Passion for Markers - Things with Wings...

 Good morning, crafty buddies! Another Tuesday rolls around, which means it's time for a brand new challenge over at Passion for Markers! This week it's the lovely Marlene in the hostess chair and she's picked the fun theme ' Things with Wings'...so whether it's birds or butterflies, dragons, fairies or even aeroplanes, we'd like to see them! Just remember that to be in with a chance of winning this week's prize, you MUST use your marker pens (alcohol or water based) and follow the challenge theme...

Our sponsor this week is the wonderful Uniko Stamps who are offering one random winner a choice of stamp set from their store (has to be in stock)...

 For this week's card I used a stamp set that I picked up in the post Christmas sales 5 for £25 over at CraftStash...

 

This one is called The Seagulls by Daisy Mae Designs and I thought it would be good for making those awkward male cards...

Blender, Cool Grey 2, Pebble Blue , Canary, Sunflower, Gold, Sunset, Red, Poppy, Burgundy, Sapphire, Egyptian Blue, Midnight Blue, Cinnamon, Saddle Brown, Auburn, Umber, Sandstone, Cappuccino, Tan, Soft Peach

I used the background paper from the Lighthouse design set of Words at Play and a scrap of navy blue anchor paper from Seas the Day 12x12 scrapbook pad. I kept the image the main focal point of the card, creating the scene with the stamps and colouring with my Pro/Flexmarkers. I used the Daisy Mae Distressed Rectangle die as a mat for the image and added some twine and a couple of my favourite die cut clouds. The sentiment was a freebie with the Little Birds set that came free with SC&P and I finished with a few red star gems to pick up the accent colour of the life ring...

I hope you can find the time to play along with our fun challenge this week and look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your fabulous creations!

Hugs,

Passion for Markers - Add a Sentiment...

 Good morning, Blogger buddies! It's Tuesday again, which can only mean one thing...yep, that's right! A brand new challenge starts today over at Passion for Markers!...The lovely Marie is in the hostess chair this week with a super easy theme of 'Add a Sentiment'...it doesn't get much easier than that?!...

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

I decided to use an image that I had in my stash and try to be organised making hubby's Valentine's card (but Ssssh! don't tell?!)...

I coloured up Benson Bear With Love using my Pro/Flexmarkers and fussy cut leaving a white border :

Vanilla, Champagne, Sandstone, Cappuccino, Blush, Sunkissed Pink, Coral

Cerise, Shocking Pink, Vermillion, Cardinal Red, Crimson, Cool Aqua, Duck Egg, Surf Blue

Prismacolor pencils for shading and fur texture

I started with a dusky pink 5x7 inch card base and added a muted pink stripe panel. I cut Daisy Mae Design's Distressed Rectangle die and inked the edges with Salty Ocean DO, then attached a (First Edition Love Letters) pink square, followed by a white heart die cut stamped with Avery Elle's With Love from the Everyday Circle Sentiments stamp set.

I added a strip of black and white dotty paper and a chevron in aqua tones (all from my scrap drawers) and then mounted the image using foam pads. I finished off with a couple of red gem hearts...

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

Hugs,

Passion for Markers - Embossing (Heat/Dry)...

 Good morning, crafty friends! I'm dropping in to let you all know that a new challenge starts today over at Passion for Markers and the lovely Lorraine is in the hostess chair with a fun theme of 'Embossing' - this can be either Dry embossing (using folders/stencils, etc) or Heat embossing with powders...

 We're being sponsored by SheepSki Designs who are offering one lucky winner a choice of 3 digital images from their online store...thanks, Andrea! Just remember, to be in with a chance of winning the prize, you MUST use your markers (alcohol or water based) and follow the challenge theme...

 We were lucky enough to get an image to play with and I picked out the pretty Freesia Vase...

I coloured the image up using my Pro/Flexmarkers :

Ivory, Buttercup, Mustard, Gold, Honeycomb, Halloween, Sunset, Pear Green, Tea Green 

and Bamboo, Camo Green Spectrum Noir pens

 

I cut a tag shape with Daisy Mae Design's Tag Die Set and added a faux nested layer on top that was embossed with Cuttlebug Vines embossing folder, before mounting onto a panel of wood effect paper, inked with Vintage Photo DI and corners rounded. I wrapped twine around the panel and mounted to the card base using foam tape, over an embossed panel of pale blue mounted on cream paper and a strip of aqua polka dot paper.

