***Exciting Promarker News***

Just HAD to tell you before I burst .................... from next week I will have Promarkers and Tria markers available to buy from my website!!

To start with there will be a minimum order of £10 but U may well remove this in the future once I start getting regular orders. Standard P&P charge should be £1.50 for up to 5 pens and £2.50 over that.

Single Promarkers will be £1.50 and the 5 pen packs will be £7 - other sets and prices are available on request.

It's a bit like buses ......

Can't be bothered making a card for ages and then two come along at once lol!

After making the Passion for Promarkers challenge card with the Penny Black image I decided I NEEDED to use the Moss Green on this lovely Willow stamp from Whiff of Joy so I included a smattering of Poppy on the image as well and I'm really pleased with the result. It's the first time I've tried shading blue jeans and I'm quite happy with the way they've turned out.



I used
layers of Moss Green for Willow's jumper,
Poppy for the mug of hot chocolate, her socks and the decorations on her jeans
Royal Blue with Indigo Blue shading for her jeans
Ivory with Blush shading for the skin tones
and Gold, Yellow and Canary for her hair

Another challenge card

Today is the first day in a while that I've FELT like crafting, the weather has freshened a bit and I'm feeling altogether more human. The sunburn I got from the school fete on Friday is finally feeling better (tho I still look like I have leperosy or something coz I'm peeling SOOOOOOO much) and I'm on a high after I found out that the fete raised over £1500!!!

Anyway, I digress ...... I have made this card for the Papertake Weekly Challenge sketch and the Passion for Promarkers Challenge colour combination of Poppy and Moss Green.



I used a Penny Black image, and used the Moss Green and Poppy promarkers for the girls clothes, satin, cinnamon and dusky pink for the cake, cinnamon, cocoa and henna for the hair and ivory and blush for the skin. The paper and vellum came from my old stash and the ribbons were from my christmas wrappings box.

Summery Tilda card

I tried to post this card on my blog on Thursday to tie in with both the Just Magnolia challenge and the Passion for Promarkers challenge. Unfortunately t'interweb was misbehaving so I couldn't do it and now I'm too late for the Just Magnolia challenge anyway.

I used Lemon with Gold for the shading on Tilda's butterfly wings and trousers and Meadow Green with Apple shading for her dress and headband. I used Cinnamon, Cocoa and Henna for her hair and Lemon for the edging of the scallopped Nestability.

Get Well Soon Chloe!

One of the little girls at my sons' school has been very poorly so I offered to make a card for the class to send to her in hospital.

I used my computer to generate a Word Art sentiment which I printed directly onto the card. I used some lovely spotty and stripey ribbons from Anita's and tied knots in it to add some textured detail and two images of Dexter the Bear from Sugar Nellie (I got him in a "Lucky Bag" from Funky Kits)

To tie in with this week's challenge at Passion for Promarkers I coloured Dexter using Cinnamon and Pumpkin Promarkers.



Bear - Cinnamon with Henna shading and Blush ears
Jumper - Pumpkin with bright orange shading on the stripes and cuffs

Candles for Camelford

Today is the big medieval banquet in Camelford and I'm ALMOST ready for it ..... got soaking wet hair but that's a minor point!

Here are some of the candles that I have made to take with me:


This one is coloured for the Passion for Promarkers challenge - I used
Cool Grey 2 and 3 for the stonework,
Pastel Blue for the window,
Cinnamon with Cocoa shading for the table
Cinnamon and Pumpkin with Bright Orange shading for Princess Poppy's Gown and Wimple,
Ivory and Blush for the skin tones
Yellow and Gold for the hair




For these candles I used the tissue paper method, I stamped the Poppy and Paddy images from my designs using Ink It Up Black Dye Ink Pad onto tissue paper and then carefully coloured them with my promarks before attaching them to the candles by placing the tissue paper in position, covering with greaseproof paper and then heating with my heat gun before buffing to a nice finish.

Passion for Promarkers and Just Magnolia Challenges

Here is my entry for the sketch challenge on Just Magnolia combined with the Pastel Pink and Apple challenge on Passion for Promarkers



I used coredinations cardstock for the pink backgrounds, the strip of green and the the scalloped circle (which was cut on my robo) were cut from white card and coloured with the Pastel Pink and Apple Promarkers. The wings and the sentiment were highlighted and written with my black Sakura Stardust pen.

I coloured the clothes on the Magnolia image with Apple and Pastel Pink Promarkers. I used Ivory, Blush and Dusky Pink Promarkers for the flesh-tones and Cinnamon, Cocoa and Henna Promarkers for the hair.