Alcohol Marker Swap

Well, I had to make 3 cards for an Alcohol Marker swap. I used my newly bought Promarkers and coloured a dragon, Tilda and Popcorn. Here are the results. The dragon is my favourite.

The backing paper on this one wa taken from a free CD that I had with a magazine. I love the shape that the Nestabilities make but I don't have a set. So I found this template in a magazine and scanned it into my computer. From there I made 3 sizes of it. There was quite a big difference in the sizes so I just trimmed slightly larger to get a layer.

The backing paper for Popcorn was taken from the Popcorn Floral CD. I tried a slightly different method of matting and layer using a strip of card the same colour of the base card and edging it with some scalloped scissors.




Tilda was mounted onto some paper from my stash and the corners trimmed with a Fiskars corner punch. I rounded the corners on the mirri board. The 'Just for You' is a Letraset rub on.

Busy, busy, busy......

The parents of one of my youngest son's friends are getting married this weekend. I made the following card with the Forever Friends wedding stamp and yes, coloured it with Promarkers..........gotta get my money's worth, lol. You can't see it very well from this scan but I have stamped a wee flourish stamp with a Galaxy Gold Brilliance ink pad on the brown card, just to give it a little 'something'.

Birthday Cards

So, next week is a busy week with 3 birthdays all on the same day!

The first card is for my son, Lewis off his brother. It's Popcorn Bear and Sofflé fishing. Stamped with a black versafine ink pad and coloured with Promarkers.

The next card is for my niece. Again, Popcorn Bear on a present. Stamped and coloured as above.

These are my first endeavours with Promarkers.....I'm sure I'll get better!

New Cards

Hi Guys. It's been a while but I finally got round to updating my blog. Here are 3 cards I made recently. The first is a card for my hubby's niece using a Penny Black stamp and simply coloured with water colour pencils.

The next is a set of ATCs I made for a "cute" swap. They are Tilda and Forever Friends stamps.

And finally for now, is a New Home card I made for my online pal, Anesha. Simple but I really like the stamp!

There are still a few I need to download from my camera and I have some new stamps to play with so watch this space..............

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Mother's Day

Here is the 'card' that I have made for my mom this year. I say 'card' as it's actually a word book. This is the front view (obviously). It has a 3D flower fairy on the front from the Crafter's Companion CD and the pages are made from the Funky Daze CD. I then mounted them onto gold mirri and cut round them........what a faff! I sparkled her wings and some of the petals with some iridescent glitter glue.

Page 2 has the first half of the verse on and a few sparkly peel off butterflies stuck onto acetate and cut out.

The final page has the remainder of the verse and a rose also from the CC CD.

The only thing I would change IF I did another, would be the verse. It needs to be bigger (and straighter as my hubby pointed out) as it looks a bit lost.

Hope you like it. xx

Apologies for the quality of this photo. I made this for our good friend's niece's birth. The stamp is one from Lilac Lemon Designs and the backing is printed onto pale pink pearlescent card from a Joanna Sheen CD, The oval is a Keepsake board shape. I was having trouble finding the right pink for rocking horse, so I used a Briliance inkpad (orchid, I think) and then a very pale pink two tone moonglow embossing powder from Lindy's Stamp Gang.