Passion For Markers Challenge #650 - Something Beginning with 'B'

 Hi Crafters,

I hope you are keeping well and haven't melted in this hot weather we are having in the UK at the moment. I've been in my craft room trying to keep cool and have created this card for my challenge at Passion For Markers.

The theme this week is to create a project and incorporate SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH 'B'

I purchased some stamp sets from Ebay by Helz Cuppleditch quite a while ago and have been itching to colour them up. You might see a few of them in the coming weeks and months, her images are so cute and I love the style of them. This one is called 'Just For You' and is of a cute Panda Bear.

My 'B' things are BEAR, BLOOMS and BLUE

Recipe

Image - Just For You Stamp Set by Helz Cuppleditch

Coloured with Pro/FlexMarkers

Sentiment Stamp from the same set

Tattered Lace Hemstitch Square Dies

Grosgrain Ribbons

Background Paper - Bluebells and Buttercups Paper Pad by Helz Cuppleditch

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #186 - ATG

The Paper Shelter - # 520 - Birthday Celebrations

Colour Crazy Challenge - #28 - ATG Colouring Challenge

Crafting Happiness - #125 - ATG

We Love Stamping - Anything Stamped opt. Hot Sunny Colours

Elliebelle's Corner - July ATG

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Add A Ribbon

The Cutie Pie Challenge - #173 Little Cuties

Creative Moments - #236 ATG opt. Cute

We have a great prize from Dies To Die For of a £15 voucher for their store

To be in with a chance of winning you must follow the simple rules - Create a new project, use your Markers on your project and follow the theme. Don't forget to link up to your blog post and also link the challenge in your post too.

The Design Team have been busy creating some lovely cards to inspire you, you can take a look at their makes HERE.

Thank you for popping in today, it was lovely to see you here. I will be back again in a day or two with my Allsorts challenge post, until then,

Bye for now,

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #15 - Blue & Silver

 Hi Crafters,

It's time to share my Christmas Card Club make for this fortnight. Our theme is...

BLUE & SILVER

I decided to make a stepper card, I haven't made one of these for a while. I used my Presscut #6 Stepper Die for the card shape.

Recipe

Presscut #6 Stepper Die

Precious Marieke Winter Fun Border Die

Julie Hickey Christmas Profile Die

Crafters Companion Winter Wreath and Snowflakes

Sue Wilson Embossing Folder

Glitter card

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Cardz 4 Galz - #151 Christmas in July

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #606 Christmas in July

Crafty Catz - #560 Christmas in July

CHNC Every Saturday - #551 ATG Christmas/Die Cuts/Punches

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - #126 Snowflakes - More than one

Creative Craft Cottage - #142 Christmas in July

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - Christmas in July

I hope you are enjoying some nice weather wherever you are. 

Lorraine

xXx

Passion For Promarkers Challenge #353 Yellow & Blue

Hi Crafters,

I've been a very bad blogger this past week so I do apologise but there just hasn't been a spare minute around here lately. I will endeavour to catch up with you all as this week progresses however, I'm here to tell you about the new challenge at Passion for Promarkers that starts today.

YELLOW & BLUE

Well I was so pleased about this theme because it gave me a very good reason to cut in to my 'Sunny Side Up' Lili of the Valley paper pad which, up until now, has only been in the stroking pile :)

So here is my card using this cute line up of little chicks from Tiddy Inks.
You might have caught a glimpse of this card yesterday as I was a bit trigger happy and clicked the publish button by mistake instead of the preview one, but here it is now...

Recipe

Image - Chicks in a Line - Tiddy Inks

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Papers - LOTV 'Sunny Side Up' Paper Pad

Scalloped Border Die

MFT Flower Die

Twine

Sentiment was computer Generated

Challenges I'd like to enter:
Allsorts Challenge - #368 Gingham Style
Crafty Calendar Challenge - Punches and or Dies
Cute as a Button - #24 ATG
The Ribbon Girl - July Card Challenge
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #37 ATG
Crafting When We Can - #122 Any Occasion

I love that paper with the little chick foot prints on, don't you?

Our sponsor this week is

Uniko Stamps

who are offering a Stamp Set of the winners choice (in stock item) as their prize.

