A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #849 - Favourite embellishments - Keep Calm and Think Beach - Sponsored by Dr Digi

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

I'm definitely not complaining but it's still really hot here, this week the temperature is hovering around 37C so thankfully a little cooler LOL, which means we can get a bit more done in the garden.  It would be lovely for a little rain as everywhere is so dry and crispy in the garden and the plants are really struggling sadly despite being watered, but with cloudless skies I suspect there's none coming soon.

We are off to Granada again on Wednesday so hoping it's not too uncomfortable there.

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 Dr Digi's House of Stamps and the theme chosen by Elaine for team 2 is Favourite Embellishment.

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

Next I created the background scene using 3 distress inks, a little masking tape and a cloud stencil.

I added a little cream and white acrylic paint along the water line for texture to create the look of the sea foam on the sand.

My favourite embellishment are sequins and confetti as I think they go with everything, even this more masculine beach themed card.  I have used clear iridescent sequins on my card but they don't show up very well in my photo.

The card was simply finished with white gelly roll pen highlights and a brown fine liner pen to gibe the appearance of texture to the sand. 

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:

Dr Digi digital stamp - Surfin Santa

Distress Ink - salty ocean, salvaged patina, scattered straw

Lawn Fawn stencil - cloudy

DoCrafts Artiste acrylic paint - linen

Pebeo gesso - white

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

Buttons Galore & More sequins - island breeze

          

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Keep chasing the sunshine - Fluffy Friends collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Monday everyone... I hope that you had a great weekend and are enjoying the weather...its extremely hot here so we've been spending more time indoors keeping cool but this morning I'm off to my yoga class then we have shopping to do, so fingers crossed its not too hot.

I'm sure that you've seen the brand new digital release by Polkadoodles - called Fluffy Friends.  There
are loads of adorable images for you to colour or pre-coloured if you prefer.

Hurry too as there's currently a huge 40% discount using the code FF40

I thought as the weather is so hot I would share a DL card that Ive made, using one of the very cute digital stamps. This is Peaches Cat but I've turned him into our kitty Foxy.  He loves lying in the sun so I've created him a beach scene with distress inks.  I love his very cool sunglasses and delicious looking drink - probably a very fishy cocktail.

The finishing touches for the card were clear sparkle pen and glossy accents for the sunglasses.

I hope that you like my projects today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Fluffy Friends - Peaches Cat with sunglasses

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Fluffy Friends - greetings bundle

distress inks - salvaged patina, salty ocean, old paper, scattered straw

Lawn Fawn Stencil - slimline cloudy

glossy accents

sakura gelly roll pen - white

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 #795 - Beach Vibes - Sponsored by Uniko Stamps

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope you are all well and the week has started well.  Its my son's birthday today - he's 28 years old which I cant quite believe as it makes me feel very old indeed!  

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 Uniko stamps and our theme of 'Beach Vibes' this week was chosen for team 2 by Me...

I think spending days at the beach in the Summer is the perfect way to cool off - especially when the beaches are quieter ! 

For my challenge I chose to use one of my favourite digital images by Krista Leigh Smith aka Saturated Canary - this is called Toes in the sand. Sadly Krista has closed her shop due to other commitments but she's promised us shell pop up every now and then with images for us to colour. 

I have created a simple A7 card with a distress oxide ink background to coordinate with the fun surfer girl image.  I wanted to give the effect of sun rays from behind the surfer girl so used a stencil and a baby wipe to lift some of the ink off the sky section of the design.

I resized the image to suit my card blank and then printed out onto alcohol friendly card stock before colouring with my Promarkers and fussy cutting out.  The digital sentiment was added to the panel before printing.  The image was adhered to the card with foam tape for dimension.

