Autumn and Fall Card Making Ideas - New Release - You Make the world a Better Place - Hello Autumn collection with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Monday  everyone... I hope that you have had a great weekend.   

After a few slightly cooler days the temperature has ramped up again and it's really humid too which isn't helping.  I am now longing to see a little rain and cooler nights too.

I'm super excited to share another card today using the brand new digital release by Polkadoodles called Hello Autumn.

The Hello Autumn Collection is a cute and whimsical mix of Autumn and Halloween digital craft supplies featuring adorable woodland animals, pumpkins, witches, ghosts and spooky seasonal fun. Perfect for card making, scrapbooking, Cricut and ScanNCut projects, paper crafts and printable crafts, the collection includes digital stamps, pre-coloured clipart, printable papers, scene backgrounds, toppers and 160 greetings and sentiments. 


From cosy Autumn / Fall makes to cute Halloween cards, Hello Autumn is packed with everything you need for creative seasonal crafting.

This is the most adorable Hedgehog Sunflowers and what a huge bouquet of flowers he is carrying.  I love sunflowers, they are such happy flowers and bring a smile to everyone face.  They were one of my mums favourite flowers too !

Once again I have the pre-coloured image from the collection, partly because using my promarkers in the heat we have been experiencing has been a nightmare but also because I know that a lot of my crafty friends love using the pre-coloured digital images...they are perfectly coloured by Nikky too !

My card is a beautiful 6" x 6" Upright Easel card, made from a Kraft card base and layered with pretty autumn papers from the collection.

The main hedgehog image was printed out a couple of times so I could fussy cut out the bouquet to add on top of the image and I have blended a little warm yellow distress ink over the edges of the image panel to tone down the whiteness of the card.

The coloured sentiment was printed and added to a panel of Kraft card and then this adhered to the centre of a strip of card and paper to act as the easel stopper. I decided to embellish the card with die cut Kraft card flourishes and little gold vellum flowers.

To finish off my card today I've added clear sparkle pen over the bouquet of flowers and coffee coloured confetti around the design.


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 - Hello Autumn - Hedgehog Sunflowers
Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Hello Autumn - Greetings bundle
Polkadoodles digital papers - Hello Autumn - paper set 1 & paper set 6
Spellbinders confetti - latte
Spectrum Noir sparkle pen - clear
flower punch
swirl die



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


Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Magic is something you make - Book Cover - Magical Fantasy - Serenity 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.  The Middle of august already and its definitely a hot year 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 Magical Fantasy Autumn.  

As a rule I'm a card maker, it's what I love doing to relax and keep my brain busy but I have so many cards, more than I could ever send so I wanted to create something different.

I was inspired by a lovely crafty friend and her recent projects to create myself a little art/card book and as I love all things magical I thought this would be the perfect theme for my project today and chose to use the Serenity collection.

I treated myself a few weeks ago to a disc binding punch and a few sets of discs and then began by creating the front and back covers for my little book.

    The floral papers used for the reverse of my book covers were from the Octavia Moonfly collection

I printed out the Serenity Fairy Princess digital stamp onto alcohol friendly card stock along with a couple of the sentiments from the collection, colouring her in and fussy cutting out.

My next step was to use the disc punch to create the holes in the panels ready to add the binding discs later on.

I added some pink distress ink around the edges of the panel and a little stencilling with cream acrylic paint for texture.

I then used a couple of extra papers, cutting these out and layering onto the front panel before adding the fussy cut Serenity fairy onto the cover with foam tape.

To finish off my book cover today I've added white gelly roll pen highlights, lots of sparkle, a torn strip of washi tape,  a little strip of grosgrain ribbon and scattered lottos of sparkly gems around the design as I always love a little sparkle, finally adding the discs to join the front and back covers of my book.

I'm really please with my little art book and I'm looking forward to filling it with lots of lovely pages of inspiration.

