A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #815 - Christmas - Sponsored by Lili of the Valley

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day - I hope that week is going well for you.  My goodness we've had so much rain over the last couple of days - everywhere is feeling very soggy and could do with a bit of drying time. 

We're starting phase two of our olive picking this week, assuming the rain stops long enough LOL 

The first batch of Olives has given us 200 litres of delicious extra Virgin Olive Oil and we'll probably get another 100 litres or so with the remaining trees to pick - not a bad yield at all.

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 'Christmas' it had to be really has been chosen by Me for team 2 and is being sponsored by Lili of the Valley.

For my card today I decided to create a snowy scene for one of the cutest snowmen -  the Top Hat Snowman

He's definitely such a happy looking chap.... I wonder if he's off to a Christmas party ?

I created a landscape stair step card using a standard A6 card blank and then for the step section I cut a piece of card  10" by 5 3/4" scoring this at 1", 2" 4" and 6"

The step section was then adhered into the inside of the card blank before decorating with a starry sky paper that I've had in my stash for years, for the middle and back panel and then used white card die cut to create snow banks, edging these with blue distress ink

The snowman and the trees were coloured with promarkers and fussy cut out, adhering to the middle panel.  The little star from the image was adhered using a strip of acetate so it floats in the sky above the snowman.

I added a couple of die cut trees to the card, these were coloured with distress ink and then the card was finished off with lots of lovely snowy sparkle.

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:

Lili of the Valley - Top Hat Snowman

Lili of the Valley - Cute Christmas sentiments

Distress ink -  salty ocean, twisted citron, rustic wilderness, brushed corduroy

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

New Release - Christmas in July - Photo Strip - Snowman with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Sunday....I hope you are enjoying the weekend...its very hot here at the moment so I've been having quite a bit of time in the shade and trying to keep cool with lots of water to drink lol.

I'm here today with 4 sweet little Christmas cards for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the new Photo booth digital stamp sets.

These cards feature the Snowman Photo Strip set set available in the Etsy shop.

These are such versatile stamps and can be used all together as one image or you can split them as I have done to create 4 separate cards that I think are adorable.

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers and matting with coloured card.  I die cut little windows for the images and used embossing folders to create texture at the bottom of the panels.

The sentiments I've used for each card are from Cute Christmas sentiment set and I've foiled each one to match the card.

Finishing touches were some glittery sparkle on the snowman's hat.

I hope that you like my cards 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  - Snowman Photo Strip

LOTV Digital stamp set - Cute Christmas

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

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

Happy Christmas from All of Us- Snowmen - Happy Christmas with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday.... Oh my goodness our Christmas decorations still aren't up - that's a first in I don't know how many years... there's been so much going on and I've not really felt up to it but hopefully over the weekend.

I'm back today with a card project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous sets of digital stamps, this is a cute set of Snowmen from the Etsy shop. and I decided to create a landscape DL card.

The set includes 8 different snowmen and I loved the way they were peeking over a snowy bank.  I combined two images to  create this card, reversing one of the images before printing out and colouring with Promarkers.

The sentiment that I have used is from the Snow Cute set  and I used a piece snowflake of paper from the Frosty Christmas backing paper set.  The frame was die cut from white glitter card and I blended a little blue distress ink over the patterned paper.

Finishing touches were some glitter to the snowmen's hats.

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.

LOTV digital stamp - Snowmen 

LOTV digital sentiment - Snow Cute set 

LOTV digital paper - Frosty Christmas backing paper

Distress ink - salty ocean

Comic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - icicle blue

Promarkers Used:

Snowmen:       cool aqua

                      pale blossom

                      orange, bright orange, ginger

Hats:              burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                      lavender, ivory

     

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 #749 - Christmas in July - Sponsored by SheepSki Designs

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 'Christmas in July' (Well it had to be really ! has been chosen by Me for team 2 and is being sponsored by Sheepski Designs

For my card today I chose to use a fun digital image called Snowmen Selfie...I wanted to make today's card look like one of those old Polaroid photos..not that old really and I think they had a bit of a trendy come back a couple of years ago!

This is a simple portrait card that easily fits into a standard 6" x 6" envelope.  I started off by creating my card blank cutting a piece of lilac card measuring 12" x 5" and scoring at 6", folding and burnishing.

The image was then resized to suit the card and I also printed out a digital sentiment on alcohol friendly card stock in my LaserJet printer.  

I coloured the snowmen with my Promarkers, keeping a simple vivid palette (see below for colours used) and then foiled the sentiment in my Minc machine. 

