Passion for promarkers #102–DT card

Good morning friends.  I hope you enjoyed your day off from work yesterday, although the weather wasn’t that brilliant was it?  I caught up on some of my recorded TV on Sky+ and did some crafting but apart from that had a really lazy day *yay*.  More of the same for the rest of the week I think lol! 

I’m here this morning to share my card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge and the theme this week has been set by me and I have chosen “sporting marvels”.  That means I want to see all your images that involve sporting activities of some sort.  Don’t forget to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your promarkers or aqua markers.  Here is my card:

I have used a fab image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘golf Alf’ and the papers are papermania from the ‘blueberry pie’ capsule collection.  I embossed a couple of circles with the cuttlebug tiny mosaic embossing folder to try and resemble golf balls for a fun touch.  It can be difficult to find suitable embellishments for men’s cards can’t it! 

Our sponsor this week is Sugar Nellie stamps and the lucky winner will receive 4 manga stamps.

    

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Stamptacular challenge – boys and/or bugs

Little red wagon challenge – use a number (on my sentiment)

Aud sentiments challenge – a sentiment/card for a male

Digi doodle challenge – anything goes

Do it with digis challenge – all about the boys

Frosted designs challenge – BBQ, picnic or outdoor games theme

Sew many cards challenge – circles

Simply create challenge – special day/event (40th birthday)

CES challenge – embossing

Craft your days away challenge – father’s day or special man (card for son)

The sweet stop challenge – sketch

Craft your passion challenge – what a guy

Lexi’s creations challenge – father’s day or man’s card

Ooh la la creations challenge – happy birthday

I hope you will be able to join in with my challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower *waves* – Susie – thanks and I hope you will visit often.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘golf Alf’

Papers: papermania – ‘blueberry pie’ capsule collection, plain card from the papermill shop, SU whisper white card

Tools: promarkers, sentiment created on pc, circle nesties, cuttlebug tiny mosaics embossing folder, pearls from the hobby house

Cupcake craft challenge #144–DT card

Hello again friends.  I’m back to share my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  I have the honour of setting the theme this week and I’ve chosen a zesty colour combo for you to use: 

 

Here is my card:

I really love this bright and cheerful colour scheme and I was really looking forward to using it but for some reason my mojo wasn’t co-operating and I really struggled.  I’m still not 100% happy with this card but it’s much better than my original attempt!!  I love all the individual elements but I just think that something’s missing!  I used a gorgeous image from some odd girl called ‘dancin’ Kaylee’ and most of the papers are SU except for the flowery paper at the top which is from my scrap box. 

Our sponsor this week is pink gem designs and the lucky winner will receive 4 images of their choice. 

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsor, who for May is Crafts U Love and they are offering one lucky winner a £15.00 gift voucher for their online store.

The rest of the design team have created beautiful samples once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Creative craft world challenge – use 3 or more flowers

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – here comes summer (my colours)

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or here comes the sun (my colours are very summery)

Your next stamp challenge – sketch

Mami doodles challenge – let’s party (she looks like she’s partying!)

Catch the bug challenge – bright colours

Cupcake inspirations challenge – inspiration photo (bright colours/flowers)

Ok, so that’s my lot for today.  I hope you’ll be able to join in with my challenge this week and I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your beautiful cards.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: some odd girl – ‘dancin’ Kaylee’

Papers: various SU papers, flowery paper from stash, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, ek success medium & small retro flower punches, PM adhesive stones, circle nesties, sentiment created on the pc, MS border punch, circle nesties

Stamp with fun #113–DT card

Good morning dear friends and a happy bank holiday Monday.  I am extra excited as I have a whole week off from work this week *yay*, although my kids are not as impressed as me, as they’d rather have the house to themselves lol!  Anyway I plan to do lots of crafting and try to get ahead with DT cards and orders so that I’m not constantly chasing my tail haha!  Let’s hope the weather improves a little,  as this weekend has been really wet and wild here. 

