Passion for Promarkers DT Doodleicious

I'm posting this up a bit late today as it's for my daughter Holly's 25th birthday today - Happy Birthday lovely!!  (She won't open it until this evening so I don't want her to see it on line first!!) The photo below was taken as part of a hen party very recently - they had a fab time, with the photos being taken by Rockabetty Studios who specialize in 50s style photo shoots.  Alix, the photographer also happens to be Nick's cousin's daughter - the girls had such a great day! (Click on the link if you want to find out more about Rockabetty!)

Back to the new challenge over at Passion For Promarkers today and the theme of Doodleicious has been chosen by our fab Shelly.  I felt a bit daunted by this at first, as my doodling always seems to look a mess, whereas I always love how other people use it!  Then I decided to do a sort of basic Zentangle frame around the image, which is by A Day for Daisies.  Holly loves this type of doodling so it was rather appropriate for her birthday card.  

I then decided to doodle some flowers which I coloured with my Promarkers and then cut round to layer them on my card.

The flourishes are a die and stamp combo from Paper Trey Ink which I embossed in white.  There's some Shabby White Frantage around the image and also on the Memory Box Heart. The LOTV sentiment is also given the white embossing treatment.  

Our sponsors for this week's challenge is Digi Stamp Boutique  who are offering the lucky winner their choice of 6 images!

You may have noticed that I'm struggling big time at the moment to do any blogging!  I'm mega busy at work, and we're away for the weekend  on Friday to what I'm sure will be a fabulous country wedding in the Lake District - my nephew  is getting married!  So I am just plain out of time at the minute - if anyone can let me know how they manage to work, make cards and blog, I would dearly love some tips!!

You can check out the rest of the fabulous cards by my PFP teamies here - lovely  they are!

Mo's Daffodils with JDDs Daffodils!

Hiya - just popping into show you a card made with two daffodil images.  The main image is  the gorgeous Daffodils from Mo's Digital Pencil, I am so loving the lamb!  I then thought the gorgeous Daffodils from Janey's Digi Designs would complement the image perfectly - and I think they do! With the cold spring here in the UK, we don't seem to have had many daffodils this year, so I'm getting my fix now!

I've coloured her with my Pro and Flexmarkers, the papers are Stampin Up and the sentiment is LOTV.

I didn't use much else, partly because I wanted to make a quicky card and secondly I wanted to let the images do the talking!

Thanks for popping in!!

New Challenge today at Sketch N Stash

Well the three day weekend is almost over but not quite!  We're hoping to have a BBQ today if the weather stays nice!  Firstly though, I need to share my card for our new challenge over at Sketch N Stash and as we're being sponsored by the fabulous A Day for Daisies, I've used this stunning Green Lady image from their fabulous digi selection. Our sketch is below and we have an optional theme of Things With Wimgs.

Doesn't she have the most beautiful face - so serene.  You can find her here in the Day for Daisies Store.

I've had the Frantage out again but have been a little more restrained this time and just used it on the one butterfly.  I did make another resin one, mixing in the Aged Hunter Frantage but it sort of went a grey colour below, but I've used it anyway!

The flower stem is a Memory Box Dogwood Rose Die and Stamp Combo and I've also used a Marianne corner die and a Martha Stewart Blossom punch.  The papers have been in my stash a while and I can't remember who they're by!!

You can check out the fabulous cards of my SNS teamies here, hope they will give you some inspiration to play along with us and win our prize from ADFD.  Don't forget to tell us what is new and what has been in your stash for a while.

I'm also entering my card into current ADFD challenge which is asking to see some  lace in your make!

Enjoy the Bank Holiday!xx

Basic Grey Challenge Mix and Match

Morning - it's the start of a long weekend here in the UK, so I've had a lie-in and then I'm off to  do a bit of shopping.

We have a new challenge for you today over at Basic Grey Challenges and that is Mix and Match - so use your papers from different design sets, it's always nice to see how the various papers can be matched together.  I've used Out of Print, Marrakech and Basics Kraft for my card, together with another cutie image from Mo's Digitial Pencil called Baby Shower - just click on the link to find it in Mo's store..

I've coloured using my ususal Pro and Flexmarkers and then added some white gel pen for my spotty umbrella.  There's several die cuts in the mix, including a Spellbinders (circle) Marianne, (leaves), Martha Stewart (Heart) and Magnolia ( Bow border).  The flowers  were cut with an EK Success Retro flower Punch set which I've just rediscovered in my stash!

We are very fortunate over at BG HQ  to have one regular sponsor, the awesome Simon Says Stamp, who yet again are offering the lucky winner of this challenge, a $25 dollar spend in their store.



