Passion for Promarkers DT card

 This week's Passion for Promarkers challenge theme is your favourite colour combination - oh I struggled with this as I love purple/blue, but also brown/blue amd purple/green!!  And I love adding hints of grey to my cards.

I coloured Primrose up in purples and added some blue details.  I have kept the layout simple, I really am loving much cleaner and less fussy cards.  I doodled the borders and added some flowers and a banner made with a Dienamics die.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments Catwalk

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Skin: sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink 

Hair: warm grey 1-5

Clothes: french navy, aegean, cyan, arctic blue, purple, amythyst, orchid, lavendar

Papers: NitWits Promises

Embellishments: flowers and pearls from stash

Tools: Dienamics Fishtail stax

Challenges:

Love to Create - 3 favourite colours (blue, purple, grey)
Dream Valley - girls, girls, girls
Creative Card Crew - girly

 

Monday Playing

 We got up to quite heavy snow this morning and the girls were hopeful that school would be shut - I was pleased it wasn't as it gave me a couple of hours crafting before starting work :)

I coloured Nikki in using my pens, and then cut her out. Some of my DT teamie and I did a diecut swap before Christmas, so I used the fence from that swap to create the scene. I simply die cut the tree, added the fence and then some torn cardstock in front to create the snowy scene.  I added stickles and pearl to create snow and ice, and added a snowflake swirl to the corner.  I chose this spotty dp to give the impression of snow.

Supplies: 

Image: Saturated Canary Nikki

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: copics

Skin:E000.E00,E11,R20

Hair: W1,3,5,7

Clothes: BG0000,BG05,BG07,BG09

Papers:Bearly mine Designs mini dots

Embellishments: die cute fence,  stickles pearl pen

Tools: Marianne Design tree die, Memory Box snowflake swirl die

Challenges:

Saturated Canary - movie inspiration (The Cutting Edge)

Craft Your passion - totally teal

Cupcake Craft - create a scene

Stamp with fun - swirl

Stamps and fun=creativity - swirl
Creative Stamp friends - winter/winter sports

Make it monday

ANother tall CAS card - I think I am getting the hang of them!! I die cut 3 squares and added washi tape to them, before putting them on foam pads and attaching to the embossed background.  I stamped and diecut the butterfly, curled its wings and popped it onto the bottom square.  That was it really.
 

Supplies: 

Image: Clearly besotted stamps - butterfly wishes

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium:

Papers: linen cardstock

Embellishments: washi tape

Tools: swiss dots embossing folder, Clearly Besotted Butterfly wishes die

Challenges:

Make my monday - CAS sketch

 Simon Says Stamp - washi tape

CAS-ual Friday - long and short side

Cardmaking Mamas - CAS

Totally Gorguss - KISS

Creative Creations - keep it simple

Cutie pie - use 3 different textures (embossing, linen cardstock, smooth pearls & washi tape)

 

Lilybelle

Our beautiful Miffy cat has been diagnosed with epilepsy, and then she went missing on Friday, so I have been distracted and unable to craft.  However, some lovely people up the road recognised and brought home Miffy this afternoon, so I have done some crafting while she has slept on the chair next to me.  I coloured the image in using my pens  - still trying to get hair to look realistic.  I am trully in lovely with spotty papers at the moment, so I used these digi ones matted onto dark purple cardstock.  I made up these rolled flowers and added pearls to their centres, and placed them over the organza ruffled ribbon.  I made the ribbon by running a long running stitch through it and then gathering it.  Finally the sentiment and some pearls.  Oh and glamour dust to the fairy wings.  This is my final shot at the  Kraftin' Kimmie GDT call.

