New Release - Party Animals - Happy Birthday - Birthday Card - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday I hope that you are having a great week.

I've got a yoga class this morning that I'm looking forward to and then we are off out with friends up the mountain to a small village above ours for a few drinks and a catch up.

Its been an extremely hectic few days  - it was hubbies birthday on Monday and his son and grandson arrived on Saturday for a surprise visit....as you can imagine we are both shattered but had a great time.

We also managed to sneak a night away on the coast at one of our favourite hotels to celebrate - it was wonderful but were both glad to get back to normal LOL.  

I'm back with another cute card using one of the party animals from the recent March release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop.

My fun birthday card today features the bunny with a scrumptious looking cake.

There are 4 little characters...perfect for loads of different occasions....I hope you have had a look at them by now - they are so easy to colour in.

I added a sweet LOTV sentiment to the panel below the bunny before printing out

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers before cutting out with an arched die, partially cutting around the bunny ears. I adhered the bunny panel to the card using a low profile foam tape.

I've used a bright colour dotty paper from my stash to create my simple card and finishing touches added of white gel pen highlights, sparkle pen to the birthday cake and clear sparkly gems 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)

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set - Party Animals - Bunny

LOTV Digital sentiment - 

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

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

Back to Basics - Male Birthday - Craftwork Cards - Take it Easy Collection

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Friday - Yeah It's raining !

that probably sounds really weird to most people but we don't get that much here so when it rains its wonderful....as long as it doesn't carry on for days that is LOL

Rainy Days are cosy indoor crafty days.....once I've done a few chores obviously.

I needed to make a very plain male birthday card (no Frou-frou) to send to the UK and I decided in my mission to use my stash this year I would dig out one of my Craftwork Cards collections.  

This A6 Hammock Fold card has been made using the Take is Easy collection.

I always struggle with masculine cards but I'm pleased how this came out and I think it fits the bill.

Its a new card fold for me but I love it and its great for using those papers in my crafty hoard.

For the base card I used two pieces of pale blue cardstock measuring 12" x 6" and 9" x 4"

The larger peice was scored at 2", 4", 8" & 10" and the smaller piece scored at 1 1/2", 3", 6" & 7 1/2"

If you are looking for a tutorial for the hammock fold card then I would recommend reading the one at Beccy's Place as its really clear and easy to follow.

Here is the link for the tutorial

I've used up some of the scraps of paper that I have kept for ages and a couple of the sentiments that cam in the collection to decorate the card.

I die cut a couple of diamonds from the pale blue card to layer under the sentiments as I didn't want them to be lost with the busy paper pattern.

I added a few pieces of orange candi and then coated them with glossy accents so they look like enamel dots.

Its really simple and a lovely style and easily folds up to fit an A6 size envelope.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

Craftwork Cards - Take it Easy collection

Craftwork Cards - Candi

Glossy Accents

   

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Winter Birthday - Festive & Christmas cards - Mabel collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Sunday everyone... Were off out today for a Christmas lunch with the walking group, it's going to be extremely noisy but good food and fun too.  Great for practising our Spanish too.

I'm sure that by now you have seen the brand new release by Polkadoodles, such a cute collection.

The Mabel Collection is a heart-warming range of cute girl character printables designed for card makers, planner lovers and creative crafters. 

The collection includes digital stamps, pre-coloured clipart, SVG cutting files, digital papers, sentiments and big-value bundles that are perfect for Christmas holiday cards, New Year celebrations, winter birthdays and year-round celebrations. 

Whether you prefer colouring black-and-white digi stamps or using ready-to-go pre-coloured images, these designs are ideal for making thoughtful handmade cards, printable craft stickers, planner stickers, junk journals, scrapbook pages, party décor and small-business craft makes.

There are 5 mini collections for you to choose from  Woodland Winter, Festive Wishes, Starry Celebrations, Cosy Cocoa and Pawsitively Festive but I definitely couldn't choose a favourite.

