New Release - Mice Party - Mouse with Balloon - Sweet Wishes - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Tuesday I hope that you are having a great week. Its the end of March already and the garden it starting to look wonderful, brightly coloured flowers everywhere and the orange trees are in blossom so the smell is amazing.  We even have a fabulous display of white and blue wisteria this year - must have been all the rain earlier in the year.

It's a beautiful sunny day here today and the temperature is slowly going up - still chilly in the evenings but I'm not complaining.

I'm back today with another cute card using one of the brand new Party Mice from the recent March release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop. There are 12 brand new little mice, all ready to celebrate.

My fun birthday DL  card today features the Mouse with Balloon, its looks like it might lift him away up into the clouds if he's not careful.

I created 2 simple paper masks and then stencilled the clouds into the background using distress ink.

I added a sweet LOTV sentiment from the Sweet Wishes collection to the panel below the mouse before printing out

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers for these sweet little images  with finishing touches added of white gel pen highlights, blue sparkle to the balloon string, sparkle pen to the balloon, glossy accents to the stars  and clear sparkly 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 - Mice Party - Mouse with Balloon

LOTV Digital sentiment - Sweet Wishes

Distress ink - salty ocean, salvaged patina

Lawn Fawn stencil - cloudy

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white. sparkly blue

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn Mix

     

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 #822 - Use Ribbon or Lace - Sponsored by RAM Stamps

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - We've had a few days now of cold, wind and rain and there's more to come this week - I do love days when I can craft and catch up with my blog especially when its too cold to be outside. 

So glad we have our log burner for the evenings and we've also treated ourselves to a huge electric blanket for the sofa too - it makes such a big difference and a couple of the kitties are also in love with it LOL.

Today I'm here to let you know that there's a new week long challenge on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and I hope that you will join in as there is a prize up for grabs.

This week we are being sponsored by RAM Stamps and our theme is very simple - Use Ribbon or Lace being hosted by Kitty for Team 2.

As we've had so much rain over recent days I decided today to use the very sweet Friendship Mouse printed out and coloured with my Promarkers before fussy cutting out.

I have absolutely loads of ribbons but very rarely use them in my cards these days - something else I need to use more to create some space LOL.

The white top panel is a pre-cut panel that I've had for many years from Craftwork cards so I started by stencilling s few rain drops onto this before wrapping a small piece of sheer blue ribbon around the bottom of the panel.  I added a peice of blue paper to the card base and stamped a sentiment in the bottom right corner of the card

The stencilled panel was adhered to the card base with foam tape and then the sweet little mouse adhered onto the rain drops again with foam tape.

The finishing touches were some clear sparkle onto the puddle and the rain drops and glossy accents to the little lady bird.

Wishing you all a wonderful week!

I hope that you join in with the challenge as don't forget 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:

RAM stamps - Friendship Mouse

Distress ink - Salty ocean

Lawn Fawn Stencil - rainy sky

Craftwork Cards paper - Celebrations collection

Craftwork Cards die cut panel

Polkadoodles stamp - Hello Sunshine

Blue Sheer Ribbon

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

glossy accents

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

 Wendy x

I just wanted to say - Hello - Waving Animals - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Saturday.  It's another cold and windy day here and we've got rain due later and then for a few days - cant complain though as its still sunny so the solar panels are working well and the battery is fully charged.

I'm so late with this blog post - I shared the cards last Tuesday on my Facebook page but completely forgot to write my blog so many apologies for that.  I have to say my head has been all over the place lately and I've had loads of headaches - too full of nonsense with everything that is going on at the moment!

I'm here today with a couple of sweet cards that I've made for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) featuring a little butterfly and a bear 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.

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers for both of the little critters and then I have used my ScanNCut machine to cut them out.

The simple backgrounds were stencilled with distress inks and finishing touches added of confetti and gems. 

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

LHC Layered word die

Distress ink - squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry, twisted citron, salty ocean

Lawn Fawn stencils - lots of stars, falling hearts

Spellbinders confetti - silver

Buttons Galore & More gems - coconut palms

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

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

Have a grape birthday with Lawn Fawn

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Wednesday! 

My goodness it's so hot here at the moment and the winds are making it feel even hotter...its set to get even hotter by the weekend too.  We had a lovely day down on the coast on Monday for my birthday and it was noticeably cooler and fresher so a nice respite.

I'm on my blog today with a fun card made using a new clear stamp - I don't tend to make cards with puns but I saw this and really liked it and I hope you do too.

This is a simple A6 (UK Size) card.  I started by creating a fund inky background with distress inks, smooshing the ink onto watercolour cardstock.

I added a little cosmic shimmer pixie powder to the background which you can just about see in this photo.

I then used the bunch of grapes stamp to create 3 little fun bunches again on watercolour card before colour with distress inks and then fussy cutting out.  

There is a matching die for this stamp but I thought its an easy shape to cut out.

I used the sweet little faces to stamp details onto the grapes - they are so cute.

Next I die cut a simple white circle frame and then assembled the card adding the grapes at different heights for interest.  The sentiment was stamped onto white card, cut out and then I used a purple pen to add an outline to the sentiments before adding these to the card, adhering at a jaunty angle.

Finally I added white gel pen highlights here and there, some purple confetti and I added an extra sentiment, stamped in purple ink directly onto the card.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card for today and will drop by again to see my next project.

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.

Lawn Fawn Clear Stamp - Year Fourteen

Versafine Clair ink - Monarch

Distress Ink -  villainous potion, wilted violet, seedless preserves, shaded lilac, twisted citron, mowed lawn

Cosmic Shimmer - Pixie Powder - Silver Dream (Craftstash UK)

Pretty Pink Posh - confetti - Sugar Plum

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

Sweet Birthday Wishes with Pink Gem Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Thursday.  As its the Chinese year of the dragon I thought i'd make a dragon card but it had to be a cute once of course!

Did you know that light blue dragons represent the vastness of the sky and flight, while dark blue dragons represent still, deep waters. Blue dragons are highly protective creatures and magical.  They are a symbol of strength, wisdom and prosperity so pretty good to have around I think.

I'm here today to share sweet birthday card made using the digital stamp called Sleeping Dani Dragon  Pink Gem Designs

It's such a sweet image and the  set includes a pre-coloured digital stamp, black line art digital stamp and the sentiment too. 

This is a simple A2 (US size) card with a simple stencilled background using distress ink and a cloud stencil on a panel that has the sentiment printed at the bottom. 

Next I resized the sweet dragon printing out onto alcohol marker friendly cardstock and colouring with my promarkers (see below for colours). Once coloured I fussy cut out the image along with 3 die cut clouds.  

The clouds and Dani were mounted on the cloud panel using different depths of foam squares. 

To complete my card I added some white gelly roll pen highlights, clear sparkle to the wings and scattered some shiny coordinating sequins around the design.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card today and will drop by again to see my next project.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Pink Gem Designs - Sleeping Dani Dragon

Sugar & Spice sequins - Enchanted

Lisa Horton Crafts - Garden Greenery dies

Lawn Fawn - Lawn Cuts Dies - Stitched Rainbows

Lawn Fawn - Lawn Clippings Stencil - Cloudy

Distress Ink - Salty ocean

Spectrum noir sparkle pens - Clear, Firefly

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white

Promarkers used :

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

 Wendy x