Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 47

Time for another fabulous sketch challenge from

Sweet Sketch Wednesday with another amazing prize.

This is the sketch to follow. I had a lot of fun with this one you can see my card below.

This week we are being sponsored by the wonderfully, generous Carolyn from Busy Beauties Boutique.

The images are really different and very unique. I love them!!

Go see for yourselves. The winner this week gets three digi images from Carolyn.

So here is my card.

The image I used is called "A rose from Rosie" and isn't she just cute.

Was stuck between her and Chillin' Randy but I did a boy card last week so wanted to shake it up a bit.

The papers i've used are from the latest Laura Ashley collection. They are all glittery and embossed, very nice. I added some glitter to Rosie's frills to compliment this. I cut out a nestie fancy label and stamped 'Lots of Love' onto it with Staz On and added two little purple gems to glitz it up some more.

Hope you like her! :-D

Be sure to check out my fellow Design Team's creations too. They're all really different and beautiful.

Thanks girls for making me feel so special and for the warm welcome last week.

Summer Flowers

Ok this is extremely late for one of my favourite challenges but in my defense I had no internet all weekend and was playing catch up for most of today. Better late than never though right??

Over at Passion for Promarkers (the one that i'm late for) the theme was "In the Garden" so I got out this fabulous Tilda stamp and then the fence. The width between the two posts on the orginal fence stamp wasn't quite big enough to fit poor Tilda so I stamped them, coloured them, stickled them, then cut them out and mounted them over and around her. Good old Tilda has a few stickles on her too. I used Antique Linen to distress the back of the entire image. Mounted this onto some Burgundy core'dinations and then onto some K&Co paper.

The flowers were from my shopping spree on Saturday down at the Crafty Angels crop. Their theme this week is summer and I think Tilda fits quite nicely into that category.


Challenges:
Passion for Promarkers Week 48 (Apologies for the lateness of the entry)
Crafty Angels - Theme Summer


Off to bed for me now.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 46

So then, an amazing thing happened to me this week.

I got picked to be on my very first Design Team over at

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Woohoo! Fierce excited about it all. Thanks to Arlana for picking me!

This week we are on Sketch No. 46 and this is the sketch

We are being sponsored by the brilliant Sally-Anne at Digi Stamp Boutique

This week Sally Ann is offering 10 free digis to our lucky winner! How cool is that!

Check out all the other lovely digi stamps over there!

I used 'Lucas and Freddo' on my card because I have a little boy who I'm sure will be only too happy to go fishing with frogs when he's old enough. Ha ha!

Digi Stamp is coloured with Promarkers.
Papers are Bo Bunny and the gingham I created myself.
I cut out the scalloped edge with my Fiskars punch from some Orange Coredinations
and used some polka dot ribbon to go on top.
The sentiment is attached with eyelets and the buttons are from my stash.


Check out all my Design Team friends for more inspiration and to see what images they've used.
They will continue to inspire me with all their creations and tips. Cheers girls!!!

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What a challenge that was!

I really do love a good challenge and boy did I get one today. Over at the Passion for Promarkers blog they had a new challenge to create a background with your promarkers. I got all giddy about it and wanted to combine it with the sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday because I thought I could easily create different backgrounds for each circle. Lets just say it wasn't that easy at all.

I tried a water colouring technique to get a background wash thingy outta the promarkers but all that did was permanently colour one of my blocks. I then tried the baby wipe technique that I've seen used with TH distress re-inkers, that kinda worked but got messy quickly. So what finally worked are the three pics above.

For the checkerboard-esque look I drew lines down a piece of burgundy coredinations at 1/4" intervals horizontally and vertically and then coloured in alternative squares using Burnt Sienna. This took a good hour to do and I wished i'd spaced them further apart but the overall effect is subtle and I like it so hey.

For one of the circles I got two clear stamps, one heart and one swirl, I coloured the heart with Maroon and the swirl with Moss Green and stamped all over a piece of card and the cut out a circle from the best bit in the middle. The other circle was just four different colours striped across and again cut out with the nesties. For the big scalloped circle, I embossed it with the polka dot cuttlebug folder and then coloured each dot with Umber.

My darling little image that Mam got me is a Sugar Nellie stamp and I coloured her using all the colours I've used to create my backgrounds, put a bit of glitter on the flowers in her hat and sat her on the ribbon.

And voila! Am off to bed to dream about promarker backgrounds now! :-D

Almost forgot the most important bit!

Entering for:

Passion for Promarkers - Week 47 - Backgrounds

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch 45

Purple & Red Goodness

Had great fun making this card. Tried out a new card fold I found on someone's blog ages ago and tried to combine it with the sketch for Sweet Sketch Wednesday's challenge this week. Think I did it. I used organza ribbon for the back panel instead of paper though so maybe not. Hmm....

So the recipe for this creation:

Burgundy & Purple Majesty Cardstock

Purple Gingham paper created by moi courtesy of Martine's tutorial

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The stamp is a Greeting Farm one and coloured in with my beloved Promarkers, mounted her onto a quickutz nestie which I chalked the edges on and stuck some card candy on each point.

Used some doodlebug white paper ribbon and put some red gingham ribbon over that.

Think that's it.

Entering for:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday's Challenge No: 44

Passion for Promarkers Week 46 - Theme - Kids

Sweet Sketch Wednesday's Challenge no. 43

This card is for the Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge no. 43 really like their blog, their design team always manage to come up with something so different. I coloured Kaylee in with ProMarkers. Have been watching oodles of tutorials on hair and skin and have been stalking Coops' blog because I believe she is a pro! :-D

The papers were a mixture of Clare Curd's signature range and also DCWV glitter stack. I used some ribbon and card candy from my stash and the little handbag charm is from Bombay Duck and is actually for a charm bracelet so it can be taken off and used as a gift too.

Howdy Thirty

My sister asked me to make a card for her friend's 30th. This is the end result. He's having a big barn party with a cowboy theme hence the card. Twas a bit of a challenge I have to admit but Robin helped me out when I got stuck. 

Found some red glittered numbers in my ever increasing stash and toned them down a bit by Glimmer Misting them and then stamping them with Gold Ink it Up. Put this onto a distressed nestie which I looped rope through to carry the cowboy theme through. The rope was also sprayed with the coffee Glimmer Mist. The sentiment is a Just Rite one, (still not sure if I like these yet) and the papers were the Boys Stack from DCWV.