Digi Choosday - Christmas - Snowman & Animal - Hope your day is Snow much Fun - Theo Penguin Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far and that the weather is being kind to you.  

It's the end of September and our local town Feria has finished and life has now returned to relative normality after all the celebrations - loud and loads of fun as always.

It's time for the Design Team to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog. I hope you are going to join in and don't forget the amazing Digi Choosday discount off all crafty printable downloads!

Don't Forget that our challenges our now 4 weekly so there's loads of time for you to join in and more chances to win too!

The theme set for the DT this week by Nikky was Christmas and to use a Snowman and an Animal!. The perfect project for my all time favourite penguin Theo although he's definitely not just for Christmas in my opinion.

My card today is a larger 6" x 6" card, made from lime green card - I can't remember the name of the card style but it folds back in a Z shape and is really easy to create starting with a piece of card measuring 11 1/2" x 6", scored at 6", 7", & 9".

I think it's called a book binding Z fold card.......

Then cut a second piece of card measuring 6" x 3 1/2", this is the front panel for the card, onto which the image will be adhered.

I started off by choosing one of the Christmas papers from the Classic Winter papers bundle to match the lime green card, layering this onto the card base.

I resized the image of Theo and his snowman friend, colouring this with promoters before fussy cutting out.

The arch was die cut from the lime card and I added a layer of white glitter card into the arch frame before adhering the coloured image onto this panel and then adding a few pieces of teal confetti around the design. 

I hope that you like my project 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 - Theo Penguin - Snowman friend Theo Penguin

Polkadoodles digital paper - Theo Penguin - Classic Winter Papers

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Theo Penguin - sentiment bundle

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

LHC Glitter card - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

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 #857 - Add some Sparkle - Never let anyone dull your Sparkle - Sponsored by All Dressed Up

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

September is almost at an end and we had na fabulous time with my cousin and her hubby at our town Feria.  We've even had a little rain too which has been lovely, with some cooler days and nights.  Life is slowly returning to normal and we're starting now to think of our trip to Japan in October.

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 All Dressed Up and the theme chosen by Me for team 2 is Add Some Sparkle, My absolute favourite type of card to mark. I think we all need to add more Sparkle in our lives LOL, well I do anyway.

For my very girly sparkly card today I chose to use a set ballerina image called Sassy.  I wanted to create a very clean and simple card today with lots of white space to focus on the image.  

I resized the digital stamp and added a sparkly sentiment into the corner before printing out and colouring with my promarkers.  It's a very simply colour palette too.  The gold glitter frame was die cut and adhered onto the card base and then glitter gel added on the pretty ballerina and around the design.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my sparkly 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:

All Dressed Up Digital Stamp - Sassy

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - freebie

Ranger Stickles - diamond

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 #855 - Masculine Card - New Job, New Beginnings - Sponsored by Polkadoodles

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

The middle of September is here and we're still having lovely weather - lots of sunshine in the day, cooler nights and refreshingly cooler mornings. 

It will soon be time for our town Feria at the end of the month so I'm hoping for a few cooler days as wearing a flamenco dress in the sun will be a little uncomfortable LOL

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 Polkadoodles and the theme chosen by Natalie for team 2 is Masculine, cards I think we all need to make more of, well I do anyway.

I'm ok with cute masculine cards for boys or cheeky ones but always seem to struggle with ideas for general cards but there are loads of amazing digital stamps on the Polkadoodles website that are perfect for boys of all ages.

For my Masculine card today I decided I would make a masculine new job card using one of the digital stamps from the Graduation School Student collection.

This is Cute Boy with Pencil & Paper - he definitely looks like he's about to start a new job, with his paperwork in his hand.

The card is a Double Pop out Gatefold card and you can get the instructions for this card in Mixed Up Craft website or there is an excellent tutorial on Youtube 

Basically the card is constructed from 2 pieces of cardstock to give the larger card but it still fits into a standard A7 or 5" x 7" envelope.

Each piece measures 7 3/4 x 7" scored at 2 1/2", 5", 7 1/4".  after folding and burnishing, the two pieces are adhered together in the small centre strip.

