Passion for promarkers #146–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope the weather is better where you are than it is here as it’s wet and wild and staying that way all week if the forecasters are to be believed.  However that’s why crafting is the perfect hobby in this weather as you can stay indoors nice and snug and wile away the hours in your crafting area. 

I’m here this morning to share my card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge and this week the lovely Nic has set the theme of “cut it out”, so basically we want to see all your die cuts.  I’m sure it will be a popular theme.  Here is my card:

I have used a gorgeous digi image from Crafts and Me called Aliah and coloured her with promarkers.  The dies I’ve used are die-namics ‘by the numbers’ dies, spellbinders ‘fleur de lis accents’, circle nesties and magnolia doohickeys swirl from the ‘leaf & swirl’ set.  The beautiful flower was cut from a rose ribbon.  The finished card is 8x8 in size and I made it for my mother’s birthday.

Our sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.

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

Creative craft world challenge – use black

Sassy studio designs challenge – flowers and flourishes

Fussy and fancy challenge – punches and dies

2 sisters challenge – use a digi

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – use black cardstock

Little Claire’s challenge – doing the rounds

Order of the opus gluei challenge – use flourishes

Stamptacular challenge – loaded with layers

Love to create challenge – anything goes

Paper playtime challenge – birthday card including sentiment

Also I have some exciting news!   We are currently looking for 4 new members to join our team over at PFP – so if you’re interested check out our post on the challenge blog at 10.00am for all the details and the linky you need to use to enter.

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Have a fantastic day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: crafts and me – ‘Aliah’ digi

Papers: SU designer paper series patterns stack ‘subtles’ (purple paper), echo park ‘victoria gardens’ paper pad (yellow paper), black card from eBay

Tools: promarkers, rose ribbon from crafts u love, pearls from the hobby house, die-namics ‘by the numbers’ die set, magnolia doohickeys ‘leaf & swirl’ die set, spellbinders ‘fleur de lis accents’ shapeabilities, circle nestabilities, MS frond punch

Cupcake craft challenge #187–DT card

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Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again dear friends.  I hope you’re all having a good day, although the weather is typical for a bank holiday Monday isn’t it?  It is absolutely chucking it down here – nice weather for ducks lol! 

I’m back to share my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge and the lovely Jane has set the theme and she has chosen “spring is in the air” (just don’t look out the window when you imagine this theme haha!)  It is my auntie’s birthday today so I used this challenge to make her card – Happy Birthday Auntie Celia!  Here is my card:

 

I used a super cute digi image from cc designs called ‘Rosalie with roses’ and I coloured her with promarkers.  The papers are again a mix – the striped paper is SU from the subtles pattern paper designer stack and the flowery paper is basic grey from the ‘hello luscious’ paper pad.  To add to the spring feel I added some flowers and butterflies.

We have two sponsors this week – firstly we have My Creative Classroom who are offering one seat on any Creative Classroom Course in the next year.

Our second sponsor is Paper Pretties and they are offering one lucky winner 6 images of their choice.

The rest of the design team have created amazing cards as always so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us each week.

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

Fairy fun challenge – anything goes

Fairy tale challenge – everything goes

Raise the bar challenge – cutesy Easter/spring cards

A gem of a challenge – aquamarine inspiration photo

Stamp, scrap and doodle challenge – things with wings (punched butterflies)

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – ribbon or twine

Bizzy Becs creatalicious challenge – sketch

Little Claire’s challenge – spring/Easter

St. Luke’s charity cards challenge – bling

Addicted to stamps challenge – spring/Easter

It’s not part of the challenge but I also decorated a brown sack to match my card (as very last minute I realised I didn’t have a gift bag for my auntie’s gift.  It’s very simple but it looks pretty next to the card:

     

I would like to enter my gift bag into the following challenges:

Paper sundaes challenge – sundae bar (my 2 items are kraft and die-cuts)

The squirrel and the fox challenge – things with wings

Lexi’s creations challenge – focus on the sentiment

Stamps and fun = creativity challenge – butterflies

Crafty catz challenge – CAS

Catch the bug challenge – anything goe

Drunken stampers challenge – you’re a krafty one (my gift bag is kraft)

