Make it Manly at Passion for Promarkers

Hiya! Another new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers today...something I don't do enough of, I'm always short of cards for men in my family, so today it's MAKE IT MANLY!

It's ages since I've done a card using a Lily of the Valley stamp, so thought as summer is on it's way I'd use this cute BBQing bear and companion. Remember, if you'd like to be in with a chance to win then you need to use your Letraset products, and state which ones you've used in your post. I used my Promarkers here.

Our generous sponsor is Di's Digi Stamps, who is offering a gift voucher to spend on some cute digi stamps!

Lovely Lilac & Lemon

Hello again...I know I can hardly believe it myself, two posts in one morning is impossible, well not quite! As I mentioned in my post earlier today, I'm back with a DT creation for the Passion for Promarkers Challenge, my first card for PFP in a very long time! BUT, as it's my choice of theme this week I'm back! So here is my LOVELY LILAC AND LEMON card...

I am on a roll with the baby theme, I have another friend who just had a baby girl, so this card will come in handy! For the background I coloured patches of colour with my Promarkers and blended using the colourless blender...first time I've tried this as I didn't have any paper I liked enough to go with the image. I think I'll try this technique again as I like the effect. I added some doodling too, of course!

We are sponsored by Crafty Sentiments Designs who are giving away 3 digi images to our lucky winner! But you've gotta be in it to win it so get those purple and yellow promarkers out! The other DT girls have come up with some corker cards this week, pop by the challenge blog to see them all and get all the challenge details!

Details:

Stamp - Lily of the Valley, Colouring - Promarkers, Sentiment Stamp - Artemio, twine and pearls from stash

Just Because and Cheesecakes!

Hi, hope you're having a lovely weekend! The sun is shining here in France, it's so hot I've been hiding in the house all day! So I've done a little card, using the hot sunny weather as inspiration...


I just love this Penny Black image, it was a RAK so I'll have to try to get my hands on the stamp, although I'm trying to be good at the moment. I've used Papermania Black Magic cardstock, and distressed it. The ribbon is from Doodlebug and the adorable bee charm is from The Hobby House. I'm entering this into the Lili of the Valley challenge, as you have to use a charm on your card.

Ok now for cheesecakes! Doesn't this look so yummy...
unfortunately it's not how my cheesecake looked like, mine was more of a runny mess! What a distaster! The recipe included 300ml of whipped double cream, but can you believe it, double cream doesn't exist in France! With all their lovely patisseries wouldn't you think they'd have at least heard of double cream! Nope! Even the local patissier didn't know what to use, and suggested I make a "French" cake instead! In the end I used another cream, with a lower fat content, and it just didn't do the job! So I ended up with cheese spread rather than cheesecake! Maybe I can find another recipe with creme fraiche instead? Well, just think about all those calories I didn't eat lol!