Happy Easter

Happy Easter

It is wonderful to see so many entries for our Easter Challenge.  You still have time so make sure you have added yours. 

For this card I used 

Duck duck goose - Saturated Canary digi.   

Copics -

Skin E000, E00, E11. R20

Hair and boots E31, E35, E37

Clothing Y11, Y13, Y15,  B93, B97, B99

Background G20, G24, G28, B0000 

Shadows BV0000, BV00

Paper - Springtime Echo Park

Washi tape - The Sweetest Thing My Minds Eye

Rose from Wild Orchid Craft

Font Bickham Script Two

 

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I hope everyone has a happy and safe Easter.

Gretchen

 

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Sweet bunny and hot chicks for Easter!!

Hi all, did you all have a nice weekend?? Hope you are preparing some Easter cards too..

There is still some time left to join our monthly challenge!! 

Today I will show you a sweet bunny Easter card which I have made for a blogfriend...

copics used:

Bunny: E 11, E 31, E50, E53

flowers: E 11, YR 02

shadows: B00, B 05

Have you seen the hot chicks coloured by my DT mate??

I have done some experiments with colouring the same chicks..

The photo's are not excellent..sorry.

May I have your votes please??

1 blue copics : B00, B 05, B28, B39

2 pink copics : E04, R00, R20, R32

3 brown copics : E11, E25, E31, E50, E53, E57

4 purple copics: BV 02, BV 08, BV 29, BV 31, V 04, V09

They remind me of the colouring tablets for the easter eggs..When I was little we used to boil eggs in a pan and at the end you could add colour tablets to colour the shells ..the smell was not that good but the colours were such fun...

Would love to get some feedback on my blog..

what you think about my colouring experiment.

It was fun to do!!

Wish you all a perfect EASTER!!

material used besides copics:

** card with Easter bunny 

The cute bunny is a stamp from LOTV..

on a pretty lacy circle which is cut with a craftable die from Marianne Design 

The tickets are whimpsy dies and stamps,

 the italian text stamp is made by me..( Happy Easter ).

** stamp Easter Chick Penny Johnson

oval die Nellie's choice MFD

Hugs Blankina

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Easter at M4M

Having missed my DT post last fortnight due to school camp, I determined that I had to get something done for this month's challenge at Mad for Markers Challenge. With next Friday being Good Friday, I decided to base my cards on the life that Jesus provides us through his loving sacrifice for us.

These mini cards use Maya Road Clear Stamps 'Defined' sentiments,  Memento Rich Cocoa ink and my trusty Copics (E42, E47, G43, G46, B000). Having looked through my craft supplies I realised I hadn't used the sentiment set much or my brown ink pad so simplicity was the verdict for this post.

God bless,
Gin.

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The Cutest Easter Bunny

Hi everyone it's Naomi here with todays post.
I have made another card to share with you today although my intention was to make a basket but I have been a bit slack and didn't get it finished in time.

 I have used one of Sherri Baldy's very cute "Besties" images. This one is simply called "Easter Bestie" isn't she cute with her big bunny ears.
Even though Easter is in Autumn here in Australia I still went with Spring colours for this card I think they suited much better than the muted Autumn tones :)

The copics I used are:

Skin: E000,E00,E21,R20,R11

Lips: R20,R21,R11

Hair: E11,E13,E15

Clothing/Shoes etc: RV000,RV00,BG000,BG01,B0000,Y000,Y11,Y13,Y15

Basket/Eggs:E30,E31,E34, YR0000,YR000,YR01



I am loving all the entries we have so far and can't wait to see what is yet to come as there is still plenty of time to get your entry in.

Make sure you come back each day to see what the other girls have to inspire you to play along.

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Grace with Hot Cross buns

Good morning! Sammi here today  filling in for Sam who has computer issues :( Hopefully we'll see her back online soon!! :D There's some wonderful entires in this challenge so far and I can't wait to see more!! Today I'm sharing this creation I made... using one of my M4M Easter Digis... Grace with Hot Cross Buns!  The sentiment is from Give a Girl a ...  There are some Pretty cool sentiment sets available there! :D

Grace is sort of representing what Easter is about to me... The Cross of Christ! :D

Ok... Here's what she's coloured with.... 

Copics used:

Skin: E000, E01, E11, BV000, R21, RV11

Hair: E23, E25, E27, E37

Eyes: E13, E23, E25

Purples: V12, V15, V17

Pink: RV00, RV11, RV13

Dress: B91, B93, B95

Boots: N3, N5, N7

Buns/ Plate: N0, N1, N3, E34, E13, E25

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Easter Bunny

This card is so far out of my comfort zone I usually do clean and simple cards, but I thought I would try something different and use a sketch (the one I saw in Christa's entry last month). It wasn't different because it was a sketch (I use sketches sometimes) but it was all the embellishments and layers to this card that was different and a little difficult. I just kept adding more and more and now I don't really think I like it...it's a little overdone. What do you think? One of our new kittens loves it. She just wants to eat the fluffy white feathers.

For my card I used

Bad Hare Day a rubber stamp from Krista Smith

Copics

Skin E11, E00, E000, R20

Hair and shoes C9, C7, C5, C3, C2, C1

Clothes BG18, BG15, BG13 and R85, R83, R81

Shadows BV00, BV0000

Paper My Minds Eye - Life of the Party and Echo Park - A Walk in the Park

Roses (edged with pink spica) and white seam binding ( I coloured with BG18) from Wild Orchid Crafts

The flourish and corners were cut with my silhouette.

 

 

Make sure you add your Easter creations we'd love to see what your making. 

If you want to see a photo of our new kittens head over to my blog.

Thanks

Gretchen

 

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March Guest Designer - Jan

Our guest designer for the Easter challenge is Jan.  She has made an Easter Card using Bunny Lucy from All That Scraps.

Hat: B000, B00

Hair: E25, E27

Face: E50, E51, E53

Shirt and Pants : R83, R81, B000, B00

Easter Egg colored with Glitter Pens

Papers are Echo Park this and that, Swiss Dots embossing folder, spellbinder circle, There She Goes sentiment.  

Thanks for joining us Jan.

You could have the opportunity to be our guest designer just add your entry and you may be randomly chosen to feature on the Mad for Markers Blog. 
Look forward to seeing your creations
Gretchen

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February winners and the March Challenge

Winners

Our randomly drawn winner for the February movie inspired challenge is

Blankina

Congratulations Blankina. I have just found out that Blankina is joining the DT.  So welcome Blankina and we look forward to seeing some more of your work in the near future.

Our top three/four for February as decided by the Mad for Markers DT are:

1# Caroline - KISS

We adored the scene you created.  Fantastic idea with the felt clouds.

 

2# Morgyn Mlinarek

Everyone was so impressed not only with your card but the effort and time you put in to enter our challenge.

 

There was a tie for 3# between Christa

 A wonderful use of embellishments I wish I could embellish like that :)

 

and Jennifer D

 A wonderful easel card full of embellishments so clever.

 

Ladies if you would like a Mad for Markers Top 3 blinkie for your blog send me an email.

New challenge
As I'm sure you guessed with Rose's lovely card yesterday, the theme for our March challenge is Easter.   The rules for the challenge are
1. Your creation must fit with the Easter theme.
2. You must use copics somewhere on your creation, it would be great if you could share the colours you use.
3. Your entry must be something new (not previously blogged about).

   We can't wait to see what you create.
    Gretchen

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