Stamp, scrap and doodle challenge – things with wings

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  Enjoy the remainder of your bank holiday, if you’re lucky enough to have one, unfortunately it’s back to work tomorrow, but at least it’s a short week!!  Thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: cc designs – ‘Rosalie with roses’

Papers: SU – ‘subtles pattern designer paper stack’, basic grey – ‘hello luscious’ paper pad

Tools: promarkers, ek success retro flower punch, MS butterfly punch, SU oval all punches, sakura stardust pen, sentiment created on pc, doilies from Joanna sheen. gems from stash, ribbon from fantastic ribbons 

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you have all had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend.  Today is the final day of my week off from work so I’m taking my mother out for some lunch and a look around the shops, although she is suffering with her arthritis in her knee at the moment so we’ll probably be having lots of coffee breaks in between (but I’m not complaining as it will be more time to chat and people watch lol!)

I’m here this morning with my card for the new challenge over at winter wonderland challenge.  This week the lovely Marianne has set the theme and she has chosen “it takes two” so she would like to see 2 people/snowmen etc in one image – fairly simple I thought until I couldn’t find any image I had with only two characters!  I had lots with 1 and equally lots with 3 but none with 2 – typical!  So after a quick nip to Pollycraft and I found a super cute image to use and here is my card:

As I said the image is from pollycraft and is called ‘snow buds’ and I coloured it with promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘be merry’ paper pad and the kraft card is from dies to die for.  I punched the snowflakes with a MS punch and added cute little heart buttons from my stash.

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and one lucky winner will receive a £15.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

The crazy challenge – add a sentiment

Bearly mine challenge – 3-2-1 (3 snowflakes, 2 papers, 1 image)

Crafty creations challenge – fun and games (playing in the snow)

Creative craft world challenge – blue theme

Digistamps4joy challenge – predominantly blue & include water (hope snow is ok!)

Divas by design challenge – stamp something

For fun challenge – buttons galore (3 tiny heart buttons)

Little darlings challenge – outside

The lollipop ladies challenge – fruit loops and glitter

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: pollycraft – ‘snow buds’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘be merry’ paper pad, kraft card from dies to die for

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, MS snowflake punch, buttons from stash, personal impressions sentiment stamp, stickles, SU scallop border punch, nesties label 1 small

PFP #139/stamp with fun #151

Good morning dear friends.  I’m sorry for the long absence between posts, I wasn’t feeling 100% last week and had a really bad headache all week.  Fortunately I’m feeling better this week (so far) but that could have something to do with the fact that I have a week off work *woohoo*. 

However I’m still dis-organised and have had to combine two of my DT cards – stamp with fun challenge this week is “pink & green” and the new challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge (which I have chosen) is “for mum/female relative”.  I thought I would give you a head start in making your mother’s day cards as it’s only 12 days away!!  However I’m also aware that some of you sadly don’t have a mother to celebrate with so will accept cards for any female relative.  Here is my card:

 

I did have every intention of making a mother’s day card but when my auntie asked me to make her a 2nd birthday card for her great grand-daughter I used this card instead as time was against me (as usual)!  The image is from DigiStamp Boutique and is from the ‘Fairy Hattie collection’.  I coloured her with promarkers and added stickles to her wings.  The papers are do crafts from the gorgeous forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax and the plain card is SU pink pirouette.  I used a Marianne die for the rolled roses and a die-namics die for the number 2.

Our sponsor this week is the lovely Emma from Crafty Emma’s store and she is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher (excl. p&p) to spend in her online store. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Birthday sundaes challenge – birthday card with sentiment

Dream valley challenge – mother’s day/female themed

Pile it on challenge – spots or stripes or both (I’ve gone with spots)

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – things with wings (my fairy)

Stamptacular challenge – text me

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme

Aud sentiments challenge – happy birthday

Do you stack up? challenge – things with wings

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Crafty catz challenge – punches & dies

I hope you can join in with my challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Kelly Smith *waves hello* – I hope you enjoy visiting my blog and will pop by often.  I will hopefully be back later with another card but until then thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Fairy Hattie collection’

