Birthday wishes

At The Colour Craxy Challenge this time,

we are being sponsored by the lovely "Sweet November Stamps"

 I used the very cute image called Darcy and Bumble.

I used my promarkers and other alcohol pens to colour the image,

added a computer generated sentiment 

and embossed a star background on my bigshot.

A little backing paper and some glitter here n there 

(on her shoes and Bumble's wings. )

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Birthday flowers

I made this card for our challenge at The Colour Crazy Challenge -

using this image "tulips" from Sheepski Designs...

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

I used a stamp for the sentiment and used some backing papers that came as a freebie

with a magazine, yonks ago! 

The butterflies are punched with my Martha Stewart punch. 

Faux stitching with a pink fineliner finished this card off. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafts galore encore - atg - 1 Oct

Jan's digi stamps - atg - 5 Sept

Pink gem challenge - atg - 10 Sept

 

School days

Over at Pattie's Creations this month, Pattie's challenge

is "anything goes / school days."

I went along the school days theme, but with a twist..

 This card is for my Niece, who has just got her A-Level results 

and got into Uni. I'm so proud of her!

The image comes as a set of pencils, which I cut up - a very easy fussy-cut. 

I used my promarkers and other alcohol markers to colour the pencils. 

I stamped the sentiment,which came in a set I got on the car boot sale a few weeks ago.

I inked the edges in allsorts of colours, to give a rainbow effect edge.

I would like to add this into the following challenges:

Crafts galore encore - atg - 1 Oct

Jan's digi stamps - atg - 5 Sept

Make my MondaY - Back to school - 11 Sept

Pink Gem - atg - 10 Sept 

Di's digi designs - school days -18 Sept

 

Cute camera girl

 At The Colour Crazy Challenge this time, 

we are being sponsored by "All Dressed Up."

I have used the gorgeous image called,

"Smile - it's your birthday!"

I coloured the image with my promarkers and other alcohol pens

 and used a lovely trendy flower backing paper behind it. 

The image some with the sentiment, placed where it is on my card,

so all I wanted to add was the recipients name (which I handwrote).

I inked the edges of everything,

dry embossed a line around the backing paper 

and added  a few punched butterflies and a few dovecraft paper

 flowers, layered on top of each other.

Here is a close-up...

I would like to add this into the following challenges:

AAAbirthday - atg birthday - Sept 1

Creative Knockouts - atg - 17 Aug

Passion for promarkers - Say it with flowers - 17 Aug

Summer fun

At Patties Creations, her challenge this week is 
beach / under the sea / anything goes. 

I used her fab image called "Hang Thirty"

(I have no clue what this means, or why it's called this..hahah)

I coloured the sand, fence and sky first, with my promarkers and alcohol pens. 
I added some white brilliance inkpad swirls to form clouds, and 
a little white sakura pen to give them slight definition.

I paper-pieced the surfboards and inked the edges

and made some little bunting out of the same papers. 

The "birthday" is a diecut. I handwrote "Happy" and "Charlie"

 I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Jans digi stamps - atg - Sept 5

Shopping our stash - she sells sea shells - 17 Aug

Polkadoodles - atg - 17 Aug

Cards galore encore - atg - 1 Sept

Floral

Over at The Colour Crazy Challenge this week,

we are being sponsored by Fred She Said.

I got this simply lovely image, called Floral 1. 

As soon as I saw this image, I knew I wanted to make a simple card. 

 It was a lovely image to colour with my promarkers. 

The background was embossed on my bigshot.

The sentiment was stamped.

Punched butterflies finished off this card.

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

Jans Digi Stamps - atg - 3 Aug

Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 17 July

Crafty catz - atg - 15 July 

Crafty gals corner - atg - 14 July

Summer Fun

Hi all!

Its the start of our new challenge at Patties Creations! 

The challenge is always anything goes, or a theme runs each month too - 

this time it is 'Summer Fun!'

 I used images from 2 of Patties sets: Flip flop trio and Seashells border 2. 

The Flip Flops were fun to colour - They come in a set of 3

but I chose 2 pairs and made them look fun and summery,

with my promarkers and other alcohol pens.

I tore up a piece of sandy looking card and white card, layered them over a blue paper

to form a sand/ sea combo. 

The white was tucked just under the brown, to look like the water's edge.

I printed the seashells rather small and coloured them too. 

I added a touch of stickles to the blue paper, to give sparkly reflections of the sea. 

The sentiment is from a new set of stamps I got recently, from a bootsale

and I added the heart so close that it looks like part of the word (I hope!).

I carefully edged all edges with ink pads.

I am pleased with this card.

