Hugs - Shutter card - Sweet Wishes - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Monday....our wonderful feria here in Orgiva is now over for another year and life is getting back to normal, the best part is we have wonderful rain.  

It probably sounds weird to my UK friends but after so long without rain and such a hot dry summer its a welcome relief - you can hear the garden sighing!

I'm here today with a sweet card for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) featuring a cute little bear from the Sweet Wishes digital stamp set available in the Etsy shop.

It's a huge set of 14 cute little images and the sweetest sentiments....perfect for loads of different occasions and there is a fabulous 60% Sale off everything in the shop until to celebrate World Cardmaking day on 4th October. 

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers for the bear before fussy cutting him out. 

As most of you know I don't tend to make many interactive cards but for this I wanted to have a go at a shutter card and I was pleasantly surprised once I had got my head around the measurements.

For the instructions on how to make the card I followed a tutorial by Inky Inspirations. 

This is the tutorial that I followed, I made a few tweaks to the measurements to suite my card base and envelope.

The background papers I have used are from the Sweet Candy papers....the little balloon is also from the Sweet Wishes stamp set.

Finishing touches were some teal confetti around the design.

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

#LOTV #liliofthevalley #LOTVDT

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set  - Sweet Wishes

LOTV Digital paper set - Sweet Candy Papers

Distress ink - salted ocean, mowed lawn, twisted citron

Lawn Fawn Stencil - hillside, cloudy

Simon Says Stamp die - hugs

peacock feathers, candied apple, saltwater taffy

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Posca pen - white

     

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

 Wendy x

Unusual Shape Floral Card - Helga Hippo Collection - Digi Choosday - Sprinkling a little Love with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday.  I hope that you have a lovely day today and that you enjoy your 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 create ' an unusual shaped floral card ' so I decided to create a pretty floral wreath card.

The card when flat fits perfectly into a standard 6" x 6" envelope.  I printed out one of the papers, a sentiment and also lots of flowers and leaves from the pre-coloured clip art flowers and foliage bundle.  I fussy cut out the flowers and leaves for my project and used a dark grey pen to outline the flower edges, hiding any white edges,

To create the card base itself I cut a piece of 6" x 6" white card and scored this at 3" to create a smaller tent fold base.  Next I use a couple of fancy circular dies to cut out 3  circular frames from the same white card, cluing two of these together to create a strong circle.  Next I cut a circle of acetate and then glued this to the circular frame before adding the third white circle over the top to hide the glued area.

I then used the smaller of the circular dies to cut into the top of my tent fold card, using the card envelope to determine how low to position the frame on the panel.

Once the base card was cut I added one of the patterned papers to the bottom, using the same die to cut out the top section.  To prevent the card from opening too much and to help it stand up better, I cut a strip of white card 1" x 2" scoring this at 1/2 ", 1", 1 1/2", concertina folding this to create an M shaped piece.  This was adhered inside the card at the bottom centre.

Next I adhered the oval frame to my base card and the decorated the wreath with the fussy cut flowers and leaves.

The sentiment was adhered into the centre of the acetate frame and I adhered a piece of white card to the back of the acetate to hide the glue - this can also be used to write a message on.

Finishing touches where some teal confetti around the design and  stickles to the centres of the flowers.

I hope that you like my project today and you'll enjoy the next card 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 clipart- Helga Hippo collection - Flowers and Foliage

Polkadoodles digital sentiment- Helga Hippo collection - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Helga Hippo collection - Paper set 1

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

Stickles - diamond

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

Wendy x