Rainbows follow bad weather

Over at The Colour Crazy Challenge this time, 

we are being sponsored by Oddball Stamps.

I have used the image: Rainbows, from the Creepy Cutie Collection

I just loved this image and sentiment and coloured it with my 

promarkers and other alcohol pens. 

I used a white sakura pen for the white highlights. 

I fussy-cut around the rainbow, and kept the bottom of the card intact. 

A piece of blue card slipped behind the rainbow, 

and I dry-embossed and inked the edges. 

I found some rainbow washi tape, which I ran along the bottom, 

and added a couple of punched butterflies. 

I would like to enter this into the other challenges:

I love promarkers - atg - 1 March

Paper Funday - atg - 2 March

Digi Choosday - atg - 1 March

Through the craft room door - atg - 1 March

Jan's digi stamps - atg - 9 March 

Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 21 Feb

 

Love

Over at the Cut it Up challenge blog, 

I've designed my second card for them as guest designer. ..

I embossed a piece of kraft card in my bigshot

 and inked the ridges to draw out the wood-look.

The Love die is from Crafters Companion and the heart die is from

Memory Box - it's the precious hearts die and I carefully cut the heart off the bottom

of the string.

I felt it needed a bit of something ore so after inking the edges,

I added some washi tape. 

The butterfly was printed on the pc and fussy-cut. 

I think I will give this one to my hubby for Valentines day.

 i would like to enter this into the following challenges:

CAS on Sunday - male - 17 Feb

Creative knockouts - love / valentines - 17 Feb

Crafty gals - add a heart - 8 March

Lil red wagon - be my love - 16 Feb

Crafter's Cafe - CAS - 13 Feb

Dies R Us - love / valentines - 14 Feb

 Mirtillamente - atg - 1 March

Cardz4guyz - love - 22 Feb

Love

At Patties Creations this month 

the theme is "anything goes and / or Love"

I love Patties image called "apothecary jar" and decided to make it into my own...

 The jar comes with the lid attached - I carefully cut it to separate it.

I drew some hearts inside the jar, coloured with my promarkers and a few other alcohol pens.

I used some baker's twine to attach a little (X-Cut) diecut label,

on which I handwrote the sentiment.

The embossed background is from an embossing folder I'd forgotten I had!

I really like it though and will be using it more.

A line of dry embossing around the textured piece finished this card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Pink gem - atg -12 Feb

Di's digi designs - red and / or pink - 19 Feb

The Paper shelter - for the one you love - 19 Feb

Simon says stamp - with love - 10 Feb

Paper fun day - atg - 1 March 

Dies R Us - atg / love - 14 Feb (X-Cut die label)

Digi Doodles - love / friendship - 1 March

Shopping our stash - my heart BEETS for you - 15 Feb

Jans digi stamps - atg - 7 Feb

With deepest sympathy

 I'm over the moon to be a guest designer over at Cut It Up challenge blog 
for the next 3 challenges.

This time, the challenge is: "hard to say..." (ie: sympathy, sorry, belated)

I recently got a couple of lovely new dies and wanted to try them both, so made 2 cards...

This first card simply uses a Creative Expressions die - Daisy Edger.

I put a slither of washi tape to the straight edge,

punched out the butterflies with my Martha Stewart punch 

and added a stamped sentiment.

I love how intricate this die is. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;

Creative knockouts - use a die - 3 Feb

Through the craft room door - atg - 2 Feb

Crafters Cafe - CAS - 13 Feb

Happy little stampers - atg with dies - 1 Feb

This card uses a frame die for the works - I love stitched dies!

The new die here is the flowers...it's a die and stamp set. 

The first set like that I have bought!

It's called 'Blooming stamp and die set' by Karin Joan. (Studio Light)

Again, the sentiment was stamped

and I used my promarkers to colour the image. 

Those Martha Stewart butterflies have come out again - I love that punch!