I then used a rectangular die  and a square die to create my polaroid, cutting out of glossy phot paper so I could mount the frame over the image. 
The foiled sentiment was mounted onto the bottom of the frame using scrap card for a small amount of depth.

The finishing touches were some white roll pen highlights and I used a white posca pen on one of the hats.

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:
SheepSki Designs Digital stamp - Snowmen Selfie

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Jolly Santa collection - Sentiment bundle

Minc Foil - Teal

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white

Posca Paint pen - white

photo glossy paper

Promarkers used :

Snowmen:    pastel blue, blender

Carrots:        burnt orange, orange, ginger

Top Hats:      blue black, cool grey 7, 5

                    burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Coal:            blue black, cool grey 7, 5

Hats:            aubergine, amethyst, pink pearl

                    marine, turquoise, soft green

Fur:              lavender, ivory

Twigs:            deep mocha, burnt sienna, caramel

Pipe

     

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

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

Walking in a Winter Wonderland - Floral Snowmanwith Pink Gem Designs

Hello everyone and a happy Sunday...and happy Bonfire night to all my UK based friends.

I hope that you are all ok and have managed to keep out of the awful weather...the high winds here have been quite scary and have definitely put a stop to harvesting our olives, for the time being at least. 

Hoping the winds subside soon everywhere.

Today I'm here with a Christmas card for Pink Gem Designs using the very beautiful Floral Snowman

This is a gorgeous black line image that comes as a PNG and a JPG file.  

I have created a one layer card A6 (UK Size), resizing the image to suit and adding two digital papers to the bottom of the design, before printing out onto alcohol friendly cardstock.

I like to use Transotype Perfect Colouring Paper 250g/m2  for my colouring printing it out at a reduced black intensity to prevent any bleeding and give a softer outline which I prefer.

Once coloured in with my Promarkers (see below for the colours), I stamped the sentiment in green and black pigment based ink adding clear embossing powder and heat setting.

The image was adhered to my card base with a layer of black card as a mat layer and I've added some sparkly to the pom pom of the snowman's hat.

A very simply, very vibrant and I think rather gorgeous Christmas 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:
Pink Gem Designs digital stamp - Floral Snowman

Polkadoodles Digital papers - Gingerbread Holly - Papers 1 & Papers 2

Sizzix Stamps - Seasonal Vibes #2

Papermania DoCrafts Pigment base ink - lime green, black

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens - black, white, gold

Card Making Magic A6 Nesting Die set

Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Promarkers used :

Flowers:           burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                       burnt orange, pumpkin, sunflower

    

Leaves:            forest green, bright green, meadow green

                       ocean teal, pastel green

Berries:            burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Carrot:             burnt orange, orange, pumpkin

Snowman:       cool aqua, blender pen

Hat:                blue black, cool grey 7, 5

                      forest green, bright green, meadow green 

Scarf:             sunflower, yellow, primrose

 

                      

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

Wendy x

Let it Snow - Snowman with Robins with Pink Gem Designs

Hello everyone and a happy Monday... I hope that you all had a good weekend

Today I'm here with a very sparkly snowman card for Pink Gem Designs using the very sweet Snowman with Robins digital stamp set

This set of digital stamps includes  a gorgeous black line and a pre-coloured image a 2 coordinating sentiments.  

This is a sweet card A6 (UK Size).

I created a simple snowy background blending 3 distress inks across my background panel.

Next I used some vary sparkly stencil paste to add snow across the entire panel, allowing this to dry completely before adhering to my A6 card blank.

I used a simple stitched border die to cut out the panel - using dies can help make sure our panels are perfectly cut as I know a lot of people ( including me !) have problems cutting with guillotines and paper trimmers.

Whilst my background is drying I then resized the snowman and sentiment to  fit, printing out on alcohol marker friendly cardstock before printing out, colouring with my Promarkers and then fussy cutting out.

I then simply adhered the snowman to the card using foam tape for dimension and added the sentiment at the bottom of the card.

A very simply and super sparkly card!

I really hope that you like my clean and simple 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:
Pink Gem Designs digital stamp - Snowman with Robins

Distress Inks - spun sugar, picked raspberry, tumbled glass

Comic shimmer Luna paste - moonlight pearl

echo park designer stencil - Christmas cheer

Lawn Fawn Clippings stencil - hillside

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens - black, white, gold

Card Making Magic A6 Nesting Die set

Glossy accents

Promarkers used :

Poinsettia:        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red    

                       forest green, bright green, meadow green

Robins:            burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                       caramel, sandstone, pastel beige

                       deep mocha, burnt sienna, caramel

Carrot:            burnt orange, orange, pumpkin

Twigs:             deep mocha, burnt sienna, caramel

Snowman:       cool aqua, blender pen

Hat:                blue black, cool grey 7, 5

                      forest green, bright green, meadow green 

 

                      

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

Wendy x

New Release - Theo the Penguin - Snowman with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone - wishing you a lovely Sunday.

