New Release - Party Animals - I think it's time to Party ! - Birthday Card - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday I hope that the week has been a good one for you.  

It's an exciting day as it's time for a New Release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV) , the first one in 2026 and I think you will love it.

There's 2 collections for you both available now from the Etsy shop - Cute Girls and Party Animals.

I'm here today with a sweet birthday card that I've made featuring the cheeky little monkey from the Party Animals digital stamp set

There are 4 little characters...perfect for loads of different occasions, and they are on offer until Sunday.

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers before fussy cutting out.

I've used papers from my stash to create my pop up panel card and finishing touches added of white gel pen highlights, clear sparkle and purple confetti. 

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 - Party Animals - Chimp

LOTV Digital sentiment - It's Time to Party

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

Digi Choosday - You're My Favourite Person - Valentines Card - Udderly Cute Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week - February is already here and its definitely time to think about sending Love and Valentines Day.

Do you send Valentines cards ?  We don't send them to each other really anymore but we always try to have a special day to celebrate and mark the occasion.

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  Valentines and to use Red Pink Black and white so I thought the brand new Udderly Cute Collection would be prefect for this.

The card fold is a simple Pop Out Gatefold as I wanted to really show off the cute cow pattern papers and also use some of the fabulous ephemera  from the collection.

The folded card fits into a 5" x 7" or A7 envelope.  Using a deep cherry red card I cut a piece measuring 10" x 7" and then along the long edge of the card, scored at 2 1/2" & 7 1/2" on one side and then one the other side at 4 1/12" & 5 1/2".  This will give the perfect valley and mountain folds for the card.

The card was layered with cow papers on the inside and then a pretty polka dot  paper on the outside so the recipient gets a surprise when they open it.

I'm really proud of myself as over Christmas I challenged myself to start using my Scan n Cut machine more this year rather than fussy cutting  by hand and the ephemera sheets were so easy to cut on the machine - as well as being addicted to cows - I'm now in love with my Scan n Cut again ! So with my new found love I've used lots of the ephemera to adorn the card.

The image is Just For Moo, coloured with promarkers and layered onto die cut hearts.

To finish the card I added lovely sparkle inside and out and a touch of glossy accents to the little heart on the envelope.  

I wish you could see the sparkle as its so pretty but photos don't do it justice.

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 - Udderly Cute Cows - Just For Moo

Polkadoodles digital paper - Udderly Cute Cows  - Paper pack 5 & Paper Pack 4

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Udderly Cute Cows - Greetings pack

glossy accents

Stickles - diamond

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

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #811 - Fun Folds - Sponsored by Dis Digital Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - I hope that week is going well for you, October is definitely flying by - it'll be you know what before long LOL

There's 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 'Fun Folds' has been chosen by Kitty for team 2 and is being sponsored by Dis Digi Stamps

For my Fun fold card today I decided to create an A6 size pop up card using a sweet image by Polkadoodles. This is Flower Fairy from the Winnie Daisy Fairy collection 

My pop up card today is really easy to make but I think fun, its a smaller C6 size and folds flat for posting.

The card base is a piece of card measuring 5 1/2" x 9" scored at 2" on both sides, then flip the card over and score at 3 1/4" on both sides   

You can obviously adjust these measurements to create a larger or smaller version.

Winnie was resized to suit the card base and printed out onto alcohol friendly card before colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out.

I used the pretty papers to decorate the panels of the card , die cut oval shapes for Winnie to be adhered to and also created flowers from the papers to decorate the design, adding candi and glossy accents to the flower centres.

Finishing touches were some gold confetti around the design and white gelly roll pen highlights.

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

Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Winnie Daisy Fairy - Flower Fairy

Polkadoodles Digital papers - Winnie Daisy Fairy - Paper set 2 & paper set 4

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment- Winnie Daisy Fairy - Everyday Greetings  

Spellbinders confetti - gold

Flower Die

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 - Horace & Boo - Fathers Day - Masculine card - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....

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!  

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 create a Father's Day card.

I decided to use a sweet image from the Horace & Boo collection - this is Horace  to create a more masculine pop up A6 card.

I chose a couple of papers from the Winnie Daisy Fairy 2 collection to layer onto the pop up card panels and then used a fancy edged die to cut out a centre panel.  I ink blended clouds over this white card.

The image was resized along with a sentiment from the Gnome Feeding Birds kit before printing out and colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out, layering at the bottom of the fancy panel.

To finish off my project I added some teal sequins and some die cut balloons.