I stamped and heat embossed the Best Wishes sentiment from Avery Elle's Everyday Circle Tags set using a charcoal grey sparkle powder from Sizzix and mounted onto orange to compliment the flowers, also adding a couple of fishtail flag die cuts in the top right corner to balance it out. I finished off with a few gem and metallic pearl sprinkles...because, why not?!...

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!

Hugs,

Passion for Markers - Going Dotty...

 Good morning, crafty friends and a Happy New Year to you all! It's Team 1's first challenge of the year over at Passion for Markers and I am playing hostess! For this week's challenge, I have picked a theme that I love...'Going Dotty'...I regularly use dotty papers and embellishments in my cards as I find they go with anything, so I would like to see all of your creations that have dots or spots - this could be dotty paper, enamel dot embellishments or even embossed dots...

 We're being sponsored by The Paper Shelter who are offering one lucky winner 3 digital images from their online store...just remember that to be in with a chance of winning, you MUST use your marker pens (alcohol or water based) and follow the challenge theme...

 I was lucky enough to get to choose this week's sponsor image and I picked out The Most Adorable Panda...and I think he is!...

 

In my attempt at being organised (still on target so far, but I am only a week into the year!?!) I created this card for my eldest son's birthday on Saturday...Happy 24th Birthday! I love a pun on a card, so couldn't resist using this sentiment with a nod to the current situation...

I coloured Panda with my Pro/Flexmarkers :

Blender, Ivory, Champagne, Pebble Blue, Storm Cloud, Cool Grey 5, Apple, Grass, Forest Green, Nutmeg, Cappuccino, Umber

 

I was inspired by the talented Inge Groot's card HERE and must admit that I love the way this little card turned out...I will definitely be colouring this cutie up again!

I hope you can find the time to play along with my fun challenge this week and look forward to visiting everyone's blogs to see their wonderful creations...

Crafty hugs,

Passion for Markers - Mega Christmas Mid challenge reminder...

 Hey there, crafty friends! I hope you're all nearly ready for the big day and keeping well? I'm struggling to get into the Christmas spirit this year and have promised myself that I will be organised next year (although I promise myself this every year and have yet to follow through, so maybe 2022 will be the one to watch?!) 

It's half way through our month long Mega Christmas challenge over at Passion for Markers and so I'm popping in to share my DT make...

I used my own hand drawn Snowdrop image and coloured using my Pro/Flexmarkers, teaming the simple white and green colour tones with a contrasting navy blue. I embossed the background with a random snowflake folder and added some die cut snowflakes to add to the wintry feel, before highlighting with Stickles coated in crystal glitter for a snowy effect...

We've had lots of wonderful entries already and there are some fabulous prizes up for grabs! To play along with our Mega Christmas Challenge of Anything Goes (which couldn't be simpler!), hop over to the original Passion for Markers blog post HERE, or to see my talented teamies creations for your inspiration, visit our midway challenge post HERE...

I hope you all have a very Happy Christmas and wish you all the very best for the coming year, may 2022 bring you all good health and happiness!

Take care,

Passion for Markers Mega Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes...

*** WARNING – LONG POST ***

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

This week we are launching our very special “Mega Christmas challenge”  over at Passion for Markers, which runs for a whole month and ends on 4th January 2022!  I’m sure you’ll agree that both design teams have worked extremely hard once again this year and they deserve a little break to catch up on their 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 “anything goes”.  We don't mind what you create for this challenge, as long as you colour with your markers!  You are welcome to make Christmas creations but as the challenge will still be running after the ‘BIG’ day you can of course make any type of creation.  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 markers (alcohol or water based) such as Promarkers, Copics, Spectrum Noir, Karin, Zig Clean Color etc

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Dies to Die For are offering 1 lucky winner a £20.00 gift voucher

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

Dr Digi's House of Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

Leann’s World 101 are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

Crafty Sentiments Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

Colour of Love digis are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

All Dressed Up stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

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 is such a long challenge we will be posting the inspiration from Team 2 today and then in two week’s time we will be posting inspiration from Team 1, so I'll be sharing my DT card with you then...

Hop over to the Passion for Markers blog to see the wonderful Team 2 creations and I hope you can play along with our MegaChristmas challenge

Hugs,

Lisa x

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