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

Sending Love - Hello Lovely with Lili of the Valley (LOTV)

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely Friday.... and wishing you all a wonderful Happy Valentines Day too !

I'm back today with a card project for Lili of the Valley (LOTV) using one of the gorgeous  stamps from the recent release of Polymer stamps which is available to buy now from the Etsy shop.  There are 4 gorgeous A5 sets and you can buy in a bundle or individually.  

My card today is using stamps from the Sweet Wishes set to create a sweet little  Flip or Swing card.

 

Its a really simple design using red card and patterned papers from the Funky Hearts collection to layer onto the card base.  I used stitched heart dies to create the simple flip design

The sweet little kitties were coloured with Promarkers and I used my Polychromos pencils to add the extra fur details.

Finishing touches were some red and pink enamel dots and a couple of the sentiments from the set.

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 polymer A5 stamp set  - Sweet Wishes

LOTV digital background paper - Funky Hearts

red and pink enamel dots

     

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

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Wednesdays - Valentines - Love Always with Polkadoodles

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

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 Valentines and to include some paper weaving - not something I've done for a very long time!

My card today is a larger A7 5" x 7" card with a wide border of white around the design.  I have used a die to cut a panel from bright pink card to frame my paper weaved panel.

I then cut 1/4 " strips of striped paper from the Lily Bug collection and adhered these to a panel of card, weaving each strip to create a closed weaved panel.

My sweet bunny is from the Love Always collection - its called Love you this much and he was resized and printed out before colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting him out.  

I've used my Polychromos pencils to add texture to his fur.

The sentiment is also from the Love Always collection, printed out and fussy cut out.

To finish off my card I added some teal confetti around the design and glossy accents to the sunglasses.

I hope that you like my bright and cheerful card today that's full of love 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 stamp - Love Always collection - Love you this much

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Love Always collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Lilybug Ladybird collection - paper set 4

Spellbinders confetti - lagoon

LHC Mini Slimline die - Decreasing stripes

glossy accents

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Valentines Sweet Treats - Noodle Panda 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 Valentines Sweet Treats, to make a card using food and drink so I decided to use Noodle Panda Ice Cream Sundae

This is a fairly clean and simple A2 (US size) card.  I started by adding one of the lovely papers from paper set 2 to the side of a panel of alcohol friendly cardstock.

Next I added Noodle with her delicious looking  ice cream sundae. Whats your favourite flavour of ice-cream ? Noodle couldn't decide so she has gone for mint, strawberry and mango.

I printed the panel out and then coloured with my promarkers (see below for the colours), using colours from the papers to coordinate with my design.

I printed the sentiment onto thin card using my new LaserJet printer and then used gold foil with my new Minc Machine, adding this foiled sentiment to top right corner of my main panel. 

To complete the card I've used layered stitched edged dies to cut a background panel of pink cardstock  adding this to my card base using wet glue. Next I have mounted my die cut design panel on top of this using craft foam for added dimension.

Just a few co-ordinating sequins were added to the card -  another clean and simple and not too much fuss.

I'm so happy with the foiling so be warned there'll be lots more !

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:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Noodle Panda - Ice Cream Sundae

Polkadoodles digital paper - Noodle Panda - Paper set 2

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Love Always - Sentiment bundle

Pretty Pink Posh Essentials dies - Diagonal Stitched Rectangles

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white, black

Craft Consortium sequins

Promarkers used :

Noodle:         blue black, ice grey 7, 6

                    warm grey 2, 00, blender   

                    dusky rose, pale pink

                    china blue 

Cherries:       burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                    forest green, bright green, leaf green

Wafer:           caramel, sandstone, saffron

Ice Cream:    lemon chiffon, saffron

                    mint green, pastel green

                    dusky rose, pale pink

                    lavender, ivory

Bowl:            ice grey 0, 00, blender

Spoon:          ice grey 2, 1, 00

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

Wendy x

Love, Love, Love with Pattie's Creations

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

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 February as you would expect is Love, Love, Love, 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 February project, I chose  to use the Bear Love with Balloons digital stamp to create a 6" x 6" card.

