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

Fairy with presents

Hi all!

Where has the time gone?  We're almost in December!

I'm hee to show you the card I made for our challenge at the Colour Crazy Challenge.

This time, we have been sponsored by "All dressed up" digi stamps and I got an image called "Christmas Present." It's super-cute!

I started by glittering the wings and ribbon on the presies, with ultra-fine glitter.

The rest of the fairy and presies were coloured with my promarkers. 

I fussy-cut around the image and popped her onto a frame I diecut and embossed.

The sentiment is stamped and I added a little glittered diecut snowflake.

The neighbours have 2 lovely little girls, and this will be a card for them, for Christmas.

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

Cardz 4 galz - cute christmas - 3 Dec

Creative knockouts - Christmas delight - 3 Dec

Cut it up - Christmas, using a diecut - 19 Dec

Creative moments - anything goes - 6 Dec

I love promarkers - atg / Christmas - 9 Dec

Passion for promarkers - glitter and sparkle -2 Dec

Jans digi stamps - atg - 7 Dec

SALE at Patties Creations!

 Pattie - of Patties Creations - is having a sale!

There's a whopping 30% off all her images at the moment! 

Go on, treat yourself! 

( Coupon code: BOOP789)

Flowers and cacti

This month, Pattie - over at Pattie's Creations - 

is challenging us with the most popular challenge : anything goes. 

This image is a fairly new one, called "Flower Shoppe"

 After colouring this lovely image with my promarkers and other alcohol pens, 

and a little splash of glossy accents, I didn't think it needed a lot more.

So, I decided to make a panel behind the image, which I embossed with flowers. 

I added a few diecut birds and butterflies. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges: