Passion For Promarkers - Old Photo Colours

Tuesday brings another fab Passion for Promarkers challenge chosen by my, oh so lovely, DT colleague Julie (waving!) I had the great pleasure of meeting her at the NEC at the weekend & can I just say she's wonderful! She chose the theme of colours of old photos, namely sepia tones or black, grey & white.

Our fabulous sponsor this week is Secret Crafter, & our lucky winner will receive a £10 voucher to spend there.

I've used a Magnolia image I got at the NEC this weekend. I think she will be useful all year long, though I think she is from the latest Xmas collection, I'm not sure.

I've used Basic Grey Cappella papers & the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. The sentiment is from one of the new sets from Lili of the Valley. These are going to be soooooo useful. I met lovely Lisa & Laila from LOTV too at the weekend, along with wonderful Bev & awesome Jacqui whose amazing cards made me want to buy every single one!. In my opinion, they had the best stand there.

I want to give a big shout out to all the other amazing crafty ladies I met at the NEC. 'Hello!' Lesley, Jo, Heather, Tab, Kim, Kim, Tara &not forgetting '15 minute Mina'. I'm so sorry if I missed anyone off there. Of course, there was also the wonderful Dena, with whom I went. We had a blast! She was such great company, & my boys absolutely adored her. They cried when she left!

I hope you'll join us for this week's challenge. Please pop on over to the PFP blog to see the amazing creations of my D- Teamies. I would also like to enter this into a couple of other challenges. At Just Magnolia this week, 'Anything Goes' & my layout is based on the sketch at Totally Gorjuss this week.

For now though, thanks for looking. Have a great week.

Big Hugs,

Andie xx

Crafts 4 Eternity - Doodling

As you read this I will be heading down the M6 with my wonderful blogging pal Dena. We're off to the NEC& boy are we excited!

We've got another fab challenge for you at Crafts 4 Eternity, starting today. Lovely Michele has designed another great sketch & this week's theme is to include some doodling. I chose this super cute High Hopes image for my card, as in the early hours of Thursday morning Daniel James Everett entered the world, & this card is for him!

I've coloured this with Aqua Markers. I created the frame with a Martha Stewart punch & the papers are very old, from Paper Adventures. The sentiment is a peel off & I added a button from an ages old QVC kit to cover the join in the frame.

So there we go. Please don't look too carefully at the doodling round the edge of the image!!

I hope you'll join in with us at C4E this week & pop on over to see the wonderful creations of my fabulous D-Teamies. 

If you're at the NEC today or tomorrow, please stop & say Hello if you see us. I'm so excited I couldn't sleep last night! It was like being a kid again & waiting for Santa!

Thanks so much for looking. Whatever you are up to have a great weekend.

Big Hugs,

Andie xx

Passion For Promarkers - Lavender, Lace & Pearls!

Whoop Whoop! It's Tuesday & we've got another fab challenge for you at Passion For Promarkers. This week's theme has been chosen by lovely Emma & she has chosen lavender, lace & pearls. You can have so much fun with this!

We are sponsored by the oh so generous Simon Says Stamp this week, & our lucky winner will get a £10 voucher to spend at their store. How fabulous!

I've been itching to ink up one of the wonderful Simply Sassy stamps from Sugar Nellie. They're so gorgeous & a dream to colour!

My papers are Basic Grey - Kioshi & the sentiment is by Catslife Press from Crafty Emma's store.

I kept this card simple & let the image do the talking. Don't you just love her eyes!

I also have another card to share with you. I know Halloween has now been & gone, but I thought I'd share with you the card I made for my wonderful hubbie.

You probably recognise the image from Kraftin Kimmie & again it's coloured with Promarkers. The papers are MME Boo To You & the charm is from my stash.

The layout is based on the sketch at Friday Sketchers & Totally Gorjuss are hosting a  Halloween themed challenge this week, so I would like to enter this card in both those challenges.

Sadly life has been getting in the way of my crafting of late, so I apologise for not commenting as much as I would like. I hope to be able to fix that ove the next few days. I will also pop back later to add all the links to this post.

But for now, hope you are all having a good week!

