New DT member for the ilovepromarkers challenge blog!

Today will be all about bragging :D

I'm here to share the news with you that I'm officially the newest member of the 

i love promarkers challenge blog. 

I actually got an email asking me if I would like to join them.

I got headhunted, lol! 

I'm so excited!

Promarkers have been my favorite coloring medium through the years. I'm always curious about new ways to color and have tried most of them, but I keep going back to my beloved promarkers every time.

Promarker colors used for this card.

 I like that there are 148 colors. It's quite a few, but not so overwhelming that you don't know where to start.  I have around 120 of them.

You don't need that many to get a good range of colors. What I would recommend is to start with two colors in the same shade - one darker and one lighter. For example: you can have ice grey 1 and 3. This will let you build up the colors and blend them together.

So instead of buying one pen in each color family (eg. a yellow, a pink, a red etc) I would go for two reds (one darker one lighter that work together), two greys and so on depending on your budget.

This will let you be able to work up shades.

Text says "you are a star".

The first challenge on the ilovepromarkers blog that I am joining is up right now. I have used the digiimage called "Captain Colin".
The theme is:

Superheroes

We are sponsored by 
Digital delights 

Make sure you join us in the new bi-weekly challenge. 

Challenges:

Alphabet challenge - F for feathered friends (feathers on my hero's cap)

City crafter - out of this world (I used stars & a superhero)

Creatalicious - anything goes

Creative inspirations - favorite things (promarkers and diecuts)

Everybody art - anything goes

I love promarkers - superheroes/for a child

My time to craft - sketch

Penny's challenges - anything goes

Simon says - we're going around in circles

Southern girls - anything goes

Image: "Captain Colin" from digital delights.

Promarkers: ivory, oatmeal, ice grey 1,3 and 5, burgundy, poppy, berry red, lipstick red and cocktail pink.
Papers: "Christmas dot" Art blanché by eksuccess, to the rescue by 2bugsinarug, "Floral with definitions" Midnight kisses by heidigrace.
Dies: Spellbinder's circle and quickutz star.

Others: tiny goldbeads and metal gold star.

Until next time: Keep crafting! 

Cricket - the sport, not the bug :)

 

 Has it been a week already? Sheesh time flies when you're having fun. Yesterday I went thriftshopping - found a lot of jewelry and accessories, but not much for crafting. 

 

However, I've been quite busy with other projects so stay tuned and make sure to check out my 

contest entry for the dog/cat contest at instructables. 

And don't forget to vote for me.

 

 

Let me show you my card for my last week as the guest designer for the 

I love promarkers challenge blog.

This week we've been playing with stamps from 

Dr digis house of stamps

who is also this week's sponsor.

 

 

I made the card using folds so it looks like he is standing at the top of the hill. I added "balls" by punching out circles and drawing lines on them. Together with the polkadot paper it turned out quite well. Sometimes you have bright ideas, but they don't translate too well when you realize them. This one I think was not one of them.

 

Hope you'll join us in our "sport" challenge at the I love promarker challenge blog. What's your take on it?

 

 

Supplies:

Image: Digi stamp "Cricket Derek"  from Dr digi's house of stamps

Paper: Wild asparagus "Pretty little girl" Dots/Blue paper

Color: promarkers

Other: Circle punch, Martha Stewart border punch

 

 Challenges: 

Bunny Zoe crafts  - Summer

Crafty creations  - Anything goes

Everybody art  - For a man/boy

My time to craft - Summertime

Penny's challenges - Anything goes

 

Hats off to you

Today I would like to show you my first card using one of Nikki Burnette's stamps called Telsa from sweetpea stamps. I really like the edgy look of this stamp and thought it would be wonderful to use for a male card. I used blues and green which is my fav colourcombo for male cards. The stamp is coloured with promarkers, cut out and mounted on a piece of patterned paper. All papers are from basic grey. I didn't want to overwhealm the card with too many embellies, but still wanted to use flowers. I think the buttons help to take the cuteness away from the flowers. The sentiment is handwritten and I thought I was very clever when I came up with it.

Challenges for this card:

All sorts - recycle (I used a button that came with a piece of clothing)
Basic Grey - flower power (I used papers from BG's line Marjolaine)
Crafty catz - flowers
Everybody art - my fav thing (I used my beloved promarkers, but also BG papers)
Papertake weekly - sketch
Stamptacular - whateva

Heartfelt wishes

Already time for another project for the I love promarkers challenge blog. This is my second to last week and the theme we have for you is "sweet and simple". I started out with a very simple idea; just plain squares and a monochromatic look. It was a bit too plain though so I distressed the edges and added a punched out border. I also coloured the polkadot ribbon with my promarkers to exactly match the colourscheme.