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 - Serenity Collection - Serenity Fairy Princess

Polkadoodles digital papers - Serenity Collection - Paper heaven 3 & Paper heaven 2

Polkadoodles digital papers - Octavia Moonfly Collection - Paper bundle 5

Polkadoodles digital sentiments - Serenity Collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles Craft Stencil - Boho Daisy Love

Artis Decor Planner disc punch

Artis Decor Planner discs - pink hearts

Washi tape

acrylic paint - cream

Distress Ink - tattered rose

Distress Oxide ink - milled lavender 

Sequins and gems from my stash

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 - Party Animals - Happy Birthday - Birthday Card - with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Thursday I hope that you are having a great week.

I've got a yoga class this morning that I'm looking forward to and then we are off out with friends up the mountain to a small village above ours for a few drinks and a catch up.

Its been an extremely hectic few days  - it was hubbies birthday on Monday and his son and grandson arrived on Saturday for a surprise visit....as you can imagine we are both shattered but had a great time.

We also managed to sneak a night away on the coast at one of our favourite hotels to celebrate - it was wonderful but were both glad to get back to normal LOL.  

I'm back with another cute card using one of the party animals from the recent March release by Lili of the Valley (LOTV). available now from the Etsy shop.

My fun birthday card today features the bunny with a scrumptious looking cake.

There are 4 little characters...perfect for loads of different occasions....I hope you have had a look at them by now - they are so easy to colour in.

I added a sweet LOTV sentiment to the panel below the bunny before printing out

Just some simple colouring with my promarkers before cutting out with an arched die, partially cutting around the bunny ears. I adhered the bunny panel to the card using a low profile foam tape.

I've used a bright colour dotty paper from my stash to create my simple card and finishing touches added of white gel pen highlights, sparkle pen to the birthday cake and clear sparkly gems around the design. 

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 - Bunny

LOTV Digital sentiment - 

Crafters Companion Sparkle Pen - 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 - SVG Spring is Here - Spring Card - 3d Pop up Card - Gnome for Spring Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week.  It's the middle of March and its definitely beginning to look a lot like Spring here - buds on the trees starting to burst open, beautiful fragrant almond blossom and there's a definite buzz in the garden now.

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 Spring or Easter themed card and to use this colour palette 

One of my crafting goals this year, as you know is to use my ScanNCut machine more so I set myself the challenge to use one of the wonderful Digital Print and Cut Files and make a 3D pop up card.  Two completely new things for me to learn and I am so happy with the end result.

I started off with the Files from the Spring is Here download and worked out how to print these and use the Cut file included to cut out the images....

The really simple way was was to print out the coloured image file, scan in the image and then use this direct to cut tool, but I discovered that the detailed cuts were missing.  

Not a huge problem I know and the elements as still beautiful as they are but I wanted to get the detailed cuts too.  It took me a few attempts to work out which files to use with my ScanNCut machine but I did it in the end using the high quality png file and the dxf cut line only was the combination that worked for me.

But then I wanted to push myself further as the coloured images didn't match the colour palette Nikky had asked us to use.  So I set to work again, working out which file I needed to use that I could edit and alter the colours, I also wanted extra copies of the butterflies and tulips for my design.  Once I was happy I  recreated the cut file, using the original version to suit my new image.

I'm so happy it worked - took me a few hours to work out what I was doing but it was so worth it and will be quicker next time !

Next I designed my Pop Up Box in the Brother CanvasWorkspace and once cut out set to decorating my Spring card.

The finished card folds flat and  fits an A6 or 6" x 4" envelope.  

I adhered some of the wood grain paper from the Udderly Cute collection to the card inserts - I think they look like benches in a little greenhouse.  The back Arched panel of the pop up was covered with one of the lilac papers from the Flower Meadow bundle.

I assembled all the cut out elements, adding a little distress ink here and there to emphasise the shadows etc.

To finish off the card I added confetti around the design and added some clear sparkle to the butterflies.

