Digi Choosday - Beat the Heat with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday.  Wishing you all a lovely day today and I hope that you enjoy the week ahead....We have loads to do this week as we have family staying next week so lots of cleaning in the house and tidying around in the garden.

It's that time of the week when we launch a brand new '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 discount off all crafty printable downloads until midnight today!

The theme set for the DT this week is Beat the Heat / Water themed card which given the current high heat levels here in Spain was perfect so I chose to use a sweet little Lil Miss Mermaid with Dolphin digital image from the Lil Miss Sugarpops collection

I wanted to create a 3D Underwater scene and I was inspired by a YouTube tutorial by Jennifer McGuire, to make a popup up frame card.

If you haven't seen the video here is the link,  I would highly recommend watching as it's really easy to make and you can easily adapt the instructions to suit loads of different sizes of cards. Mine is a larger 5 x 7 card with a circular aperture on the front.  

I created the base for the card and then chose two papers from the Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles collection, one for the outside frame and one for the inside of the scene.

Before assembling the card I used a circular die to create an aperture in the front panel.

Next I resized the Lil Miss Mermaid image to fit my aperture and also created a small group of sea shells to add extra interest to the card before printing out onto alcohol marker friendly card stock.  These were coloured with Promarkers (see below for colours)

I also chose one of the sentiments from the Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles collection which I have printed onto white card and die cut, adding to the top of the card with foam tape. 

Once the main images were coloured I have fussy cut these out and used a thin strip of acetate mounted inside the pop up frame to add the little mermaid so she is floating in the scene.  The cluster of shells was adhered flat to the pop up frame.

I then adhered this to my card blank adding a layer of navy cardstock for a small mat layer

To finish off the card I added just a few co-ordinating sequins, some glossy accents and a little clear sparkle here and there. 

I have a very special DT discount code that you can use for all your shopping on the Polkadoodles online shop at checkout use WENDYJ-10 and you will get 10% of your entire purchase (not in conjunction with other discount codes!)

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:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Lil Miss Sugarpops - Lil Miss Mermaid & Dolphin

Polkadoodles Digital Paper - Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles - Paper Bundle 4

Polkadoodles Digital Paper - Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles - Greetings Bundle

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Torn Edge Circles

Sugar and Spice sequins - Under the Sea

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black, pink metallic, green metallic

Glossy accents

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

Wendy x

A Passion for Markers BlogSpot Challenge #688 - Use a Cute Character

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all !

I'm here today 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 the wonderful Polkadoodles

I've been a huge fan and collector of the wonderful digital and physical products from Polkadoodles for many years, so I was really happy to find out that we would be using one of their digital stamps for this challenge.

There are loads of lovely images and definitely something for everyone in the store, so why not take a look and join in with the challenge.  Don't forget there will be a prize for the Winner of the challenge - there are more details over on the blog.

The theme for Team 2 this week, chosen by the lovely Elaine is to Use a cute character - oh gosh there are so many to choose from but this is my DT inspiration for the challenge made using the digital image Pancake Heaven from the Lil Miss Sugarpops collection

Just look at that huge plate of pancakes with caramel syrup and blueberries - shes definitely got a sweet tooth !

This sweet image was coloured with my Promarkers (see below for colours used) and I have then dies cut the image out using a simple hexagonal die.

I have created an A6 card today and chose a pretty paper from the recent Love birds - Wings of Love paper set 2 adding grey metallic pen to the patterned paper to highlight the bunting strings. I decided to layer the paper onto a piece of teal cardstock and then die cut heart bunting from the teal card.

I cut an additional peice of bunting from the cerise cardstock and used the hearts from this, adding them back into my teal bunting - just little pieces of tape on the back keep the hearts in place. 

The sentiment I chose is from  the Coffee, Tea and Cake greetings bundle and ive matted this onto the teal card adding a small strip of cerise card on either side of my banner strip.

I added a few co-ordinating sequins around the design, some glossy accents to the flower and hearts of the bunting and a touch of sparkle pen to the syrup.

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 - Lil Miss Sugarpops - Pancake Heaven

Polkadoodles digital paper - Wings of Love paper set 2

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Coffee, Tea and Cake greetings bundle

La La Land Crafts - Heart Banner Die

Spectrum Noir Colorista pens - cyan, blossom

Crafters Companion Stamp - Spring Garden

Glossy accents

Sugar and Spice sequins - Under the Sea

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - black, white, metallic grey

Promarkers used :

Skin:      almond, blush, oatmeal, soft peach, dusky rose

Blush:    pale pink, dusky rose   

Hair:          vanilla, caramel. sandstone, umber

Dress:        marine, turquoise, soft green

Shoes:        plum, maroon, carmine

flowers

ribbons

Plate:          warm grey 1,4

Pancakes:    burnt sienna, praline

                   raw sienna, chocolate

Blueberries:  amethyst, aubergine

Jug:             ice grey 1, raw sienna

   

         

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

 Wendy x