Passion For Promarkers Challenge #528 - Fancy Folds

Hi Crafters,

It's lovely to see you here again.

I'm sharing my DT card for the new challenge at Passion For Promarkers.

Our theme this week is...

FANCY FOLDS

I think this is called a 'Double Z Fold' but if you know differently please let me know below.

Recipe

Image - Sharon Callis Stamp called 'Make a Wish'

Coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Beach Life Pad by Helz Cuppleditch

Joy Crafts 'Happy Birthday' Die

Waltzingmouse Stamps Die - Picot Panel (discontinued)

Gems and Pearls

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Krafty Chicks Challenge - #492 ATG

Crafty Catz - #491 ATG - Fave Colours

( I love bright colours, they are so cheerful)

Stamping Sensations - Feminine

Our sponsor this week is

Uniko Stamps

They are offering 1 stamp set ( must be in stock) to the lucky winner.

To be in with a chance at the prize there are a few simple rules to follow - use your Winsor Newton (formerly Letraset) Alcohol Markers, tell us in your post where you have used them and follow the theme.

For more details and some fabulous Design Team inspiration please take a look at the challenge blog HERE.

Lorraine

xXx

Sooo Cute!

Hi Crafters,

I had a naughty :o) purchase before Christmas and treated myself to this Crafters Companion stamp and die set. This is the first chance I've had to play with them and here is my sweet card.

Recipe

Gemini Peek-a-Boo-bunny Stamp and Die Set - Crafters Companion

Bunny coloured with Promarkers

Creative Expression Happy Birthday Die

Glitter Ribbon

Gingham Card

Gems

Challenges I'd like to enter:

I Love Promarkers - #402 ATG opt. Embossing

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Besotted with our pets

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - #463 ATG

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Newly Acquired Stash

Aud Sentiments - #243 ATG + Sentiment

Krafty Chicks Challenge - #491 ATG/All Occasions

The Cutie Pie Challenge - #143  Cute, CAS

On second thoughts I should have taken a photo of the inside of the card, you can see the back view of the bunny peeking over the aperture in the card and it's just as cute as the outside but I didn't think of that until it was too late.

I hope you're having a lovely weekend.

See you soon,

Lorraine 

xXx

Passion For Promarkers Challenge #480 - Something Beginning with 'L'

Hi Crafters,

I'm happy to be back after my little blog break.

I fancied a little change after 5 years (gosh how time flies) so I've re-vamped my blog too, hope you like it?

Today it is my challenge theme at Passion For Promarkers.

I thought I'd choose the letter 'L' for a nice and easy theme.

You can create your cards and projects using your Winsor Newton Markers and then incorporate things that begin with the letter 'L'.

Please state in your post where you have used your markers on your project and what your letter 'L' items are please.

Here is my card using a fabulous image from The Paper Shelter who is our sponsor this time.

My letter 'L' items are.....

Lilac

Lime Green

Lattice

Leaves

Recipe

Image - 'Happy Birthday' - The Paper Shelter

Coloured with Pro/flexmarkers

Gingham Card and Ribbon

Music Card

Lili of The Valley Stamped Sentiment

Cheery Lynn Lattice Die

Tonic Scalloped Frame Die

Cheery Lynn Leaves and Flowers Dies

Glitter Dots

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Lil' Patch of Craft Friends - #99 ATG
Incy Wincy Designs - Make It Girly
Crafting From The Heart - #236 ATG
I Love Promarkers - #377 ATG - Use a Die Cut / Punch
Cute Card Thursday - #568 ATG
Moving Along with the Times - #90 Add A Sentiment
Crafty Friends - #103 ATG
Love To Craft - #31 ATG
Unicorn Challenge - #40 Include a Heart (on her sash)
Crafty Calendar Challenge - Add Texture and Ribbon

Check out the rest of the design team makes for more inspiration HERE.

Thank you for visiting today, I hope to get back into the swing of commenting and visiting you all again, I have missed it.

Happy Crafting!

Lorraine

xXx

Dad

Hi Crafters,

Happy Sunday!

I love this robot image from Tiddly Inks and I've used it here, in my very CAS design, with two other digital images from the shop.

This card could be used for either a Birthday or Father's Day.

Recipe

Digital Images - Tiddly Inks

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

JusCutz Scalloped Square Die

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Tiddly Inks - #183 Happy Birthday

I Love Promarkers - #310 Inspired by a Song or Film (Tin Man, Wizard of Oz)

Cute Card Thursday - #428 Father's Day

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Father's Day/For a Male

Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

Lorraine

xXx

Sharing an 'Oldie' on Friday

Hi Crafters,

I'm here at last.... phew! it's been a busy day.

