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

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

Digi Choosday - Wednesdays - Christmas Adult birthday with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... 

It's that time of the week when we share some inspiration for the current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog so I hope you are going to join in.  We've had a few changes to the blog challenge and its now a month long challenge and you can enter up to 4 times.  The design team will still be sharing weekly inspiration for you all

 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 Christmas birthday card for an adult.  I've always felt quite sorry for anyone with a birthday at Christmas as I think far too often their celebration gets lumped in with Christmas so I'm pleased mine is in July.  This card will be winging its way over to the UK for my cousins birthday at the end of December.

Because we have been so busy lately with the olives and I haven't had much time for crafting, I decided for my card today to use one of the gorgeous pre-coloured images poinsettia swags from the Poinsettia Wreath bundle.  

In my graphics software, I started with a piece of digital paper from the Jolly Santa collection, resizing this to suit a 5" x 7" or A7 card blank.  Next I added the poinsettia swag, resizing to suit the panel and also added one of the sentiments from the new Theo Penguin collection.  To create extra dimension I decided to print out two extra poinsettias and then fussy cut these out, adding to my design using 3D glue gel.

The panel was layered onto gold mirri card and I then splattered gold and silver metallic watercolour paint over the design.

To finish off my card I added some stickles to the centre of the flowers for a little extra sparkle.

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 - Poinsettia Wreath - 

Polkadoodles digital papers - Jolly Santa - Paper Pack 1

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - new Theo penguin collection

Craftelier Watercolours - gold collection

Stickles - diamond

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

A Snowflake is a Winter's Butterfly with JMC 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 

For my card today I have used the Winter Whispers Digital Collection... It's still officially Winter here and I can just about see the snow on the Sierra Nevada but the temperatures have been more like early summer and the snow is disappearing fast.  

Still chilly in the evenings and were making use of the log burner but its definitely not cold!  

For todays card I decided to use the beautiful digital stamp  Arctic Sparkle, resizing her  to suit my 5" x 7" card and colouring with my Promarkers.  Iv'e added lots of sparkly highlights and shimmer to this Wintery girl.

Next I created my background panel, I've used the snowflake accessories that are included in the complete collection, adding these to my card panel before printing on my LaserJet printer.  To add sparkle I've then used teal foil for added sparkle.

Once foiled I then used several distress inks to add colour to the panel and then splattered with water droplets and droplets of blue distress ink.  

As well as looking beautiful, the foil acts as a resist to the ink and gives a beautiful shine to the card.

The sentiment from the complete collection was also printed out and foiled in silver

I have added little sparkles around the panel with a white gel pen and adhered a few sparkly gems.

The background panel was mounted onto silver mirror card, along with the sentiment and then adhered to a white card base and the coloured focal image adhered using foam tape for dimension.  

I added some of the tiny gems to the bottom of her skirt too, to tie in with the background.

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:
JMC Designs digital stamp - Winter Whispers Collection - Arctic Sparkle

Distress Inks - stormy sky, salty ocean, prize ribbon

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear, firefly

Minc foil - teal, silver

Gelly Roll pen - clear star, white, metallic grey

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

gems

Promarkers used :

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

Blush:      pale pink

Hair:        cool grey 4, 3, 2, 0

Outfit:      marine, turquoise, pastel green

               french navy, true blue, 

               aubergine, amethyst, lilac

               cool grey 4, 3, 2, 0

               gold, sunflower, buttercup

Stars:      gold, sunflower, buttercup

                      

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - We Wish you a Merry Christmas - Colours of Christmas with Polkadoodles

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 Santa / North Pole & Colours of Christmas and we were given this colour palette to use.  

I love making Christmas cards using non traditional colours so really enjoyed this challenge.

For todays card I decided to use one of the fabulous older images from the Winnie Winter land collection of digital stamps.  There are some absolutely gorgeous digital stamps and a great selection of pre-coloured craft sheets too if you prefer not to colour.

Its a simple 5" x 7" card with a scalloped frame of magenta glitter card, keeping the scene the main focus of my card.

I coloured the image with Promarkers (see below for colours) and then blended distress inks over the background to create a  wintery North Pole sky.

The sentiment was printed onto vellum so it wouldn't detract from the scene and adhered into the top corner of my design.

