I Love Promarkers - GDT- Paper-Piecing

Hi all, I am thrilled to share today that I am this month's Guest Designer over at I Love Promarkers! Thanks for having me ladies! This week our sponsor is Kenny K, and I was given this beautiful Mermaid image to play with. She is gorgeous! The theme for the challenge this week is Paper Piecing, so  along with your Promarkers, add a bit of paper piecing to your projects.

I printed this beautiful image twice, once onto plain Neenah card, and once onto some patterned paper, which I had taped to normal copy paper, and it worked a treat.

I coloured her body with Promarkers, and cut and glued her sea shell and tail to the Neenah print.

So, onto the background - I have recently discovered Brusho's - Pigment paint which you can mix to a variety of strengths, or as I have done here, sprinkle very lightly onto wet card, or dry card and spritz with water. Here, I have used Turquoise, Yellow and Ultramarine, and spritzed - watching the colours dissolve into these bright vibrant colours is mesmerising, and every time you do it, it's different!

I made a central band for the middle of the card with some silver mirri, and the Brusho card, and wrapped some navy grosgrain ribbon and pearly lace around it. I layered the mermaid onto a pretty die cut from Joy Crafts, and die cut some sea creatures, anchors and ship wheels using dies from All Occasion Dies.

I added a swirly flourish and some flowers with some leafy ribbon to mimic seaweed, and popped a couple of pins in there.

The sentiment is by Stampin' Up!, and layered onto a little Spellbinders doily.

Finally, I added some silver sequins, some Stickles to her tail, shells,  hair and flowers, and some Liquid Pearls in Ocean Blue. I loved making this card, this mermaid is right up my street! Or pool!

Don't forget to head on over to I Love Promarkers to see the rest of the DT creations, and get paper piecing!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Out to Sea

Creative Inspiration - For a Friend

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More - Make your mark - I used Promarkers.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Rick St. Dennis progressive Challenge

Hi all, I'm back today with a card for the Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge. Every month, Rick will send out a free image to the previous month's participants to use for the following month's challenge.

Last month was the first, so we all used a different RSD image, but this month, we have all been given this fun-tastic image of Nyner The Winner! Thanks so much Rick!! I can't wait to see what everyone else does with him!

The theme for the challenge is Steampunk. This is my second card using this theme, and I'm still not sure I'm all that good at it to be honest, but they do say practice makes perfect!

I coloured him with Promarkers, and trimmed him out. I layered him onto a die cut clock - I was in sore need of some Steampunk embellishments, so I ordered the cogs die and the clock die from Robert Addams All Occasion Dies - the service was amazing, I got them two days later, and a free C.D and mini die too. Before cutting the clock, I stamped some Waltzingmouse Splats in Versamark, and used Aged Silver Frantage embossing powder to create a slight metallic effect.

Underneath the clock I arranged some die cut cogs cut in silver mirri card, and layered these on top of some matt gold card embossed with a steampunk style folder. I then layered this onto some brown card, and distressed the edges.

I layered this onto a card base, covered with some Graphic 45 paper from their Steampunk Spells stack.

If you want to join the fun at the Rick St. Dennis Progressive Challenge, but did not enter last month, never fear, you can buy Nyner The Winner HERE, and enter for this month. Your entry will get you an image to use for next month's challenge!

I would also like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Passion for Promarkers - Mythical Creatures

I Love Promarkers - Digi's

Crafty Catz - Inspired by a song, 'We are the Champions' by Queen!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Angelina Who Mk II!

Hi all, I'm back with another card using the fabulous Angelina Who? image from Rick St. Dennis. Yesterday I coloured her in greens, today it's purple!

This card was made with inspiration from a few challenge blogs - the sketch is from Papertake Weekly Challenge,  I Love Promarkers want us to use flowers (and Promarkers), Haunted Design House want us to use a recipe of Green, Black, Purple, Metal and a flourish, Addicted to Stamps and More would like to see us use Markers, Pencils, Crayons etc, and Passion for Promarkers want us to use Pearls and Pins!

