Digi Choosday - You're sweet like pumpkin pie - Autumn is Here - Fluffy Friends 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.  

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 Here !. I'm not quite ready for Autumn yet but I am definitely longing for the cooler days and nights.

For my Autumn card today I decided to use one of the sweet images from the recent Fluffy Friends collection.

It's a simple A7 card base using a couple of more autumnal papers from the collection and layers of a rusty coloured card stock for the matt layer and the arch behind the fluffy friends

I have used the very sweet Monty bear and Rusty fox digital stamp colouring with promarkers to match the pretty papers and fussy cutting out by hand

I decided to add a couple of mushrooms from the Spring is Here SVG, adding a little brown distress ink to these for shading and a also a large blue butterfly from one of the papers in the collection.  I think the mushrooms give the card the autumnal feel along with Rusty fox and the coordinating rust coloured card.
 

The sentiment has been taken from the Freddy Fox collection and I added a little cross stitched border for a little texture.

Finishing touches were a few coffee coloured pieces of confetti and some white gelly roll pen highlights 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 - Fluffy Friends - Monty bear and Rusty fox digital stamp

Polkadoodles digital papers - Fluffy Friends - paper set 1 and paper set 4 

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Freddy Fox -  sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles SVG print and cut - Spring is here

distress ink - tea dye

Spellbinders confetti - latte

Lawn Fawn edge die - cross stitch

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

Autumn and Fall Card Making Ideas - New Release - You Make the world a Better Place - Hello Autumn collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Monday  everyone... I hope that you have had a great weekend.   

After a few slightly cooler days the temperature has ramped up again and it's really humid too which isn't helping.  I am now longing to see a little rain and cooler nights too.

I'm super excited to share another card today using the brand new digital release by Polkadoodles called Hello Autumn.

The Hello Autumn Collection is a cute and whimsical mix of Autumn and Halloween digital craft supplies featuring adorable woodland animals, pumpkins, witches, ghosts and spooky seasonal fun. Perfect for card making, scrapbooking, Cricut and ScanNCut projects, paper crafts and printable crafts, the collection includes digital stamps, pre-coloured clipart, printable papers, scene backgrounds, toppers and 160 greetings and sentiments. 


From cosy Autumn / Fall makes to cute Halloween cards, Hello Autumn is packed with everything you need for creative seasonal crafting.

This is the most adorable Hedgehog Sunflowers and what a huge bouquet of flowers he is carrying.  I love sunflowers, they are such happy flowers and bring a smile to everyone face.  They were one of my mums favourite flowers too !

Once again I have the pre-coloured image from the collection, partly because using my promarkers in the heat we have been experiencing has been a nightmare but also because I know that a lot of my crafty friends love using the pre-coloured digital images...they are perfectly coloured by Nikky too !

My card is a beautiful 6" x 6" Upright Easel card, made from a Kraft card base and layered with pretty autumn papers from the collection.

The main hedgehog image was printed out a couple of times so I could fussy cut out the bouquet to add on top of the image and I have blended a little warm yellow distress ink over the edges of the image panel to tone down the whiteness of the card.

The coloured sentiment was printed and added to a panel of Kraft card and then this adhered to the centre of a strip of card and paper to act as the easel stopper. I decided to embellish the card with die cut Kraft card flourishes and little gold vellum flowers.

To finish off my card today I've added clear sparkle pen over the bouquet of flowers and coffee coloured confetti around the design.


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 - Hello Autumn - Hedgehog Sunflowers
Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Hello Autumn - Greetings bundle
Polkadoodles digital papers - Hello Autumn - paper set 1 & paper set 6
Spellbinders confetti - latte
Spectrum Noir sparkle pen - clear
flower punch
swirl die



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

Hello card Ideas - Little Ballerinas - Just a Little Note to say Hi - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday - I hope that you have had a lovely week and something nice planned for the weekend.

We've had such a busy week again, walking with friends on Monday and then shopping  on Wednesday down on the coast for furniture for our new terrace upstairs.  Hopefully its going to be delivered next week so JJ is busy finishing off the pergola roof and making a cabinet for the fridge to go it.  It going to be lovely place to sit in the evenings.  I also went to my very relaxing yoga class this morning so I'm now feeling very chilled and looking forward to our Friday night Date Night in town.

The weather has finally started to cool down thankfully so sleeping it definitely getting easier and we will soon be able to get some tidying done in the garden too.  Lots of the plants are looking very tired indeed so I'm hoping we will get some rain soon too to revive them.

The cooler days will also mean I can start colouring with my promarkers again - they definitely do not like the heat at all.

  

I'm back today to share a sweet little hello card using one of the digital stamps from the recent little Ballerinas release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV) available from the Etsy shop. The collection includes 9 gorgeous little images that come in black and white line art for you to colour and they are also available recoloured too if you prefer.

My little hello card today features the Little Ballerina Shy digital stamp coloured with my promarkers and then fussy cut out by hand.  

I adhered a layer of co-ordinating plain paper and an embossed panel of purple card at the top, keeping the background simple so the sweet little girl is the focal point of the card.  I sanded back the embossed area and added a touch of pink distress ink to show the embossed detail.

