New Release - Hocus Pocus - Halloween card - Witch with Sunflower hat - Creepy Creatures collection with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Sunday... yes I'm back with another card from the 

brand new release from Polkadoodles.

Perfect for all those Halloween projects.  Creepy Creatures collection is a fantastic collection of 3 bundles.  Cute & Creepy, Witches & Broomsticks and Creepy Things, 

Inside the collection you’ll find everything from pumpkins, ghosts, skeletons, mummies, bats, monsters and creepy dolls, to witches, broomsticks, cauldrons, spell books, black cats and potion bottles. Perfect for trick or treat cards, party invites, scrapbook layouts, junk journal spreads, stickers, planner pages and DIY stationery.

Each design comes as both pre-coloured images for quick makes and black & white digital stamps for colouring at home. Every bundle also includes free SVG outlines, making them ideal for Cricut, Silhouette Cameo and Brother ScanNCut.

For my spooky card today I chose to use the pre-coloured Witch with Sunflower Hat from the Witches and Broomsticks bundle, she is available for you to colour too!

It's a larger A7 or 5" x 7" card so I resized the character to suite my design and then printed out before fussy cutting out ready for the card. 

I chose one of the spooky purple papers from the collection, die cutting and arch in the centre of the paper.  I blended distress ink around the edge of the paper to add darker tones and added a purple die cut frame around the arch.

The sentiment is from the collection, printed and fussy cut out.

To finish off the design I added some purple confetti around the the card and glossy accents to the centre of the sunflower.

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 !

recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Witches and Broomsticks - Witch with Sunflower Hat

Polkadoodles digital paper - Creepy Autumn Halloween Papers

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Distress Ink - seedless preserves, black soot

glossy accents

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - galaxy 

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

Wendy x

New Release - Autumn Girls - Autumn Wishes - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Saturday and a great weekend ahead......

I'm back today with another Autumn has card using one of the brand new Autumn Girls stamps by Lili of the Valley (LOTV)  

There are 10 absolutely gorgeous Autumn girls available in the Etsy shop as a full set or you can buy the individual stamps if you prefer.

For my card today I've used the gorgeous Reading Girl coloured with my promarkers.  These gorgeous images don't really need much so I used distress inks blended across the sky background.

The sentiment I have used is from the Autumn Sentiments set  simply nestled into the design.

I decided to die cut an arched frame for the little scene, using a pretty paper from the secret garden collection.  After cutting the arch away, I blended orange ink around the paper then splattered it with copper watercolour paint.

I ink smooshed a couple of strips of watercolour card using orange, brown and green distress ink and then once dried, die cut lots of leaves to scatter at the bottom of the card.

Finishing touches were some champagne confetti and white gelly roll pen highlights.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share for Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley # LOTVdt

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp   - Autumn Girls - Reading Girl

LOTV Designer Paper - Secret Garden

LOTV Digital sentiment - Autumn Sentiments set

Distress Ink - spiced marmalade, brushed corduroy, rustic wilderness

Crafters Companion - leaf dies

Metallic Watercolour paint - copper

Spellbinders confetti - champagne

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

Best Witches - Halloween card - Cute Halloween Bundle - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Saturday......The weeks are absolutely flying past...till soon be you know what ! Today is a special day for us as we moved here from the UK permanently 8 years ago and its been the best thing ever.  It was a big step retiring early from our jobs and upping sticks, but perfectly planned and we haven't looked back...my only regret is not being able to do it sooner x

We are off to Granada for the day, a spot of wandering around the city and lunch is booked at a new (to us) restaurant overlooking the Alhambra.  We visit the city at least once a month as its only 40 minutes drive away and it's my favourite place to visit - no matter how often we go there is always more to see and more culture to soak up.

It's time to share another cutie for Lili of the Valley (LOTV)  using their latest  Cute Halloween bundle featuring 35 very cute Ghosties, ghoulies and witches, definitely everything you need to create some fantastic Halloween projects.

The huge bundle is now available in the Etsy shop and don't miss out on the fabulous sale price (Ends very soon !)

For todays card I've used one of the cute little witches from the bundle, zooming around on her broomstick.

I resized her to fit my A6 card and then printed out, colouring with promarkers before fussy cutting out....I also printed out a fabulous spooky sentiment too.

I chose one of the papers from the Cosmic paper bundle and used this for my card, die cutting an aperture through which I used the stencil to add the moon directly onto the card base.

The sentiment was die cut and I blended a little purple and blue ink to that it blended in with the card design.

Finishing touches were some clear sparkle for her outfit, white gel pen highlights and sparkly confetti around the design.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share for Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley # LOTVdt

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set  - Cute Halloween bundle

LOTV Digital paper - Cosmic

Distress Ink - wilted violet, salty ocean, weathered wood, twisted citron

Tim Holt moon stencil

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear 

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - galaxy

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

New Release - Autumn Girls - Leaves are Falling - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Monday......