Supplies: 

Image: Kraftin Kimmie Lilybelle

Sentiment: Kraftin Kimmie Lilybelle

Colouring medium: copics

Skin: E21,11,00,000, R20

 Hair:E11,13,15,17,18

Clothes: V12,15,17

Papers: Bearly Mine Mini Dots

 Embellishments: rolled flowers, pearls, organza ribbon

 Tools: Dienamics heirloom rose

Challenges:

Sketch Saturday - sketch

Stamptacular Sunday - fairyfever

Sweet Stampin - frillie

Kraftin Kimmie - trio of embellishments

Dream Valley - girls, girls, girls

Allsorts - flower power

Glitter n Sparkle - sentimental

Bunny Zoe - anything goes  

Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes

 Everybody Art - girly

 

That Craft Place challenge

The That Craft Place challenge this time is New Year New Stash - pretty much everything on this card is new!!  And we are sponsored by Kenny K this time.

I coloured the image in using my pens and aded a bit of stickles.  I have kept the layout quite simple, but gone for vintage feeling colors and papers.  I made the rolled roses and added pearls to their centres and added this pearl, flowery ribbon stuff (I am sure it has a technical name!) and some pearl pins.  The sentiment is from aKraftin' Kimmie stamp and is perfect for this image!

Supplies: 

Image: Kenny K Frieda Flapper

 Sentiment: Krafting Kimmie Katherine

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Skin: sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink 

Hair: bluebell, satin

Clothes: midnight blue, twilight blue, grey green

Papers: MME Bluebell, Farmhouse Fair skies

Embellishments: pearls, pearl pins, rolled flowers, pearl ribbon

Tools: Marianne Creatible English rose die

Challenges:

Kenny K - vintage

Allosrts - flower power

Glitter n Sparkle - sentimental

Bunny Zoe - anything goes  

Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes

 Everybody Art - girly

 Digital Tuesday - flower power

 

CAS and not so CAS ...

 There is going to be a wedding, and typically i have been asked by a few ogf the guests to make cards for them - I just need to make them all slightly differently.  So the brief for this one was, simple, elegant and has to have roses and butterflies (the bride LOVES roses and butterflies!).  I think I have managed the brief!!  The image is coloured in using my pens, and I added a bit of stubble to the groom, just so he looks like the groom in question!!  I love this pair, they do look elegant.  I simply embossed some of the white cardstock and scored the rest, added some organza ribbon and the slider (which I think small fingers have fiddled with as it doesn't appear to be as central as it was!!).  A few roses for the corner and the obligatory butterflies with gems at their centres ... and Bob's your uncle!!  I am going to enter this into the Kraftin' Kimmie GDT call, cos as my dad says - "you've got to be in it to win it"!!

Supplies: 

Image: Kraftin Kimmie Happily Ever After

 Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Skin: sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink 

Hair: umber, walnut, cocoa, cinnamon, tan raw sienna, gold, mustard, pastel yellow, primrose 

Clothes: Almond, putty, black cool grey4 and 5

Papers:

Embellishments: organza ribbon, metal ribbon slider, flowers, flat backed gems

Tools: Martha stewart butterfly punch

Challenges:

Crafty Ribbons - love/romance/anniversary

Cute Card Thursday - diamonds are forever

Flutterby Wednesday - winter white
Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes


Crafting by Design - alcohol markers 
 

 I don't make oblong, or long/tall cards - love my square cards, so this was a bit of a challegne for me!!  I simply tore some washi tape and layered it up, stamped the sentiment and added 6 pearls.

Supplies: 

Image:

Sentiment: Fiskars

Colouring medium: 

Papers: washi tape

Embellishments: flat backed pearls

Tools: 

 Challenges:

 Simon Says Stamp - washi tape

My Heart pieces - thinking of you

CAS-ual Friday - long and short side

Cardmaking Mamas - CAS

 

Wednesday ... or is it Beth???

 So my Baby girl is sad - we have had snow, but not enough, and she hasn't had the best of days at school, and we made her do her homework, and now her big sister is being horrible to her.  Doesn't she look so sweet, butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - its EVERYONE else's fault *insert stamped foot*!!!

 So I have made her a feel better, here's a hug card as I finished work early ...

