Sketch time at I ♥ Promarkers!

Good Morning! I am here a day late with this post because i had a bit of a hectic day yesterday. I had my blood taken a few days ago and i got a call from my gp to say that my blood count has dropped to 89.

I kind of thought it was lower as i keep falling asleep and just exhausted doing anything.

Anyway  here i am with my card for the  I ♥ Promarkers! Challenge

This week the challenge is to follow the sketch

Here is my card..

The sponsor this week is Rick St Dennis who kindly gave the DT images to work with.

My image is called "Noth Pole Sign"

 Materials

Image coloured with Promarkers

Bear - Sandstone and Caramel Touches of Burnt Sienna in dark areas. 

Pole, sign and bow tie  - Ruby, cardinal and touches of burgandy in shaded areas

Other - Icicle, Ice Grey 1 and 2 and  Soft Aqua Flexmarker.

Papers - Papermania Home for Christmas

Dies - All cuts from my Silhouette Library.

Flowers - Mixed from Wild Orchid Craft and Hobbycraft, Ribbon and Gems from Hobbycraft. Essential Glue pad with Tim Holtz Distress Glitter.

Here are a few challenge i want to enter with my card - 

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Cute Card Thursday - Christmas Catch up

Happy Campers - Christmas

Digi Stamp 4 Joy - Anthing Goes

Thanks for popping by...Have a great weekend!

Hugs,

Crafty Calender challenge - Things with Wings!

Good afternoon. Sorry i am running a bit late with my post today but its been one of those mornings!

Today is the start of a new challenge at Crafty Calender. Laura has chosen the theme this month and decided on......Things with Wings!!

This month we are sponsored by Whimsy Stamps and as well as the fab prize of 5 images they also donated images for the DT to use so a big thanks to Whimsy Stamps for their sponsorship!

For my card i used "Mary the Magnolia Fairy" which you can by from Whimsy Stamps here. I really like this image. Its one you can use for all occasions. She was coloured with promarkers and her wings were glazed with Crackle Accents. The small cracks in the gloss looks like the veins in wings!

My papers are out my scrap box of papers which is getting out of control and why must use some up! The blue and pink floral one is Wild Rose Studio. Flowers and seam binding from WOC and charm, gems and butterfly from my stash.

I hope you find time to pop over to the Crafty Calender Challenge to check out more inspiration from the rest of the design team.

I would also like to enter the following challenges;

Charisma Cardz - something that flies

A spoonful of Sugar - Flower Power

I love Promarkers - Sparkly Bling

Truly Scrumptious - Summer Sparkle

My mums Craft Shop Challenge - Things with Wings

Have a lovely weekend!

Glittering Tilda for I love promarkers Birthday!

Hi, Thank god its Friday! What a week, its been so busy and i have not been feeling that great with my kidney pain etc so i am looking forward to having a nice weekend and thats the kids off school for 10 days. At least i can get up and ready without having to rush to get to school on time!

Onto my card. This was made for for the Magnolia Stamp Lovers challenge which is Glitter this time. My Tilda was coloured in with Promarkers and i have edged her all dress in Glossy Accents and glamour dust. This week at I love Promarkers they are celebrating their 1st Birthday!! They have a Birthday blog hop and a Birthday card challenge going on. The papers are the Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose ones that came free wiht my magazine. I made the white frame from a cut from my Cricut Wild Card Cartridge and i embossed it with a floral embossing folder. The larger flower is a home made one and the others are from Papermania. The green vines are from my Potpourri Basket Cartridge and have 

also been given the Glossy Accent and glitter treatment! The charm and chain, buttons, pins and lace were from my stash and the sentiment was from a pack of clear stamps i have and inked with the pink ink.

Heres the challenges i would like to enter with this card;

http://magnoliastamplovers.blogspot.com/ - Glitter Challenge

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Birthday Card!

http://stampwithsarahkay.blogspot.com/ - Buttons and Lace

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/- Buttons

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Hearts and Flowers

http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/ - Frame it

http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.com/ Oh So Charming!

Thanks you as always for visiting my blog and wish you all a lovely weekend!

Not a flower in sight!!

Hi, I hope you are all having a lovely lazy Sunday! I dont know where the day has went, got up tidied up and before i noticed it was 3pm! 

Here is a LOTV card with one of their new stamps. How cute are these images?! I just love their little feet dangling crossed over....too cute! I coloured them in with promarkers. The sentiment comes with the image. 

