Passion for Promarkers #36 and Angel Crafts DT

I'm not going to apologise, but I am going to explain. I am up to my eyeballs with clients books and accounts at the moment and that is why I haven't been blogging or commenting on anyone else's blogs lately. Unfortunately blogging doesn't pay the bills, but my business does so it has to take priority - especially at this time of year. But once we're past the 31st January deadline I should get back to normal - fingers crossed.


So, this card is a double whammy - I have to make good use of my "spare" time.

This week at Passion for Promarkers we have a colour theme as chosen by the lovely Anjie and its Pastel Green and Blossom - a beautiful combination, so I hope lots of you are going to join in this week. Its certainly worth entering as this week we have a £10 voucher up for grabs from the fabulous  


As I'm so pushed for time at the moment this is also a DT card for Angel Crafts. I'm so thrilled that Angela asked me to be on her team, and I get to play with the most beautiful ribbon kits. On my card I have used ribbon, a flower and the "Believe" chipboard shape from the brand new Believe ribbon kit. There's oodles of stunning ribbon, lace, flowers, a gorgeous stamp, some kaisercraft pearls and the believe chipboard - you absolutely HAVE to have.

Image: Summer Fairy digi from TGF, coloured with promarkers: Blush and Dusky Pink for her skin, Primrose, Mustard, Tan and Spice for her hair, Pastel Green with Mint Green for shading for her dress & wings, Blossom with Fuchsia for shading for the flower. I also covered her wings with Ranger Crackle Accents to give a veined effect.


Paper is CCSR, cardstock is core'dinations, I coloured the chipboard "Believe" with pink sakura pen, ribbon, chipboard and flower from Angel Crafts Believe ribbon kit, button and string from stash


Here' her close-up...

Remember to pop over and see the rest of the DT samples, you'll be blown away.

Passion for Promarkers #17 - Any Colour plus Polka Dots

This week's challenge at Passion for Promarkers was chosen by little me. We want to see polka dots on your cards and creations this week. You can use any colour(s) of promarkers you wish so there's no excuse for not joining in - for those of you lucky enough to have received the new colours, why not use them?
Remember you MUST use at least one promarker to qualify for the prize draw. 

This week's prize is sponsored by Letraset who have very kindly donated another 5 pack of promarkers, even more incentive to enter this week eh?

 

 The DT and this month's 2 guest designers have come up wih some outstanding designs so remember to check them all out at Passion for Promarkers.
Also over at the Passion for Promarkers blog is our Prize Blog Hop to celebrate the launch of 56 new colours from Letraset. Each of the DT are giving away 1 of the new promarker colours plus their blog hop card, PLUS you could also win the complete set of 56 new colours, again kindly donated by Letraset. Hurry though as the hop ends this Thursday 17th September.

I've made up a blank chart which includes all the new and old colours, the idea of this is so that you can print it onto your normal cardstock and colour it in yourself to give you a true representation of the colours, it also acts as an at-a-glance guide to the colours you have and the ones that you need. If you want a copy of this in PDF format to print off at home just email Gina, who will be only too happy to send it to you. Gina can also send you any of the PfP Tutorials in PDF format for you to print and keep. 

 Ok, so would you like to see my card this week? For those of you that have been paying attention ;) you'll notice that this is the image I used for the tutorial on Friday's weekend workshop on PfP and also right here - its #8 - image colouring, new colours.

Image: Claudia the Artist from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers: new colours; Orchid, Purple, Plum, Mulberry,  Tan, Pink Carnation, Fuchsia Pink, Caramel & Walnut. old colours: Blush for her skin and Umber for the darkest parts of her hair.

Mats were cut using the new Labels 9 nesties in the cuttlebug, from core'dinations card

The polka dot papers are all CCSR, matted onto core'dinations card

The greeting is a WoJ stamp, and finally I coloured the Hero Arts pearls with Plum promarker

Here's a couple of close-ups of Claudia and of the pearls...

