Passion For Promarkers Challenge #559 - Autumn/Fall

 Hi Crafters,

How the weather has changed of late, cloudy mornings, cooler days and darker evenings!

I'm not ready to shut the curtains and put the light on at 7.30 pm but that's the way it is and so I must settle myself to the fact that Autumn has arrived.

Aptly our theme this week at Passion For Promarkers is

AUTUMN/FALL

This week, just for a change, I thought I'd make a tag instead of a card. Our challenges are open to all kinds of projects as long as you follow the theme and use your Winsor Newton Pro, Flex, Brush, Tria, Aqua and Metallic markers.

Recipe

Image - 'Just a Pumpkin' by Mo's Digital Pencil

Heartfelt Creations Vine Stamp and Die set

Both coloured with Promarkers

Crealies Fancy Tag Dies

Sheena Douglas Leaf Embossing Folder

Distress Inks

Inkylicious Sentiment Stamp

Ribbons from stash

The pumpkin digital image was a single image and so I duplicated and re-sized it to create a group of pumpkins. It also didn't have any foliage with it and I thought that the Heartfelt Creations vine stamps looked similar to pumpkin leaves so I combined the two - I think it works quite well. I added some zig-zag stitching around the background for a little more detail.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

I Love Promarkers - #418 ATG / Die Cut or Punch

Simon Says Stamp - STAMPtember

Little Red Wagon - #565 Anything BUT a Card

Aud Sentiments - #259 ATG + Sentiment

Crafty Catz - #517 ATG/Not a Square

Colour Crazy Challenge - #35 ATG Colouring Challenge

Allsorts Challenge - #588 Use a Hand Coloured Image

Sweet Stampin' - Anything BUT a Birthday Card

Mo's Digital Pencil - #295 Anything "Mo" Goes

If you'd like to join in and have a chance of winning the fabulous prize from Dies To Die For of a £15 Voucher for their shop we'd love to see what you create. Just follow the few simple rules on our challenge blog here.

Well that's it from me today, hope you have a lovely Tuesday.

Lorraine

xXx

Passion For Promarkers Challenge #526 - Include a Tag

Hi Crafters,

It's a nice easy challenge this week at Passion For Promarkers as we are just asking you to...

INCLUDE A TAG

...now what could be easier than that?

Here's my card.

I thought this could be used for an Anniversary or an Engagement so I haven't included an insert or verse yet, I'll leave it until I know who the recipient will be.

Recipe

Image - Jack and Diane - Bugaboo Stamps

Coloured with Promarkers

Papers - LOTV Pastel Dreams Paper Pad (discontinued)

Mama Elephant Tags-a-Lot Die Set

Creative Expressions Word Die

Marianne Designs and Memory Box Heart Dies

Ribbon and Twine

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Friends Challenge - #127 ATG

Crafty Cardmakers - #248 ATG

Country View Challenges - Love

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Add A Tag

Ally's Angels - #30 ATG

Our sponsor this time is 

Bugaboo Stamps

They are offering the lucky winner a $12 voucher for their store.

To be in with a chance of winning 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

613 Avenue Create Challenge #174 Anything Goes optional twist - Life is a Beach

Hi Crafters,

**If you are here for my CCC post then please scroll down thanks**

Good Morning to you all, hope your Sunday has got off to a great start!

I'm sharing my project for 613 Avenue Create today and this week I have made a Christmas Tag following the Anything Goes part of the challenge.

My image is Snowy Cabin from QKR Stampede.

Recipe

Image - Snowy Cabin - QKR Stampede

Promarkers

White Glitter

Papers - Crafters Companion Nordic Christmas

Mama Elephant Tags-a-Lot Die

Crealies Stitched Oval Dies

Britannia Word Dies

Bakers Twine

Challenges I'd like to enter:

CHNC Every Saturday - #279 ATG as long as it's Christmas

Creative Fingers - #108 ATG

Please visit the Challenge Blog for more details of the sponsors and prizes plus you can see the fabulous creations from the rest of my teamies. 

See you again soon,

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #3 Texture

Hi Crafters,

This post is a day early, hope you don't mind Rachel, as I have another DT card for tomorrow.

Our challenge this time was chosen by Rachel and knowing her love of mixed media art I am not at all surprised at the choice of theme - Texture.

I don't own many mixed media products so I thought I would just stick to my traditional embossing folders and heat embossing for my texture on this one.

Recipe

Cuttlebug 'Snowy' Embossing Folder

Kraft card

Go Kreate Tag Die

Our Daily Bread Designs - Christmas Tree Collage Stamp

Memory Box - Pine Trio Outline Die

Craft Concepts 'Budding Vine' Embossing Folder (for the tree fill-ins) 

Cretive Dies Sentiment Dies.

Glittered Embossing Powder

Tumbled Glass Distress Ink

Gingham Ribbon

Gems

Challenges I'd like to enter:
That Craft Place - ATG
Creative Fingers - #102 ATG

Please take a look at the other ladies blogs in the CCC group for more inspiration on your Christmas card makes - it's never too early to start!

Happy Saturday!

Lorraine

xXx

...and Now for Something Different!

Hi Crafters,

 

I've been promising Pamellia that I would get messy soon and make a mixed media project - something I haven't had much experience with but love the idea of it. There are so many talented mixed media artists out there that there is no shortage of inspiration and tutorials but it is finding the time and making the space in my room to do it. You really need to spread out and leave enough space around your work area for the 'splatter' zone!

