Digi Choosday - Theo Penguin collection - Big Hat Day - Non Traditional Christmas colours - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you are having a good week....So, November is here and I think it's about time we got a little bit more Christmassy...it's not long to go after all and those cards need to be made and posted.

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 Anything with non traditional Christmas or Winter colours.

I decided to use a cute little digital stamp from the Theo Penguin collection for this weeks card making a Winter card that could easily be used at Christmas too!

The main Theo image is  called Big Hat Day and he was, resized and coloured with promarkers before fussy cutting out.

For the background I chose 3 alcohol markers in purple, teal and blue and used these to scribble onto a piece of vellum, adding alcohol to the scribbles to get the colours to blend and flow. It's a really fun technique and gives some fabulous effects.  

When I was happy with the overall effect and before the ink was completely dry I applied some electric blue foil to the areas that were still tacky.  I decided I wanted more foil so then splattered foil glue across the panel and once this has gone tacky applied more of the same foil.  It's super shiny and I love how it looks.

The coloured sentiment from the collection was printed and layered onto the pale aqua card after die cutting a stitched wavy border 

To finish off the design I added some sparkly aqua blue gems and white pen highlights around the design.

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 !

recipe: Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Polkadoodles digital stamps - Theo Penguin - Big Hat Day

Polkadoodles digital sentiment -  Theo Penguin - sentiment bundle

Cosmic Shimmer - cosmic twinkles - Icicle blue

Sakura Gelly Roll pen - white

Alcohol markers  - purple, blue, teal & alcohol

Crafters Companion foul - electric blue

Gilding flake glue

Lawn Fawn die  - stitched wavy border

Echo Park Snowflake dies

Crafters Companion sparkle pen - clear

Aqua gems

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

Wendy x

World Cardmaking Day - Autumn Crafting - Freddy Fox collection with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Saturday... its also World Card Making day too and I hope that you are joining in with the fun and creating something today.

It might be the 4th October but its a beautiful sunny Autumnal day here today and the temperature is expected to climb to 30C which is lovely but a little unexpected.  

I decided to share a couple of Autumn cards I made recently using the Ephemera bundle from the fantastic Freddy Freddy Fox collection  to celebrate the colours of Autumn.

The ephemera set is jam packed with images for you to colour or comes with pre-coloured images too if you prefer not to colour. 

For the first card I chose a couple of the butterflies from the bundle, colouring with promarkers and fussy cutting out.  For the simply block background I used some pieces of masking tape to create four rectangles on the panel and then used distress oxides to blend colour over these from light to dark - I love the striking look and its such a simple but effective design.  

To create the shadow behind the butterflies I printed the two butterflies onto the base panel before inking and then simply coloured them in with a black marker pen before adhering the butterflies on top.

The sentiment, from the collection was added to the centre of the card before printing too and I applied rose gold foil using my Minc.  The panel was then layered onto my card blank with a mat of black glitter card.

To finish off this simple design I added some rose gold confetti around the the card.

For my second Autumn card I decided to create a fun inky background so on a piece of vellum I scribbles some alcohol markers in patches and then added a little alcohol to this, using my Tim Holtz blower to move the ink around, adding more colour until I was happy with the overall effect.  Once dried I added a splatter of wet glue on the panel and when the glue was tacky I applied gold foil to the splatter - it give a very delicate look but I think this works well with the vellum.

For the main image I chose the bird house with sunflowers and a couple of the little crows from the ephemera bundle, colouring these in again with my promarkers before fussy cutting out and adding to my card.

I printed out one of the sentiments from the collection and adhered this across the bottom of the card to give a ground for my design to sit on.

To finish off the design I added white gelly roll pen highlights around the the card.

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 !

recipe: Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Polkadoodles digital stamps - Freddy Fox Collection - Ephemera bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Freddy Fox Collection -  Sentiment bundle

Distress Oxide - dried marigold, wild honey, crackling campfire, festive berries, rusty hinge

Minc foil - rose gold

Crafters Companion foil - gold

Spellbinders confetti - rose gold

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Mother's Day - Not a card - with Polkadoodles

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

It's that time of the week to share some 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!  

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 create a Mother's Day project but not a card.

I decided to create a little embroidery hoop picture - its's definitely something that my mum would have loved to hang up on a wall. 

I decided to use the beautiful pre-coloured image from the Pretty Flower Wreath Digi Deal for my project today, resizing this to suit the size of the embroidery hoop and adding this onto a layer of floral paper from the kit before printing out.

I then printed this out onto thin card and also onto vellum, using a torn edge die to cut out the main image.