 

I'm looking forward to seeing all of your polka dot creations 

Whiff of Joy #46

This week's challenge at the Whiff of Joy challenge blog is a fabulous sketch by Bev, and you know how I love to use a sketch. I already had this image coloured aws part of an upcoming tutorial for Passion for Promarkers and I thought it would work great with Bev's sketch.

Image: Charlotte's Horse by Whiff of Joy, coloured with promarkers: Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa & Umber, Rose Pink and Maroon, Spice and Terracotta. I used sakura clear stardust for the bridle and stirrup.

Beige card base is core'dinations, brown polka dot paper is CCSR - edged with grass border punch, Pink paper is Basic Grey, Bittersweet, quilted sticky ribbon is anita's, flowers are Prima, greeting is Daisy & Dandelion and the branches are a floral punchcraft punch.

Here's a close-up of the beautiful horsey...

Passion for Promarkers #11 - Any Colours + Sketch

This week's challenge over at Passion for Promarkers is a fabulous sketch designed by Michele and the big bonus is you can use any colours - so there's no excuses this week for not joining in.

Here's Michele's fab sketch...

Before I show you my card I have to tell you, that you must go and check out the other DT creations - they are stunning this week as always.

The other important stuff I have to share with you before you see my creation is the prize up for grabs this week. This week you can win 6 promarkers of your choice from 

So without further ado, here's my card for this week's challenge

Image: Bumble Bee from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers; Ice Grey 1-4, Apple and Grass. I also used a sakura clear stardust pen on the skirt (see close-up below)

Papers are all CCSR - the big one, matted onto green core'dinations card. I punched 3 large retro flowers from white card, coloured with grass promarker, then punched the petals with the MS doily lace border punch, then added white papermania mulberry flowers and papermania brads. The greeting is Daisy & Dandelion

Here are the close-ups of the flowers and the image to show the stardust detailing

I'm up to my eyeballs today, so I have scheduled this post. I have to be at the hospital at 9.30am to get 2 teeth removed. I am a complete wuss when it comes to dentists, and I asked for a referral for sedation for the extraction. I had a bad experience 10 years ago with a root canal treatment when I was pregnant with Scott and have been petrified ever since. Normally I'm a very brave and rational person and I can handle pain, but this is my biggest weakness, I'm ashamed to say. So anyway, Graham will be collecting me about lunchtime and then at 5pm I have to go away out to Banchory for my sister-in-law-ish to do my hair. She's going to section off the top half off my hair and bleach the bottom half, then she's going to dye it bright purple. After that she's going to dye the top section a slightly darker richer brown than my natural colour. 

So yes, I think I'm having a bit of a mid-life crisis at 36 lol!! So hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with some pics - assuming of course that I like it :)

Poppies

This is what I've called one of the new Gorjuss Girls until they have their proper names from Sugar Nellie - Poppies.

I was busy following Gayle sketch over at the Sugar Bowl and finished this card - then realised I was supposed to use ribbons or bows, but I thought it would take away from the simplicity of this card, so I'm not entering it. I made another card for the challenge - the one I showed you yesterday.

Image: Gorjuss Girls set #3 by Sugar Nellie, coloured with Promarkers: warm grey 1 - 4, ruby and maroon.

Paper: CCSR - the big one

red card from stash, black core'dinations card embossed in cuttlebug and sanded, greeting is Daisy & Dandelion

Here's a close-up of Poppies...

Experimenting with Kraft

I thought I would experiment with promarkers and kraft card. Obviously, because the kraft is darker, I've had to use something more opaque for the skintones and highlights. I found the SU Kraft cardstock was fine for blending the promarkers - no bleeding. So, this was my first attempt...

Image: Miss Anya Rain by The Greetings Farm, coloured with: light peach prismacolor pencil for the skin tones, promarkers: cinnamon, raw sienna and cocoa for hair; blossom & rose pink for jacket and socks; pastel green and turquoise for skirt and umbrella; rose pink and maroon for boots. (and I've just realised I've forgotten to colour in her buttons! argh) Highlights are done with sakura gelly roll med.