I resized the image to suit and printed it out, colouring with Promarkers and then fussy cutting out.  

The sentiment on my design panel is from the Love Always collection by Polkadoodles and I have foiled this with gold foil , before cutting out and layering with card for dimension.

I chose a paper from my stash to coordinate with the cute fluffy bear and adhered this to a Kraft card blank, adding two strips of the reverse paper towards the bottom of the card, this would allow me to ground the bear image.

The heart was die cut from vellum before embossing with a heart design embossing folder and then I have added this to the card, hiding any glue behind the bear image. I find that vellum is perfect when there is a busy background paper in the design, to separate it from the image better.

To finish off the card I added a few sequins around the design, added clear sparkle to the balloons and glossy accents to the bear's nose.

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 - Bear Love with Balloons

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Love Always - Sentiment bundle

Minc Foil - gold

Loisirs Creatifs paper pack

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Nested Hearts

Leonie Pujol Embossing folder - Growing Love

Glossy accents

Sakura Gelly roll pens - white, black, metallic grey

Promarkers used :

Bear:            chocolate, cinnamon, tan

                    champagne, antique white

                    salmon pink, pink camelia

Balloons:       marine, turquoise, pastel green,

                    hot pink, carmine, cerise

                    gold, sunflower, buttercup

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

Wendy x

You Captured My Heart - Cupcake Gnome with Pink Gem Designs

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Thursday and I hope that your week is going well.

I'm here today to share a sweet Valentine's card that I've made using a very cute brand new digital stamp called Cupcake Gnome by  Pink Gem Designs

I have to admit that I'm not a huge Gnome fan (I know shock horror as everyone seems to love them - maybe its a childhood thing but  think they are kind of creepy!) but I thought this was so sweet I couldn't resist colouring it up for this card.

This is a very Clean and Simple A6 card with lots of lovely white space. I resized the image, printing out onto alcohol marker friendly cardstock, colouring with my promarkers (see below for colours) and fussy cutting out.

For my CAS card I die cut a white heart from card for my design and adhered this to my background panel, offset to the right, cutting off the overhanging portion.

The sentiment from Polkadoodles was printed out and foiled and then adhered flat to the card panel 

To complete my card I layered the white panel onto a teal card stock, adding two thin strips of the same card on either side of the sentiment strip.  I then adhered the Gnome with foam tape, offsetting to the left of the design and added teal confetti to add some extra shine.

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Pink Gem Designs Cupcake Gnome

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - 

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Nested Hearts

Distress Ink - tumbled glass, picked raspberry, Squeezed lemonade

Pretty Pink Posh Confetti - Lagoon

Minc Foil - Teal

Promarkers used :

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

 Wendy x 

Digi Choosday - Valentines Day - Lucy Monkman 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 to make a Valentines Day card, using an image from the Lucy Monkman collection or Gil Rabbit collection.

 

For todays card I decided to use one of the gorgeous images from the Lucy Monkman Collection of digital stamps.  

There are some absolutely gorgeous and very stylish digital stamps in black and white and pre-coloured too if you prefer not to colour.

Today's card is an A6 size with a simple red glitter card along with a black and white check paper from the Lily Bug collection to create a couple of mats and layers for the image.

 

I resized the Stylish Dog image and the coloured with Promarkers (see below for colours) before using one of my dies to partially die cut the image, I then fussy cut around the little flowers so they would overhang the red glitter border for a little extra detail.

The sentiment from the Lily Bug Ladybird collection was printed onto white card, layered onto card and positioned at the bottom of the image panel.

I added a couple of thin strips of patterned paper and the red glitter card too

To finish off the card I added a few red gems, glossy accents to the dogs nose and sparkle to the hearts.

I have a very special DT discount code that you can use for all your shopping on the Polkadoodles online shop at checkout use WENDYJ-10 and you will get 10% of your entire purchase (not in conjunction with other discount codes!)

