A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #809 - Favourite Colours - Sponsored by Colour of Love

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope you are all well and enjoying the week so far - it's still really quite hot here during the day with cooler mornings which is lovely for sitting outside with a cup of tea .

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 Colour of Love and our theme of 'Favourite colours' this week was chosen for team 2 by the lovely Karen.  

I chose to use a really sweet image called Pretty Possum Sunflowers and have created a simple A7 5" x7" card.

Out challenge theme is Favourite colours but I have lots and it changes from week to week.  I love different and striking colour combinations, one of my favourites being teal and yellow gold.

I resized the image to suit my card blank and then printed out onto alcohol friendly card stock before colouring with my promarkers.  The sentiment was stamped onto the panel with Versafine Clair ink

The coloured panel was then layered onto the card blank with layers of teal  and yellow gold cardstock.

The finishing touches for my card today were teal sequins, white gelly roll pen highlights and clear sparkle to the leaves.

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:

Colour of Love Digital stamp - Pretty Possum Sunflowers

Versafine Clair ink  - nocturne

Sugar & Spice sequins - unicorn mix

Woodware Stamp Set - Garden Dream catcher

Sakura Gelly roll pun - white, clear star

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

     

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

 Wendy x

Purcasso - Freebie Digital Stamp - with Julia McNeil Designs

Hello everyone Happy Friday! I hope that you've had a great week and the weather has been kind where you are. It's Andalusia Day or Día de Andalucía so a holiday ! yes I know another one....lol

Today I'm back to share a colourful card for JMC Designs  that I've made using the February freebie digital stamp - this is Purrcasso....he looks like he's having a lots of messy fun.

 

Every month Julia McNeill very generously gives away a fabulous digital stamp, which is available to everyone in her Facebook group JMC's Crazy Crafty Hive and also to her followers via Instagram, all you need is to use your email address to register for the stamp. 

Here is the link to register and download this months digital stamp.

If you have missed any of the previous freebies then Julia has kindly put together a list of them all with the links for each so you can download them and don't forget to share your projects in the group as we would love to see them.  Here is the full list of the freebies 

To create my card today I've used distress inks directly onto the A6 card blank blending through a paint splatter stencil in a rainbow of colours and then splattered black watercolour paint over this to create my messy background. Next I stamped the two sentiments onto the card in black ink.

I coloured Purrcasso with my Polychromos for a softer furry look and then fussy cut him out before adding to the card with foam tape for dimension.

The finishing touches were some clear iridescent sequins around the design and glossy accents to the paint splatter.

I do hope that you like my card for today and I'd love it if you'd leave me a comment. 

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.

JMC Designs - Purrcasso Freebie Digital Stamp

Distress Inks - squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry, peacock feathers, mowed lawn, candied apple, villainous potion, wilted violet

Lawn Fawn stencil - Paint splatter background.

Woodware sentiment stamps - rainbow gnome, garden dream catcher 

black watercolour paint

sugar and spice sequins - Unicorn mix

Glossy accents

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

Wendy x

Sending Paper Hugs - Woodware Craft Collection - Butterfly Dream

Hello everyone, happy Sunday to you all.

I hope you are having a lovely weekend and hopefully the sun is shining where you are today.

I am here on my blog to share a butterfly card that I've made for a challenge in a Facebook group that I belong to - it's all about Jitterbug June.  

Its ages since I've made a card just for me, to play and not for a specific company or a designer and its been lovely just to play with what I have in my stash.

I love playing with my inks and pens and creating and haven't made this type of card for ages.

I'm sure you all know how much I love to upcycle, so my card today uses one of my inky mop up kitchen roll sheets for my background and the butterflies. I have a sheet of kitchen roll on my desk for a few weeks and use it to wipe up any residual inks, then when it looks pretty I use it to create a card. No waste and it's free, unique and beautiful !

I adhered a piece of my inky mop up kitchen roll to some thin card, I use a basic glue stick to do this. Then when this was completely dry I used one of my favourite stamps from Woodware and Versafine onyx black ink to stamp the design onto the kitchen roll card.

I stamped the image again onto another peice of kitchen roll card - this will be for the extra butterflies.

I added a little more colour and sparkle to the butterflies using Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens and a waterproof black pen for the outline before fussy cutting out

When you have fussy cut out the butterflies, if there are any pale card edges you can use a black marker to carefully cover these if you like. - I use a water based pen rather than an alcohol marker.

I mounted the butterflies onto the card base using small foam square to give lift to the wings.

Finally I have added stickles to the butterflies abdomens and onto the background panel - after all you can never have enough sparkle.

The sentiment strip is from Lisa Horton Crafts - adhered onto several layers of card for extra dimension.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Woodware Craft Collection stamp - Butterfly Dream

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens - pink garnet, garden green, firefly, tangerine, lichen, watermelon

Stickles - black diamond

Lisa Horton Crafts sentiment strips

These are the challenges I am entering

dis digi designs challenge Weekly Beverages (4) (1 of 3) 
lil patch of crafty friends Weekly (45) (1 of 3)
Creative Fingers challenge (95) (3 of 3)
Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes - (39) ( 5 of 5)
Moving Along With The Times  Man or a boy (70) (3 of 5)
Pearly Sparkles Challenge Man or boy (49)
A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge - Anything Goes unlimited (244)
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes (98) (3 of 3)
Classic Design Challenge - Anything Goes (208) unlimited
Avenue 613 Anything Goes (175) (8 of 8)
Sheep ski designs Anything Goes man or boy (39) (3 of 3)
Mirtillamente Challenge -   (7) (5 of 5)
LeAnn's World 101 Challenge (on hold) unlimited
colorful options peach () unlimited
through the purple haze Buttons / flowers () ( of 3)
Critter Crazy Challenge (103) (5 of 5)
We love stamping CAS or AG (39) (2 of 3)
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge AG (42) (3 of 3)
Dragonfly Dreams fancy folds (11) (2 of 3)
Crafty Calendar Challenge Summertime (104) (3 of 3)

crafting happiness challenges  (159)       