Papers are all Clare Curd's Signature Range - The Big One

Kraft and black cardstock are Stampin' Up

Greeting is Daisy & Dandelion

Kars paper lace ribbon

EK Success retro flower punches to make the flower, Papermania brad for centre, Floral Punchcraft Ash Branch punch.

Miss Anya's close-up....

Happy Birthday Ida

Another of my teamies on the promarker DT celebrated her birthday this week. It was Ida's 25th birthday on Monday. Oh to be that young again - mind you it only seems like 5 minutes ago I was 25 when in reality it was 11 years ago argh!! Ida - I will tell you what my dad told me when I turned 25 - its all down hill from here chum! cheery bugger isn't he? lol

So this was the card I sent to Norway, and amazingly it only took 4 days to get there

Image: Gorjuss Girls set 3 from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers: warm grey 1-5 for her hair, ivory & blush for her skin, gold shaded with warm grey 3 for her crown, teddies dress & crown and tights, ruby with warm grey 2 and 4 for shading for her dress and tights and the accent on the crowns (oh and the teddy's ballet shoes!)white sakura gel pen for highlights

Papers are all Clare Curds Signature Range - The Big One, mats are all yellow core'dinations card, ovals were cut with nesties in the cuttlebug. clear gems by kanban coloured with promarkers

The customary close up....

Happy Birthday Denise

my fellow DT member Denise celebrated her birthday yesterday, and I'm sharing the card I made for her now that I know she received it on time.

Image: Gorjuss Girl set 3 from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers: gold and pumpkin for her dress, blossom, ruby and maroon for her hair, ruby and warm grey 4 for her tights, ivory and blush for her skin and sakura clear stardust for the stars in her hair and in her hand.

Papers are all CCSR The Big One

scallop oval nestie cut mat from core'dinations card in the cuttlebug, other mats are core'dinations card, kars paper lace border, kanban adhesive stones coloured with promarkers, greeting is Daisy & Dandelion

Here's the close-up...

Whiff of Joy Anniversary Guest DT Call

Whiff of Joy will be celebrating their 1st anniversary on the 25th July with a Blog Hop and Katharina has decided to host a sketch challenge to find the 15 Blog Hop Guest Designers, who will each receive 1 of the newly to be released Whiff of Joy stamps for free.
How does it work:

Create a card after the following sketch, using at least 1 WoJ stamp (you can of course combine it with stamps from other companies :)
Post it on your blog linking back to this post. 
Add the link to your blog post in the Mr. Linky Widget at the bottom, so that Katharina can have a look
You have to be available on July 25th. Your post for the blog hop has to be online at a certain time. It would also be ok if you can schedule the post.
The Guest Designer Call will be open until Wednesday July 8th, 8pm GMT+1
I will announce the 15 Blog Hop Guest Designer on Thursday, who will then receive 1 brand new Whiff of Joy stamp.
This stamp has to be used for your blog hop creation. You will receive a detailed information about the blog hop after the GD Call ends.

To have a go yourself click here for all the details 

I struggled for ages with this sketch - just couldn't get that curvy edge the way I wanted, but this is what I managed today...

an alternative view to let you see the curvy cut a bit better...

Image: Blossom Fairy Charlotte from Whiff of Joy, coloured with promarkers: Cool Aqua, Turquoise, Marine, Lilac, Lavender, Ivory & Blush for Skin and clear sakura stardust pen.

Matted onto lilac core'dinations card, die cut using scallop circle nesties and sanded.

papers are all Clare Curd's Signature Range - The Big One, the polka dot panel is matted onto DCWV glitter cardstock.

Paper and fabric flowers are all papermania, buttons from stash, kanban adhesive stones, greeting is papermania diecut cardstock and the edges of the front of the card were inked with Colorbox liquid chalk inkpads.

The customary close up of Charlotte...

Another close-up at another angle to show the clear sakura stardust pen details

I have 2 reasons to celebrate on the 25th July, not only is it Whiff of Joy's anniversary, but it is also my youngest - Faith's - 3rd birthday. Dunno how that happened, it just seems like 5 minutes since I had my quickest labour ever and had gave birth to her while Graham was offshore lol.

