Ella's Design: October 2018

Tuesday 30 October 2018

Passion for Promarkers - Christmas or Winter...

Good morning, crafty friends from a rather frosty North Wales! It seems Winter may have already arrived...for now anyway...and rather aptly, it coincides well with our challenge over at Passion for Promarkers this week! We have a brand new challenge starting today, which the lovely Marie has set for us with a seasonal theme of Christmas or Winter...
We are being sponsored by Uniko Stamps who are offering one lucky winner a choice of stamp set from their online store (stamps must be in stock)…

Don't forget, to be in with a chance of winning the prize, you MUST use your Letraset/Winsor & Newton products and follow the challenge theme - it also helps our design team if you can state where you've used the products, for example, coloured with Promarkers...

For my card, I decided to recreate one of the cards we did at our last workshop. I love this collage style of card and thought it worked well with the stag stamp which came from the Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine Issue 182...
I coloured him with my Pro/Flexmarkers, decoupaging his head for a bit of dimension and adding a touch of brown glitter to his antlers. A bit of doodling, snowflake, star, gems and dots all add to the collage feel and the string circle gives focus to the head of the stag...or that was the intention anyway!

Well, I don't suppose my washing is going to dry on the line today, so I'd best go and turn my house into a Chinese laundry and catch up with some housework...Hope you all have a terrific Tuesday, whatever you're up to and if you can find the time for a bit of crafting...and maybe even join in with our challenge this week...then all the better!
Hugs,

Tuesday 16 October 2018

Passion for Promarkers - Bingo board...

Good morning, my lovelies! It's my turn to host this week over at Passion for Promarkers and I've given you a fun, but easy, Bingo board to work with...

We're being sponsored by Dr Digi's House of Stamps who are offering one lucky winner a choice of 2 digistamps from their online store...

Don't forget, to be in with a chance of winning this week's prize, you MUST use your Letraset/Winsor & Newton mediums and follow the challenge theme. It also helps of you could state where you've used these products, eg - coloured with Promarkers and which Bingo board line you've used...

We were given the opportunity to use a sponsor image and I went with the ever so fun Professor Wigginson...I love him teamed with this tongue in cheek sentiment and just had to give him a psychedelic tie! I used my Sizzix alphabet dies to create the mathematic symbols and added a couple of pearls...because it seems to almost be a signature of mine! The paper is from a pad by The Works called Seas the Day and the Prof. was coloured with my Pro/Flexmarkers…
I hope you can find the time to join in with my challenge theme this week and look forward to visiting all of your blogs to see your wonderful creations!
Crafty hugs,

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges :

Crafty Catz

Anything Goes closes 18th

Moving Along with the Times

For a Man closes 24th

Little Miss Muffet Challenge

Anything Goes closes today

Tuesday 2 October 2018

Passion for Promarkers - Christmas is Coming...

Good morning, Blogger buddies! Gosh, these Tuesdays are rolling around quickly now...and we're already into October - how did that happen?! The days are getting shorter and there's a definite Autumn chill in the air...and I don't suppose it will be long before we're thinking about that thing that happens in December...scrap that, it's time to think of it now!! Mainly because we have a new challenge starting over at Passion for Promarkers today and the lovely Julie has chosen us the theme of 'Christmas is Coming'....
We're being sponsored by Di's Digi Stamps who are offering one lucky winner a $12.00 voucher to spend in their online store...

For my DT card, I decided to use a brand new image of mine which is literally hot of the press, as it was only completed yesterday morning!...

I have to say, I am so pleased with how this little penguin turned out, he's really easy to colour and will soon be available to buy in my Etsy store (www.ellasdesign.co.uk) as a digital stamp - I'm just working on finalising a couple of variations...

Here's a close up of the little guy...(I hate having to watermark images, but sadly it is a necessary evil! At a time when so many more designers are having their artwork copied or shared online, it is a hard job to try and protect your image and yet share your inspiration with fellow crafters, plus I try to make my images and card kits accessible to everyone by keeping them at a low cost to buy...so I'd just like to take this opportunity to say a huge THANK YOU to any of you that have bought a design from me in the past - it is your continued support that keeps me contributing to the craft world, albeit in a small way!) Okay, rant over, normal service will now be resumed?!…

Right, off to try and get these files ready for upload...I hope you can find the time to join in with our challenge this week and always look forward to seeing what you create...just don't forget, to be in with a chance of winning, you MUST include your Letraset/Winsor & Newton mediums in your design - you can mix them with other mediums, just let us know where you've used them to be eligible to win the prize...

Hugs,