Excursion to Edinburger

Well, I am still aching from yesterday's wee jaunt to Edinburgh -I do have an excuse though, in case you don't know, I have bilateral hip dysplasia which has resulted in osteo-arthritis in both hips - my right is far worse than my left though. Anyway, moving swiftly on, because I don't want any sympathy. There weren't a huge amount of stalls at the Artstamps Exhibition, but it was incredibly busy, and I still bought plenty lol. I took a list of things I really wanted and I managed to get about half of it, so I'm happy.

The best bit about it though was meeting some bloggy buddies. Lainy and Manda met me from the train, and then we met Fiona and her chums while we were there. In fact it was really weird how I met Fi; I got chatting to this lady outside and she mentioned that she was from near Peterhead and and that she'd had to get up really early to drive to Ellon where she was getting a lift with a couple of friends. So I asked if it happened to be Fiona she was going to, and yup it was lol

So those were all the goodies I bought, I was a bit disappointed with one of the exhibitors who was billed as specialising in punches, but only turned up with these wee 5-in-1 punches. I had been hoping for a far bigger range so that I could buy some retro flower punches - but nae luck! So have ordered from Craft Obsessions instead.  

Teamie Birthday

It was Helen's 40th birthday 2 days ago - and yes I did post her card in time. But I've only just had time to post it on here, seeing as I'm off on a jolly to the Artstamps show at Edinburgh today and won't be back til late evening I thought I'd let you see it.

I was inspired by Kim Costello's tutorial in the June issue of Craft Stamper magazine, to try colouring an image in black and white.

Now, as you know, I love my promarkers but I've never tried using just my greys to colour an image. I don't have all the greys, just a couple of ice greys but I do also have all 5 of the warm greys, so I tried it with them. 

I chose the Daisy stamp from Sugar Nellie because I'm used to colouring her and am fairly confident I know where I'm putting the light and shadow on her. And because she is my all time favourite.

So I'll stop blethering now and just show you the card eh?

Image: Daisy from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers: warm greys 1-5, aubergine for flowers and grass for leaves.

Paper: Black & Ivory Papermania

Purple core'dinations card cut with large scallop oval nestie in cuttlebug

white card cut using sizzix flower & vine die in cuttlebug and coloured with Grass Promarker

chipboard numbers from stash coloured with Aubergine Promarker

Anita's purple wide organza ribbon

Papermania fabric flowers, coloured with Amethyst and Aubergine Promarkers

flower button and lilac wire from stash. Lilac Pearl Pen for flower centres

And here's Daisy's close up....

Weekend Workshop

The very first Weekend Workshop over at Passion for Promarkers has been posted and its Back to Basics. The Design Team has all had some input into this weeks workshop and we'd love to know what you think. We have covered what ink to use, what card, and which colours we suggest for skin and hair. 

Don't miss it! and don't forget there's still plenty of time to enter the 2nd challenge too. This week you have to use Pastel Pink and Apple promarkers on your card/project. You can enter right up until 9am GMT on Tuesday 9th June