I chose to use Ashera , resizing the image to suit my A6 card before printing out on alcohol friendly card and colouring with promarkers.  

Next I create the background scene around the image, using several sea themed stamps and distress oxide inks to create my colourful underwater scene.

The card was simply finished with white gelly roll pen highlights, clear sparkle pen to the mermaid and glossy accent bubbles.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card packed with flowers 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:

LeAnn's World 101 digital stamp - Ashera

Distress Oxide Ink - fossilised amber, peacock feathers, abandoned coral, mowed lawn

Woodward Craft Collection stamps - Sea Elements

Spectrum Noir - Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

glossy accents

Tim Holtz tiny words - Small Talk

          

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

 Wendy x

Cute Creatures - Float through life on a wave of happiness - Set 1 with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone happy Friday - I hope you have had a great week.

The very high temperatures are sticking around here and all across Europe at the moment, ranging from 36 to 40C most days locally...manageable for a few hours in the mornings but then by lunch everything has to stop and then its all about finding something to do out of the heat.

There have been loads of wild fires around the town already and they are breaking out every day in Andalusian region - very sad and very scary !

Stay safe everyone!

I'm back today to share a cute and fun A6 underwater card using another of the little sea creatures from the Cute Creatures collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). Both sets are available now from the Etsy shop, there's also currently a fabulous 50% discount with eligible orders.

 

If you haven't had a look yet it's a fantastic collection of 2 sets of images, that you can buy separately or as a complete collection - I know which I would choose as its a fantastic price for what's included.  Each set contains 93 cute little creatures or you can get all 186 creatures.

I have used to sweet looking jelly fish from set 1 today, coloured in my favourite palette after printing out onto alcohol friendly card and cutting out on my ScanNCut.

This critter is definitely a lot cuter than the Mauve Stinger that stung me last year whilst snorkelling LOL

To create the  underwater background I have blended distress inks across a panel of card before using a wave stencil to dry emboss this, blending a darker ink over the raised areas.

I adhered strips of watery looking paper at then sides of the embossed panel and then added a stamped sentiment at the bottom of the card, finishing it off with white gelly pen accents and sparkly gems.

Hopefully my fun underwater card will make you feel a little cooler today

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  - Cute Creatures - set 1

Distress Ink - salvaged patina, salty ocean, chipped sapphire, wilted violet

Creative Craft products - Water stencil

Crafts Consortium papers - Vivid ink Drops

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Pretty Pink Posh gems - Blue Lagoon

 #lotv #liliofthevalley #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt

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

 Wendy x

Cute Creatures - Make a Splash - Set 2 with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone happy Sunday - I hope you are having a lovely weekend.

Last night we went on an adventure, a night walk.... we went walking with one of the local groups to explore The Sierra de Lújar mine  which is an active underground operation located in the mountains above Órgiva. The mine, Minera de Órgiva, S.L., it is one of the few sustainable fluorite mines in Europe, extracting high-quality fluorspar and the operation is known for its environmental practices, such as recycling 90% of its water and backfilling waste into old tunnels.

The mine is located in the mountains opposite are house and we can often see dust clouds as vehicles make their slow way up and down.

My goodness it definitely was an adventure...the group met just down the road at the Camping restaurant around 7pm and we set off in a couple of mini busses and a few 4x4 vehicles too.  It took around an hour to get to the mine entrance high up in the clouds as the track was very bumpy, and dusty and out poor minibus really struggle...the driver was amazing and we only had to get out once while the engine cooled a little and he manoeuvred over a difficult stretch of track.  

The views from the top were spectacular so it was well worth me having my eyes closed most of the journey up LOL. It was a really strange experience walking in the dark with torches and quite strenuous in places but Im so glad we went, despite getting home at midnight and being shattered.....we decided to skip the food after the walk as we were so tired. There are loads of photos on my Facebook page if you are interested.

It's a lot cooler here today thankfully with temperatures due to reach 34C this afternoon but after the high heat we've had it's a welcome relief and there even a chance of light rain next week ..... yippee !

I'm back today to share a fun 5" x 7" underwater scene card using some of the little sea creatures from the Cute Creatures collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). Both sets are available now from the Etsy shop with a fabulous 50% discount

 

If you haven't had a look yet it's a fantastic collection of 2 sets of images, that you can buy separately or as a complete collection - I know which I would choose as its a fantastic price for what's included.  Each set contains 93 cute little creatures or you can get all 186 creatures.

I chose a hammerhead shark, a great white and the sweet little manta ray resizing them to suite my card before printing out onto alcohol friendly card and fussy cutting out.