Papers: do crafts – forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax, SU pink pirouette cardstock

Tools: promarkers, Marianne creatables rolled rose die, magnolia doo-hickey swirl die, die-namics by the numbers die set, butterflies die, brackets tab, circle nesties, MS border punch, MS frond punch, stickles, lace ribbon from stash

Cupcake craft challenge #180–DT card

Hello again friends.  Don’t faint, I’m back as promised with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge and the lovely Keeley has set the theme and she has chosen “pink fluffy cupcakes”.  So basically we want to see you use pink as the main colour, include something fluffy and at least one cupcake – simples!  Here is my card:

I have used a cute image from The Greeting Farm called ‘cupcake Anya’ and coloured her with a mix of promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are papermania from the ‘sweet nothings’ paper pad and the card is SU.  My “fluffy” part is the flower which I die cut out of felt (1 rolled flower and 2 magnolia doohickey flowers glued together).  I got the felt from dies to die for who are now selling 12x12 pieces in lots of gorgeous colours.  I made this card for my mother to give to her friend and it’s A5 in size. 

Our sponsor this week is Prairie Fairy and one lucky winner will receive a $10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

 

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous cards once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you always leave for us. 

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

Corrosive challenge – another dimension

Paper sundaes challenge – birthdays

Fab n funky challenge – try something new (die cutting felt)

Aud sentiments challenge – use the word ‘happy’

Cute card Thursday challenge – flower power

Card makin’ mamas challenge – happy birthday

Allsorts challenge – anything goes

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – BINGO (ribbon, swirls & gems) 

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – celebrations

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and cannot wait to see what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: The Greeting Farm – ‘cupcake Anya’ digi

Papers: papermania – ‘sweet nothings’ paper pad, SU pink pirouette cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, circle nesties, die-namics butterfly dies, magnolia doohickeys flourish and flowers dies, Marianne creatables rolled flower die, MS border punch, ribbon and twine from the ribbon girl, papermania adhesive stones, sentiment created on the pc

Stamp with fun #149–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  Oh dear another week has gone by with a poor show from me – sorry!  I don’t know where the time is going; I have really good intentions but then it’s 2am and I’m too tired to blog!!  I promise that I will try and be more organised with my posts this week – starting with today lol!

I’m here this morning to share my card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge and this week we have an easy theme for you of “shapes”.  Here is my card:

I’m sorry for the dark photos but the papers were quite vintage-y so I didn’t want to mess around with them too much as it would spoil the overall effect.  I have used a super cute image from Teddy Bo and coloured it with my promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are from my stash (and I’ve had them for ages – no names on them sorry) and the pink card is SU.  The gold mirri card is also from my stash.  The flourish is a Marianne creatables die and I used a MS punch for the butterflies.  I made this card for an order and it’s A5 in size.  The shapes I’ve used are rectangles, circles and hearts.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples once again this week so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

Digital Tuesday challenge – use your stash

Crafty creations challenge – warm and cuddly teddy bears

My mum’s craft shop challenge – pearly & swirly

Stampavie & more challenge – love

Truly scrumptious challenge – all creatures great and small

Paper play challenge – critters

Fussy ‘n’ fancy challenge – with all my heart

Crafty calendar challenge – love & marriage

Little Claire’s challenge – romance

I hope you can enter our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Even though I’ve been a terrible blogger for the past few weeks I am delighted to discover that I’ve got a few new followers – thank you so much and welcome to Borqna, Leslie Ornelas, Carrie & Lotta Sandra Petterson – I hope you can visit me often.  I’ll be back later with my card for the cupcake craft challenge but until then thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Teddy Bo – teddyBoBea_tabs_002

Papers: Old papers from stash, SU pink pirouette, gold mirri card from stash

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, MS butterfly punch, Marianne creatables flourish die, circle nesties, sentiment created on pc, MS heart border punch, pearls from the hobby house 