The lines along the edge finished the card, and are dry embossed.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

I love promarkers - atg / flowers - 1 Feb

Jan's digi stamps - atg - 9 Feb

Passion for promarkers - embossing - 2 Feb

Die cut Divas- Flowers - 1 Feb

Perfectly CAS - diecuts and flowers - 12 Feb

Squeeze the day!

 

Over at the Colour Crazy Challenge, we have the pleasure of being
sponsored by my friend Pattie, at Patties Creations.

This is the lovely image: life gives you lemons.

This was a super-cute image to colour.

I used my promarkers and alcohol markers. 

I inked the edge of all the backing papers and added a strip of washi tape to the embossed piece.

The sentiment was made using sticker letters for the main word

then I hand-wrote the rest.

I like the word play on this card - from "seize the day."

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Creative fingers - atg - Feb

Creative crafting Uncles - atg - 1 March

C.R.A.F.T - ATG - 3 Feb

Creative knockouts - atg - 28 Jan

Gnome birthday

 Happy 2022!
I hope you had a lovely Christmas with family and friends and
 that 2022 has started well for you.

We were having a lovely time, until I went and fell over on a walk

on New Years Eve!

I'm now sporting a large scabby knee and a very tender kneecap.

Luckily, I have had this cute image to play with, from Patties creations...

He is called Bubble the Gnome.

The challenge for January is either "snowmen / snow" or "anything goes."

I'm not wanting to make any more Christmas cards just yet, however I do have a few 

birthday cards to make for the next few months, 

so choose "Bubble the gnome" for a card for my sister's boyfriend. 

I coloured him with my alcohol markers and 3D'd his beard and nose. 

The stamped sentiment is from Kaiser crafts 

and I diecut the stars, adding a little punched star in the corner.

The edges are all inked and I did some dry embossing along some edges. 

I'm pleased with the way this one came out...my first card for 2022!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - atg - 14 Jan

Cut it up - birthday card with a diecut - 13 Jan

Fab n Funky challenge - keep it simple - 19 Jan

I love promarkers - atg - 18 Jan

Digi choosday - winter birthday using blues - 17 Jan

Passion for promarkers - January Blues - 12 Jan

Through the craft room door - atg - 19 Jan

A place to start - atg - 1 Feb

Jans digi stamps - atg - 7 Feb

Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 16 Jan

Cheeky snowman

Over at the Colour Crazy Challenge blog, our sponsor this time is Digi doodles -  

I used this cutie snowman called "Jolly O'l Sparky Snowman."

 I coloured it with my promarkers and a few other alcohol pens, 

added a sentiment from my pc and stamped on some snowflakes and glittered the 

snowflake centres. 

The snow has been glittered in parts ( which didn't show too well on the photo)

and it has all been backed onto two christmassy papers.

A little row of Christmas bulbs sits above and below the image and it is 

finished with a Christmas present in the corner

and a diecut strip of holly n the corner.

Winter fun

At Patties Creations this month, the theme is "Winter Fun!"
and when I saw this bauble image, I knew immediately how I could
turn it into a winter-fun card...

Obviously, kitties have to feature! 
Seeing as one of our kitties loves to climb the Christmas tree 
(we have not been able to have any of our glass decorations up for the last 2 years
while we have had our little two!)  I thought I would sit one on a bauble, while the other watches.
The cats (and mouse) are actually peel-offs!
I don't really use peel-offs normally,
but thought they would be "purrfect" for this card!

I coloured the baubles with a selection of my grey promarkers 

and the bows with some other, coloured pens. 

The sentiment was from my pc and I embossed the image before

matting it on some christmas docrafts paper. 

I drew on the candy cane bar along the top and added bows to finish the baubles off. 

Mistletoe kisses

Yey! Another Christmas card done..

Over at The Colour Crazy Challenge,

we are bring sponsored by "All Dressed Up" and I got to use

this lovely image called "mistletoe kisses."

 I used it to make a Christmas card for Hubby's Mum and Dad.  

I coloured the image with my alcohol markers

 and popped it on a background that looks like ribbons, stitched together. 

Carefully, I added lots of punched fir branches to the top, in green and gold

and dotted on some red liquid pearls.

