New Release - A Little card full of love - circular card - Fluffy Friends collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Monday everyone... I hope that you had a great weekend and are enjoying the weather...its extremely hot here  and I'm finding it quite difficult to keep cool ...hey ho but this week its my birthday and I'm very excited as we are off to Granada on Wednesday...fingers crossed I have a bit more energy for Wednesday as its going to be a long day LOL

I'm sure that you've seen the brand new digital release by Polkadoodles - called Fluffy Friends and you love it as much as I do - I especially love the kitties.

There are loads of adorable images for you to colour or pre-coloured if you prefer.

I decided for today I would share another card using one of the very cute digital stamps. This is Peaches Cat and Nibbles Mouse again coloured as our special boy 

Foxy.  

He is such a sweet little boy and definitely doesn't like other big male cats that appear at the house - he's a very timid boy...not sure he would have a little mouse friend though LOL

It's a circular card that I have created with layers of teal card and papers from the collection and a sweet little sentiment.

The finishing touches for the card were sparkly sequins and white gelly roll pen highlights.

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 - Fluffy Friends - Peaches and Nibbles

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Fluffy Friends - greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Fluffy Friends - Paper set 3

Paper Doily

Sugar & Spice sequins - Enchanted mix

Crafters Companion sparkle pe - 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

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #845 - Animals - Just me saying hello - Sponsored by DisDigiStamps

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all I hope that you are having a lovely week !

So were having another heatwave and its taking its toll on me already - I'm feeling exhausted most of the time and been sickly too.... I definitely need to stay in the cool as much as I can this week.

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 Dis Digi Stamps and the theme chosen by Nat for team 2 is Animals.

Di has recently released some new digital stamps on her  Etsy shop and I decided to treat myself to one from the new collection as soon as I saw the kitties...perfect too for today's challenge.

I decided to create a really sweet one layer card, resizing the image to suit my A6 card before printing out on alcohol friendly card and colouring with promarkers.  Next I die cut an arch from a piece of scrap paper and positioned this over the image so I could stencil a design over the image leaving the centre arch clear.

I added a little grey ink to the inside of the arch too to emphasise the design.

The sentiment was stamped onto a strip of white card, cutting the ends into tails before adhering to the card with foam tape.

The card was simply finished with white gelly roll pen highlights, clear sparkle pen to the goldfish bowl and some clear sparkly gems.

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 

Polkadoodles Designs stencil - Kitty Cat Paw prints

Honeybee Stamps - mini messages

Versafine Clair ink - Twilight

Distress Ink - peacock feathers, weathered wood

Spectrum Noir - Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

Buttons Galore & More - Island Breeze

Craft Consortium sequins - tell It to the Bees

          

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Keep chasing the sunshine - Fluffy Friends collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Monday everyone... I hope that you had a great weekend and are enjoying the weather...its extremely hot here so we've been spending more time indoors keeping cool but this morning I'm off to my yoga class then we have shopping to do, so fingers crossed its not too hot.

I'm sure that you've seen the brand new digital release by Polkadoodles - called Fluffy Friends.  There
are loads of adorable images for you to colour or pre-coloured if you prefer.

Hurry too as there's currently a huge 40% discount using the code FF40

I thought as the weather is so hot I would share a DL card that Ive made, using one of the very cute digital stamps. This is Peaches Cat but I've turned him into our kitty Foxy.  He loves lying in the sun so I've created him a beach scene with distress inks.  I love his very cool sunglasses and delicious looking drink - probably a very fishy cocktail.

The finishing touches for the card were clear sparkle pen and glossy accents for the sunglasses.

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 - Fluffy Friends - Peaches Cat with sunglasses

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Fluffy Friends - greetings bundle

distress inks - salvaged patina, salty ocean, old paper, scattered straw

Lawn Fawn Stencil - slimline cloudy

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

Positive Vibes - It's Okay - Mama Elephant stamps

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Friday ...... I hope the week has been kind to you.

Here’s a sweet little card I’ve made to send someone some special caring vibes.

Sometimes we all just need a hug or some kinds words and these wonderful shelf stamps by Mama Elephant were just what I needed for my card today.

I wanted to create a fairly simple calming card today so chose a pretty blue background paper and then stamped the little shelf elements onto marker friendly card before colouring with promarkers.

The stamps come with dies but I don't have them so I used my ScanNCut to cut out the little elements before adhering them to the card, some flat and some with foam tape.

To finish off the card I added a few pieces of sparkly confetti.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

Mama Elephant - It's Okay

Mama Elephant - Little succulent agenda

Dovecraft designer series paper - Sugar & Spice

Tim Holtz Ideology - sentiment stickers - Small Talk

Buttons Galore & More confetti - All is calm

  

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

 Wendy x

Christmas Tree....Oh! - It wasn't me! - New stamps with Creative Ember Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday I hope you're having a good weekend.

