Passion For Markers Challenge #731 - Easter

 Hi Crafters,

Easter is approaching fast and I have been busy creating my cards so this weeks challenge at Passion For Markers was ideal to get another card made for my pile.

This cute little bunny looks relaxed just chilling with the butterflies doesn't he?

Recipe

Image - Butterfly Bunny by All Dressed Up Stamps

Coloured with Copics

Inked and Embossed Background

Creative Expressions Sentiment Die

Our sponsor this week is

All Dressed Up Stamps

who are offering 2 Digi images to the lucky winner.

The Design Team have been busy creating lots of gorgeous projects to inspire you so pop over to the blog and take a look HERE.

Remember to use your Markers on your project and have fun!

Lorraine

xXx

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit....

 Hi Crafters,

...that's what we always said as children when the first of the month came around in the hopes of a little luck that month. Did you remember to say it this morning? I never liked the 'Pinch, Punch first of the month' saying - at school I'm sure that the boys (and some girls) used this to justify being spiteful to other classmates. Do you have a saying in your part of the world when the first of the month comes around?

Anyway, I've waffled on long enough, it's time to share my DT card for the new challenge starting at

Crafts Galore Encore

Recipe

Image - Easter Hippity Hop by Jan's Digi Stamps

Coloured with Promarkers

Spellbinders Grand Stately Circles Die, Tonic Studio Scalloped Circle Die

Ribbon and Enamel Dots from stash

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Jan's Digi Stamp Challenge - ATG Feb 2023

Our sponsor this month is Jan's Digi Stamps

who are offering a $6 voucher to the lucky winner.

Please take a look at the other DT members makes on the challenge blog here, they have all been super busy creating some fabulous inspiration for you all so why not join in with us?

That's all from me today,

see you again soon,

Lorraine

xXx

Happy Easter

Hi Crafters,

 It's been a glorious day here today.

Just sharing one of my Easter cards to celebrate the weekend.

Lorraine

xXx

Passion For Markers Challenge #625 - Embossing (Heat/Dry)

 Hi Crafters,

It must be my week! After choosing the theme for the new challenge at Allsorts on Saturday it's also my turn to choose the theme for the new challenge at Passion For Markers today.

I have a ton of embossing folders that I have gathered over the years and a draw full of different colours and types of embossing powders. I forget to use them on my cards and it is such a shame as they create interesting and pretty details in your card designs. So, I thought I would challenge everyone to use theirs.

My theme this week therefore is.....

EMBOSSING (Heat/Dry)

After colouring the tulip border image from our sponsor with my Promarkers I hunted down my tulip embossing folder that has been languishing in the drawer for some time (actually it does have a yearly outing when I batch make my Easter cards) it is only A6 in size but with the extra matts and layers I have scaled this card up to a 5" x 7". Using the Ticker Tape set I stamped the word 'Happy' in Versamark ink and heat embossed it with WOW red embossing powder. I then die cut the 'Easter' word and added this to the bottom of my design.

Recipe

Image - Tulip Border - Sheepski Designs

Coloured with Promarkers

Crafts-Too Tulip Embossing Folder

Cottage Cutz Stitched Rectangle Dies

Waltzing Mouse 'Easter' Word Die

Lisa Horton 'Every Day Ticker Tape Sentiment Stamps' - Heat embossed with Red Embossing Powder

Candy Stripe Ribbon from stash

Challenges I'd like to enter:

I Love Promarkers - #502 ATG opt. Flowers

C.R.A.F.T. - #624 ATG

Creative Knockouts - #436 ATG

Colour Crazy Challenge - #3 ATG Colouring Challenge

My Time To Craft - #473 Floral

Our sponsor for this weeks prize of 3 Digital Images is...

Sheepski Designs

Our rules are simple - Use your Markers on your project, tell us in your post where you have used them and follow the theme. Please pop over to the challenge blog to see all the lovely creations that the rest of the Design Team have made to get you inspired to join in.