The sketch i followed is from the LOTV challenge this week. Its a fab sketch and is a good one for keeping it simple which is the challenge for the I love Promarkers challenge! I found it so hard to keep my hand out my flowers pot! Not even a gem or swirl in sight either. I used 3 buttons and the ribbon...thats it! The papers are from the Daisy and Dandelion pad that i have had for ages and its lay at the bottom of my drawer. Its got some good matching papers in there. I have also inked the edges very slightly with Dusty Concord distress ink. 

This is the challenges i want to enter this card into;

http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ - Sketch

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Keep it sweet and simple

http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/ - Buttons

http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com/ - Polka Dots - (I was 10 mins too late!!)

http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Spots/dots (Paper and Swiss dots embossed layer)

http://thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ - Its a couple thing!

http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/ - Cute

http://papercutzchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

Thanks again for looking and for the kind comments that you leave each time. It really is appreaciated!

What a Week!

Hi, well i have had the busiest week! The boys were off school with a bug and Ryan, the oldest, ended up with a chest infection. Carrie, my six year old has had a few hospital appointments this week because she is going in tomorrow for a operation. She has Auto Immune Liver Disease, this is where her own immune systems attacks her liver so she is going for another Liver Biopsy to see how her liver is doing She is also having grommets put back in for her hearing and her adenoid taken out again. They were taken out a few years back but her immune suppressant medication has caused them to grow back!! Strange but thats the theory! I am not looking forward to the the operation but it has to be done and better that they do it all at one time instead of two different operations which was the first plan!

Anyway here is my card for the Lili of the Valley Challenge. Great sketch as usual! I am running so late with this, i have 1 hour to get this posted!! I coloured my image with my promarkers. I love this image, so far one of my favourites. I have a feeling when i get my new stamps i might have a new favourite!

The sentiment is from my cricut wild card cart and onto a punched tag. The papers are ones i have had for so long that i cant remember. I think they are maybe DCWV ones but not sure!

The flower is again, homemade and inked with a pink ink pad. The gems and ribbon are from my stash.

I am entering into these challenges;

http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ - Sketch by Lena

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Punches (i punched the scalloped border and tag also got diecuts on the card)

http://craftyourdaysaway.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Thank You

Thanks for visiting and will be back online at the weekend. I will be staying in the hospital with Carrie overnight. Away to pack our bags!

Take Care

Cheers!

Hi There, I am having another sleepless night so what else is there to do but make and post a card for some challenges. There is quite a few challenges i am entering the card into so will just list and link them all at the end.

I used the sketch from the Sketch and Stash challenge, such a simple and easy one to follow. For the background i used one of my fav cuts from the Cricut Storybook cartridge. I mounted it on the tiny sized foam pads so it stood out. I decided, in one of my play about moments, to cover all the swirl cut in Crackle Accents...i dont know what i was thinking about but it actually turned out better than i thought. Kinda  looks like snake skin!! (Cant see it in this picture i dont think.)  My LOTV image is one i have had since its release date and never ever inked it up. I had it in my head that it would be a nightmare to colour....it was the total opposite. I used my Promarkers and for the cat i just used Cool Greys 1,2 and little bit of number 3. I added a few dots of Glossy Accents on the cats nose, present tag and the glasses.  The flowers are a mix match of flowers i had in my scrap/extra bits and bobs box and i just layered them and added one of my handmade flowers on the top. I inked all the edges of them and added Glossy Accents and tiny bit glitter. I actually liked how it turned out. My button was also a old button of the inside of my old jacket!! I added some of my favourite Glossy Accents and glitter. The sentiment was recycled of another old card i had lying about. The pin, beads, pearls and ribbon were just all from my stash.

Here goes for the list of challenges i am entering the card into!

http://thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ - Buttons and Bows 

http://crazy4challenges.blogspot.com/ - Celebrate Something

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Recycle ( i used a old button, flowers and sentiment)

http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/ - White is White. (Hope this is white enough!)

http://sketchandstashchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Followed sketch and i used a stamp bought a long time ago but never inked up until tonight!

Goodnight..(good morning actually) and thanks for popping by and having a look!

Take Care,

Thank You!

Hi, At long last i have had time to make a card!! Where does all the time go??

The sketch i followed is from Mojo Monday. My image is from TGF and i coloured her in with Pormarkers. The papers are My Minds Eye. I had got free papers like these with a magazine a while back and used them so bought more 12x12's this week in the sales!  The sentiment was cut from my Cricut Wild Card Cartridge and fits with the challenges running from Papertake Weekly and Cute Card Thursday. I am also playing along with the Corrosive Challenge which is to "Bling It On"! I have used plenty of bling on this card so i am sure that this will count! The flowers i made myself from Scalloped edge srips and a quilling tool! The leaves are cut from my Cricut. I have added glossy accents with glamour dust to the sentiment and leaves just to add a bit of sparkle.

