Passion for Markers - Birthdays...

 Good morning, crafty friends! It's time for another brand new challenge over at Passion for Markers and this week I am playing hostess. As it's my birthday this weekend, I decided to choose a super simple theme of 'Birthdays'!...

We are being sponsored by Colour of Love Stamps 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 sweet 'Sitting Pretty' cat...

I coloured the cute kitty with my Pro/Flexmarkers :

Fur - Soft Peach, Honeycomb, Spice, Cinnamon, Auburn, Champagne, Vanilla, Sandstone

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

Flowers - Pastel Pink, Cocktail Pink, Sorbet, Antique Pink

Grass and leaf - Apple, Forest Green, Camo Green (SN)

I went for a CAS design with a stenciled background using Peacock Feathers DI and fussy cut the cat leaving a white border, before mounting using foam tape. I stamped a two part sentiment, one directly onto the card and the birthday on a strip mounted onto a turquoise blue cardstock. I added a touch of glitter to the sentiment, a tiny die cut butterfly for a bit of dimension and finished with a couple of self adhesive pearls...

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

Crafty hugs,

Passion for Markers - Use a stencil...

Good morning, crafty friends and a Happy New Year to you all! I have been absent from crafting for a little while as my lovely Mum passed away at the end of November and I have been spending my time sorting out her affairs and house (no mean feat when she was a maker and crafter like me!) But now it is a new year and she would want us to move forwards and live life, which I'm hoping will continue to include crafting...

It is the start of a brand new challenge over at Passion for Markers and our newbie DT member Sarah (check out her fabulous creations!) has given us a super challenge theme of 'Use a stencil'...

We're being sponsored by Di's Digi Stamps who are offering one lucky winner a £6.00 voucher to their online store...

I must admit that I never really used stencils in crafting until a couple of years ago and am slowly building my stash (as you do?!), but one of my favourite things to do is find uses for the tools that I already have...so I made my own stencil from a piece of plastic packaging and my cloud border dies...(if you know me well enough, then what else was it going to be?!)...

 I used a sweet Clearly Besotted stamp set that I picked up from a destash page some time ago and coloured the elements with my alcohol markers before fussy cutting out, leaving a border...

I inked the clouds with Broken China, Cracked Pistachio and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxides and added a polka dot paper to the bottom third. I die cut some clouds from scrap and inked the edges with Broken China before adding with foam pads. I finished with some simple sentiments that I found in various sets and a few sequin sprinkles, just because...

I hope that you can play along with our fun challenge this week and look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations. I hope to continue to share my inspiration with you and wish you all the very best for 2024!

Crafty hugs,