Finishing touches of white gel pen highlights, clear sparkle on the ballerinas dress and the sweetest little hello sentiment.

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 - Little Ballerinas - Little Ballerina Shy

Lily of the Valley Paper - Bonnets & Bowties

Distress Ink - Kitsch Flamingo

Crafts Too Embossing folder

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - Sugar Plum

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

#lotv #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt #liliofthevalley 

Halloween Card Making Ideas - New Release - Bad to the Bone - Hello Autumn collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Friday  everyone... I hope that you have had a great week and are enjoying the weather.

We've finally had a few slightly cooler days which I have to say is a relief - even sleeping at night has been a little easier so Im hoping it lasts.

I'm super excited to share my first card today using the brand new digital release by Polkadoodles called Hello Autumn.

The Hello Autumn Collection is a cute and whimsical mix of Autumn and Halloween digital craft supplies featuring adorable woodland animals, pumpkins, witches, ghosts and spooky seasonal fun. Perfect for card making, scrapbooking, Cricut and ScanNCut projects, paper crafts and printable crafts, the collection includes digital stamps, pre-coloured clipart, printable papers, scene backgrounds, toppers and 160 greetings and sentiments.


From cosy Autumn makes to cute Halloween cards, Hello Autumn is packed with everything you need for creative seasonal crafting.

Here is my first card using the collection - This is the cute Bear & Mouse in a Pumpkin Car and as soon as I saw this digital stamp I had the music Bad to the Bone running through my head - If you don't know it then google it and I apologise in advance for passing not he ear worm.  LOL

I made a decision for this new collection to use the pre-coloured images in the collection, partly because using my promarkers in the heat we have been experiencing has been a nightmare but also because I know that a lot of my crafty friends love using the pre-coloured digital images...they are perfectly coloured by Nikky too !

I die cut a shaped card from Kraft as I think this is the perfect colour of card with the entire collection and then chose a couple of the patterned papers to layer onto this card base.

I know we are all thinking of postage costs these days so I've kept the layers simple, to cut down on the weight of the finished card.

The main image was resized in Canva and then printed out a couple of times as I wanted to layer up the wheels and the furry dice.

Going with the theme of Bad to the Bone, I can imagine these two cuties driving around the town causing mayhem with their pumpkin Chopper so I decided to add a pennant style Boo banner at the back of the Chopper.  I cut the sentiment from the multi sentiment download and fastened this to a small piece of Kraft card with some gem stone brads for that touch of the biker feel.

It's a simple wooden skewer, coloured with a black brush marker and then attached to the cutout Boo banner

To finish off my card today I've added glossy accents to the pumpkin wheel caps, mouses goggles and the furry dice and scattered gold confetti around the design.

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 - Hello Autumn - Cute Bear & Mouse in a Pumpkin Car

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Hello Autumn - Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Hello Autumn - paper set 1

Spellbinders confetti - gold

glossy accents

gem brads

wooden skewer

Ecoline Brush Pen - black

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

Wendy x

Mice Party - Summit to Celebrate - Let's Celebrate - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Wednesday - I hope that you are having a lovely weekend and the weather is being kind where you are....we're currently having a few slightly cooler days which is lovely only 37C today LOL....and there is even a possibility of a few drops of rain for Thursday and Friday....I wish....

Everyone seems to have gone Eclipse crazy...trying to buy glasses last minute to be able to watch the event tonight!

It's going to be a total eclipse over Mallorca tonight and we had wanted to go and stay for a few days to see but it's crazy. the hotels were charging sooo much and inviting on a weeks stay.  So were gong to go up on to the house roof to watch.

We're only expecting a partial eclipse of about 95.8% here where we live with the event starting at 7:42 pm, maximum eclipse at 8:38pm ending at 9:09pm. Then the sundial set at 9:13....so I think it's going to be pretty special to see.

  

I'm back today with another cute card using one of the super cute digital stamps from the Mice Party Spring release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV) available from the Etsy shop. The collection includes 12 sweet  little mice, all ready to celebrate.

My fun and colourful card features the Summit to Celebrate Mouse image, coloured with my promarkers and I have added lots of lovely sparkle to make my card extra special.

I adhered a layer of co-ordinating striped paper from my stash to the 5" x 7" card base, covering it completely and then used a wavy stitched border die to cut out the mouse panel layering this onto the card base.

Finishing touches of white gel pen highlights, sparkly confetti and clear sparkle on the cake and a little drop of glossy accents to the mouses nose.

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 - Mice Party - Summit to Celebrate

DoCrafts Paper - Daisy & Dandelion - Picnic Patch

Lawn Fawn Border Die - stitched wavy edge

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - friendship mix

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

glossy accents

     

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

 Wendy x

#lotv #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt #liliofthevalley #sssigchallenge

Cute Creatures - Sending Paper Hugs - Peacock - Set 1 with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone happy Friday - The last day of July is here and I hope you have had a great month.

I'm off to my very relaxing yoga class this morning and then we are going to Granada for the day, shopping, eating and to watch the new Spiderman film and cool off a little LOL.

