My Sweet Valentine

Morning,
well it's the last day of the kids' half-term/in-service days so I'm taking them to the local Brewsters to play so that I can minimise the devastation at home.
So today I thought I'd share a wee Valentine project that Letraset asked me to do for their blog.
You can find the step by step tutorial over on the Letraset blog.

Image: Making Valentines from Saturated Canary, coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers on Diamond White card from The Papeterie.
The box used to be a Lindor choc box, painted with "Paloma" Annie Sloan Paint, stamped with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink and Kaisercraft grunge texture stamp. Red grosgrain ribbon from stash and fleur de lis nestabilities die to cut the red card (from The Papeterie)


I'd like to enter her into:
Saturated Canary - Red, Pink & White
Celebrate the Occassion - Valentines Day
Creative Craft Challenge - Valentines
Passion for Promarkers - Distressing
Creative Stamp Friends - Valentine
Lollipop Crafts - With Love (non card)
The Crazy Challenge - Valentines Day
Crafting When We Can - Valentine/Love
Dream Valley Challenges - Valentine
Gingerloft - Love is in the Air
Rogue Redhead Designs - stamped background
Sweet Stampin - CAS
Totally Gorjuss - Lurve
Crafty Catz - Valentine
C.R.A.F.T. - Valentine
Thanks for visiting, I appreciate any comments Debz x

Prep & Sanding

Still up to my eyeballs, doing a few last minute samples for tomorrows classes, and putting together some step-by-step sheets to take along.
In between I'm trying to keep the kids from completely trashing the house now that they're on holiday.
So thought I'd rattle off a quick post before I make some supper for the masses.


As promised I'm back with the red-haired Sassy that I started at the Ellon Craft Group on Monday. We decided there that it would be good to do the rest of her in shades of grey to really emphasise her hair colour so, what do you think?

 Image: Pillow Talk from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers
the background paper is just plain white card stamped with Prima script background stamp and versafine ink, layered onto black card. And I was inspired by the Ellon Craft Groups heart honeycomb challenge to make the wee heart in the top left corner
**Edited to add** I used the following promarker colours: 
hair: Burgundy, Poppy, Lipstick Red, Baby Pink. 
skin: Burnt Orange, Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush. 
eyes: Denim Blue, Midnight Blue
clothing: Ice Grey 1-5
cushions etc: Warm Grey 1-5

It's a joy fold card to fit in with the Sugar Nellie FB group's challenge this week, and I'd also like to enter her into...
Stamp Something - something for your valentine
Crafty Catz - Valentine
Totally Papercrafts - CAS
CRAFT - valentine
Passion for Promarkers - let there be love
Papertake Weekly - have a heart
A Spoonful of Sugar - love
Crafty Cardmakers - hearts
Cupcake Craft - Seeing Red
Pear Tree Designs - Free for all
Stamp with Fun - love
Crazy Challenge - lots of love
Allsorts - love love love
Secret Crafter - valentine
Stampin' for the weekend - St Valentines Day
ABC Challenge - N for Neutrals
Fairy Fun Friday - all in the fine print




Faith got her glasses this week, she's been so excited about it, and we've tried to keep up that excitement for her because she is supposed to wear them all the time. So far she's been quite good and has been asking to wear them..

So, no rest for the wicked, better get back to it, hope you all have a great weekend

Passion for Promarkers #33

My goodness, didn't December just fly by??
Here we are at week #33 over at Passion for Promarkers and our first challenge of 2010. The incredibly talented Michele has chosen this week's theme of Love/Valentine plus a sketch - and you can use ANY COLOURS of ProMarkers.


We like to be ahead of the game here at PfP so this will give you a chance to make your partner/hubby/boyfriend/significant other a card in plenty of time.


Michele has put together this fabulous sketch for you all to use, and you know how I love a good sketch - takes all the hard work out of the card and lets the creative juices flow a bit easier.

This weeks prize is a pack of 5 ProMarkers which is kindly sponsored by Letraset.

 So, here's my effort. I really enjoyed putting this card together - I used a stamp I've had since before xmas that had never been inked up and some fabulous papers that I bought quite a few months ago from Simply Create in Alford.

 Image: Sassy Suzi from TGF, coloured with promarkers: Blush for her skin, Burgundy for her mouth, Maroon for her coat, Fuchsia for her top, IG 1-5 for her hair and jeans and Fineliner for her gloves and boots.

Papers are Tilda, card is core'dinations - both punched with Martha Stewart Loop punch. Half pearls are papermania and greeting is from stash

Here's Suzi's close-up...

Should I or shouldn't I?

Am debating the pro's and con's of making this quick and incredibly dangerous recipe that Dawn posted on her blog. Am not on a diet as such, as I don't believe in them - but I am trying to stick to reasonably healthy eating to lose weight, so its probably not a good idea. BUT I want to try it out of sheer nosiness.

oh what to do! lol

I managed to get a bit of time last night to have a go at 3rd Sugar Bowl Challenge, this time the theme is "Love and Romance"

I used some pink core'dinations card from the Black Magic collection as a card blank - its very effective with the black on the outside and the pink on the inside of the card. I used the swiss dots embossing folder to emboss the front of the card in the cuttlebug, I then distressed the raised areas and the edges with the Basic Grey files. I coloured the image "Claudia the artist" with letraset promarkers, and watercolour pencils to do the shading. The image, the mat and the greeting spot was cut using the labels 1 nestabilities. I added 3 red papermania brads to the bottom right hand corner of the image. Distressed the edges of the mat with the BG files. Added a rub-on to the greeting spot. I used some heart shaped metal shapes from papermania as charms, attaching them with thin gold-coloured wire and black brads from papermania.

That's my valentines card for Graham done - woohoo

I struggled a wee bit to begin with, with this challenge as I don't have any particularly lovey dovey or valentine-y stamps. But I thought Claudia has a kinda sexy alluring feel to her so that would do just fine.