Next I chose three papers from the collection and used these to layer onto the card base using a yellow card as an accent colour.  I also die cut several stars in yellow card to decorate the card adding patterned papers and strip sentiments.

The image was coloured with a my promarkers and then I fussy cut him out adding foam tape to the back for dimension, before adding the little boy to the star on the centre pop out strip of the card.  

When the card is closed flat you don't see the little boy, only the stars on the front, then the recipient gets a nice surprise when the card is opened up.

I decided to not add any extra bling to the card, my nod to it being a masculine card simply adding white gelly pen highlights on the image...My hubby says he prefers card with less frou-frou 

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:

Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Graduation School Student collection - Cute Boy with Pencil & paper

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Graduation School Student collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles Digital Paper - Graduation School Student collection - paper bundle

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

Digi Choosday - Udderly Glad we're Friends - Double Z Fold - Friendship - Udderley Cute Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far and that the weather is being kind to you.  The start of September and here's hoping some cooler days and maybe a little rain too.

this year has definitely been a hot one and the garden is crying out for a little relief from the high Summer temperatures.

It's time for the Design Team to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog. I hope you are going to join in and don't forget the amazing Digi Choosday discount off all crafty printable downloads! 

Don't Forget that our challenges our now 4 weekly so there's loads of time for you to join in and more chances to win too!

The theme set for the DT this week by Nikky was Friendship and I'm I've decided that I'm going to send this card to my best friend in the UK as I miss seeing her so much. 

My Friendship card today features the absolutely gorgeous Udderly Cute Collection. 

I started by creating an A7 Fold card base and then cut a second smaller Z-fold card from chocolate brown card.

The Kraft card base was scored at 2 1/2" on the front panel, folded back on itself and burnished.

For the smaller card that has the main image I cut a piece of card measuring 10" x 5" scoring this at 2" and 4" again, folding and burnishing. The smaller card will be adhered onto the base card after decorating the panels with patterned papers.

I chose a wood grain paper from the collection and the pretty paper with lots of presents and hearts to mat onto the crd base with chocolate brown panels.

I have used the very sweet Gift and Balloons digital stamp, adding one of the sentiments over the top of the image, before printing out and colouring with promarkers to match the pretty papers.

Then main coloured image was adhered to the front panel of the card.

I decided to print out one of the ephemera sheets from the collection, fussy cutting out a couple of the daisy flowers, a label and a little heart, adding these to the design along with a few little die cut hearts and gems and white gelly roll pen highlights.

I hope that you like my project 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 - Udderly Cute - Gift and Balloons

Polkadoodles digital papers - Udderly Cute - paper pack 3 & pack 5

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Udderly Cute - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Udderly Cute - coloured ephemera pack

tiny pink gems from my stash

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 #853 - Faux or Real stitching - Autumn Birthday Wishes - Sponsored by Dis Digital Stamps

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

Oh it's been a lovely few days with lovely sunshine in the day, cooler nights and refreshingly cool mornings....a little hotter this week but I can cope with that. LOL

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 DisDigiStamps and the theme chosen by Kitty for team 2 is Faux or Real Stitching.

I quite often like to use dies that give a stitched edge as I love the texture they add to a design and I also love stamping stitches too so for my card today I decided to combine the two.

For my Autumnal birthday card I chose a sweet little image of a Squirrel carrying a huge acorn - this is Sammy's Surprise and its was a freebie that Di very kindly gave to her Facebook group members.

The image was coloured with a my promarkers and then I fussy cut him out adding foam tape to the back for dimension.

Next I create the background for the design, using an A2 ivory card blank and adding a layer of wood grain papers onto the front of the card.  I stamped a stitched border onto this in brown and then used a stitched edge die to cut a layer of leafy paper, adhering this on an angle.  Then I used a smaller stitched edge die to cut a second layer of woodgrain paper, adding a stamped stitched border to this before adhering to the base card agin on an angle.  The sentiment was cut as a wedge shape and I used the same stitched edge to add detail before inking with yellow and then orange distress ink.

Finally I added the sentiment and Sammy to the card.

The design was finished off with coffee coloured confetti, glossy accents to Sammy's nose, white gelly pen highlights and some little fussy cut out leaves from the leafy paper.

