Passion for Promarkers Mega Christmas Challenge 2015...

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Grab a cuppa and a biscuit (or two) and make yourself comfortable!

Good morning dear crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week. This week Passion for Promarkers are launching our very special “Mega Christmas challenge” which runs for a whole month and ends on 5th January 2016!  As both design teams have worked extremely hard once again this year, we all think they deserve a little break to catch up on last minute gifts and cards.  However to make up for the lack of challenges we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs!
Our theme for the Mega Christmas challenge is “let’s celebrate”.  You are welcome to make Christmas cards but as the challenge will still be running after the ‘BIG’ day you can of course make any type of creation as long as you follow the theme.  As time is precious for our DT at this time of year we are limiting the number of entries you can make to just 3 for this month long challenge.  Please remember to be eligible for our prizes you must use your promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, metallic or aqua markers.  Please can you help us by stating which Letraset products you have used on your creation i.e. ‘coloured with promarkers’ etc.  Thanks x x

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Letraset are generously offering one lucky winner a super bundle of goodies which includes:

2 x packs of Winsor & Newton Promarkers, 1 A4 bleedproof marker pad, 1 A4 pack of Safmat and 1 pack of transfers.

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10.00 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a $30.00 voucher to spend in their store.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner 2 gorgeous digis called ‘Serenity Blossom’ and ‘Octavia Thinking’.

Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a €10.00 voucher to spend in her store.

Little Claire Designs are offering one lucky winner 3 digis of their choice from their online store.

Crafty Sentiments Designs is offering one lucky winner 3 digis of their choice from their online store.

Sassy Studio Designs are offering one lucky winner a $20.00 gift certificate to spend in their online store.

The Ribbon Girl is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

Wow we are sure you’ll agree our sponsors have been super generous once again this year!

We have asked both design teams to share some inspiration with you but as it such a long challenge we will be posting the inspiration from Team 1 today and then in two week’s time we will be posting inspiration from Team 2.
So here's my inspiration for the challenge -

 

I decided to colour up the fab freebie image that All Dressed Up offered as a 24 hour giveaway - she's called  All Dressed Up for Xmas.  I coloured her with my Pro/Flexmarkers and decided to keep the card quite simple because of all the detail in the image...

I'm not doing very well with all the Christmas preparations, to be honest and need to find some festive sparkle to give me a boost! I think it's because my youngest is no longer of the age to believe that it seems to have lost it's magic a little...it's not the same when they know!

I also promised myself that I would be organised this year and make presents earlier in the year...well, you can probably guess how that went?! Everyone I speak to agrees that Christmas needs to get away from the spending of money and more about the spending of time, but with the pressure - especially on parents who are bombarded by advertising for the latest and greatest games and gadgets - it's hard to just stop! We're made to feel that we have somehow failed if we do not get the gifts that have been asked for, or if there isn't a room full of presents to be opened...I'm feeling a little disillusioned by it all just now and need to find my inner Christmas!

Well that's enough...rant over...there's still enough time to save Christmas...pass me a mince pie! :)

I hope you all have a fabulous Christmas, however you spend it and that 2016 brings good health, prosperity and a little more crafty time to all of you!

I don't know how much I'll be posting over the festive period, as I still have so much to do, but will hopefully pop in and share what I'm up to...

Hugs and best wishes,

Lisa x

I'd like to enter my card into this month's All Dressed Up Facebook Challenge

Craft fair update...

Good evening, dear Blogger friends!  A quick post from me just before I go and feed the family to update you as to my recent fair - unfortunately it was a little on the quiet side, so all in all we did quite well considering Mum counted 22 people in total! It was better than a poke in the eye and everyone gave such lovely feedback.  The best sellers were the magnetic pegs (gonna have to make more of these) and Welsh Christmas cards, which always sell well as they are so hard to get nice ones. I have decided to have another go and will be stocking up my supplies for a stall at our local organic farm shop on the 6th December - that's once I've confirmed all the details, that is! It should be well attended because of where it is and you can get both local people and passers by stopping, so fingers crossed...
You may have also noticed that my Pinterest feed is full of beading projects at the moment - it must be that time of year again when I want to try a new hobby....like I need another one?!But have you seen some of these designs...oh my word, they're just divine!
Well, off to put the sausages on for tea - think I may just have to make myself some onion gravy to go with them! Have a lovely evening!
Hugs,
Lisa x

PS I must apologise again for crazy Blogger insisiting that some of my text needs to be set on the smallest setting, I really don't know what to do about it as I must have tried to change it realistically, 30 times! Let's just hope it's a temporary glitch and sorts itself out soon!

