A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #832 - Not Square /rectangular - Sponsored by SheepSki Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - Well I hope that you all had a lovely Easter.

We've been very busy working in the garden, trying to get things tidied up after the Winter.  The weather has been really mixed for the past couple of weeks, really warm in the sun but quite chilly still in the shade and at night in the house but hoping it settles soon.

We've opened up the pool and its looking lovely and clean after a couple of days cleaning just only 16C so not ready for a swim yet brrr!

We've got a busy couple of weeks coming up too with 2 lots of friends from work in the UK visiting and then a catch up with our friends in the next village planned. It's that time of year LOL! 

There's a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and I hope that you will join in.

This weeks challenge theme of 'Not Square or rectangular' has been chosen by Kitty for team 2 and is being sponsored by Sheepski Designs. The online Etsy store is now sadly closed but the lucky winner will be sent a link to download their chosen 3 images.

I decided to make a heart shaped easel card, creating my card base from a teal cardstock.

I chose to use the Floral Heart image, colouring with my promarkers before cutting out with my ScanNCut.  The image also comes with a sweet little butterfly that I used and also cut out.

The main sentiment is from Polkadoodles from the Darling Buds collection, fussy cut by hand. 

I used a stencil to add a little detail to the centre of the heart using a teal distress ink.

The paper I have used on the heart easel base is from my stash and I've added a stamped heart to the easel stopper.

The finishing touches were some matching sequins and clear glitter pen to the butterfly and the violas.

I hope that you join in with the challenge as there is a prize from the sponsor for our lucky winner!

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: 

SheepSki Designs Digital stamp - Floral Heart

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Darling Buds - sentiment bundle

Lisa Horton Crafts - Hearts of Happiness - stamp & Die set

Craftwork Cards Paper - Inky Backgrounds

Distress inks - peacock feathers

Studio light - stencil/mask - floral pattern.

Sugar and Spice sequins - Unicorn mix

spectrum noir Sparkle - clear

   

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Digi Deal Flower Meadow - In the garden - Butterflies with Polkadoodles

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

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 create something using butterflies with am In the garden theme.

I love being in the garden and seeing the beautiful butterflies flying around so this was the perfect theme for me.  I decided to combine some digital papers, a stencil and a beautiful stamp for todays challenge.

I created an upright easel card and started off by choosing a floral gorgeous paper from the Flower Meadow digital kit to layer onto my card with a matt layer of purple card stock.  For the upright panel I used the pale lilac striped paper from the kit as I wanted to add stencilling to this.

I die cut a frame from purple card and used distress inks to add a darker shade at the bottom of the frame.

Next I stamped the beautiful butterfly from the Hearts and Flowers Butterfly stamp set, I wanted a deep purple so used a dark blue ink and a lighter purple over the top to get the colour I wanted.

I used distress inks over the butterfly before cutting out and adhering to the panel with foam tape.

The card stopped is a simple strip of card with a sentiment printed out from the  collection.

Finishing touches were a few pieces of purple confetti around the card and some sparkle to the butterflies.

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 paper - Digi Deal - Flower Meadow

Polkadoodles stencil - Wildflower Meadow

Polkadoodles Stamp - Hearts and Flowers Butterfly stamp

Polkadoodles sentiment - Winnie Daisy Fairy - greetings bundle

Distress Ink - twisted citron, mowed lawn, wilted violet, villainous potion, mustard seed, salty ocean

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - sugar plum

Posca Pen - white, purple

Wink of Stella pen - purple

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

Wendy x

Flowers - No Pink- circular Easel Card - Butterfly Flowerpots - Digi Choosday - Be Simply Beautiful 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 a card with flowers but to use no pink!

I started off by creating a circular easel card with a deep purple card stock and then used one of the gorgeous blue papers from the Helga Hippo collection to mat and layer onto the bottom of the easel. 

Next I resized the beautiful Butterfly Flowerpots image to fit the easel and then printed this out onto alcohol friendly card stock. 

I coloured the image with promarkers to match the purple card and blue paper and then used one of the dies to cut out the panel.  I blended a little blue distress ink around the edge of the panel and then adhered it to my easel card.  

The sentiment from the Lilybug collection was printed out onto card, layered on to the same purple card and then adhered to act as the stopper for the easel so it stands up.  

For extra detail I printed out two of the pre-coloured butterflies from the Helga Hippo ephemera bundle, fussy cutting these out and adhered to the card so that the wings are lifted off the design. 

Finishing touches where some shiny teal confetti and white gel pen highlights.

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 !

