Passion For Promarkers Challenge #501 - Flowers

Hi Crafters,

With everyone's gardens blooming right now I thought the theme of FLOWERS would be perfect for our new challenge this week at Passion For Promarkers.

So a nice and easy one for you as I'm sure you all have flower stamps or digi's in your collection and if not then flower papers and embellishments on your project will count as long as you have used your Promarkers somewhere on your creation. Please tell us in your description where you have used your markers.

I've used a previously un-inked stamp from Stampendous for my card today called - 

Pansy Patch. I am determined to get around to using lots of my stash that has been neglected in boxes and drawers ;o)

Recipe

Image - Pansy Patch Rubber Stamp by Stampendous

Coloured with Promarkers

Pearlescent Card

Dreamees Large Sentiment Stamp

Freebie Embossing Folder

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Stamping Sensations - Earth Laughs in Flowers
Penny Black & More - Summer Colours
Addicted To Stamps - #176 Clean & Simple Summer Card

Our sponsor this time is

Uniko Stamps

The prize is 1 Stamp Set (must be in stock).

To be in with a chance to win this prize you can create any project but you must follow the theme and use your Winsor Newton Pro, Flex, Brush, Aqua, Tria or Metallic markers. 

I look forward to visiting you all to see what lovely flower creations you have made, in the meantime why not visit the rest of the design team, their wonderful projects and enter our challenge HERE! 

Lorraine

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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

Christmas Card Club Challenge #10 - Village Scene

Hi Crafters,

 

Hope all of you are well.

I am here today because it is yet another challenge at our friendly Christmas Card Club - those two weeks have certainly flown by.

Our Rita has chosen the theme this time and a lovely one at that... Village Scene.

I decide to go with my all time favourite Christmas stamp from Stampendous - Snowy Postcard - as it has this beautiful snow covered house scene. I also decided to do something a little out of my comfort zone too. I have been admiring some mixed media projects on a couple of blogs that I follow and wanted to dip my toe in the water and have a go at a few of the techniques. On my card you will notice that I have had a go at using crackle medium, inking, distressing and generally grunging everything up. I have a long way to go to match the talents of Pamellia and Kathy but I enjoyed trying.

Recipe
Card base cut with Go Kreate Die
Snowy Postcard Stamp - Stampendous
Distress Inks - Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo, Fired Brick
White Acrylic Paint
Crackle Medium
Stampendous Shabby White Frantage
Marianne Tree Die
Lea'bilities Holly Leaf Die
Berries - The Ribbon Girl
Seam Binding
Vintage Lace
MME Brad and Sentiment Banner
Metal Bell

A couple of close-ups of the crackled tree and crinkled seam binding...

 

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:
Winter Wonderland - Oh Christmas Tree
Brown Sugar - #145 Layers
One Crazy Stamper - ATG
Country View Challenge - Simply Scenic
Crafty Time - #1 Anything New (Crackle Medium)
Christmas Cards All Year Round - Vintage
CHNC Extra - May Challenge
CHNC Every Saturday - #228 Vintage or Shabby Chic
Frilly And Funkie - Snap, Crackle, Crackle


Now that I have attempted to do a bit of 'messy' crafting I think, when time allows, that I will create another project soon using my long neglected glimmer mists and sprays and finish up that pot of texture paste and stencils that have been languishing in the box on the shelf. I bought these items with the idea to use them straight away but found them rather daunting to know exactly what to so with them. We shall see how I get on.
 

Please pop along and have a look at the fabulous Christmas makes from the other members of the club by clicking the links in the tab at the top of my blog.

Well that's it from me today, hope you enjoy your Sunday.

 

Bye for now,

 

Lorraine

Christmas Card Club Challenge # 8 - Vintage

Hi Crafters,

I'm back today to share my card for the Christmas Card Club Challenge. The theme this fortnight was chosen by our lovely Rachel, she has given us the challenge to make a 'vintage' Christmas Card. I know that vintage doesn't necessarily mean distressing but I fancied another go at distressing the edges of my card and DP's. It's quite subtle but I enjoyed doing it and felt it added to the look.

 

Recipe

Image - Stampendous Christmas Cottage Stamp

Coloured with Distress Inks (get me!)

Go Kreate Oval Dies

Go Kreate Large Frilly Frames #10 Dies

Kraft Card

DP's - Magazine freebies

Cheery Lynn Snowflakes Die

Lea'billities Pine Branches Die

Sentiment - Crafters Companion

Dovecraft brown doily

Anna Marie Designs festive berries

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Button Cabochon

Gold Pearls

 

Like the distressed edges, colouring my image with Distress Inks is something I don't normally do. I love my Promarkers but they didn't seem right for the look I was after. I struggled a bit to begin with, I'm not happy with the watercolour paper I have, it is very textured and I found it difficult to move the ink around, but as I only use it once in a blue moon I don't think I will bother to get any more. For the snow drifts I brushed on some frosted lace stickles for a thin sparkly layer but I don't think you can see it very well in the photo. The pine leaves were given a coating of white embossing powder for their snowy look and there is a subtle touch of glitter around the oval and snowflakes but as it was meant to be vintage I didn't over do it.

