Digi Choosday - Hello Autumn - Yellow & Orange - Autumn is Coming card - Freddy Fox Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far and that the weather is being kind to you.

I know its still the middle of Summer but as a card maker we try to get ahead and that sometimes feels like were making cards at the wrong time of the year...but I promise you it makes sense in the craft world LOL

It's time for the Design Team to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog. 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 by Nikky was Autumn is coming...using Yellow and Orange !.  I love the garden in the Autumn, the colours around are amazing and the high temperatures of the summer have started to subside.  I decided to reach for a digital stamp from the Freddy Fox Autumn / Fall Collection for my card today as he has the perfect colourings.

The digital stamp I have chosen is Apple Barrel Fox, resized for my smaller A6 card before printing out and colouring with Promarkers. I then used my ScannCut to cut out Freddy although it could easily be cut by hand.

I wanted to create lots of layers and textures for my card today so used lots yellow and orange distress inks to create an ink smooshed panel on watercolour card, allowing each colour to dry before adding the next colour, building up layers slowly.  

Next I added interest to this panel, stamping leaves and dots in distress oxide inks and added some gold stencilling too here and there.

I tore down the right hand side of the inked panel, leaving the white core exposed and then chose a couple of papers from the collection adding strips below the inked panel again with torn edges.

I used an arched dies to create a frame, in yellow and orange card and adhered this to the panel on the card.

My coloured Freddy image was mounted onto the card with foam tape.

I then stamped leaves from the leftover distress ink panel and hand cut these out.  I had a few mushrooms left over from another project so decided to colour these with orange and yellow alcohol pens to coordinate with the theme and layered these at the bottom of the card, along with a sentiment from the Freddy Fox collection.

To finish off my card today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights and scattered orange gems around the design as I always love a little sparkle on my cards.

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 !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Freddy Fox Collection - Apple Barrel Fox

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Freddy Fox Collection - Paper set 2

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Freddy Fox Collection  - sentiment bundle

Distress Ink - scattered straw, mustard seed, fossilised amber, carved pumpkin, dried marigold

Distress Oxide ink - spiced marmalade, abandoned coral

Gold acrylic paint

Polkadoodles Craft Stamp - Funky Daisy Smile (dots)

Polkadoodles Craft Stamp - Just a little note (leaves)

Polkadoodles Craft Stencil - Honey Bees

Polkadoodles Craft SVG Print and Cut File - Spring is Here

Pretty Pink Posh gems - grapefruit

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 - This is the beginning of Anything - Back to School card - Teepee card - Graduation/Student Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far and that the weather is treating you well.

It was my birthday last Wednesday and we had a fantastic time in Granada (my favourite city), wandering around, lunch at my favourite bar Castanedas and then went to see Sting in Plaza de Toros (the bull ring, very sadly still use for Bull fights but a great venue for music concerts and other extravaganzas ) - it was wonderful and then we were booked into a lovely hotel for the night...good job with all the cocktails and food LOL.

Summer is in full flow but I'm sure if you have children / grandchildren etc then thoughts are already turning to going back to school or starting school for the first time so my card today would be perfect for that.

It's time for the Design Team to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog.  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 to make a Back to school themed card/project so I decided to use another of the very cute images from the Graduation School Student collection  It's a jam packed collection of images, clip art, sentiments, word art and of course fun papers and perfect for lots of different educational and new job celebrations.   

For my Teepee card today I've used the very sweet Cute Girl with Glasses resized this in my graphics software (I'm using the free version of Canva if you are interested !) She was printed out along with 2 of the apples from the digital stamp bundle before colouring in with promarkers and fussy cutting  out by hand.

The card base folds flat to fit into a standard 5" x 7" envelope and is very easy to create.  I created the base from a green cardstock and then used the cute apple paper to cover this.

If you would like to make a teepee car then  would suggest watching one of  Sam Calcott's tutorials on Youtube, here is a link

Next I printed out some of the ephemera and a couple of the sentiments to add to the card, layering everything up for interest.

To finish off my card today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights, scattered lots of gold confetti around the design and glossy accents to the little girls glasses.