Promarkers Used:

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Butterfly Flowerpots 

Polkadoodles digital paper - Helga Hippo collection - Set 2

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Lilybug collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Helga Hippo collection - Ephemera bundle

Distress Ink - salty ocean

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Nested Torn Circles

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white

Fineliner pen - green

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

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

Wendy x

Butterflies - On Your Special Day 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 April is Butterflies or Dragonflies, so 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 April  project, I chose  to use the beautiful  Butterfly 1 digital stamp to create a simple but arty DL card.  For the past couple of weeks as the weather has been improving ( it was 31C yesterday !), there have been loads of beautiful Swallowtail butterflies in the garden and I decided to  use these as my inspiration for the card and colouring today. 

I resized the image 3 times to suit a DL card panel, printed it out onto alcohol marker friendly card stock before colouring with Promarkers and then fussy cutting out.  I chose to use slightly different sizes of butterflies on y card and reversed one of them for some added interest.  Whilst not anatomically correct I think these butterflies are a pretty good likeness to the ones in the garden. Next I created my background, using a peice of watercolour card.  I started by using a brush and water to add a wide, wavy strip of water down the centre of the panel of card. 

Then I carefully sprinkled 4 different Brushos over the watery strip - you don't need very much of these magical powders at all for a stunning peice of card.  Once I was happy with the amount of pigment I gently spritzed a little more water onto the card to make sure all the powder had been activated and then used my heat gun to dry the panel.                                                                                                                                                         Once completely dry I splattered white ink over the coloured are for little highlights.  Next I matted this coloured panel onto my DL card blank with a piece of black card and then adhered the butterflies onto the card with foam tape for dimension.  The sentiment strip was adhered flat to the card with a small white border top and bottom.

To finish off the card I added a few dark iridescent gems around the design and added clear sparkly to the butterflies.

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 - Butterfly 1

Brushos - Purple, yellow, lemon, ultramarine

Winsor & Newton - Calligraphy ink - white

Lisa Horton Crafts - Sentiment strip

Pretty Pink Posh gems - midnight black

Spectrum noir sparkle pen - clear

Promarkers used :

Butterflies:    blue black, cool grey 7, 6, 4

                    yellow, primrose

                    Egyptian blue, cobalt blue, cloud blue

                    orange, pumpkin, honeycomb

                    

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

Wendy x

Majestic Butterflies Rainbow card

Hello everyone, happy Sunday to you all....we've had such a busy weekend, Friday day/night with friends in the nearby town of Lanjaron for the San Juan Water festival and then last night at our favourite restaurant listening to live music...these are definitely some of the things I love about living here but today I'm shattered and its all about recouping energy today before next week!

I hope you are having a lovely weekend too and hopefully enjoying the sun and its not too hot for you....were expecting 35C today so plenty of water !

Today I am here to share another beautiful butterfly card made for the  Jitterbug in June challenge in a Facebook group that I belong to.  This time I've used one of my all time favourite butterfly stamps from Lisa Horton Crafts.

This is the Majestic Butterflies set of stamps - drawn by the extremely talented Ann Ruffles

I wanted to create a rainbow card so started by blending distress inks on a panel of white card to create my rainbow background and then splattered with a little water for detail.  

Once the panel was dry I've used a beautiful floral embossing folder again from Lisa Horton Crafts to add texture, adding a little gilding wax to the raised areas of the card.

I stamped one of the butterflies from the set onto card using Versafine Clair ink which is perfect for any water based colouring mediums before colouring them using my Spectrum Noir sparkle pens.

The butterflies were mounted onto the embossed card panel using small foam square to give lift to the wings.

Finally I have added simple sentiment strip from Lisa Horton Crafts to the card, mounted onto a white strip of card. 

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:
Lisa Horton Crafts stamp - Majestic Butterflies

Versafine Clair - pine cone, twilight

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens - pink garnet, firefly, tangerine, lichen, watermelon, barn red, cotton candy, orchid, pistachio, sea spray, cornflower blue, soft jade

Distress Inks - festive berries, carved pumpkin, mustard seed, crushed olive, broken china, wilted violet

Wink of Stella - black sparkle

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - White, Black

Pebeo Gilding Wax - Empire Gold

Lisa Horton Crafts 3D Embossing Folder - Ditsy Florals

Lisa Horton Crafts sentiment strips

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 Challenge #695 - Use dies and/or Punches

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.

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by The Colour of Love

There are loads of lovely digital images and colouring pages by the very talented Heather Valentin in the on line store so I would highly recommend taking a look as I'm sure you will find loads that you love.

The theme this week chosen by Linda for Team 2 is use Dies and/or punches.

I chose to use a sweet image called Lil Cassi Boo's Butterflies for my card, coloured with my Promarkers.

