There's Magic in the Air - Be Inspired

TMITA provided this oh so cute digi-stamp for free along with an inspirational picture to use this week, which I used for the colours.

I've coloured my little duck, who's called Elvis by the way, with ProMarkers and used a white opaque pen to make the dots on his welly boots. The background papers and sentiment are all digi-papers from Two Peas in a Bucket, from a collection called Splish Splash, which I thought rather appropriate and the colours worked too! The cardstock is Stampin' Up! Barely Banana and I've based my layout on one of Vee's sketches, which you can find on her blog Vee's Sketch Pad

The card came together really quickly, just a shame my printer decided to play up & getting the papers printed out (in the right colours) took about an hour!

TFL x

Victoria Case Challenge No. 5

I think I've missed the deadline for this challenge, but I'll give it a go anyway. A sketch to follow this week at VC Challenges and I've used a VC stamp, Grape Fairy, have coloured her with Stampin' Up! markers in Pretty in Pink and Certainly Celery to match the cardstock, the rest of the image has been coloured with PM's, the papers are also SU from the set Tea Party.

Right gotta dash & enter this card!

Funky Fairies & Bee Crafty

A great sketch to follow over at FunkyFairies this week and I've combined it with Bee Crafty's fortnightly challenge, which is Love & Marriage and a freebie digi-image to use. I've coloured my image with PM's, apart from the word Love, which I've paper pieced to get the right shade of pink, I've also chalked around the edges with SU! pastels. The papers are from FunkyFairies "Paisley Love" set, the cardstock is SU! Pixie Pink and the hearts have been cut out with a die (X-Cut I think) using my Cuttlebug. It's a very pink card, but "Lurve" should be!!

Digital Tuesday & Papertake Weekly

Well after days of not making much at all, I seem to be on a bit of a roll today, and this card is for two challenges - Digital Tuesday who were asking you to use your scraps (got plenty of those) and Papertake Weekly asking you to use a digital download.

The image is a Digi-stamp called Libby from Digi-Stamp Boutique and I've coloured her with ProMarkers and a bit of Sakura Stardust pen on her skirt; the papers are digi-papers from Funky Fairy; the c/s is Stampin' Up! Barely Banana; the ribbon is SU! Whisper White coloured with a Barely Banana marker to match; the sentiment is also SU! from the ever useful set "Fun & Fast Notes" - I use this sentiment a lot as it's nice and slim, and the very sweet little chipboard flower is from my stash.

I seem to have taken the photo at a funny angle as the card looks curved and so does the ribbon, but in reality it is straight - honest!!

TFL x

Stampin for the Weekend & Digital Tuesday

Made this card for two challenges - Stampin' for the Weekend, which was asking for digital-stamping this week & Digital Tuesday, which had a recipe of blue, brown & bling!

The gorgeous image is from Digi-Stamp Boutique and I've coloured her with ProMarkers, the DSPs are Stampin' Up! from the Bashful Blue set (I'm not normally a blue person, but I LOVE this colour!) and the cardstock is also Bashful Blue, the bling bits are from my stash. I know it's more blue than brown, but I'm really pleased how this came out.

3 Summery Challenges

I haven't cropped this image as it's quite ironic, I take my pictures in the porch and you can see on the window the rain lashing down - yep it's Summer alright!

Anyway, onto the three challenges I'm entering this card for, the first is Stamps & Smiles - The Fresh Batch, which was a sketch, the other two are Nutshells and Scrappy Frogs, both of which had a summery theme this week.

The image is one of the gorgeous Nutshells stamps, I really love their stamps, they're great fun and all have a fab summery feel and I've coloured her with ProMarkers, the papers are from FunkyHand's Seasons CD, the c/s is SU! Tempting Turquoise and I've added two little butterfly stickers which I've put first onto acetate and then just stuck them in the middle to give their wings a bit of lift.

Right let's hope this summery card brings the sun back out again - please!

Victoria Case Challenge No. 3

This rather mischievous looking fairy is called Tara and is a free download from Victoria Case stamps, so I've used her for this week's VC Challenge, which was a sketch.

I've coloured her with ProMarkers apart from her wings where I've used Sakura Clear Stardust on them for a bit of sparkle, the gorgeous DSP's and swirl are freebies from Raspberry Road called Rose Garden (I think) and I've layered them onto SU! Certainly Celery cardstock. I haven't added a sentiment yet and may do that when I come to use her.

