Passion For Markers Challenge #591 - Use Your Favourite Colours

 Hi Crafters,

There's a new challenge starting over on the Passion For Markers blog - a nice and easy theme of 

USE YOUR FAVOURITE COLOURS

    I have used RED, BLUE, KRAFT and Ivory

I usually use this colour combination for Christmas cards but today I have made a New Baby card.

Recipe

Image - Newborn Bear - Star Jam Lines

Coloured with Promarkers, Spectrum Noir Triblends, Copics.

Lisa Horton Padded Quilt 3D Embossing Folder

Tonic Studio 'Tiny Treasures Die

Gummiapan Star Dies

3 Ribbons layered on top of each other from my stash

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Color Throwdown - #641 - Red, Pale Blue, Kraft, Ivory

Love To Craft - #58 ATG

Crafty Creations - #421 ATG

Cardz 4 Galz - #146 New Beginning

Cute Card Thursday - #685 ATG

Colour Crazy Challenge - #18 ATG Colouring Challenge

Our sponsor this week is

Star Jam Lines

who are offering 2 digi images to the lucky winner.

To be eligible to win you must use your Markers on your project -  Promarkers, Brushmarkers, Copics, Tria, Karin and Spectrum Noir etc - follow the theme, link up to our challenge and most of all...have FUN!

For more info and to see the other fabulous makes from the Design Team please visit the challenge blog here.

Hope you have a great day!

Lorraine

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Passion For Promarkers Challenge #542 - Baby Projects

Hi Crafters,

I'm here today with my Design Team inspiration for the current challenge at Passion For Promarkers.

We would love to see your BABY PROJECTS this week, it can be a card, tag, 3D project or layout etc but you must use your Winsor Newton Pro, Flex, Brush, Tria, Aqua or Metallic Markers on your project and tell us in your post where you have used them. 

I have chosen to go with a baby's 1st birthday card.

Recipe

Image - Spit Happens - Mo Manning

Coloured with Promarkers

Papers - By Deco Time from The Range

Sentiment Die - Trimcraft & All Occasion Dies

Scalloped Oval Die Set

Eyelets and Ribbon from stash

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Cardmakers - #256 Celebrations

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use Dies & or Punches

Cute Card Thursday - #633 ATG

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #555 Birthday

Crafty Catz - #505 ATG opt. Baby

Colour Crazy Challenge - #18 ATG Colouring Challenge

Allsorts Challenge - #571/2 ATG

Papercraft Challenge - #29 ATG

A Perfect Time To Craft - #5 ATG

Ally's Angels - #34 ATG

Our sponsor this week is 

Colour of Love Digi's

who are offering 3 digi's to the lucky winner.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lorraine

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Passion For Promarkers Challenge #455 - Spots/Stripes

Hi Crafters,

Well the rain finally came over the weekend, it was especially welcome after the 34+C temperature we had on Friday last. The gardens look much better than before as we didn't get the torrential rain and storms like other parts of the country so we have been fortunate.

My card today is for the new challenge at Passion for Promarkers where we would like to see your creations featuring...

SPOTS/STRIPES

Recipe

Image - Babe-moon-lullaby by Little Miss Muffet Stamps

Coloured with Promarkers

Papers are from an old LOTV pad and Stampin' Up papers

Joy Craft 'Baby' Die

Tonic Studio Scalloped Circle Die

MFT Stitched Circle Die

Clearly Besotted Cloud Dies

Britannia Word Dies

Creative Expressions 'Congratulations' Die

Glitter

Challenges I'd like to enter:

I Love Promarkers - #364 ATG
Crafty Creations - #371 ATG
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - ATG
Little Miss Muffet Challenge - #194 ATG
Cute Card Thursday - #540 Too Cute!
Crafty Catz- #427 ATG / Use Something Yellow
Brown Sugar - #280 Include 2 Patterned Papers

The rules are simple, please use your Windor Newton (formerly Letraset) Markers on your project, tell us in your post where you have used them, follow the theme and have FUN!

Our sponsor this week is

Dies To Die For

who are offering a £15 voucher to the lucky winner!
Do check out the fabulous creations from the rest of the design team on the challenge blog HERE.

Thanks for popping by today,

Lorraine
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Congratulations!

Hi Crafters,

It's been a while again, I seem to have fits and starts with blogging lately. I've been creating lots of cards and projects but I just haven't had time to share them here yet.

So today I'm going to rectify that with this little new baby card.

I found these fabulous little baby pins in pink and blue on Ebay so decided to create my card around that.