Stamp with fun #143–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  Another Monday and the dreaded start of the working week lol!  I really need to win the lottery so that I can craft all day (which I think is every crafter’s dream).  One good thing about Monday is that I have 2 DT cards to share with you and the first one is for the stamp with fun challenge.  Our theme this week is “calendar” so we want to see all your gorgeous calendar creations for 2012.  I was asked by a friend in work to make a desk-top easel style calendar for her daughter and this is what I made: 

As I was in a bit of a rush I used a pre-coloured die cut image from Lili of the Valley but I did colour the flower and the dots on her dress with a flex marker so that she matched the paper.  It was a fairly basic layout as time was an issue but my friend was happy so that’s the main thing.  The papers are a mixture – the brown striped paper is echo park from the dots & stripes ‘candy shoppe collection’ and the pink paper is echo park from the ‘be mine collection’ (I think!). 

The rest of the design team have made gorgeous creations, as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my calendar easel-card into the following challenges:

OSAAT challenge – use 3 embellishments (pearls, flowers and punched border)

Lili’s little fairies challenge – new beginnings (new year)

Paper play challenge – Happy new year (calendar)

Crafty catz challenge – a new beginning (new year)

Paper cutz challenge – new year card/project

Craft your days away challenge – new beginnings (new year)

By the cute and girly challenge – new beginnings (new year)

Cupcake craftroom challenge – anything goes

The squirrel & the fox challenge – something new (new year)

Paper sundaes challenge – saturated colours (2nd entry)

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I’ll be back in a little while with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge but until then have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lili of the Valley – die cut image from the ‘girly afternoons’ sheet

Papers: echo park – ‘dots & stripes candy shoppe collection’ and echo park – ‘be mine collection’, SU crumb cake cardstock, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: flex marker in watermelon, ek success retro flower punch, MS border punch, pearls from the hobby house, Anita’s calendar pad

 

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  Hasn’t the weather been really shocking this week and I hope you haven’t experienced the awful damage I’ve seen on the TV.  It’s been very windy and wet here but thankfully we haven’t had any problems with flooding or any damage.  I hope you all keep warm, dry and safe. 

I’m here this morning to share my DT card for this week’s Winter Wonderland challenge and the lovely Marianne has set the theme and she has chosen “let’s go shopping “ and she would like to see images that are shopping or holding shopping bags etc. .  Our challenge does not have to be for Christmas, although you can if you like, as we don’t start our Christmas only challenges until February.    I really struggled with this challenge as I seem to have misplaced my mojo this week so if anyone has any spare please send it my way lol!  Anyway here is my card:

I used a super cute image from Lori Boyd designs called ‘back to school Lucy’ but I removed her pile of books!  I coloured her using promarkers and flex markers and cut her out with an oval nestie.  The papers are a magazine freebie from quite a while ago and the card (which is really turquoise IRL) is stampin’ up.  The ribbon isn’t quite so dark IRL either but hey-ho my wonderful photography skills at work again!!

We have some new DT members joining us from this week and joining Team Marianne we have Bridget and Karen and joining Team Kate we have Debbie and Lisa.  Welcome girls, I cannot wait to see your wonderful creations. 

Our sponsor this week is Crafter’s Companion and the lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in the online store.

The rest of the DT (including the newbies Bridget and Karen) have created amazing cards for your inspiration so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Crafty boots challenge – celebration

Critter sketch challenge – celebration

Tip top Tuesday challenge – anything goes

Pile it on challenge – anything goes

Sentimental Sunday challenge – anything goes

The pink elephant challenge – anything goes

Pollycraft challenge – punch it

Crafts and me challenge – anything goes

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Lisa Jane *waves hello* – thanks for joining me and I hope you will visit me often.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lori Boyd Designs – ‘back to school Lucy’

Papers: patterned paper – magazine freebie, plain card Stampin’ Up!

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, martha stewart punch, nesties, wild orchid crafts flowers and corner, personal impressions sentiment stamp, pearls from the hobby house

Passion for promarkers #130–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you had a great weekend and have recovered from any self inflicted illnesses lol!  We had a quiet New Year’s Eve and the whole family just chilled out, which was nice though.  I haven’t crafted for so long and I have to say it is taken a toll on both my motivation and my mojo, but I’m sure I’ll soon get into the swing of things. 