Next I created my underwater background, using lots of distress oxide inks, blending to create rays of light and a bank of sand at the bottom...its was loads of fun !

I used a stencil from my stash to create the coral at the bottom of the card adding little white highlights.

I added a stamped sentiment in the top corner of the panel and  finished off the card with glossy accents bubbles and clear shimmer pen on the sharks and ray.

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  - Cute Creatures - set 2

Distress Oxide Ink - broken china, salty ocean, chipped sapphire, blueprint, sketch, cracked pistachio, antique lined, frayed burlap, mowed lawn, twisted citron, black soot, abandoned coral, spiced marmalade

Lawn Fawn stamps - Beary Rainy Day

Woodware Craft Collection Stamps - Sea Elements

TCW Stencil - Golf coast Florida

crafters companion sparkle pen - clear

Glossy Accents

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

 #lotv #liliofthevalley #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Summer Fun - Launch Bundle Offer - Sea Life - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday - I hope that you are having a great weekend.  I don't know about you but I'm definitely ready for some Summer sunshine maybe a trip or two to the beach and a little splashing around in the sea - its been a mixed Winter and Spring here so far which has been quite unusual.

I'm back today with a fun A7 (5" x 7") underwater scene card using some of the little Sea Life icons from the new Summer Fun collection.

Its a fantastic bundle of 3 sets of images - Summer Days, Sea Life and At the Beach by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop. 

There are loads of cute images to play with in the collection and they are so easy to colour and make really cute cards - I'm sure you'll love them and the whole bundle is still on offer. The sentiment I chose to use is from the Dragons and Unicorns set 

I printed out the sea creatures and the sentiment onto alcohol friendly card and coloured these with my promarkers before cutting out with my ScanNCut.

Next I created my sea and sand for the scene, using Brushos and watercolour card allowing this to try completely before assembling my card.

I matted the water and sand onto a panel of dark navy card as I love the contrast this gives.

Finishing touches were some little glossy accents bubbles and white gel pen highlights around the design.

The shimmer from the Pixie Powder is absolutely gorgeous and perfect for the water.

I hope that you like my cards 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  - Summer Fun Bundle - Sea Life

LOTV Digital sentiment - Dragons & Unicorns

Brushos - purple, ultramarine, emerald green, turquoise, sandstone, lemon, yellow, yellow ochre

Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powder - Silver Dream

Glossy accents

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

 #lotv #liliofthevalley #weloveliliofthevalley # lotvdt

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

 Wendy x

Hope your day goes with a Splash - Scuba girls Latisha and Lisa - 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 August is Beach or Under the Sea, 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 July project, I chose  to use one of the sweet Scuba Girls Latisha and Lisa digital stamps to create a larger 5" x 7"  or A7 card. 

These two little girls look like they are having so much fun in the water.  The background paper is a bubble paper from JMC Designs and I thought it was perfect as it is, simple with some extra white highlights on the bubbles.

I resized the image to suit my card size and printed them out before colouring with my Spectrum Noir pencils.

After fussy cutting them out, the two little girls were adhered using foam tape for dimension. I've mat and layered the background paper onto some teal card and also layered the sentiment onto teal card to coordinate. To finish off the card I added some glossy accent bubbles coming out of the snorkel tubes and also to the diving masks. 

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 - Scuba Girls Latisha and Lisa

Polkadoodles Freebie Sentiment when you sign up for the Newsletter

JMC Designs - Bubble Paper - Aquatic Adventures Digital Collection

Spectrum Noir pencils

Glossy Accents

POSCA Pen - white

                  

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

Wendy x

Be so awesome people think you're a Myth - New Release - Aquatic Adventures with Julia McNeill Designs

Hello everyone Happy Monday I hope that you had a great weekend.  

It's time for me to post an project for JMC Designs  and also its my final MerMay project. There's still a few days left of May so plenty of time to join in with the challenge and don't forget there will be a prize awarded to someone.

 

The prompt for today from JMC Designs is 'Mythical & Magical' so I decided to create a magical scene using the pre-coloured images from the brand new digital collection Aquatic Adventures. 

Several years ago we were very lucky to be at a wedding in the Monterey Bay Aquarium California and at the time there was the most amazing jellyfish experience/exhibition with tanks full of the most amazing jellyfish and they were definitely magical with their glowing neon lights.

I started by choosing one of the papers from the collection and then resized this to fit a 5" x 7" card blank.  To give my design dimension I added a couple of jellyfish, and making them smaller to appear in the background. 

I added a third larger jellyfish towards the bottom centre of the design, to appear in the foreground and also resized the gorgeous mermaid Oceania so she would appear to sit on the bridge.  