The finishing touch was to draw faux-stitching round the edge of the white diecut shape. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Christmas card for Hubby

Angie Blom is our sponsor this week at 

The Colour Crazy Challenge.

What an amazing image..well, actually, this is a little set - 

I used 2 images - (1)the kitty on the parcel and (2)the 3 cheeky kitties 

peeking in from the sides and (3) the sentiment.

I knew this would make the perfect card for my hubby...

 ...So I coloured the kits to look like our 2.

I used my promarkers to colour the kits,

I like the traditional Christmas colours, so stuck with red and green

for the present and hats. 

I stuck on some teeny peel--off stars, drew on a heart and diecut a tag for

the top, which I strung with bakers twine. I hand-wrote the tag

and tried to make it look similar to the font on the front. 

I think this card will make him smile.

I may have to make another similar card, for my Mum & Dad,

with their cat, Louie, on the front. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Polkadoodles - atg - 27 Oct

Creative Moments - atg - 20 Oct

Crafty sentiments- atg - 20 Oct

Digi Choosday - atg - 25 Oct

Passion for Promarkers - cute - 19 Oct 

Show us your pussies - any furrything goes - 1 Nov

Through the craft room door - atg - 20 Oct

Get Creative - atg - 1 Nov

Halloween

'Autumn / Fall' is the challenge that Pattie has set this week,

over at Patties Creations. 

 I used the fab image - witch's legs. 

It was really quick to colour with my alcohol markers

 and I put it with green, orange and purple papers.

The bats and silver moons (on the shoes) are little sequins.

I dry-embossed a simple line around the edge of the card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Cards galore encore - atg - 1 Nov

Crafters cafe - atg - 14 Oct

Digi doodles - fall / halloween - 1 Nov

Two old bats halloween - halloween - 1 Nov

Creative fingers - atg - 15 Oct

Flowers

Jan's Digi Stamps are sponsoring our challenge this week

at The Colour Crazy Challenge.

Jan has some truly amazing digi stamps and sets and I was 

lucky enough to get this image: Friendship Flowers.

The image was lovely to colour with my promarkers and

other alcohol pens. I also used my white sakura pen to put on little white highlights and details. 

The sentiment was computer generated.

I used a backing paper from an 8 x 8 pack of papers. 

I inked the edges of everything and dry embossed around the edge of the spotty paper

and added some washi tape to the top.

A printed butterfly (fussy cut) and faux stitching around the edge, finished this card

for my Mother-In-Law. 

 I would like to add this to the following challenges:

Seize the birthday - birthday with faux stitching - 1 Oct

Crafty Sentiments - atg  - 30 Sept

Through the craft room door - atg - 30 Sept

Vintage beetle

Patties Creations is giving us the "anything goes" challenge this week, 

and you could win some of her lovely images, including this one...

Vintage VW Beetle trip mobile. 

 I coloured the image using my alcohol markers

and embossed a background that I thought resembled tyres and inked the edges.

The spotty paper is from a dovecrafts 6 x 6 pack and 

I stamped the sentiment. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafters cafe - atg - 14 Sept

Crafts galore encore - atg - 1 Oct

The crafting challenge - atg - 3 Oct

Creative moments - atg - 6 Sept

Digi choosday - atg - 14 Sept

A drink by the sea

At Patties Creations this month, we have our popular challenge:

"under the sea / beach theme."

I chose "coconut drink with umbrellas"

and coloured it with my promarkers and alcohol pens. 

I dry embossed it round the edge, matted it on red

and popped it on a leafy background.

I dry embossed the edge of the card and added some papermania

 paper flowers, layered on each other. 

I also put some glossy accents on the umbrellas. 

    I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafters castle - atg - 1 Sept

PinkGem challenge - atg - 13 Aug

Cards galore encore - atg - 1 Sept

Movin along with the times - summer fun - 1 Sept

Crafty creations - atg - 1 Sept

Incy wincy designs - summer / beach - 16 Aug

 

Mermaid

At The Colour Crazy Challenge, we are being sponsored by: Ching Chou Kuik. 