I'm back today to share another cute and fun A6 card using another of the very cute creatures from the Cute Creatures collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). Both sets are available now from the Etsy shop

If you haven't had a look, it's a fantastic collection of 2 sets of images, that you can buy separately or as a complete collection - I know which I would choose as its a fantastic price for what's included. Each set contains 93 cute little creatures or you can get all 186 creatures.

Today for my fun and colourful card I have used the gorgeous little peacock from set 1.  

I resized the little peacock for a landscape A6 card printing out and colouring with my promarkers before fussy cutting out.

Next I created an embossed background panel.  Ive had the peacock feather embossing folder in my stash for many many years LOL so cut a panel of white card and then inked the raised feathers with distress oxide ink before running through my cutting machine.  I wanted to add a little more colour so added more green ink and passed the folder through the machine a second time.  Next I used a deep blue acrylic paint and my brayer to add the dark paint over the panel, carefully applying a thin layer and building up the coverage slowly so not to fill the green feathers with pain. I love the matt texture this gives to the card.

I created a split panel landscape card, cutting the front panel of the card adding the embossed panel to the top with a strip of acetate in the middle.

The sentiment sticker was added to the acetate, so it appears to flow and the coloured peacock was adhered across the two panels.

To finish off the card I have added gold confetti, white a metallic gold gel pen and clear sparkle pen.

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  - Cute Creatures - set 1

LHC sentiment strip

Distress Oxide -  peacock feathers

Crafters Companion embossing folder - Kimono Collection - Peacock feathers

Artis Cromatica acrylic paint - marino

Spellbinders confetti - gold

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, gold

crafters companion sparkle pen - clear

 #lotv #liliofthevalley #weloveliliofthevalley #lotvdt

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

Digi Choosday - Sorry. Cant. Shopping. Bye - Shopping Card - Stand & Pop Card - Rebel & Wanda Collections - with Polkadoodles

 

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week.

So June is nearly at an end and the weather here has been wonderful....sunny and hot but not too hot at night just yet.  We had a wonderful time last week with my lovely cousin and her hubby staying with us for a few days, lots of good food, relaxing by the pool and a little sightseeing too, probably far too much alcohol but hey ho.

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 shopping themed card so I decided to use one of the very cute pre-coloured images from the Rebel Girl Collection

I am not a lover of shopping, never have been, I find it really stressful but my cousin loves it with a passion, so this will be her birthday card in December.

My card today is a Stand and Pop card and Im loving how it looks - it was really easy to construct too and when folded flat fits into an A7 envelope (5" x 7"). If you'd like to make one then I would recommend watching a Youtube video by Sam Calcott - she has tutorials to make a few different sizes too!

The basic card measurements and shorelines are as follows.

Cardstock measuring as follows

• 7 " x 4 1/2"
• 9 " x 4 1/2" scored at 1" & 3"
• 6 1/4" x 3" scored at 1/4" 1 1/4" 5 1/4"
• 5" x 2"
• 3" x 1" scored at 1/2", 2 1/2"
• 4 1/4" x 6 7/8"

The card base was made from a lavender blue cardstock and I have used papers from the Rebel collection to decorate it.

The main Rebel Shopping image is pre-coloured and I have printed her twice and then decoupaged for dimension.

The little shopping bags and sentiments have been taken from the Wanda collection adding the sentiments to the bags in Canva before printing out and cutting out with my ScanNCut, there was a little bit of hand cutting for the bag handles as I haven't worked out how to do this yet LOL!

To finish off my card today I've scattered lots of pink confetti around the design to tie in with the pink colour palette.

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 - Rebel Girl - pre-coloured Rebel Shopping

Polkadoodles digital papers - Rebel Girl - paper bundle 2 & paper bundle 3

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Wanda - ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiments - Wanda - sentiment bundle

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - friendship

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - You Passed - Congrats - Graduation card - Upright Easel - Graduation/Student Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far.

Summer has definitely arrived here and we've been very busy lately with my wonderful cousin and hubby staying with us for a few days.  She's more like a sister to me really and I miss seeing her but its great catching up too when we can - the boys don't really get chance to talk LOL.

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 graduation themed card/project so I decided to use one of the very cute images from the Graduation School Student collection  Its 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.   

I've used the very sweet Cute Boy  for my card today and resized this in my graphics software (I'm using the free version of Canva if you are interested !) I decided to add 3 piles of books from the clipart in the collection, so the little boy was standing on top like he's on top of the world and added a couple of extra mortar board hats in too before printing out and colouring with promarkers.

He looks like he feels on top of the world after all the hard work studying - very well deserved!

The card base is a 6" x 6" upright easel today with layers of a lime green/yellow and burgundy card and different fun and bright papers from the collection.

I decided to use the sentiment strips in the collection printing on my LaserJet printer so I could foil them in gold.

To finish off my card today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights and scattered lots of gold confetti around the design to tie in with the foiled sentiment strips.

  

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 Boy Graduate

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Graduation Student collection - Clip art bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Graduation Student collection - paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Graduation Student collection - sentiment bundle

Minc foil - gold

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