Onto my card!  Over at stamp with fun challenge this week we have a lovely theme for you “in the garden”, so we basically want to see things you would find in the garden – easy right?  Here is my card:

I have used a new digi from Wee Stamps called ‘sweet blossom’ and coloured her with my promarkers.  The gorgeous papers are first edition from the ‘daydream’ paper pack.  I added stickles to the flowers and also to the buttons, which are super sparkly IRL. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over the the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Cupcake inspirations challenge – photo inspiration (I was inspired by the flowers)

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – things with wings (hope my tiny butterflies count!!)

Claudia & company challenge – girl’s birthday

I love promarkers challenge – pearls

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – animals (she’s holding a small bear)

Scrap creations challenge – use at least 3 different papers

Tip top Tuesday challenge – use at least 2 stamps – digi or rubber (image is digi/sentiment is rubber)

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – cute and cuddly

Let’s craft and create challenge – dies to die for (circle nesties)

Paper pretties challenge – birthday cards

Crafty purple frog challenge – things of beauty (my image)

Do you stack up? challenge – animals (small bear on my image)

Fun with shapes and more challenge – sparkle (I’ve used stickles)

Fussy and fancy challenge – 3 papers, 2 embellishments and 1 ribbon

Sew many cards challenge – circles

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – sketch

Crafter’s companion challenge – girl’s birthday

Crafty calendar challenge – teddy bears (small bear on image)

I hope you will have a chance to enter our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest followers *waves hello* Lil and Francy – thanks for your support and I’ll visit you soon.  I’ll be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your bank holiday. 

Card ingredients:

Image: wee stamps – ‘sweet blossom’

Papers: first edition – ‘daydream’ paper pack, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, ek success medium retro flower punch, circle nesties, SU basic pearls, leaf trim from really reasonable ribbon, buttons from stash, stickles, circle nesties

Winter wonderland blog hop!

Sorry I have a long post today

so grab a cuppa and a biscuit and get settled!!

Winter Wonderland challenge will be 2 on 30th May and we are ceLebrating by having a week Long bLog hop.  We have 11 sponsors this week, yes, that’s right 11!!!  But that’s not aLL because each member of the DT has some candy to give away too.  Both teams are pLaying aLong this week plus Janet who joins us at the end of each month so that’s another 11 prizes to be won.

We wouLd Like to have as many prize winners as possibLe so if your name is drawn for more than one prize we wiLL draw again.  That means 22 Lucky people wiLL win a prize this week.  With so many prize winners we won’t be choosing a top 3 just for this week.

ALL you have to do to join in the fun is:

• Play aLong with this week’s easy and fun chaLLenge
• Be a foLLower of Winter Wonderland challenge 
• Visit each member of the DT and coLLect a Letter
• Leave them a comment and enter their candy draw
• Rearrange the Letters to make a two word Christmas CaroL
• E-maiL the answer to Winter Wonderland

Of course you don’t have to join in the bLog hop if you don’t want to.  You can stiLL enter this week’s chaLLenge and be in with the chance of winning one of the 11 prizes this week but why miss out on doubLing your chance of winning

The Letter you need to collect from me (just in case you hadn’t worked it out!) is…….. “L”

You shouLd have arrived at my bLog from Jane’s bLog but in case you’re a littLe Lost you can go back to the beginning here.