I got this lovely image called: The tender Angie. (mermaid)

 She took an age to colour, with my promarkers and alcohol pens,

 but worth it when I had finished and fussy-cut around her. 

 I die-cut a frame in a few different papers to represent the sky and sand,

 ripping the edges carefully to appear like the surf. 

 The "sea " in the background was made with my promarkers and the "sky" behind her, 

was inked with my chalky inks. 

 The whole thing was matted and layered on a kraft paper, then a kraft / blue foiled paper.

 I love this card, if I do say so myself. :) 

I would like to add this into the following chalenges;

Crafts galore encore - atg - 1 Aug

Love to craft - atg - 1 Aug

Love to scrap - atg - 1 Aug

Daring Cardmakers - splish splash! - 1 Aug

Crafty Creations - atg - 2 Aug

Double D challenge - colours of summer - 3 Aug

Through the craft room door - atg - 4 Aug

Mums 70th Birthday

The challenge is "anything goes!" at

Patties Creations this week. 

 I chose the beautiful image !magnolia branch"

as I thought it would make the perfect card for my mums 70th birthday!

(Unfortunately, I couldn't attend her garden party last week as I was in isolation,

a child in one of my groups tested positive, then I tested positive a week later!) 

Anyhow...

I coloured the image with my alcohol markers,

added a stamped sentiment and diecut numbers, 

with a punched butterfly and heart. 

I edged it all in pink / yellow and popped it on a trellis-look  embossed background.

My Mum loved it!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative knockouts - atg - 15 July

Crafts galore encore - atg - 1 August

Createful heart - atg - 15 July

Scribbles designs - atg - 15 July

Addicted to stamps - any occasion - 20 July

Crafty Creations - atg - 1 Aug

Creative moments - atg - 20 July

Watercooler wednesday - all things feminine - 13 July

Cocktail, anyone?

 I got this image from our fab sponsor this week (Polkadoodles).

It's called "Cherry Cocktail."

I used my alcohol markers and promarkers to colour this cute image. 

I used some backing papers from a free pack of "summer" papers, 

which I got free in a magazine a looooong time ago!

The sentiment was stamped. 

I put some glossy accents on the cherries

and added some dots and faux stitching to the papers.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative fingers - atg - 10 July

Polkadoodles - atg - 5 July

The crafters cafe - insects / butterflies - 1 July

QKRstampede - atg - 1 July

Crafty Creations - atg - 4 July

Creative moments - atg - 4 July

Hootie birthday

"Things with wings" is the challenge this month at Pattie's Creations.

I have used the image called "Hootie"

and have made this card for my cousin, who loves owls!

 I have been having a mini sort in the craft room

and found some small doilies and I thought half of one would fit perfectly on this card.

I was playing about with the design for ages 

and it all seemed to come together when I spotted the doilies.

I fussy cut Hootie, after colouring him with my promarkers. 

The backing papers, circle with flower and sentiment all came from a freebie 

paper pack, which I must have gotten in a magazine at some point. 

The punched butterfly and faux stitching around the edges,

finished this card off. 

Pup with balloons.

At The Colour Crazy Challenge, 

we have one of our favourite sponsors this week: Bugaboo!

 I have used the image called "Pup balloons"

which I coloured with my alcohol markers and fussy-cut around. 

The balloons were given a layer of glossy accents. 

The frame is a diecut (done on my bigshot)

and I made a computer generated sentiment and a fussy-cut butterfly. 

Ship in a bottle

 It's the "anything goes" challenge at Patties Creations this month! 

I used the wonderful image called "ship in a bottle"

I thought it would make a great card for my Dad, for Fathers Day. 
When we were younger, I am sure my Dad made one of these.
I coloured it with my promarkers and popped it on a little 'stand'
 made of scraps of card, inked around the edges. 
The backing paper is from a 12 x 12 set I bought in a pound shop a looooong time ago.
I made sure that the word CANADA can be seen just underneath the bottle, as that's
where we have had a fair few wonderful holidays! 
The edges of that were carefully torn and inked.