See you soon,

Lorraine

xXx

Easter Selection

Hi Crafters,

Easter is approaching fast so I have been creating a selection of cards for my stall.

These are mostly made from Hunkydory's 'Little Book of... Spring' with a few die cut details, my latest naughty purchase of the Tattered Lace Egg-cellent Easter Collection and various dies from my stash.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Creative Inspirations - Easter Wishes and/or Animals

A Bit More Time To Craft - #89 ATG

Love To Craft - #33 ATG

Country View Challenges - Easter +/ Spring

Incy Wincy Designs - Animals

Crafty Friends - #106 Spring Colours

Thanks for popping by, see you again soon.

Lorraine

xXx

Passion For Promarkers Challenge #432 - Have a Heart

Hi Crafters,

Hope everyone is well.

It's lovely to see you here and thank you for all your comments over the last few days too.

I'm here today for the new challenge at Passion For Promarkers where our theme for this week is

HAVE A HEART

so we'd like to see a heart or hearts somewhere on your project please.

I've used this sweet little image from our sponsor to create an Easter card.

Recipe

Image - 'Happy Love Day' - A Day For Daisies Stamps

Coloured with Promarkers

Crealies Stitched Oval Dies

Sentiment Stamp - Magazine Freebie

Linen Ribbon

Pearl String

Distress Inks for background

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Creations - #360 ATG

Simon Says Stamp - Add A Die Cut

Crafty Girlz Creations - #44 ATG

Noor Designs - #39 Celebrations

Craft-Dee Bowz - February Challenge

To be in with a chance of winning the $12 voucher prize from

A Day For Daisies

you must use your Winsor Newton (formerly Letraset) markers and tell us in your post where you have used them on your project. Your project can be anything, a card, gift bag, tag, box, journal page etc as long as you have used your markers on it somewhere and followed the theme...and have fun!

Take a peek at the inspiration on the challenge blog HERE where the design team have some fabulous cards to share.

See you soon,

Lorraine

xXx

Spring Has Sprung

Hi Crafters,

A very dismal and dreary day here in Norfolk and after the sunny weekend I'm so ready for some regular sunshine and warmer days now.

So I thought I'd share one of my recent projects which shouts Springtime!

Both the watering can and daffodils are a Silhouette Cameo cut file

and I thought this would make a nice Easter display on my stall when selling my Easter cards.

Just a little Distress Ink in Spiced Marmalade & Wild Honey to define the petals was all that was needed. I popped the daffodil heads on to plastic stirrers for stems so to cover the round, flat tops I added a Stampin' Up flower punch in green card for the sepal.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Allsorts Challenge - #455 Handmade Flowers

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #76 ATG

Incy Wincy Designs - Easter

Thanks for joining me today and see you again tomorrow for my DT post for the new challenge at Passion For Promarkers.

Lorraine

xXx

Passion For Promarkers Challenge #388 - Add a Button or 2

Hi Crafters,

How is everyone this morning? I think I've managed to get over the missing hour from the weekend, it really does play havoc with my body clock :o/
Well today is the start of our new challenge at Passion for Promarkers. We would like you to ...

ADD A BUTTON OR 2

Please remember to use your Winsor Newton (Letraset) Markers and to qualify for the prize and tell us where you have used them in your project.

Recipe

Image -  DigiStamp Boutique - Easter Baby Quack

Coloured with Promarkers
Papers - Decotime
Apple Blossom Stitched Banner Die
MFT & Cottage Cutz Stitched Squares and Rectangles
Buttons from stash
Sentiment - Magazine Freebie

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This is such a fun image for Easter and I loved colouring it with my Promarkers too, using the colours from the backing paper as a guide for my colour scheme.
He is called 'Easter Baby Quack' and is from our sponsor DigiStamp Boutique they are offering a £10 voucher for their store to the lucky winner.

