From Around the World at Passion for Promarkers Challegne

Good Morning to you all my wonderful friends and blogging buddies.

Those of you affected by the snow and cold weather, I hope you are managing to stay warm. It has been snowing here on and off since yesterday morning. All the schools are closed today so the children are very happy!

Today is the start of a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge 

our theme this week chosen by the lovely Eileen is 

From Around the World

Don’t forget to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.

For this challenge we are sponsored by the wonderful

Clearly Besotted Stamps

 Stephanie is offering one lucky winner a 4x6 stamp set called “Going Places”

At first I wasn't sure what to do for this challenge and then I remembered I had this cutie from Lili of the Valley. Probably not a very original take on the theme but I did enjoy making it!

Items Used

Stamp - Lili of the Valley Aimi with Lantern coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley Sentiment tags

Papers - MME On the Bright Side Two

Memory Box Floral Vine

Memory Box Floral Delights

Ribbon and pearls from stash

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

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

Bunny Zoe - Girly

Pan Pastels - Girly Theme

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge -  To Die For

Eclectic Ellapu - Birthdays

Incy Wincy  - things that begin with F (fan, flowers and faux stitching)

Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Happy Birthday

Card Mania Challenge - Lot's for Layers

Thank you so much for stopping and looking at my blog today, I really do appreciate it.

I hope you have a good day and stay safe and warm

Bye for now

Hugs

Sue

DT Card for Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge # 109

Good Morning everyone.

I hope you had a good weekend and that you are looking forward to a fresh week!

It's snowing steadily here at the moment,  I don't know where Spring disappeared to!

Today is the start of a new Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge 

This time we are on sketch number 5  and the optional theme chosen by the wonderful Kevin is Spring Colours. Maybe by the time the challenge finishes in 2 weeks we will have some nice Spring weather too, that would be nice.

We are very lucky to have 2 sponsors for this challenge:

Tracy at Dies to Die For - Prize £10 voucher

and

Whoopsi Daisy Digis  - Prize of 2 sheets of digis

Whoopsi Daisy gave the DT some cute images to use for this challenge.
As you will see, I rotated the sketch to fit the image

Items Used:

Digi Stamp ~ Whoopsi Daisy (sheet 412) coloured with Promarkers

Backing papers ~ Doodlebug design Hello Spring

and Dovecraft Back to Basics

Sentiment ~ My Creative Time Teeny Tag Greetings 

Embossing folder ~ Crafts Too Butterflies

Sizzix Die ~ Flowers Lovely

Dienamics Little Open Scallop Border

Small butterfly punch (sorry no name on it, maybe Woodware?)

Distress Ink ~ Tumbled Glass (for sky)

buttons and pearls from stash

Here's the sketch:

If you take a look on the Sketch 'n' Stash 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:

CRAFT Challenge - Easter/Spring

My Heart Pieces Digital Stamps Challenge - Use your favourite 3 things (butterflies, flowers and ribbon)
Allsorts - Springtime
Diva`s by Design Challenge - Buttons and Bows
Sentimental Sundays - 3 embellishments beginning with B (butterflies, bow and buttons)
Heck of a Challenge - Spring Butterflies and Pearls
Crafting for all Seasons - Spring into Spring
My Mums Craft Shop - Spring has Sprung
Whoopsi Daisy - buttons or bows

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog today. Your support and encouragement really means so much to me.
I hope you all stay safe and warm

Bye for now

Hugs 

Sue

Blue Lupins for Mother's Day

Hello to you all, my wonderful friends and blogging buddies.
A big welcome to my new followers too, I'm so happy to have you there.

Yippee, Friday again. I do love the weekends, having the house full for a couple of days is just so nice. Sometimes it's too quiet here during the week!!

Today I am sharing a card that I made using a gorgeous Lupin image  from Janey's Digi Designs.

I made a Spring Fold card. This is a surprisingly easy card to make (There is a fabulous tutorial here)

I used the largest die of my Spellbinders labels 1 to cut the image and made the frame for it by drawing round it and cutting by hand.

I kept the embellishment to a minimum so as not to distract from Jane's gorgeous image.
The image is carefully mounted with foam pads leaving a gap at the side to slip in a pull out tab.

Showing pull out tag

Sentiment is a freebie from the wonderful Hannelie. You can find her blog here.

She has loads of fabulous free sentiments and her cards are gorgeous too.

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Janey's Digi Designs Lupin coloured with Promakers

Sentiment - Freebie from Hannelie here.

Spellbinders Labels 1

Papers - Lili of the Valley Petal Fresh

Cheery Lynn - Lace Corner Deco A

Memory Box - Pippi Butterfly

Papermania Dew Drops in Aqua

If you take a look at Janey's Digi Designs you will be able to see some stunning creations made by Jane's Design Team  and some made by her customers using her wonderful images. It's a real treat for anyone who love floral cards.

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

MAWTT - The birds and the bees ( birds, bees, animals, plants or a new baby card)

I ♥ Promarkers - Anything but Square

Sincerely Yours Creations - Mother's Day

Creative Inspirations - Happy Mother's Day
Stamp n Doodle - Mother's Day/for a female

Creative Craft Challenges -  Mothers Day

Bearly Mine - Mother's Day

Songbird  -  ♪ ♫ Mama I love you
Fussy and Fancy - Flowers

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog today. It really means so much to me.

I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend and take care

Bye for now

Hugs

We're Cute and Cuddly at the Fab 'n' Funky Challenge!

Good Morning Everyone

I hope you all having a good week

Well, it Wednesday so the start of a new

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge 

This week our lovely Team Leader Judith has picked the theme of 

Cute and Cuddly

We are sponsored by the wonderful Bugaboo Digi Stamps who are offering a great prize of seven digis of the winners choice.

