Digi Choosday - Wednesdays - December birthday - Snowy Days Theo Hello with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....not long until Christmas day now so I hope that you have been good this year. 

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 to create a December birthday using this colour palette. 

I decided to create a Z-Fold Bookbinding card - I'm enjoying making these at the moment!

I started by creating the card base from a blue card, two pieces of card 1  measuring 11 1/2" x 5 7/8" and the second piece measuring 3 1/2 " x 5 7/8"

Next I scored the larger piece as follows along the long side: 

• 2 1/8", 4 1/4" , 5 1/2"

The card was folded and burnished and then the book binding edge was glued down to create the folded card.

I then chose some orange papers from the Freddy Fox collection and adhered these to my card base, leaving a small amount of the blue card showing.

In my graphics software, I then resized the Theo Hello penguin image from the brand new Snowy Days collection and printed this out onto alcohol marker friendly card along with the birthday sentiment from the collection.

I die cut an arched frame from the same blue card and mat and layered the birthday sentiment at the bottom of the arch.  I used the waste from the arched frame to add to the inside of the card.

Theo was coloured with my promarkers before being fussy cut out and adhering into the arch with foam tape.

I then used a balloon and bunting dies set to add details to my happy birthday card, ink blending the balloons fro dimension.

To finish off my card I added some gold confetti around the design , clear sparkle to the bunting and white gelly roll pen highlights to Theo.

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

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Snowy Days collection - Theo Hello DLPD9856

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Snowy Days collection  - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Freddy Fox collection - paper pack 2 & paper pack 3

Spellbinders Cutting dies - essential arches

Studiolight cutting dies - Party Card shape

Distress ink - spiced marmalade, salty ocean

Sakura Gelly Roll - white

Posca pen - white

Spellbinders confetti - gold

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

Digi Choosday - Wednesdays - Christmas Adult birthday with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... 

It's that time of the week when we share some inspiration for the current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog so I hope you are going to join in.  We've had a few changes to the blog challenge and its now a month long challenge and you can enter up to 4 times.  The design team will still be sharing weekly inspiration for you all

 and don't forget the amazing discount off all crafty printable downloads until midnight today!

The theme set for the DT this week is to create a Christmas birthday card for an adult.  I've always felt quite sorry for anyone with a birthday at Christmas as I think far too often their celebration gets lumped in with Christmas so I'm pleased mine is in July.  This card will be winging its way over to the UK for my cousins birthday at the end of December.

Because we have been so busy lately with the olives and I haven't had much time for crafting, I decided for my card today to use one of the gorgeous pre-coloured images poinsettia swags from the Poinsettia Wreath bundle.  

In my graphics software, I started with a piece of digital paper from the Jolly Santa collection, resizing this to suit a 5" x 7" or A7 card blank.  Next I added the poinsettia swag, resizing to suit the panel and also added one of the sentiments from the new Theo Penguin collection.  To create extra dimension I decided to print out two extra poinsettias and then fussy cut these out, adding to my design using 3D glue gel.

The panel was layered onto gold mirri card and I then splattered gold and silver metallic watercolour paint over the design.

To finish off my card I added some stickles to the centre of the flowers for a little extra sparkle.

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

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Poinsettia Wreath - 

Polkadoodles digital papers - Jolly Santa - Paper Pack 1

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - new Theo penguin collection

Craftelier Watercolours - gold collection

Stickles - diamond

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

Wendy x

New Release - Snowy Days - Theo Penguin - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Sunday I hope that your having a good weekend.

I hope you have heard the news already in your VIP email from Polkadoodles but if not then you are going to love this - everyone's favourite penguin Theo is back in a brand new collection of adorable images.....and for a limited time there is a 45% discount.

The brand new Snowy Days collection is perfect for all of those Winter celebrations, definitely not just for Christmas! and is packed with 28 adorable characters, icy scenes, and snowy designs—perfect for Christmas, Winter birthdays, and seasonal celebrations. 

The collection includes colouring pages, pre-coloured clipart, greeting stamps, paper patterns and more for card making, digital scrapbooking, junk journals, and printable craft stickers. 

There's loads of inspiration from the Polkadoodles Design team on the website in the gallery if you are looking for more ideas

Today I'm sharing my first card  perfect for all those Winter celebrations and very easy to create.  It's an adorable and super sparkly A6 landscape (UK size) card.

I've used one of the wonderful wintery scenes from the collection, resizing this for my card before printing out.  Then I have added a peice of double sided sticky sheet over the entire background before covering with super sparkly fine glitter. 

Its an old bit magical technique called the Cracked Ice technique and perfect for those hoards of glitter that I'm sure we all have!  If you want a demonstration of this technique then there is a great YouTube video from 3 years ago by Jamie Rodgers that's worth a watch - here is the link

Once the background scene was complete and all the glitter completely burnished onto the card I adhered this panel to my card blank.  Theo with his ice cream was resized and printed out onto alcohol friendly card before colouring with my Promarkers (see below for colours) and then fussy cutting out by hand.