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 Print & Cut File -  Spring is Here

Polkadoodles digital paper - Udderly Cute Cows  - Paper Pack 5

Polkadoodles digital paper - Flower Meadow bundle

Polkadoodles digital print & cut SVG file - Spring is Here

distress ink - shaded lilac, wilted violet, mustard seed, twisted citron, mowed lawn, salty ocean

Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen - clear

Pretty Pink Posh confetti - sugar plum

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Thinking of you always - Mothers Day - Birthday Card - Fence Card - Udderly Cute Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week.  It was our wedding anniversary yesterday so we had a quick trip down to the coast for a walk on the beach and a lovely lunch.  I love the sound of the waves and the sunshine reflecting on the water so it sparkles - very special to see.

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 Mothers Day or Mothers Birthday card...my Mum absolutely loved her garden and I think anything with flowers always reminds me of her.  I decided that I would create a Fence Card or Lattice card as it would be perfect with the papers and ephemera from the Udderly Cute Collection

The finished card fits an A7 or 5" x 7" envelope.  I started with a piece of white card measuring 4 3/4" x 11 1/2" scoring this at 5 3/8 to create the base card.  On the shorter side of the card I then cut off 6 strips each measuring  1/2".  I also cut 2 strips measuring 3/4 " width by 4 3/4", these are for the fence posts.

I adhered some of the wood grain paper from the collection to the wood posts and planks and then adhered them to the card using a strip of masking tape to hold the card in position whilst the glue dried.  There are loads of tutorials on YouTube explaining how to create this type of card as it definitely was very popular last year. Have a look here on YouTube for a variation of the fence or lattice style card.

I used another of the floral papers to decorate the top section and the inside of the card.

Next I used my ScanNCut to cut out the elements from the Spring is Here SVG pack and blended a little distress ink to the sides of the plant pot to give it dimension.

The pretty daisy ephemera from the collection was perfect for my design so I arranged this on the fence panel before adding the little plant pot over the top of the bottom of the stems.

To finish off the card I added one of the little strip sentiments and some of the heart ephemera to the design.

to give the card a special look I scatted sparkly gems around the design and added some clear sparkle to the hearts.

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 ephemera - ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Udderly Cute Cows  - Paper Pack 2 & Paper Pack 5

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - sentiment pack

Polkadoodles digital print & cut SVG file - Spring is Here

distress ink - antique linen, tea dye, ground espresso

glossy accents

Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen - clear

Pretty Pink Posh gems - grapefruit

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Just Thinking about you - Mothers Day Card - Udderly Cute Collection - with Polkadoodles

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

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 Mothers Day card following this colour palette.

I don't really make Mothers Day cards, I prefer to make a thinking of you card instead as it' can be a difficult time for lots of people - I like to create a card that I think my mum would have loved to receive .

When I saw the colour palette I immediately thought of the the brand new Udderly Cute Collection  and specifically the ephemera.

The card is a simple smaller A6 card with a layer of pretty floral paper from the collection in the background.

I die cut an arched panel and a circular panel from grey and white cardstock, stamping the sentiment onto the circular panel 

I challenged myself this year to start using my Scan n Cut machine rather than fussy cutting by hand and the ephemera sheets were so easy to cut on the machine.

I chose one of the ephemera sheets cutting out the elements and then layered these onto my card some flat and some adhered with foam tape.

To finish off the card I added lovely sparkle to the macaron and the hearts and a scattering of sparkly pink sequins.

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 ephemera - ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital paper - Udderly Cute Cows  - Paper Pack 1

Polkadoodles stamp - Funky Rosy Posy

Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen - clear

Sugar & Spice sequins - candy floss mix

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

Wendy x

Wonderful Birthday Wishes - Mushroom Village - Freebie Digital image - with Julia McNeil Designs

Hello everyone Happy Saturday!  

I hope you are enjoying the weekend.....Well its the last day of January and its flown by...I'm ready for some better spring weather now but we've a few more windy and rainy days ahead.

I thought today I  would share a sweet little 3D pop up birthday card that I have made using the Freebie digital stamp for January by JMC Designs .  If you haven't seen it yet then don't worry here is the link to download the digital stamp.

https://mailchi.mp/9e777d6649dd/jmcfreedigimushroomvillage

I resized the image and printed it 3 times before colouring with distress inks for a vibrant spring like feel.

I then hand fussy cut out the 3 layers for my pop up card, adhering each to the card base.