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:

DisDigiStamps - Sammy's Surprise

Polkadoodles sentiment 

Hot Off The Press Stamps - Stamped Stitches

Pink fresh Studios essential dies - Diagonal Stitched rectangles

CWC Designer paper - Frozen Forest

Mo's Digital Pencil paper - freebie

Distress ink - Carved pumpkin, squeezed lemonade

Versafine Clair Ink - Pinecone

Spellbinders confetti - latte

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

Digi Choosday - Hello Autumn - Yellow & Orange - Autumn is Coming card - Freddy Fox Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far and that the weather is being kind to you.

I know its still the middle of Summer but as a card maker we try to get ahead and that sometimes feels like were making cards at the wrong time of the year...but I promise you it makes sense in the craft world LOL

It's time for the Design Team to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog. I hope you are going to join in and don't forget the amazing Digi Choosday discount off all crafty printable downloads! 

Don't Forget that our challenges our now 4 weekly so there's loads of time for you to join in and more chances to win too!

The theme set for the DT this week by Nikky was Autumn is coming...using Yellow and Orange !.  I love the garden in the Autumn, the colours around are amazing and the high temperatures of the summer have started to subside.  I decided to reach for a digital stamp from the Freddy Fox Autumn / Fall Collection for my card today as he has the perfect colourings.

The digital stamp I have chosen is Apple Barrel Fox, resized for my smaller A6 card before printing out and colouring with Promarkers. I then used my ScannCut to cut out Freddy although it could easily be cut by hand.

I wanted to create lots of layers and textures for my card today so used lots yellow and orange distress inks to create an ink smooshed panel on watercolour card, allowing each colour to dry before adding the next colour, building up layers slowly.  

Next I added interest to this panel, stamping leaves and dots in distress oxide inks and added some gold stencilling too here and there.

I tore down the right hand side of the inked panel, leaving the white core exposed and then chose a couple of papers from the collection adding strips below the inked panel again with torn edges.

I used an arched dies to create a frame, in yellow and orange card and adhered this to the panel on the card.

My coloured Freddy image was mounted onto the card with foam tape.

I then stamped leaves from the leftover distress ink panel and hand cut these out.  I had a few mushrooms left over from another project so decided to colour these with orange and yellow alcohol pens to coordinate with the theme and layered these at the bottom of the card, along with a sentiment from the Freddy Fox collection.

To finish off my card today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights and scattered orange gems around the design as I always love a little sparkle on my cards.

I hope that you like my project 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 - Freddy Fox Collection - Apple Barrel Fox

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Freddy Fox Collection - Paper set 2

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Freddy Fox Collection  - sentiment bundle

Distress Ink - scattered straw, mustard seed, fossilised amber, carved pumpkin, dried marigold

Distress Oxide ink - spiced marmalade, abandoned coral

Gold acrylic paint

Polkadoodles Craft Stamp - Funky Daisy Smile (dots)

Polkadoodles Craft Stamp - Just a little note (leaves)

Polkadoodles Craft Stencil - Honey Bees

Polkadoodles Craft SVG Print and Cut File - Spring is Here

Pretty Pink Posh gems - grapefruit

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 #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

Digi Choosday - This is the beginning of Anything - Back to School card - Teepee card - Graduation/Student Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far and that the weather is treating you well.

It was my birthday last Wednesday and we had a fantastic time in Granada (my favourite city), wandering around, lunch at my favourite bar Castanedas and then went to see Sting in Plaza de Toros (the bull ring, very sadly still use for Bull fights but a great venue for music concerts and other extravaganzas ) - it was wonderful and then we were booked into a lovely hotel for the night...good job with all the cocktails and food LOL.

Summer is in full flow but I'm sure if you have children / grandchildren etc then thoughts are already turning to going back to school or starting school for the first time so my card today would be perfect for that.

It's time for the Design Team to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog.  I hope you are going to join in and don't forget the amazing Digi Choosday discount off all crafty printable downloads!  

Don't Forget that our challenges our now 4 weekly so there's loads of time for you to join in and more chances to win too!