I added a little starfish at the bottom of the image. 

Then I separated the mermaid and the larger jellyfish from the design and made an exact copy of the coral and rocks at the bottom before printing out. 

Next I fussy cut out the mermaid, the larger jellyfish and some of the coral at the bottom of the design.  

Don't worry if you're not great at fussy cutting, you can always use a dark grey or black marker pen to carefully outline the edge and no one will ever know. 

To assemble the card I adhered the background peice onto a peice of teal metallic card and then used foam squares to adhere the mermaid, jellyfish and the coral at the bottom of the panel.  

I splattered the card with a pearl silver watercolour paint and added extra metallic bubbles around the design.  

The sentiment was printed out and cut into 3 simple strips, blending a little blue ink to tone down the white of the card, before adhering to the card.

The finishing touches to the card were some teal confetti around the design, glossy accents to the bubbles in the water and white gel pen highlights.

I really hope that you like my project 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:
JMC Designs digital collection - Aquatic Adventures 

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

Distress Ink - salty ocean

Craftelier watercolour paint - gold collection - pearl silver

Sakura Gelly Roll pen -  white, clear star

glossy accents

 

                      

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

Wendy x

Make Waves, Dive Deep - New Release - Aquatic Adventures with Julia McNeill Designs

Hello everyone Happy Sunday I hope that you are enjoying your weekend.  

It's time for me to post an extra project for JMC Designs  and also my next MerMay creation. There's still plenty of time to join in with the challenge and don't forget there will be a prize awarded to someone.

 

The prompt for today from JMC Designs is 'Shape of the sea' so I decided to create and underwater cave scene for the gorgeous mermaid Serephina from the brand new digital collection Aquatic Adventures.  

I think she reminds me of Marilyn Monroe, with her gorgeous shapely curves.  I started by choosing one of beautiful papers from the collection that looks like a cave and resized this to fit an A7 5" x 7" card blank. 

I printed the paper out twice as I wanted to fussy cut some of the coral at the bottom of the paper to decoupage for extra dimension.  I cut a piece of black cardstock to fit my card blank and then handcut a cave shape.  This card would create a frame around the design. 

Next I resized Serephina to fit inside the frame of the underwater cave and coloured her with Promarkers before fussy cutting out.

The sentiments at the top and bottom of my design are also from the collection,  printed out and adhered to the design after adding a little blue distress ink to tone down the white of the card. 

I used some black stickles to add details around the edge of the cave frame for a bit of extra sparkle. 

The finishing touches to the card were some clear iridescent sequins around the design to add sparkle and shine, white gel pen to highlight Serephina's hair and I've added extra sparkle to the mermaid tail  and to some of the coral at the bottom.

I really hope that you like my project 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:
JMC Designs digital collection - Aquatic Adventures 

Sugar & Spice Sequins - Enchanted

Distress Ink - prize ribbon

Stickles - black diamond

Sakura Gelly Roll pen -  white, clear star

Lisa Horton Crafts - Mermaid Tails - Waterfall

 

Promarkers Used:

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

Hair:    gold, sunflower, buttercup

Tail:     verdigris, pebble blue, pastel blue

            lime zest, lime green, pear green

Shell:    mandarin, buttercup

                      

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

Wendy x

Mermaid Kisses, Starfish Wishes - New Release - Aquatic Adventures with Julia McNeill Designs

Hello everyone Happy Monday I hope that you had a great weekend.  

It's time for me to post my next project for JMC Designs .  There is a brand new digital collection called Aquatic Adventures and  I think you are going to love it as much as I do!  

Perfect timing too if you love to create for MerMay! 

It's a fabulous collection of 29 Digital stamps, 29 Pre Coloured Stamps, 11 ephemera sheets, 18 papers, 5 topper sheets and 4 sentiment sheets, so you will be spoilt for choice.

It's amazing value for money and there is a special 20% discount off the kit until midnight tonight (GMT) using the code aqua20 at the checkout

I decided for my first project with this new collection to make a bridge fold card so I could create an underwater scene, so cut a piece of aqua cardstock 7" x 7" and then scored this at 1", 2", 5" and 6".  The bridge section is a piece of card 5" x 1".  Its a really simple fold but perfect I think for this design. 

I printed out one of the papers from the collection and used this to cover the card base and the bridge section. 

Next I resized some the the pre-coloured elements from the collection and then printed them out before fussy cutting out.  

I used a dark grey pen to cover the white edges ( great if you aren't too good at fussy cutting as it hides any mistakes! ) 

The ephemera and digital images were then adhered to the card, some flat, some with foam tape and I also used acetate so the mermaid and the fish appear to be floating in the sea.  