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

Wendy x

Happy Friday from Hootie with Patties Creations

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

It's our Easter celebrations here and today so were off on a walk organised by the town walking group, we have done it every Good Friday for the last 5 years and its a lovely walk specially when there are lots of people to support it.  The walk finishes off in the Carpa - its a big marquis that is set up for a Food and crafts fair called Hecho en Las Alpujarras.  Its a great opportunity to try out different artisan foods and always well supported.

Today also marks the start of a new Challenge for March 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 as long as you use a digital or stamped image in your project,  so 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 April project, I decided to use the Owl on Branch digital stamp called Hootie ....you know I'm rather fond of owls and this one is lovely.

I've created an aperture card today, adding some lovely leafy paper to a 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" panel before cutting out an aperture with one of my nesting circle dies.

Before adding the leafy panel to my card base I've used some distress ink and a cloud stencil to add some clouds to my card base behind the aperture and then mounted this panel using craft foam.

Hootie has been printed on alcohol friendly card stock and coloured with my Promarkers (see below for the colours), before being fussy cut out and adhered across the aperture.

I stamped a sentiment onto the leaf panel and then added some coordinating sequins around the design and glossy accents to the owls eyes.

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 -  Hootie

Lisa Horton Craft Papers - Box Set

Woodware Sentiment stamp - Mosaic Owl

Versafine Clair ink - Twilight

Lawn Fawn Stencil - Cloudy

Distress ink - tumbled glass

Sakura Gelly roll pen - white, black

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Sugar & Spice sequins - mojito

Promarkers used :

Owl

Eyes:                gold, buttercup

Beak:                mandarin, buttercup

Wings:              umber, praline, pastel beige

Breast & head:   caramel, burnt sienna, pastel beige

Feet:                 umber, praline, pastel beige

Branch:             umber, cocoa, burnt sienna

                        forest green, bright green, leaf green

Hugs Included with Last Minute Manda

Hello everyone wishing you all a very happy Monday- I hope that you are all enjoyed the weekend.

Today I have another card that I've made for Last Minute Manda using the Foxy Valentine digital stamp set.  

She is such a sweet little lady fox off to post her card filled with lots of love - I wonder who its for ?

I decided to create a scene for my card today and started by creating an inky background using distress inks pressed onto my glass mat, spraying a little water and then swiping a piece of watercolour card stock through the ink. I like to use one colour of ink at a time and use my heat tool to dry off the card between each layer. You don't need to use watercolour card for this simple technique as long as you don't use too much water but I like the texture that it has.

Its such an easy and very quick technique and creates some wonderful and unique backgrounds...perfect for my sky today.  I created the inky panel and then allowed this to dry overnight to allow the card to flatten.

Next I stamped the post box and the sentiment using stamps from Woodware onto the background panel and also onto a second peice of watercolour cardstock using Versafine ink which is perfect for watercolours.  I coloured box images using a combination of watercolour pens and distress inks and allowed each to dry.  

The second image was cut out and I used a black pen around the edge of the image to hide any white card showing.  

The hill and grass was die cut from a contrasting green card and then layered onto the background, layering up the second post box over the top of the first.  I love these stamps from Woodware as there are loads of details included in the images.

My sweet little fox was coloured with Promarkers (see below) before fussy cutting out and then adhering to my design with some low profile foam.

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 - Foxy Valentine

Woodware craft collection stamps - Snail Mail & Flower Envelope by Francoise Read

Distress inks - mermaid lagoon, blueprint sketch, candied apple, abandoned coral

Spectrum Aqua Pens - scarlet, crimson, burgundy

Lisa Horton Crafts dies - Set the Scene - Garden greenery

Lisa Horton Crafts Edgecutz - Essential Edges

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - black, white

black gemstone

Promarkers used :

Foxy:                sandstone, champagne

                        cinnamon, cocoa, shale

                        pale pink, champagne

Bow:                 burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

  

Dress:               amethyst, lilac, lavender

                        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Envelope:          ice grey 2, 1 blender

                        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

dis digi designs challenge sparkle (0) (0of 3)
lil patch of crafty friends Weekly (141) (3 of 3)
i love promarkers challenge () (0of 3)
Creative Fingers challenge  (57) (1 of 3)

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes - (97) (5 of 5)  

Moving Along With The Times  Use Kraft #() ( of 5)

Pearly Sparkles Challenge   unlimited 

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge - Anything Goes unlimited ()

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes (144)  (3 of 3)

Classic Design Challenge - Anything Goes () unlimited

Avenue 613 Anything Goes Winter Theme  () (0 of 8)

Sheep ski designs Anything Goes  Seasons (68) (3 of 3)

Mirtillamente Challenge - Music/Snow/Pizza () (0 of 5)

LeAnn's World 101 Challenge () unlimited

colorful options Black/grey () unlimited

through the purple haze  colour palette (7) (1 of 3)

Critter Crazy Challenge () (0 of 5)

We love stamping  () (0 of 3)

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge (41) (1 of 3)

Dragonfly Dreams  back on 5th February () (0 of 3)

Crafty Calendar Challenge (0) (0 of 3)

world wide open design team ()  (0 of 3)

crafting happiness challenges () 

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

 Wendy x