I t needed something on the edge to help it all pull together, so I opted for a thick black and thinner brown hand-drawn line. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative knockouts - atg - 13 May

Creative moments - atg - 21 May

The Male room - water / beach - 2 June

Pig out!

The Colour Crazy Challenge are being sponsored this time by Imagine That Digi Stamps. 

I used the very cute image called "a little behind."

It comes in a set of super-cute images and sentiments -

although for this card, I made my own sentiment as I was giving this to a friend

who I had also bought a little bag of edible treats for. 

 I definitely wanted the pink / brown colour combo for this card,

so found some matching papers in my stash. 

I inked and dry embossed the edges of each piece, added some faux-stitching

and some punched flowers and butterflies and some diecut swirls and leaves.

This card was very well received! :) 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Through the craft room door -  atg - 4 May  

Seize the birthday - atg - 12 May

I love promarkers - atg girly - 11 May

Card for a young girl.

My neighbours little girl turned 8 last week

and I made her this card.

Pink, flowers, birds, bunting...

 The frame was diecut on my bigshot, 

along with the "happy birthday" her name and age and the little birds.

I cut little triangles for the bunting and popped the frame and sentiment 

onto 3d foam. 

The butterflies were punched.

I fussy cut one of the flowers from the design to pop in the top left-hand corner,

Teacups

We have a fabulous new sponsor for our challenge

over at The Colour Crazy Challenge...

Rachel Vass designs.

I got this gorgeous image called: Sketchy Rose Cups.

I love using this image and wanted to give it a very delicate look.

So, I used a pink petticoat backing paper (no longer trading)

and some pastel coloured promarkers, to colour the image.

I inked all edges in a dusky pink inkpad and dry embossed around the edge of the image. 

Die-cut corners and a few punched butterflies finished this card.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafty friends - ladies / girls - 1 May

Cardz 4  galz - tea or coffee - 9 April

Digi Choosday - atg - 9 April

Lil patch of Crafty friends - atg - 4 April

Birthday!

This month at Pattie's Creations, 

it's the favourite "anything goes" challenge.

I chose "fondant cake" and was spoilt for choice, because it comes with 2 images!

This is one of them...

I picked some pastel coloured promarkers to colour the cake

 and added a little pattern to each layer - using white sakura pen and 3D pearl effects.

I die-cut the frame and handcut a few little bunting triangles,

which I patterned with my sakura pens. 

As I often do, I finished with a dry embossed line around the edge of the card.

I am sending this card to my friend, for her birthday (she is a cake baker!)

(The little "happy birthday" scroll is not park of the image -
I stamped it from one of my sets and and fussy cut around the scroll. )

Crafty friends - Ladies / girls - 1 May

Crafty Creations - atg - 6 April

Digi choosday - atg - 9 April

A passion for Promarkers - something beginning with "B" (birthday cake) - 6 April

A card for a friend

We got another new sponsor over at The Colour Crazy Challenge! 

I loved using this super-cute image from Hetty Clare.

Its called "flowers for you".

It reminded me of a friend of mine, so I have sent it to her, for her birthday. 

 I dry-embossed a simple frame, in a square shape around the image and 

fussy-cut it, so that the girls head stuck out in the top corner. 

I used the colours and patterned backing paper which I thought my friend would like. 

The sentiment was stamped on an off-cut of card 

and I coloured the image with my promarkers. 

The middle of each sunflower has a blob of glossy accents on.

I added a little hand-drawn faux stitching around the edge of the frame

and dry embossed around the edge of the card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafter's cafe - atg - 15 March

Crafts Galore Encore - atg - 1 April

Crafty friends - happy birthday - 30 March

Creative sketchy girls - girls only - 20 March

Crafty Creations - atg - 3 April

Cup of hugs

The favourite "anything goes" challenge

is the theme this month at Patties Creations. 

I got the image called "Latte with whipped cream" 

and made this card...

 I decided to do a rainbow whipped cream with my promarkers,

and I found the 'hugs' sentiment on my pc.

