My Hero

Thanks for all the lovely comments folks, I'm trying to keep up my end of the bargain and visiting blogfriends in blogland and it's working so far :)

Here's another card I made the other day while I had out the promarkers, flexmarkers and Letraset transfers...

Image:  Bat Henry digital stamp from Whiff of Joy, coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers
Coredinations card, kraft card, Tim Holtz distress ink, various embossing folders

Antique Pink, Cocktail Pink for ears and tail, Umber, Burgundy, Chilli Red, Poppy, Lipstick Red for his cape, boots, gloves and mask, Raw Sienna, Gold and Tulip Yellow for the trim, Indigo Blue, Egyptian Blue, Sapphire, Celestial Blue for his leotard, Blue Grey 2, 3, 4, and 5 for Henry

I'd like to enter him into:
Crafty Creations - anything goes
Creative Moments - emboss it
Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Debz x

Christmas Cards

Oh My Goodness, where has December gone?
The kids break up on Friday for the holidays, and thankfully I've not got much left to do/buy/organise/wrap etc, just need to have the big clean and keep the washing up to date and hopefully we're all set.
I'd like to take this opportunity to let everyone know that I won't be sending Christmas Cards this year, all the ones I've made are pretty much on display at The Papeterie, and I've been so busy with other work that I haven't had any time to make some. I also feel it would be a bit of a cop out if I sent shop-bought cards, so this year I've decided to make a donation in lieu to Mrs Murray's Cat & Dog Home in Aberdeen. 
But I did have a couple of commissions to make for one of the other mums at school, giving you a wee bloggy wave Lindsay :)
She wanted me to make cards for her 2 best friends and their families, so here's the first one...

 The tag is removable (see bottom photo), here's a better pic to show all the glamour dust...

 This pic shows the greeting tag removed...

Materials list:
Henry in Christmas Bauble digi stamp from Whiff of Joy
printed onto Diamond White cardstock from The Papeterie
Coloured with Promarkers: Umber, Burgundy, Crimson, Cardinal Red, Burnt Orange, Coral, Sunkissed Pink and Flexmarkers: Amaranth Red, Blue Grey 4, 3, 2, 1
Kraft tag diecut using Tim Holtz Tag & Tie Alterations die and stamped with Hero Arts CL630 Miracle of the Holidays stamp set
red lacquer and white cardstock from The Papeterie
White cardstock embossed with Spellbinders Holiday Magic M-Bossabilities folder
red satin ribbon, snowflakes punched from glitter paper with Martha Stewart snowflake punch, adhesive gemstones

Right, I'd better get on with my online shop for this week, need to get some goodies for the kids christmas parties. Back soon with the other card commission :)
Debz x

Passion for Promarkers #51 - Strawberries & Cream

We have a gorgeous summery theme for you this week at Passion for Promarkers - chosen by Sue - Strawberries and Cream. Now you can interpret that in a number of ways, whether its the colour strawberry and cream or more literally like I did.

The prize this week is a pack of 5 Promarkers from Letraset

Image

Image: Shy Willow from Whiff of Joy, coloured with promarkers: Sunkissed Pink and Blush for her skin, Warm Grey 3-5, Meadow Green & Apple Green, Pear Green, Grass and Berry Red

Papers are all Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety, ribbon is Smirk, and the greeting is also from Whiff of Joy

Here's her close-up...

I wasn't entirely happy with that card, so I decided to make another, but this time I focussed more on the colour scheme of strawberry and cream, using Vanilla Cream core'dinations card as my base...

Main image: Gorjuss Girl from Sugar Nellie, strawberry stamps are from Whiff of Joy, the top greeting is Hero Arts and the bottom one is Whiff of Joy.

coloured with promarkers: Cardinal Red for her dress and the strawberries, Marsh Green for the trim on her dress and the strawberry leaves, Warm Grey 3 for the shading on her tights, Ivory, Vanilla and Sunkissed Pink for her skin, Caramel, Cinnamon and Cocoa for her hair.