Pollycraft Challenge No. 17

A recipe challenge over at Pollycraft this week:

3 embellishments, 2 papers, 1 image

The image is Pollycraft's Cherry Kisses and I've coloured her with ProMarkers, I printed the papers out a while ago & I've forgotten where they're from! The cardstock is Stampin' Up! Orchid Opulence and Chocolate Chip, the sentiment is also SU! from the set "Circle of Friendship" stamped in Chocolate Chip ink & layered onto a chipboard circle, the 3 chipboard flowers are from my stash. I'm not counting the sentiment as an embellishment which I hope is ok!

Funky Fairies Challenge No. 19

A recipe to follow this week at Funky Fairies:

1 ribbon

2 flowers

3 buttons

4 patterned papers

I wasn't sure how I was going to fit it all on but as you can see I did!

The image & the papers are Funky Fairy downloads and I've coloured the image with ProMarkers, the sentiment I've done on the computer.

Cardstock is SU! Tempting Turquoise, the two turquoise flowers are K&Co stickers and the ribbon and buttons are from my stash.

Simon Says.....Animals

Well a worm's an animal albeit a very little one! This very sweet image was a freebie from Victoria Case stamps and I was going to enter him into the VC challenge, but having coloured him in a few days ago, I merrily put the card together today and then realised I should have been following a sketch! Oops! Oh well, I can still him into Simon Says challenge.

I've coloured Willy Worm with ProMarkers and used SU! cardstock in Green Galore & Whisper White, the DSP's are free papers from Summertime Designs, the sentiment is SU! from Circle of Friendship, the flowers are also from Summertime Designs and the little bit of bling in the top flower is from my stash.

TFL x

Dies to Die for Challenge

Doing well on the old challenges this week and here's another, a fab sketch over at Dies to Die For this week and I thought I'd get another Father's Day card done.  This one is all Stampin' Up! The image is from the set "Loads of Love" and the hearts in the back of the truck are just one of the things you can put in there, there's also flowers or a Christmas Tree, so I chose hearts, cos we all "heart" our dear old dads after all.  I've coloured the image in using PM's, apart from using Sakura Glaze pens on the tyres, the hearts and the windows, although you can't really tell in the picture. The DSP's are from Summer Picnic (the circles) and Washington Apple (the stripes), the cardstock is Bashful Blue and the sentiment is from Elzybells, I've also used a Cuttlebug embossing folder to get the spots on the strip across the middle as I wanted some texture but thought a ribbon might be too girly!

Passion for ProMarkers Challenge no. 1

I'm new to ProMarkers, but already love 'em to bits, they're so easy to use and blend and I was thrilled to find this new challenge blog with amazing prizes for the first challenge.

I thought I ought to make a start on some Father's Day cards and this is my first one, the stamp is from Elzybells, and of course I've coloured him with my ProMarkers, the background is made with a stamp from the SU! set "Seeing Spots" with Creamy Caramel ink onto Creamy Caramel cardstock, the corrugated card is from my stash and the washers and nails, which I thought gave it a "manly" feel are from my hubby's workbench - sssh don't tell! I've attached the sentiment, which came with the stamp, with a brad and just hung it on the one side to look like a bit of a bodged DIY job and used some SU chalks to "age" it a bit.

TFL x

Simon Says Sketch

This is my entry for this weeks Simons Says Challenge, which was a sketch.  The image was a freebie from Two Scoops of Rice and I've coloured him with ProMarkers. The papers, cardstock & sentiment are from Stampin' Up, I've used DSP's from the set Rainbow Sherbert, which are really bright and cheerful and matched up the CS with Green Galore. The sentiment is from the set "Fun and Fast notes" and the bling flowers are from my stash.

TFL x

Bee Crafty Competition No. 4

I couldn't resist this cute little digi-stamp on Bee's blog and so bought him to enter the competition, you also get a coloured image too, for 99p - bargain!!

I've coloured the image with my new ProMarkers, but it's not on the best quality card (not SU! I hasten to add!) and so has sunk into the card a bit and you can't really see the shading, but I did do a bit - honest! I've also added some SU pastels (chalks) to the sentiment and a very light blue around the edge of the white card the mouse is on to soften it a bit.  I've just bought myself the sponge daubers to go with the pastels and they make using them so much easier.

The papers and sentiment are freebies from Here's A Scrap and I've used SU! cardstock in Real Red.