Passion for promarkers #128–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope that you are all well this morning and that Monday was good to you!  As I mentioned it was my son’s birthday so we had pizza delivered and we all sat together munching our food and watching a film – which was really nice.    My boys are definitely not my babies anymore and there won’t be many more birthdays left like this one I don’t think *sob*. 

Anyway onto the reason you are here.  It’s Tuesday so that means we have a brand new challenge for you over at passion for promarkers challenge.  This week the lovely Tracy has set the theme and she has chosen to give us a sketch to use.  You can rotate the sketch and make minor alterations but we must recognise the original sketch.  Don’t forget you must use your Letraset pens (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, tria markers or aqua markers) to qualify for our prize draw.  Here is my card using Tracy’s sketch:

and here is Tracy’s fantastic sketch:

I decided to use the sketch to make a Christmas card for my youngest son and I used a freebie image from Pollycraft called ‘Casper silvermist – too cool for Christmas’ and coloured him with flex markers and promarkers.  The gorgeously stunning papers are bo bunny from the “snowfall collection” and the plain card is papermania from the ‘textured cardstock’ pack.  I kept the card fairly simple and just added some twine, snowflakes and pearls.  The sentiment was created on the pc.

Our sponsor this week is Sugar Nellie Stamps and the prize is yet to be confirmed. 

 

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

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

Addicted to stamps challenge – Christmas card

Dream valley challenge – sparkle (stickles)

Here comes the boys challenge – for the man/men in your life (my son)

Stamptacular challenge – anything Christmas

Craft your passion challenge – tis the season

The crazy challenge – stars and/or snowflakes

Karen’s doodles challenge – non traditional Christmas colours

Lexi’s creations challenge – one for the lads

Lollipop crafts challenge – b is for …. (blue, brown, boys)

Paper playtime challenge – use a stamped image and sentiment

Pollycraft challenge – Christmas fun

Totally stampalicious challenge – non traditional Christmas colours

4 crafty chicks challenge – snowflakes

CRAFT challenge – unusual Christmas

Crafty purple frog challenge – something for someone special (my son)

Meljen’s challenge – twine or string

Rainbow lady’s challenge – cards for men

Sew many cards challenge – twine

Simply create too challenge – Christmas

Totally papercrafts challenge – Christmas

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I look forward to seeing what you create.  We have a super special challenge for you next week, so make sure you remember to stop by and check it out.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by – it really means the world to me.

Card ingredients:

Image: pollycraft – ‘Casper silvermist’ freebie digi

Papers: bo bunny – ‘snowfall collection’ pad, papermania – ‘textured cardstock’ paper pad

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, die-namics snowflake die, sentiment created on pc, circle nesties, pearls from the hobby house, stickles, SU twine

Winter wonderland–first DT card!!

Good morning friends, I’m excited as today I get to share my first DT card with you for the winter wonderland challenge.  I am honoured to be part of this friendly and talented team and hope I can live up to expectations.  The challenge this week is “my sentiments exactly” and we want your sentiment to be the main focal point on your card.  Don’t forget that at the moment you can choose to make any card you like, it doesn’t have to be a Christmas card.  Here is my card:

The DT were lucky enough to be given sentiments to use by one of our sponsors this week  and I chose this gorgeous swirly one.  I love the different fonts and that you can add a touch of colour if you like.  My poor promarkers have been sulking all day as I didn’t use them very much.  However to make up for neglecting them I did colour my sheer organza ribbon with my turquoise promarker to match my card.  I have to say that I really struggle with sentiment only cards but at least I like the colour scheme I’ve chosen for this card. 

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have Simon Says Stamp and the lucky winner will receive a $15.00 gift voucher to spend in their online store. 

Our second sponsor is a new sponsor for us at winter wonderland and they are called Sentiments 4 You and it is one of Lynne’s lovely sentiments that I have used on my card.  The lucky winner will receive a $10.00 gift voucher to spend in their online store.  Please pop over and check out their shop as they have so many beautiful sentiments to choose from. 

The rest of the DT have created gorgeous samples for your inspiration.  Both Marianne’s team (which I’m part of) and Kate’s team and sharing cards with you this week, after this week we will be sharing our cards with you on alternate weeks.  Please pop over to the challenge blog and check out their beautiful cards. 

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

Challenge up your life challenge – clean and simple

Craftyhazelnut’s Christmas challenge – let’s see some bling (stardust pen and pearls)

Christmas cards all year round challenge – anything goes

OSAAT challenge – as you like it

Kaboodle challenge – bling it up (stardust pen and pearls)

Mojo Monday challenge – sketch (which I rotated)

Wild orchid challenge – let’s get sentimental

Creative craft challenge – monochromatic madness

Crafts and me challenge – monochrome

Creative belli challenge – the letter P (pearls, patterned paper)

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – delight in your digi

Digi doodle challenge – swirls (swirly paper and on image)

Do you stack up? challenge – patterns (my paper)

I hope you have a wonderful Friday and that you will have a chance to enter our challenge this week.  Hello to my newest follower Steph, I really appreciate you taking the time to visit my blog.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: none, sentiment by sentiments 4 you

Papers: bo bunny – ‘holiday cheer frost’ double sided paper (I used both sides), plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: marianne creatables snowflake die, sakura stardust pen, pearls from the hobby house, organza ribbon from stash, labels 8 nesties

Sketch Saturday #29

Here is my card for this week's Sketch Saturday challenge. I stamped the hero arts image and then paper pieced another image over the top (shock horror no pro-markers were used in the making of this card!!). The lovely dp (that I also used to paper piece the tree) is by Bo Bunny and the tree dp is by My Minds Eye. The "lace" is adhesive paper ribbon by K & Co. The sentiment was done on my pc and the pearls are by craftybitz. The sticky ribbon is by PM. Thanks for looking.