Cheers!

For our latest challenge at "The Colour Crazy Challenge"

we have welcomed our sponsor :  Scribbles designs. 

I got the fab image, beer mugs. 

 I printed the image twice, as a mirror image so that I could

"clink" the mugs together.

I coloured them using my promarkers and other alcohol pens

and added a backing paper, which I inked the edges of.

I cut out the sentiment on my big-shot and 

punched some stars, along with using a little

dovecrafts pearl effects, to act as bubbles, popping from the mugs. 

I embossed the outside edge of the card with a simple, straight line

and hand-drew a simple border around the edge of the patterned paper.

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

Autumn days

'Anything goes / Autumn or Fall' is the challenge this month

at Pattie's Creations.

I used the image "Autumn Wreath"

(I really love this image and it superb to colour)

 I coloured the wreath with my promarkers and other alcohol pens 

and added glossy accents to the acorns. 

The sentiment is stamped,

along with the foliage along the top and bottom corners.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafts Galore Encore - atg - I Nov

Shopping our stash - leaves - 11 Oct

Try it on Tuesday - autumn - 22 Oct

Creative knockouts - autumn - 14 Oct

Crafty Gals Corner - signs of fall - 13 Oct

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