The stamp I used is from sweetpea stamps and is called one and only heart from plate 68. I used burgundy distress ink for the image's background. The girl is coloured in several red hues as there are no good that matched.  The colours I used were: ivory and blush for skin, dusky rose, ruby, burnt orange, burgundy, burnt umber, coral for dress and hair.

Challenges for this card:

Alice in wonderland - mostly white or red
Creative craft challenges - monochromatic madness
I love promarkers - sweet and simple
My time to craft - spots and dots
Paper sundaes - your fav challenge (I chose #41 - a natural woman)
Papertake weekly - ribbons and pearls
Pear tree - free for all
Promarker challenge - all you need is love
Simon says stamp - sketch
Simon says stamp and show - polka dots

Very berry mystical wishes

How wonderful isn't it that the new year has started? I hope you are as excited as I am. Can't wait to see all the new sweetpea releases and what I make with them during 2011. I hope you'll continue stopping by to see what I'm up to. I'm closing in on 200 folloowers and will have a candy when I do, so hopefully it's not long left...

The card I want to show you today is my first sweetpea for 2011. I made it primarly using a 3-part challenge:  colour/sketch/item, and let me tell you, it was a CHALLENGE. The colours were plum, blueberry and beige. Say what?! I've never played with that colourcombo so I started looking through my stash - there are always papers with any combo you're looking for, but not this one. I almost gave up, but stubborn as I am I got intrigued. So I realized I needed to whip up my own set of matching papers. I imidiately thought of this purple glittery one I had been saving. The blue and beige were harder as I don't use those colours much. I came across the dotty one which is the backside of a vintage charleston dancers paper. I also found the light blue with beige swirls and was quite proud at how I managed to match them up together.

The image I used is Ching chou kuik's dark sirene from plate 24 and the sentiment is from plate 46. I've never used her before, but knew she was right for this as soon as I saw her. I think it was the fact that her hair was dark that gives the card that extra "darkness" and leaves it more muted than it would be if I had coloured it blue. She is stamped with black ink and then I went over her hair with midnight blue promarker to make her hair agree more with the patterned papers. The rest of her is also coloured with promarkers. I added some glittereffects with a sakura gelly roll to the image, text and butterfly border. That pen is addictive! To make the white parts more yellow on both the image and sentiments I inked them with a distress ink. The different butterflies are made using Martha Stewart punches and the leaves are made using a quickutz die.

One part of the challenge was to use a recycled item so I made a little decoration from a bottlecap that I hammered on to flatten a bit. then glued on a circle from one of the patterned papers, filled with clear dimensional glue and filled with tiny see-through beads.

Challenges used:

Craftycreations - colour, sketch, recycled item
Creative inspirations - something new (all butterfly punches are new and image never used before)
Moving along with the times - birthday and circles
Simon says stamp - time to celebrate (with optional extra glitter)
Stamp challenges - glitter
Totally paper crafts - time to party

No peaking!

Today I want to show you a hilarious stamp from stämpelgården. I've been wanting it for years, but since it's a Christmasstamp I was too cheap to buy one. Always got stamps that were more versatile and for the whole year. But this year when the shop had their annual anniversary sale I just had to pick it up. Isn't it the cutest and funniest thing you've seen?! I didn't know what sentiment to add on the tag, but while searching my stash I came across this one from SeeD's - isn't it just PERFECT?

I'm very proud of this card. It took a quite a while to "ripen". I'm so proud of the colouring that is made with promarkers and I love the snowflake decorations that I made using different dies and punches. The colours give the card a modern feel and I think it's perfect as a male card. The little snowflakes around the reindeer are stamped with distress ink and it's one of those things I've only done once or twice.

I also want to show you the backside of the card. We use up a lot of paper which is neither enviromental nor economical. It also costs more to send, so my Christmascards for this year will look like post cards. To make them look better, not just like I have cut off a vital part I decided to decorate the back a little. I had a perfect textstamp which I embossed and stamped some snowflakes and distressed the edges.

I apologize for the poor quality of my photos lately. My camera is still broken (not showing anything in the display) so I have to photograph in the dark only to see how they turned out in the computer. I am wishing for a new camera under the Christmastree though...

The challenges I've used for this card are:


Dutch dare - Christmas
Paper romance - winter theme
Pile it on - it's all in the wrapping (thought it was funny, although not sure it qualifies)
Promarker challenge - old & new (I used a new stamp and old papers)
Simon says stamp - sketch
Totally papercrafts - X-mas punches
Wags n whiskers - snowflakes