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 - 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

Back to Basics - Baptism Card - Crafters Companion - Bebunni - Baby Collection - Digital Crafting

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Wednesday - I'm a bit late posting my blog today as we were busy in the garden pruning the olive trees and then I've been watching a few  YouTube tutorials - my goal this year is to get to grips with my Scan n Cut machine (properly !)....I have had it for several years now and only really used it to cut out images for colouring but there is so much more that I could be doing with it.

When I was card making around 12 years ago - digital crafting was my main thing. I coloured a little but mostly used pre-coloured images in my cards and I'm ashamed to say I have so much stuff that hasn't been touched in years but I cant bear to get rid of it!

Anyway to prove a point, we were invited to a baptism here in the village and I thought - I'll make a quick card as I'm bound to have something I can colour.

To my horror I couldn't find anything suitable - then I remembered a CD from Crafters Companion from their Bebunni range - (it dates back to 2014) that was all to do with babies so I loaded it into my pc and sure enough there was a sweet baptism image.

Thank goodness!

So here is the card I made, using a decoupage sheet and paper from the Baby Collection CD.  The sentiment was added to the paper before printing out.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

Crafters Companion Paper crafting CD - Bebunni - Baby Collection

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Sequins - Sugar & Spice - enchanted mix

   

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

 Wendy x