New Release - Snowy Days - Theo Penguin - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Thursday everyone

I hope that your had a good week.... I'm back today with another cute card using the brand new Snowy Days collection 

Theo Penguin 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 too if you are looking for some more ideas and don't miss out on the discounts too still available on this collection.

This is a super cute 5" x 7"  landscape card using another of the wonderful wintery scenes from the collection, resizing this for my card before printing out.  

Theo with his friend the Walrus 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 used clear and blue glitter to add sparkle the background scene which was mat and layered onto silver and blue 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 -  Sealed with a gift

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Snowy Days collection - Greetings bundle

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

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Blue filament glitter

Promarkers Used:

Theo:             lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                     pale pink

                     blue black, cool grey 7,5

                     gold, ivory

Present:         burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                     pear green, lime green, lime zest

Scarf:             gold, sunflower, buttercup

                     pear green, lime green, lime zest

                       

Walrus:          warm grey 4, 3, 1

                     baby pink

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 Saturday everyone

I hope that your had a good week.... I'm back today with another cute card using the brand new Snowy Days collection 

Theo Penguin 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 too if you are looking for some more ideas

Here's a gorgeous 6" x 6" card using another of the wonderful wintery scenes from the collection, resizing this for my card before printing out.  These scenes make cards so easy to create I'm sure you will love them.

Theo with his cocktail taking in the sunshine 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 adhered him to the card, blending a little distress ink around the snow to give some shadows and then adding lots of lovely sparkly for the snow in the sky and on the ground.

I used a white gelly roll pen to add snow to the trees in the background and then glossy accents to Theo's sunglasses.

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 - Sunbathing Days

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Snowy Days collection - Greetings bundle

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

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Glossy Accents

Promarkers Used:

Theo:             lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                     pale pink

                     blue black, cool grey 7,5

                     gold, ivory

Hat:               burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Sunglasses:    pear green, lime green, lime zest

Deckchair:      gold, sunflower, buttercup

                       

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

Wendy x

New Release - Theo Penguin - Snowy Days - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Monday everyone I hope that your had a good weekend.... I have so many gorgeous Christmas cards to share so I'm going to try to share one each day...fingers crossed.

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 Theo Penguin 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's card features Theo with his Christmas pudding.  I've created a polaroid style card and used a pop up for the main design panel.  The image is coloured with my promarkers and I've used one of the gorgeous papers from the collection along with lots of sparkle.

  

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 - Christmas Pudding Sleigh

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Snowy Days collection - Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Snowy Days collection - Icy Winter papers set 2

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn Mix

Promarkers Used:

Theo:            lavender, ivory, warm grey 1

                    pale pink

                    blue black, cool grey 7,5

                    gold, ivory

Scarf:           gold, sunflower, buttercup

Christmas 

Pudding:       burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                    pear green, lime green, lime zest

Sleigh:          caramel, pastel beige

                    

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

Happy Dance Christmas Cards with Amanda Jayne Designs

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Monday!  

We have had a very busy weekend and quite a few unplanned late nights so a few quieter days are on the cards (fingers crossed). 

Today I am sharing some Christmas cards that I have made for Amanda Jayne Designs 

Most of the cards I make are unique one off designs, but at Christmas I like to batch make cards and this digital image is perfect to make lots of quick, simple and very cute cards. 

This pre-coloured image is called  Happy Dance and I printed it out several times adding different Christmas sentiments to make each card slightly different before printing, but using the same layout.  

Don't they look happy - it just makes you smile

I think this image would make a perfect Winter birthday card too as who could resist this cute cow and his sweet penguin friend.

The images were cut out using a nesting die and frames added in the lilac cardstock.  

I love the combination of purple and teal!

These beautiful pre-coloured images are so adorable and I think they don't need much adding to create a set of wonderful cards

To finish off my cards I have added some sparkly gems to each design.