 I have coloured Angelina Who? wiith Promarkers, and hand trimmed. I then cut a black frame using a Spellbinders die, and mounted her onto it.

Following the sketch from Papertake Weekly Challenge, (which is pick any of their old sketches, I have chosen Sketch No. 81) I created 3 panels in different D.P's. After layering them all together, I added some black lace and green satin pleat before adding the frame and flourishes.

I added two flourishes cut using a Cheery Lynn die, in black and silver mirri card, and topped them with some green and purple flowers and two pins - the purple pin was coloured with a Promarker to get the right shade.

Finally I added some lilac pearls and some green brads (these are my metal embellies) and I think I've got everything onto this card that I could!

Here's the sketch from Papertake Weekly.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

Angelina Who??

Morning all! I have a card to share with you today, using this FAB-U-LOUS image by Rick St. Dennis - she's called Angelina Who?, and very apt, as I took the kids to see the new Maleficent movie yesterday. The film was great, and it's nice to see a different take on the Sleeping Beauty story.





I coloured Angelina Who? with Promarkers, and went for the traditional Disney colours for her. I also did a non-Disney colour scheme, but I will post that one when I have made her into a card.

I used Spellbinders dies and accents to frame her, and some thick stripy black ribbon from Stampin' Up!. The sentiment was computer generated using Zapfino font. I didn't have a suitable sentiment to go with her, so I did a little internet search, and came up with this - very fitting I thought!

I added lots of gems and white pearls for this card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More -Make your Mark, I used Promarkers.
Craftitude - Dimension, she is popped up on foam pads.
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

Swan Masque

Hi all, it's been a while since I last blogged here, tpo be honest I'm struggling with my creativity at the moment. I'm into my colouring with my promarkers, and i just gotr myself some Distress Markers, which are taking a bit of getting used to!

So I coloured this amazing image from Rick St. Dennis a little while ago, and I finally made her into a card for a Facebook Challenge on the Rick St. Dennis group.  There are so many images to look at there, for all kinds of tastes. There are some fab Halloween images, and some are sooo spooky, but of course my favourites are his elegant ladies. And this is one:

She is called Swan Masque,  and I coloured her with Promarkers, and spent more time on the Swan head dress than her hair! Such a fabulous image to colour, as are all of his images.

I teamed her with some Papermania paper and some new dies, from Sue Wilson and Spellbinders. As usual, I had trouble extricating my card from the Spellbinder die, so I tried again with the Cut Rite wax paper, and it worked like a dream. But they still annoy me! No other die I have ( and I have a few from several different companies) give me this trouble.

As the dies were quite intricate and detailed, I just added some sparkly gems to the corners, and left it at that.

I would like to enter this into

 Tuesday Throwdown - Sparkle

Crafty Catz - B is for Blue

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

Lovely Lady..

Good Sunday afternoon all, it's a gloomy and wet day here in West Berkshire, after the lovely blue skies yesterday, I knew it couldn't last lol!

Anyway, I've been doing a bit of colouring this morning, and created a card for my Mother-in-Law for Mother's Day.

I treated myself to some fabulous images by Rick St Dennis yesterday, and this lovely lady was the first on my wish list! Oh she is gorgeous! She reminds me of Lady Mae in Mr. Selfridge (it's on tonight yippee!) and I couldn't wait to colour her in. She's called 1906 Hat, and you can find her  HERE

I'm having a bit of a purple phase right now, so she had to have a purple hat, and the jewel in her brooch has to be a big amethyst, one of my favourite stones.

I coloured her with Promarkers, and added some glamour dust to her hat trimmings and around the jewel. I used some lovely papers from Trimcraft called New Bloom.

I bordered her with some die cut flourishes from Tattered Lace called Ornamental Rose, cut twice in cream card and twice in purple, then layered together. I then added some butterflies cut using Memory Box dies.

Inside the card I have used a sentiment from Waltzingmouse Stamps, and two little floral butterflies from Stampin' Up!.

