Sundays are for crafting!

Hi, hope you're all having a lovely weekend! Well despite it being a lovely sunny day in France today, I still managed to make two cards! The first one is for A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge, where you have to add lace to your card...


The image is an Elisabeth Bell design from Sugar Nellie. I also used DP from Stampin' Up (Summer Picnic), Bazill red card, sentiment from Cuddly Buddly and rest is from stash. The image has been coloured with Distress Inks...


The second card is for the new Passion for Promarkers challenge blog...


It's my second Promarker card, I'm still getting used to my new pens. I'm finding that they bleed a little depending on what type of card the image is stamped onto, I suppose it'll be a case of trial and error with this. Anyway, the image was a RAK, I think it's from The Greetings Farm, all the papers are from a pack I got in Aldi (France) a while back, the charm is from the Hobby House and sentiment done on Cuttlebug. The Promarkers I have used are: Pastel Pink, Magenta, Blossom, Cool Grey 1 & 2, Gold and Yellow.

Off for a relaxing Sunday evening, hope you enjoy it too!

First attempt with Promarkers!

Good evening everyone! Hip hip hooray, it's the weekend (well almost) and I've got two whole days off work! The housework is crying out to be done, and I just can't ignore it anymore, but I am definately going to give myself some "me" time this weekend. That means crafting, and maybe a tad of gardening too!

Ok, now for my card...and it's my first using my new Promarkers (I'm liking them... a lot). So here it is...


And a little close up of the image...


I used a fabby Miss Anya image kindly sent to me by Vicki (thanks hun), coloured with my new Promarkers. The colours I used are Pastel Pink, Grass, Magenta, Vanilla, Yellow and Cool Grey 3. I also used Cuttlebug Embossing folders for the swirly background and the sentiments. The coloured card and heart brads are from my stash. I'm entering my card into the Passion for Promarkers Challenge, which is "Anything Goes" for the first week. If you haven't already popped by this new blog and have some Promarkers, then do it quick as there are some fantastic prizes up for grabs for the first challenge! Congratulations to Denise and Gina on the launch of this great new challenge blog!

Well that's enough from me, off to get myself settled ready for Britain's Got Talent! Have a fab evening!

Yeay, I've Won!

Oh I'm so chuffed, I won the challenge this week over at a Spoon Full of Sugar! There were several prizes and I won the Whimsy stamp, Mother Goose and her babies! And guess what, the stamp has arrived today, all the way from the US! I can't belive it's only taken 3 days! I'd just like to thank the girls over at ASFOS, as well as the Whimsy Stamp Company for sending me such a lovely prize, and in super quick time! I'll be putting some ink on my lovely new stamp soon!

The Sugar Bowl - Sketch by Kathy

Hi all! Firstly thanks for the advice about Internet Explorer, at least I'm not the only one who's having problems (makes me feel better). I've had some success today and have been able to visit a few blogs, but IE has started playing up again so will call it a day (Mmmm...for a minute I thought I'd cracked it). So instead I thought I'd share my card with you, it's for The Sugar Bowl Challenge - a lovely sketch by Kathy...


You have to include pearls on your card, so I've used a little pearl brad...


Ok, the image is of course Sugar Nellie (Leanne Ellis Design) coloured using brush markers, the papers are Stampin' Up "Tea Party"...I just love these, green card is embossed using the Cuttlebug Perfect Paisley embossing folder, brad is Papermania, spacer is from The Hobby House, rest is from stash.

Last night my gorgeous hubby surprised me with some lovely Pro Markers, my very first! I was so chuffed, but as it was around midnight and I had to get up early this morning I haven't had a play yet...so I'm off to have a half hour with my new markers! I'm not sure how to use them yet, so if anyone has any tips or knows of any tutorials I'm all ears...thanks!

Help! Problems with Internet Explorer

Please please can anyone help? I've been having problems visiting your blogs, everytime I want to visit a blog the blog comes on the screen then a message pops up from Internet Explorer saying it cannot open the site and the operation is terminated!!! I have to click OK, and then that's it, no blogging! It's driving me round the bend and I don't have a clue how to fix it! So until I know what's wrong I can't visit anyone's blog! WHY? If anyone can help, please leave me a comment, thanks!

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Celebration

Hi! Hope you're all enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend. In France we don't have the same Bank Holidays, shame as it's nice having that extra day off on BH Monday! Anyway, hope the weather is kind to you, it's so much nicer when the sun shines!

I've managed to fit in a card for this week's challenge over at A Spoonfull Of Sugar. They're celebrating their birthday so the challenge is to do a card for any type of celebration. I've gone for a new baby card, as a work collegue has recently given birth to a baby girl...


I stamped the image several time and decoupaged it, you can see the layers better here...


The image is Penny Black "basket case" coloured with w/c pencils, I've used Nestabilities and Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder. The papers, flowers and ribbon are from my stash and the sentiment reads "Congratulations" and is from Artemio.

Have a relaxing weekend!

Magnolia Mother's Day

In France, Mother's Day is in June this year, so for my MIL's card I decided to use the lovely sketch by Naoual from the Just Magnolia challenge blog...


I have added glitter to her wings and around the hearts, and gold in her hair although it's difficult to see from the photo...


Tilda is stamped in Versafine and coloured using Distress Inks. The paper (which we can see very little of) is from a K & Co pad and has "Mother" written on it in different ways. The sentiment stamp is from Artemio and reads "from the bottom of the heart". All other embellishments are from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by!