Autumn has officially arrived so what better way to celebrate with a brand new collection of stamps by Lili of the Valley (LOTV)  

There are 10 absolutely gorgeous new Autumn girls now available in the Etsy shop and I know you will love them all so why not have a look.

 

For my card today I've used the adorable Pumpkin Girl coloured with my promarkers.  These gorgeous images don't really need much so I used distress inks blended across the background with a little ink splattering for texture.

The sentiment I have used is from the Autumn Sentiments set and I have applied rose gold foil to this.

I decided to mat a layer of pretty paper from the Secret Garden collection onto my card blank and adhered the panel at an angle with foam tape.

Finishing touches were some champagne confetti and white gelly roll pen highlights.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share for Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley # LOTVdt

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp   - Autumn Girls - Pumpkin girl

LOTV Designer Paper - Secret Garden

LOTV Digital sentiment - Autumn Sentiments set

Distress Ink - salty ocean

Minc Foil - rose gold

Spellbinders confetti - champagne

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

New Release - Something Spooky - Halloween card - Cute Halloween Bundle - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday......I'm a bit late updating my blog today - it's been a very sultry day here so not been doing much at all but we're out to some friends house shortly for a few drinks tonight which I'm looking forward to.

It's time to share another cutie for Lili of the Valley (LOTV)  using their latest  Cute Halloween bundle featuring 35 very cute Ghosties, ghoulies and witches, definitely everything you need to create some fantastic Halloween projects.

The huge bundle is now available in the Etsy shop and don't forget the amazing special offer.....

As well as this fabulous new bundle for a limited time, if you spend £25 on digital stamps, including this new set then you will receive £200 worth of digital sets,  that's 39 sets with over 600 images so don't miss out as the offer ends tonight at midnight GMT

For my third card I've used the cute little Spider - can spiders actually be cute ? hmm I'm not sure but maybe its the hat as this one definitely is.

I resized the spider to fit my 6" x6" card and then printed out, colouring with promarkers before fussy cutting out....I also printed out a fabulous spooky sentiment too.

I then create a simple stencilled background with some distress oxide inks and a spider web stencil.

To create a tunnel effect I die cut 3 hexagonal frames from black glitter card and adhered these over the stencilled panel offsetting each to give a spiralling effect before adding the little spider into his web using foam tape for a little dimension.

Finishing touches were some glossy accents to the spiders eyes and some purple confetti around the design for my definitely too cute to spook card.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share for Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley # LOTVdt

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set  - Cute Halloween bundle

Distress Oxides - twisted citron, wilted violet

Studio light stencil - spiderweb

glossy accents

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - sugar plum

     

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Hocus Pocus collection - Halloween is coming - Witch & Kitty card - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....Its September already and were already starting to think about Autumn and Halloween...sad really as the Summer months go by so fast although Ill be glad for the lower temperatures to come.

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 Halloween / Autumn is coming so I decided to use the Hocus Pocus collection for my shaped card today.... I don't make lots of Halloween cards but this was fun to create.

It's the perfect collection of digital stamps, sentiments and ephemera and comes in black and white images for you to colour but also in pre-coloured format.

I wanted to create the look of a spiders web for my card so used some of my nesting dies to create a shaped card cutting from black card.  Next I cut a slightly smaller piece of white card  and then used the fabulous Funky Vortex stencil to create my swirling pattern using black, orange, lime green and purple distress inks.  Once I was happy with the depth of colour, I used a couple of Posca pens to add little dots to the swirls to look like magic swirling into the centre of the design.

For some extra interest I die cut two smaller frames from black card and adhered these over the panel to give the look of a cobweb.

For the main focal image I merged the little witch in the pumpkin and the kitty in the pumpkin together before printing out on alcohol marker friendly cardstock, colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out.

I adhered the witch and kitty to the shaped card base using foam tape for dimension along with one of the sentiments from the collection.

To finish off the design I added white gelly roll pen highlights and some purple confetti around the the card.

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 !

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

Polkadoodles digital stamps - Hocus Pocus collection - Witches bundle

Polkadoodles stencil - Funky Vortex 

Distress Ink - black soot, carved pumpkin, twisted citron, wilted violet

Distress Oxide ink - spiced marmalade

Posca pen- white, orange

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - Galaxy

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

Happy - Happy Birthday card - Waving Animals - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Monday and Happy Bank Holiday to my UK friends.

I'm here today with a sweet Birthday card for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) featuring a cute little hedgehog from the Waving Animals digital stamp set available in the Etsy shop.

It's a huge set of 18 cute little waving animals - you will be spoilt for choice and there are 30 sentiments included too....perfect for loads of different occasions and there is a fabulous 50% Sale off everything in the shop.  (Sale ends soon) I would definitely recommend having a look. 

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers for the hedgehog before fussy cutting him out.

The background paper is from the Funky Hearts set and is perfect for my celebratory card....also used for one of the balloons and the large die cut word.

