Is Spring sprung?

Good morning blogland,

Am here today with my post for the new challenge starting today at Passion for Markers, the theme this week is 'Spring colours' picked by our Teamie Sue.  Our sponsor is Colour of Love and there is a great prize of 3 digi images on offer for one lucky winner. 

Please do remember to follow the theme and that this is a challenge for those of you who love your markers and so those must be used on your project.  

As the sponsor for this week's challenge Colour of Love allowed the DT to have a digi and this is my card made with that digi:

Supplies used:

Digital Stamp:

Colour of Love - Sugi Spring Blossom Dress

coloured with my Copics

Stamps used:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Friendship

Dies:

Pretty Pink Posh- Scallop Borders 1

Suny Studio Stamps - Stitched circles

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: well rounded

Paper:

BoBunny - Country Garden Collection

Anything else:

self-adhesive gems

And that's about it folks, do pop over to the challenge blog and admire my Teamies cards.  They've all interpreted Spring colours much better than I have (I feel I've gone a little too Summer!) and then add your own card - it's fun to join in!

See you soon,

Sarah

All dies no punches

Morning blogland

It's rolled around to Tuesday again and so it's time for my DT card at the new Passion for Markers challenge.  

This week the theme was picked by Marlene who chose 'Dies and / or Punches' and our sponsor is Dr Digi's House of Stamps who are offering one lucky winner a prize of 2 digi stamps. As always this is a colouring challenge - so anything can be made and linked but you must have used markers on your project somewhere and followed the theme.

This is my card:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Dr Digi's House of Stamps - DumBell Derek

coloured with  my Copics

Rubber stamp:

Taylored Expressions: Simple Strips - Man, Myth, Legend

Dies:

Creative Expressions: Noble Collection - Double Stitched Squares

Memory Box - Trellis Border

MFT Stamp - Inside and Out stitched circles

Taylored Expressions: Simple Strips - well rounded

Paper:

echo park - A Boy's Life

Anything else:

Craftwork Cards - paper dots

some white paint and a paintbrush to splatter the black card

white gel pen for highlights

And that's it folks - there are some fabulous cards on display made by me Teamies over at the challenge and I'm looking forward to seeing everything you make too!

See you later,

Sarah

Embellish it!

 Morning blogland,

It's Tuesday and therefore time for a new challenge over at Passion for Markers and (as you might have guessed) the theme this week is 'Embellish it'. It's our lovely Teamie Marie who picked this theme, and I can see it being popular, with our Sponsor being Di's Digi Stamps with a great prize for the lucky winner.

Now some years ago I would've loved this challenge and used any of the flowers, gems, twine, butchers string, lace, gems, etc that I regularly used and loaded the card up.  These days I'm more of a 'striped back' sort of crafter - so the gems are there, and a die-cut, but not much else really.  I look back, sometimes, at the cards I made 10 / 15 years ago and wonder where did the desire to bung so much on a card go!

Anyways - here's my card.  Please remember this is a markers challenge - the brand doesn't matter, but you do need to use markers somewhere on your project and follow the theme to be in with a chance at the prize.

Supplies used:

Rubber stamp:

Lili of the Valley - Birthday Penguins

coloured with my Copics

Anything else:

Scrap of die cut patterned paper

scrap of die-cut white card

scrap of die-cut bunting

Distress Ink and blending brush

Craftwork cards pre-cut sentiment

flat backed gems

I knew when I was making this card it was using up various scraps that were sitting on my desk, but I didn't realise it was using quite so many!

And that's it folks, my Teamies have made some lovely embellished cards, you should really take a wander over and have a look!

See you soon,

Sarah