a little bit of love

 

 

Passion for Promarkers - week 467 Halloween colours - green -orange- purple and black. I love the quirky giraffes- they make me smile - coloured with aquamarkers - the washi tape is the same dark purple as the flowers and the gems - I took several photos but they all look the same - not sure why the colour is wrong.

celebrate

I think there is enough white to call this card CAS . I used watercolour pencils in shades of brown ,orange and green for the challenge at CAS watercolour challenge .

Using up old stuff

 

I realised when this was posted I had forgotten to colour the 3 flowers around the edges - that has now been done.

 

how many of you still have old peel offs in gold and silver - I have quite a few and some black ones which I thought were very smart at the time - and that time is probably 14 or more years ago - I cannot count the number of times I've put them in my craftroom waste bin only to rescue them 5 minutes later - just in case.

 

 

 

I wanted to recycle this Christmas card  - I loved the image - I had a card base in a colour called 'forest green' which matched the colour of the middle king -the gold mount around the edges works really well with the gold peel off border and sentiment.

I WILL use up all my peel offs - eventually - maybe - sometime - perhaps this should be my mantra.

BINGO at ProMarkers

This little bird stamp is from Stampavie and is used more than any other stamp I have . I could happily make all my cards with this stamp - it works with pale colours - dark tones for  Christmas -
I just love it and should probably buy a spare.


Passion for Promarkers - week 466 - BINGO - I did the diagonal - flowers -image- sentiment - coloured with AquaMarkers.

I've tried for a long time to add lots of layers - papers- flowers and to include lots of different colours but it's just not my style - for me less is better.

birthday wishes

this little  stamp is quite old - I think it may be a stampavie by tina wenke- coloured with
AquaMarkers -


southern girls - include an animal

incy wincy designs - happy birthday challenge

I love promarkers - challenge 370- anything goes with a birthday

sweet baby

 

I played around using lots of stamps for this card - the little bear is from Cuddly Buddly - I used sentiment stamps from two other sets - and mixed lots of sample colours with the red and blue AquaMarkers to get the right shade of purple -I also mixed the yellow and orange.

 

 

 

Passion for ProMarkers - week 465- animals - coloured with AquaMarkers.

a little bit christmas

 

 

I know I could have added so much more to this card but I really want it to be all about mice so I kept it simple.

 

It's very hard to see even with this cropped shot , I did add silver and white glitter under the feet of the mice and also used a white gel pen to add some snow in the sky.


Passion for Promarkers week 464 - Christmas is coming -love this LOTV image- so cute - I don't have a brown Promarker pen so a little mix of orange and green works really well .Thanks for my prize win last week - love my Promarkers.




I did ask myself are mice this colour - when Bella brings them home I don't really get a good look - she's a very vocal cat and when I ask her what she's got she meows to tell me and lets the mouse go - I go through the same process when she brings small lizards in the Summer.

A foxy little birthday

 

 

They say the camera never lies but the spotted paper on this card is pea green and matches the leaves on the fox and the sequin ,not sure what I can do to make it better , have taken lots and lots of pics but they always come out the same - hey ho.


Passion for ProMarkers  week 463 -  add a number - I love this little fox stamp- coloured with aquamarkers.

It's been a long time

 

 

UnstampaBelles challenge - Washi tape and buttons. I'm a bit late to the party ,this challenge closes at midnight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

flower power

 

 

Passion for ProMarkers - 439 - blooming days- I used AquaMarkers on this lovely Poppy Power image - I stamped in grey instead of black for a softer outline.

thank you

 

 

Feeling Sketchy no  90 -  The sentiment is a peel off sticker which I think will have to replaced with a stamped sentiment - I've never been a fan of stickers and this one is awful - the owl was coloured using watercolour pencils.

time for a beer

 

 

another male card- I must confess this is very similar to Kaths card on 'all that glitter' blog.

just a few flowers

 

 

 

Creative Craft Cottage - challenge 106 - anything goes - my aunt has a birthday in May and I'm hoping she will like this card-


Southern Girls challenge - favourite colour combo's -  the tulips in my garden are pink but I much prefer the lemon/lilac combo

another modern male card

following on from my last post another easy card to make for a male - tiny splashes of colour are just enough to make this card pop.

modern card for DAD

Male cards are always a pain in the bum if the recipient doesn't have a hobby so a few punched circles seemed like a good idea.

The Happy Birthday is a stamp and the word DAD is done from a rub on alphabet sheet  along with the word celebrate .

Crafty Gals Corner - challenge 162 anything goes

just flying by

 

 

 

I've been seriously under the weather this week - headache - nausea - stomach pain - thought I would end up in A&E - a trip to my GP who diagnosed abdominal migraine - that's a new one to me - just to be sure blood tests are being done in case it's an allergy to something.


I made this card for the Christmas card throwdown but missed the entry time.

 

 

sunday morning stamping

If you saw my earlier posts using stamps from my local craft store- a  coffee pot with cup and saucer -  a mushroom - the two cards below are using more of theses inexpensive stamps.

 

 

 

 

 

This is another one of the unmounted red rubber stamps  - it cost just $2 but is only the bouquet -I added the stems - to be honest why would you have a stamp of just the flowers without stems - I'm not sure how you would use it - I cut an acetate jar shape and added a second shorter piece of acetate to make a water level.

 

 

 

 

This butterfly stamp cost only 50cents - not the best butterfly in the world so I decided to leave it plain and add blue papers and a bit of a square doily .

I probably won't buy anymore of these stamps - not sure I like the hand drawn effect and for me the outline are just a bit too thick .

just a bit of holly

 

 

CAS Christmas card challenge -march - holly- this stamp was a magazine freebie which I stamped with spruce green ink and then added watercolours to get this washed out look. The cardstock was very porous and the colours bled out which I really like.

flowers for a friend

 

CAS mix up - march challenge - stamping, acetate,+ my choice - I cut the jam jar from acetate - coloured the flowers with water colour pencils added  bakers twine and a few tiny gems, stamped sentiment.

blue and more blue

Crafting with Dragonflies - challenge 99 - birds /feathers - using my favourite
Stampavie stamp and watercolour pencils.