Recipe

Tonic Scalloped Square Dies

MFT Stitched, Curved Border Die

Spellbinders Alphabet Dies

Baby Pin Charm

Satin Polka-Dot Ribbon

Star Embossing Folder

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Catz - #404 ATG / Use some pretty ribbon

Cute Card Thursday - #517 One Word Sentiment

Crafty Creations - #360 ATG

Fab n Funky - #381 Babies, Children or Men

Crafty Calendar Challenge - 2 or more layers

Well that's all for today, back to crafting!

Lorraine

xXx

Baby's First Christmas

Hi Crafters,

A quick post to share a little card I made for my Christmas stash box.

I'd like to enter this into the challenge at 

Rudolph Day Challenge - January ATG Christmas

This is  a digital download from CraftsUprint called 'Good Christmas Puppy' and I have used it here for a baby's first Christmas card.

I have matted and layered with glitter card stock using my scalloped square dies from Tonic and layered the image according to the decoupage sheet.

I love this colour combination together too.

Thanks for calling by,

Lorraine

xXx

Passion For Promarkers Challenge #332 - Papertastic

Hi Crafters,

Papertastic I hear you cry?!

What is that?

Well, this week at Passion For Promarkers we want to see your fantastic papers on your card or project...   ...and your Promarkers of course.

Our sponsor this time is Little Miss Muffet Stamps and I am using this sweet digital image called 'Hanging Baby Clothes'.

Recipe

Image - Hanging Baby Clothes - Little Miss Muffet Stamps

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Washing Line, Grass & Sentiment Stamp Set  - Hanging Out- Papertrey Ink 

Papertastic Papers - Doodlebug Inc.

Corner Punch - EK Success

Scalloped Oval and Oval Punch - Stampin' Up

Gems

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Little Miss Muffet - #130 ATG

Cute Card Thursday - #411 In The Pink

The Ribbon Girl - February Card Challenge

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #27 ATG

Crafting From The Heart - #98 ATG

I hope I have inspired you to use some of your stash of papers, for more info on the challenge please visit the blog.

Lorraine 

xXx

For A Baby

Hi Crafters,

Sorry I haven't been around as much as normal - time has been in short supply around here I'm afraid.

I have been so busy with orders, market stall goodies, DT commitments and Christmas preparations that unfortunately blogging has had to take a back seat...

...but I'm here today to quickly share a card.

Recipe

Hobby House Topper - It's A Girl
Papers - Unknown (a batch from Ebay)
Lea'bilities Corner Die
SB Scalloped Oval and Classic Oval Die
Magnolia Hearts Border Die
Pink Ribbon and gems
LOTV Sentiment Stamp
Glamour Dust

Challenges I'd like to enter:
In The Pink - #80 Pink Ribbon
Crafting From The Heart -  #83 ATG
Cute Card Thursday - #396 ATG

I hope you are all well, I will gradually catch up with you all. I have been keeping an eye on all your lovely creations via Bloglovin even though I haven't always commented. I just hope that I can somehow get ahead soon as I don't like this panic feeling of being behind and not as organised as normal.

I'll be back again soon with another card or project.

Lorraine

Christening / Memory Album

Hi Crafters,

*As a heads up this post is very photo heavy.*

 

A few weeks ago it was my great nephews' Christening and as a gift I made a Memory Album for the parents to record the day.

 

I made the album myself, I'm not sure what the technique is called but I joined the pages together using strips of folded and gusseted card to form a spine that would allow some embellishments on the pages.

 

The finished album measured 18 x 14 x 6 cm and had room for five standard photo's.

 

Here is the front and back cover, the papers I used throughout were Echo Park - A Bundle of Joy - New Edition

Each page has a photo mat and a place for recording the details of the day together with a verse...

 

 

You can also see here the strips joining the pages together, I punched them with an EK Success Scalloped border punch...

 

 

Some of the embellishments were cut on my Cameo and others were dies..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The photo mats were cut and the corners were punched using another EK Success punch which makes this pretty swirly corner to tuck your photo's under...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you liked my little album I really enjoyed creating it.

 

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Not Just Cards - #19 ATG

Creative Fingers - #80 ATG

 

No great plans here for the weekend, just the normal housework, crafting and family time but I do hope you all have a lovely weekend whatever you are up to.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

 

Baby's First Birthday

Hi Crafters,

 

Thanks for popping in today and a very warm welcome to my new followers, hope you continue to enjoy and get inspiration from what you see here.

Today I have another card for a little one...Baby's First Birthday...

