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:

Hedgehog

 Hi guys! 

I've popped on to share a new card I made for our challenge at...

The Colour Crazy Craft challenge:

This time, we were sponsored by Createful Heart Designs 

and I used the image: Harvey Hedgehog.

I coloured it with me alcohol markers and promarkers.

The papers were all freebies with magazines over the years,

I punched all the butterflies with my Martha Stewart butterfly punch and 

the swirls and leaves are a diecut, which I split apart and put back together in this arrangement.

The sentiment was a freebie a long time ago.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Halloween cats

I saw this Knitty Kitty image ,

over at The Colour Crazy Challenge

and decided I had to join in with this weeks challenge!

This cute image is called 'Kit or Treat'.

 I coloured the image with my promarkers 

and other alcohol pens before looking through my stash

for some halloweeny -looking papers. 

I took a page from 3 different packs to create this look and inked the edges of each piece. 

Some diecut stars, a hand-written "BOO!" and some little

 coloured sticky-dots finished this card. 

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

Crafty Catz - atg - 23 Oct

Crafty animals - atg with animals - 27 Oct

Createalicious - atg - 30 Oct

Dies r us - spooky (star metal dies from America- sorry, I've not had the packaging for over 4 years and cant remember the name of the brand - but it came from Hobby Lobby!) - 29 Oct

Crafty gals corner - halloween colours - 10 Nov

Show us your pussies - meaowloween - 3 Nov

Cutie pie - too cute to spook - 9 Nov

Pink / Grey Combo

This time, over at The Colour Crazy Challenge, 

we are being sponsored by "The Paper Shelter."

I used their gorgeous image:

'Executive woman'

for our anything-goes challenge, this time. 

 I really enjoyed using this image -

I started by colouring her with my promarkers.

I knew I had a stash of pink and grey papers and thought they are 

a great colour-combo for this sassy lady!

On the little tag, I shall write a sentiment when I have 

figured out who this card is for. 

I inked the edges of all the papers...some in grey, some in pink. 

A punched glittery star and some Martha Stewart punched butterflies

finished off this card. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative crafters - atg - 10 Oct

Creative fingers - atg - 17 Oct

Crafty creations - atg - 7 Oct

I love promarkers - atg - 13 Oct

Digi choosday - atg - 9 Oct

Passion for promarkers - atg not christmas - 6 Oct

Autumn / Fall

At Pattie's Creations this month,

the challenge is to make a Fall / Autumn card.

I got the image" Fall latte mugs" to use (it comes with

2 mug images, but I only used one. The other image has a pumpkin head on the sleeve.)

The "Candycorn cupcake" is a freebie image that Pattie gave away last year,

which I managed to snag.

 I coloured the candycorn cupcake with my alcohol pens ,

aswell as the sleeve and lid of the latte cup.

The actual cup itself, is paper-pieced. 

I dry-embossed the edge of the card before adding the backing papers, 

a cute little sentiment from Pink Petticoat (sadly, no longer trading)

and a beautiful, punched butterfly.  

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

Bastel traum - fall - 15 Oct

Love to scrap - fall back - 5 Nov

Sheepski designs - autumn - 1 Nov

Creative knockouts - fall - 9 Oct

Stinkin inkers - shades of fall - 29 Oct

Crafty gals corner - fall colours - 14 Oct

Quirky Parrot

This challenge, over at The Colour Crazy Challenge,

our sponsor is: Ike's Art.

I got this fun image called "quirky parrot"

I love the way his head is cocked to the side!

I coloured him with my promarkers and other alcohol pens, and used a white sakura pen

 for the feathers on this belly. 

I diecut a frame for him to sit along, and mounted him onto 3d foam for a bit of dimension. 

The flowers and leaves were punched, and a couple of the flowers are also on 3d foam. 

The backing paper is from my collection:

a 6 x 6 paper pack called "new leaf"

and the sentiment circle was a freebie form the web...yonks ago! 

(possibly 'desert divas' - lots of freebies!)

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

Creative fingers - atg - 17 Sept

Lighthouse

At Patties Creations this month, we have the ever popular challenge: "anything goes!"

I used the image called 'lighthouse 2020'...

I coloured the image (which is he lighthouse, little attached building

and the rocks too) with my promarkers and

other alcohol pens. 

I tried to colour the bit underneath the rocks, so it resembled a rocky beach.

so dotted with lots of different greys.

I made the sea, by colouring a trip of card with different blues, then tearing the edge

to appear like the waves. I added

a few more strokes with my white sakura pen

for the waves in the sea. 

The backing paper comes form a paper pack of card I bought a while ago. 

I dry embossed the edge and 

stamped a sentiment along the top,

as well as dry embossing the edge of the base white card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative fingers - atg - 17 Sept

Patchwork cards

Hi! thought I would share with you some 

new "patchwork" cards I have made. 

I just thought these were a bit different and 

something I have been wanting to try for a while.

This first card is a regular pattern patchwork card...

 

It is made of 9 squares of paper, cut from Pink Petticoat papers. 

Each square has been inked around the edges and a little faux-stitching

has been added with a fineliner pen. 

I dry embossed a simple line around the edge of the squares.

I stamped the sentiment and added a couple of punched butterflies,

with a little sparkly gem on each.

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

The sisterhood of crafters - sentiment  focal point - 8 Sept

Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 6 Sept

Crafty Calendar - atg - 1 Sept

Di's digi challenge - lots of squares - 30 Aug

Creations in pink -  mainly pink - 15 Sept

This second patchwork card is more of an irregular patchwork, made for my friend.

She loves these muted, neutral colours. 

I took a couple of papers that worked well together 

and careful cut a different sized piece from each paper. 

It was trickier than I thought, to get all the pieces to match up 

while making a patchwork effect. 

Like the last card, I inked the edges of each piece and used a brown fineliner pen to 

draw some faux-stitching around the edge of each piece. 

Again, the sentiment was stamped and punched butterflies were added. 

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

Simon says stamp - atg - 3 Sept

Paper funday - atg - 2 Sept

Sparkles - use at least 3 patterned papers - 15 Sept

 

Summertime

Hi! Hope you are all well! 

I'm sharing my card for the Colour Crazy Challenge...

with our (As usual) anything goes theme,

I used "4 block tulip square " from Bugaboo.

This is such a versatile image. 

I coloured it with my promarkers and cut out each square. 

Placing it in the middle of my card, I cut a piece from the middle of the green

paper, to make a frame. 

I added diecut corners, a diecut cat and some punched butterflies. 

A few white dots, with my white sakura pen, finished this card. 

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

2 crafty critters - my favourite animal - 26 Aug

Diecut Divas - flowers - 1 Sept

Creative moments - atg -  21 Aug

I love Promarkers - atg - 18 Aug

Lil red wagon - happy days - 13 Aug

Show us your pussies - a cat - 1 Sept

Jans digi stamps - atg - 5 Sept