New Release - Winter Birthday - Festive & Christmas cards - Mabel collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Sunday everyone... Were off out today for a Christmas lunch with the walking group, it's going to be extremely noisy but good food and fun too.  Great for practising our Spanish too.

I'm sure that by now you have seen the brand new release by Polkadoodles, such a cute collection.

The Mabel Collection is a heart-warming range of cute girl character printables designed for card makers, planner lovers and creative crafters. 

The collection includes digital stamps, pre-coloured clipart, SVG cutting files, digital papers, sentiments and big-value bundles that are perfect for Christmas holiday cards, New Year celebrations, winter birthdays and year-round celebrations. 

Whether you prefer colouring black-and-white digi stamps or using ready-to-go pre-coloured images, these designs are ideal for making thoughtful handmade cards, printable craft stickers, planner stickers, junk journals, scrapbook pages, party décor and small-business craft makes.

There are 5 mini collections for you to choose from  Woodland Winter, Festive Wishes, Starry Celebrations, Cosy Cocoa and Pawsitively Festive but I definitely couldn't choose a favourite.

This is my second card using the new release but as always there's loads more inspiration for you in the gallery on the Polkadoodles website

My Christmas card today uses the Festive Wishes collection.  I coloured Mabel with my Promarkers before die cutting the panel with an arched die.

The card fits a standard 6" x 6" envelope and I've used a couple of the pretty papers from the bundle to layer onto the card and one of the sentiments

The finishing touches for the card was lots of extra sparkle to Mabel, white highlights to the image and some die cut snowflakes in red and gold to coordinate with the papers.

I hope that you like my projects today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Happy Halloween

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital kit- Mabel Collection - Festive Wishes 

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

gems

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - White

Echo Park - Snowflake dies

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 #817 - Add some bling - Sponsored by Clearly Besotted

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - I hope that week is going well for you.  I'm slowly getting back into the rhythm of blogging again - not sure why its so hard at the moment - even though we have finished the olives there is still so much to do everyday.  Just all the Winter jobs on the campo !

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 'Add some bling' has been chosen by Elaine for team 2 and is being sponsored by Clearly Besotted

The perfect theme for all those Winter celebration and Christmas cards don't you think 

For my card today I decided to create a snowy scene for a couple of very cute penguins - they look like they are having loads of fun sliding down the snowy slopes.

I chose one of the fabulous pre-coloured winter backgrounds for my 5" x7" card matting this with silver card.  Next I die cute some super sparkly snowy slopes from silver glitter card, layering these onto the bottom of the card.

I die cut a couple of Christmas trees using one of the green papers from the collection adding these to the scene.

Next, I resized the Snow Day image to suite my design colouring with promarkers before fussy cutting out and adding to the scene.

This image just makes me smile - it's so cute !

The finishing touches were some white gelly roll pen highlights on the penguins and then some extra bling teal and clear sequins.

Its definitely a card packed with bling !

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:

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Theo Penguin Collection - Snow Day

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Theo Penguin Collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Theo Penguin Collection - background bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Theo Penguin Collection - paper bundle 2

Sugar and Spice sequins - Unicorn mix

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

Winter Wishes - Snow Cute with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Monday and a happy December too!

I thought today I'd share another of my Christmas cards for the year. - My next job is to get some written and in the post before its too late.

Todays card uses on the very cute over the edge designs  from the Snow Cute collection by Lili of the Valley (LOTV)  available in the Etsy shop. 

There's some special savings in the store today so don't miss out !

I've used one of the large Christmas sentiments , adding this to the bottom of the cute over the edge image before printing out and colouring with promarkers.  I fussy cut out the top portion of the image.

Next I chose one of the snowflake papers from the Icy Snowflakes collection adding this to the card blank on a layer of teal card.

Finishing touches were some clear sparkle to the hat and ear muffs and some die cut snowflakes. 

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share for Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley # LOTVdt

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp   - Snow Cute

LOTV Digital Sentiment - large Christmas sentiments

LOTV Digital Paper - Icy Snowflakes

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue 

Snowflake punch

Gems

Echo Park Snowflake die

     

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

 Wendy x

New Release - Winter Birthday - Festive & Christmas cards - Mabel collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Sunday everyone... It's the last day of November and I'm actually getting a little bit excited now about Christmas - I think all the work on the campo has made us both a bit shell shocked to its nice having work at a slower pace now and we can hopefully enjoy the trips out, Christmas meals  and the big day itself.

I'm still not quite back into a routine again with my blogging, I keep forgetting completely so apologies but hopefully it will get better - fingers crossed. LOL

There's a brand new release by Polkadoodles and its so cute you will love it I'm sure. I  would like to introduce you to Mabel - isn't she adorable.

The Mabel Collection is a heart-warming range of cute girl character printables designed for card makers, planner lovers and creative crafters. 

The collection includes digital stamps, pre-coloured clipart, SVG cutting files, digital papers, sentiments and big-value bundles that are perfect for Christmas holiday cards, New Year celebrations, winter birthdays and year-round celebrations. 

Whether you prefer colouring black-and-white digi stamps or using ready-to-go pre-coloured images, these designs are ideal for making thoughtful handmade cards, printable craft stickers, planner stickers, junk journals, scrapbook pages, party décor and small-business craft makes.

There are 5 mini collections for you to choose from  Woodland Winter, Festive Wishes, Starry Celebrations, Cosy Cocoa and Pawsitively Festive but I definitely couldn't choose a favourite.

This is my first card using the new release but as always there's loads more inspiration for you in the gallery on the Polkadoodles website

My Winter birthday card today uses the Woodland  Winter collection.  I coloured Mabel with my Promarkers before  fussy cutting her out.

The background was created using distress Oxides, blending to create a Wintery sky for the scene before splattering with water and then white ink.

I die cute a couple of snowy hills, one of these I had added the sentiment to before printing, adding a little lilac ink to the top edge and lots of sparkly snow.

The finishing touches for the card was lots of extra sparkle to Mabel's hat and scarf.

I hope that you like my projects today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Happy Halloween

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital kit- Mabel Collection - Woodland Winter 

Distress Oxide - shaded lilac, iced spruce, speckled egg, wilted violet

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy ink - white

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - icicle blue

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

Wendy x

New Release - Christmas - Photo Strip - Robin with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Tuesday....I hope you are having a good week so far... we've got family staying so having a few days being tourists, trying to keep cool and eating too much as usual ! I'm missing my crafty time so managed to sneak some quiet chilling time to myself today to create a little and catch up with the blog.

Today I'm sharing a cute DL Christmas card  made for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using another of the new Photo booth digital stamp sets.

These cards feature a very funny Robin, its the  Robin Photo Strip set available in the Etsy shop.

I really love all of these Christmas stamps as they are such versatile stamps and can be used all together as one image or you can split them to create 4 separate cards.

I remember seeing a die last year or so that created a strip of film roll so I wanted to create this as I think the Robin looks like he's trying to make a film of him flying in with his Christmas banners.

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers and then I used a small square die to create the notches in each side of the card panel.  Once I had cut all these out I used my black promarker to create the fil strip effect.

Finishing touches were some glittery sparkle on the robins hat and I used a white Posca pen to create the snow in the scene.

I hope that you like my cards today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

#LOTV #Liliofthevalley #LOTVDT

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

LOTV Digital stamp set  - Robin Photo Strip

Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle blue

Posca pen - white

     

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

 Wendy x

Silly Snowman - Freebie Digital Stamp - with Julia McNeil Designs

Hello everyone Happy Friday! I hope that you've had a great week and you are nearly ready for Christmas.

Today I'm back to share a Christmas card for JMC Designs  that I've made using the December freebie digital stamp - this is the Silly Snowman and I think he's perfect for a few people I know after a little too much festive partying.

Every month Julia McNeill very generously gives away a fabulous digital stamp, which is available to everyone in her Facebook group JMC's Crazy Crafty Hive and also to her followers via Instagram, all you need is to use your email address to register for the stamp. 

Here is the link to register and download this months digital stamp.

If you have missed any of the previous freebies then Julia has kindly put together a list of them all with the links for each so you can download them and don't forget to share your projects in the group as we would love to see them.  Here is the full list of the freebies 

I do hope that you like my card for today and I'd love it if you'd leave me a comment. 

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.

JMC Designs - Silly Snowman digital freebie

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - 

Distress Inks - peacock feathers

Lawn Fawn Hillside stencil

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Posca pen - white

Sakura Gelly roll - White Pen

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

Wendy x

Rasha Reindeer - Freebie Digital Stamp - with Julia McNeil Designs

Hello everyone Happy Friday! I hope that you've had a great week and the weather has been kind where you are.... I know there has been a lot of snow over in the UK and its been very cold in some areas.  It's still really sunny and warm here during the day so great weather for working outside but colder in the evenings, not quite cold enough for the fire yet!