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 image  - Horace & Boo collection - Horace

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Gnome Feeding Bird & Mouse bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Winnie Daisy Fairy 2 - Paper bundle 2

Sugar & Spice Sequins - unicorn mix

Distress Ink - salty ocean

Lawn Fawn stencil - cloudy

Studiolight - balloon die

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 #755 - Shaped cards - Sponsored by Doctor Digis House of Stamps

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 'Shaped Cards' has been chosen by Kitty for team 2 and the prize this week is being given by Dr Digis House of Stamps

This is a simple  pop out card that fits into an A6 (UK size) envelope.  card today with all of the focus on the fabulous and fun image from Dr Digis House of Stamps called  Mateo El Mariachi 

I'm still on a mission making more male themed cards and this is perfect for those fun birthday celebrations.

I started by creating my pop up card from a blue textured card stock and then used some of the fabulous blue paper from the set to mat onto the card base.

I added a small strip down the central panel for extra interest. 

I then resized the digital image of Mareo printing out and colouring with promarkers, before fussy cutting out.

The finishing touches were white gel pen highlights and clear sparkle to his fabulous silver suit - I wish you could see the sparkle.

The sentiment was printed out and I used a blue metallic gelly roll pen to colour it in before adding to the bottom of the card for Mateo to stand on.

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:
Dr Digis House of Stamps - Mateo El Mariachi

Dr Digis House of Stamps - Digital Paper - Aztec backing paper

Dr Digis House of Stamps - Digital Sentiment - Birthday Sentiments Sheet 01

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens - white, metallic blue

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Sugar & Spice sequins - Alloy Mix

Promarkers used :

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

Hair:       blue black, cool grey 7, 5

Shoes

Suit:       cool grey 1, 3, 4

Shirt:      indigo blue, Egyptian blue, cobalt blue

Tie

Hat:        honeycomb, saffron, vanilla

buttons    gold, buttercup

Guitar:     caramel, sandstone, pastel beige

               honeycomb, saffron, vanilla

               gold, buttercup

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

 Wendy x

April Birthstone card - White on White - Digi Choosday - Oh Happy Day with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday.  Wishing you all a lovely day today and that you enjoy your week ahead...

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 April Birthstone Diamond using white on white and to include a wraparound or a belly band as some people call them (not my favourite name as it sounds like some sort of medical weight loss device!) 

Today's card features one of the gorgeous digital stamps from the Let's Hang Out collection - who can resist Winnie after all.  I started by resizing the image for my card design and printing this out along with one of the sweet sentiments from the collection. 

I chose a couple of pretty pastel papers from the Noodle Panda collection and then used these pastel shades as inspiration to colour the image with Promarkers (see below for the colours used).  

I don't often make pastel coloured cards, opting for brighter richer shades but it was nice for a change to make something lighter and definitely very girly. Good to use different pens too!

I decided to create a 5" x 7" pop out gatefold card and if you are looking for instructions on this then I suggest watching the great tutorial by Sam Calcott - Mixed Up Craft  I started with a piece of white card measuring 10" x 7" and then scored this at 2 1/2", 7 1/2" .  

Then flip the card over and score at 4 1/2" and 5 1/2"  Its such a simple card fold and looks beautiful decorated, lots of areas to used pretty papers and works well with loads of focal images.  

I used the papers from the noodle collection layer directly onto the card base, no matting as I wanted to keep the white borders showing, I chose to keep two of the inside panels white too to keep in with the them as much as possible.  

There is white space too on the reverse of the card for a message to be written.  Once the sweet Winnie was coloured I fussy cut her out.  Next I used a couple of nesting diamond dies to cut two pieces of the same white card (using the same card stock means they will match perfectly.  

The smaller of the diamonds was embossed using a 3D embossing folder to give a faceted look - that's what makes diamonds shine so well.   I adhered the diamonds together and then added Winnie to the centre before adding the diamond to the small pop out section of the card.  

Finally the sentiment was simple cut and also adhered at the bottom of the pop out.  To finish the inside of the card I decided to die cut a floral border from the white card, adding this to the edges of the card panels covered with lilac paper. 

Finishing touches where some super sparkly aurora borealis gems and white glossy drops around the design and on Winnie's dress along with white gel pen highlights.  

The wraparound or belly band is very simple, you just need a piece of card 1 1/2" in width ( white in my case for the white on white theme) and long enough to wrap loosely around the closed card. If its two tight it will be hard to slide on and off the  closed card.

I also die cut two white diamonds and embossed the top one as on the inside of the card and adhered this to the wrap around.

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 !

Promarkers Used:

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

Blush:      pale pink

Hair:        praline, sandstone, pastel beige

Ribbon:    orchid, lavender

Roses

Shoes

Dress:      pastel blue, blender

Leaves:    apple, meadow green

Daisies:    yellow, primrose

                apricot, bisque

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Let's Hang Out collection - Blossoming Winnie

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Let's Hang Out collection - Greeting Bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Noodle Panda collection - Set 2 & Plains

Lisa Horton Crafts - 3D Embossing Folder - Prism

Craftelier Sequins

Tonic Nuvo Crystal Drops - white

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

Wendy x