Passion for Promarkers - New Beginnings...

THIS CARD CAME IN THE TOP 3 AT CRAFTY CATZ - THANKS SO MUCH LADIES!

Good morning, dear Blogging buddies!  I know, where have I been?!  I'm afraid my blogging will be thin on the ground at the moment as I am snowed under with design work for my new CD, cards for workshops, home stuff and the dreaded paperwork!  I have also been preparing for the Ross papercraft Show at Westfield Sports College, Sheffield next Sunday 25th January.  I've re-covered my display boards with lovely purple felt - was a bit of a nightmare and my hands hurt for 2 days afterwards, but it looks so much more professional now - I just hope that it works and my velcro hook dots stick to it okay!

But never mind all that!  I am here today to share a card with you for this week's challenge at Passion for Promarkers!  It's the talented Lou Mac in the chair and she has given us a theme of 'New Beginnings' so new baby, home, job, etc...

Don’t forget, as always, to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers). 

This week we are sponsored by the fabulous Digital Stamp Boutique who are offering one lucky winner a £10 gift voucher to spend in their store!

 ...I have had this gorgeous Lee Holland giraffe image in my digi folder since before Christmas and just haven't had the opportunity to colour him up, so I thought it about time that I printed him out and brought him to life!...

Card Recipe

Papers - Prima Divine Collection (Jodie Lee Designs)

Image - Lee Holland Giraffe

Marianne Creatables Doily Die LR0141

Cream Satin glitter edged Ribbon

Selection of buttons

Gold twine

Liquid Pearls White

...I hope you can find the time to join in with our challenge this week and look forward to seeing all your wonderful creations!  Don't forget to hop over to the Passion for Promarkers blog to see what my talented teamies have been up to!
Until next time, have a great week and it's off to do paperwork and ironing for me...oh, joy!
Hugs,

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

Get Creative Challenge

Celebrate Anything New until 25th

Fab n Funky

Something New closes today

Crafty Catz

New Beginnings until 22nd

Glitter n Sparkle

Cute until 24th

Chocolate and signs...

Good afternoon, my lovely Blogging friends!  Well, today is my eldest son's 17th Birthday (don't know how that happened!?!)...a HUGE Happy Birthday to my darling, Jason!  Now when it comes to presents for a 17 year old, things get difficult - especially as his only interest at the moment is Skypeing his girlfriend 24/7!  Thankfully, a couple of weeks ago, I decided to take the plunge into the wonderful world of Pinterest...OH MY WORD!...how did I not go on this sooner?!  I have ideas swimming around in my head for garden features, home decor, crafts and 101 gift ideas for next Christmas, but I also came across a fabulous gift just perfect for Jase...

...a chocolate bouquet!!  He is an absolute chocolate monster, so this will be right up his street! He is also getting money towards driving lessons as he had his provisional license as part of his Christmas presents...I will soon be entering into a whole new era of parenthood with me sat at home waiting for him to get in and panicking if he's 5 minutes late!
...Anyhow, after all my waffle, I do have a couple of crafty projects to share with you.  I picked up some wooden signs in the sale in B&M for...wait for it...10p each!  They had moustaches on, but this is what they look like now...

...The first one I made into a key hanger...

...and the second a pretty jewllery hanger.  I used 3 mini wooden bobbins as the hangers and found the apt saying online.  It was decorated with  a doily, MS clay frame, WOC paper flowers, cream satin ribbon, buckle slider, diamantes and silver liquid pearls.
Thanks for dropping by and don't forget there's still plenty of time to join in with our fun sketch challenge this week at Passion for Promarkers!
Hugs,

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

Crafting from the Heart

Always Anything Goes closes 11th

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

#1 Anything Goes closes 16th

Scribble and Scrap

Anything Goes closes 16th

Just Inspirational Monthly Challenge

Bling and a Bow until the end of the month

Passion for Promarkers - Sketch...