We had a great walk yesterday despite having to be up at 5:45 to catch the coach....it was quite a long drive to a town called Zafarraya and a hot day too - we walked 12km followed by a great lunch in the town in a large carpa or marquee specially erected for the event....there were loads of people there walking and two routes a short and a long one....so as you can image today we're both a little tired.   Good job the clocks went back and gave us an extra hour today..... A day to relax so I thought I would share a card I've made using some great new products from a brand new company Creative Ember Designs by Leonie Pujol.

When I saw these fantastic kitties I had to splash out and I love them - so quirky and just like our kitties !

I treated myself to a couple of the  stamps sets and a fab stencil that's definitely not just for Christmas. Todays card is featuring our sweet ginger boy Foxy and we  see him investigating the Christmas Tree each year but thankfully no breakages so far.

I thought I would keep a simple colour palette of greens and oranges and I'm really pleased with the end result.  The background panel was inked with distress inks and then I added some Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders for shine.  To finish off the panel I stamped the Christmas tee in green Versafine Clair ink and then splattered the panel with more ink for texture.

Next I used dies to create a frame or window, I wanted it to look like someone looking in at the scene and Foxy saying 'it wasn't me!'

The frame was coloured with inks and then I used the stencil to add some words and texture.

Foxy was stamped using distress Oxide ink and then I've used to water brush to pull out the colour .

I finished Foxy off by using a white pastel pencil to add his stripes and then fussy cut him out.

The frame and Foxy were adhered to the card using foam tape and then I added the sentiment, stamped

on card with inked edges.

Finishing touches were glossy accents to Foxy's eyes and the baubles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

Creative Ember Designs stamps- Hap-paw Christmas

Creative Ember Designs stamps - Oh! Christmas Tree

Creative Ember Designs stencil - Wordy

Distress Oxide ink - rusty hinge, lucky clover, scattered straw

Distress ink - peacock feathers, salvaged patina, cracked pistachio, kitsch flamingo, ground espresso

Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powder - peacock green, silver dream

Derwent pastel pencil - titanium white

Versafine Clair ink - rainforest

glossy accents

    

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Halloween card - Too Cute to Spook - Scruffy Cat - Creepy Creatures collection with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Thursday...  So we have a yellow warning for rain and storms in the area starting this afternoon but looking at the sky at the moment its a beautiful day with a few clouds starting to build up over the mountains so who knows.

I hope by now you have seen the brand new release from Polkadoodles, it's 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 card today I chose to use the the Witches Scruffy Cat digital image - I love cats especially black ones, there's just something about them.... perhaps its my inner witch clambering to get out LOL

It's a smaller A6 card so I resized the kitty to suite my design and then printed out on alcohol marker friendly card before colouring with my promarkers.. I added one of the sentiments to the bottom of the panel and then used a circular die to partially cut out the kitty, fussy cutting around the kitty.

I added some brickwork stencilling to this panel and used a green ink to stencil clouds onto the card base.

To finish off the design I added glossy accents to the kitties eyes and green foil to the sentiment.

A simple but spooky 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 stamp - Cute and Creepy Bundle - Scruffy Cat

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Creepy Creatures collection

Distress Ink - lucky clover, black soot, weathered wood

Lawn Fawn cloud stencil

Hero arts brick stencil

glossy accents

Minc foil - green

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

Wendy x

New Release - Believe in Magic - Halloween card - Cute Halloween Bundle - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday......The weeks are absolutely flying past...till soon be you know what !

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.

For my second card I've used the cute little Kitty with her witches hat....It had to be a black cat for Halloween.

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 wanted to create a scene for the kitty so used distress oxides and a couple of stencils to create the hill and supersized moon.  The panel was splattered with water and I also adhered some silver foil to the background for extra magic.

Finishing touches were some glossy accents to the kitty eyes and some clear sparkle for her collar.

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 - chipped sapphire, black soot, villainous potion, shaded lilac

Distress Ink - rustic wilderness, mowed lawn, twisted citron

Tim Holt moon stencil

Crafters Companion foil - silver

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

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

Get Well Soon - Waving Animals - Flower Pockets with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Saturday....I hope you are enjoying the weekend so far... we're both under the weather at the moment with horrid coughs and colds and the high temperatures outside are definitely not helping so my card today is perfect for us.

I'm here today with a sweet little card for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) featuring a cute little kitty  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.