Also, we are lucky to be sponsored by the fabulous Stampart Design by Kathryn.
Kathy is offering the lucky winner 5 digis of their choice from her shop at Whimsy stamps

The design team had some great images from the sponsors to use for this challenge.

I had so much fun colouring this gorgeous Girl Turtle  from Bugaboo. Then I thought,  maybe turtles are not that cuddly! Never mind, I think that she is definitely cute!!

I have added glossy accents to her shell but unfortunately the shine does not show on my photo.

I followed a fabulous sketch from The Sweet Stop who are celebrating their 200th challenge - congratulations!

Items used:

Digi Stamp - Bugaboo Girl Turtle coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley sentiments to fit scroll

Papers - First Edition New Leaf

Flower Punches - Nellie Snellen flower 2 

Leaf Punch - Woodware Medium leaf

Glossy Accents

Seam binding and dew drop from stash

If you take a look on the Fab 'n' Funky blog you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the Design team. They really are a cute and cuddly bunch! Thank you also to everyone who took part in the last challenge all the entries were fabulous. We hope you will join in this time too.

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

The Sweet Stop - Sketch 200 fabulous sketch
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes (optional Mother's Day)
Sandys Crafty Creations - Anything goes with twist shades of green
Digi Haven  - Green ( hope there is enough if not please feel free to delete!)
Card Makin' Mama's-  Main colour Green

Ooh-la-la Creations - Four legged Friends
Creative card crew - ribbon
Love to create - pick 2 (ribbon and sentiment)
Great Impressions - Going green

Right, that's all for now. Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog today. I know I always say it but I honest do appreciate it.

Bye for now

Hugs 

Sue

It's Anything Goes at the No Matter Which Challenge!

Good Morning to you all.

I hope you are having a good weekend.

My card today is for the

No Matter Which Challenge

Our theme couldn't be easier its....

Anything Goes

Remember you MUST use a rubber or digi stamped image as your focal point.

We are sponsored this time by the wonderful

Kenny K Downloads

Who will give the prize of 5 digi-stamps to the lucky winner.

I used an image from Kenny K that I won last year, this is the first chance I have had to colour her up!

As you can see, it would be hard to miss it, I have made another paper bow following a tutorial that can be found here  . 

These colours are so totally different from yesterday's card!

Digi Stamp - Kenny K ~ All That coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Papers ~ First Edition Noir et Chic

Sixxiz Framelits Tags Rounded

Dienamics solid bracket border (thank you Maria!!)

Xcut corner rounder punch

Gems from stash

If you take a look on the No Matter Which 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:

MAWTT - Lovely ladies

Sweet and Sassy Digi - Girl Time

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Fussy 'n' Fancy - Pink and Black (not sure if this allowed as there is cream on my card too so please delete if necessary!)

Totally Gorjuss - Anything goes with Pink

Thank you for taking the time to look at my again blog today, it really does mean so much to me.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend

bye for now

Hugs

Sue

Button it!! at A Gem of a Challenge

Good Morning to you, my wonderful friends and blogging buddies

Yippee, the weekend at last! We haven't got anything particular planned, but I don't mind, it will be a nice relaxing weekend.

So, as it's Saturday it the start of a new 

A Gem of a Challenge  

our theme this time set by the lovely Donna is

Button it!

The prize for the winner will be.....

2 Individual Digi images of the winners choice from PINK GEM DESIGNS (Subject to Availability).....
There will also be the chance for a GDT spot - see challenge blog for more details

I had great fun playing with some of Pink Gem Designs newest products, Janet has been very busy lately!

The wonderful sewing machine and accessories are from a digi set called Sew Special. You also get a choice of lovely sentiments included in the set.

The papers are also a digital download from Pink Gem called Lemon Drizzle. I'm not sure if you can see on my picture but they print out beautifully to give the effect of textured linen paper.

Items Used

Digi Stamp - Pink Gem Designs Sew Special coloured with Promarkers

Digi Papers - Pink Gem Designs Lemon Drizzle

Spellbinders Hexagons

Buttons from stash

If you take a look on the A Gem of A Challenge will see the wonderful creations made by the rest 'The Pinks' Team and see who were the winners of the last challenge.

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

Charisma Cardz- Use at least 5 different patterned papers
4 Crafty Chicks - You've got me in [Stitches]
Craft Us Crazy -  Anything goes
Shelly's Images -Sew much fun
Jellypark - Get in Shape

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog today, it really does mean so much to me.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend

Bye for now

Hugs 

Sue

Use Lace at the Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful creative friends.

Well, that's another week nearly over and as it is Friday that means the start of a new

Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge

Our theme this time is

Use Lace 

Our sponsor is the wonderful Rick St Dennis who sells a fabulous variety of digi-stamps.

The design team were very lucky to be able to choose an image from Rick St Dennis to use for the challenge.

It took me ages to decide but I finally chose this pretty girl called Joanie the Flower Child so that I could make a card with a Spring time theme and use my new Cheery Lynn flower die!

Items used

Digi stamp - Rick St Dennis ~ Joanie the Flower Child coloured with Promarkers

Papers - LOTV Nitwits Petal Fresh

Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles

Cheery Lynn Stacker flower#3

Cheery Lynn Medium Rose

Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish

Woodware medium daisy punch

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

Lace, pearls and brad from stash.

If you take a look on the Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge you will see the wonderful DT creations using some fabulous images.

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

Cheery Lynn Designs - Die cut flowers

Crafty Sentiments - 1image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments (flowers)

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

I ♥ Promarkers -  lace and/or pearls

Delightful Challenges - 3's a Charm

Sparkle and Glitter with Rick - Spring is in the Air

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog once again today, I really do appreciate it.

Bye for now

Hugs

Sue