Willow's Nursery staff thank you cards

Well this is a first for me, I'm not usually a fan of Magnolia stamps - and yeh I know I'm in the minority here. But I've been looking for a school/teacher related stamp for ages and couldn't really find anything that appealed to me - except of course Lindsay's freebie card kit which I used for Scott's teacher's cards.

So when I was down at the Artstamps show in Edinburgh at the beginning of the month I spotted the Study Tilda stamp and thought she'd be ideal for Willow's cards.

Images: Study Tilda by Magnolia, coloured with promarkers: Ivory & Blush for the skin, Blossom, Rose Pink & Maroon for her top and pullover, Blue Pearl, Cornflower and China Blue for her jeans, Cinnamon & Cocoa for her boots, Sandstone & Cinnamon for her book, Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa & Umber for her hair.

Papers are all from Lindsay's super freebie card kit 

the card blank was inked with whispers chestnut inkpad

the apple was diecut from core'dinations card with a cuttlekids die in the cuttlebug and the mat underneath the image was cut using a large oval scallop nestie

the greeting is from the CCSR Sentiments stamp set and the leaves are from my stash

And here's Tilda's close-up....

Passion for Promarkers - challenge #4 - Berry Red and Royal Blue

Well this week has been a huge challenge for me at Passion for Promarkers with the colours Berry Red and Royal Blue - but then what is a challenge if you're not being challenged??

The DT have all done fabulous cards for this week and its great to see how everyone has done something a wee bit different. Please go check out the rest of the DT's blogs and give them some love.

This week's prize sponsor is the fabulous  

who are giving away the beautiful Princess Emma stamp as the prize this week

I couldn't make up my mind which image to use for my card, so I settled on using 3 of the Gorjuss Girls, 2 from set #1 and 1 from set #2.

Images: Purrfect Friend (minus the cat), Little Miss Attitude and Just A Girl, from the Gorjuss Girls Collection at Sugar Nellie coloured with Promarkers:

Blue Gorjuss Girls: Royal Blue, Warm Grey 1 and 3 for shading, Ivory & Blush for skin, Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa and Umber for hair

Red Gorjuss Girls: Berry Red, Warm Grey 1 and 3 for shading, Ivory & Blush for skin, Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa and Umber for hair

Highlighted areas using Sakura white Gelly Roll Med pen

Patterned Papers are both CCSR The Big One, plain black cardstock mat was cut using Fiskars Threading Water border punch.

White paper lace ribbon from Kars, coloured with Royal Blue promarker to co-ordinate

The red flowers were cut from the black and white CCSR polka dot paper using the EK Success retro flower punch and coloured with Berry Red promarker, a smalled flower cut with the smaller EKS retro flower punch and a tiny royal blue button added. I also inked the edges of the flowers.

The black gems are Prima Say It In Crystals, and finally the greeting is Daisy & Dandelion

Here are some close ups to see the colouring...

  

We'd love to see you have a try with this colour combination, so hop on over to the Passion for Promarkers Blog for all the details

A note to say...

I was asked to make a card for a lady's friend who is having a bit of a hard time at the moment. I have previously made a birthday card for this same lady so I know she likes horses, and the lady who requested the card spotted the card I made last week with Charlotte's horse from Whiff of Joy and asked that I use that image again. God, that sounds more complicated than it actually is. 

I am really enjoying the monochromatic look at the moment, so I used this again - picking out a blue to add a dash of colour.

Image: Charlotte's Horse from Whiff of Joy, coloured with promarkers: warm grey 1-5, blue pearl, cornflower

Papermania colossal paper in blue

swirls cut from whitewash core'dinations card with sizzix flower and vine die in the cuttlebug

blue whitewash core'dinations card was run through the cuttlebug with the paisley embossing folder and sanded - and a blue Anita's wide organza ribbon wrapped around it.

The greeting is CCSR sentiment stamp

deep blue/purple core'dinations card for matting and layering image and greeting

papermania black brads from embellishement trio

And here's his close-up...