Our theme this week has been set by Suzi and she has chosen “bLue & white” which is a very popuLar coLour combo for Christmas cards, so should be an easy task this week.  I am using an image from one of our sponsors – Sassy Studio Designs caLLed ‘LittLe Honey’s – Winter Wendy‘

Here is my card:

I don’t know why but I found photographing this card very difficult!  So I apoLogise for the dodgy pics – it is a much nicer card IRL honest!  The papers are a magazine freebie and the gorgeous ribbon (which reminded me of snowbaLLs) is from the ribbon girl. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Lexi’s creations challenge – spots and/or stripes (my spotty ribbon and embossed circle)

Kaboodle challenge – distress, rip, tear or crumple (I inked all the edges of my card and the embossed circle)

Lollipop crafts challenge – bling it (my pearls)

OSAAT challenge – bling it on (pearls)

Crafty cardmakers challenge – embossing

Creative card crew challenge – anything goes

Digital Tuesday challenge – texture (my embossing)

I love promarkers challenge – pearls

Papertake challenge – pale, pretty pastels

Creative inspirations challenge – Christmas in May

Let’s craft and create challenge – dies to die for (my circle nesties)

2 sisters challenge – use a digi

Craftyhazelnut’s Christmas challenge – let’s see some scallops

Crafty sentiments challenge – special occasions (Christmas)

Digi doodle challenge – anything goes

Moving along with the times challenge – holidays (Christmas is a holiday!)

The rest of the DT have created amazing cards once again this week, so why not join the hop and then you’LL have a chance to check them aLL out! 

The next person on the hop is LYNSEY. 

I am aLso offering some candy of my own, which includes 2 Joanna Sheen Christmas stamps, some ribbon, buttons and any other odds and bits I can find!  (Sorry I haven’t had a chance to photograph the candy but wiLL add one soon). 

To enter my personaL candy just Leave me a comment and I wiLL randomLy draw a winner at the end of the chaLLenge.

I hope you will enter our challenge and I cannot wait to see all your gorgeous creations.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by today. 

Card ingredients:

Image: sassy studio designs – ‘little honey’s – winter Wendy’

Papers: magazine freebie, SU whisper white cardstock

Tools: promarkers, circle nesties, ribbon from the ribbon girl, papermania glitter snowflakes, pearls from the hobby house, stickles, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder, cats eye chalk ink pad

Charisma cardz #21–DT card

Good morning dear friends, I hope you are having a great week so far.  I’m counting down as I have a week off work next week *woohoo*. 

It’s time for a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge and the lovely Vee has set the theme and chosen “boy oh boy”, so we want to see all your male themed cards.  As luck would have it I needed a card for my BIL’s birthday!  Here is my card:

I have used a fab image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Alf and beer’ and coloured him with my promarkers.  The gorgeous papers are stampin’ up! 

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have DigiStamp Boutique who are offering a prize of 6 digi’s of the winner’s choice

Our second sponsor is the stamping boutique who are offering a prize of 5 digi’s of the winner’s choice. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing cards once again this week, so please pop over and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – for the boys

Totally papercrafts challenge – don’t be square (my card is A5 in size)

2 sisters challenge – use a digi

Catch the bug challenge – grads, dads & other celebrations (BIL’s birthday)

The sweet stop challenge – sketch & make it masculine

Crafty Ho’s challenge – inspiration photo (inspired to make a male card)

Whoopsi daisy challenge – birthday

Creative card crew challenge – anything goes

I love promarkers challenge – pearls

Paper pretties challenge – birthday card

Truly scrumptious challenge – anything goes

I hope you will have a chance to enter our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Alf and beer’

Papers: SU ‘sweet pea’ paper stack, SU chocolate chip cardstock

Tools: promarkers, SU circle punches and oval all punches, sentiment created on the pc, pearls from stash

Passion for promarkers #101–DT card

** THIS IS A MEGA POST TODAY SO GRAB A CUPPA AND GET COMFY **

Good morning dear friends, I have a special passion for promarkers challenge post for you today.  We are so excited as today is our 2nd anniversary and to celebrate we have a lovely theme and also some amazing prizes from our super generous sponsors.  It is also the time for our design teams to trade places, so it’s a sad goodbye to team 1 and a big welcome to team 2.  Sadly one of members of team 2 was unable to return so we have  a brand new member to unveil and that is Lisa from Wishcraft Cards.  Please leave some love for Lisa as she is a little nervous. 