JJ has started pruning the trees while the work continues on the era ! I've not been great lately with bad tinnitus for several weeks and then I had my flu and COVID jabs this week which have somewhat floored me but apart from a sore arm I'm feeling a lot better today, so fingers crossed I can get outside and start helping with the pruning.

Today I'm back to share a Christmas card for JMC Designs  that I've made using the November freebie digital stamp - this is Rasha Reindeer and he looks like hes having a few problems with his boots in the snow, hope he masters them before Christmas Eve.

Every month Julia McNeill very generously gives away a fabulous digital stamp, which is available to everyone in her Facebook group JMC's Crazy Crafty Hive and also to her followers via Instagram, all you need is to use your email address to register for the stamp. 

Here is the link to register and download this months digital stamp.

If you have missed any of the previous freebies then Julia has kindly put together a list of them all with the links for each so you can download them and don't forget to share your projects in the group as we would love to see them.  Here is the full list of the freebies 

I do hope that you like my card for today and I'd love it if you'd leave me a comment. 

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.

JMC Designs - Rasha Freebie digital stamp

LOTV - Frosty Christmas Paper pad

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - The Snowy Days - Sentiment bundle 

Distress Inks - peacock feathers

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Glossy accents

Sakura Gelly roll - White Pen

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

Wendy x

Christmas in July - Caroling Snowman with Paper Nest Dolls

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Sunday! I hope that you are having a lovely weekend. 

I'm on my blog today with another Christmas in July card and this today I've used an image that I previously coloured with alcohol markers but again I've reached for my coloured pencils to colour a gorgeous image called Caroling Snowman by Paper Nest Dolls

This is an A7 or  5" x 7"  card created with a simple mat layer of black card.  

I started off by resizing the sweet image and printing out onto Neenah Desert Storm cardstock, before using my Spectrum Noir pencils to colour the image.

For my wintery scene I have blended distress inks around the background to create a nighttime sky.  I used a hillside stencil and some white dye based ink at the bottom of the panel for my snow scene and then to finish of the card I splattered white pearlescent paint for the snow.

I added white gel pen highlights here and there to finish off my card for today.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my  card for today and will drop by again to see my next project.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Paper Nest Dolls digital stamp - Caroling Snowman

Distress Ink - salty ocean, chipped sapphire

Craftelier Watercolour paints - gold selection - pearl silver

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white, black

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

 Wendy x

Christmas in July - Have a Tree-mendous Christmas - Pickles Hedgehog with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday ! 

Its going to be a hot day today here so I'm channelling my inner cool with a snowy scene card - not sure it will work though 

I'm here today to share another Christmas card, this time using a digital image from the very cute Pickles Hedgehog collection by Polkadoodles.  Its a great collection and this one is definitely not just for Christmas

This is an A7 or  5" x 7"  card created with a simple mat layer of black card.  

I decided to dig out my coloured pencils to create this card so started off by resizing the sweet image of Pickles with his Christmas tree  and adding a sentiment from the Bella Bear Christmas collection at the top before printing out onto Neenah Desert Storm cardstock.

I used my Spectrum Noir pencils and had loads of fun colouring the image before blending distress inks around the background to create a wintery nighttime sky.  I used a hillside stencil and some white dye based ink at the bottom of the panel for my snow scene and then to finish of the card I splattered white pearlescent paint for the snow.

I added white gel pen highlights here and there to finish off my card for today and I have to say I'm loving the look of this and its a nice change from my alcohol markers which definitely don't like the heat much!

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share for Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Pickles Hedgehog -  Christmas Tree

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Bella Bear Christmas - Sentiment Bundle

Distress Inks - tumbled glass, weathered wood, uncharted mariner, chipped sapphire

Lisa Horton Crafts - Cloud 9 Ink - Falling Snow

Craftelier Watercolour paints - gold selection - Pearl silver

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, silver

    

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

Wendy x

All About the Snow - Magic is in the Air - White on White Winter card

Hello everyone I hope you are having a lovely Sunday.....

I've had a few bit and pieces from other card projects on my desk for a few weeks and I thought today it was about time to use them or throw them away so here is a super sparkly Winter snowflake card.