Good morning, everyone and a Happy New Year to you all!  I hope you all had a wonderful festive season, enjoying time with loved ones and that Santa was kind in his offerings!  We had some well deserved time off, just chilling, pottering around and enjoying each others company...but all that's over too quickly now and it's time to get down to business!  I am going to be uber busy trying to complete designs for my next disc and also have a few shows coming up - the first one being Ross Papercraft Show at Westfield Sports College in Sheffield on Sunday 25th January!
It's also the first Tuesday of the year which means that it's new challenge time over at Passion for Promarkers!  A huge thank you to those who joined in with our Mega Christmas Challenge and I hope you can find time to join in with our challenge this week, which is being hosted by the lovely Lou.  She's given us a fab sketch to follow...

...This week we are sponsored by the amazing Letraset who are offering one lucky winner a Promarker Manga 12 Pen Set!

Please remember to be eligible for our prize you must use your Letraset pens, ie, promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, metallic or aqua markers...

 ...I changed the sketch up a little bit by turning it into an easel card...

...I used MilkCoffee's Charlotte with flower and bird image, but just used the top half, so that I could make it quite large...

Card Recipe - 

Image - MilkCoffee Charlotte with flower and bird

Papers - Prima Hello Pastel

Dies - Marianne doily die LR0141

Spellbinders Scalloped and Standard Circles

Die-namics Dainty Lace Border

Lemon Gorsgrain Ribbon

Small XCut Flower punches

Pearls

I hope you like my take on Lou's sketch and hope you have fun with it too!  Don't forget to hop over to the Passion for Promarkers blog to see what my very talented teamies have been making for your first inspiration of 2015 and I look forward to visiting your blogs too!

Crafty hugs,

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

ABC Challenge

A is for...Anything Goes until 11th

Cute Card Thursday

#354 Anything Goes until tomorrow

I Love Promarkers

Anything Goes closes today

Simon Says Stamp

Anything Goes closes today

World's Best Dad...

Good morning again, dear Blogger friends! Hope you didn't have too hectic a weekend as Christmas fast approaches?! We had a lovely visit from my Mum, sister and nieces and it was nice to catch up and see the girls! I think I'm almost organised with pressies...well, I think I am, maybe I'd better check before Christmas Eve?!
Anyway, I have another paper creation to share with you today, this time with a male theme...

Card Recipe - 

Trimcraft Widflower 6x6 Paper Pad

Prima En Francais 6x6 Paper Pad

Globe postcard topper A Play on Words CD

For You and World's Best Dad sentiment A Play on Words CD

Die-namics Photo Corner die

Spellbinders Petite Ovals

Lemon Grosgrain ribbon

Green Pearls

I cut down the front of the card to create a shortfall and decoupaged the suitcase and globe for added dimension...

...All edges were inked with Vintage Photo DI and a touch of glitter to highlight the globe, sentiment and compass. A printed insert was added inside on cream paper to finish.

Have a magnificent Monday (I have a day of flower arranging and dress rehearsal for the kid's Nativity!) and I'll be back again soon with another card to share!

Hugs,

I'd like to enter my card as a second entry into Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge for the month of December!

Just calling to say...

Good morning, my lovelies!  I hope you're having a fabulous Friday...almost the weekend!

It's another Jen inspired creation today, this time taking inspiration from her card HERE..

Card Recipe - 

5 x 7 Card blank

Pink Gingham and Aqua Polka dot from Sewing Set and Pink Plaid and Green Swirl from Lamp Set, both from A Play on Words CD

Telephone .png mask over pink gingham shaded with Tea Rose, Watermelon and Pastel Beige Promarkers

Spellbinders Standard Circles & Scalloped Circle

XCut Labels dies

Distress Inks - Victorian Velvet, Stormy Sky & Peeled Paint

Stitching

Baker's Twine

Pearls

...I rediscovered this XCut die set after relegating it due to the coating being too thick in places on a couple of the dies and not getting a clean cut.  This ever so sweet cloud shape die was in the set and it found it's way onto the card (and maybe another one too!)  I thought it looked a bit like speech bubbles or thought clouds?!  I did a bit of hand stitching on this one and used my Zutter to punch the notebook type holes in the label.  The inside was finished with a printed insert.
Short and sweet for me today, I have a couple of card orders to fulfill and then it's housework! The clutter is taking over again! 
Crafty hugs,

 

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

Creative Card Crew

#77 Anything Goes until 4th Jan

A Little Bit Crafty

Anything Goes...but NOT Christmas until 29th

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Anything Goes until end of Dec

Crafting day!...