I added white gelly  roll pen highlights to the water and some sparkly sequins 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:

Krista Leigh Smith digital stamp - Toes in the sand

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles - sentiment bundle

Distress Oxides - dried marigold, scattered straw, salty ocean, salvaged patina, wild honey

Clearly Besotted stencil - shooting star

Sugar & spice sequins - unicorn mix

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

     

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

 Wendy x

Flip Flop Signs - The beach is my happy place 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 July is Summer Fun, 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 beautiful Flip Flop Signs digital stamps to create a DL card (UK size). I wanted to create the look of a window in a cabin at the beach with the sign hanging in the window frame and I have to say I'm really pleased with how this card turned out.

 

I resized the image to suit my DL base card, printed it out onto alcohol marker friendly card stock before colouring with Promarkers and then fussy cutting out.

Next I created my beach scene by masking off sections and using distress inks to create the sky, the sea and then the sand. 

I added a slightly darker ink at the water line to show the wet sand and used a white gel pen to represent the water foam at the edge.  I added some dots of brown and sand coloured pen for the sand detail.

To create my window frame, I used a couple of nesting dies cutting a thin frame from a wood effect card and adhered this to the background scene before hanging my Flip Flip sign in the window.

To finish off the card I added some clear sparkle pen to the flip flop straps. 

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 - Flip Flop Signs

Distress Ink - scattered straw, vintage photo, salvaged patina, salty ocean, peacock feathers

Spellbinders confetti - Latte

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Spectrum Aqua Pens - terracotta, desert

Promarkers used :

Flip Flops:     hot pink, cerise, wild orchid

                    gold, sunflower, buttercup

                    marine, ocean teal, soft green

                    aubergine, amethyst, pink pearl

                    

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 #745 - Add a number - Sponsored by The Paper Shelter

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all !

I'm here today 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 the wonderful The Paper Shelter and don't forget there will be a prize for the Winner of the challenge - there are more details over on the blog.

The theme for Team 2 this week, chosen by the lovely Linda is to Add a number.  

I have used the fabulous image Very Summery to create my beach themed card for today.

My sentiment is from the Rebel girl collection from Polkadoodles and I can just hear this gorgeous girl saying  "Oh My Goodness its just so hard work being this gorgeous !"

This sweet image was coloured with my Promarkers (see below for colours used) and I have created a simple scene, using distress inks to create the sky, sea and the sandy beach.  The palm trees are die cut from white card, coloured first with distress inks then details added with my promarkers.

The two simple sentiments were printed onto vellum and adhered to the design using a simple glue stick.

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:
The paper shelter digital stamp - Very Summery

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Rebel message bundle

Studiolight - Take me to the ocean dies - Summer Sunshine

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

distress inks - salty ocean, scattered straw, twisted citron, mowed lawn, vintage photo, walnut stain

Glossy accents

Promarkers used :

Skin:             ivory, almond, satin, dusky rose, sunkissed pink

Blush:           pale pink

Hair:             vanilla, caramel, sandstone, deep mocha

sunglasses:   ice grey 4, 3, 1

Bikini:           hot pink, carmine, cerise

Hat:              honeycomb, saffron, vanilla

                    hot pink, carmine, cerise

Cup:             honeycomb, saffron, vanilla

Straw            hot pink, carmine, cerise

         

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

 Wendy x

I Love Promarkers #560 - Tropical Vibes - Sponsored by Polkadoodles

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 Polkadoodles

Here is my inspiration card for the current blog challenge with the theme - Tropical Vibes, using the super cute Noodle Panda digital stamp from the Noodle Panda collection, this is Beach Inflatable Flamingo. 

I wanted to create a tropical beach scene for my cute panda so I have used one of the fabulous digi deals Beach Scene for my background. 

I started by resizing this to fit a larger 5" x 7" card blank and added a digital sentiment from the Winnie Starfish Sandcastles collection at the bottom left corner.

I printed out the panel onto alcohol friendly card stock and carefully blended distress inks across this to create my waves, sandy beach and the sky, using a lighter hand across the images themselves. 

Next I used promarkers to colour the images - this works really well as long as you choose colours that will disguise the distress ink below.

