Hummingbird

Hi! 

Hoping you are all well - I have just turned another year older, but hey ho! 😊

I love the way this card came out...

I made it for the Colour Crazy Challenge - 

with our sponsor this time : Ching Chou Kuik.

This image was a darling to colour - it's called "Misty Allure Hummingbird."

 I was so pleased with the hummingbird, that I took a closer picture of the bird.

I coloured this image using my alcohol promarkers

and white sakura pen for all the white patterned parts.

I used some liquid pearls here n there and a punched butterfly, from Martha Stewart.

I didn't want to detract from the image so made a simple dotty embossed background

with a few embossed lines on the right. 

It has no sentiment yet - I'm not 100% sure it needs one! 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - atg - 25 March

C,R,A,F,T - for a female - 24 March

Creative Knockouts - Spring is in the air - 25 March

Critter crazy - atg with a critter - 26 March

Ching Chou Kuik - spring or easter or floral -  28 March

Crafters cafe - use some flowers - 11 April

Cards galore encore - atg - 1 April

I love promarkers - atg with leaves - 29 March

Shopping our stash - spread your wings - 29 March

A pretty posy

At patties Creations this month, 

the challenge, as always now, is "anything goes."

 I have used the image called "lavender posy."

It was a little fiddly to colour with my promarkers, but worth the time, I think.

I think I used 5 different shades of purple on this posy! 

I have highlighted them subtley with a wink-of-stella, and have glossy accented a few of the stems.

I embossed a line around the image, inked the edges,

matted it onto darker purple and onto a spotty strip.

The sentiment was stamped, matted and inked, too.

Tiny little Martha Stewart punched butterflies finished this card. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Passion for Promarkers - feminine - 9 March

Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 6 March

Crafty Catz - atg - 11 March

Cards Galore Encore - atg - 1 April

Creative sketchy girls - flowers - 20 March

The crafting challenge - spring - 1 April

Snowmen in February!

For my final guest designer spot at the Cut It Up challenge blog,

we were challenges to make a card using "snowmen" 

with Oddball Stamps. 

I used Chilly Willy Snowman... and it's only a dollar!!! 

 I flipped the digital image, so that I could have 2 snow-people, 

looking at each other. 

When I had placed them inside the window

(I cut out the inside frame so I could see both snowpeople properly

and pushed the frame right up to near the top, to make 2 small top windows ),

I decided that they looked like they had kissed

so made a little mistletoe for the top of the frame.

The sentiment is from Craftwork cards. (I've had it for years!)

I embossed the bottom piece of backing paper, to resemble panelling on a wall. 

So in all, the window frame, snowflakes, and robin are all diecuts. 

I coloured the snowpeople with my promarkers and other alcohol pens.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative fingers - atg - 11 March

Creative knockouts - atg - 3 March

I love promarkers - atg - 1 March

Digi choosday - atg - 6 March

Jan's digi stamps - atg - 7 March

Crafty Catz - atg - 4 March

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