I really hope that you like my cards 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:
Amanda Jayne Designs - Happy Dance

Amanda Jayne Designs Paper Collection - Mint Christmas

Amanda Jayne Designs Sentiment - Christmas Sentiments

Card Making Magic A6 Nesting Die Set

Pretty Pink Posh gems - Sugar Plum

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

 Wendy x

Sparkle All the Way with Amanda Jayne Designs

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Saturday! 

It's getting pretty hot again here after a very brief respite so I thought today I would share another Christmas project made for Amanda Jayne Designs Only a few days left of Christmas is July.

I just cant get enough of this super cute penguin - called Gift Penguin but this is my last card with him ( I promise !) well for now at least, I cant promise he wont pop up again sometime.

 

For my third card I decided to create a traditional shaker A6 (UK size) card with lots of extra sparkle.

The papers I have used are from the Mint Christmas collection and I have added a sentiment from the Christmas Sentiments set at the bottom of my design

These beautiful pre-coloured images are so adorable and I think they don't need much adding to create a wonderful card.

To finish off my card I have added some sparkly sequins over the outside panel to match the sequins inside the shaker itself.

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:
Amanda Jayne Designs - Gift Penguin -Pre-coloured image

Amanda Jayne Designs Paper Collection - Mint Christmas

Amanda Jayne Designs Sentiment - Christmas Sentiments

Sugar & Spice Sequins - Unicorn

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

 Wendy x

A Gift Just for You with Amanda Jayne Designs

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Sunday ! 

I'm back today to share another Christmas project for Amanda Jayne Designs 

I chose to use the super cute penguin coloured printable - called Gift Penguin again as I think he is just the sweetest little chap and I couldn't resist - I've made three cards actually but you'll have to wait to see the third card next Saturday!

For my second card I decided to print out one of the smaller of the images from the set and create a portrait A6 (UK size) card  

I have created a snowy background for him blending two distress inks to create the sky and then added snow using a stencil, stencil paste and glitter dust.

For the snowy hills I chose one of the papers from the Mint Christmas collection for the snowy hills and a hillside die.

The little penguin was fussy cut out and then added to the background using foam tape and I have added a sentiment from the Christmas Sentiments set at the bottom of my design

To finish off my card I have added some sparkly glitter over the falling snow across the image and just a little on the ground beneath the image.

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:
Amanda Jayne Designs - Gift Penguin -Pre-coloured image

Amanda Jayne Designs Paper Collection - Mint Christmas

Amanda Jayne Designs Sentiment - Christmas Sentiments

Lawn Fawn Stencil paste - Clear

Deco art Glamour dust - Crystal

Echo Park Designer Stencil - Christmas Cheer

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Edgecutz - Essential Edges

Distress Ink - tumbled glass, peacock feathers

Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles - Icicle Blue 

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

 Wendy x

Sending Festive Hugs with AmandaJayneDesigns

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Friday! I hope that you all had a great week and have a lovely weekend planned.

I'm very excited today to be sharing my first project for Amanda Jayne Designs and as its July and all about crafters making our Christmas cards and Projects, for my first cards I chose to use a super cute penguin coloured printable - called Gift Penguin

I thought that a circular card would be a great shape with this image so used my circular dies to create a round card base and then used the smaller dies to cut out my base layer of the image which I have added to the card base.  

I added just a touch of distress ink to the sky portion of the design. 

Next I fussy cut three extra layers of the design and have added these to the image for extra dimension using foam squares. 

Finally I have used glossy accents to the beak and feet and Sparkly glitter over the snow and on the ground beneath the image.

For extra interest  I have chosen one of the papers from the Mint Christmas paper collection and used this to cover the envelope flap and added a circle of the same paper to the inside of the card.

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:
Amanda Jayne Designs - Gift Penguin -Pre-coloured image

Amanda Jayne Designs Paper Collection - Mint Christmas

Amanda Jayne Designs Sentiment - Christmas Sentiments

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Nested Torn Edge Circles

Distress Ink - tumbled glass

Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles - Icicle Blue 

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 #680 - Animals

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all !

I'm back today with a new DT Inspiration card for a Passion for Markers Blog challenge.