Now I have often been told that I am cruel refering to the gorgeous daughter I have just shown you as Raptor, but is a very suitable nickname (cute, small and deadly!!) and this Kraftin Kimmie stamp is my lovely, gorgeous Beth to a t - definitely the big, mischevious, happy grin!!  I coloured the image using my pens and then cut it out using my nesties.  I layered the dp up onto lime cardstock, aded some layered diecut flowers, the black webbing and gingham ribbon, and the the sentiment ... as she is very very special (in so many ways!!). I am going to enter this into the Kraftin' Kimmie GDT call, cos as my dad says - "you've got to be in it to win it"!!

Supplies:

Image:  Kraftin Kimmie Wednesday

 Sentiment: LOTV Everyday Grungy Messages

Colouring medium: promarkers and flex markers

Skin: sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink 

Hair: raw sienna, gold, mustard, pastel yellow, primrose 

Clothes: Black, Cool Grey 3,4,5,1, lime green, lime zest, soft lime, 

imperial purple, purple velvet, orchid, wild orchid, satin

Papers: Funky Hand Polka dots, Pink Petticoat gingham

Embellishments: die cut flowers, metal flowers, webbing, gingham ribbon

Tools:  Dienamics layered rose

Challenges:

 Designed to color - metallic

Bunny Zoe - anything goes  

Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes

Creative Inspirations - one for the girls

Everybody Art - girly

Kraftin Kimmie - Anything goes 

 

Kenny K at the Totally Papercrafts Challenge

Kenny K are sponsoring the Totally Papercrafts challenge this week, and we were lucky enough to get some images to play with.  I confess to having quite a few of these images sitting neglected in my digi folder, but I had to have Airborne as it is so like my nephew!!

 I coloured him in using my pens.  I went to town a bit on the embossing, using coredinations cardstock so I could get a grungey look ti it.  I also painted some metal foil with cranberry acrylic paint, and embossed and sanded it when it was dry.  The tags are metallic ones, simply treated with some alchol inks, embossed and sanded.

Supplies: 

Image: Kenny K Airborne

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers  and flex markers

Skin: sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink 

Hair: cocoa,nutmeg,light fawn

Clothes: twilight blue, demin blue, grey green, pastel blue, black, 

cool grey 1-5, 

khaki, pesto, herb green, pastel beige, frosted leaf,

 burgundy, crimson, ruby, lipstick red

Papers:Kraft coredinations

Embellishments: metal tag, brad

Tools: Happy Birthday, stars border, circles and checkerboard embossing folders, sanding block

Challenges:

J and C Creations - something new, something old

Glitter and Sparkle - use a digi

Designed to color - metallic

Fab n Funky - get moving

I love promarkers - lots of layers
Bunny Zoe - anything goes

Moving along with the times - birthday
Card Crafter's Circle -  layers

Simply Create - anything goes
Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes
Crafting by Design - alcohol markers

And a girly one!!

I am not overly happy with her hair - should be darker :(  Anyway she is coloured with my pens, and them I stamped this grungy swirl round the edges.  I layered up some die cut flowers, adding pearls to their centres, and added webbing and stripy ribbon

Supplies: 

Image: Kenny K Devilish Donna

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers and flex markers

Skin: sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink 

Hair:Cool grey 1-5

Clothes: Cool grey 1-5, imperial purple, purple velvet, wild orchid, orchid

Papers: Pink Petticoat gingham, Bearly Mine Designs Mini dots

Embellishments: webbing, ribbon, flat backed pearls

Tools: dienamic layered rose die

Challenges:

Kenny K - Gothic

Stampavie - spots and stripes

Digital Tuesday - flower power

 

 

Elegant Katherine

 I would love to say she is my namesake - but I am not quite THAT elegant!!!  Or that slim!!  She is coloured in using my pens, and then I used a corner punch to curve diagonally opposite corners. I repeated the corners on the dp, and stitched the papers.  I added layered organza ribbon, some layered mulberry flowers with cute metal flowers for their centres and a bow.  I punched some butterflies out and added gems and a gem swirl for that elegant feel!! I am going to enter this into the Kraftin' Kimmie GDT call, cos as my dad says - "you've got to be in it to win it"!!

