A 3 in 1 card!

Hi everyone, I hope you’ve all had a good week and thank goodness it’s now the weekend!!  My card today fits in with 3 challenges – pile it on challenge – thank you, simon says stamp challenge – give thanks, la-la’s weekly wednesday challenge – pink.  The image is by elzybells and is coloured with my promarkers (I also added stickles to the bees trail, although it is difficult to see in the pic).  The papers are making memories from the ‘lauren’ paper pad and the sentiment is SU from the sincere salutations stamp set.  The flower I made by punching two large ek success retro flowers and cutting into the petals.  I added a pearl brad and spacer (from my stash) to the centre of the flower.   A simple card but quite pretty I think.  Thanks for stopping by today.  I’ll be back later with another card. 

Susie’s sassy challenge #1 – DT card

Today’s the day for the launch of the brand new challenge blog – susie’s sassy challenge!   The challenges will run every two weeks and to start us off we have an amazing prize for you to win.  To be in with a chance to win you have to make a christmas card (so a nice easy challenge to start you off with!).  I am so honoured to be part of the DT and the rest of the team are such a talented bunch :)

Here is a pic of the prize up for grabs:

For my card I used a digi-image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Milly & presents’ and I coloured it with my promarkers.  I used flower soft for the fluffy bits, this is the first time I’ve used it and it looks ok but not as stunning as I thought it would.  I used my kraft card once again from elzybells and the paper was a scrap piece without a name on it.  The decorative edges were cut with my MS zigzag embossed punch and also used my MS arctic snowflake punch.  The sentiment is craftwork cards and I used my SU oval punch to cut the kraft card behind it.  The twine is from tabby crafts.  I hope you have a chance to enter our first challenge and to be in with a chance to win the fantastic prize.  I look forward to seeing what you come up with and visiting your blogs.  Please check out the rest of the DT cards as they are all gorgeous.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Creative card crew #35/Digital Tuesday #31

Hello and welcome to Wednesday, I can’t believe how quickly this week is going (not that I’m complaining though lol).  My card today fits the challenges over at creative card crew, whose theme is ‘ribbons and gems’ and digital tuesday challenge, whose theme is ‘flowers’.  The digi image was a freebie from fred she said and I coloured it with my promarkers, adding highlights with a white gel pen.  The papers are DCWV from ‘the stack’ and the plain cs is from the papermill shop.  The flowers were cut out with my ek success retro flower punches and the adhesive stones are PM.  The sentiment was created on the pc and cut out with my SU oval punches and the ribbon is also SU.  Some of my regular visitors may think this card is familiar but it is a variation on this card that I made a little while ago.

Don’t forget to check out our new challenge starting tomorrow over at susie’s sassy challenge – there is an amazing prize up for grabs for our very first challenge….you definitely don’t want to miss it!!  I will be back tomorrow with my first DT card – how exciting :)  Thanks for stopping by today. 

Passion for Promarkers wk 24 – DT card

Wow I can’t believe how fast the weeks are flying by – we are already on week 24 over at passion for promarkers challenge and this week’s challenge is a colour combo chosen by our guest designer Manda.  She would like to see your creations with the colour combo of grass & canary as the predominant colours. 

For my card I used the image from my colouring tutorial on the weekend workshop last Friday.  The image is a gorjuss girl sugar nellie stamp called ‘flower girl’ (from funky kits) and I coloured her with the following promarkers -

Dress – canary & tulip yellow

Tights – grass, emerald, canary & tulip yellow

Hair – tan & caramel

Skin – ivory, blush and pastel pink

I used ice grey 1 for the outline and added stickles to the flowers and a white gel pen for highlights. 

I created a ‘patchwork’ type background by cutting small squares of different papers (from my scrap box) and sticking them to a plain piece of bazzill bling card (I inked all the edges with a colorbox cats eye chalk ink pad in ice jade).  The gorgeous ribbon is from my stash and the flowers were cut with my small ek success retro flower punch.  The adhesive pearls are from my stash and the image was cut out with my circle nesties.  For once I really like how this card turned out – I think its really sweet :)  I’m like most crafters and think that most of my cards are just ‘ok’ lol! 

Our sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store. 

