A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #817 - Add some bling - Sponsored by Clearly Besotted

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - I hope that week is going well for you.  I'm slowly getting back into the rhythm of blogging again - not sure why its so hard at the moment - even though we have finished the olives there is still so much to do everyday.  Just all the Winter jobs on the campo !

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 'Add some bling' has been chosen by Elaine for team 2 and is being sponsored by Clearly Besotted

The perfect theme for all those Winter celebration and Christmas cards don't you think 

For my card today I decided to create a snowy scene for a couple of very cute penguins - they look like they are having loads of fun sliding down the snowy slopes.

I chose one of the fabulous pre-coloured winter backgrounds for my 5" x7" card matting this with silver card.  Next I die cute some super sparkly snowy slopes from silver glitter card, layering these onto the bottom of the card.

I die cut a couple of Christmas trees using one of the green papers from the collection adding these to the scene.

Next, I resized the Snow Day image to suite my design colouring with promarkers before fussy cutting out and adding to the scene.

This image just makes me smile - it's so cute !

The finishing touches were some white gelly roll pen highlights on the penguins and then some extra bling teal and clear sequins.

Its definitely a card packed with bling !

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:

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Theo Penguin Collection - Snow Day

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Theo Penguin Collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Theo Penguin Collection - background bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Theo Penguin Collection - paper bundle 2

Sugar and Spice sequins - Unicorn mix

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 - Theo Penguin collection - Sparkle & Shine - Christmas - with Polkadoodles

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

I cant quite believe that November is nearly over - this year has gone extremely fast and we seem to have been constantly busy. Autumn and Winter are always busy in the garden, picking the olives then pruning all the trees ready for the Winter. I'm looking forward to a bit more relaxation over December - fingers crossed 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 Sparkle and Shine so I decided to create a Winter card using one of the cute little digital stamps from the Theo Penguin collection this could easily be used at Christmas too!

The main Theo image is called Skating Along and I have resized him 3 times and coloured with promarkers before fussy cutting out....I wanted to create a scene for Theo and his friends with them skating down an icy stream on a DL card.

For the background I chose one of the icy looking papers from the collection, cutting it to fit my DL card.  Next I cut a wavy peice of double sided adhesive sheet and adhered this to the card.  To create the ice path I applied sparkly glitter to the adhesive sheet, burnishing it to the sheet with the back of the adhesive sheet.

I love how much this sparkles and it looks like an icy stream flowing down the card.

I die cut a border frame from silver glitter card and also the coloured sentiment from the collection was printed and layered onto a piece of silver glitter card and adhered across the card.

Finally I added Theo and his friends to the card

This is one of my favourite Winter cards and it was so easy to create.

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 - Theo Penguin - Skating Along 

Polkadoodles digital paper -  Theo Penguin - Icy Winter paper set 1

Polkadoodles digital sentiment -  Theo Penguin - sentiment bundle

LHC Mermaid Tails - Waterfall

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 #803 - Special Occasions - Sponsored by All Dressed Up

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope you are all well and the week has started well. 

Today I'm here to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge.

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by All Dressed Up stamps and our theme of 'Special Occasions' this week was chosen for team 2 by Natalie... 

I chose to use a really sweet image called Over the Moon 

I have created a simple 6" x 6" A6 tent fold card and then added a layer of white card and a layer of pretty paper.  I used a circle die to cut an aperture on the paper and also to cut a thin frame from sparkly silver card.

I resized the image to suit my card blank so it will sit in the window and then printed out onto alcohol friendly card stock before colouring with my Promarkers.

I wanted it to look like the couples legs were dangling over the edge of the moon so I carefully fussy cut the bottom of the image and then adhered the panel behind the window with the legs on the outside.

To add some extra sparkly I added little dots of gilding paste mixture to the paper panel and then once ready applied silver foil, creating lots of extra little stars.

The sentiment was printed out and foiled in silver too after blending purple and blue ink to coordinate with the paper.

I think this wold be the perfect card to celebrate an engagement, wedding or anniversary

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:

All Dressed Up digital stamp - Over the Moon

LOTV designer paper - Cosmic

Pebeo Gilding paste mix

Crafters Companion foil - silver

Minc foil - silver

distress ink - salty ocean, wilted violet

     

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

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #799 - Die Cuts / Punches - Sponsored by Di's Digi Stamps

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - Were nearly at the end of July so I thought I would squeeze in another Christmas in July post.

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 'Use die cuts / punches' has been chosen by Karen for team 2 and is being sponsored by Dis Digi Stamps

I've had a cute little hedgehog digital stamp from Di for a while now just waiting to be used.  I think this little cutie may have been a freebie from Di in her Facebook group!

The cute little Festive Hedgy was coloured with Promarkers to begin with and then I've used a stencil to add the confetti over the background with some distress inks. I foiled the sentiment in the balloon with silver foil and added some white gelly roll pen highlights around the design.

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

Dis Digi Stamps - Festive Hedgy 

Distress inks - candied apple, mustard seed, mowed lawn

Minc foil - silver

Studiolight layered mask - Exploding confetti

Studiolight Cutting Die - party card shape

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 #780 - Add a sentiment - Sponsored by LeAnn's World

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope that your week has started well.

Today I'm here to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge.

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by LeAnn's World 101 and our theme of 'Add a sentiment' this week was chosen for team 2 by Kitty. 