Had a great time at the Farmers Market this morning, it's good when all your hard work pays off.

So on to my 'Oldie for Friday' - a bit late in the day but here none-the-less.

This is the fun weekly post where some of us join in with Erika at Snappy Crafts and show an old, crafty project on our blogs.

This card was made a while ago using a stamp set from Habico which had different breeds of dogs and cats on it. This was created for a dog lover as you can tell.

The word stamp is from Woodware and a lovely large one it is too, I embossed this with white EP, the dogs are stamped in brown and embossed using clear EP. The brief was for it to be flat for posting so no embellishments I'm afraid.

Hope you have all had a good day too,

Take care and see you soon,

Lorraine

xXx

Vintage Car

Hi Crafters

I'm back to share another card today...  ....got to catch up somehow my 'to blog' folder is overflowing :)

This was ordered for a neighbour to give to her brother.

Recipe

Image - Vintage Car

Papers - Docrafts Chronology Paper Pad  (it's old but I still have some)

Core'dinations cardstock

TH Cogs embossing folder

Sizzix Hardware Findings Die

MB Steampunk Corner Die

X-Cut Single Cogs Die

Clearly Besotted 'Brother' Stamp and Die Set

Tonic Numbers Die

Britannia 'Happy Birthday' Word Dies

Clear Embossing Powder

I've had a set of vintage car pictures on my computer forever so when this order came in I knew exactly what to use. I  love Steampunk and so have been hoarding these papers from Docraft but thought they would be perfect along with the various cog dies that I own. A little inking around the edges, highlighted with clear embossing powder and 'voila' :)

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Cardz 4 Guyz - #94 Numbers

TTCRD - ATG

Try It On Tuesday - Lots of Layers

Aud Sentiments - #143 Birthday Sentiment

Brown Sugar - #169 ATG

Crafty Card Makers & More - #150 Autumn Colours

Take care everyone,

Lorraine

Sketchy!

Hi Crafters,

I love these new 'Sketchy' stamps from Woodware and there are a few in this collection. I have used 'Happy Birthday To You' and created a very blue card.

Recipe

Stamp - 'Happy Birthday To You' - Woodware Stamps

White Detail Embossing Powder - Stampendous

Papers - 'Margie' - Sassy Designs

Blue & White Vellum

Flower Stamp - 'Fresh Bloom' - Stampendous

Gemstone

I'm not usually a blue person but this was such a vibrant shade that I had to make something with these papers. Hope you like it?

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Eureka Stamps - #159 Monochrome

Crafting From The Heart - #78 ATG

Aud Sentiments - #140 ATG + Sentiment

The Ribbon Girl - Colour Challenge - BLUE

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #18 ATG

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Lorraine

Floating By...

Hi Crafters,

**if you are looking for my As You Like It DT card then please scroll down to the previous post**

 

It's not often that I get to make a card just for fun but that's just what this one was and I thoroughly enjoyed making it. The bright and cheerful colours really lifted my mood and this came together quite quickly.

 

....and I'm so chuffed as I have made an easel card. I have been stuck in a rut of just making square cards for so long now that I fancied a change.

...here's a close up of that fab image..

 

Recipe

Image - Tiddly Inks - Wryn Floating By

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Papers - Lori Whitlock Simple Summer

LOTV Sentiment Circle

Pink Paislee - Nantucket stamp

Papermania - Happy Birthday stamp

Jus-Cutz - Decorative Shapes #5 & #6 Dies

La La Land - Wave Border Die

 

Challenges I would like to enter:

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #88 ATG/On The Beach

Fussy & Fancy - #143 Beach Fun

Bunny Zoe's - Summer Breeze

Crafty Girlz - #4 ATG/Summer Holidays

The Ribbon Girl - ATG with an Image

OSAAT - #241 Chillaxing

Eureka Stamps - #149 At The Beach

Crafty Cardmakers & More - #143 Water

Tiddly Inks - #161 ATG with a Tiddly Image

Little Miss Muffet - #116 ATG

Cute Card Thursday - #382 Water

 

Hope you liked my little easel card today, enjoy your evening!

 

Lorraine



Sharing an 'Oldie' on Friday

Hi Crafters,

It's Friday again and time to share an old crafty make and join in with Erika at Snappy Crafts.

 

 

Here are a set of cards that I made quite a while back using a very large Dovecraft Punch which makes the elements for the ice-cream, a bit of jiggery-pokery on the computer to generate the circle sentiment, Spellbinders scalloped circle and standard circle dies and a 'Happy Birthday' embossing folder.

... a larger close-up...

 

These took a bit of time to design but once all the elements were sorted they were very quick to put together.

