Passion for ProMarkers 3rd Anniversary

Morning peoples. Thank you for stopping by today! :) First day back at work after a week off today. I'll be dead come 6pm! LOL.

So some of you may or may not know that I'm now part of the amazing talent on the Passion for ProMarkers DT, and us new girlies -  Jane B, Jane M and Jen - joined at just the right time. We've got a brand new challenge to celebrate..

Passion for ProMarkers
3rd Anniversary

We would really love to see those BIRTHDAY CREATIONS. We can never have enough on hand, so now is your perfect chance to add to your card stash. We've got some awesome prizes up for grabs, so make yourself a hot drink, sit back, and let us show you what we've got.

 

Letraset are offering 3 lucky winners 1 pack of Limited Edition “Summer” promarkers.

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Joanna Sheen are offering 1 prize of a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store. 

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Crafty Emma’s store is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store. 

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Polka Doodles are offering 2 lucky winners a copy of her mini CD collection “Pretty Sweet”.

 

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Bugaboo are offering once lucky winner 7 digi images of their choice.

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Pink Gem Designs are offering one lucky winner their digi set called “Ewe make me smile”.

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DigiStamp Boutique are offering 6 digi images to one lucky winner.

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Bearly Mine Designs are offering one lucky winner 2 digi sets of their choice.

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Whimsy Stamps/Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a prize of $15.00 worth of digi papers.

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Now are they amazing prizes? Or are they amazing prizes? What more reason do you need to join in this time round?! Incase you're STILL not feeling inpired.. head over to the Passion for ProMarkers blog and see what the ladies have come up with to get those creative juices flowing!! Here's my attempt..

I've used the super cute Joyce from The Greeting Farm. She's a digi and I've printed her onto Neenah Solar White cardstock. I've coloured her using ProMarkers and FlexMarkers - naturally! ;)

I've added a blue glow behind her and a few little flowers and stuffs around her feet - told you I loved that right now! :) I've cut her out using a Labels Eighteen nestie and adhered her to the card using dimensionals. My papers are from First Edition and I've used the last of my baby blue twill stripe ribbon on this card!! Need to place an order with The Ribbon Girl veeeery soon!! I've used some delish flowers from WOC as well as a button from Basic Grey and and some rhinestones, also from WOC.

The sentiment from Amy R has been stamped in Pretty in Pink ink from SU! I've cut the end into a banner shape and adhered it under the image. I took some left over papers and created two extra little banners to adhered to the top of the card to fill in the blank space in the corner.

So before I waffle anymore and put you Passion for ProMarker followers off coming to my blog ever again, I'ma wrap it up here!! LOL! Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to head over to the BLOG  now and join in with our ANNIVERSARY celebrations by making up an extra special birthday card to share with us!!

I'd like to enter this card into these challenges:
Robyn's Fetish - Anything Goes
Inspire me Friday's - Always Anything Goes

Flowers, Flowers, Everywhere at TInks

Morning Tiddly Inkers! :) We've got a sweet new challenge for ya to join in with this fortnight..

FLOWERS, FLOWERS, EVERYWHERE!!

Easy, peasy, right? There's a million and one ways you could incorporate flowers onto your project - I've gone all out and tried to cram them in in.. four ways? Heehee. First up.. Wryn - Spring Bling was the natural choice, wasn't she? With the pretty bunch of flowers she's holding. So I've coloured her up to match my papers from First Edition - Bird Song. I then added a little field of flowers all around her using light strokes with my PMs and FMs to create blades of grass, then touching the very tip of my pen to the top of random blades to create pretty little flowers. This has gotta be my fave technique right now - I do it on almost all of my images! LOL.

So my two patterned papers I've used both have floral patterns, then to finish off the card and to add a little extra interest and dimension I used some delicious Wild Orchid Craft flowers in aqua, mint and 2 tone ivory and pink to match the other colours on the card. I've looped a few little lengths of baby pinks grosgrain ribbon and layered some lace behind the image too. I always like to add texture through fibres on my projects. Just a fancy way of saying I've got an addiction to ribbon! LMBO!

So what are you waiting for?! Get your flowery projects uploaded to the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog NOW so we can pop by and have a mooch!!

I'd like to enter this card into these challenges:

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes - Pretty in Pink

Pile it On - Patterns; Mix your Scales

Card Caravan - Flowers

You'll wanna come back later and see the exciting first post I've got as a Passion for ProMarkers DT member! ;) All I'ma say is.. PRIZES GALORE! 

Over and Out. 

Good Hair Day

After the positive reaction I received last night about my SMASH* page for the SOG Fun Day Challenge which you can see HERE.. I thought I'd share another of my pages with you all. :)

Thank you for all of your kind comments! Each and everyone is truly appreciated. My boyfriend was watching me schedule a couplea posts last night and said.. "Lou, I really don't know how you can be bothered" I was like.. what do you mean? He meant the amount of stuff I type up, the editing I carry out on my photos before I upload them, all of the links I include in my posts and stuff.. Wanna know why I can be bothered?! Because I love to hear the feedback from you guys!! Makes it all worth while! :)

So here we have a SMASH* page in my Green Eco book about GOOD HAIR DAYS! ;) Oh yeah. I know some of you girls will feel my pain. I usually only have good hair days when I have absolutely no where to go! Typical huh. On this very rare occasion I actually had somewhere to go AND I was having a good hair day. A result of overly positive thinking, I reckon! LOL.