Finishing touches were a stamped sentiment at the bottom, some sparkle to the clouds and windows and white gel pen highlights.

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

We would love to see what you make with this cute little winter snail so why not get creating and then upload it to the Facebook page JMCs Crazy Crafty Hive

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Distress inks

Spectrum Noir sparkle pen - 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 - Darling Buds collection - Thank you card - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you all had a Wonderful Christmas and New Year! 

The Polkadoodles DT has been taking a well earned break and I'm hoping that Nikky got to enjoy Christmas too but it must be so difficult when its your own business to get a good balance between work and relaxation.

Today the team is back and we're here to kick off the new Digi Choosday challenges for 2026 - I hope you will join in as you could win a fantastic prize.

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 Thank you so I d4ecided to create a special card for my best friend back in the UK - to say thank you for being such a wonderful friend.  I don't get to see her much since we moved to Spain and she doesn't really like to travel so I miss her loads but I know that she is there if I need her and we do chat from time to time via messenger.

I chose to use one of the beautiful girls from the Darling Buds collection - this is one of my absolute favourites - Crocus Flower girl.  I adore crocuses especially the yellow and purple ones.  We have a few in our garden here that I brought with us when we moved and they are just so pretty in bloom.  I was hoping they would spread more but I think the pesky fruit rats eat the bulbs - naughty things!  My BFF loves the garden and flowers so I think she'll love this card - fingers crossed.

I resized the Crocus girl to suit my DL card before colouring in with promarkers, using a yellow and purple colour palette before fussy cutting out.

Next I decided to create a fresh looking background directly onto the card base starting with one of the Switchable stencils.  I used the Triptych Square  stencils and yellow and purple distress ink to create my design.

 

I splattered a little yellow and purple ink across the panel and  then blended more yellow ink around the edge of the card.

To finish off the background I used one of the Funky Borders stamps and purple Distress Oxide ink to stamp into each of the corners, adding some very sparkly glitter to the little circles.

Next I adhered my little Crocus girl to the card base using foam tape for dimension and the sentiment was tucked into the design towards the bottom.

To finish the card I added some sparkly gems, more stickles to the dress, white pen highlights and clear sparkle pen to the flowers.  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 - Darling Buds collection  - Crocus Flower girl

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Darling Buds collection  - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles Creative Stencil - Switchable - Triptych Squares

Polkadoodles Craft Stamp - Funky Borders

Distress Oxide ink - wilted violet

Distress ink - fossilized amber, villainous potion

stickles - diamond

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Gems

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

Wendy x

Bunny Happy Returns - Bunny Birthday Photo Strip - Accordion Gate Fold with Lili of the Valley LOTV

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday and a great weekend ahead......We're off walking tomorrow with our local walking group - we set off in the coach at 6:30am so its an early night tonight and I'm definitely not looking forward to such an early start but hopefully it will be a fun day ahead....I'll let you know how we get on as its our first proper walk after the Summer so I'm sure well have achy legs on Sunday LOL

I thought we'd have a change from Halloween cards to I'm back today with a sweet little Bunny card using the Bunny Birthday Photo Strip by Lili of the Valley (LOTV)  available in the Etsy shop. 

Its a new card fold for me too and I'm really pleased how its worked out. The fold is called an Accordion Gate Fold and I watched a tutorial by Lisa's Stamp Studio but there are loads of tutorials out there and its a really easy card to construct.

This is the video on YouTube that I followed for the measurements etc. The finished card when folded fits neatly into a C6 size envelope.

For my card today  I have used some fun purple and magenta card to create the card base and then used  an old paper pad from my stash to layer onto the panels.

Its such a pretty paper pad from years ago (2014) called Bonnets & Bowties but was perfect for the colours and the card theme. I used the paper pad to help me choose the colours for the little bunny panels, colouring with promarkers before cutting out.

Finishing touches were some clear sparkle, purple confetti and white gelly roll pen highlights around the card.

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   - Bunny Birthday Photo Strip

LOTV Designer Paper - Bonnets & Bowties

LHC small envelop die

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

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