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Challenges I'd like to enter:
Creative Moments - #114 ATG op/twist Spring Colours
Creative Inspirations - #271 ATG
Double D Challenges - Things That Fly
Cute Card Thursday - #470 Spring Fever
Aud Sentiments - #176 Any Sentiment EXCEPT Birthday
As You Like It - Favourite Colour Medium and Why
( I have been using Promarkers for a number of years now, there are plenty of shades and I find that they blend nicely too giving depth to the images I'm colouring)
Crafty Catz - #363 ATG op/twist Buttons
DigiStamp Boutique - ATG DSB
The Cutie Pie Challenge - #109 Dies and Digi's
Addicted To Stamps - #144 Easter (Stamped Sentiment)
The Ribbon girl - Use Any Image
Come & Get It - #210 Spring Time
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #54 ATG
Sweet Stampers - #5 Easter/Spring
Crafty Cardmakers - #185 Spring into Spring

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Well that's it from me today, thanks for joining me and hope to see you at Passion for Promarkers challenge very soon.

Lorraine
xXx

Bumper Easter Card Post

Hi Crafters,

I'm a little behind with posting the Easter cards I've made this year so here are the rest of them posted all at once. 

Come and Get It - #111 In the Garden

Creative Moments - #89 Spring has Sprung

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Try It On Tuesday - Nature

Crafty Creations - #311 Spring Fever

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Brown Sugar - #191 Easter

Fussy & Fancy - #160 Pastel Colours

Allsorts Challenge - #356 Wings

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OSAAT - #258 Embossing

Crafty Cardmakers - #160 Easter

 Some are digi kits from CraftsUprint and are decoupaged and the last four are using embossing folders and a Spellbinders Cross Die with an Easter word die from Waltzingmouse that I nabbed just before they close the shop at the end of the month. (sad news)

The challenges I'm entering are under each relevant photo.

I hope you have all enjoyed your Easter Sunday.

See you soon,

Lorraine 

xXx

Easter Bunny #2

Hi Crafters,

I'm back today with another card using this cute little character from the Flopsy & Friends Collection.

Recipe

Image - Flopsy & Friends MCS CD-Rom

Papers - LOTV/Nitwit Perfect Pair Pad

Waltzingmouse 'Easter' Die

Marianne Designs CR1201 Die

EK Success Corner Punch

Dotty Satin Ribbon

Sparkling gems

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Catz - # 315 Ribbon and Bling

TTCRD - ATG

Deep Ocean - #124 Easter

Aud Sentiments - #150 Easter/Spring Sentiment

Allsorts Challenge - #354 Spring is in the Air

Bye for now

Lorraine

xXx

Easter Bunny

Hi Crafters,

Easter is early this year, I've made almost twenty cards so far and still have a few more to go but I'd like to share this one with you today.

The image is a My Craft Studio free download and looks so sweet. I have added some flowers around him with my graphics program and then cut him out.

Recipe

Image - Flopsy & Friends MCS CD-Rom

Papers - LOTV/ Nitwits - Perfect Pair Pad

Creative Expressions Petit Peony Cluster Die

Waltzingmouse 'Easter' Die

Dotted Satin Ribbon

Gems

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Deep Ocean - #124 Easter

Aud Sentiments - #150 Easter/Spring Sentiment

Crafty Catz - #315 Ribbon and Bling
Allsorts Challenge - #354 Spring is in the Air

I'll be back tomorrow to share another card made using Flopsy's friend.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend

Lorraine

xXx

Passion For Promarkers Challenge #336 - Cute Critters

Hi Crafters,

'Cute Critters' is our fun theme this week at Passion For Promarkers.

We have Digi Stamp Boutique as our sponsor and a fabulous prize of a £10 voucher for their store.

We'd love to see your cards and projects using your Letraset Pro / Flex / Tria / Aqua or Metallic markers and whatever cute critters you may have hiding in your craft room.

This is my card for your inspiration...

Recipe

Image - Chubby Celebration Set - DigiStamp Boutique

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Papers - Freebies from The Cardmaker's Stamping Special Collection Magazine

MFT Stitched Squares, Circles and Banners Dies

Sentiment comes with image

Enamel Dots

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Aud Sentiments - #150  Easter / Spring Sentiment

Brown Sugar - #188 Cute & Cuddly

Unicorn Challenge - #7 CAS

DigiStamp Boutique - March Challenge

Bunny Zoe's - Things With Wings

The Ribbon Girl - ATG - Spring/Easter

Crafting From The Heart - #102 ATG

For more inspiration and details about the challenge please hop over to the blog here.