Good afternoon, dear Blogging buddies!  Today, I have thrown caution to the wind and sat at my crafty table ALL DAY, creating!  I needed a bit of time off from the festivities and was totally inspired by the uber talented Jen's cards from Deconstructing Jen - I am loving her style of cards at the minute and although I don't have a lot of dies like she has (I'd love to spend a day in her craft room!) I always find HUGE inspiration from her designs!  I have ended up with 6 cards...yes, that's right 6 and another one ready for a topper to go on!  So, I will have some crafty makes to share with you up to the big day - I will be scheduling them, so they may be short and sweet (I need to find a quicker way of posting as it takes me an age to upload pics, crop and write a blog post, so am going to try doing a card recipe rather than boring you all with the details!)

So for today's card, I have taken inspiration from THIS card that Jen made...

Card recipe -

5x7 Chocolate Brown card base

Orange gingham and green leaf paper from Lawn Mower Set

Red polka from BBQ Set, both A Play on Words CD

Kraft card for mat and layering

Marianne button flower and leaf die

Spellbinders Labels Eleven

Distress Inks - Rusty Hinge, Walnut Stain and Peeled Paint

Polka Dot Satin ribbon

Narrow brown Satin ribbon

Pearls

...I created the sentiment in PS and added a printed insert to finish.

Hope you're having a totally terrific Thursday and I'll be back tomorrow with some more craftiness!

Hugs,

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

Sentimental Sundays 

#237 Anything Goes until 20th

Sister Act Challenge

Anything Goes until 8th Jan

Creative Fingers Challenge

Anything Goes closes today

Crafty Creations

Something to Die For until 23rd

Scribble and Scrap

Anything Goes until 20th

Has anyone found a brain?...

...Because I don't know where mine's at!?!  I HAD intended to post this on Sunday, to share the cards we made at our last workshop of the year, but with all good intentions, it is now Wednesday...it is Wednesday isn't it?!  I am trying to finish off ready for the big day next week, but seem to be finding myself coming backwards!  I've managed to post off cards that needed sending today, plus a number of Birthday cards for people who so inconsiderately have their Birthdays in December! (Only kidding, I love you al really!) I don't even know if I have bought all the presents I need and to be honest, don't know if I even care as I have now run out of money...oh, the joys of Christmas!  I am DETERMINED to be more oganised next year as I am not feeling very festive at all this year due to the fact that, despite knowing it is coming all year, I have once again left it until the month of December to start sorting things out!  I am making myself a promise for my New Year's resolution that I am going to hand make the majority of my presents next year and before December arrives too!  Here's hoping...

Anyway, enough of my Bah Humbugness, here's the cards we made on Saturday...

..The first was what I've seen called as a tissue box card - this is it folded down flat to go in an envelope...

...and popped up!  The base resembles a tissue box with the slit in the top, hence the name, I presume...

...We created a pocket on the back to add money or a gift wallet.  The Dr Seuss verse I found online and is supposed to be a touch of irony!...

...Our second card was made using heart dies to create Christmas trees...

...We created a front step card to give more dimension to the trees and added a sentiment cut with SB Labels Eleven.
So, there we are - better late than never?!  I hope you are getting on with your festive arrangements a little better than me and I hope that the Christmas spirit finds me soon....maybe a bottle of Rosé would help?  Oh, and if anyone finds a brain, can they please send it to me via any means possibe!
Big crafty hugs,