Let's see what you can create using yellow and blue AND your Promarkers of course!

Lorraine

xXx

Letterpress Snowflakes

Hi Crafters,

A Happy Valentine's Day!

I haven't got a Valentine card to share with you but another Christmas card, thought I would try and keep ahead of the game with them.

This time I have letter pressed a Sheena Douglas embossing folder with Summer Sky Memento ink for my background and used this lovely, large sentiment die from Ultimate Crafts cut from Glitter card.

This is a 5" x 7" card so you can see what a lovely size that die is. It also has a few snowflakes of it's own but I wanted to concentrate on the ones in the background.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Sweet Stampin' Christmas - Snowflakes

CHNC Every Saturday - #268 Colour Blue

CHNC Christmas - February Challenge

Enjoy your Sunday!

Lorraine 

xXx

Christmas Tags

Hi,
Is everyone enjoying the last little bit of summer before autumn sets in? I'm trying to but I thought I'd better get started on making some Christmas items as it's only 115 DAYS ! Yikes, I need to get a move on. I have made a few cards already but I also like to make tags for some of my presents too. This is what I came up with today...

These four are going in my Etsy shop, the rest are reserved for family presents.
I began with Blue and White cardstock and stamped the filigree pattern in Broken China distress ink randomly around the edges, then I went back and stamped the same stamp in Versamark ink and embossed it with Cosmic Shimmer 'Aurora Crystal Sparkle' embossing powder. Here is a close up...

It doesn't show up on this picture very well (note to self... Ask Santa for a decent camera this year...) but it gives the edges a lovely twinkling festive sparkle. Lets try this picture.....

 Then I added some Martha Stewart punched snowflakes, gemstones, organza ribbon bows, and a beautiful silver snowflake charm. There is plenty of room to write my Christmas messages on them too. Tomorrow I'm hoping to create some Santa themed ones so look out for that post.
Hope you are all getting your Christmas items made too....don't forget, only 115 days!
See you all soon

Lorraine

Got The Blues

Hello Crafters....
....I haven't really got the blues, it's just that for two days in a row I have somehow been drawn to make blue cards and I never use that colour normally. I was asked to make a card for a lady whose birthday is coming up soon and her favourite colour is.....blue.
Here it is....

The layout of this card was inspired by an example I found on Pinterest (bad place, I spend far too much time looking at stuff, lol.) I'll put a link to her boards, she makes some wonderful cards. Paperpastimes .

I used:

 

Couture Creations embossing folder-Tied Together

Spellbinders Dies- Splendid Circles, Classic Circles, Fancy Lattice and Nested Pennants
Die-namics Die- Fancy Flourish

Flowers- Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearls- Woodware pearl border

Sentiment- Waltzingmouse Stamps
 

 

 I'm going to enter this for the Papertake Weekly Challenge . 'Flower Power' . This will be my second entry but I'm sure you are allowed up to five. So fingers crossed coz the sponsor this time is The Ribbon Girl and I would really love to choose some goodies from there, great range in flowers, ribbons and trim.

 

Well, the family are hungry again I can hear their stomachs from here, lol, crafting hat off and cooking hat on.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine



Flower Power

Goodness! It's a whole week since I last blogged, where does the time go?
I've been really busy with family this week so crafting time has been limited. I have still managed to look at all your blogs though, and there have been some stunning cards from you all to inspire me, so, here's what I came up with...

I thought I would try a different shape card this time, I seem to be stuck in a rut of just grabbing an A5 card blank so it's time to change it up a bit. I looked around the internet and found this centre step card fold, so here it is....

 

 

I also gave myself a bit of a challenge to use the colour 'blue'. It's one colour I tend to avoid using, I think it turned out ok, don't you?
I stamped the image and coloured it using my Promarkers and then gave the petals a coat of Glossy Accents. The oval mats are Spellbinders  Classic Ovals and Floral Ovals Dies. The rest of the card was made up of matted layers of patterned paper from Papermania and lots of silver peel-offs. Oh, and a blue ribbon bow.

Today I would like to enter my card into the Papertake Weekly Challenge - 'Flower Power'.
Take a visit to their page and check out all the creations there and maybe join in yourself, it's great fun.

Enjoy your day,

Lorraine