I have such a simple card today for you using the new release Theo the Penguin by Polkadoodles.

This digital stamp is called Snowman oh I hope that he doesn't fall over but I think this was perfect for my circular card as it does look like the snowman might topple over.

For this  single layer card I used my graphics software to overlay the black and white digital stamp and the sentiment onto the snowy background from the paper collection 3 before printing it out.  You could very easily use the pre-coloured digital stamp to create this card.

I then coloured my penguins and snowman with Promarkers and simply die cut this using my torn edged circular dies.

The base card is simply die cut using my Lisa Horton Crafts dies and I've added a layer of beautiful glitter card to the base for sparkle.

I've added just a few clear iridescent sequins around the panel to finish it off.

It doesn't get much simpler!

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from this cute new Theo the Penguin digital collection

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Theo the Penguin - Snowman

Lisa Horton Crafts Euphoria Glitter Cardstock

Lisa Horton Crafts dies - Nested Torn Edged circles

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black 

sequins

Promarkers used :

Theo:               lavender, ivory, warm grey 2

                       pale pink

                       pumpkin, gold, ivory

                       black, ice grey 5, 4, 2

Baby:               lavender, ivory, warm grey 2

                       pale pink

                       pumpkin, gold, ivory

                       black, ice grey 5, 4, 2

Snowman:        lavender, ivory

                       pumpkin, gold, ivory

Scarf:              burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                   

               

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

Wendy x

November birthday with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone wishing you all a happy Tuesday.

Today is Digi Choosday and the start of a new challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog

Every Tuesday is DIGI CHOOSDAY! over at Polkadoodles which means not only a brand new crafty 'Anything goes' challenge but also that you get an amazing discount off all crafty printable downloads until midnight today!

Why not head over and take a look as it would be wonderful if you could join in as there are prizes to be won !

This week the DT was asked to make a winter birthday card but use no red or green and make a stepper or an easel card.

My Bestie has her birthday in November and she loves the film Frozen so I thought this would be the perfect image. 

The digital stamp is from the Winnie Winter Celebrations collection and is called Frozen Birthday and I've coloured it using my Promarkers using a purples and blues for my colour palette.  

This digital comes as a black and white image or pre-coloured if you prefer.

To make my stepper card I cut 2 pieces of mulberry coloured card stock

• 7" x 9 1/2" scored at 3 1/4", 6 1/2" & 8"
• 5" x 10" scored at 5"

I wanted to make a card to fit a 5 x7 envelope and have a slightly larger centre panel. This is actually a Faux Stepper card as its a lot easier to make and there are loads of instructions on the internet and YouTube if you want to make one similar - mixed up craft has some easy to follow instructions for different versions.

The papers I chose are from 2 collections, Winnie Winter Wishes bundle and the Lou the teacher bundle

My happy birthday sentiment is from the Winnie Daisy Fairy Greetings bundle and I've printed this onto vellum and cut into a simple banner shape.

To finish off my card I've added a few sequins, cosmic shimmer twinkles and die cut a couple of small snowflakes from the papers.

I hope you like my card for today and don't forget to join in with the 'Anything goes' challenge over at the DIGI CHOOSDAY BLOG!

 

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Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Frozen Birthday

Polkadoodles Winnie Daisy Greetings bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Winnie Winter Wishes

Polkadoodles digital papers - Lou the Teacher bundle

Crafters Companion Snowflake die

Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles - Icicle Blue

Sakura Gelly Roll pens - stardust, white, black, blue glitter

Craftelier sequins

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Promarkers used:

Winnie

Skin:                    almond, blush, oatmeal, soft peach, dusky rose, pale pink (blush)

Coat:                    midnight blue, china blue, cornflower

Scarf & Mittens:    amethyst, lilac, lavender

Hair:                    vanilla, caramel, sandstone, umber

Underskirt:            ivory, lavender

Party Hats:            maroon, mulberry, cerise

Snowman:            pastel blue, blender

                            umber, caramel

                            burnt orange, pumpkin

                            amethyst, lilac, lavender

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

Wendy x