 

 

Recipe

Hobby House Topper

Digital papers - sorry it was before I kept a record of where from

White Satin Ribbon

SB Circle and Scalloped Circle Dies

Jus - Cutz Scalloped Squares Die

MFT Number Die

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:
Brown Sugar #145 Layers
Sister Act - #105 ATG
Creative Fingers - #79 ATG
 

Take care everyone and have an enjoyable weekend

 

Lorraine

 

 

 



Forever Friends - New Arrival

Hi Crafters,

Carrying on the baby theme from yesterdays post here is another baby card that I made for my Great Nephew using the Forever Friends New Arrival CD Rom from Docrafts.

 

Recipe

Image and paper - Forever Friends New Arrival CD Rom - Docrafts

5mm  spotty ribbon

Metal tag and 'love' word brad

Pearl brad and adhesive pearls

Martha Stewart Border Punch

 

This is such a cute image I just couldn't resist using it.

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

TTCRD - ATG

Papertake Weekly - ATG

Cute Card Thursday - #372 Use A Brad (Love, Pearl and metal tag are all brads)

 

A mixed bag of weather yesterday, let's see what it has in store for us today. I'm in my craft room for most of today though so I'm not bothered either way.

Hope you all have a great day what ever you are up to and see you soon,

 

Lorraine

 



Sweet Baby

Hi Crafters,

Have you seen the gorgeous pictures in the media of the new Royal baby? Isn't she beautiful?

So with that in mind I've made a baby girl card.

 

Recipe

Hobby House Pre-coloured Topper

SB Labels Twenty Six die

SB Curved Borders One

Papers I've had in my stash forever

Ribbon

 

Believe it or not the pinks actually match in real life, I don't know what my camera is up to.

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

In The Pink - F+F / CAS in Pink of course

Come and Get It - Female Project Challenge

OSAAT - #236 - ATG / Special Lady

Crafting From The Heart - #58 ATG

Papertake Weekly - ATG

 

Hope you enjoy the rest of your week

 

 

Lorraine

Blast ! Missed It...

Hi Everyone,
...originally I made the card I am about to share with you for the challenge over on the Little Miss Muffet challenge blog, but although the challenges become live on a Thursday when I went to link up my card it had already closed this morning,  :P  Never mind though I went back to the drawing board and tweaked it a little to fit a couple of other challenges :) Here it is...

Recipe

Image - 'Babe Superster' - Little Miss Muffet Digi

Promarkers

Backing paper - We R Memory Keepers 'Babymine'

Sentiment stamps - The Paper Studio

Charm and ribbon from stash

 

Challenges

Sketch Saturday - #322

 

TTCRD - Anything Goes

I Love Promarkers - #232 Anything Goes

Divas By Design - So Charming (use a charm)

In The Pink - #50 Anything Goes

My Mum's Craft Shop - #20 Clean & Simple

CHNC Patterned Paper Challenge - August Anything Goes

 

I will try and catch up with your blogs later today, it's been busy, busy, busy here.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

 



Baby Carriage

Hi Crafters,
Here is the other baby card I promised to share with you, a day late but then what is a day amongst friends?

As you can see I used the lovely Marianne Designs Baby Carriage die and some Spellbinders circle and scalloped circle dies. The gingham ribbon and bows are from Mei Flower.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

TTCRD - Anything Goes
Divas By Design - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Embossing (wet or dry)
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes #95
Sister Act - Anything Goes #58
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes #37
 

 



 Well I'd like to wish you all a dry and sunny Spring Bank Holiday week if you are in the UK but it has been torrential rain here today, I hope it hasn't settled in for the whole week.

Bye for now,

 

Lorraine

P.S. Sorry about the different coloured text in this post, I have no clue what is happening, every time I try to make it all the same colour it reverts back to this, so I've given up I'm afraid :/

Clearly Besotted Challenge

Hi Crafters,

Today I am entering in to a challenge over on Clearly Besotted Stamps. The rules include stamping your own background and as I've just received my first order of these lovely stamps and dies I decided to make a baby card....

 

I used two of the stamps to create my background, matted and layered on to glitter and plain cardstock then stamped and die cut the pram, bottle and dummy. I tried some shadow stamping too on these elements. I finished the card off with a large yellow bow and used the die cut safety pin to add interest. Here's a close up....

 

 

The dies cut perfectly and released the cardstock with no trouble, I was very pleased with my purchase and will definitely make another visit to the shop soon.
Maybe the bright yellow of this card will cheer us all up as we seem to have entered winter already.
The weather today here in East Anglia is cold, windy, overcast and decidedly dreary, somehow we have leapt from August to November over the last couple of days.

See you soon

Lorraine