Use die cuts over at Passion for Markers

Moring and hello!

It have been a long silence here on my blog this year. Due to pain and struggle with my meds is my posts a bit unregular. When your body says stop you need to listen. Anyway, I have managed to make a card for this week's challenge. Yay for me! It took a while to colour but I am glad that I gave it a go.

Our sponsor this time is for us a new one called Alex Syberia Designs. They offer one lucky winner a gift voucher worth $10. That is what one lucky winner will receive this week! Thank you for that!

The image I have used is called Fabulous Floral. It's a lovely design and fun to colour. I have used parts of the image twice and coloured one of them. I cut the coloured part with a circle die as that is our theme

this week, USE DIE CUTS. Nice and easy theme, don't you think? Anyway, I cut down the other print of the image to fit my card. I then put the coloured circle over the rectangular image. To back it all did I use a part of a Lawn Fawn designer paper. Don't have the paper pad in mind at this point. 

After that did I die cut a sentiment from hÄnglar and Wings saying Grattis = (congratulations) a few times and layered them together to build some dimension for the card. On top of the card did I add a few pearls to finish it all off.

I hope you like what you see and that you come and play with us over at Passion for Markers.

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Creatalicious Challenges - Anything goes option Love/hearts

Digichoosday cardmaking challenge - Anything goes

Stamps and fun challenges - Flowers

Lil Patch of crafty friends - Anything goes

New! 2023 first challenge over at Passion for Markers

 Morning and hello!

It's time for a new year and a new challenge over at Passion for Markers, and we start off light! Our theme is set to "New". That means we want to see that you use something new or have a theme of new in another way. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is The Paper Shelter which is offering one lucky winner 3 digis of winner's choice. Thank you for that!

For me is the "new" my paper pad. It's from Simple Stories and is called Simple Vintage Winter Woods. It's a lovely paper pack with mild colours of grey, blue/green and pink. It's stunning!

I have used the image called Cosy Winter Wishes and it's one of the more detailed images with lots of small areas to colour but this one is really worth it. I love how I managed to get the colours to match up fairly good to my designer papers and with some paper flowers, leaf and gemstones have I given the card some dimension and texture. For a nice finish did I also add a bow in matching colour. My sentiment is from hÄnglar and Wings.

Nice and short once again! I have huge trouble using the computer and my very nosy Maine Coon lady Hilde isn't helping, even if she believes she is! Give me back my keyboard!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Mega challenge over at Passion for Markers!

 Morning and hello!

It's time for our yearly mega challenge during december at Passion for markers. Our theme is set to "USE DIE CUTS" which is a nice and easy theme to follow. I start with telling you a little about my card and there after can you read the text from the challenge post with all our fantastic sponsors that are joining us for this monthlong challenge.

For my card today have I used one of the new snow men set from hÄnglar and Wings. The set is called Snöskoj and you find it here. I have coloured with a mix of different branded markers and it's a joy to colour these fantastic snowmen. I have paired the image with the new Maja Design paper pad called Christmas Wonderland. It's a lovely collection of papers, just as always when it comes from Maja design. 

As our challenge says we are supposed to use die cuts on our creations this time and I have used a bunch of old spell binder dies, dies from PY Hobby, Lawn Fawn and hÄnglar and Wings. For the first time in years have I made an easel card which was great fun for a change. Some pearls, metallic snow flakes, a clay Santa and a bow have been used to decorate my card. I hope you like what you see and come and join us for this last challenge of the year 2022. You can enter up to three project for this challenge and in two weeks will you see some new inspiration from our second team. 

Take care and remember to enjoy all the fun in December.

Love n hugs

Marie

And here comes the info about our sponsors this time!

This week we are launching our very special “Mega Christmas challenge” which runs for a whole month and ends on 3rd January 2023!  I’m sure you’ll agree that both design teams have worked extremely hard once again this year and they deserve a little break to catch up on their last minute gifts and cards.  However to make up for the lack of challenges we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs!

Our theme for the Mega Christmas challenge is “use die cuts”.  We don't mind what you create for this challenge, as long as you use some die cuts and colour with your markers!  You are welcome to make Christmas creations but as the challenge will still be running after the ‘BIG’ day you can of course make any type of creation.  As time is precious for our DT at this time of year we are limiting the number of entries you can make to just 3 for this month long challenge.  Please remember to be eligible for our prizes you must use your markers such as Promarkers, Copics, Spectrum Noir, Karin, Zig Clean Color etc

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Dies to Die For are offering 1 lucky winner a £20.00 gift voucher

Uniko Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 1 stamp set (must be in stock)

Leann’s World 101 are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

Crafty Sentiments Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

Colour of Love digis are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

All Dressed Up stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

Polkadoodles are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

Di’s Digi Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a $6.00 voucher

Sheepski Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

Wow we are sure you’ll agree our sponsors have been super generous once again this year!  We are so grateful to have their continued support. 

Traditional Christmas colours over at PFM

 Morning and hello from a snowy Sweden!

-8 degrees and it's snowing again when I write this. We have about 2,5 dm of snow and soon will it all be gone again. And today should the carpenters started to change our roof. What great planning! The worst thing is that we had 17 degrees last weekend. Totally nuts!

Ok, we have a new challenge up for you over at Passion for Markers. This week's theme is "Traditional Christmas colours". Perfect timing, right? Around a month before Christmas today and time flies by fast. I think I will have a few more cards to make and send. 

Our sponsor this week is Colour of Love which is offering one lucky winner three digis of winners choice. Thank you for that!

I have not used a sponsor image this time, had to use something that I already had coloured as I am in a fight with my fingers/hands. They are not working properly at this time. Wonder how long that will last.? Anyway, I have used an image from LOTV that I find super sweet. I have coloured with my promarkers this time. I like the red colours best from that brand. 

I have paired this jolly fellow up with some designer papers from We R M called silver and gold if I remember right. I really need to start writing down what I use in my projects. A golden, red and green ribbon from my stash match up perfect with my papers. Some glitter glue from Nuvo is used as well as a few golden sticker stars and a few pearls in a deep red colour for the tree. The final touch comes from some golden gemstones. A white gel pen is also used for some extra details. 

Well, I think this is all from me for now. I hope you take some time to come and play with us. It's a really easy theme and fun to play along with a few challenges, Take care and do something you enjoy!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Make it digital over at Passion for Markers

 Morning and hello!

Long time no seen! I am still struggling with my health and that makes it a bit hard to colour, if I took that part away it would be pretty ok. :) But that would make it impossible to create for PFM. 

Our sponsor this week is Leann's world 101 and they are offering one lucky winner two images of winners choice. 

This week's challenge is set to "Make it digital" and that was something that was easy for me when I was on the TPS team, but now am I almost always using images from hÄnglar and Wings which is a stamp company with almost only stamps. So I had to look around to find this card that I could use for this challenge. I believe it is a Tiddly Ink image but not totally sure. 

I have coloured this image with my promarkers and paired the lovely couple up with some designer papers from Pink Fresh Studio's Oh, what fun! I have been using up some of my huge stash of enamel dots and shapes. I have also used some die cut snowflakes, but I don't remember what brand these are from. I have also used some nuvo drops for the eye and buttons on the sweet snowman.

Take care everyone and do something that makes you happy!

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card