(I must have had it for a very long time, because I don't remember

where or when I got it !) 

After colouring the mug and saucer, I used my white sakura pen to 

add a little pattern to the rim of the mug and saucer. 

The backing paper is from a little paper pack from 'The Works'

and the other is kraft card - I embossed the piece on the right, in my bigshot.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

2 sisters on the blog - coffee - 1 April

Crafter's cafe - atg - 15 March

Crafts galore encore - atg - 1 April

Crafty Creations - atg - 3 April

AAA Birthday - patterned paper - 1 April

Home sweet home

At the Colour Crazy Challenge, there's a new sponsor this week:-

Angie Blom. I love the images we got to work with

and knew I had to join in with this challenge! 

 These house images come from an absolutely adorable digi stamp set called "homes."

I just fell in love with these little houses...and you get so many!

I have only used 4 but you get loads more

(I think there are 9 in total) and they can be used in so many diferent ways! 

This is a really versatile set and well worth having in your stash.

I used 4 images on my card and coloured them with my promarkers.

The sentiment is from Pink Petticoat (no longer trading)

and I faux stitched around the edge

before finishing off with a few dry embossed lines along the top and bottom. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges: 

Creative knockouts - atg - 4 March

Krafty Chicks - all occassions - new house - 3 March

Crafty Creations - atg - 2 March

Crafty gals corner - add a heart (on top of house 3) - 9 March

Creative moments - atg - 4 March

I love promarkers - atg - 1 March

A new sponsor for us!

We have a new sponsor to us at The Colour Crazy Challenge blog this week,

it's Star Jam Lines! 

I got this gorgeous image, called "Mom is at home"

I knew straight away that I wanted to make my Mum's mothers day card with this image,

as it reminded me so much of her with my niece ( a few years ago!)

and I coloured the two playful kitties to be like my kits now. 

I coloured the image with my promarkers and a few other alcohol pens.
(The kits are supposed to look like our two kits.)
I left the chair until last, as I didn't want it to dominate the image
so decided to colour it light grey, then added a simple dotted pattern to it, 
with some teeny-weeny faux stitching around the edges. 
I popped the image on a fancy rectangle diecut and a strip of backing paper. 
The sentiment was stamped from a set I have had for yonks. 

 I would like to enter this card to the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - atg ( with a twist: love)- 12 Feb

Creative fingers - atg - 21 Feb

Cute card Thursday - atg - 12 Feb

Crafty Creations - atg - 28 Feb

Creative moments - atg - 20 Feb 

I love promarkers - atg - 15 Feb

Paper funday - love is in the air / atg - 3 March

Show us your pussies - atg / i luv meuw - 2 March

Crafty Animals - atg with an animal - (cats) - 28 Feb

Crafty friends - animals or birds - 1 March

With love

At Patties Creations this moth, we would like you to use the theme,

"love, love, love."

For this challenge, I chose to use Pattie's "Gerber Daisy".

 A simply beautiful image, I wanted to keep this card simple too.

I coloured the daisy so carefully, with my alcohol markers. (Promarkers)

Its difficult to see, but I also coloured the water and 

sprinkled on a little ultra fine glitter on the water to give it a little shimmer. 

The backing is just kraft card,

which I put cut into strips (and embossed the two smaller pieces) and 

drew on some faux stitching in white sakura pen.

I cut the little tag myself and hand-wrote the sentiment.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

CAS on Sunday - love - 18 Feb

Crafty Catz - atg optional twist: love - 12 Feb

C.R.A.F.T - love / valentine - 11 Feb

Creative moments - atg - 20 Feb

I love promarkers - atg - 15 Feb

Paper funday - love is in the air / atg - 3 March

Spring soon

 Well, what a year so far....

We are back in lockdown - again. - ish.

I'm not going into it, but let's just say that last time we locked down, we had max 38 children

in school, and this time there are 130. 

All available staff are in. It's crazy. It's stressful. It needs to change!

Now to get on with my card before I blow my top...