If you have time please check out the rest of the DT cards, as they are gorgeous.  I can’t wait to see what you create and look forward to visiting your blogs.  Thanks for stopping by today. 

Stamp with fun #31 – DT card

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This is my first card as a design team member for stamp with fun challenge and our theme this week is ‘create a scene’ (which did fill me with dread when I read it lol).  As I don’t own any scene-type stamps I had to make up my own.  I used two different digi images from DigiStamp Boutique – the first one is ‘chloe and snowball’ and the snowmen are called ‘chilli’ and ‘lil shiver’.  I coloured the images with my promarkers and cut them out.  The “snow” was created by tearing white hammered card and layering it up at the bottom of my card.  To give the illusion of ice I added stickles to the edges of the torn card.  The gorgeous tree paper is MME and is called ‘snowed in trees’.  The plain card is making memories.  The sentiment is by hero arts and is from a clear set called ‘merriest wishes’ and the ribbon is SU.  The adhesive pearls are kaisercraft. 

There is a gorgeous prize up for grabs this week – a lovely hanglar stamp :)

 

Please check out the rest of the design team’s creations as they are all gorgeous.  I can’t wait to see what scenes you create and look forward to visiting your blogs.  Thanks for stopping by today. 

Cupcake craft challenge #64 – DT card

Over at cupcake craft challenge this week our new challenge is a wonderful sketch designed by Caryn (although I did turn it on its side). I love the clean and simple style to it and for my card I used a digi image by sassy studio design called ‘sweet as cherry pie Cheryl’ and it was coloured with promarkers. The gorgeous paper is k & co from the sparkly sweet paper pad and the plain card is from the papermill shop. The flowers were cut with my ek success punches (large & medium) and the brad is from my stash. The adhesive pearls are kanban.

Our sponsor this week is Simon says stamp and the lucky winner will receive $20.00 to spend in their online shop + free shipping.

The design team have created some wonderful samples so please pop over and take a look. I can’t wait to see what you come up with this week and look forward to visiting your blogs. Thanks for stopping by today.

My card also fits the bill for the a spoonfull of sugar challenge (albeit a very late entry) whose theme this week is 'kitchen/cooking'.

A tutorial for you :)

Before I begin I have to apologise for the amount of pics in my post!  I hope you will persevere until the end :)

I was contacted a little while ago by Debbie who runs the crafty pad who asked me if I was interested in doing a tutorial using one of her clear stamps – well I jumped at the chance, but with school holidays and illness etc its taken me until now to complete.  For this tutorial I’ve used an adorable stamp called ‘Christmas Ted bring home the tree’ and this is one of the newly released stamps from the crafty pad.  Please check out their website here to see all their stunning stamps. 

For my tutorial I used the following promarkers –

Ted – vanilla and pastel yellow

Scarf & hat – red and berry red

Tree – green and emerald (for branches) cinnamon and cocoa (for trunk)

I also used cool aqua for the snowy ground and snowflakes and ice grey 1 for the bobble on his hat

Don’t forget you can click on any of the pics for a closer look (I’m sorry some of them are a little dark but it was so difficult to get a decent pic here today as it is so gloomy). 

Here is the “before” pic.  I stamped the image with a black memento ink pad.

I started by colouring Ted with my vanilla promarker.

Next I added shading with my pastel yellow.

I blended both colours together by going over the whole of Ted with the vanilla again.

Next I randomly coloured some of the tree branches with grass.

  I then added emerald to the gaps in the branches.

I then coloured Ted’s hat with red.

And added shading with berry red.

Again blending the colours together by going over the whole hat with red once more.

Then I coloured the tree trunk with cinnamon.

Adding shading with cocoa.

Once again I blended them together by using the lighter colour – in this case cinnamon.

   Finally I coloured the snowy ground and snowflakes with cool aqua.

And here is my finished card.  I used doodlebug papers and a see-d’s sentiment.  The snowflakes are cut out with my MS arctic snowflake punch.  The plain card is from the papermill shop. 

  

I’ve also coloured Ted in with darker colours (tan and caramel) – which do you prefer?

I hope you haven’t fallen asleep by now :)  if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.  Don’t forget to visit the crafty pad as they have some adorable stamps available.  Thanks for stopping by today.