I chose to use a really sweet image called Abigail coloured with Promarkers.  The fabulous sentiment is from Polkadoodles from the Rebel Girl collection 

I have used a pretty pastel paper from the latest Polkadoodles Party Time release and added a glittery die cut arch for my Princess after all every Princess loves sparkle.

To finish off the card I added white highlights around the design, confetti and glitter die cut stars for some extra magical sparkle.

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:

LeAnn's World 101 digital stamp - Abigail

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Rebel Girl - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Party Time collection - paper pack

Spellbinders confetti - gold

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

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

Happy Christmas from All of Us- Snowmen - Happy Christmas with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday.... Oh my goodness our Christmas decorations still aren't up - that's a first in I don't know how many years... there's been so much going on and I've not really felt up to it but hopefully over the weekend.

I'm back today with a card project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous sets of digital stamps, this is a cute set of Snowmen from the Etsy shop. and I decided to create a landscape DL card.

The set includes 8 different snowmen and I loved the way they were peeking over a snowy bank.  I combined two images to  create this card, reversing one of the images before printing out and colouring with Promarkers.

The sentiment that I have used is from the Snow Cute set  and I used a piece snowflake of paper from the Frosty Christmas backing paper set.  The frame was die cut from white glitter card and I blended a little blue distress ink over the patterned paper.

Finishing touches were some glitter to the snowmen's hats.

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.

LOTV digital stamp - Snowmen 

LOTV digital sentiment - Snow Cute set 

LOTV digital paper - Frosty Christmas backing paper

Distress ink - salty ocean

Comic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - icicle blue

Promarkers Used:

Snowmen:       cool aqua

                      pale blossom

                      orange, bright orange, ginger

Hats:              burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                      lavender, ivory

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Stamps - Happy Christmas with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday .... Oh my goodness December is finally here, this year has gone so fast x

I'm back today with some design team projects for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using the super cute A5 stamp set called Happy Christmas , sadly this has now sold out, but there are lots of super cute stamps and digital stamps in the Etsy shop.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                      

                        

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Stamps - Happy Christmas with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Monday.... I hope you had a great weekend.... 

I'm here today to share my next design team project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using the super cute new A5 stamp set is called Happy Christmas , its available to buy in the Etsy shop.

My next card is an A6 card with two die cut out apertures, filled with circles from the Frosty Christmas 8" x 8" paper pad.  I adhered the white panel onto the card base using foam tape and then adhered the two sweet characters into the apertures.

The sentiment is from the general and Christmas greetings set

The finishing touches were then added using glitter on Santa's hat a few drops around the design and a hand drawn stitched border around the circle apertures.

A really sweet clean and simple card.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
LOTV polymer stamps - Happy Christmas set

LOTV Digital Paper - Frosty Christmas backing papers

LOTV Digital sentiment - general and Christmas greetings set

Cosmic Shimmer - cosmic twinkles - icicle blue

Promarkers used :

Santa:                    burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                              almond, blush, oatmeal, soft peach, dusky pink

                              gold, sunflower, buttercup

                              warm grey 7, 5, 4

                              chocolate, cinnamon, tan

Reindeer:               salmon pink, pale pink

                             saffron, lemon chiffon, pale cream

                             chocolate, cinnamon, tan

                             warm grey 7, 5, 4

                            

                        

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Stamps - Happy Christmas with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Monday.... I hope you had a great weekend.... we had a wonderful meal yesterday with friends, trying out a new (to us) restaurant that has been created in an old train carriage.  It was also an opportunity to take the new car out for a little spin too.

What an amazing experience and the food was delicious so we'll definitely be returning I'm sure.

I'm here today to share my next design team project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using the super cute new A5 stamp set is called Happy Christmas , its available to buy in their Etsy shop and its so versatile and very easy to colour.  Perfect timing for those last minute Christmas cards.

I decided to create a landscape slimline gingerbread card, stamping and colouring three gingerbread men onto alcohol marker friendly card, colouring them with my promarkers (see below for colours) and then fussy cutting them out by hand.

For the background of the card I used some distress oxide inks to create my dreamy looking  snow landscape, blending over Kraft card and adding snowy dots and highlights here and there with a posca pen.

I die cut the letters from the Krafty Christmas 8" x 8" paper pad - I have been hoarding these papers since I first bought them many many moons ago as they were too scrumptious to use but as they are also now available digitally on the website I thought perfect time to use them, as there will always be more now!

The background panel was adhered to a loopy panel of brown glitter card and the card assembled first adding the letters flat to the card and then the gingerbread  using foam tape for dimension.

I then created my scene, adding the stamped images, some flat to the card and others adhered using foal tape to add dimension to the card.

The finishing touches were then added, glossy accents to the icing on the gingerbread of sparkly iridescent sequins  around the design.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
LOTV polymer stamps - Happy Christmas set

LOTV Digital Paper - Krafty Christmas backing papers

LHC Large Stitched Alphabet dies

LHC Slimline loops and bubbles die

Lisa Horton Crafts dye based ink - falling snow

Distress Oxide inks - speckled egg, picked raspberry

Craftelier Watercolour Metallic paints - Gold set

Glossy Accents

Posca pen - white

Sugar & Spice sequins - Candy Floss mix

Promarkers used :

Gingerbread:          praline, caramel, pastel beige

                             salmon pink, pale pink

                             burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                          

     

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

 Wendy x