This is my second card using the new release but as always there's loads more inspiration for you in the gallery on the Polkadoodles website

My Christmas card today uses the Festive Wishes collection.  I coloured Mabel with my Promarkers before die cutting the panel with an arched die.

The card fits a standard 6" x 6" envelope and I've used a couple of the pretty papers from the bundle to layer onto the card and one of the sentiments

The finishing touches for the card was lots of extra sparkle to Mabel, white highlights to the image and some die cut snowflakes in red and gold to coordinate with the papers.

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

Happy Halloween

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital kit- Mabel Collection - Festive Wishes 

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

gems

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - White

Echo Park - Snowflake dies

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

Wendy x

New Release - Winter Birthday - Festive & Christmas cards - Mabel collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Sunday everyone... It's the last day of November and I'm actually getting a little bit excited now about Christmas - I think all the work on the campo has made us both a bit shell shocked to its nice having work at a slower pace now and we can hopefully enjoy the trips out, Christmas meals  and the big day itself.

I'm still not quite back into a routine again with my blogging, I keep forgetting completely so apologies but hopefully it will get better - fingers crossed. LOL

There's a brand new release by Polkadoodles and its so cute you will love it I'm sure. I  would like to introduce you to Mabel - isn't she adorable.

The Mabel Collection is a heart-warming range of cute girl character printables designed for card makers, planner lovers and creative crafters. 

The collection includes digital stamps, pre-coloured clipart, SVG cutting files, digital papers, sentiments and big-value bundles that are perfect for Christmas holiday cards, New Year celebrations, winter birthdays and year-round celebrations. 

Whether you prefer colouring black-and-white digi stamps or using ready-to-go pre-coloured images, these designs are ideal for making thoughtful handmade cards, printable craft stickers, planner stickers, junk journals, scrapbook pages, party décor and small-business craft makes.

There are 5 mini collections for you to choose from  Woodland Winter, Festive Wishes, Starry Celebrations, Cosy Cocoa and Pawsitively Festive but I definitely couldn't choose a favourite.

This is my first card using the new release but as always there's loads more inspiration for you in the gallery on the Polkadoodles website

My Winter birthday card today uses the Woodland  Winter collection.  I coloured Mabel with my Promarkers before  fussy cutting her out.

The background was created using distress Oxides, blending to create a Wintery sky for the scene before splattering with water and then white ink.

I die cute a couple of snowy hills, one of these I had added the sentiment to before printing, adding a little lilac ink to the top edge and lots of sparkly snow.

The finishing touches for the card was lots of extra sparkle to Mabel's hat and scarf.

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

Happy Halloween

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital kit- Mabel Collection - Woodland Winter 

Distress Oxide - shaded lilac, iced spruce, speckled egg, wilted violet

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy ink - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - icicle blue

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

Wendy x

Hey Lttle Monkey - Safari A5 Stamp Set - New Release with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Tuesday....The Sunshine is out and the rains seem to have stopped now thank goodness. Time to dry up and get back in the garden.

I'm here today with another card project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous new A5 Polymer stamp sets which is available now from the Etsy shop but don't miss out as its limited stock 

My sweet jungle themed card today is using stamps from the Safari  .

I've used distress inks to create my leafy Jungle background using a leaf stencil and then die cut a dark green arch for my little scene. 

The cute little monkey, trees and leaves were stamped and coloured with promarkers before fussy cutting out and adhering to the card, some flat and some with foam tape.   

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 polymer A5 stamp set  - Safari

Distress inks -  twisted citron, mowed lawn

Polkadoodles Stencil - Leafy

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Party Time - Birthday Cake with Candles with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday.... I hope that you are having a good week....

Today I'm sharing another card that I've made using the brand new Party Time Collection!  which is bursting with cute critters, festive celebration cakes, balloons, and birthday fun. 