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

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Lucy Monkman Collection - Stylish Dog/Puppy

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Lily Bug Collection - Sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles Digital Paper - Lilybug Collection - Paper bundle 2

Glossy accents

Sakura Gelly Roll pens - black, white

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens - clear

Red gems

Promarkers Used:

Dog:          cool grey 00, 1, 4

Bow:          burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

Hearts       

Flower:        burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

                   forest green

                   gold, buttercup

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

Wendy x

New Release - Tons of Love with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Friday everyone..I hope that you have had a good week and are looking forward to the weekend....we've got a little more rain today but with horrid winds so we'll be battening down the hatches before long.

I'm back today to share some exciting news about a gorgeous new collection of the sweetest elephants - The collection is called Tons of Love by Polkadoodles, I love elephants and we have loads around our house here, from big to small...there is something special about them.

It's a great digital collection for all sorts of projects, Valentines, birthdays, New Babies, Spring cards and lots more.  As always there are black and white digital stamps for you to colour and pre-coloured versions if you prefer, 3 paper bundles and a fabulous bundle of sentiments, there's also a set of elephant number images for those special birthdays too.  

There is also a fabulous 40% discount off this new collection for a limited time and if you are a VIP you will have received an email with details of a special extra discount just for you.

Ill be sharing my DT cards with you over the next few weeks but don't forget if you want some more inspiration for this collection why not have a look in the Inspiration Gallery on the website.

If you are making Valentines / Galantines or Anniversary cards then this sweet elephant image is perfect, this digital stamp is called Bundle of Love

This is a simple A6 (UK size) easel card, using 3 papers from the collection.  The main image has been coloured with Promarkers (see below for colours) and the panel mounted onto the card layered with a deep pink cardstock.  

I've also die cut lots of deep red hearts adding clear sparkle and highlights to some of these and glossy accents to a couple of the hand coloured hearts.

I hope that you like my special Valentines card today from this wonderful new Tons of Love by Polkadoodles and you'll be back to see another card from me very soon.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Tons of Love - Bundle of Love

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Tons of Love - Greeting Bundle

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Tons of Love - Paper Bundle 2 & Paper Bundle 3

Spectrum Noir Glitter Pens - clear

Glossy accents

Gems

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - black, white, clear star

   

                 

Promarkers Used:

Elephant:        cool grey 5, 3, 2, 1

                      salmon pink, pale pink

Toes:              vanilla, pastel yellow

Hearts:           gold, mustard, vanilla

                      antique pink, salmon pink, pastel pink

                      cornflower, denim blue, pastel blue

                      green, soft green, pastel green

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

Wendy x

My New Stamp - AALL & Create #732 - Heart Medley by Tracy Evans

Hello everyone I hope that you have had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend ahead.

Its been really cold here this week and I have struggled to get warm, even with about 5 layers of clothes on

Today I have something different to share you you!  I think this would be perfect for a Valentines or anniversary card or to send just because.

I treated myself to a goody box over Christmas with lots of lovely new stamps and stencils and I thought I would just create something pretty.

I always seem to have a specific project or card to make and don't sit and just play as much as i used to so it was nice to have a day when I could just play, with nothing particular in mind.

This is what I have created.  There are lots of layers to this DL card and I love all the different textures.

There's even a layer of upcycled corrugated packaging (from a packet of biscuits)

I stamped the design in black ink and put this aside to dry whilst I re-stamped the image in a deep cherry ink.

The center rings and the hearts around the design were fussy cut out and layered back onto the black ink panel once it was completely dry.

I added a little gold gilding wax around the edge of the design and some fine jute threads under the fussy cut rings which were mounted on foam tape for dimension.

To finish off my card I used a white and gold gel pen to add highlights around the image and adhered black gems to some of the hearts.  

Card recipe:

AALL  & Create Stamp -  # 732 Heart Medley

AALL & Create Washi Tape - #6 - Crafty

Versafine ink - Onyx Black

Adirondack Ink Earthtones - Cranberry

Pebeo Gilding Wax - Empire Gold

Jute

Pretty Pink Posh Gems - Midnight Black

Sakura Gelly roll pen - black, white, gold, clear star

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

 Wendy x