The base of my page is on top of a slice of 6x6 Basic Grey Basics White paper. Helps to keep my journalling straight. I've used stamps and punches from SU! to decorate the page in blues and greens. I've added my own journalling and a few alpha stickers and stuff. I've recycled a little glassine bag that I get my twine in from The Ribbon Girl and used it as a pocket. I've added a Tim Holtz ticket, and a stamped image of Abbey from TGF which I neeeed colour colour. As I love her hair! :) I've also stamped the same image onto a little kraft tag from Papermania. I've threaded some green and blue bakers twine through the tag and attached using a Doodlebug brad. I've created a pocket on front of my pocket using a Starburst wrapper. It happened to be lying on my desk when I was making this page and thought it went with the whole colour scheme perfectly.

What else? Hmm.. a Sassafras button flower which I've been hoarding for ever. A Basic Grey brad with a little birdie on.. love. A green stick pin.. some Prima gems and pearls.. some liquid pearls.. Stickles.. an Echo Park banner sticker.. ohh and some washi tape. :) Lovely. All smashed in there! LOL.

That about wraps it up. It's all I've got for ya today. That cough I woke up with on Wesnesday, has, unsurprisingly, turned into a full blown cold. You don't even wanna know where I spend the majortity of my time last night! LMAO!! I don't do being ill very well at all. I'm like a dying duck!! 

So me thinks, as I'm actually on time with this.. I'll join in with the one and only Kellie Winnells SMASH*ing Sunday! :) I totally missed out on the 24 Hour SMASH* action over on FB this weekend. I'm useless. I know. :/ Maybe next time, huh?

Over and Out.

Some Odd Girl - Fun Day

Super late post, I know. Really.. I should be in bed, but all I've done is cough today - so dropping off to sleep is proving a little more difficult than I'd like. So I thought I'd stop by and share the project I made for the Some Odd Girl - Facebook Fun Day Challenge.

I don't know about you guys, but I've had a blast today. I haven't really been feeling 100%, and I've been in and out of the house, but I think I've caught up on most of the action. The mini tutorials and quick sales, along with the banter all of the ladies have been providing on FB has been fantastic! :) I really hope Kristy and the team make it a regular thing! :) 

So.. before I waffle on anymore. Got washing to sort out and fold before bed yet. Goodness.

 Now be warned.. I think this is the first SMASH* post I've made on my blog, although I have done a few more pages.. so.. I hope the photo is clear enough - I've been playing around with the best angle and stuff, and cannot for the life of me get it to look straight. I took about 8 pictures of the same page and they're all skew-whiff. So I've chosen what I believe to be the best two to show ya..

Still the most wonky thing ever.. but.. meh. I've used the gorgeous and oh so cute Shy Kaylee. I've printed her out at 5.5" which is a little bigger than I normally would, and I had a blast colouring up the creases in her top. Of course I had to add some turquoise tips to that quirky hair style of hers too! :)  

So the challenge was a BRIGHT COLOURS challenge. You guys know I love teal/turquoise yeah.. and what colour goes so well.. only ORANGE?! How much brighter could ya get? Heehee.

Polka dot socks. Yes please! :) I really do despise my handwriting, but as a load of ladies have said.. it's your SMASH* book and your own hand writing is the ultimate personalisation. Right? I've added a heap of stuff.. Pebbles stickers, Cosmo Cricket alpha stickers, MME papers and rub-ons, Sassafras button flower, Papermania and Doodlebug brads. Washi tape, twine, twill stripe ribbon. Yummity stuff.

So I'm off to get the rest of my chores finished up then off to bed for me. I oh, so hope Mother Goose allows a lie in tomorrow - I'm pooped! LOL.

Over and out.

Spots and Stripes at LLLC

*waves good morning*

So by the time this post goes lives.. me and the boyfriend should *hopefully* be well on our way to Edinburgh Zoo!! Excited much!! Naturally I'll have this post scheduled as I'm host this week, so it should all go according to plan. Here's the deal..

We've some new inspiration for ya over at La-La Land Crafts in the form of..

SPOTS AND STRIPES 

Probably my most fave criteria of all time. Give me spots or stripes.. or even better.. BOTH.. ANY day! :) Love them. So versatile, and I love that.

So I decided to merge two images for my card today..

Watercan Marci

Fence

Skin - Blush, Soft Peach, Rose Peach, Burnt Orange, Lavender, Baby Pink
Hair - Mare Hare, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Cocoa
Orange - Peach, Mango, Bright Orange, Orange, Spice
Blue - Turquoise, Island Lagoon, Marine, Petrol Blue
Fence - Terracotta, Cocoa, Saddle Brown
Path - Sandstone, Nutmeg, Tan, Umber, Warm Grey 3-5
Grass - Aniseed, Chartreuse, Emerald

I stamped my Kraft cardbase using Hero Arts Polka Dots cling stamp using some Pumpkin Pie ink from SU! I then wrapped some orange bakers twine and tied it in a tiny bow off to the right. I tried to keep this card pretty flat, as I was going to be mailing it - so having the image centre stage makes doing that pretty easy. :) I punched some butterflies with a Martha Stewart punch and adhered them to the image panel. I then wrapped some washi tape on each side of the image to balance the weight of the sentiment and largest butterfly. Job done.

Be sure to stop by the inspiration blog to see what everyone else has for ya today! ;) 

I'd like to enter this card into these challenges:
I <3 ProMarkers - Anything Goes 
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes 
Bunny Zoe Crafts - Anything Goes 
Simon Says Stamp - Clean and Simple