There are pre-colored digital stamps, clipart, and party-themed printables and it’s perfect for card making, scrapbooking and other paper crafting projects. Whether you’re making birthday cards, party invitations, or memory books, this collection brings cheerful vibes to every creation.  

This is a cute and very simple A6 pop up card using one of the pretty papers and a sentiment from the the collection.

The Birthday card with candles was resized and printed onto Neenah Desert Storm card before colouring with promarkers.  

For an extra special touch I have applied gold foil to the main image before fussy cutting out and layering onto the pop out panel with foam tape fro dimension.

The finishing touches were glossy accents to the icing on the cake, an enamel dots around the card.

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 - Party Time Collection - Birthday Celebration Cake

Polkadoodles digital paper & sentiment - Party Time Collection    Party Time Bundle

Minc foil - gold

glossy accents

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

Wendy x

New Release - Party Time - Flower Birthday Cake with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Thursday everyone.... I hope that you are having a good week....

There's a brand new release over at Polkadoodles and I think you are going to love it!

It's the brand new Party Time Collection!  bursting with cute critters, festive celebration cakes, balloons, and birthday fun. 

There are pre-colored digital stamps, clipart, and party-themed printables and it’s perfect for card making, scrapbooking and other paper crafting projects. Whether you’re making birthday cards, party invitations, or memory books, this collection brings cheerful vibes to every creation.  

Don't miss out on the 35% discount currently available and if you are a VIP you will have received a code in your VIP email for 50% discount.

My first card made using this collection is a cute A6 pop up slider card and I've chosen to use fresh spring like colour palette to coordinate with the pretty papers and sentiments in the collection.

I'm loving this style of interactive card and its so easy to create something very special.  

The sweet flower birthday cake was resized and printed onto Neenah Desert Storm card before colouring with promarkers and finishing with Polychromos pencils.  For an extra special touch I have applied gold foil to the main image and also to one of the sentiments.

I fussy cut the birthday cake by hand and adhered it to my card front along with a peice of pretty paper from the collection.

For the secret message inside the pop up mechanism I have printed  out another paper from the set adding a couple of the sentiments from the set at the bottom so when you pull the tab at the top, the full message is revealed.

To finish off my project I added some teal coloured confetti around the design and added the PULL letters onto the tab at the top.

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 - Party Time Collection - Flower Birthday Cake

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Party Time Collection    Party Time Bundle

Minc foil - gold

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon 

Spellbinders Cutting Dies - Essential arches

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Wednesdays - January birthday - Rebel girl with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....and have completely recovered after the Christmas festivities....it was the three Kings celebration here on Monday 6th January or El Día de los Reyes Magos, better known as the feast of Epiphany and is treated like Christmas Day in Spain. 

Santa doesn't take centre stage here but rather, the Three Kings shower gifts on youngsters....I suspect though that a lot of children also get gifts on Christmas Day too!

So, rather than taking down the decorations before Twelfth Night in the UK, we leave ours up to make sure that the Three Kings can find their way here!

Anyway - wishing you all a Happy and Healthy New Year!

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 a January birthday card using this colour palette. 

I decided to create a Z-Fold Bookbinding card - I'm rather enjoying making these at the moment!

I started by creating the card base from a bright pink card, two pieces of card 1  measuring 11 1/2" x 5 7/8" and the second piece measuring 3 1/2 " x 5 7/8"

Next I scored the larger piece as follows along the long side: 

• 2 1/8", 4 1/4" , 5 1/2"

The card was folded and burnished and then the book binding edge was glued down to create the folded card.

I then chose a couple of turquoise papers from the Rebel Girl collection and adhered these to my card base, leaving a small amount of the pink card showing.

In my graphics software, I resized the pre-coloured Rebel Girl image and added her to a layer of pink paper from the collection along with one of the sentiments. I then printed this out along with 3 extra coloured images as I wanted to decoupage these for dimension.  I've used 3D glue gel for my decoupage layers.