There are a couple of challenges that I have seen too, one to make a white on white card and the other to feature snow so that was the inspiration for this card.

I love the look of monochromatic cards especially using white and it was an opportunity to use up some white glitter card scraps - too good to throw away.

The sparkly snowflakes have been die cut from white glitter card and white glitter craft foam.

The background layer is a piece of upcycled biscuit packaging that I have embossed using a snowflake folder.

I love the effect of the corrugated card with the embossing

To finish off the snowflakes on the design I've die cut some flower centres and then added clear iridescent sequins.

The sentiment is a simple strip sentiment that I've mounted onto card strips for extra dimension.

 

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next card I share on my blog.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

 

Card recipe:

Crafters Companion Embossing folder - Frosty Morning

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies- Large Snowflake

Lisa Horton Crafts - Euphoria Glitter Cardstock

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - flower centre from Box no 1

Sugar & Spice sequins -  Unicorn

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

 Wendy x 

Let it Snow with Patties Creations

Happy Friday everyone I hope that you are all well and have had a lovely first week of the year.

Tonight here in Spain we celebrate the arrival of the 3 Kings (it's not looking good so far for the town procession sadly as we finally have some long awaited rain, but I'm sure the kings will manage to get here ok anyway)

The first Friday of the month 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 January is Snow/Snowmen, 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 January project, I chose the Kitty Snowman digital stamp and made a simple a6 (UK size) card.  I resized the image to suit and printed it out before colouring with Promarkers.  The sentiment in my design panel is from the Jolly Santa collection by Polkadoodles.

This is a one layer card and the background has been created by blending distress inks to create a wintery sky, adding water splatters and then splatters of white ink for the snow.

To finish off the card I added a layer of navy card behind the panel.....

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:

Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Kitty Snowman

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Jolly Santa - Sentiment bundle

Distress Inks - salty ocean, wilted violet

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy Ink - white

Sakura Gelly roll pens - white, black

Promarkers used :

snow kitty:          cool aqua, blender

                          pale pink

carrot:                burnt orange, orange, pumpkin

twigs:                 umber, cocoa, burnt sienna

scarf:                 burnt orange, orange, pumpkin

buttons              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

I love Promarkers #549 For the Men Sponsored by Dr Digi's House of Stamps

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Wednesday! I hope that you are having a lovely week, not long now until Christmas 

I'm on my blog today for the new bi-weekly I Love Promarkers blog challenge , it would be wonderful if you joined us over there if you love to colour with alcohol markers and don't forget there are prizes up for grabs.  

You can find all of the rules and details for the challenge over on the blog. 

This challenge is being sponsored by Dr. Digi's House of Stamps

Here is my inspiration card for the current blog challenge with the theme - For the Men, using the super cute Patient Pets digital stamp.  I cant decide if they want to go out and play in the snow or stay all warm and cozy inside - I  know what our kitties would choose!

It's a larger 5 " x 7"  scene card created using papers from my stash for the wallpaper and the flooring of the room.

The image was coloured using Promarkers and then fussy cut out.  To create my window I've used a small piece of white card, blending distress inks to create a snowy sky and snow hills and then I've freehand drawn in some fir trees onto the hills.  To create the snow I've splattered the panel with white ink.

For the window I cut a small piece of acetate, adding snow with a posca pen and then assembled this onto the card.

The sentiment has been cut out and adhered to the top of the card to look like a piece of hanging wall art, with brass drops for the fittings.

I blended a little brown distress ink over the background for extra detail and added some copper sequins to tie the design together.

I really hope that you like 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 I Love Markers blog

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Dr.Digi's House of stamps - Patient Pets

Polkadoodles  Designer Papers - Peeling Paint

Craft Sensations Paper Pad - Grunge

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy ink - white

Spectrum noir Colorista pens - forest green, umber

Distress Ink - tumbled glass, uncharted mariner, tea dye

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white, black

Lisa Horton Crafts - Washi tape sentiment

Nuvo Crystal Drops - copper penny

Posca pen - white

Sugar and Spice sequins - Alloy

Promarkers used :

Curtains:        royal blue, china blue, cobalt blue

Kitty:             ginger, apricot, saffron

Bulldog:         warm grey 4, 3, 2, 1

                     burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Labrador:        caramel, buttercup, primrose

                      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