I used a white gelly roll pen to create foam on the edges of the waves I then resized Noodle, making her larger to fit at the bottom of the card, this helps to give perspective to the design as she's standing at the front of the card.

I assembled the card, matting the background onto a panel of sky blue card and then added Noodle at the bottom right corner with foam tape for extra dimension. 

The finishing touches were some highlights around the design with a white pen and glossy accents to her sunglasses.


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:

Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Noodle Panda collection - Beach Inflatable Flamingo

Polkadoodles Digital Background - Digi Deal - Beach scene 

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles collection - Messages & Quotes

Distress Ink - scattered straw, salty ocean, peacock feathers

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

glossy accents

Promarkers used :

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

 Wendy x

Bathing Beauties - Best Friends Forever 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 May is Flowers, 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 May project, I chose  to use the beautiful  Bathing Beauties digital stamp to create a simple A6 (UK size) landscape card.  Our pool is now ready for the summer and its looking very inviting - still a little too cold for me but I'm certain that JJ will be taking a dip very soon.  

Unlike last year where the season seemed to switch from Spring to Summer overnight...the temperatures are gradually increasing and its lovely to have the extra time to adjust and the few bits of rain that we've have too.  

We have already been to the beach a few times so far this year and its looking wonderful already but my favourite time has to be when its quiet and peaceful, empty even!                                                                                                  I love to sit and listen to the waves crashing on the shoreline.  That's my inspiration for this card today.

I resized the image to suit my base card, printed it out onto alcohol marker friendly card stock before colouring with Promarkers and then fussy cutting out. Next I created my beach scene by masking off sections and using distress inks to add the clouds, then the sea and then the sand. 

I added a slightly darker ink as a shadow below where the girls are sitting.  

The waves have been created using a white gel pen and a little white gesso for a bit of texture.  I found a sweet stamp in my stash and stamped the sentiment in distress oxide ink - I wanted it to appear as though written in the sand so very pale and understated

To finish off the card I added a few simple highlights with a white gel pen. 

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 - Bathing Beauties 

Lawn Fawn Clippings Stencil - slimline cloudy

Distress Ink - broken china, scattered straw, gathered twigs, salvaged patina, salty ocean

Distress oxide - scattered straw, antique linen

Spectrum Aqua pens - desert, topaz

Pebeo Gesso - white

Promarkers used :

Skin:    

                    

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

Wendy x

Good Times - Beach Time with Pattie's Creations September Challenge

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

The first day of September for me marks the start of things getting back to normal after the summer holidays, especially here in Spain as things definitely seem to close over August with it being so hot.  We have family staying at the moment and its still beautiful hot sunny weather with the promise of cooler nights on the horizon.

Today also marks the start of a new Challenge for September 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 Septembers project, I chose the Beach Time digital stamp.  As the holiday makers start to leave and return to work etc that's my favourite time to visit our beautiful beaches nearby, whilst the see is still warm and perfect for swimming and snorkelling and reading a good book listening to the waves.

 

Today's card is all about the perfect peaceful scene that Pattie has drawn and didn't really need anything adding at all.  I've used an A6(UK size) card blank and resized the image to suit before printing out onto alcohol friendly card stock and colouring with my promarkers (see below for colours used).

I decided the used distress inks to create my sky and sea and have fussy cut the main image before mounting onto the inked panel.  I added a little white pigment ink into the sea to give it some movement.

For the shore line I've used white acrylic paint, simply splotching it along the line to add sea foam and give it texture too!

No sparkle today as I really didn't want to spoil the scene!