Big Hugs,

Andie xx

Crafts 4 Eternity

It's nearly the weekend & I've got a day off work today, Yippee!! Hence this post is a little late as I'm at my Mum & Dad's & competition toget on the computer is fierce!! I'm not kidding! So finally I am able to show you my card for this week's Crafts 4 Eternity challenge where we have a fab sketch for you, & this week we want you to include a Christmas Tree on your card.

I've used one of my favourite Xmas stamps for this from Whiff of Joy. I just love how cute this is. He or she, she I think, is coloured with Aqua Markers & the papers are MME. The sentiment is Catslife Press & the snowflake behind it is a Creatable die.

I've made this card to fit 3 other challenges too. At Whiff of Joy, the current theme is distressing, I love distressing! A Spoonfull of Sugar wants to see cards with a punch or diecut shape, mine is the snowflake behind the sentiment & the sentiment itself was cut with a punch. Finally Papertake Weekly is looking for cards that are 'sparly & bright'. I was going to use more sparkle than this, but reined myself in. Just adding Viva Decor glitter to the star & baubles & adhesive rhinestones for effect.

So I hope you'll pop over to the C4E blog to see the wonderful inspiration my fellow D-Teamies have been creating this week.

For now, hope you have a good weekend.

Thanks so much for looking.

Big Hugs,

Andie xx

Passion For Promarkers - Best Friends!

It's Tuesday & my wonderful D-Teamie Deb has chosen this week's theme at Passion For Promarkers. She wants to see cards featuring friends!

This week's lucky winner will win a choice of either a pack of 5 Promarkers or Aquamarkers, courtesy of Just Tracys' wonderful online store!

I used this fabulous Diane Duda image from Sugar Nellie called Waiting For Santa. They look lke great friends don't they? I bet they do everything together. 

I coloured my image with Promarkers & used MME glitter papers. The poinsetta is a Creatable die & the sentiment is Catslife Press from my the lovely Crafty Emma's Store.

If you haven't already done so, please pay a visit to the PFP blog where my lovely D-Teamies have been excelling themselves once again.

I would also like to enter this card into 2 other challenges. I have based my layout on the fab sketch at this week's Friday Sketchers. The theme at Totally Gorjuss is 'sparkle' & I've added lots of magical Xmas glitter to this!

Hope everyone is having a great week. Thanks so much for looking.

Big Hugs,

Andie xx

Crafts 4 Eternity - Halloween!

Spooky going ons at Crafts 4 Eternity! We want you to use our fab sketch on your Halloween themed creations this week.

I chose this Little Mimosa Witch image from Bildmalarna on this card I made for my 3 year old niece, Emma. She's coloured with Distress Inks & the papers are MME - Boo to You. The sentiment is from High Hopes.



I kept very faithful to the sketch with this one. The flower however is made with Marianne Design Creatables & slightly raised with silicone glue.

Please pop over to the C4E blog to see the wonderful creations of my fellow D-Teamies.

There are two other Halloween challenges I would like to enter this into. Stamp with Fun, & A Spoonfull of Sugar are both celebrating all things spooky this week!

Hope you are having a good week. Thanks so much for looking.

Big Hugs,

Andie xx 

Passion For Promarkers - Pink/Purple & White Christmas

Happy Tuesday One & All! My lovely D-Teamie Anja has chosen a great theme for this weeks Passion For Promarkers challenge. She wants to see Xmas cards with a pink & white, or purple & white colour scheme.

Furthermore we are delighted to have Whiff of Joy as our fabulous sponsor, who are offering our lucky winner a choice of any stamp from their wonderful range.

I used Tilda Unwrapping Presents from the 2009 Xmas collection & coloured her with Aqua Markers. I also used the Wedding Swirl for the background. The pink DP is Ocober Afternoon - Very Merry. The sentiment is Catslife Press from lovely Crafty Emma's Store & I used a variety of punches & dies for the snowflakes.

 

Quite a simple card all in all, but I'm going to enter in several other challenges. The layout uses Dawny's fab sketch at Just Magnolia this week. At the new monthly Quixotic Paperie challenge, the theme is Christmas is Coming. Totally Gorjuss are celebrating their first birthday & revisiting their first challenge, which is Pink!

Please hop on over to the PFP blog to see the stunning creations of my wonderful D-Teamies.

Hope everyone is having a great week.

Big Hugs,

Andie xx