  

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 !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Graduation Student collection - Cute Girl with Glasses

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Graduation Student collection - Clip art bundle

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Graduation Student collection - stamp bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Graduation Student collection - paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Graduation Student collection - sentiment bundle

glossy accents

spellbinders confetti - gold

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

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

Digi Choosday - Merry Christmas - Christmas in July - Criss Cross Star card - Gingerbread Cookie collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far....July is here and its proving to be very hot so far this year here in Spain after our cold wet winter.

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 to make a Christmas in July themed card/project.  It always feels very strange making Christmas cards when its so hot but it's good to get ahead...LOL

I decided today to use the super sweet Gingerbread Cookie collection for my Criss Cross Star card today.

The card is 6" x 6" in size and I have simply cut away the left and right corners from a square Kraft card blank.  

Next I chose papers from the collection to decorate the front and inside of the card and also the 2 small triangles that were cut from the card blank. 

The triangles were then adhered to the main card on the front to create a star shape.  I also added an extra strip of card at the bottom of the points for extra support although this is optional.

The little Gingerbread girl was coloured with promarkers before fussy cutting out along with some of the pre-coloured clipart which was used to decorate the card, along with one of the sentiments.

To finish off my card today I've added glossy accents to the gingerbreads icing and gold sparkle pen to the baubles.

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 !


Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Gingerbread Cookie - Star cookie
Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Gingerbread Cookie - sentiment bundle
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Gingerbread Cookie - digi bundle
Polkadoodles digital paper - Gingerbread Cookie - Sweet Hugs bundle
Polkadoodles digital clipart - Gingerbread Cookie - clipart bundle
Glossy Accents
gold pen

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

Digi Choosday - Sorry. Cant. Shopping. Bye - Shopping Card - Stand & Pop Card - Rebel & Wanda Collections - with Polkadoodles

 

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week.

So June is nearly at an end and the weather here has been wonderful....sunny and hot but not too hot at night just yet.  We had a wonderful time last week with my lovely cousin and her hubby staying with us for a few days, lots of good food, relaxing by the pool and a little sightseeing too, probably far too much alcohol but hey ho.

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 to make a shopping themed card so I decided to use one of the very cute pre-coloured images from the Rebel Girl Collection

I am not a lover of shopping, never have been, I find it really stressful but my cousin loves it with a passion, so this will be her birthday card in December.

My card today is a Stand and Pop card and Im loving how it looks - it was really easy to construct too and when folded flat fits into an A7 envelope (5" x 7"). If you'd like to make one then I would recommend watching a Youtube video by Sam Calcott - she has tutorials to make a few different sizes too!

The basic card measurements and shorelines are as follows.

Cardstock measuring as follows

• 7 " x 4 1/2"
• 9 " x 4 1/2" scored at 1" & 3"
• 6 1/4" x 3" scored at 1/4" 1 1/4" 5 1/4"
• 5" x 2"
• 3" x 1" scored at 1/2", 2 1/2"
• 4 1/4" x 6 7/8"

The card base was made from a lavender blue cardstock and I have used papers from the Rebel collection to decorate it.

The main Rebel Shopping image is pre-coloured and I have printed her twice and then decoupaged for dimension.

The little shopping bags and sentiments have been taken from the Wanda collection adding the sentiments to the bags in Canva before printing out and cutting out with my ScanNCut, there was a little bit of hand cutting for the bag handles as I haven't worked out how to do this yet LOL!

To finish off my card today I've scattered lots of pink confetti around the design to tie in with the pink colour palette.

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 !

Card recipe: Polkadoodles digital stamp - Rebel Girl - pre-coloured Rebel Shopping

Polkadoodles digital papers - Rebel Girl - paper bundle 2 & paper bundle 3

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Wanda - ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiments - Wanda - sentiment bundle

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - friendship

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 #843 - Use Flowers - Hope your day is buzzing with Joy - Sponsored by Polkadoodles

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

Oh my goodness it's been a very hot few days ...temperatures around 40C for a few days on the run now so fingers crossed the high heat breaks soon and we can have a little cooling respite.  It's even been a little too hot to be outside for very long and the kitties are struggling to keep cool too.  