You can see the wonderful makes by the rest of my lovely BG teamies here- have a great weekend, whatever you're up to!

Passion for Promarkers - To Die For Challenge

Hi there, it's time for our new challenge at Passion For Promarkers, with a great challenge chosen by our wonderfully talented Nic, which is to use at least one die or punch,  I love using punches and dies so it wasn't too much of a hardship!

I've used one of Mo Manning's super cute Fairy Babies - Fairy Needle - which you can find here in Mo's store.  Those in the know  will also spot the use of my new favourite crafting technique/embellishment/whatever you want to call it - Frantage embossing!    

                               

I cut out  a number of circles with some punches and the added some Aged Silver Frantage Powder to get this gorgeous liquidy, molten effect.  I especially love the effect on the wooden heart button below with all the  texture and colour.

For my flower bouquet, I've used some yummy new gypsophila and floral sprays from The Ribbon Girl - they looked just divine when they came - all packaged up so prettily!  My vintage seam binding is also from The Ribbon girl

Apart from my circle  punches, I used the Tim Holtz On The Edge Sewing and Doily dies, and I cut out my image with a Sizzix tab die. I also frantaged a floral lacy edged border stamp  which you can just see underneath the circle flower.

You can hardly see my papers now, but they were some gorgeous freebie ones from a magazine recently!
Our sponsor for this challenge is Whiff of Joy who are offering the lucky winner one of their yummy stamps!

Check out the rest of Team One's wonderful creations here and I hope you will be inspired to play along with us this week!

Janey's Digi Designs Lupins!

 I love tall blue flowery flowers!!  Haha - this is the gorgeous Lupin digi image from Janey's Digi Designs, and I knew it would be perfect for this lovely seed packet freebie image which I downloaded a long time ago and can't remember where from!  (Our resident gardening guru has reliably informed me that the seed packet images are actually Delphiniums - tall, blue flowery flowers!)

I coloured in the image using my Pro and Flexmarkers, and then made a frame with some Go Kreate dies.  

I now have two new passions in my card making, Frantage, which I love and have a card coming up soon which I've given the full Frantage treatment, and making little resin embellies with embossing powders!  The little butterfly below was made with Wow! embossing powders and a Martha Stewart  Mould. 

I've also added some leaf flourishes and butterflies for some interest and a Marianne basket just waiting to be filled with these gorgeous flowers!  The floral vine on the side was a new purchase from Ally Pally and is by Crafts Too.

Thanks for popping in - big love!!

DT Call for Mo's Dream Team!

Just to let you know that we're having a DT call over at Mo's Dream Team - just click here to be taken to all the deets!  Good Luck!!

Howdy Y'all - SNS Challenge 112 - Distressing

Well, Howdy to y'all!  We  have a new challenge starting today at Sketch N Stash,  and it was my turn to choose the optional theme to go with the sketch below, so I chose Distressing.

I've used this rootin' tootin' cutie from Mo's Digital Pencil called Howdy which you can find here.  I've coloured her with Pro and Flexmarkers and layered her up with some My Mind's Eye Howdy Doody papers which even match in name!!  The papers are the item that have been in my stash for a while.

I also added some chicken wire edging around the image and over one of the mats for that extra country feel!  The star banner is a Whiff of Joy Die, and the scrabble tiles, I managed to track down in WH Smith of  all places just before Christmas.

Crafty Individuals are our wonderful sponsors for this fortnight's challenge and you can see a pic of their brilliant prize just below

Take a peek here for the rest of the SNS team's fabulous creations for this challenge.
Hope you have a good week - at least we finally  had some gorgeous sunshine over the weekend!

Basic Grey - Masculine

As it says on my card, Hello There!  This is a card for the  new challenge over at Basic Grey Challenges HQ.  You can probably tell, our theme for this challenge is Masculine ( a groan is echoing through blogland!).  Still they are a necessity and I'm glad to have another one in stock!  The main image is a Hero Arts Cling stamp which I've teamed up with What's Up papers from Basic Grey.  I've then cut out a few more air balloons with a little Memory Box die.  The clouds are also cut with a Memory Box die, and I stamped them with a script stamp just for a bit of detail.  The Birthday Sentiment and banner are from PTI.

As usual, we have our regular sponsor, Simon Says Stamp, offering our regular awesome prize of a $25 voucher to spend in their online store to one lucky winner.

Please just remember to use a Basic Grey item in your project and let us  know what that item is!

I'm also entering my card into the latest Simon Says Stamp Challenge which is for Travel

Enjoy your weekend - there's a rumour going round that we might see some sun here in the UK!