Its a perfect set for so many different occasions so I would definitely recommend it. The design of the card was inspired by a crafty friend and I thought the little kitty would be perfect combined with one of the Flower Pockets

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers for the kitty and distress inks for the pocket and simple fussy cutting out...I used foam tape to adhere the little pocket and 3D glue gel to add the kitty into the pocket.

The background paper is from an older collection of watercolour papers by Craftwork Cards (sadly no longer in business)

Finishing touches were some clear iridescent sequins 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 stamp set - Flower Pockets

Craftwork cards designer paper - Watercolour washes

Sugar & 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

No One's Perfect - Purrfect - Kitties with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Saturday....I hope you are enjoying the weekend so far - it's a hot one here for us so lots of cooling time inside and maybe a dip in the pool too.

I'm here today with a sweet little kitty card for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) featuring three of the quirky kitties from the Purrfect digital stamp set - Sadly this isn't available in the Etsy shop  but I'm sure that many of you may have got this if you were lucky enough to get hold of the fabulous bundle of store images.

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers and fussy cutting out to raise the kitties on the card background with foam tape.

I added a little stencilling in the background to the panel, a little grey shadow beneath the kitties and foiled the sentiment in blue.

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  - Purrfect

Lawn Fawn stencil - falling hearts

Distress ink - tumbled glass, weathered wood

Minc Foil - blue

     

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

 Wendy x

Purcasso - Freebie Digital Stamp - with Julia McNeil Designs

Hello everyone Happy Friday! I hope that you've had a great week and the weather has been kind where you are. It's Andalusia Day or Día de Andalucía so a holiday ! yes I know another one....lol

Today I'm back to share a colourful card for JMC Designs  that I've made using the February freebie digital stamp - this is Purrcasso....he looks like he's having a lots of messy fun.

 

Every month Julia McNeill very generously gives away a fabulous digital stamp, which is available to everyone in her Facebook group JMC's Crazy Crafty Hive and also to her followers via Instagram, all you need is to use your email address to register for the stamp. 

Here is the link to register and download this months digital stamp.

If you have missed any of the previous freebies then Julia has kindly put together a list of them all with the links for each so you can download them and don't forget to share your projects in the group as we would love to see them.  Here is the full list of the freebies 

To create my card today I've used distress inks directly onto the A6 card blank blending through a paint splatter stencil in a rainbow of colours and then splattered black watercolour paint over this to create my messy background. Next I stamped the two sentiments onto the card in black ink.

I coloured Purrcasso with my Polychromos for a softer furry look and then fussy cut him out before adding to the card with foam tape for dimension.

The finishing touches were some clear iridescent sequins around the design and glossy accents to the paint splatter.

I do hope that you like my card for today and I'd love it if you'd leave me a comment. 

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.

JMC Designs - Purrcasso Freebie Digital Stamp

Distress Inks - squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry, peacock feathers, mowed lawn, candied apple, villainous potion, wilted violet

Lawn Fawn stencil - Paint splatter background.

Woodware sentiment stamps - rainbow gnome, garden dream catcher 

black watercolour paint

sugar and spice sequins - Unicorn mix

Glossy accents

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

Wendy x

Sending Love - Hello Lovely with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday.... and wishing you all a wonderful Happy Valentines Day too !

I'm back today with a card project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous  stamps from the recent release of Polymer stamps which is available to buy now from the Etsy shop.  There are 4 gorgeous A5 sets and you can buy in a bundle or individually.  

My card today is using stamps from the Sweet Wishes set to create a sweet little  Flip or Swing card.

 

Its a really simple design using red card and patterned papers from the Funky Hearts collection to layer onto the card base.  I used stitched heart dies to create the simple flip design

The sweet little kitties were coloured with Promarkers and I used my Polychromos pencils to add the extra fur details.

Finishing touches were some red and pink enamel dots and a couple of the sentiments from the set.

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 polymer A5 stamp set  - Sweet Wishes

LOTV digital background paper - Funky Hearts

red and pink enamel dots

     

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

 Wendy x

A Meowy Christmas to you all with Mama Elephant

Hello everyone happy Tuesday!  

You all know how much we love our kitties...we have 5 now although our newest edition to the family Marmalade is an absolute terror at times - she's a sweetheart most of the time and then a complete drama queen at 7 months old.

When I saw this stamp I know it would be perfect for a few of my cards this year and I m really pleased with how its turned out.

I decided to stamp the main image and the sentiment onto some Kraft card and have then coloured it in using my wonderful Polychromos pencils.

I kept the design really simple adding little touches of sparkle to the baubles and stars.

I hope that you like my project today and you'll come back to see my next project 

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

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

Mama Elephant stamp - Oh Kitty Tree

Polychromos 120 pencils

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