Next I stretched a peice of cream fabric into the embroidery frame, trimming of the excess and then using Mod Podge to seal the edges at the back of the hoop.

I covered the front of the fabric with a layer of white gesso and allowed this to completely dry before adhering the die cut out image onto the hoop and covering with Mod Podge to seal the design.

I then fussy cut out some of the flowers and extra butterflies that i had printed onto vellum and used a clear 3D silicone glue gel to adhere these onto the image.  

To finish off my project I added some super sparkly crystal gems around the design and threaded purple twine to hang the hoop onto a wall.

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: Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Polkadoodles digital deal  - Pretty Flower Wreath

embroidery hoop

Pretty Pink Posh crystals - Sugar plum

Mod Podge

Vellum

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 #770 - Add an insect - Sponsored by Clearly Besotted

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all ! I hope your new year has started well so far and if you are affected by the heavy falls of snow in the UK stay safe and keep warm.

Today as things get back to normal after the Christmas holiday, I'm here to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge.

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by Clearly Besotted and our them this week was chosen for team 2 by the lovely Linda.  I chose to use a gorgeous image by Polkadoodles

I chose to use a really sweet image from the latest Winnie Daisy Fairy collection.  This is image is Bluebell Flower and I have created a DL card for this with a layer of pretty leafy paper from the collection and one of the sentiments.

I resized the image to suit my card blank and then printed out onto alcohol friendly card stock before colouring with my promarkers and then fussy cutting out.

I chose to die cut a simply scalloped frame from vellum for the panel and then adhered this and the coloured image to the card along with the large printed sentiment.

The finishing touches for my card today were white gel pen highlights a touch of glitter gel to the flower stamens and some coordinating sequins around the design.

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 - Winnie Daisy Fairy - Bluebell Flower

Polkadoodles Digital paper - Winnie Daisy Fairy - Paper Set 3

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Winnie Daisy Fairy - Everyday Greetings

Cosmic shimmer - cosmic twinkles - diamond

Sugar & Spice sequins - mojito mix

LHC slimline die 

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

Promarkers Used:

     

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

 Wendy x

Merry and Bright - Winter Cottage Snow Globe - with Pattie's Creations

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

I hope that you are starting to get into the Christmas spirit - we'll be putting our tree and decorations up hopefully over the weekend.

The 1st 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 December is Winter Around the World, so as long as you use a digital or stamped image in your project, 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 December project and to add to my stash of Christmas cards, I chose  to use the Winter Cottage Sow Globe digital stamp to create this pretty A7 or 5" x 7" card.

I resized the image to suit my card size and printed it out before colouring with Promarkers.  I then fussy cut out the base of the snow globe and set aside.

Next I used a circular die to cut an aperture from a peice of snowflake patterned paper.  I adhered the glass part of the snow globe directly to the card base and then adhered the patterned paper over the top of this.

As the patterned paper is quite busy I cut a panel of vellum to adhere over the top, running it through a snowflake embossing folder for texture.  I applied a little Kraft coloured ink to accentuate some of the snowflakes.

I then adhered the base of the snow globe to the card using foam tape for dimension, adding a small bow from bakers twine.

The sweet banner sentiment was heat embossed in rose pink and added below the image.

To finish off the card I added lots of sparkle around the design 

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:Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Pattie's Creations digital stamp - Winter Cottage Sow Globe

LOTV - Patterned Paper - Krafty Christmas

Lisa Horton Crafts - Embossing folder

Ranger Adirondack Dye Ink - Latte

Stickles - Star Dust

Bakers Twine

Promarkers Used:

                  

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

Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Wednesdays - Christmas with metallic matts and layers with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday I hope that your having a good week so far, I cant believe  we are almost at the middle of November  I hope that  if you make your own Christmas cards like me you are cracking on with it as the month is disappearing fast and you need to remember to get them posted too!

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 a Christmas card with metallic mats and layers.

I have to admit that I don't tend to use much metallic card stock these days - its used to be very trendy years ago but I tend to use it only as accents and for frames now and mostly for Christmas cards, but i think it fits the bill.

I chose to use another cutie from the new Gingerbread Cookie collection.  This card has been made using one of the cute digital stamps, 2 papers , a sentiment and the pre-coloured mittens and earmuffs from the Snow Day Bundle,

I used gold mirri card to create an arched frame, adding vellum behind this and layered the sentiment onto a piece of gold mirri card too.

I used a white Posca pen to add snow to the vellum panel and to add a little sparkle some iridescent sequins have been adhered around the design, along with glossy accents on the gingerbread girls icing.