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 Polkadoodles Clearly and the theme chosen by Kitty for team 2 is Use Flowers.

I decided to create a bridge fold card to create a little garden scene and have use the Blooming digital stamp from the Buzzy Bee collection as it was perfect for the challenge theme.  I resized the image for my 5" x 7" card and coloured with promarkers before printing out and fussy cutting out by hand.

The bridge fold card was created from a piece of yellow card stock, measuring 9" x 5" scored at 1" on either of the long edges.  The big section for the front was a pice of yellow card measuring 8" x 1" again score at 1" on either end.

I used a couple of papers from the collection and adhered these to the card base along with some die cut flowers, a sun and a little picket fence to create my garden scene.

To finish off my fun Buzzy Bee card I added sequins around the design, lots of sparkle and lots of glossy accents to the flowers.

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:

Polkadoodles Designs digital stamp - Buzzy Bee - Blooming

Polkadoodles Designs digital paper - Buzzy Bee -  Paper pack 1

Polkadoodles Designs digital paper - Buzzy Bee -  Stripes and Gingham papers

Polkadoodles Designs digital sentiment - Buzzy Bee - sentiment bundle

LHC dies - flowers, sun, fence

Distress Ink - squeezed lemonade

Spectrum Noir - Sparkle pen - clear

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

glossy accents

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

New Release - Friends are Everything - Friendship card - Fluffy Friends collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Friday everyone... The Summer temperatures are ramping up fast and we have our first heatwave across most of Spain this weekend,  with temperatures of 40C where we live...so lots of time indoors I think, crafting, keeping cool and some chilling off in the pool!

There's a brand new digital release by Polkadoodles and I think you are going to love it !  It's called Fluffy Friends and 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

Here's my first card from the new collection using the very sweet Monty Bear. When I was little I remember having a blue teddy bear and Monty reminded me of him so I've used my promarkers to create my blue bear and decided that yellow roses would be the perfect compliment.

My simple 5" x 7" or A7 card has a layer of pretty teal paper from the collection and one of the sentiments that I have added onto teal in Canva before cutting out.

I fussy cut Monty by hand and added him to my card using foam tape for dimension with a teal die cut frame and an inky background created with Pixie powders for sparkle.

The finishing touches for the card of sparkly gems and some extra die cut hearts and a little glossy accents for Monty's nose.

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 - Monty Bear flower bunch

Polkadoodles digital paper - Fluffy Friends - paper set 2

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Fluffy Friends - greetings bundle

Cosmic Shimmer - Pixie Powders - Peacock Green

Buttons Galore & More Gems - Sailors Sky

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 - You Passed - Congrats - Graduation card - Upright Easel - Graduation/Student Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far.

Summer has definitely arrived here and we've been very busy lately with my wonderful cousin and hubby staying with us for a few days.  She's more like a sister to me really and I miss seeing her but its great catching up too when we can - the boys don't really get chance to talk LOL.

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 to make a graduation themed card/project so I decided to use one of the very cute images from the Graduation School Student collection  Its a jam packed collection of images, clip art, sentiments, word art and of course fun papers and perfect for lots of different educational and new job celebrations.   

I've used the very sweet Cute Boy  for my card today and resized this in my graphics software (I'm using the free version of Canva if you are interested !) I decided to add 3 piles of books from the clipart in the collection, so the little boy was standing on top like he's on top of the world and added a couple of extra mortar board hats in too before printing out and colouring with promarkers.

He looks like he feels on top of the world after all the hard work studying - very well deserved!

The card base is a 6" x 6" upright easel today with layers of a lime green/yellow and burgundy card and different fun and bright papers from the collection.

I decided to use the sentiment strips in the collection printing on my LaserJet printer so I could foil them in gold.

To finish off my card today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights and scattered lots of gold confetti around the design to tie in with the foiled sentiment strips.

  

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 !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Graduation Student collection - Cute Boy Graduate

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Graduation Student collection - Clip art bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Graduation Student collection - paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Graduation Student collection - sentiment bundle

Minc foil - gold

spellbinders confetti - gold

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