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 - Beach Time

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Winnie Daisy greetings bundle

Distress ink - tumbled glass, peacock feathers, salvaged patina

Lawn Fawn Clippings stencil - Slimline Cloudy

Ranger Pigment Ink - Glacier white

Acrylic paint - white

Creative Craft Products - Water Stencil

Sakura Gelly roll pens - white, gold 

Promarkers used :

Umbrella:        soft green, pastel green, tea green

                      yellow, buttercup, primrose

                      coral, soft peach, lemon chiffon

                      ice grey 3, 00

Beach

Bag:               coral, soft peach, lemon chiffon

                      soft green, pastel green, tea green

Towel:            yellow, buttercup, primrose

Deck

Chair:            umber, caramel, praline, sandstone

Sand:            apricot, saffron, bisque

 

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

Wendy x

Sending Sunny Thoughts your Way with Last Minute Manda

Happy Saturday everyone…..I hope that you are having a lovely weekend. 

I'm back today to share another card for Last Minute Manda.

To create this card I've used digital stamps from the Backyard Beach Party collection, coloured with my promarkers (see below).

I decided to create an ocean scene background starting with a base of Neenah Desert storm card, blending distress ink to add depth to the card before splattering with distress ink and white acrylic paint.

Next I tore the edge off a piece of blue wavy paper, to expose the white paper edge and adhered this to the top of the card panel.  

Along the waters edge I have added more white acrylic paint to look like sea foam as it washes up on the shore line.

  

The sentiment is an old stamp from a craft magazine, stamped in Versafine Clair ink with a little sparkle added to the open sections of the letters.

If you head over to the new Last Minute Manda store don't forget to 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 stamps - Backyard Beach Party 

Pinkfresh Studio essential dies - Diagonal Stitched Rectangles

Polkadoodles Digital Paper - Coral Mermaid Papers

Distress ink - Scattered Straw, Gathered Twigs

Sentiment stamp from a craft magazine

Versafine Clair ink - pinecone

White acrylic paint

Sakura gelly roll pen - white, black

Glossy accents

Promarkers used :

Palm trees:         deep mocha, caramel, sandstone

                         cocoa, burnt sienna

                         forest green, bright green, leaf green

Flower:               sunflower, hot pink, cerise

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

    

Cheeks:              pale pink

Swimming 

Costume:            hot pink, carmine, cerise

Flip flops

Headband

Towel:                marine, turquoise, pastel green

Sunglasses

Ring:                  marine, turquoise, pastel green

                          sunflower

 

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

 Wendy x

Back at the beach with Last Minute Manda

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Saturday !  

This Summer has been a very hot one but it seems to have absolutely flown by this year and its been wonderful to have visitors once again over the Summer - lots of fun in the pool, loads of food and drink and lovely company.

But I'm not quite ready to pack away my Summer themed craft goodies just yet so today I am sharing my latest DT make for Last minute Manda.

For this card I was inspired by a recent YouTube video by the wonderful designer Cathy Zielski.

I sadly don't have her stamps but loved the layout and the floating panel design so here is my take on it.

I used digital stamps from the Backyard Beach Party collection 

I have coloured the images for my card with my Promarkers (see below for colours) and these have been hand cut and then mounted onto my very simple sandy background which is an upcycled piece of corrugated biscuit packaging that I have coloured using Distress Oxide.

The simple sentiment strip is from Lisa Horton Crafts and my sequins are from Craft Consortium.

I hope that you like my card today 🌞

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Last Minute Manda digital stamps - Backyard Beach Party 

LHC sentiment strip

Promarkers (see below)

Craft Consortium sequins

Spectrum Nir pencil - black

Sakura Gelly roll pen - white

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Promarkers used :

Ice lolly: sandstone, caramel, salmon pink, cocktail pink, pale pink, mandarin, gold, buttercup,mustard

Beach ball: mandarin, gold, buttercup, duck egg blue, cool aqua, pastel blue

Watermelon: forest green, meadow green, leaf green, lipstick red, antique pink, dusky rose

Bucket & spade: duck egg blue, cool aqua, pastel blue, mandarin, gold, buttercup, cool grey 1,2 cocoa, caramel

Sand: gold, honeycomb, buttercup

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

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

Wendy x