I added a die cute frame of silver mirri card to the card before adhering Theo at the bottom of the scene with foam tape for dimension.

The winter sentiment was layered onto more silver mirri card and added to the top left corner of the card.

The finishing touches were some white gelly roll pen highlights to Theo.  A super simple and very sparkly Winter card.

 

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from the new Snowy Days collection by Polkadoodles.

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.

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Snowy Days collection - Ice Skating

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Snowy Days collection - Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital background - Snowy Days collection - Pre-coloured scenes

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Promarkers Used:

Theo:            lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                    pale pink

                    blue black, cool grey 7,5

                    gold, ivory

Scarf:           burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Ice cream:    pear green, lime green, lime zest

                    caramel, pastel beige

                        

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Wednesdays - Christmas with metallic matts and layers with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday I hope that your having a good week so far, I cant believe  we are almost at the middle of November  I hope that  if you make your own Christmas cards like me you are cracking on with it as the month is disappearing fast and you need to remember to get them posted too!

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 to create a Christmas card with metallic mats and layers.

I have to admit that I don't tend to use much metallic card stock these days - its used to be very trendy years ago but I tend to use it only as accents and for frames now and mostly for Christmas cards, but i think it fits the bill.

I chose to use another cutie from the new Gingerbread Cookie collection.  This card has been made using one of the cute digital stamps, 2 papers , a sentiment and the pre-coloured mittens and earmuffs from the Snow Day Bundle,

I used gold mirri card to create an arched frame, adding vellum behind this and layered the sentiment onto a piece of gold mirri card too.

I used a white Posca pen to add snow to the vellum panel and to add a little sparkle some iridescent sequins have been adhered around the design, along with glossy accents on the gingerbread girls icing.

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

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Gingerbread Cookie - Snow Day Bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Gingerbread Cookie - Snow Day Bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Gingerbread Cookie - Snow Day Bundle

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Gingerbread Cookie - Snow Day Bundle

Glossy Accents

Posca pen - white

sequins

Promarkers Used:

Gingerbread:    vanilla, lavender

                       burnt sienna, caramel, sandstone

                       antique pink, bright green, ginger

dress:              burnt orange, orange, ginger

                       antique pink, salmon pink, misty rose

                       gold, sunflower, buttercup

Hat:                 gold, sunflower, buttercup

scarf

Holly:               forest green, bright green, leaf green

                       burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

skates:            ice grey 5, 3

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

Wendy x

Happy Happy Birthday - Baa to you - with Pattie's Creations

Happy Friday everyone I hope that you are all well and have had a lovely week and enjoyed any Halloween festivities - the 1st of November is a holiday her in Spain to celebrate Día de Muertos or Day of the Dead and as its the first Friday of the month, it also marks the start of a new Challenge for December over on the Pattie's Creations Design Challenge blog 

The challenge runs from the first Friday of the month and its an Anything Goes challenge or our theme for November is Birthdays, so as long as you use a digital or stamped image in your project, why not join in the challenge.

Winners of the challenge will receive 2 digital stamps of your choice from Pattie's shop.

Pattie has some wonderful digital stamps in her Etsy Shop pattiescreations and there is also a freebie every month on the blog that you can use in your project if you want to! 

For my November project, I chose  to use the Baa to You digital stamps to create a landscape A6 card.

I resized the image to suit my card size and printed it out before colouring with Promarkers.  I then used a confetti stencil to add colourful detail into the background of the design panel. 

For my fun birthday card, I used a new die from Studio light to cut out the stitched frame for the card from silver mirri card....the die set cuts out the outer frame and there are also extra dies to cut the banners, balloons and streamers etc.

I used the little banner die to die cut from scraps of coloured card and then added the letters to spell out Happy on the two banners.

To finish off the card I added a few white gel pen highlights around the image.

I do hope that you like my card for today and don't forget to join in with this months challenge over on the 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.

Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Baa to You

Lawn Fawn stamp - Year Fourteen

Studiolight - Layered Mask - Exploding confetti

Studiolight - Cutting Dies - party card shape

Distress inks -  candied apple,  twisted citron, salty ocean

Sakura gelly roll - White Pen

Fineliner pen - black

Promarkers Used:

face:       blue black, ice grey 7, 5

legs

feet:        caramel, pastel beige, ivory

fleece

ears:        salmon pink, baby pink

                  

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 #763 - Birthdays - Sponsored by Beccy's Place

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day !

Today I'm here to let you know that 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 'Birthdays' has been chosen by Elaine for team 2 and is being sponsored by Beccy's Place

For my card today I chose to use a fun digital image of a goat from the Goat club set collection of stamps - I thought this was the perfect image for a cheeky birthday card.