If you'd like to join in with us and share an old crafty make just post your creation, pop over to Erika's blog, leave her a comment to let her know that you have joined in and she will return the comment.

Thanks for joining me today. After the glorious sunshine of yesterday I'm sitting in my craft room with the light on as it is pouring down with rain here and very dark and dismal, how different two days can be. Hope it's better where you are.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine



Football Crazy

Hi Crafters,

How is everyone today - good I hope?

The lovely weather we have been having is only meant to last another couple of days here and then I think it's back to rain and lower temperatures, blah :(

I definitely feel better for a little sunshine though.

 

Todays card was Pinterest inspired and fills a gap I have in my stock for those tricky male cards...

 

Recipe

Stampin' Up Hexagon Punch

Stampin' Up Goal Stamp Set

Stampin' Up Binding Trim

Dotty Embossing Folder

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Cardz 4 Guyz - #67 Football Crazy

TTCRD - ATG

Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge - #76 Use a Die or a Punch

Crafty Cardmakers and More - #137 Dots (embossed dots)

 

Take care and thanks for visiting today,

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

 



Little Miss Muffet Challenge #105 Birthday Celebrations

Hi Crafters,
I think I will just scrape in by the skin of my teeth with this entry for the challenge over on Little Miss Muffet . They are celebrating their 4th Birthday and there was a free image to colour so here is my entry..

Recipe

LMMS Image - Birthday Train

Pro/flexmarkers

Papers - LOTV Up, Up & Away

Memory Box Die - Happy Birthday

Clearly Besotted Die - Cloud

MME Enamel Dots

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

LMMS Challenge - #105 Birthday Celebrations

LMMS Challenge - #107 ATG

Cute Card Thursday - #364 Celebrate

Sister Act - #97 ATG
Addicted To Stamps - #100 Celebration

 

I hope you all had a lovely Mother's Day, I know I did - a lovely day spent with my two grownup daughters and both my mum and mother-in-law - a real family get-together, it was great.

Thanks for stopping by again today,

 

Lorraine

Cottage Cutz Cute Fox

Hi Crafters,
I bought a die recently from Cottage Cutz and couldn't wait to use it, it is so cute. I made a very simply designed card to make the die-cut the focal point. I used a digital background paper from Raspberry Road and a small sentiment stamped on to a cloud die-cut and that was it.

Here's a side view...

The die cuts out the various parts of the fox and using coloured cardstock I pieced them altogether, then I cut out a black silhouette of the whole fox and offset it behind the coloured fox for a shadow. Popped him up on foam pads, added my clouds and sentiment and there you have it, my simple CAS card.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Cute Card Thursday - #364 Celebrate

Crafting From The Heart - #50 ATG

TTCRD - ATG

 

Hope you liked my cute, little fox card, I think he's adorable and can see him popping up again soon on a another card.

Well we have brilliant sunshine here at the moment albeit rather chilly and the washing and housework will not do itself so I had better get busy.

 

See you all soon,

Lorraine

Passion For Promarkers Challenge #285 - Letters of the Alphabet (Anything Goes)

Hi Crafters,
Sorry I haven't been around much this week but I have been trying to limit my internet time. I have a lot of orders to get finished and find that too many unproductive hours slip by whilst sitting in front of my screen, lol. More discipline needed I think. Normal service will be resumed shortly and I will visit soon, promise.
So on to today, I am here to share with you my DT card for Passion For Promarkers and this week we are sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps who are offering a $21 voucher as their prize.
I went with 'B' is for Birthday and here is my card.

Recipe

Woodware Stamp - Huge Happy Birthday

Promarkers

Inky Doodles Stamp - Leafy Background

Stampin' Up Corner and Border Punch

Pearls

Glitter

 

I love this large Woodware stamp, it is so versatile. I stamped and embossed it to give a raised edge to the letters and then I masked off the words and stamped my background. I then coloured it with my Promarkers ( puzzlingly in real life the colours are more blended but somehow the camera has picked up the shade differences :/ ) added shading around the letters so that it gives a 3d illusion and used glitter to highlight the tops of the letters. It's also quite flat for posting too. 

 

  Challenges
Sister Act - #94 ATG
Creative Fingers - #68 ATG
Fussy and Fancy - #133 Tic Tac Toe
(Bottom row - Sentiment, Wet emboss, Sparkle)
Addicted To CAS - #57 Mask
Addicted To Stamps - #98 Embossing Dry or Heat
OSAAT - #231 ATG with Birthday's
Eureka Stamps - #129 Birthday Cards
 

 

Check out the rest of the DT's creations on the blog, they have done some fabulous work this week. Please come and join us in our challenge, remember you must use your Letraset markers to be in with a chance of winning the prize.

See you all soon,

 

Lorraine