Finally I added a little circular sentiment from Love Circles set on the front using a Wild Rose Studios sentiment, and some Prima gems to her hat pin and the butterflies.

I love this card, and my daughter loves it too, it will be hard to part with but I know it will be going to a good home!

For anyone who is interested, here's the list of Promarkers I used for the image:

Hat: Sorbet, Amethyst, Red Violet, Lilac, Winterberry, Umber.
Bird Wings: Warm Grey1, 5, Grey Squirrel.
Hair: Burnt Orange, Spice, Terracotta, Henna, Cocoa, Black.
Skin: Satin, Pastel Pink, Oatmeal. Lips - Dusky rose, Antique Pink, Rose Peach.
Eyes: Apple, Forest Green, Sea Green.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafter's Cafe - Shabby Chic or Vintage

Southern Girls Challenge - Bling

Digi Galore - Things with Wings

4 Crafty Chicks - Things with Wings

The Stamping Boutique - Use a Punch or Die Cut.


Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

Tuesday Taggers + Little Red Wagon + Crafty Catz 25 + Pile it On Challenges

Hello, I have not been around for a week or so due to lots of end of school term stuff, and finally this week have had a couple of hours to make an easel card. I keep seeing these on the web, and thought I would have a go myself.




I have used a card base from my local craft shop Flutterby Crafts, and the dark purple paper was a gift from a craft friend. Lilac Bazill and pale pearlescent card stamped with a lovely swirly flourish from Waltzingmouse Stamps was layered onto the card.



Then using Nestabilities Blossom die cut two flowers to make a medallion.




Using another image from the same stamp set, I stamped and coloured with promarkers the vintage patterned circle. I then highlighted some of the scroll ends with stickles Starry Night. Layered this onto the blossom, then stamped a sentiment from WMS Say it with Style set onto some lilac bazill, and popped that into the centre using some foam dimensionals.




Punched some butterflies using a Martha Stewart punch in glittery lilac and white card, added some white pearls, buttons and some bling and, Ta-daaa!! I love it!

I am entering this card into a few challenges;

Tuesday Taggers (sponsored by The Craft Barn)

Little Red Wagon 22

Crafty Catz 25

Edited to add one more challenge, hope it's not too cheeky ;-)

Pile it On

Thanks for looking and have a great Easter

Pauline x

Sketch Saturday: All the Flowers of Tomorrow..

Hi, hope everyone is having a great weekend. Today I have something new! This is my card for Sketch Saturday. week 92, and it's the first challenge that I have attempted.
I have used a new stamp from Mo Manning, and coloured the image with Promarkers. All new to me, but I am pleased with the outcome! Not sure about the grass though....

I love this little girl, she reminds me of my eldest daughter, dreamy and free spirited, well that's how she appears to me!
All the patterned paper is from a stack I bought last week, from a company called Wild Rose Studio. I have used the doily design a rose bud design, and a pink striped design from this pack, which also contains some great cake and teapot themes too. They also design some lovely clear stamps, and I bought one of those too, will make a card with it in the next few days.

Lots of layering on this card, but I think it works. The sentiment is one from the Earthangel set by WMS, " All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today" ; I just thought it matched the image and roses perfectly.

Inside I have used a couple of strips of paper which I've used on the front, but got kind of obscured; it's so pretty I had to use some more! Edged them with Martha Stewart lace doily punch. Sentiment inside the card is from Earthangel again, with the little 'xo' underneath from Say it With Style stamp set from WMS.

As I like a bit of bling, I gave her a little sparkly rhinestone necklace, and used a couple of gems on the bees. Added some pink stickles to the roses, and finally used some more pink rhinestones on the sentiment.

Thanks for looking, and have a great Sunday
Pauline xx

Supplies used: Mo Manning clear stamp; Waltzingmouse Earthangel and Say it With Style stamp sets; Candy Floss paper stack from Wild Rose Studio; Pearlescent card from Papermill Shop; Pink glitter card by Dovecraft; Letraset Promarkers; paper roses from The Works; rhinestones by Papermania. Nesties scalloped circles sml. Memento London Fog ink.