Finishing touches were some teal confetti 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  - Waving Animals

LOTV Digital paper set - Funky Hearts

Studio light stencil - exploding confetti

Studio light cutting die - party card shape

LHC Layered word die

Distress ink - peacock feathers, candied apple, saltwater taffy

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Posca pen - white

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Christmas - Photo Strip - Reindeer with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Saturday ....I hope you are having a good weekend.

Today I'm sharing another cute DL Christmas card  made for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using another of the new Photo booth digital stamp sets.

These cards feature a very funny Reindeer, its the  Reindeer Photo Strip set available in the Etsy shop.

I really love all of these Christmas stamps as they are such versatile stamps and can be used all together as one image or you can split them to create 4 separate cards....its really hard to choose a favourite!

Just look at this naughty reindeer pretending to be Rudolph!  I hope he doesn't find out....

I resized the images to fit my landscape DL card and then coloured with my promarkers before fussy cutting each little image out.

For my landscape card I die cut a frame of aqua glitter card and the cut a panel of aqua paper from the Snow Princess collection for the background.  The little images were then adhered into the frame, some flat to the panel and some on foam tape for dimension.

I die cut the Christmas word from the glitter card and then adhered this to the bottom of the card.

Finishing touches were some glittery sparkle on the reindeers hat, white gel pen highlights, glossy accents for the nose and I added some iridescent sparkle after all you can never have too much at Christmas.

I hope that you like my cards today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley #LOTVDT

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set  - Reindeer Photo Strip

LOTV Digital paper - Snow Princess

Buttons Galore & More - All is Calm

Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

Lisa Horton Crafts - Layered Words - Christmas

     

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

Digi Choosday - Winnie Mermazing - with Polkadoodles

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

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!  

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 a Mermaid themed card. 

I decided to use an image from the Winnie Mermazing collection - this is Collecting shells to create a pretty 5" x7" or A7 card.

I chose one of the papers from the collection to layer onto my card cutting out two circular apertures, one for a sentiment and another for the sweet dolphins (coloured with promarkers) which is from the Coral Mermaid collection.  I used teal foil for the sentiment and then adhered these onto the card base under the circular apertures.

The main image was resized along with a number of seashells before printing out and colouring in with promarkers and fussy cutting out, layering at the bottom of my card panel.

To finish off my project I added some clear sparkle pen to the shells and her tail and teal confetti  around the design.

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 image  - Winnie Mermazing - Collecting Shells

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Winnie Mermazing - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Winnie Mermazing - Paper Bundle

Polkadoodles digital image - Coral Mermaid - Dolphins

Polkadoodles digital images - Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles - Stamp bundle shells

Minc foil - teal

Spellbinders confetti - Lagoon

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

Rainbow cards - Happy Days - A5 Stamp Set- Digital Stamp Set - New Release with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday....I hope the week has been fun for you, the weather is still being very unpredictable here which is great for the garden with all the rain but not good for the Semana Santa festivities here in our town which kick off today.

Fingers crossed the Easter Processions don't have to be curtailed due to the wind and rain.

I'm here today with two sweet rainbow themed cards for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using stamps from the new Happy Days collection, they are available as A5 Polymer stamp sets and also as a digital stamp format giving so much versality now available in the Etsy shop 

I started off by resizing the circular sentiments on my compute before printing out and then stamping the basket of flowers and the yummy looking cake onto card stock and then coloured using my Polychromos pencils.

I used some pretty dies from my stash to die cut the two images out on white and cream card.

Next I created my rainbow backgrounds, cutting 1/2 " strips of card and adhering this to a panel of card in two patterns before die cutting with a fancy scalloped edge.

Finishing touches were some confetti or sequins around the designs, clear sparkle to the flowers and the rainbow and glossy accents to the cherry on the cake.

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  - Happy Days

LOTV Digital stamp set - Happy Days

LOTV  Digital Stamp set - Circular Greetings

Polychromos Pencils

glossy accents

Spectrum Noir sparkle

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - galaxy

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn

     

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Perfect Peony - with Polkadoodles

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

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!  

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 a thank you card but not a square or a rectangle. 

So I chose to create a circular rocker style card - these are so simple to make and really effective too.  The finished card fits a standard 6" x 6" envelope, so perfect to pop in the post.

I created the base of my card, die cutting  a fancy edged circle from pink card stock and then folding this in half, scoring and burnishing.

I decided for my main image to use the beautiful pre-coloured Perfect Peony digi deal, resizing this to fit my card before printing out 3 times.  I chose a sentiment from the Honey pie Just Lovely greeting bundle and added this to my base layer. These images are perfect when you don't have much time but want to make a beautiful but quick card.

I used a torn edge die to cut out the base image and then fussy cut out extra flowers, decoupaging with foam for dimension.

To finish off my project I added some ultrafine flower soft to the centre of the flowers and some confetti around the design.

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 image  - Digi Deal - Perfect Peony

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Honey Pie Just Lovely - Greetings bundle

Flower Soft - Ultra Fine - Citrus Crush

Spellbinders confetti - Rose

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

Wendy x