The sweet sentiment also from the collection was printed out and then I've applied teal foil for the underwater look.

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The finishing touches to the card were some sequins around the design to add sparkle and shine.

I really hope that you like my project 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:
JMC Designs digital collection - Aquatic Adventures 

Minc foil - teal

Sugar & Spice Sequins - Under the Sea

Promarkers used :

                      

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 #732 - 3 of Anythings Sponsored by LeAnn's World

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day !

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

This weeks challenge theme of '3 of Anything' has been chosen by Linda for team 2 and being sponsored by LeAnn's World 101

I chose to use one of the beautiful fantasy digital images called Alesea for my card today....there's something magical about mermaids after all and I had the idea for the card in my head as soon as I saw the theme. This is a 5 x 7 portrait card with a fabulous inky background for my underwater scene. 

I used a peice of 300gsm watercolour card and began by creating an inky background using lots of distress inks, drying in between each layer.  Once I was happy with the layers and the depth of colour I spritzed the panel with water and then carefully sprinkled Brushos over the design. 

These really are wonderful pigment powders that help to create my watery scene really easily.  I wanted the water to look like it was swirling and bubbling around the main image.                                                                                                  I then used distress oxide inks to stamp 3 corals at the bottom of the design and 3 shoals of fish, these are my 3 of anything to tie in with the theme of this challenge then to add details and highlights I used metallic and neon gel pens to the fish and coral. 

Next I resized the mermaid image to suit the card, printed on a laser printer and then coloured with my Promarkers (see below for colours used). 

  

The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed onto a strip of blue card and the final  touches were some sparkly details to her hair a few pieces of teal confetti around the design.

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:
LeAnn's World Designs Digital stamp -  Alesea

Distress Inks - peacock feathers, tumbled glass, salty ocean, uncharted mariner, twisted citron, shabby shutters, bundled sage

Distress Oxides - crackling campfire, abandoned coral, chipped sapphire, prize ribbon

Woodware Craft Collection Stamps - Francoise Read Sea Elements

Avery Elle stamps - Bubbles

Lisa Horton Crafts - Coloured Gel Ink Pens

Lisa Horton Crafts - Fineliner pens

Brushos - turquoise, ultramarine, emerald green 

WoW Embossing Powder - Opaque Bright White Super Fine

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Spellbinders confetti - Lagoon

Promarkers used :

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

Blush:           pale pink

Hair:             primrose, lemon, sunflower

Eyes:            Egyptian blue, azure

Tail:              ocean teal, pastel green, tea green

Clothes:        orange, mango, soft peach

Beads:          coral

     

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

 Wendy x

I Love Promarkers #553 - Under the Sea - Sponsored by Colour of Love

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Wednesday! 

I'm on my blog today for the new bi-weekly I Love Promarkers blog challenge , it would be wonderful if you joined us over there if you love to colour with alcohol markers and don't forget there are prizes up for grabs.  

You can find all of the rules and details for the challenge over on the blog. 

This challenge is being sponsored by Colour of Love

Here is my inspiration card for the current blog challenge with the theme - Under the Sea, using this super cute digital stamp Eleanor Mer's Whale Love

Todays card is a 5" x 7"  with two layers of sparkly glitter card with a die cute arch in the centre to create my magical Under the Sea scene. 

The digital image was resized and printed before colouring with promarkers before mounting directly onto the card blank. 

The layers of glitter card were adhered over the top to frame the image. 

Leaf dies were then used to cut out the leaves to represent more seaweed and I used distress ink to add detail and shading. 

The seaweed was then added at the bottom of the card over the top of the image.

The sentiment was stamped onto black card and heat embossed in white before cutting into a simple strip and mounting towards the bottom of the design.

To finish off my card I added glossy accents to the water bubbles, sparkle to the mermaid and a few pieces of confetti around the card.

I really hope that you like 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 I Love Markers blog

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Colour of Love Digital Stamp - Eleanor Mer's Whale Love

Avery Elle stamp - Bubbles

Distress Ink - Peacock feathers, mowed lawn

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - Galaxy

Card Making Magic Dies - Spring -Summer Stamp & Die set

Glossy accents 

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, metallic blue

Promarkers used :

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

Blush:              pale pink

Hair:                vanilla, buttercup, tulip yellow, gold

Dolphin:           cool grey 4, 2, 0

                       pastel blue

Mermaid tail:    petrol blue, verdigris, pebble blue, pastel blue

Top:                 dusky rose, muted pink

Seaweed:         holly, mint green, pastel green

Starfish:           apricot, bisque

Berries:            coral, muted pink

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

 Wendy x