Here is a side on view to show the layers:

 

The other ladies in our group will also have their beautiful projects on their blogs today so if you would like some inspiration to make a start on your own Christmas cards then why not give them a look, you can find the links in the page tab at the top of my blog. 

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

TTCRD - ATG

Papertake Weekly - ATG

Crafty Creations - # 286 ATG

Completely Christmas - #58 ATG + Add A Touch of Gold (Gold oval mat and cabochon)

Brown Sugar - # 141 Distress (Edges and Inks)

Sister Act - #101 ATG

Creative Fingers - #75 ATG

One Crazy Stamper - April ATG

Country View Challenge - Use Kraft Card

Little Claire - #56 Use Kraft Card

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Add A Sentiment

CHNC Extra - April ATG

 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, thanks for visiting today and I will be round later to do a bit of commenting.

 

Lorraine

Stampendous - Fresh Bloom

Hi Crafters,
Hope the sun is shining on you today and if not I hope these cards will bring a little sunshine in to your craft room, lol.

In real life the yellow is a little more subtle than this picture shows, it is Crafters Companion Centura Pearl cardstock in lemon and not 'full on in your face' sunburst yellow but this is how it came out I'm afraid and no amount of tweaking would correct it without upsetting the rest of the colours :/
The backing paper was created using distress inks and water on my craft mat, Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Raspberry and Shaded Lilac. I used the paper to stamp my flowers on and then embossed with white embossing powder. The stamp is a Stampendous grey rubber stamp called 'Fresh Bloom', I have had it for ages and not used it, heaven knows why coz it's a beautiful, large stamp which can be used in so many ways. The borders are made with a couple of Martha Stewart punches, the sentiment comes from Inkylicious and the pearls are from Meiflower.
While I had the stamp out and some of the backing paper left I made another card only this time I used an Anniversary sentiment.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Scribble & Scrap - Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes #233
Sister Act - Anything Goes

 

I will be round later for some commenting on your blogs so TTFN.

 

Lorraine

  

Christmas Card Club - Challenge #5

Hello Crafters,
Well two weeks have just flown by and it is the next challenge at our little Christmas Card Club again. I must admit it caught me unawares, I swear the calendar has been flipping days over all by itself lately - is it me or have you all felt that. So last night I had to set to and start my card, the theme, which was chosen by Margaret was to 'Feature a Robin'.
I have just finished it now so scraped in with the deadline by the skin of my teeth, phew.

Card Recipe

6 x 6 Cream card base

Crafts Too Spotty Emb. Folder

Stampendous Rubber Stamp - Snow Bird

Background Stamp - SU 'En Francais'

Distress Inks

Ribbons and Berries - The Ribbon Girl

Sentiment - Crafters Companion Set

 

I stamped the robin and then masked him to stamp the background with the Stampin 'Up 'en francais' large stamp then I decided to have another go at using my distress inks to colour the robin. I think he turned out ok. I used some white flowersoft for the snow on the berries and branch, stamped the holly leaves and coloured them with Peeled Paint and Pine Needles DI, cut them out and put them with the berries from the Ribbon Girl. I layered two ribbons and threaded a die cut on to it with the sentiment that I heat embossed. The top layer of card was dry embossed and popped up with foam squares.

Hope you like it and if you want to see what all the other ladies have been making click on the C.C.C tab at the top of my blog and all their links are there.

I'd like to enter in to the following challenges:

CHNC - Anything Goes - Christmas

ABC Christmas - D for Die Cuts

Scribble & Scrap - #13 Anything Goes

Completely Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

 

I will be round to visit your blogs later girlies.

 

Bye for now,

 

Lorraine

 

 

 

That Stamp Again....

..Hi, I'm really getting some great inspiration from this Stampendous Snowy Postcard stamp. I've made another Christmas card with it that I would like to share with you.

This card is for my mum she likes traditional scenes for Christmas, I hope she likes it.

It's a short and sweet post today as I have 6 Christmas cards left to make and I'm on a mission to get them finished today -  fingers crossed.

Bye for now

 

Lorraine



Stampendous - Snowy Postcard

Hi all,
I'm really loving this stamp from Stampendous, although I think I'm a little late discovering it, lol. I'm sure it's been out there a while now, and judging by the amount of lovely cards I've seen made with it when I did a search, you are all loving it too.
Here's a couple of different examples...

 

This stamp is so versatile and you can get very different effects just by changing the colour of ink it's stamped with or by layering it up like I have in the first example.

I also got to use my pot of Frantage for the first time and I loved the way that turned out too, it makes a great falling snow effect.

Well that's all for now,

See you soon,

Lorraine

Christmas Wishes

Hi all,
Just a quick post to share 3 commissioned cards that I finished recently.

I'm entering this card into a challenge at  Papertake Weekly -Christmas Creatures

 

I'm entering this card in to a challenge at Crafty Little Fairies - Let It Snow

 

I'm entering this card in to a challenge at Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

 

Hope you are all organised for the 25th ! I'm almost there now thank goodness.

Catch you all later,

Lorraine