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by Sheepski Designs. There are some lovely images over in the store, you'll be spoilt for choice, so why not take a look and join in 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 Blog theme chosen by Kitty for Team 2 is Animals and this is my inspiration for the challenge made using a digital image from Sheepski Designs called The Huddle

There is something wonderful about penguins - I love watching them on nature programs and this image definitely reminds me of a recent David Attenborough series I've been watching, Planet Earth II, where the baby penguins huddled together to keep warm whilst their parents were away fishing.

I've created a magical Southern Lights in the sky for my little Huddle and found a perfect sentiment for my wintery card.

To create my sky I've blended distress oxide inks, splattered with water and then a little white acrylic paint, keeping it really simple.

The digital image is coloured with my Promarkers (see below for colours) and then I've fussy cut out and mounted at the bottom of the card with low profile foam tape, adding a little glitter in the snow to embellish my design.

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:
Sheepski Designs digital stamp - The Huddle

Lisa Horton Crafts Sentiment strip

Distress Oxide ink - picked raspberry, salvaged patina, salty ocean, chipped sapphire

white acrylic pain

Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Promarkers used :

Penguins:           cool grey 5, 4, 3

                         ivory, cool grey 2      

Feet & Beaks:     mandarin, honeycomb      

Hats & Scarves:  amethyst, lilac, lavender

                         marine, turquoise, pastel green                      

Fur trim:            cool grey 2, ivory

These are the challenges I am entering

dis digi designs challenge hand coloured (27) (1 of 3)
lil patch of crafty friends Weekly (14) (2 of 3)
Creative Fingers challenge (138) (3 of 3)
Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes - (9) (2 of 5)
Moving Along With The Times  #() ( of 5)
Pearly Sparkles Challenge unlimited (35)
A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge - Anything Goes unlimited (124)
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes (98) (3 of 3)
Classic Design Challenge - Anything Goes (114) unlimited
Avenue 613 Anything Goes (49) (2 of 8)
Sheep ski designs Anything Goes Embellish it (17) (2 of 3)
Mirtillamente Challenge - MATH, NUMBERS,WATER,SPARROW,INTERIOR PEACE,ZEN (9) (1 of 5)
LeAnn's World 101 Challenge () unlimited
colorful options green (62) unlimited
through the purple haze (5) (2 of 3)
Critter Crazy Challenge (51) (2 of 5)
We love stamping Spring (21) (1 of 3)
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge (57) (2 of 3)
Dragonfly Dreams Outdoors (15) (2 of 3)
Crafty Calendar Challenge buttons& bows (0) (0 of 3)
world wide open design team () (3 of 3)
crafting happiness challenges green (26)

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

 Wendy x 

Silly Penguins with Pattie's Creations

Happy Friday everyone and a happy December too - not long to go now!

Today 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 as long as you use a digital or stamped image in your project,  so 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 December project, I couldn't resist using the Silly Penguins 

Did I mention just how much I love penguins?

I thought these silly penguins would look prefect on a simple landscape DL card and I've used another of the background papers that I've had in my stash for ages.

The sentiment is from the Polkadoodles Gingerbread Holly sentiment bundle and I've added some sparkle to the snowy scene - it is nearly Christmas !

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Silly Penguins

DoCrafts designer Paper 

Polkadoodles Sentiment - Gingerbread Holly

Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles - Icicle blue

Distress ink - tumbled glass

Sakura Gelly roll pen - black, white

glossy accents

Promarkers used :

Penguin 1:         lavender, ivory

                        black, cool grey 5,4,2

                        gold, pumpkin, ivory

                        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red   

Penguin 2:         lavender, ivory

                        black, cool grey 5,4,2

                        gold, pumpkin, ivory

                        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red   

                        forest green, bright green, leaf green

                       

Penguin 3:        lavender, ivory

                        black, cool grey 5,4,2

                        gold, pumpkin, ivory

                        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red   

                        forest green, bright green, leaf green  

                        

 

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

 Wendy x