Just the 2 of Us

Hello girls and fellow crafters

Just a little something I have knocked up this morning for the Promarker and the Teddy Bo Challenges.
The Passion for Promarkers challenge is to make a card using 'make your own embellishments' and the Teddy Bo Challenge is to 'punch it out'.

As you can see with this card, I have made a wedding card using my Martha Stewart Heart Border punch and have made my own rose using tissue paper. Basically, I cut a circle of white tissue paper and then scrunched it up in a ball and then cut a spiral into it, then I simply wound it around the end of a paintbrush and then let it spring loose slightly before sealing it with a glue dot.

I used the wedding car digi image from the Teddy Bo and Bea collection (that I won recently by getting the TOP THREE, can I get a whoop whoop?) and then coloured it with my promarkers; tan, sandstone,cool grey 3 and 4 and blush. The DP are from my Sweet Owl collection as mentioned before. The individual hearts around the image are what were punched out from the MS border, that I just mounted with foam pads. The 'bumper' on the car was coloured with my silver metallic sakura gelly roll pen.

Hope you like it?
Hugs xxx

Wonderful Wife

Hi fellow crafters

A friend of my husband's, Mark, asked me to make a card for his lovely wife, Patricia, who's birthday is on 17th March. I was going to go with a St Patricks Day 'green' theme but thought as it was a card from a loving husband to his wife, I would make this instead.

I followed this week's 'sketch' challenge from The Teddy Bo Challenge, supplied by the wonderfully talented Kathy. Anyway, without further ado, here's my card.

I used the sketch provided on the Teddy Bo Challenge blog and then printed off Teddy Bea and coloured her with Umber, Cinnamon, Tan, Poppy, Blush and Ivory promarkers.

The DP is from My Minds Eye and the letters were drawn and cut individually by hand onto glittered adhesive sheets. The little scrolly thingies were cut using a Marianne Creatables template and my Big Shot.

Hope you like it?
Hugs xxx

Duck Egg Blue & Chocolate Challenge II

Hi girls
Thursday morning and slightly overcast, definitely not as sunny as yesterday was. Hopefully the sunshine will break through later???

Anyway, I had so much fun colouring in my Teddy Bo stamps yesterday for the 'Duck Egg Blue and Chocolate challenge yesterday that I made ANOTHER one!

I used Promarkers; Sky Blue, Umber, Tan, Sandstone, Blossom and Vanilla. The birthday greeting was from Craftwork Cards that I also coloured with my Sky Blue Promarker and layered onto a blue scalloped circle.

The gemstones (believe it or not) have been recycled. I had a jumper that was covered in them and the jumper is knackered now so I picked all of the gems off and have used only a small amount of them on my card here. I still have loads... great tip there, 'if it can't be given to charity or sold, pick the buttons, gems, lace etc off them before binning them'.

I must've picked off well over a hundred gems and I only bought the jumper from Primark in the first place. Bargain!

Anyway, I hope you like my card and thanks for stopping by
Hugs xxx

Duck Egg Blue & Chocolate Challenge

Hi girls (and fellow crafters)
Welcome back.

My new card is for The Teddy Bo Challenge 'Duck Egg Blue and Chocolate' (mmmmmmm chocolate), I enjoyed eating a whole bar of Cadbury's Fruit and Nut while I made this one.

I started with a background paper using the Blue and Chocolate colour scheme and then I cut some letters and a heart out of the same paper which I then mounted onto chocolate brown paper.  I coloured the Teddy Bo image with Promarkers; Denim Blue (the nearest I could find to Duck Egg), Umber, Cinnamon and a touch of Pear Green on the stem of the rose.

I then cut around the image and mounted it with foam pads onto the DP and then added some blue ribbon. I then mounted the letters and the heart with foam pads too and added them over the ribbon. Hope you all like it?

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs, Fae xxx

Coffee and Cream Combo

Hi girls (and fellow crafters)

Here's my offering for today. I am entering this card into the Passion for Promarkers challenge 'Coffee and Cream' colour combo.  I am also entering him into the Teddy Bear Stampers challenge, which is also a colour combo using 'Brown, White and Pink. Well I have used the Blush colour on her dress and the heart so that is a very pale pink... hopefully it'll be acceptable???

I have used a new digi image (Teddy Bea 008) from  Fairy Doodlers. Isn't she cute? I have seen a few of these bears around (during my blog surfing sessions) and loved them so much that I had to have one (okay...you got me... I got several... well I do get paid on the last Friday of the month WAHAYYYYY and that's next week!). Anyway, here's what I did:

I printed the bear and coloured her with the following promarkers ONLY: Senna, Umber, Cocoa, Cinammon, Blush and Ivory. The grey background was created using a black pencil and Sansodor. Well, I haven't used it for a while and I thought it was about time I did!

Then I scrolled around the edge of the white with my Cinnamon Promarker and added faux stitches using a 'normal' brown felt-tip (that was painful, how did I ever cope with 'normal' felts they seem to drag SOOOOOOOOO much and scratchy, don't even get me started on that!). Sorry, I am waffling again. Next I mounted some DP onto the white base card using some cream and gold embossed paper that I got from Craftwork Cards and added 5 Candi in coffee and cream colours (well I DO like my coffee the colour of GNATS ****, I'm a latte with a lotta latte kinda gal) and then added the sentiment that was also from the same collection at Craftwork Cards.

In fact, FYI, the paper, the candi, the sentiments and other things all came in a bumper pack from Craftwork Cards so pop over and check it out as they have some amazing offers on their bumper packs and it's very reasonably priced for all the stuff you get with it.

Hope you like the card? It's cold and wet here in Watford today, so doubt I'll be doing much else other than card marking, so prepare to see more of me. I'm sure that'll upset Steve enormously but hey, a girl's gotta do...what a girl's gotta do (ain't she?)

This card won The Teddy Bear Stampers blog challenge, AND got TOP FIVE at Passion for Promarkers and (because the original winner didn't come forward to claim her prize) it also WON! and I received a £10.00 voucher for Joanna Sheen. WAHHOOOOOOO!

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs x