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

1st Annual 2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card Showdown

I saw one of my DT teamies - Ida - had entered the 1st Annual 2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card Showdown and she has made a fab card for it. As you know, I'm a huge fan of sketches so I thought I'd give it a try too.

Image: Little Miss Attitude from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers (highlighted with white Inkssentials pen and sakura clear stardust)

I used a plain white square Anita's card blank and removed about 1cm from one edge of the front of the card. The lilac patterned paper is from the Daisy & Dandelion A5 paper pad, and the top scallop edge was made with the Fiskars threading water border punch. Over the top of this I attached a piece of purple core'dinations card which I had run through the cuttlebug with the paisley embossing folder. 

The image was matted onto lilac core'dinations card and plain white card, I inked the edges of the card with a purple chalk ink pad. I then attached the image piece so that the bottom edge was over hanging the bottom edge of the card by about 1cm.

This picture shows it better...

Hana's Birthday Card

OK as promised, here is the birthday card I did last night for wee Hana's birthday tomorrow. We've also got her a lovely pair of Hello Kitty Pj's from Asda - I love Asda for kids clothes, such great value - and lets face it, they grow so quick.

I've taken a wee close up so you can see the glitter flock (what a shock eh??) although I'm still not doing it justice.

Image: Lilly Collection 1 from Grab-a-doodle coloured with promarkers and papermania glitter flock

Papers: Basic Grey - 2 Scoops, 

Swirl is cut using a sizzix die from Papermania Scrumptious paper

Anita's wide pink organza ribbon, papermania silver brads, Anita's silver peel-off greeting

edges inked with colorbox cats eye ink pad, papers shaped with Fiskars threading water punch

charm from Calico Crafts

well, 1 outta 3 ain't bad

Only managed to make one thing today, but hey-ho. So here it is, my very first tag for a challenge. And its for the Tag You're It! Week 45 challenge. The theme was Love & Romance, and here is my interpretation of that...

I tried to take some close ups to show the glitter flock I used for Willow's jumper and fluffy socks, and to show the pearl pen on the pink heart and Willow's jeans.

Recipe: I used a sheet of the darker pink paper from the BG Bittersweet 6x6 pad and folded it in half to make the tag. I used the Fiskars threading water punch to shape the bottom edge of the tag, and the crop-a-dile to make the hole and set the large eyelet at the top of the tag.

I stamped 7 blue hearts and 1 pink heart using one of the free stamps from Cardmaking & Papercraft Magazine and cut these out. I arranged the blue ones and stuck down, then used another of the free stamps to stamp the greeting on the pink heart and attached it with foam pads. Adding pearl pen accents.

I stamped the Willow with Hot Chocolate by Elisabeth Bell for Whiff of Joy using Memento ink onto Concorde card and coloured her with promarkers. I used papermania glitter flock in the bright pink to make her jumper and socks (using a quickie glue pen), and sakura white gellyroll to highlight various areas.

Finally I added ribbons and buttons from my stash.

As I've already said, this is my first attempt at a tag for a challenge, so please let me know what you think (and be honest, I can certainly take constructive criticism)

Sugar Bowl - Challenge 1

The Sugar Bowl has posted their first challenge here, which runs until the 14th January.  So I thought it would be good fun to also make this the first card challenge I have entered.   There's a fantastic prize, so I suggest you all have a go.

I used the "Pen Pal" image (which I received from Lainy as part of the PIF I won a wee while back) and coloured her using Letraset Promarkers. The patterned papers are all Basic Grey Two Scoops, and the cardstock is core'dinations (1 of which was cuttled with the swiss dots folder that my lovely chum Mar got for me) Most of the mats have been punched with the fiskars threading water punch. The greeting was die cut from two scoops paper using one of the cuttlebug greetings dies. And finally I added some papermania ribbon and fibres, and some adhesive stones.

oh yeah.... I can make cards too!

It seems like ages since I have sat down and made a batch of cards - and NO, they weren't C word cards. (christmas for those of you unfamiliar with the C word)

I have a few birthdays coming up over the next couple of months, so I wanted to get them done before I get bogged down with the *whisper* C word. And sadly I had a sympathy card to make too.

Sisters

Managed to get a bit of time yesterday to have a bash at a layout for Adrian and Shirley. Adrian had sent me some lovely b&w shots of his girls on Lunan Bay in Angus and they were  just perfect for scrapbooking.

I started out with a blue layout with red accents then realised I don't have any embellishments that would go with it, so started again with the chocolate and blue. I seem to be developing my own signature style now - keep it simple!

I keep trying to do the elaborate layouts, but they always end up looking really dreadful, so I'll stick with what I know and what's comfortable for now

I used:

papermania brown cardstock

papermania blue paper for the fold over corner detail, matting under the photo (fiskars threading water punch) , swirls (sizzix die cut), letters (cuttlekids fairy alphabet).

Brown Whispers pen for doodling the faux stitching detail round the scallop edges

Dress It Up blue buttons

papermania photo anchors and brads

Stamp It Up journalling stamp (Ink It Up brown ink)

HOTP blue ribbon

Yay - I got one! - Scallop Punches R Us

A wee parcel arrived today..... in fact I forgot I had ordered it the other day, the lovely Angela from Angel Crafts sent my order: 2 journalling stamps and the infamous threading water scallop punch from Fiskars, woohooooooo! Now I just need to get some peace to play with them lol
I also just wanted to say that Angela puts that wee bit extra into her packaging, the stamps and punch were wrapped in tissue paper and tied with a ribbon - freebies! YAY!
Right after I ordered the punch from Angel Crafts (and I hunted all over the internet for it) I noticed I had received an email from the lovely folks at Craft Obsessions letting me know they now had stock of the Fiskars Threading Water punch - so if you want one, you better be quick!

Decided yesterday that I didn't like a couple of the layouts I did for our holiday scrapbook - the one of Scott, Graham and the owls, and the macaw & cockatoo one. So I pulled them apart and managed to re-do the Owls one. I am definitely favouring the simpler style, the previous one was far too busy and unco-ordinated for my mathematical brain lol I do think my journalling needs a bit of work though - I seem to have a mental block when it comes to thoughts and feelings or even witticisms

I used some Cosmo Cricket - Honey Pie paper and ribbon, Papermania Secret Garden acetate (inking the edges), a journalling spot from the Bo Bunny Beau Jardin sheet, chipboard letters (inking them to give them more definition) from the K&Co Wild Saffron range and some green and gold coloured adhesive stones to pick out random owls eyes on the acetate.

I have also finally got round to making up Rachel's care package. Rachel is a lovely friend of mine who lives in Ibiza with her 3 gorgeous children. We "met" through the Extra Special Parents website and met for real this summer when we had our holiday in Port d'es Torrent. I made up a wee mini book for her as a memento of our visit (early version in August posts) and have been adding to it when the mood took me. Rachel and the kids are flying over to Wales next month to see her family, so I've also enclosed 3 Scotland woolly hats for the kids to wear when they come over. I added in a copy of Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (the book) - I believe the film is out in the cinema just now, but I'm not brave enough to go and see it because I know I will bawl. And I'll have to get some sugar-free sweeties for Aidan and Galaxy chocolate for Rachel, Ana and Emily.