The cardstock is all Vanilla Cream core'dinations (I even stamped the images and coloured them directly onto this cardstock)

Pearls are Kaisercraft.

Here's her close-up....

Anniversary

Saturday is my mum and dad's 39th wedding anniversary, so I thought I'd share with you the simple anniversary card I made for them - am already thinking about how I'm going to make the one for next year - their 40th - special.

 

Image: Wedding Cake from Whiff of Joy, coloured with promarkers: Vanilla, IG3, Oatmeal, Putty, Pink Carnation, Fuchsia, Umber, Caramel, IG 4 & 5, Leaf Green and Grass.

the oval scallop nestie mat and pink horizontal panel were cut from core'dinations card. the panel was punched with the deco shell Martha Stewart punch. Paper lace ribbon coloured with Pink Carnation promarker, paper is Papermania Truly Scrumptious and the greeting is from a Forever Friends pack of greetings.

Willow with Lantern #3 of 3

So here's the 3rd Willow with lantern card, and this time I've gone with the same pink paper as the first card - but have used blues to colour the image.

Image: Willow with Lantern from Whiff of Joy, coloured with Promarkers: Blush & Baby Pink for her skin, Pastel Yellow, Mustard and Raw Sienna for her hair, Arctic Blue, Sky Blue and Azure for her dress, Cerise, Magenta and Maroon for her sash and shoe, Pine and Berry Red for the holly leaves and berries, Primrose and Mango for the candle. I covered the lantern again with Sakura clear glaze pen.

I used Rach's out of bounds technique to cut the image using a circle nestie and matted it onto core'dinations card cut using the scallop circle nestie in the cuttlebug. I matted the snowflake paper from the DCWV pink xmas stack onto the same core'dinations card, and also punched MS snowflakes from the same card and added iridescent blue plastic flowers to the centres.

And here's her close-up...

Willow with Lantern #2 of 3

Back again with the 2nd of my 3 Willow with Lantern cards, this time I've gone darker and more traditional with my colour scheme, and have also gone dark honey blonde with her hair - something I don't do very often.

 Image: Willow with Lantern from Whiff of Joy, coloured with promarkers: Ivory, Blush and Baby Pink for her skin, Pastel Yellow, Buttercup, Raw Sienna & Chestnut for her hair, Marsh Green, Olive Green and Forest Green for her gown, Ruby and Burgundy for her sash and the holly berries, Forest Green for the holly leaves, Lemon and Mango for the candlelight. I also covered the lanter with sakura clear glaze pen.

The papers are all Daisy & Dandelion xmas pad, I have distressed the edges with my Tim Holtz distress tool and inked with Papermania inkpads.

The image was cut using Rach's out of bounds technique again, this time I used circle and scallop nesties for the image and mat. The greeting is Kanban. 

Here's her close-up...

They come in 3's

Here's the first of another group of 3 cards I've made using the same image, just coloured differently. Its an absolutely stunning stamp from Whiff of Joy called Willow with Lantern. As most of you know by now, my middle child is called Willow so these stamps hold special meaning for me. It also helps that my Willow looks very similar, with her long wavy hair.

Image: Willow with Lantern from Whiff of Joy, coloured with promarkers: Blush and Baby Pink for her skin, Caramel, Cocoa and Umber for her hair, Pink Carnation and Fuchsia Pink for her dress,  Amethyst & Purple for her sash and shoe, Holly for the holly, Ruby for the berries, Primrose and Mango for the candlelight. I also covered the lantern with Sepia Accents.

I made the side-step card from papermania cardstock, adding panels of DCWV pink xmas papers. I cut the image out using Rach's out-of-bounds technique with an oval nestie, and matted onto some lilac core'dinations card cut with the oval scallop nestie in the cuttlebug.

I punched some Martha Stewart snowflakes from the lilac core'dinations card and added an iridescent plastic flower and tiny gold brad to each and finally the greeting is Papermania.

Here's her close-up...

