Passion for Markers - Christmas...

 Apologies for the late posting, the Bank Holiday Monday has thrown my ability to know what day of the week it is?!...Turns out it's Tuesday, which means it's time for a brand new challenge over at Passion for Markers!...

The lovely Sue is in the hostess chair with a simple theme of 'Christmas' (unless you're me, in which case you find it really hard to think of that event in December until around the 30th November! Ha, ha!) We're being sponsored by Lili of the Valley (LOTV) who are offering one lucky winner a choice of 4 digital images from their online store...

 We were lucky enough to get an image to play with and I picked out the pretty 'Woodland Baubles' and went with a clean and simple design...

I coloured the image with my Pro/Flexmarkers and used a Spellbinders wave border die to cut the edge of the cardstock. I layered over some traditional plaid paper, then matted onto red before adding some red grosgrain ribbon. I decoupaged some of the bauble elements of the image and highlighted with glitter and gems. I added peel off waste dots to the border scallops and mounted everything onto a 6x6 kraft card base....

I hope you can find the time to play along with our simple challenge this week and look forward to seeing all of your festive makes...

Crafty hugs,

Passion for Markers - Things with Wings...

 Good morning, crafty friends! It's Tuesday, which can only mean one thing...yep, that's right, it's time for a brand new challenge over at Passion for Markers!...

 This week it's the lovely Marlene in the hostess chair with an easy challenge theme of 'Things with Wings'...this could be butterflies, dragons, birds, fairies or any other creature with wings....

We're being sponsored by A 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 pretty 'Spring Dreamer'...

 I kept my card clean and simple, using up some of the ever increasing scraps that I keep accumulating and coloured in my favourite pink and aqua colour combo...I decoupaged the image for a bit more dimension and added some tiny butterfly die cuts (more things with wings!)

Life is pretty hectic at the moment, so I'm finding it hard to craft in between challenges, but hope to be back soon to share the cards that we made at workshop on Saturday....until then, I hope that you can play along with our challenge this week and look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations!

Crfaty hugs,

Passion for Markers - Dies and/or Punches...

 Good morning, crafty friends! Wow! These weeks are really speeding by and we're already into August...life is so busy at the minute, I don't know if I'm coming or going?!

 It's time for a brand new challenge over at Passion for Markers and the lovely Marie is in the hostess chair with a super easy theme of 'Dies and/or Punches'...it doesn't get much easier than that! We're being sponsored by All Dressed Up stamps who are offering one lucky winner a choice of 2 digital images from their online store...

 We were lucky enough to get an image to play with and I picked out the super cute 'Play Day'...

 

 I coloured the sweet girl and her dog with my Pro/Flexmarkers and mounted her onto a concertina front card. I paper pieced her wellies, glasses and hair ribbon for a bit of added dimension and used papers from my scrap drawers for the panels. I added my favourite sun and cloud die cuts, some fishtail flags and a couple of stamped sentiments...

I I hope you can find the time to play along with our fun challenge this week (and if you do, can you send some of that time over to me, please?!) and I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing all of your wonderful creations!

Crafty hugs,