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 - Winnie Winter land - Winter Fox

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Winnie White Christmas sentiment bundle

Distress Ink - tumbled glass, weathered wood, uncharted mariner

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy Ink - White

Sakura Gelly Roll pens - black, white, metallic grey

Promarkers Used:

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

Hair:         vanilla, caramel, sandstone, umber

Hat:          petrol blue, verdigris, pastel blue

boots

Scarf:        forest green, bright green, leaf green

tights

Holly:        forest green, bright green, leaf green

                burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Coat:        plum, mulberry, orchid

Dress:       gold, sunflower, buttercup

Sleigh:      vanilla, caramel, sandstone, umber

                gold, sunflower, buttercup

Fox:          cool grey 7, 5, 3, 00

                pastel blue, verdigris

Bow:         gold, sunflower, buttercup

Presents:     plum, mulberry, orchid

                petrol blue, verdigris, pastel blue

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

Wendy x

New Release - Freddy Fox - Cold Hands Warm Heart with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Saturday!  I hope that you all had a lovely week and have nice things planned for the weekend.

We had another really busy week as work continues in the house.  It's still very hot in the sunshine during the day but at least the nights are now cooler and the room fans have been put away until next year.  Still shorts and t-shirts everyday !

I'm back today with another card using one of the new Freddy Fox digital stamps by Polkadoodles

As always the collection includes black and white digital stamps for you to colour and pre-coloured stamps if you prefer.....there are some fabulous sentiments and did I mention the gorgeous papers!

If you are a Polkadoodles VIP you will have received the email today about the launch with a wonderful discount code.... don't miss it!

There is loads of inspiration for you too in the gallery so why not take a look as I am certain you will love Freddy as much as I do......

It's such a cute image called Snowflake and I have added him to one of the fabulous wintery scenes  from the Bella Bear Christmas collection also available in the shop for my one layer card, coloured with my Promarkers and just a touch of sparkly glitter.

I added the most perfect sentiment on a simple strip to the bottom of the card....definitely one of my favourites!

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from the new Freddy Fox Collection by Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Freddy Fox - Snowflake

Polkadoodles digital scene - Bella Bear Christmas - Colouring Scene #4

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Freddy Fox - Sentiment Bundle

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black, clear star

Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Promarkers Used:

Freddy:        cocoa, burnt sienna (nose)

                   salmon pink, pale pink (ears & feet)

                   caramel, praline, sandstone

Hat:             ocean teal, green, mint green

                   verdigris, grey green, tea green

Coat:           ocean teal, green, mint green

Scarf:          dusky rose, antique pink, sunkissed pink

Trees:          ocean teal, green, mint green

Sky:            pale pink, cool aqua, powder blue

                      

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 #707 - Pink or Blue

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! 

Oh my goodness after about 4 days working on and off, we've managed to pack up all of our stuff out of the craft room/study and relocated it into the spare rooms, plus a load of stuff scattered all over! I really must de-stash when its being put back into my room....and the bathroom has been cleared so were ready for the work to start.

I have to say its a good job no one is coming to visit anytime soon...😅😅😅

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 being sponsored by Dies to Die For  there are loads of lovely goodies and some fabulous brands available in the store so I would highly recommend taking a look.

The theme this week chosen by Linda for Team 2 is Pink or Blue.

I chose to use a sweet image from Pink Gem Designs called Yeti which is a great set of 12 digital stamps including, trees, mountains, footprints and a sentiment.

It had to be a Pink Yeti for me - they always seem to be blues and greys!

Don't forget there will be a prize for the Winner of the challenge - there are more details over on the Passion for Markers blog.

I decided to make an a6 (UK size) simple snowy scene card today using a piece of pink snowflake paper from my stash and white glitter cardstock for the snowy hills.

I have added pink distress ink to the designer paper and die cut the glitter card with a hillside border die.  The sentiment was stamped in dark pink ink and I have coloured the yeti with my promarkers before fussy cutting out and adhering onto the card with foam tape.

To finish off my design I have adhered some pink confetti around the design 

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:
Pink Gem Designs digital stamp - Yeti

Designer Paper

Distress Ink - Picked Raspberry

Lisa Horton Crafts Euphoria glitter card

Lisa Horton Crafts Edgecutz dies - essential edges

Sizzix Stamps - Seasonal Vibes #2

Adirondack Dye Ink - Wild Plum

Sakura Gelly Roll pens - Clear, black, white

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - friendship

Promarkers used :

Fur:            antique pink, salmon pink, misty rose

Head

Hands

Feet:           pale pink, pastel pink, dusky rose

Ear muffs   

Cup:            pale blossom, pink carnation, rose pink

Tea:            caramel, sandstone, pastel beige

          

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

 Wendy x