Supplies: 

Image:Kraftin Kimmie Katherine

Sentiment: Craftwork cards

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Skin: coral, sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink 

Hair:warm grey 1-5

 Clothes: Midnight blue, twilight sky, demin blue, grey green, pastel blue

 Papers: SU Elegant Soiree

Embellishments: flowers, ribbon, flat backed gems, swirl

Tools: corner punch, Martha Stewart 3 butterfly punch

Challenges:

  Allsorts - punches and dies

Creative Inspirations - one for the girls

Paper Pretties - ribbon

Divas by Design http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/- girly

Bearly Mine - anything goes
Bunny Zoe - anything goes

Charisma Cards - 2 punches

Cute Card Thursday - diamonds are forever

Moving along with the times - birthday

Everybody Art - girly

 

A couple of cards

I had a bit of a crafting session yesterday morning...

 OK for those that know me well you will be in shock - it is indeed that dreaded colour PINK!!!!  But someone did ask me to make a girly pink card for them... so here it is!!  The image is coloured with my pens, and as I haven't much in the way of pink design paper, I have kept the layout quite simple.  I added some puffy clouds, that I doodled round, and a layered flower, and some pearls and ribbon with a charm attached through the knot.  Some of you may need to go for a lie down now!!
I am going to enter this into the Kraftin' Kimmie GDT call, cos as my dad says - "you've got to be in it to win it"!!

Supplies: 

Image: Kraftin Kimmie Izzy Ice cream

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: copics

Skin: E11, E00,E000,R20

Hair: E31,E33,E35,E37,E39,E29

Clothes: R81,R83,R85,R89

Papers: MME Dolled up

Embellishments: flat backed pearls, organza ribbon, heart charm

Tools: Memory box puffy clouds dies, Dienamics layered rose

Challenges:

 Allsorts - punches and dies

Creative Inspirations - one for the girls

Paper Pretties - ribbon

Divas by Design - girly
Kraftin Kimmie - Anything goes

My second Christmas card of 2013 - I am on a roll LOL!!!!  I love penguins, and this LOTV one is adorable with his ickle flower.  I coloured him in with my pens, and went for a very CAS layout, simply embossing and scoring some white cardstock and adding the black gingham ribbon and a bow.  Very simples :)

Supplies: 

Image: Lili of the Valley Snow Cute

Sentiment: Craftwork Cards

Colouring medium: copics

Papers:

Embellishments:  ribbon, stickles

Tools: snowflake embossing folder

Challenges: 

ABC Christmas - A for animal

Crafty Creations - snowflakes

Addicted to Stamps and more - black and white
Addicted to CAS - lets get embossed
CRAFT - Christmas in January

 

Annabel the Mermaid

I thought I would have a go at a technique for colouring in I saw in a craft magazine ages ago - using dots.  I thought this technique would be perfect for the scaly effect I wanted for the mermaid.  I coloured Annabel in using my pens, before adding the background and pearl detail using a pearl pen.  I have kept the card simple as I wanted the attention to be on the image, so I simply added some pearls.

Here's how I coloured the image ...

Iused a mixture of the fine nib and bullet nib to create different sizes.

 Supplies:

Image: Crafty Sentiments Annabel the Mermaid

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers and flex markers

Skin: sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink 

Hair and Tail: :forest green, marsh green, cider apple, lime twist

Clothes: Aubergine, plum, wild orchid, orchid

Other colours: saffron, sunflower, mustard, storm blue, stonewash, cadet blue

Papers: Bearly mine Designs Mini dots and Simply dots

Embellishments: flat backed pearls, viva decor pearl pen

Tools: 

 Challenges:

Totally Gorguss - spotty
Bearly Mine - anything goes
Bunny Zoe - anything goes