Here is the links to the challenge blogs i am playing along with today;

http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/ - Bling It On

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ - Be Thankful

http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/ - Sketch

http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/ - Thank You.

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking!

Hope you all have a Great New Year when it arrives!

White Christmas!

Hi, Another late night! Today we had our first flutter of snow. It never came to anything but it definitely did snow! My card for tonight is all about snow! The Crafty Calender Challenge this month is "Winter Snowflakes and Crafts and Me Challenge is "Dreaming of a White Xmas". The card is a step card as you can see and i have used my snowflakes embossing folder to emboss the 2 layers on the base card. The image i have used it from LOTV and i just love it! I have coloured it in with my Promarkers. I have left most of it white obviously and used my grey shades to give shadows etc but you can hardly see it on the picture. The snowflakes are from my Cricut Potpouri cartridge and i have layered them up 3 times and used 3d foam pads to add depth. The charm, ribbon and pins just finish the card off and i added a little glitter to the smallest snowflakes. I have entered the Tip Top Tuesday challenge, they are looking for "Layer upon Layer"so this card fits in with that. There are a couple of "Anything Goes" challenges which i have entered and i will add the links to them below. 

http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Winter (DT also)

http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/ - Dreaming of a White Xmas

http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/ - Layer on Layer

http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes With a Bit of Sparkle!

Thanks for looking and for the kind comments always left!

Cupcakes...Yummy!!!

Another day, another card! This card was made for the Totally Gorjuss Challenge which is "Not a Square". The base card was cut from my Cricut Wild Card Cartridge and the top scallop was from the Story Book Cartridge. The cupcake paper is from Trimcraft. I love the colours of these papers.The image is from LOTV and one of my favourites, very cute! I have coloured the image with promarkers. I am also playing along with "Fab n Funky challenge which is Yummy, Yummy, Yummy and "I Love Promarkers" challenge which is Cupcakes. Papercutz challenge is Anything goes this week so i have entered the challenge there! The flowers, ribbon and pearls are from my stash. 

Heres the links to the challenge blogs i played along with;

http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.com/ -Not  a Square.

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Cupcakes.

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/ - Yummy! Yummy! Yummy!

http://papercutzchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes!

Thanks you all for looking and the kind comments!

Seeing Double!

This is just a quick post to my card for a few challenges that are about this week. The first challenge i am playing along with is the Just Magnolia Challenge. The challenge over there is 2x2 (2 of everything!) As you can see i have used 2 flowers and leafs twice, 2 sets of 2 gems, 2 DP's, and 2 charms. The charms are recycled from older cards that i have not given to anyone! It was harder than i thought using 2 of everything! The papers are from Bo Bunny and are scraps pieces that i had left over from other cards i made. I also used scrap cardstock from my scrap box that sits at my feet as i craft away. The Passion for Promarkers challenge is Recycled so i hope that all my scraps and old charms count! The colour theme of pink is fitting with two other challenges, I love Promarkers and Lets Craft and create. The image is coloured with Promarkers and the image of Tilda is fitting with the challenge over at Crafty Catz. The sentiment was cut from my Cricut Wild Card Cart and i sparkled it up a bit with glossy accents and glitter. I have also entered the card into the challenge at Craftalicious as the challenge is "Anything Goes".

This is the list of links to the Challenge blogs that i have played along with today;

http://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com/ - Think Pink

http://craftaliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/ - Tilda Week

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Think Pink

http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/ - 2x2!

http://www.promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Recycled

Thanks For Looking!

     

Sparkling Tilda!

 Hi, Its good to be back online! I was on holiday for a long weekend and when i got back my internet was down, anyway sorted now and can now get stuck into some of the great challenges that are about this week.

For this card i used a layout i used before for a challenge and loves it, so simple! The colour theme matched 2 different challenges, Stampin Bs and Fab n funky. I am not a fan of black white and red but i actually think it has turned out ok! The image of Tilda is coloured with promarkers and i have used glossy accents and glamour dust to sparkle her outfit up. The swirls were from a sizzix die i have had for ages, it actually is a flower with a swirl stem but i have cut off the flowers head and jut used the swirls. Again i have used glossy accents and glamour dust to sparkle. I added some pearls to the swirls.