This is a simple A6 card. The image was  resized to suit the card and printed out along with one of the digital sentiments from the collection onto alcohol friendly card stock. 

I coloured the goat with my Promarkers, giving him a shaggy coat.  The image was then layered onto a layer of fabulous teal mirrored card that I've been hoarding for years. To tie in with the challenge theme of birthdays I've used a stencil to add green and blue confetti into the background.

Once finished I used pencils, a black Fineliner and a white gelly roll pen to add some highlights and detail to 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:
Beccy's Place Digital stamp - goat club collection

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white

Distress ink - salty ocean, twisted citron

Lawn Fawn Stencil - confetti

Promarkers used :

Ears:            antique pink, coral, muted pink

Fur:              warm grey 7, 5, 4

                    

Horns:          praline, pastel beige, ivory

Hooves

     

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

 Wendy x

A Snowflake is a Winter's Butterfly with JMC Designs

Hello everyone Happy Monday I hope that you had a great weekend.  It's time for me to post my next project for JMC Designs 

For my card today I have used the Winter Whispers Digital Collection... It's still officially Winter here and I can just about see the snow on the Sierra Nevada but the temperatures have been more like early summer and the snow is disappearing fast.  

Still chilly in the evenings and were making use of the log burner but its definitely not cold!  

For todays card I decided to use the beautiful digital stamp  Arctic Sparkle, resizing her  to suit my 5" x 7" card and colouring with my Promarkers.  Iv'e added lots of sparkly highlights and shimmer to this Wintery girl.

Next I created my background panel, I've used the snowflake accessories that are included in the complete collection, adding these to my card panel before printing on my LaserJet printer.  To add sparkle I've then used teal foil for added sparkle.

Once foiled I then used several distress inks to add colour to the panel and then splattered with water droplets and droplets of blue distress ink.  

As well as looking beautiful, the foil acts as a resist to the ink and gives a beautiful shine to the card.

The sentiment from the complete collection was also printed out and foiled in silver

I have added little sparkles around the panel with a white gel pen and adhered a few sparkly gems.

The background panel was mounted onto silver mirror card, along with the sentiment and then adhered to a white card base and the coloured focal image adhered using foam tape for dimension.  

I added some of the tiny gems to the bottom of her skirt too, to tie in with the background.

I really hope that you like my card today and it would be lovely if you you leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
JMC Designs digital stamp - Winter Whispers Collection - Arctic Sparkle

Distress Inks - stormy sky, salty ocean, prize ribbon

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear, firefly

Minc foil - teal, silver

Gelly Roll pen - clear star, white, metallic grey

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

gems

Promarkers used :

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

Blush:      pale pink

Hair:        cool grey 4, 3, 2, 0

Outfit:      marine, turquoise, pastel green

               french navy, true blue, 

               aubergine, amethyst, lilac

               cool grey 4, 3, 2, 0

               gold, sunflower, buttercup

Stars:      gold, sunflower, buttercup

                      

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Birthday Girl - January Birthday Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday.  Wishing you all a lovely day today and that you enjoy your week ahead...I hope that you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year.

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 to make a January birthday card, using the colour red and an oval.  

For todays card I decided to use one of the gorgeous images from the January Collection of digital stamps.  There are some absolutely gorgeous digital stamps in black and white and pre-coloured too if you prefer not to colour.

Its a larger 5" x 7" card with a piece of polka dot patterned paper layered on ruby card for the background.

I used a rick rack oval die to cut an aperture in the paper to expose the ruby card below, then created a frame for the aperture from red mirri card stock, using two of the rick rack dies.

I resized the January image and the coloured the image with Promarkers (see below for colours) before fussy cutting out and mounting on the card using foam tape in the aperture.

The sentiment from the Rebel Girl collection was printed onto white card, layered onto Ruby card positioned for January to stand on at the bottom of the frame.

To finish off the card I die cut hearts from the ruby card and mirri card and layered these onto the card, gluing some flat and two hearts on foam for depth.

I added glossy accents onto some of the polka dots on the paper also adding some into the aperture and onto the centre of the flower.

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 card I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - January Collection - Heart on Your Sleeve

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Rebel Collection - Rebel Messages with Attitude

Polkadoodles Digital Paper - Lilybug Collection - Paper bundle 4

Creative Craft Products - Ovals Rick Rack dies

Heart dies

Glossy accents

Sakura Gelly Roll pens - black, white

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens - clear

Promarkers Used:

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

Blush:        pale pink

Hair:          cool grey 7, 5, 4, 3

       

Eyes:          royal blue, Egyptian blue, cobalt blue

Dress:        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Boots

Coat:          antique pink, salmon pink, pastel pink

tights

Flower:        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                   antique pink, salmon pink, pastel pink

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

Wendy x