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

Creative knockouts - outside fun - 7 July

Crafty gals - atg - 13 July

Passion for markers - just not birthday - 5 July

Jan's Digi Stamps - atg - 6 July

Girly birthday

Welcome to my blog!

I'd like to share a card I made for my DT position at The Colour Crazy Challenge Blog - 

I used an image from a new sponsor for us - Conie Fong.

This one is called "Princess Molly with balloon"

I coloured this with my promarkers and other alcohol pens 

and popped it on 3d foam pads, with some co-ordinating papers behind. 

The butterflies are from my Martha Stewart punch and I diecut the lacey border.

The balloon has been covered with glossy accents to give it that shiny look.

 

My favourite springtime flower

At Pattie's Creations this month,

I have used the lovely image "sweet nectar" 

for her "anything goes / things that fly" challenge...

I coloured this image with my promarkers and other alcohol pens,

and added some slight glimmer with a Wink of Stella

on the bird. The utterflies were punched and the fancy corner is

a cuttlebug diecut shape.

The sentiment was stamped and I layered it all on 

a piece rom a 6 x 6 paperpack which I bought in The Works.

A fab new sponsor for our team...

 Welcome back! Thanks for visiting me to see what I've been up to. 

I've been enjoying myself recently, with images from a new sponsor 

for us at The Colour Crazy Challenge:- Twinkle Lane Designs.

Their images are gorgeous and new to me, 

and I couldn't resist using both images to make cards with.

My first card uses the image "donut stack."

The sentiment comes with the image - and there are a few other sentiments too, 

which my teammies have used. 

I coloured the image with my promarkers and other alcohol pens

and popped it onto a lovely backing paper - kraft paper with white hearts on 

(recently bought in Hobbycraft).

I added a strip of stripy paper and some "confetti" - 

which I had forgottten all about, until I started putting this card together. ..

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

My next card also uses a Twinkle Lane Designs image:  New Baby.

This was so lovely to colour with my promarkers and I used so many different blues!

I 3d-foamed the rattles ad alphabet blocks, matted and layered,

added some punched butterflies and a bit of dry embossing around the edge. 

For the sentiment, I used half of a diecut shape, 

inked around the edges and I hand-wrote the "welcome!" myself. 

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

At last...

I'm a bit late with this - sorry! 

Our challenge over at Pattie's Creations is anything goes - or Flowers.

I used Patties delightful image - potted daffodils. 

I made it into a mothers day card for my mum...

 I coloured the daffs and pot with my promarkers and other alcohol pens and 

fussy-cut some of the daffs, to put on 3d foam to give them some depth.

I used the head of one of the daffs and drew a stalk to it, to use as a flower along the bottom of the 

pc generated sentiment. 

The butterfly is also one of Patties images, coloured in the same way.

I sat the image on the edge of the frame,

dry embossed the edges of the white rectangle, and added a diecut 

corner in the top right hand corner.

My Mum was thrilled with this card. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Dragonfly dreams - butterflies and or flowers - June 5

Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 15 May

Sheepski designs - for the girlz - 1 June

Gem of a challenge - atg - 21 May

Just us girls - flowers - 13 May

Retro birthday

Over at the Colour Crazy Challenge blog this week, 

the very popular Dr Digi is our sponsor. 

I got this fab, retro image "unwind"

and used it to make a card for my friend's birthday. 

 I used some retro patterned papers from my DCWV paper pack,

inked all the edges and added white dots with my sakura pen.

The image was simple to colour and I 

drew on some lines to make it look like an old cassette tape I used to have

and it was also handy to have somewhere

to write the sentiment! 

You can't tell on the picture, but I 

used glossy accents on the tape parts of the cassette. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges: 

Gem of a challenge - atg - 23 April 

Allsorts - masculine - 23 April

Craft rocket - for the boys / men - 1  May

Creative knockouts - atg - 21 April

Jan's digi stamps - atg- 2 May

Crafty hazelnuts patterned paper - atg - 1 May

Mother's Day

At Patties Creations, the usual "anything goes" challenge

has just started - but you can join in with the theme, which is butterfly/dragonfly.

I used two of Patties images:

Butterfly 1 (both butterflies are this image, just flipped and resized.)

and Succulents with hanging vases...

 I wanted to make this into a Mothers day card for my mother-in-law

and used backing papers in colours I knew she would love. 

I added a sentiment onto the succulents image, which I coloured with my promarkers

and other alcohol markers. 

I used glossy accents on the vases and coloured and fussy-cut the butterflies. 

I added a little 3d foam underneath the wings to give some dimension

and a punched leaf next to the sentiment. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Through the Craft Room Door - atg - 27 April

Paper funday - atg - 1 May

Crafty Catz - atg - 14 April

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