As you can see from the picture below i have made the top layer so it opens up to show the hidden a tag inside. I used a brad to hold it shut by just catching the edge of the card stock under the side of the brad.

Here is the link to the challenges i have played along with this week.

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Pearls and Swirls.

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/ - Black White + One other colour.

http://stampinbsdesignteam.blogspot.com/ - Red, Black and White.

http://paperplaychallenges.blogspot.com/ - Hidden Extra.

http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes!

http://totallytilda.blogspot.com/ - Glitter and Sparkle.

Thanks for looking and also for leaving all the lovely comments!

Transport the Baby!!

Hi, Hope your having a lovely weekend. The weather here is not too bad, suns out bit the wind is quite cold. 

Here a card i made last night for a few differerent challenges. The image is one of my fav from LOTV , she is just so cute! I am hoping that a pram passes as a form of transport for the I love Promarkers challenge and also the Crafty Creations challenge too. Its all doodlebug papers on this card and the border is one cut from my cricut Storybook Cartridge. I use this cart so much, would be lost without it to be honest! The flowers are hand made as usual and the leaf is again from my storybook cartridge. The colour scheme was to fit with the challenge at Flutterby Wednesday where they are looking for pink along side the usual butterfly, fairy or angel.     I have used a few gems to give to some bling!

I loved the layout of this card, this was from the Papertake Weekly Challenge.

I am a big ribbon fan so use it on most cards but i refrained this time for a change, i think the border works great instead. I added my old favourite Glossy Accents to little areas on the image and to the border, flowers and butterfly but it doesnt show up in the photo which is a shame cos she has got little glossy boots and bow!

Heres the link to the challenges i have played along with;

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ - Sketch.

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Transport - Hope my pram passes for this one!

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/ - Transport - My first entry to this challenge!

http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.com/ - Pink + Butterfly

http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.com/ - Flowers

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Jewelled!

Thanks very much for looking at my card! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Sorry the picture aint that great!

Easel card!

Had a sleepless night as usual so was up making this card at 2am. I seem to be much more creative at that time of night! I also love the quietness..kids sleeping..just bliss!

 I love making easel cards, so simple but look great! I have also stuck to my favourite colours! I am entering the card into The Stamp Man challenge as the new challenge is easel cards. My image is from LOTV, one of my favourites and coloured with promarkers. I have embossed one of the layers under the image using my cuttlebug and floral folder, this fits with the challenge at "Our Creative corner".  I have used Acetate and made them stand out more by coating with Glossy Accents and sprinkled with MS Glitter and finished of with Pearls. The I love Promarkers challenge is Acetate so i am hoping the flowers will be enough to count! I really dont remember using acetate on cards since last Christmas, The DT cards over at I love Promarkers were amazing, gave me lots of ideas for next time! The challenges over at Flutter By Wednesday and Party Time Tuesday  is "Anything Goes". 

Heres the list of Challenges and links to them;

http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com/ - Embossing.

http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/ - Anything goes with Birthday sentiment.

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Acetate.

http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes with Butterflies.

http://thestampmanchallenges.blogspot.com/ - Easel card.

Well Thanks for looking and i hope you enjoy the rest of the day. For me its a afternoon tackling the ironing pile! Not my Idea of fun, would rather me at my craft desk making cards!

Challenges!!

Here is my latest card for a few different challenges. I followed Bevs sketch from the LOTV challenge blog and used a LOTV stamp from my stash. The colours i used were to follow the Warm pinks, Chocolate and whites of the Colour create Challenge. The paper is Dovecraft "Piece of Cake". For the I Love Promarkers challenge "buttons" is the theme so i used buttons on the flower centres and also to embellish at the bottom of my card. I also used Promarkers to colour my image. To finish off i used the sentiment "congratulations" which is the sentiment required for the Totally Gorjuss challenge. My flowers were cut from my Cuttlebug as well as the swirls. I added tiny drops of my old favourite Glossy Accents sprinkled with MS glitters to give the cake a bit of bling!
Here are link to the challenge blogs i have entered this card into!
http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/2010/07/challenge-24-buttons.html - Buttons.
http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/2010/07/challenge-58.html - Bevs Sketch and LOTV stamp.
http://colourcreatechallenge.blogspot.com/2010/07/challenge-49-warm-pinks-chocolate-and.html - Warm pink, Chocolate and White.
http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.com/2010/07/challenge-40-congratulations.html - Congratulations Card.
This was fun and easy to mix the 4 challenges together!
Thanks for looking! x x