Passion for Markers - Spots and/or stripes 13th Anniversary challenge

Good morning, crafty friends...these Tuesdays sure are coming around at speed!

It's time for a brand new challenge over at Passion for Markers and this week it's a special one as it's our 13th Anniversary challenge! Denise has picked the challenge this week with a super simple theme of 'Spots and/or Stripes'...for me this is one of the easiest themes as it is rare for me not to use one or the other on my cards!

 We have multiple sponsors this week with some fabulous prizes up for grabs!

Dies to Die For are offering a £20.00 voucher

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Crafty Sentiments Designs are offering 3 digi images

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Leann’s World 101 are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images

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All Dressed Up stamps are offering 2 digi images

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Uniko Stamps are offering 1 stamp set (which must be in stock)

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Di’s Digi Stamps are offering a $6.00 voucher

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Polkadoodles are offering 3 digi images

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Colour of Love digis are offering 3 digi images

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Sheepski Designs are offering 3 digi images

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For my card I picked out an old Digistamp Boutique image called Harry with Beer and thought I would use it to make hubby's birthday card (which is TODAY...Happy Birthday to my best friend and my rock!)...

As hubby is not a very big beer drinker, I changed up the beer bottle that was in his hand for a more appropriate mug of tea! (We must be getting old?!) I used some paper strips from my scrap drawers and kept my card clean and simple, although I was going to add a bit of an inked background but stuck the paper on first without thinking! (Definitely getting old?!)

I coloured Harry with my Pro/Flexmarkers :

Skin - Blush, Sunkissed Pink, Coral

Hair - Storm Cloud, Cool Grey 5, Black

T Shirt - Denim, Blue, Cadet Blue, Cool Grey 1

Mug - Pebble Blue, Tea Green, Nutmeg, Sandstone

I used my favourite WOW! Happy Sentiments set and the cheers stamp was from a freebie with SC&P, then finished with some coloured gem sprinkles...

Crafty time is rather scarce at the moment...although so is time to do anything other than the essentials, to be honest! My craft room is like a bomb site and I keep getting tempted to have a major purge and get rid of a LOT of stuff, but then chicken out in case I may NEED it sometime?! The only thing when you're a maker is that you can see potential in everything and find it so hard to just let things go...but maybe one of these days...maybe?! Organised life, organised mind and all that?!...

I hope that YOU can find the time to play along with our celebratory challenge this week and look forward to seeing all of the wonderful creations that you share...and don't forget that BOTH Teams are sharing creations this week to give you plenty of inspiration too!

Crafty hugs,

Passion for Markers - Gems and/or Pearls...

Good morning, crafty friends! Another Tuesday arrives and with it a brand new challenge over at Passion for Markers!...

This week it's the lovely Marlene in the hostess chair with a super simple theme of 'Gems and/or Pearls'...you can use either or both on your creations and we all love a bit of bling, surely?!...

We're being sponsored by Stamper's Delights who are kindly offering one lucky winner a choice of 3 digital images from their online store...

Just remember that to be in with a chance of winning the prize, you must have a marker coloured element on your creation and it really helps if you could let us know where you've used them, for example, coloured with alcohol pens...and follow the challenge theme, which this week couldn't be simpler!

We were lucky enough to get an image to play with and I picked out the modern 'Art Tools 5'...

With my love of CAS cards not waning, I thought this image would be perfect for a simple creation and resized the digistamp in Photoshop to fill most of the card base. I printed a couple of layers so that I could decoupage some elements and positioned the wording so that the sentiment worked. I inked the card base with Cracked Pistachio and Salty Ocean Distress Oxides and paper pieced the pocket with a denim colour polka dot.

To follow the theme, I added some gem sprinkles in various colours and some grey pearls to underline the word Art. This is definitely my favourite style of card making and I love the way this one turned out, plus the image was easy to colour too!

Colour List :

Bristles - Gold, Honeycomb, Spice

Metal shafts - Champagne, Sandstone, Cappuccino 

Handles - Red, Poppy, Burgundy, Cool Aqua, Duck Egg, Surf Blue, Pastel Green, Soft Green, 

Peacock Green

Heart - Cocktail Pink, Watermelon, Lemon, Canary

I hope you can play along with our challenge this week and look forward to seeing your wonderful creations!

Crafty hugs,

Passion for Markers - Flowers...

 Good morning, dear Blogger buddies and a happy Tuesday to you all! I'm popping in to let you know about our new challenge that starts today over at Passion for Markers...

The lovely Marie is in the hostess chair with an easy, peasy theme of 'Flowers'...this could be floral papers, floral images or floral embellishments...

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

We were lucky enough to get an image to play with and I picked out the ever so pretty Maiara Indian Maiden...

I must admit that I thoroughly enjoyed colouring up this image and love the way she turned out...for all you Promarkerists, here's the colour list I used :

Skin - Putty, Tan , Cinnamon

Hair - Caramel, Auburn, Henna, Umber

Lips - Dusky Rose, Antique Pink

Feathers - Honeycomb, Halloween, Spice, Powder Blue, Denim Blue, Cornflower, Cadet Blue

Shawl - Powder Blue, Denim Blue, Cornflower, Cadet Blue, Pastel Green, Soft Green, Peacock Green

Accents - Sunset, Firebrick

I picked out some coordinating papers, including the mandala style floral one to compliment the colours in the image and mat Maiara onto a dark brown with two photo style corners.

I used the hydrangea type die from Tim Holtz Sizzix Funky Floral #2 to cut some small flowers in coordinating colours and added some in her hair and around the image, with a leaf die as a background. I added a pale blue fishtail flag (one of my go to embellishments when you just need something) and a stamped sentiment from the Wild and Free set that came free with SC&P some time ago...

I hope you can find the time to play along with our simple challenge this week and look forward to visiting your blogs.

Crafty hugs,