Our theme this week is aptly “all the 2’s” so we want to see everything multiplied by 2 i.e. 2 images, 2 papers, 2 colours etc.  As always to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your promarkers or aqua markers.  Here is my card:

I even decorated the inside!

The “2’s” on my card are – 2 papers, 2 main colours (with brown as an accent colour), 2 flowers, 2 ribbons, 2 pearls and 2 sentiments – that’s a lot of 2’s!!  I used a brand new digi (for me anyway) from Wee Stamps and she is called ‘spring bringer’ and she is just so adorable.  The gorgeous papers are glittered ( although it’s hard to tell in my pics) and they are also brand new.  They are from the stunning first edition ‘summer breeze’ paper pad.  It is brilliant value for money as there are 64 sheets in each pad (I got mine from Crafty Emma’s store). 

Now onto the amazing prizes up for grabs this week.  We have 8 sponsors in total so lots of goodies up for grabs:

* Letraset are offering 2 x stamping kits

* Crafty Emma’s store are offering a £15.00 gift voucher to her online store

* Some Odd Girl stamps are offering 3 digis of the winner’s choice

* Bearly Mine Designs are offering a £10.00 gift voucher to their online store

* Whiff of Joy stamps are offering a Nora & Ben ‘forever friends’ stamp

* The Emerald Faerie Garden are offering 4 digis of the winner’s choice

* Joanna Sheen is offering a £10.00 voucher for her online store

* Pink Gem Designs is offering 4 digis of the winner’s choice

As we will be very busy choosing all our winners we unfortunately won’t be picking a top 5 passionista, but don’t worry it’s only for this week. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Whoopsi daisy challenge – birthday

Stamps & fun = creativity challenge – flower power

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme (optional sketch which I didn’t use)

Paper pretties challenge – flowers

Truly scrumptious challenge – anything goes

CCEE stampers challenge – use flowers

CRAFT challenge – happy birthday

Shelly’s images challenge – anything goes

Crafty catz challenge – anything goes

Easy craft projects challenge – pretty pastel colours

2 sisters challenge – use a digi

CES challenge – embellish it

One stop craft challenge – fairy tales

Sweet stampin’ challenge – sketch and/or in the garden

Crafter’s companion challenge – girl’s birthay

I hope you will be able to join in with our special anniversary challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: wee stamps – ‘spring bringer’

Papers: first edition – ‘summer breeze’ paper pad, SU chocolate chip cardstock

Tools: promarkers, ek success medium retro flower punch, sentiment from crafts 4 you, doily from stash, pearls from the hobby house, circle nesties, white gel pen, ribbons from stash

Cupcake craft challenge #143–DT project

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down for my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again friends, as promised I’m back with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  The lovely Delphine has set the theme this week and she has chosen “bookworm” so we want to see an image with a book on it, someone reading a book or a bookmark.  I decided to use an image of books (and a bookworm) and make a bookmark.  Here it is:

The fun image is from Karen’s doodles and is called ‘reading is fun’ and I coloured him with my promarkers.  I also coloured my white ribbon with my meadow green promarker so that it would match my project.  The papers are from Echo Park ‘springtime’ paper pack (I won a sample pack from the Claudia & company challenge a few weeks ago and it is lush! ).  

Our sponsor this week is Crafty Emma’s store and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 gift voucher to spend in her online store. 

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ monthly sponsor and for May that is Crafts U Love and they are offering a £15.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

The rest of the cupcakes have made amazing samples as usual this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would like to enter my bookmark into the following challenges:

I’ll be back later to add these!

Ok, so that’s my lot for today.  I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I cannot wait to see your gorgeous creations.  Whatever you’re up today I hope you have a wonderful day (even if it’s just at work like me!).  Thanks for stopping by.