Well I have been putting it off for long enough and although I have masses of orders and family cards to make I packed them all away and got out my non stick craft sheet, my limited supplies of crackle medium and paints, a few inks and seam binding and ...had a PLAY!!!

 

This is the result...

Recipe

Distress Inks - Cracked Pistachio, Fossilized Amber, Abandoned Coral, Gathered Twigs, Walnut Stain.

Stamp Sets - Hunkydory Antique Pastime, Debbie Moore Travel set, Inkylicious Hession, Artemio Script stamp.

Crafters Companion Embossing Folder - Hessian

Distress Crackle Paint

Gold gilding Wax

Suze Weinbergs Beadazzles - Macarena

Frantage - Aged Taupe and Aged Bronze

Sweet Dixie Balloon Die

Foam Pads

Metal Suitcase Charm

Seam binding dyed using DI's

 

Here are a few close ups of the crackle paint and details..

 

 

 

 

 

I believe this qualifies for some challenges...

Country View Crafts - On Your Travels

Try It On Tuesday - Hot & Wild ( Hot Colours)

Frilly & Funkie - Raise It Up

That Craft Place - Words

TTCRD - ATG

Papertake Weekly - Build It Up

Not Just Cards - #22 ATG

 

All the pieces started life as white card and were inked with DI then stamped, crackled and gilded. It took all day yesterday on and off to make this 8 inch tag allowing for drying time and pondering time - I felt a little out of my depth and a few pieces ended up in the bin but on the whole, I enjoyed it and I have some pieces of inked background card ready for the next project! Get me!!

Not a full-on mixed media piece like many I've seen but baby steps is the way to go I think until my confidence grows.

 

Thanks for popping in today and looking at my little mixed media tag, I hope you liked it and see you soon,

 

Lorraine

 

 



Guest Designer at The Shabby Tea Room !

Hi Everyone, hope you are well.
Today I am sharing my Guest Designer project for the new challenge at The Shabby Tea Room.
I decided to make a tag for a change....

Recipe

Image  - Bugaboo - Thanksgiving Brat

Promarkers

Doilies from stash

Stampin' Up sentiment stamp

Burlap cut to a tag shape and stiffened with card

Burgundy Seam Binding

We R Memory Keepers Silver Eyelet

Twine



For Challenge #240 you are to take inspiration from the photo below and the subject  'Grateful', and using burlap and/or twine create your project.

I do hope you can play along with us.

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:
Papertake Weekly - 2 or 4 legs
Passion For Promarkers - Lace
Little Miss Muffet - #98 ATG
Eureka Stamps - #115 Give Thanks
Crafty Little Fairies - Not A Square
Come and Get It - Thanksgiving Traditions
Not Just Cards - #6 ATG
 

Well that's it from me today, off for a little surf around your blogs,

 

Lorraine

More Tags !

Last batch....I promise.

This is going to be short and sweet tonight...
Four Christmas tags in green.

These are self explanatory I think, I've just heat embossed the design in black embossing powder and inked with Tim Holtz Distress ink in Mowed lawn. Added a few trims and voila!

These are also in my Etsy shop.

Thanks for tagging along....pardon the pun, lol

Happy crafting

Lorraine

Santa Christmas Tags

Hi folks,
Hope you all had a great weekend.
Yesterday I posted my first Christmas tags creations of this year and I've been busy this morning making some different ones.....

 

 

I bought this lovely Santa stamp from Creative Expressions and I couldn't wait to use it and I think it turned out ok. The construction of the tags is the same as before but this time I added punched holly leaves and tinkling bells to the ribbon bow. I'm really pleased how these look. There is a space on the back for writing your message and a red twine loop for attaching to your gift. These will also be in my Etsy shop.
Here is a close up view...

My creative juices are flowing now I can think of lots more ideas, it's just having the time to fit it in, lol.
Well I hope you enjoyed my little blog post for today, I would love to have a few more followers stopping by but I have only been blogging a month so it's early days.
Happy crafting everyone.

Lorraine

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

Craft Challenge!

What a beautiful, bright, sunny and warm Monday morning we have here in Norwich - hope you are all getting the same.
Today I would like to share with you a Door Hanger that I altered for a challenge over on Country View Crafts . This month the subject is 'Quotations & Sayings' hopefully I have complied to the rules.
Here goes:

 



It started off as a plain chipboard tag that I painted with brown acrylic paint, then added crackle paint in Antique Linen before spraying it with Cosmic Shimmer Mist in Rich Gold. Then came the fun part - the embellishing. Small ribbon pieces from my stash, key and lock are a Sizzix Alterations die - 'Hardware Findings' cut from Tim Holtz grunge board painted and shimmered in the same way as the tag itself. The larger flowers and leaves are from Prima, I believe, the small ones are Wild Orchid Craft flowers. A small length of trim in a bronze colour, again from my stash and two glass dewdrops in red. The 'DREAM' ticket is from a strip of Adage tickets from Tim Holtz Idea-ology range which I am trying to using sparingly because I love them too much. Finally, the sentiment is from a stamp set from Stampers Anonymous 'Stuff To Say' inked on to cream cardstock and heat embossed with red embossing powder.

I really enjoyed the process of making this tag and it's the first time I have made anything like this. It was a little out of my comfort zone to create grungy and tattered, I usually stick to cute or classic styles. But I think it turned out ok.
Would love to hear your comments on it.

Well, bye for now

Lorraine