Don't forget there will be a prize for the Winner of the challenge - there are more details over on the Passion for Markers blog.

I coloured the sweet image with my promarkers, used a stitched die to cut out the panel to fit an A6 card blank and then fussy cut the top portion of the image. Next I have created a cloudy background using a stitched die to cut a panel the exact size of the coloured image.

Next I have used foam tape to adhere the image over the cloudy background.

Finally I have used a butterfly die to cut out 3 small butterflies, adding these around the design with small gems for detail.  I added lots of clear sparkle to the image and stickles to the flowers in the grass.

The sentiment strip at the bottom of the card is from Lisa Horton Crafts, mounted on card for height.

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 - Lil Cassie Boo's Butterflies 

Card Making Magic A6 Nesting Die Set

Distress Ink - Story Sky

Lawn Fawn stencil - Cloudy

Tonic Studios Butterfly die

Stickles - Stardust

Lisa Horton Crafts Sentiment Strip

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear, tangerine

orange gems

Sakura Gelly Roll pens - black, white

Promarkers used :

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

Hair:        vanilla, caramel, sandstone, umber

Eyes:        midnight blue, true blue, sky blue

Lips:         antique pink, pale pink

Dress:       bisque, apricot, ginger

shoes

Tights:      sunflower, tulip, buttercup

Flowers:    sunflower, buttercup

                antique pink, pale pink

                bisque, apricot, ginger

    

          

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

Inky Spring Butterflies with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone 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 Spring card that I've made for Polkadoodles using 2 sets of beautiful new photopolymer clear stamps and a fabulous leaf stencil, it's a set called Hearts and Flowers and it was so much fun to play with.  the stamps and stencil are available as a bundle or or separately.

I love playing with my inks 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. 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 started by creating the background, blending squeezed lemonade distress ink over a piece of card measuring 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".

Next I have secured the panel to my glass craft mat and positioned the stencil over the panel. 

Using Shabby shutters I have gently blended this across the stencil, being careful not to lift up the stencil.

Leaving the stencil in place I have added a small amount of forest moss distress ink to the base of the leaves.

Next I have added a little Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen in Cornflower Blue to my glass mat and added a drop of water.  I have then used a brush to splatter this sparkly ink over the panel.

The Stencil can then be removed and washed and the panel left to dry completely before being adhered to my base card, matting with a layer of black card.

Next I have adhered a piece of my inky mop up kitchen roll to some thin card, I use a basic glue stick to do this.

Set to one side to dry fully.

Once dry I have used the beautiful butterfly  from the set and stamped 3 butterflies on the sheet, in Versafine onyx black ink.

I only want 2 for this project but its a good idea to have a spare just in case.

I love the added texture that the kitchen roll adds to the images.

Once the stamped images are completely dry I have then fussy cut them out.

I decided to add a little more colour and sparkle to the butterflies using  a pink garnet and blue cornflower Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen, to tie them into the colours of ink on the kitchen roll.  I've added a little black sparkle pen to the bodies of the butterflies too.

Next, I have used the Spring sentiment stamp from the set, stamping in black ink before adding 2 butterflies to the design.

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.

Finally I have scattered some black gems across the design to tie the images and the sentiment together and drawn in the antennae for the butterflies (its easier to cut this off rather than try to fussy cut out)

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:
Polkadoodles stamp and stencil set - Hearts and Flowers

Distress Inks - picked raspberry, peacock feathers squeezed lemonade, tumbled glass 

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens - Cornflower Blue, pink Garnet, onyx black

Pretty Pink Posh gems- Midnight black

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - black

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

Wendy x

Thinking of You with Pattie's Creations

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

Today marks the start of a new Challenge for May 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 May project, I chose the gorgeous sunflower and butterfly on digital stamp called Thinking of You ....I think that sunflowers are such happy sunny flowers - they just make you smile.

I've created a simple one layer card today, just by colouring in the sunflower and butterfly with my promarkers (see below for colours used)

I wanted  a bright sky behind my sunflower so have used distress ink to carefully blend around the top and sides of the panel.  I've splattered a little water over the ink to add a little texture.

To finish off this sunny card I've added some gold confetti around the design and a little sparkle to the butterfly 

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 -  Thinking of You

Distress ink - mermaid lagoon

Sakura Gelly roll pen - gold, black

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - gold

Promarkers used :

Sunflower:         gold, sunflower, lemon, soft lime

                        burnt sienna, deep mocha, umber

Butterfly:           lilac, lavender

                         warm grey 5,3

                         plum, mulberry, cerise

                         sunflower

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

Wendy x