Bookmark ingredients:

Image: Karen’s doodles – ‘reading is fun’

Papers: echo park – ‘springtime’, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, SU oval all punches & label punch, SU white ribbon, button from stash, crop-a-dile, sentiment created on pc

Stamp with fun #112–DT card

Good morning everyone, I hope you’ve all had a brilliant weekend.  Mine was quiet but at least I wasn’t at work lol!  I wish the weather would make up it’s mind though, one minute it’s lovely sunshine and the next it’s pouring down with rain.  I really hope we have a nicer summer this year, fingers crossed. 

I’m back to share my card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge and we have a lovely sketch by Tina46 to use.  Here is the sketch:

and here is my card:

I’ve used a super cute image from DigiStamp Boutique which is part of a set of two called “birthday dinos” and coloured him with my promarkers.  I only used die cut stars and pearls for the embellishments as in my family men don’t like fussy cards!  I really enjoying using the sketch and will definitely be using it again. 

The rest of the DT have made gorgeous cards once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

I’ll add these in later as I’m scheduling my post at 2am and I’m really tired now!!

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I can’t wait to see what you do with Tina’s sketch.  I would also like to welcome my newest followers – Jojan, Claudia and Brodders aka Jane – welcome all and thank you so much for deciding to follow me.  I will return the favour as soon as I can.  I hope you will call back later to check out my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge but until then thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp boutique – ‘birthday dinos’ set

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘Gertie’ paper pack, SU chocolate chip cardstock

Tools: promarkers, quickutz star cookie cutter dies, pearls from the hobby house, circle nesties, sentiment created on the pc

Charisma cardz #19–DT card

Good morning dear friends, I hope you are all having a brilliant week so far.  Work has been extremely busy this week but at least the time goes quicker that way lol!  It’s Thursday so that means it’s time for a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge.  This week the lovely Carol has set the theme and she has chosen “birthdays in pink”,  which is obviously going to be a very popular theme I think! 

We are sponsored this week by Robyn’s Fetish and the prize is  5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set of their choice.  The DT were lucky enough to be given one of their images to use on our cards this week and I chose ‘waking up birdie’ which would also be ideal as a new home card too. 

Here is my card:

I have to say that I really struggled with my card, even though I really love pink!!  I made the mistake of colouring my image first (which I never do) and then I couldn’t find the right papers that seemed to fit!!  I settled on my standby of gingham, which I bet you are all sick of seeing lol!  I kept the layout fairly simple with just a few punched flowers, pearls and a punched butterfly but I think it looks quite fresh.  I hope you agree!

The rest of the DT have created gorgeous samples once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Corrosive challenge – birthday

Cupcake inspirations challenge – inspiration photo (I was inspired by the birds)

Stamptacular challenge – pink-a-licious

The shabby tea room challenge – monochromatic

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – anything goes

Claudia and company challenge – girl’s birthday card

Papertake challenge – bloom & grow

4 crafty chicks challenge – spring inspired

Crafty purple frog challenge – monochromatic

Dutch dare challenge – winged things (2nd entry)

Crafty Ann’s challenge – happy birthday

One stop craft challenge – ice cream images or colours (I’ve gone for strawberry with a hint of chocolate)

Critter sketch challenge – hip to be square (my paper is cut into squares)

Creative card crew challenge – cute and girly

Crafts and me challenge – anything goes

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme (I didn’t use the optional sketch)

Paper pretties challenge – flowers

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – anything goes

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or pink & girlie

Truly scrumptious challenge – anything goes

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I would like to say hello *waves* to my newest follower Steph, thanks hun for joining my happy band of followers, I will return the favour very soon.   Have a wonderful Thursday and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Robyn’s fetish – ‘waking up birdie’

Paper: promarkers, gingham paper from stash, bazzill bling cardstock (I used the matte side), MS butterfly punch, MS frond punch, ek success medium retro flower punch, personal impressions sentiment, stickles, pearls from the hobby house, small circle punch, corner rounder punch, letraset fineliner pen