Whiff of Joy #50 - Anniversary Party

I seem to run out of time for entering my favourite challenges - I guess 3 kids, 2 cats, 1 puppy, 10 koi carp, 2 jobs, a DT and a man that works offshore makes it difficult to find crafty time lol 
But I just had to enter this week's WoJ challenge, they celebrated their 1 year anniversary lately with a blog hop that was great fun and we got to see some sneaky peeks of the new Elisabeth Bell stamps which have now been released.
Anyway, the challenge this week was a fabulous sketch by one of my favourite designers, Rachel Jakes. And as you know, I just can't resist a great sketch.

 

 Image: Herb with Baby from Whiff of Joy, coloured with promarkers; Marsh Green and Olive for the baby's swaddling, Crimson and Burgundy for Herb's hat, scarf, gloves and the hearts, Bright Orange and Mandarin for the carrot noses, Arctic Blue and Pastel Blue for the snow parts and finally Pine for the holly leaves, the swirly bits on Herb and the baby's hat

Papers are all Papermania Home for Christmas - all inked with a chestnut whispers inkpad, green core'dinations card cut using oval scallop nesties in the cuttlebug. The greeting was free in a magazine. And the snowflake brads are papermania

Here's the customary close-up...

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 

Passion for Promarkers Blog Hop

Welcome to the Passion For ProMarkers' 1st ever blog hop 
If you have arrived here from Caryn's blog then you're right on track, if not then please go to the Passion For ProMarkers blog to start at the beginning. 

Sorry - the Hop is now closed! The winner of the 56 new promarkers will be announced Friday 18th September at Passion for Promarkers and the winner of my card below and 1 new promarker pen will also be announced Friday 18th September here.

We are celebrating the launch of 56 fabulous new ProMarker colours and have a whole set up for grabs as a prize. Yes you read that right - a whole set of the 56 brand new ProMarkers hot off the press. Letraset have generously donated this prize for us to give away to one lucky winner. A special thankyou goes to Simon for helping us out with this and the special deal the DT got on getting  the new markers before they hit the shops.

So what do you need to do for a chance to win?

Starting at the Passion for Promarkers blog  you need to visit all 11 design teams blogs and leave a comment on their post. In addition to the main prize of 56 New ProMarkers, each of the DT are offering a mini-prize for one commenter. So if you leave a comment on this post you will be in with a chance of winning 1 ProMarker. If you leave a comment on all of the 11 DT blogs you have 11 chance of winning.
Once you have left your comment here then you need to hop on over to Denise's blog and then follow her directions from there. 
To make things a little more fun, each of us has a word for you to pick up along the way. Mine is “FOR”.  When  you go back to Passion for Promarkers after you have visited all of the DT you should have an 11 word sentence to add to your final comment.
If you are not sure you are visiting the design team blogs in the right order you can go back to the PFP blog and start from the beginning!

 Here's the card I made using some of the new colours, and remember, after the blog hop closes on Thursday I will be choosing one commenter to win this card plus one brand new colour promarker. 

 

 I used the following new colours: Soft Peach and Peach, Mint Green and Soft Green for her dress, Tan for her skin. I also coloured the paper ribbon and the branches with Mint Green
Here's my customary close-up of Princess Charlotte from Whiff of Joy

  
So now that you've seen some of the new colours in action, and collected your special word, you can pop on over to Denise's blog to see her fabulous card and collect you next word.
Hope you're enjoying the hop as much as we enjoyed putting it together. 
Remember to add a link and a picture of the prize on your sidebar so that as many people as possible know that the blog hop is happening! (Details on PfP Blog)

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...

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #10

This is bliss, having the kids away to school and playgroup every morning - it means I actually get to craft for fun and not just because I need to.

I really liked the look of the sketch on this week's Sunday Sketch and Stamp, so thought I'd give it a go. I'd already coloured the image for my blonde hair tutorial (see yesterday's post) and thought I'd use up some scraps and odds and ends that were lying around.