For some extra details I used a border die in the pink card to add the loopy edges and I die cut a flower trellis for the inside of the card along with a pink card arch for the handwritten message.

To finish off my card I added some teal confetti around the design ,sparkle, white gelly roll pen highlights and glossy accents.

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 - Rebel Girl collection - Rebel Cool girl

Polkadoodles digital papers - Rebel Girl collection - Paper Bundle 1 & Paper bundle 2

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Rebel Girl collection - Rebel Messages

Spellbinders Cutting dies - edges

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

Spellbinders dies - flowers and trellis

Studiolight stencil - 

Distress ink - picked raspberry

Sakura Gelly Roll - white

glossy accents

stickles - diamond

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Wednesdays - December birthday - Snowy Days Theo Hello with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....not long until Christmas day now so I hope that you have been good this year. 

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 a December birthday using this colour palette. 

I decided to create a Z-Fold Bookbinding card - I'm enjoying making these at the moment!

I started by creating the card base from a blue card, two pieces of card 1  measuring 11 1/2" x 5 7/8" and the second piece measuring 3 1/2 " x 5 7/8"

Next I scored the larger piece as follows along the long side: 

• 2 1/8", 4 1/4" , 5 1/2"

The card was folded and burnished and then the book binding edge was glued down to create the folded card.

I then chose some orange papers from the Freddy Fox collection and adhered these to my card base, leaving a small amount of the blue card showing.

In my graphics software, I then resized the Theo Hello penguin image from the brand new Snowy Days collection and printed this out onto alcohol marker friendly card along with the birthday sentiment from the collection.

I die cut an arched frame from the same blue card and mat and layered the birthday sentiment at the bottom of the arch.  I used the waste from the arched frame to add to the inside of the card.

Theo was coloured with my promarkers before being fussy cut out and adhering into the arch with foam tape.

I then used a balloon and bunting dies set to add details to my happy birthday card, ink blending the balloons fro dimension.

To finish off my card I added some gold confetti around the design , clear sparkle to the bunting and white gelly roll pen highlights to Theo.

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 - Snowy Days collection - Theo Hello DLPD9856

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Snowy Days collection  - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Freddy Fox collection - paper pack 2 & paper pack 3

Spellbinders Cutting dies - essential arches

Studiolight cutting dies - Party Card shape

Distress ink - spiced marmalade, salty ocean

Sakura Gelly Roll - white

Posca pen - white

Spellbinders confetti - gold

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

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

Happy Happy Birthday - Baa to you - with Pattie's Creations

Happy Friday everyone I hope that you are all well and have had a lovely week and enjoyed any Halloween festivities - the 1st of November is a holiday her in Spain to celebrate Día de Muertos or Day of the Dead and as its the first Friday of the month, it also 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 November is Birthdays, 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 November project, I chose  to use the Baa to You digital stamps to create a landscape A6 card.

I resized the image to suit my card size and printed it out before colouring with Promarkers.  I then used a confetti stencil to add colourful detail into the background of the design panel. 

For my fun birthday card, I used a new die from Studio light to cut out the stitched frame for the card from silver mirri card....the die set cuts out the outer frame and there are also extra dies to cut the banners, balloons and streamers etc.

I used the little banner die to die cut from scraps of coloured card and then added the letters to spell out Happy on the two banners.

To finish off the card I added a few white gel pen highlights around the image.

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:Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Baa to You

Lawn Fawn stamp - Year Fourteen

Studiolight - Layered Mask - Exploding confetti

Studiolight - Cutting Dies - party card shape

Distress inks -  candied apple,  twisted citron, salty ocean

Sakura gelly roll - White Pen

Fineliner pen - black

Promarkers Used:

face:       blue black, ice grey 7, 5

legs

feet:        caramel, pastel beige, ivory

fleece

ears:        salmon pink, baby pink

                  

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

Wendy x