May Birthstone card - Emerald - Easel Card - Octavia collection - Digi Choosday - Big Bunches of Love with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday.  I hope that you have 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 to create an easel card for a May Birthday with the birthstone Emerald.  I have to say green isn't my first choice for a colour palette but I do love the colour.  

I started off with a 6" 6" Kraft card base and folded this to create a twisted easel card. I then chose a couple of papers, one with gorgeous leaves from the Noodle Panda collection and the purple polka dot paper is from a new Winnie Collection due to be released very soon.  

I used these papers along with some green and emerald green card to created mats and layers on the card and also to choose my colour palette for the main focal image, with Promarkers (see below for colours).

 

I wanted to use a beautiful image from the Octavia collection.  It's not a collection I have used before but there are some gorgeous digital images and papers that you will love.  

I'm loving this bright and colourful combination of purple and emerald and I think her emerald green hair is amazing.  

I used a little distress ink around the edges of the leafy paper to take away some of the whiteness.

Finishing touches where some super sparkly purple and green sequins from my stash, a piece of recycled green twine and white and metallic green gel pen highlights.  

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

Eyes:      lush green, emerald, mint green

Hair:       holly, pine, emerald, mint green

Dress:     plum, mulberry, wild orchid

Owl:        amber, bisque

               cocoa, caramel, bisque, pastel beige

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Octavia collection - Best Friends

Polkadoodles digital paper - New Winnie collection - 

Polkadoodles digital paper - Noodle Panda collection - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Noodle Panda collection - Set 3

Distress Ink - mowed lawn

Craftelier Basics Crafts Dies - Nested Hexagons

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white, black, metallic green

Sequins - green, magenta

green twine

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

Wendy x

Gingerbread Holly - Putting up the Tree with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone - Happy Thursday and a very happy December!..

It's the first day of December and we are putting up our Christmas decorations today - yeah I love this time of year.

My twisted easel card for today is using a digital stamp very appropriately called Putting Up the Tree from the Gingerbread Holly collection by Polkadoodles.

I love putting up the decorations in the house as it makes it feel warm and cozy  and it looks like Ginger is having fun with his Christmas tree too - I hope he manages to untangle those lights.

My card today is a simple 6" x 6" twisted easel and I've added a ring of flowers and baubles. 

The papers are from the Baked with Love collection - paper heaven 2 , the flowers and leaves are from the foliage set and the sentiment is from the sentiments set

I love how the new Gingerbread Holly stamps work perfectly with the older Baked with Love collection.

To create my circular frame I die cut to circular frames of Kraft card and then die cut a piece of acetate to match - the acetate is adhered between the two circular hoops.  If you wanted you could easily create a shaker panel for this card but I decided to add dots of white acrylic paint to the acetate, to look like snow.

To create the baubles, I imported the digital image into my graphics software and then enlarged the small baubles from the digital stamp, making them large enough to add to my hoop.

The digital stamp and baubles were coloured with my promarkers before being adhered to my card.

I added some Tonic Nuvo drops for the centres of my poinsettias.

 

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Putting up the tree

Polkadoodles digital papers, embellies and sentiment

Lisa Horton Crafts dies - torn edge circles

Tonic Nuvo Crystal drops - bright gold

Sakura Gelly Roll pen -  white, black

Posca pen - white

Promarkers used :

Ginger:            pastel beige, sandstone, caramel

                       pale pink

                       lavender, ivory 

Tree:                forest green, bright green, leaf green

Baubles:          burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                       amethyst, lilac, lavender

                       gold, sunflower, buttercup

                      

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

 Wendy x