For a Special Lady at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge

Good Morning my lovely friends.

I hope you are well and happy. Sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge

This week I have chosen the theme of

For a Special Lady

Make something for any female in your life, it doesn't have to be for Mother's Day.

For this challenge we are sponsored by Polkadoodles

Prize - 2 digi-stamps (see challenge blog for more details)

I used this theme to make a Mother's Day card for my lovely Mum.

The image has been white embossed and the sentiment embossed on vellum.

Items Used:

Stamp - Clearly Besotted Stamps Fresh Flowers coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - LOTV Simply Sophisticated 

Paper - Doodlebug Designs

Die-Namics pierced oval stax

Dies- Go Kreate Square Frilly #10

Impression Obsession Small Butterfly Set

Pink Gems

If you take a look at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge you will see the stunning creations made by the rest of the design team.

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges: 

In the Pink - for a special lady

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Special Lady/Girly 

Fantasy Stampers Challenge Blog  - Mum's the Word

Crafty Cardmakers and more - For a Special Woman

Dream Valley Challenges - Mother's Day

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today, I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

Bye for now

hugs

Garden Life at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge

Good Morning my lovely friends.

I hope you are well and having a good week.

Today is the start of a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge

This week our theme is 

Garden Life

For this challenge we are sponsored by Michele R Designs 

 Prize - €10 voucher

I have used a gorgeous stamp from Clearly Besotted Stamps, I love snowdrops. For a

 softer more delicate look I embossed the image in white before colouring.

Items Used:

Stamps - Clearly Besotted Stamps Winter Blooms coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - LOTV sentiment tags

Crafters Companion Florabunda - 6in x 6in Embossalicious Embossing Folder

Papers - Wild Rose Studio Ginghams

Paper String

If you take a look at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team.

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Addicted to Stamps - Winter. (I think of snowdrops as Winter flowers, if not feel free to delete my entry!)
Fairytale Stampers - Flowers
Winter Wonderland - Only one designer paper
Cut it Up- Embossing

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my card today. Your support and encouragement means so much to me and I love to read any comments you may wish to make.

Bye for now

hugs

Beautiful Bluebells

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends.

I hope you all had a good Easter weekend. My children have all returned to school and college this morning, I am already missing them, the house is just too quiet.

Anyway, recently I was lucky to see a field full of stunning Bluebells, so lovely it almost took my breath away. Inspired by this I wanted to make a card featuring these beautiful flowers but with just one problem, I don't own any Bluebell stamps! Then I remembered that the gorgeous Fresh Flowers stamp set I recent bought from Clearly Besotted Stamps includes a Lily of the Valley image which looks fairly similar - hopefully ?!

As you can see, I have gone for a CAS design this time not wanting to distract from the image, using the fabulous sketch from this week's Sketch Saturday challenge.

Items Used:

Stamp - Clearly Besotted Fresh Flowers coloured with Promarkers and white gel pen

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted It's your Birthday (masked off the 'Happy')

Dies - Happy Word Die - Clearly Besotted Stamps

Die-Namics Pierced Rectangle Stax

Doodlebug Sprinkles Lily White

Less Is More -  Makes Me smile - Bluebells are so beautiful, I love the colour, they make me think of Springtime which is my favourite season and I always smile when I see them!  However, I am not sure if there is enough 'white' space on my card so please delete if necessary!
Sketch Saturday  - Fabulous Sketch
Clearly Besotted - Spring!
MAWTT - Include the word Happy!

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my card today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

bye for now

hugs

Gentlemen Only at the Without Words Challenge!

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends

I hope you are well, sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Without Words Challenge

Our theme is 

Gentleman Only

We would like to be seeing birthday cards for the guys, young or old, so long as it is for a male birthday.

We are so happy to be sponsored by Crafters Companion again with a £10 store voucher for the winner

I have used a fabulous LOTV image, some glossy accents have been added to James' Beer Glass which you cannot see in my photo.

Items Used:

Stamp - LOTV Cheers Bear coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted It's Your Birthday

Memory Box Piestra Die

Memory Box Simple Banner Die

Craftwork Cards Kraft Card Blank

If you take a look at the Without Words Challenge blog you will see the amazing creations made by the rest of the Design Team and see who were the winners of the last challenge

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Allsorts - No Flowers!

Crafting Cafe - One for the Boys

Cute Card Thursday - All Boy
2 Sisters - Teddy Bears
Open-Minded Challenges -Animal Antics
I ♥ Promarkers - CAS
Craft Your Passion - No Designer Papers
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my card today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

Since I don't have any DT cards scheduled for the rest of this week so I am not sure what day I'll be posting on my blog, however, I will still be along every day to look at all of your fabulous creations!
bye for now
hugs

Give us a Laugh at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends.

