Passion for Markers - Birthdays challenge...

 Good morning, crafty buddies and a Happy New Year to you all!

We have some amazing changes over at Passion for Promarkers, with a new name, logos and the opportunity to play along with our challenges using any markers you like...

From today, our new name will be Passion for Markers and our challenges will be open to any marker mediums, be it, Promarkers, Copics, Zig, Karin, Spectrum Noir, etc... as long as your creation includes a hand coloured element using the markers of your choice, then we want you to play along!

I get to kick off the proceedings with a super easy challenge theme of 'Birthdays' (I have lots in January!) and we're being sponsored by one of my favourite illustrators, the uber talented Lee Holland who is offering one lucky winner a choice of 2 digital images from his online store...

We were lucky enough to get an image to play with and I picked out the ever so sweet 'Boy's Birthday'...

Having 2 boys (and a husband!), I was always on the look out for images to use on boys' cards and this little man is just perfect for those inbetween birthdays, when they've outgrown cutesie but aren't yet teenagers!

I raided my scrap drawers for the papers (I am determined to make a dent in them this year!) and kept the design quite simple with geometric lines and not too many embellishments! I coloured up the little boy with my Pro/Flexmarkers -

Colour List 

Skin - Almond, Blush, Dusky Pink, Sunkissed Pink

Trousers - Denim Blue, Cornflower, Cadet Blue

T Shirt - Pebble Blue, Blender, Red

Balloon - Sunset, Red, Poppy, Burgundy

Present - Cool Aqua, Duck Egg, Surf Blue, Petrol

I do hope that you will continue to support our challenges as you have in past years and look forward to welcoming new entrants and seeing all of your wonderful creations! 

Crafty hugs,