Passion for ProMarkers - week 39 challenge

This is my card for this weeks Passion for ProMarkers challenge.
http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/

The theme of the weeks challenge is "buttons and bows". As you can see I've added two ribbon bows, green buttons top left and red button for the cherries.

The cherry background paper was stamped using Hero Art Cherries stamp. The stamp was smaller than the size I needed so I restamped the edge of the stamp three time to make a strip that was long enough for the bottom of the card.



The cherry image was stamped using Memento ink pad and coloured in with Promakers. I stuck two red buttons over the large cherries. The greeting is a peel-off which I coloured in with a black pen.



The Tilda stamp is Cherry Tilda. She was stamped with Memento ink and coloured in with ProMarkers. I drew around Tilda with an oval nestabilities and mounted her on a scalloped red oval. Across the centre of the card I placed a white strip with I punched a flower edge using Martha Stewart flower punch. I added red stripped ribbon across the middle and to the top of the red oval. To the ribbon strips I attached bows. I tied two green button to the top of the card with linen thread by Stampin' Up.



I like to use square cards and I have done again but this time I used a 8x8 card which is large than normal but I think this design needed a large size card.

Flowers and ladybirds

This is a card I've just made and I'm entering it into Clare's Weekly Challenge on Do Crafts website.
http://www.docrafts.co.uk/community/gallery/item.aspx?item=3164454

The 'inspiration photo' is of a flower and ladybird so this image certainly includes both. The tree stamp is Flower Tree by Hero Art. It's such a beautiful design and couldn't resist buying it.



The image was stamped with Memento ink pad. I coloured the image in with ProMarkers. I used various shades of the same colour to add shade to the flowers, trunk and leaves. The ladybirds were finished with Glossy Accents. The centres of the flowers are finished with either gold Stickles or Dimensional Pearls. I highlighted with swirls with a metallic Sakura pen. The centres of the leaves were finished with Stickles.

I mounted the stamped image on bright pink card. The fancy edge at the bottom of the pink was punched with Martha Stewart flower punch. I added ribbon and a bow around the card. The greeting is by Craftwork Cards.

Passion for ProMarkers - week 37 challenge

This is my card for this weeks Passion for ProMarkers challenge.
http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/

The theme of the challenge is 'All creatures great and small'. What better way to show this than all creature great - an elephant, to small - a duck. The animals and leaf stamps are by Hero Art. The set of stamps is Playful Animals.

The images were stamped with Memento ink. The animals, leaves and background squares were coloured in with various colour of ProMarkers. The leaves were stamped on a separate piece of paper, coloured, cut out and added on top the the animal image. I used a dark brown card for the background. The words and green strips were cut with Fiskers Batwing edge scissors.

Welcome to 2010...

... and welcome to my new blog. I am looking forward to sharing my cards, craft though, finds and my new purchases with you.

I mostly using rubber stamps for my cards. After many years of resisting buying rubber stamps I finally succumb to them just over a year ago. And now Im hooked. My first cards of the year have been Thank You cards for my birthday gifts.



This flower design was creating using Stampin'Up It's Beautiful wheel stamp. The flowers were coloured in individually with various Brillance ink pads. Crystal Stickles have added a little bit of sparkle.



This card was creating using Hero Art Thank You stamp. The stamp was a very recent January sale purchase and Ive already put it to good use. The design was coloured in with Pro Markers, which were probably one of my best buys of 2009!