My goodness, I really am finding it hard to believe it's the first day of April already! 

So, I have 2 cards to share today. My first is for a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge

This week the lovely Donna has picked a really fun theme:

Give us a Laugh !

Use a Funny Image/Sentiment

Our sponsor is Sassy Studio Designs with a prize of 4 digi-stamps for the winner.

So onto my card featuring a wonderful digi-stamp from Mos Digital Pencil which was a joy to colour.

I have added some Wink of Stella Clear Glitter to the balloons and cake, not sure if you can see it on my photo though.

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Mos Digital Pencil Bronte Birthday coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Bo Bunny Double Dot and MME (I think!)

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted Stamps - It's Your Birthday

Paper Smooches Balloons Dies

Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush

Button and twine from stash

If you take a look at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge, you will see the fabulous fun creations made by the rest of this week's design team

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Creative Card Crew - animals
Crafty Catz -  Anything Goes

Open-Minded Challenges - Animal Antics 

I ♥ Promarkers - anything goes
Sieze the Birthday - Anything Goes Birthday - optional  buttons and rhinestones
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - anything goes with buttons

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my first card of the day. I will be back later with my A Little Bit Crafty DT card.

bye for now

hugs

Blue Lilacs

Hello my lovely crafty friends.

I do hope all is well with you, sending hugs to those in need of them.

Yesterday, for some reason, I felt like colouring in some flowers. I was too impatient to stamp or print any images so I was pleased to remember my LOTV Black and White Sketch Pad full of gorgeous wild flower images just waiting to be coloured.

Here is a card I made with the Lilacs image. I know I haven't used the correct colours,  I coloured them in blue so I could use some of my favourite papers!

Items Used:

Image - from LOTV Black and White Sketch Pad Set 3 Wild Flowers
coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Papers - LOTV Petal Fresh

Senitment - LOTV Handwritten Phrases

Butterfly Stamp - Clearly Besotted Elegant Butterflies coloured with Promarkers

Organza Ribbon coloured with Promarkers

Small Pearls from Hobbyhouse 

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with Ribbon
Glitter n Sparkle - use some blue
Love to Create - Bingo Ribbon/Blue/Flowers
LOTV Monthly Challenge - Crafty Bingo Ribbon/Pearls/Flowers
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Anything Goes as long as it's square
Sentimental Sundays - Flowery Springtime

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my card today. Your support and encouragement means so much to me and I love to read any comments you may wish to make

Bye for now

hugs

Heartfelt Thanks

Good Afternoon Everyone

I hope all is well with you and that you are having a good week, not too long until the weekend!

I wanted to make a thank you card for someone special so I decided to have another play with the stunning Clearly Besotted Elegant Butterflies set. This is one of my favourite stamp sets ever, the butterflies and sentiments included are gorgeous and I love the matching dies too.

My die cut border is made with a Memory Box die - it took a bit of practise with scrap paper to get the cut in the correct position!

Side view to  try and show the dimension!

Items Used:

Stamps - Clearly Besotted Elegant Butterflies coloured with Promarkers

Dies - Clearly Besotted Elegant Butterflies Die Collection

Memory Box Piestra Die

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:
Clearly Besotted Stamps Challenge - Take Flight
As you Like it - Your favourite Colouring Medium and Why - Promarkers, I love the range of colours, they blend so well and you can layer the same colour up which helps with shading.
Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my card today, I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make

bye for now

hugs

It's All White at the Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope all is well with you, sending hugs to those in need of them.

My card today is part of the mid way reminder for the Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.

This time our theme is

White on White Christmas 

you are permitted to use a coloured image provided the rest of the card is all white.

So, I have made a very simple card. The gorgeous poinsettia image from Clearly Besotted Stamps has been stamped with Versamark ink onto vellum and embossed with white embossing powder. It's ages since I have used my embossing powders and it took me a while to find my heat gun. I had forgotten how satisfying it is seeing the powder transformed by the heat!

Image - Clearly Besotted Pretty Poinsettia

Sentiment - Sorry no makers name, it's a very old one!

Cheery Lynn Holly Leaves

Die Namics Blueprints 3 ( circle )

Embossing Folder - Xcut Quilting

If you pop along to the Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge blog you will see the wonderful white creations made by the rest of the design team.

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Addicted to Stamps - Embossing (heat or dry)

Beccy's Place - A Month of Holiday Cards Challenge

Shopping Our Stash - Holiday or Winter

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my blog once again today, I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make

Bye for now

hugs