Thanks for calling in today, I appreciate the time you have taken here and any comments you may leave.

Wishing you all a Fabulous day.

Lorraine

xXx

Easter and Mother's Day Goodies

Hi Crafters,

Just a quick hello from me today to share a couple of projects I have been working on.

Easter Egg Boxes

and

Mother's Day Treats

As you can see they are quite deep so I could fit lots of yummy sweets inside.

These were fun and simple to do and make great little gifts for the occasion.

The Easter boxes filled with chocolate eggs were from a tutorial I saw on Pinterest and the Mother's Day ones filled with toffees and mints were inspired by a tutorial on Sam Pootle's blog.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Creations - #309 Something To Eat/Drink

Not Just Cards - #29 ATG

Craft-Dee Bowz - Feb. ATG + Bow

OSAAT - 3D Bags and Boxes

Well I can't hang around here for too long, the family will be getting hungry and I haven't decided what we're having yet!

Bye for now,

Lorraine 

xXx

A Belated Easter

Hi Crafters,

I know Easter has been and gone but I still have a few Easter cards and projects that haven't been shown yet so as there are some challenge themes still running that ask for Easter I thought I would go ahead and post them, why not?

These are some 3d decoupaged cards made using CraftsUprint images..

 

 

Challenges:

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #75 ATG - Add some Spring Flowers

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Challenge:

Creative Moments - #66 ATG - Spring/Easter

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This next one uses a Crafts Too embossing folder and a Spellbinders Filigree Cross die with my EK Success flower punches.

 

Challenge:

OSAAT - #234 ATG - Easter/Passover

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The last two projects are for Easter egg gifts.

Below I used a Magnolia Grass Edge die and some Stampin' Up punches for the bunny...

...and the bag of mini eggs sits on his tummy :) 

 

Challenge:

Not Just Cards - #17 ATG

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This bunny box was cut on my Cameo and although quite fiddly to put together - getting those side tabs to fit around the corners was the worst part - I think it turned out great though and measured 8" x 5", so ample space for lots of the medium sized eggs that I filled it with. I added some acetate behind the swirls to stop the eggs from escaping.

 

Challenge:

Not Just Cards - #17 ATG

 

I hope you liked my Easter projects today, I hope it hasn't sent you all to the fridge for a bar of choccy, lol.

 

Happy Crafting!

 

Lorraine



613 Avenue Create Challenge #118 - Anything Goes / Easter

Hi Crafters,

HAPPY EASTER!

 

I hope you are having a lovely day and not too many Easter Eggs.

I am here to share my DT card for the new challenge at 613 Avenue Create. This week it is, as always, Anything Goes but if you wish it can also be Easter themed and that can mean so many different things to different people so we look forward to seeing your makes. Our sponsor is Aurora Wings so I am using this beautiful image called Little Elf Kia for my Easter card.

 

Recipe

Little Elf Kia - Aurora Wings

Pro/flexmarkers

Papers - Spring Feast by First Edition

Sentiment - Magazine Freebie

Martha Stewart border punch

Stampin' Up Word Window punch, Oval and Scalloped Oval punch.

MME Enamel Dots

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Deep Ocean Challenge  - #100 Easter/Spring + Celebration

Crafty Catz - #273 Happy Easter

Sister Act - #100 ATG

Creative Fingers - #74 ATG

Bunny Zoe's - March - Spring Colours

Little Claire - #55 Springtime

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Add A Sentiment

CHNC Patterned Paper Challenge - April Challenge

 

There are some fabulous inspirational pieces from the DT Ladies over on the blog so why not take a look and join in with us, the more the merrier!

I look forward to seeing your creations this week, so until next time...

...bye for now,

 

Lorraine