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:Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Gingerbread Cookie - Snow Day Bundle

Polkadoodles digital papers - Gingerbread Cookie - Snow Day Bundle

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Gingerbread Cookie - Snow Day Bundle

Polkadoodles digital ephemera - Gingerbread Cookie - Snow Day Bundle

Glossy Accents

Posca pen - white

sequins

Promarkers Used:

Gingerbread:    vanilla, lavender

                       burnt sienna, caramel, sandstone

                       antique pink, bright green, ginger

dress:              burnt orange, orange, ginger

                       antique pink, salmon pink, misty rose

                       gold, sunflower, buttercup

Hat:                 gold, sunflower, buttercup

scarf

Holly:               forest green, bright green, leaf green

                       burgundy, poppy, lipstick red

skates:            ice grey 5, 3

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

Wendy x

Mother's Day card - Noodle Panda - Digi Choosday - Picked just for you 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 a Mother's Day card.  Isn't it strange that Mother's Day falls on different days around the world.  

In the UK its on March 10th, whereas in the US its May 12th.  Here in Spain its May 5th.  For my card today I chose to use one of my favourite recent collections Noodle Panda - he's such a cutie and who wouldn't want a bouquet of flowers from a cute panda. 

This is a bright and cheerful easel card with yellow and hot pink cardstock which I've used to add layers of die cut hearts.  One of the hearts has a layer of Vellum in the centre.

The papers that I've used are from a New Release of Winne that's coming out very soon - so a little sneaky peak - shh don't tell Nikky !  

The sentiment is from the Darling Buds collection and I've used hot pink foil to add shine.  The card when folded flat fits perfectly into an a6 envelope.

Finishing touches where some super sparkly hot pink gems and, hot pink foiled candi and white  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:

Noodle:     blue black, ice grey 7, 6

                warm grey 2, 00

                dusky rose, pale pink

                china blue

Flowers:    hot pink, carmine, cerise

                gold, sunflower, buttercup

Leaves:     ocean teal, pastel green

                forest green, bright green, leaf green

                holly, pine

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Noodle Panda collection - Flower Bouquet

Polkadoodles digital paper - New Winnie collection

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Darling Buds collection - Spring Flowers/Mothers Day collection

Lisa Horton Crafts Dies - Nested Stitched Hearts

Crafters Companion border die

Craftelier  - Essential Dies - Frames

Minc Foil - Hot Pink

Pink Gems

Craftwork Cards - Card Candii

Craft Consortium Sequins

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

Sheepy Sheepy Sheep Sheep - Fun Spring card with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Friday everyone.  Wishing you all a lovely day today.... Spring is here, the perfume from the orange blossom and the wisteria in the garden is gorgeous and the birds are definitely feeling very twitterpated.

That being said we've had several days now of rain! 

Wonderful I know for the ground and the reservoir is showing signs of filling finally, but sad for the Easter fair and processions here in town that started on Thursday.  Hopefully it wont put people off too much. 

I thought today I would share a cute card using the Sheepy Sheepy Sheep Sheep collection by Polkadoodles.  

It's perfect for Easter and Spring cards alike and there's such a good choice of images too in the set.  I decided to make a DL card so chose two of the images in the set, enlarging one sheep that would sit at the bottom of the card and then resizing the other 3 times and reversing the direction of one image too.  The large sheep at the bottom is Georgie and the smaller sheep is Darren. 

I wanted to create a hillside scene and have my sheep springing around.  I coloured the sheep in with Promarkers and then fussy cut them out. Next I created my scene, blending distress inks to create a hillside and adding a touch of blue at the top for the sky.  

The sheep were then adhered tot eh card using foam tape and then I hand drew little springs below the bouncing sheep on the card. They are having so much fun leaping around but I'm not sure that Georgie approves !  

Don't forget there are pre-coloured images too if you prefer not to colour 

The sentiment is from the Rebel Girl collection, printed onto vellum so it didn't detract from the scene.

The finishing touches were a few highlights of white gel pen around the design

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 - Sheepy Sheepy Collection 

Polkadoodles digital Sentiment - Rebel Girl collection - sentiment bundle

Distress Ink - Salty ocean, mowed lawn, twisted citron

Sakura gelly roll pen - white, black

Promarkers used:

Sheep:      pale cream, lemon chiffon

                pale pink

                blue black, cool grey 7,5

Bow:        hot pink, carmine, cerise

Leaves:     forest green, bright green, meadow green

Flowers:    hot pink, carmine

                orchid, lavender

                apricot, bisque

                yellow, primrose

     

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