Passion for Promarkers - Christmas is coming....

..It sure is! Good morning, lovely Bloggers and a Happy Tuesday to you all! Can you believe that we are hurtling towards the end of November and I haven't even put a dent in my Christmas shopping list! I am trying to give more personal presents this year, either by making them myself or by making up gift baskets with a theme that the recipient will like (or that's what I'm hoping!) Plus I'm throwing in a few white elelphant gifts, just to try and put some fun back into the proceedings! I am feeling quite deflated about it all this year as my youngest is now of the age where he's not really a Santa believer (though won't come out and admit it in case there's repercussions!) and with only me liking the mince pies and Christmas cake, there seems to be no preparation or build up either! But despite this, I'm still looking forward to having hubby home for a fortnight and hopefully spending a bit of family time together!
Well, enough of that!  Christmas IS coming and that's my theme this week over at Passion for Promarkers - so I'd like to see all your festive creations, whether it be robins or reindeer, Santa or snowmen, get out your Letraset mediums and get colouring...Don't forget, you can mix your Letraset pens with other mediums and still enter into the challenge, just tell us where you've used your Promarkers, etc and you're still elligible to win the prize!...

For my card, I used a fab sketch from Sweet Sunday Challenge #294 and an image that I drew myself...

...The papers are scraps that were on my table at the time, though the plaid is from the birdhouse design set of 12 Cards of Christmas and the embossing folder is an Embossalicious one...

...The snowflakes are from a set of XCut ones that I recently bought which seemed excellent value as there were loads of dies on the sheet! The sentiment is Welsh for Merry Christmas and I finished with some Glossy Accents on the baubles, crystal glitter, buttons and sprinkles.
So, there you go, there's my contribution for your festive inspiration and I look forward to seeing all your wonderful creations and am sure will be kept busy visiting your blogs...Don't forget to hop on over to the Passion for Promarkers blog and see what my wonderfully talented teamies have been making and good luck in the draw!
Crafty hugs,
Lisa x

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges :

Creatalicious Challenges

Merry Christmas until 14th Dec

Simon Says Stamp

Christmas closes today

Creative Inspirations

Festive Fun closes today

Whimsy Inspirations Challenge 88

Anything Goes - Holidays until 13th Dec 
*Okay, so does anyone know why Blogger keeps changing this text to smallest?!  I have changed it to normal size 100 times now and every time I view the post it reverts back to this tiny little writing!  Aarghh!*

More craft fair stuff...

Good morning, everyone! Hope you're having a wonderful week so far - not long until the weekend, although Carol didn't get our hopes up this morning when she said that the forecast for North Wales over the weekend is one of 'exceptional' rainfall!! Better get the oars out! More like better make sure the cupboards are stocked as our little village tends to get flooded in from both sides if the rain is particularly bad! Here's hoping it's BBC weather being pessimistic!?!
Anyway, I thought I would pop in and share what I've been up to for the last week or more - creating for my craft fair next week...

...I currently have 16 sticky note pad holders, 10 money/gift card wallets, 27 corner bookmarks, 10 tall slim notepads with pens, 10 packs of magnetic pegs, 8 Merry Kiss-mas and a Chappy New Year lip balm holders, 18 simple Christmas cards (inspired by one of my all time favourite cards that the lovely Donna made for PfP over the Summer), 2 altered wooden hearts...and a partridge in a pear tree! Only kidding, though I wish I'd picked more of those wooden hearts up as I love how they've turned out! I'm hoping to get a few printed mugs done but am having a bit of an issue with the colour settings after changing ink cartridges, so will have to play a bit first!
I'll probably take my box of birthday cards and Mum's doing some pretty bird feeders and tissue boxes, so we'll hopefully have a nice selection of things - then all we need is for the people to turn up...and the weather to play fair!
Hope storm Abigail doesn't cause too much disruption this afternoon and overnight...batten down the hatches and stay indoors if you can! Have a terrific Thursday and I'll see you soon...
Crafty hugs,
Lisa x

Passion for promarkers - Autumn/Fall...

