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

All about the men

 Morning blogland,

It's time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' and this fortnight we'd like to see those 'Masculine Makes' - as always there does need to be stamping on your project (be that rubber or digital) but it doesn't need to be a card.  This is a 'for fun' challenge, so no sponsors or prizes - other than the kudos of being a Top 3 pick!

I've been running around a bit like a headless chicken again this week - you can blame that on the fact that we are now pulling down the the wall at the back half of our kitchen to open it all up.  What used to be on the other side of that wall was a corridor with small rooms and what will become is one big kitchen with integrated appliances, a 2nd sink, a large larder unit, coat cupboard, broom cupboard and bin storage  / shoe changing / bench perching area.  This all means that crafting time is a little compromised so this is a relatively quick card.

Supplies used:

Stamps:

Honey Bee - Bitty Buzzwords

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Man, Myth, Legend

Dies:

Creative Expressions - Nobel Collection: double stitched squares

Creative Craft Products - Nestables stars die set

Creative Craft Products - A2 essentials: Landscape card die set (there are 'additions' to card blank die with this set and that's what I used to cut the happy birthday out)

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: well rounded

Anything else:

Lisa Horton Crafts - 3D embossing folder: numerical

bakers twine

Bo Bunny - Weekend Market 6x6 paper pad

Craftwork Cards - paper dots

I wouldn't have called it the most 'masculine' of cards, which is why the 2nd sentiment was added but I have to admit I like the look of a 'double' sentiment so I might well do that again.  Took all of 20 mins to make, once I'd actually decided what to do and that part took most of the afternoon!

Please take a wander over to Sweet Stampin' and see what my Teamies have made - there are some wonderful masculine cards on display.

To go back to life chez Sarah for a moment, we've had quite a lot of ongoing house renovation over the last few years, what with the gym extension, the upstairs bathroom renovation, and now the kitchen being re-done.  One day, I'm sure we will finish but that day isn't quite yet! I will post some progress pictures at some point as well of the kitchen work, so you can see the chaos we live in!

Bye for now,

Sarah