The theme set for the DT this week is to make a Back to school themed card/project so I decided to use another of the very cute images from the Graduation School Student collection  It's a jam packed collection of images, clip art, sentiments, word art and of course fun papers and perfect for lots of different educational and new job celebrations.   

For my Teepee card today I've used the very sweet Cute Girl with Glasses resized this in my graphics software (I'm using the free version of Canva if you are interested !) She was printed out along with 2 of the apples from the digital stamp bundle before colouring in with promarkers and fussy cutting  out by hand.

The card base folds flat to fit into a standard 5" x 7" envelope and is very easy to create.  I created the base from a green cardstock and then used the cute apple paper to cover this.

If you would like to make a teepee car then  would suggest watching one of  Sam Calcott's tutorials on Youtube, here is a link

Next I printed out some of the ephemera and a couple of the sentiments to add to the card, layering everything up for interest.

To finish off my card today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights, scattered lots of gold confetti around the design and glossy accents to the little girls glasses.

  

I hope that you like my project 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 - Graduation Student collection - Cute Girl with Glasses

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Graduation Student collection - Clip art bundle

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Graduation Student collection - stamp bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Graduation Student collection - paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Graduation Student collection - sentiment bundle

glossy accents

spellbinders confetti - gold

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 #847 - Under the Sea - Collect Beautiful Moments - Sponsored by LeAnn's World 101

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

So the heatwave is continuing all this week with consecutive days over 40 and it's very difficult indeed....We have been trying to get up a little earlier to get some jobs done early before it's really unbearable and difficult sleeping even with the Zircon in our bedroom....... I think by the end of this week the temperature is predicted to be 44C so I suspect we will be doing less and less each day.

It's even too warm to sit in the porch with the fan on and trying to persuade the kitties to come indoors is a nightmare !

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 LeAnn's World 101  and the theme chosen by Me for team 2 is Under the Sea....this is where I would like to be with all the heat here in Spain at the moment, I'm definitely melting.

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

Next I create the background scene around the image, using several sea themed stamps and distress oxide inks to create my colourful underwater scene.

The card was simply finished with white gelly roll pen highlights, clear sparkle pen to the mermaid and glossy accent bubbles.

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:

LeAnn's World 101 digital stamp - Ashera

Distress Oxide Ink - fossilised amber, peacock feathers, abandoned coral, mowed lawn

Woodward Craft Collection stamps - Sea Elements

Spectrum Noir - Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

glossy accents

Tim Holtz tiny words - Small Talk

          

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Merry Christmas - Christmas in July - Criss Cross Star card - Gingerbread Cookie collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far....July is here and its proving to be very hot so far this year here in Spain after our cold wet winter.

It's that time of the week to share some more inspiration for our current '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 Digi Choosday discount off all crafty printable downloads!

Don't Forget that our challenges our now 4 weekly so there's loads of time for you to join in and more chances to win too!

The theme set for the DT this week is to make a Christmas in July themed card/project.  It always feels very strange making Christmas cards when its so hot but it's good to get ahead...LOL

I decided today to use the super sweet Gingerbread Cookie collection for my Criss Cross Star card today.

The card is 6" x 6" in size and I have simply cut away the left and right corners from a square Kraft card blank.  

Next I chose papers from the collection to decorate the front and inside of the card and also the 2 small triangles that were cut from the card blank. 

The triangles were then adhered to the main card on the front to create a star shape.  I also added an extra strip of card at the bottom of the points for extra support although this is optional.

The little Gingerbread girl was coloured with promarkers before fussy cutting out along with some of the pre-coloured clipart which was used to decorate the card, along with one of the sentiments.

To finish off my card today I've added glossy accents to the gingerbreads icing and gold sparkle pen to the baubles.

I hope that you like my project 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 - Gingerbread Cookie - Star cookie
Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Gingerbread Cookie - sentiment bundle
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Gingerbread Cookie - digi bundle
Polkadoodles digital paper - Gingerbread Cookie - Sweet Hugs bundle
Polkadoodles digital clipart - Gingerbread Cookie - clipart bundle
Glossy Accents
gold pen

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

Wendy x