Good morning, dear Blogging buddies!  Another Tuesday has rolled around, so it's time for a new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers...this week it's the lovely Julie in the hostess chair and she has chosen a seasonal theme of 'Autumn/Fall' so whether it be Autumnal colours or something that reminds you of Autumn, we'd like to see what your creativity comes up with...

We're being sponsored by Sassy Studios who are offering one lucky winner 4 digital images from their store...But don't forget....to be in with a chance of winning the prize, you MUST use your Letraset mediums!...Good luck!...

For my card I was inspired by Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #7 with it's fun sketch and tic-tac-toe board (unfortunately the challenge ended before this post, so I couldn't enter but maybe next time!?!)  I also took inspiration from the fabulous squashes that I saw in Lidl whilst out with my Mum and sister...

...The image is the pumpkin digi from A Year in Cards which I pasted into PS and manipulated to create the different shape squashes.  They were coloured with my Pro/Flexmarkers and here's the colour list for all you Letrasetters :

Left pumkpin - Ivory, Vanilla, Mustard, Moss, Forest Green, Sea Green

Centre pumkpin - Gold, Honeycomb, Pumpkin, Bright Orange, Spice

Right Pumpkin - Sunflower, Gold, Honeycomb, Nutmeg

Stalk - Pastel Beige, Khaki

I decoupaged the two outer pumkins using 3D glue gel and added some die cut Cottage Cutz oak leaves inked with Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge and Mustard Seed.  The paper is from the House set of Another Play on Words and the sentiment was made using individual letter stamps. To embellish I added some orange polka dot ribbon, wire twirls, a printed insert and my obligatory pearls!
So there you go!   I hope you can join in with our seasonal challenge this week and look forward to seeing all your Autumnal makes.  Don't forget to hop on over to the Passion for Promarkers blog to see what my talented teamies have created for your inspiration!
Crafty hugs,
Lisa x
I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges :

The ABC Challenge

U is for Unlimited until 12th

Fab n Funky

Die Cuts and/or punches closes today

The Paper Shelter

Layer on Layer closes today 

Angel workshop make...

A quick post from me before I have to sort out for kid's club this afternoon - this is what we made at class on Saturday...

...a pretty Christmas angel made from circle and heart dies, a bauble, pencil and branch log!  We then made an angel themed card using the ever so sweet Judikins Peeking Angels stamps, which we've had for ages!
Hope you're all having a great start to the week and I'll be back in the morning to share my DT card for a new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers!
Hugs,
Lisa x

My hands are not idle...

Good morning, dear Bloggers of the world!  Despite my absence, I am still in creating mode...I have a craft fair in a fortnight and have been busy trying to make stocking filler type gifts to sell!  Hubby is wondering why Ebay keeps sending him messages saying that he's just bought 20 shopping list note pads or 24 sticky notes, or 42 wooden pegs and even 8 lip balms?! I am trying to come up with items that have a low selling price so that they  actually buy something! *(hopefully)*
One of my first items are some fun corner bookmarks in different styles...

...I would like to make some more of the kite and monster bookmarks but it's surprising how long it takes just to make a few items and I need to fill a table?! I have also made 18 Christmas cards so far, but will share them another time...I have magnetic pegs, post it note holders and pens, bottle top fridge magnets, lip balm holders, shopping list notepads...and yet still don't seem to have very much! Thankfully Mum is sharing the table with me so she'll hopefully fill up some of the space...I just hope it's all worthwhile!?! Though as they say, "nothing ventured, nothing gained!"
Hope you all have a fabulous weekend - we have a workshop tomorrow, so I'll try to remember and take a picture of what we're making and post it when I get home!
Hugs,
Lisa x