A lovely image called Heart of Spring by Ching Chou Kuik.

I coloured her with my promarkers and wanted to keep her simple.

So I inked the edges and dry embossed around the image. 

A few punched butterflies and a stamped sentiment finished this card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

C.R.A.F.T. - atg - 20 Jan

Creative fingers - atg - 25 Jan

Crafts galore encore - atg - 31 Jan

I love promarkers - atg - 19 Jan

Happy new year!

 Happy 2021!!

It's got to better than 2020, hasn't it?!

Thought I'd start off the year with a card I made,

using Patties Creations image: Party Gnomes. ..

It was a lovely image to colour. 

I just used a few flesh colours for the gnomes noses,

and red, green and blue combinations for their clothes.

A darker blue balloon (also used glossy accents on this one) 

and a yellow star finished this image off,

along with a computer generated sentiment.

I dry embossed the edges of the card, as I always

thinks this gives a "finished" quality and I dotted around the edge of the image.

(I almost turned this into faux-stitching, but stopped myself at the last minute.)

This card is for a man, so didn't want to put too many

added extras to the image. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Pink Gem - anything goes - 12 Jan

Addicted to CAS - Emboss - 15 Jan

Craft rocket - for the boys / men - 31 Jan

Crafts galore encore - atg - 31 Jan

I love promarkers - atg - 19 Jan

Kitty Snowman

This is one of Patties newer images, at Patties Creations

and one of the mages I have used to make a card this challenge. 

Its's so cute, and called "Kitty Snowman."

I was delighted, as I suggested this image to Pattie a while ago,

and she came up with this little delight! 

 It has made such a cute card for my sister and her family. 

I "coloured" the kitty snowman, using a very fine glue pen

and ultra fine glitter - to give the impression of glistening snow.

I used my alcohol markers to colour the scarf and twiggy arms. 

The robin was stamped - it was free in a small set of stamps with a magazine a few years ago!

The banner was also stamped and the black cat is a diecut.

I punched the little holly leaves in the bottom corner and added some 

liquid pearls berries.

The sentiment was stamped, using a set I bought on a car boot sale last year,

at a bargain price! (it was only pence for an A4 sheet of christmas stamps!!)

I glittered the edges of the spotty paper and the card at the bottom. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Catch the bug - atg - 13 Dec

I love promarkers - atg (christmas) - 8 Dec

2 Craft Crazy Critters - Christmas - 26 Dec

Crafts galore encore - atg Christmas - 31 Dec

Crafty animals - atg with an animal - 27 Dec

Christmas with the cuties - cute christmas creature - 14 Dec

JOY (1 & 2)

 I was thrilled to be using these images this month too, for the Patties Creations challenge...

The image is called "joy" and you get 2 (slightly different) images!

Joy (1)...

I knew straight away, that I wanted to "colour" this JOY in glitter! 

I used a very fine glue pen, to colour inside the J and Y...then sprinkled on ultra-fine gold glitter.

I carefully cut out the middle of the O and popped the candy paper behind. 

The snowflake backing paper ( from Dovecrafts) was inked and embossed around the edges.

I finished this card with a few punched holly leaves with liquid pearls berries

and a stamped and coloured robin (with my promarkers) which came as a freebie

 with a magazine some time ago. 

I really like the way this card came out! 

I would like to enter this to the following challenges:

2 Craft crazy critters - Christmas - 26 Dec

Crafts galore encore - atg Christmas - 31 Dec

Crafty animals - atg with an animal - 27 Dec

Passion for promarkers  - Christmas - 8 Dec

Joy (2)

This version, is a slightly chunkier type and I wanted to keep this one in traditional 

christmas colours. 

I coloured the chunky font in my alcohol pens, adding the little

yellow tips and stripey bottoms to the J and Y.

The patterned paper behind, is a Dovecraft paper.

The holly leaves are punched, with liquid pearls berries.

I would like to add this into the following challenges: 

Catch the bug - atg - 13 Dec 

I love promarkers - atg  (Christmas )  - 8 Dec