Passion for Markers - Christmas Critters...

 Good morning, crafty friends! It's the last day of November and we have a new challenge starting over at Passion for Markers with the lovely Julie choosing a topical theme of 'Christmas Critters'...so think robins, reindeer, penguins and polar bears!

We're being sponsored by Clearly Besotted Stamps, who are offering one lucky winner a £15 voucher to their online store...how fab!

There's a bit of a story behind this week's card... Storm Arwen goosed my monitor power supply, so although my PC is working I couldn't see anything! All my images are on my PC and because I have only recently got into 'proper' stamping, I discovered that I don't have many Christmas stamps, let alone animal ones...so it was time to improvise! I found these bird stamps that came with an embossing folder in the bottom of my stamp basket and turned them into Christmas robins...

I used a couple of different sentiment stamps, mistletoe embossing folder and some die cut holly leaves as the main embellishments, keeping the design clean and simple...

I have to admit that it was nice to create something from start to finish without touching my PC but think I am still going to be a hybrid crafter in the future, although my stamping stash needs some attention...maybe in the New Year?!

I hope that you can find the time to play along with us at Passion for Markers this week and look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations...

Crafty hugs,

Lisa x

Passion for Markers - Anything Christmas...

Hello there, crafty friends! Yet another Tuesday arrives, which means we see the start of a brand new challenge over at Passion for Markers...

 This week it's the lovely Sue in the hostess and she's given us a topical theme of 'Anything Christmas'...I'm sure you are all much more organised than me, as I can't seem to get my head around Christmas until the month of December at least! Every year I promise myself that I will be more organised and every November I think, "Well there's no time to do anything about it now!"...

We're being sponsored by LeAnn's World who are kindly offering one lucky winner 2 digital images form their online store...

We were lucky enough to get an image to play with and I picked out the traditional 'Presents' Christmas tree image...

 I kept my card clean and simple, colouring the tree with my Pro/Flexmarkers and then cutting out leaving a white border. I inked behind the image with Salty Ocean Distress Oxide and added a strip of lilac gingham to contrast with the aqua colour tone of the card base. I doodled a hand drawn border and added some sequins and tiny star gems, then glittered elements on the tree ad presents.

The sentiment stamp is from Simply Creative Happy Christmas stamp set and I also added a Memory Box Precious Star die cut in silver pearl...

I hop eyou can find the time to play along with our festive challenge this week and lool forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations!

Hugs,

Passion for Markers - 3 or more patterned papers...

 Hello there, crafty friends! Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween weekend and didn't eat too many sweet treats?!...or get washed away?!

Another Tuesday comes around which means that we have a brand new challenge started over at Passion for Markers...

This week it's the lovely Marlene in the hostess chair and she would like you to use '3 or more Patterned Papers' on your projects....just remember that to be in with a chance of winning this week's prize, you must use your markers (of any variety) and follow the challenge theme...

 We're being sponsored by Crafty Sentiments who are offering one lucky winner a choice of 3 digital images from their online store...

 For my DT card I used the ever so sweet Snowman at the Window image and created a collage style card using paper strips. I framed the snowman with a Polaroid style frame, cutting around his scarf and hand so that they made an out of frame effect and then decoupaged his scarf for added dimension...

I used a snowflake embossing folder for the background, glittering some of the snowflakes and added some silver glitter paper stars and gems. I then mat the panel onto black before attaching to a blue 5x7 inch card base...I have to admit that I am getting more inclined to use coloured card bases these days, thanks to the talented Gina K and her inspiration!

I hope you can find the time to play along with our fun challenge this week and look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations!...

Crafty hugs,