I’m back this morning as it’s time for a brand new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers challenge and it seems like forever since we had a new challenge as we had our month long Mega Christmas challenge last month.  I have to say it was wonderful to see all your amazing creations and I really enjoyed visiting your blogs.  I have the honour of setting the challenge this week and I have chosen “thank you” as our theme, as I’m sure like me you still have a few cards to make to thank relatives and friends for their Christmas gifts. 

I made a very simple card for this week’s challenge although I have to say I’m really pleased with the finished result.  Here is my card:

I used a super cute digi from Saturated Canary digis which is aptly called “thank you” and coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  I bought some Martha Stewart PATP punches out of my Christmas money and used just the border punch on this card.  The sentiment is from a clear stamp set by personal impressions and I meant to add some pearls but forgot to lol, but as I say I’m really pleased with it anyway!

Our sponsor this week is Letraset and they are offering one lucky winner a prize of a Promarker Stamping kit. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Addicted to stamps challenge – something new (digi and punch)

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

The squirrel & the fox challenge – something new (digi and punch)

Pollycraft challenge  - punch it

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – use your new stash (digi and punch)

Papertake challenge – anything goes + option something new

Paper sundaes challenge – something old, something new (old paper/ribbon, new digi/punch)

Party time Tuesday challenge – something new (digi and punch)

Scrap creations challenge – something old, something new (old paper/ribbon, new digi/punch)

Pile it on challenge – anything goes

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Anne Christine *waves hello* – thanks for joining my happy band of followers and I hope you like my creations.  I still haven’t posted my card for this month’s bee crafty challenge so I may be back later with that card too.  Until then have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Saturated canary digis – ‘thank you’

Papers: Papermania – ‘capsule collection – cranberry & apple’, SU real red cardstock, white digi cardstock from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, SU red ribbon, MS vintage lace PATP border punch, personal impressions sentiment stamp

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  As there is no passion for promarkers challenge card today I thought I would do a catch-up post and share my card for last week’s winter wonderland challenge.  A huge apology to my fellow DT girlies, I meant to post it Friday evening but then I completely forgot – oops.  However better late than never and there is still time to enter our challenge (phew!).  Our theme is “let it snow” so I know there will be lots of lovely entries for us to drool over.  Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image from saturated canary digis called ‘a winter ragamuffin’ and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  The gorgeous papers are echo park from the ‘season’s greetings’ pad and I dug out my neglected MS double loops border punch. 

Our sponsor this week is Delicious Doodles and one lucky winner will receive 3 digi images from their online store.

The rest of the DT have created gorgeous samples for your inspiration, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

Addicted to stamps challenge – snowflakes

Cupcake inspirations challenge – inspiration photo

Dream valley challenge – Christmas (2nd entry)

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Quirky crafts challenge – snow

The squirrel & the fox challenge – Christmas (2nd entry)

Stamptacular challenge – Christmas glitz

Crafty boots challenge – Christmas

The cutie pie challenge – use a sentiment

Heart song inspirations challenge – snowflakes and/or doilies

Lollipop crafts challenge – happy holidays

The pink elephant challenge – snowflakes and sparkle

Pollycraft challenge – Christmas fun

Crafty purple frog challenge – it’s cold outside

Hanna & friends challenge – winter cards

Paper play challenge – snowman

Card makin’ mamas challenge – Christmas (2nd entry)

Crafty Ann’s challenge – Christmas BINGO (glitter, snow, red)

Craft your days away challenge – snowmen

Totally gorjuss challenge – let it snow

I hope you will have time to enter our challenge - the linky closes on Thursday at 5pm so still time to get involved.  I’ll be back later with my second catch up card for the bee crafty challenge (this time I’m 12 days late with my card – oh dear!  I blame the time of year for everything at the moment lol!)   Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: saturated canary – ‘a winter ragamuffin’

Papers: echo park – ‘season’s greeting’, SU real red cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, circle nesties, MS double loops punch, dovecraft snowflake punch, heart button from stash, sizzix sizzlit architectural accent #1, sentiment from pink petticoat, stickles