Image: Willow with Hot Chocolate from Whiff of Joy, coloured with promarkers: Ivory & Blush for skin, Primrose, Vanilla, Mustard and Raw Sienna for her hair, Meadow Green, Apple and Grass for her jumper and socks, Blue Pearl and China Blue for her jeans and mug.

Matted onto dark blue core'dinations card cut using scallop oval nesties in the cuttlebug. The paper is Basic Grey Marrakech which was distressed with a pair of scissors. The card background is core'dinations card that has been sanded

The pearls are Hero Arts and the black gem swirl is Prima

Here's Willow's close-up...

Like this one better

Faux-stitching is more in my comfort zone, and I decided to go with more contrast for this card. Rach has designed a fabulous sketch for this week's Whiff of Joy challenge - and co-incidentally the wee parcel of stamps I ordered from WoJ arrived yesterday morning so it was the perfect opportunity to ink up this wee cutie straight away.

Just for a change I decided to make a boys birthday card.

Image: Leon Celebrating Lion from Whiff of Joy, coloured with promarkers; vanilla, saffron and sandstone for his body, raw sienna for his nose, pastel blue, china blue, meadow green and apple for his balloons and hat

card stock is all core'dinations, the faux stitching is done with white sakura gel pen, the ribbon is from my stash, the patterened paper is Basic Grey Two Scoops and I coloured the Hero Arts pearls with china blue promarker. And finally the greeting is Daisy & Dandelion

Here's Leon's close-up...

A miracle happened in this house last night.... Willow asked if she could go to bed!! school must be tiring her out - woohoo

Passion for Promarkers - another card

This was the first card I made for this weeks challenge at Passion for Promarkers, but I decided I wanted to do something a bit different for my actual DT card - see yesterday's post.

So this was what I did with Maria's fantastic sketch....

Image: Willow with Baby from Whiff of Joy, coloured with PM's: Cool Aqua and Turquoise for shading on her dress; Pastel Pink and Coral for shading on the baby's shawl; Ivory and Blush for skin; Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa and Umber for Willow's hair; Pastel Yellow, Vanilla and Saffron for the baby's hair

Core'dinations card as a base and as a mat for the image - cut using the Peony nesties in the cuttlebug, I also used a pale peachy pink core'dinations card and embossed it with the congratulations folder in the cuttlebug and sanded.

The papers are Basic Grey - Two scoops shaped with the MS Doily Lace border punch.

I also added Kars paper lace ribbon, coloured with Cool Aqua Promarker, Kanban clear adhesive gems coloured with Pastel Pink PM and the greeting is Daisy & Dandelion

The prize this week is sponsored by Cute Daisy May Digi Stamps who has kindly donated 5 sheets of downloads.

Finally here's Willow's close-up

Passion For Promarkers #9 - Lime & Rose Pink

Its that time again folks, challenge number 9 at Passion for Promarkers, and this weeks fabby colours were chosen by the very talented, and lovely Ida. 

This challenge is sponsored by Papirloftet in Norway (click this link here to see the site in English) who very generously sent a wee pack to each of the DT to use for their DT cards this week.

And this is the fabby prize pack you can win...

Please remember to use PROMARKERS in the challenge colours in order to qualify for the prize draw.

Image: Queen Charlotte from Whiff of Joy, coloured with promarkers: Ivory & Blush for skin; Apricot for crown, Warm Grey 2, 4 and Black for hair, Rose pink for dress with shading done with Maroon and blended, Lime shaded with Marsh Green and blended. Sakura clear stardust pen was used on the crown and to highlight various details on the dress.

I used the following items that were supplied by Papirloftet: Pink and Lime whitewash core'dinations card which I embossed and debossed with the paisley folder in the cuttlebug and sanded. 3 pink mulberry roses, 3 pink gem brads, heart shaped "made with love" charm.

I also used the following from my own stash; deep pink core'dinations card, MS Doily Lace Punch, Floral punchcraft Ash Branch punch

And here's her majesty's close-up... the second pic is to show off the Sakura clear stardust pen highlights

Please check out the other DT's inspirational cards this week - they really are gorgeous. And why not give the challenge a try