Special occasions - Christmas card

How is the summer going in your part of the world? 

If it's hot - you'll understand the theme for my card. 

If it's cold - you'll understand the theme for my card :D
Besides, you can never start Christmascards too soon, right?

This bi-weekly challenge on the Ilovepromarkers challenge blog is:

Special occasions

We are sponsored by fabrika fantasy and the winner of this challenge will win 3 images of their choice. 

All you need to do is create a card using any promarkers to color your image and follow the theme.

 I hope you'll join us.

I used the image "first flower" and had a hard time corperating the image into the theme. I thought it would be wonderful for an easter or "spring is here" kind of card. However - I wanted to challenge myself and came up with the idea to only use parts of the image. That's the great thing about big scenery images - you don't have to use them as they are.

Image taken from fabrika fantasy website.

 

Today's promarker tip:

If you don't have cardstock in the exact shade to match your patterned paper you can color it using your promarkers. 

Simply choose a color that's a lighter shade of the one you want. You can use several promarkers to get the perfect match. Here I used rose pink first and lavender on top to get my cardstock to match the purple patterned paper.

Challenges:
Crafty creations - Anything goes
Crazy 4 challenges - Some kind of water
Creative inspirations - Dots and/or stripes

I love promarkers - Special occasions
Little red wagon  - 3 of a kind (I used 3 circles and 3 patterned papers)
Simon says wednesday - Anything goes

Image: "First flower" from fabrika fantasy.

Promarkers: ice grey 1,3 and 5, cool grey 2 and 5, ivory, blush, oatmeal, rose pink, lavender, tea green, pastel green and soft green.
Papers: "Curiousity" be creative! by Pandurohobby, scraps from Christmas papers.

Others: Stickers (snowflake and sentiment), sakura gelly roll, stickles "star dust" and liquid pearls "white opal"

Until next time: Keep crafting!

Monochrome card with promarkers

Where do the days go? I can't keep up.

It is time for another "I love promarkers" challenge.

This time the theme is:

Monochrome

We are sponsored by:

 The paper shelter

I have used different shades of grey and a grey/beige color for the skin. I don't think I've ever tried making a black and white image before so it was quite a challenge (which is kind of the point). 

Please join us in the bi-weekly challenge. You can use any image you want. The only thing you need is to use any of the promarker types and follow the theme (monochromatic).

I hope you'll join us this time :)

Challenges:

Crafty creations - anything goes

Fab n funky - vintage

I love promarkers - monochrome

Moving along with the times - embossing wet/dry

Simon says - touchy feely

Stampavie and more - lace

Image: "The lady" from the paper shelter.

Promarkers: ice grey 1,3 and 5, cool grey 2 and 5, warm grey 2, putty and blender.
Papers: "Floral with definitions" Midnight kisses by heidigrace.
Dry embossing folder: Cuttlebug.

Others: Pearl flatstones, lace ribbon.

Until next time: Keep crafting! 

New DT member for the ilovepromarkers challenge blog!

Today will be all about bragging :D

I'm here to share the news with you that I'm officially the newest member of the 

i love promarkers challenge blog. 

I actually got an email asking me if I would like to join them.

I got headhunted, lol! 

I'm so excited!

Promarkers have been my favorite coloring medium through the years. I'm always curious about new ways to color and have tried most of them, but I keep going back to my beloved promarkers every time.

Promarker colors used for this card.

 I like that there are 148 colors. It's quite a few, but not so overwhelming that you don't know where to start.  I have around 120 of them.

You don't need that many to get a good range of colors. What I would recommend is to start with two colors in the same shade - one darker and one lighter. For example: you can have ice grey 1 and 3. This will let you build up the colors and blend them together.

So instead of buying one pen in each color family (eg. a yellow, a pink, a red etc) I would go for two reds (one darker one lighter that work together), two greys and so on depending on your budget.

This will let you be able to work up shades.

Text says "you are a star".

The first challenge on the ilovepromarkers blog that I am joining is up right now. I have used the digiimage called "Captain Colin".
The theme is:

Superheroes

We are sponsored by 
Digital delights 

Make sure you join us in the new bi-weekly challenge. 

Challenges:

Alphabet challenge - F for feathered friends (feathers on my hero's cap)

City crafter - out of this world (I used stars & a superhero)

Creatalicious - anything goes

Creative inspirations - favorite things (promarkers and diecuts)

Everybody art - anything goes

I love promarkers - superheroes/for a child

My time to craft - sketch

Penny's challenges - anything goes

Simon says - we're going around in circles

Southern girls - anything goes

Image: "Captain Colin" from digital delights.

Promarkers: ivory, oatmeal, ice grey 1,3 and 5, burgundy, poppy, berry red, lipstick red and cocktail pink.
Papers: "Christmas dot" Art blanché by eksuccess, to the rescue by 2bugsinarug, "Floral with definitions" Midnight kisses by heidigrace.
Dies: Spellbinder's circle and quickutz star.

Others: tiny goldbeads and metal gold star.

Until next time: Keep crafting! 

A package full of love on your birthday

It was time for another birthdaycard this week and again I used a Penny Black image. This cute kitten was a delight to color. I used my favorite colorcombo pink/green and of course my beloved promarkers. 

 Just like last time I used patterned papers from my scrappile. I used a piece of string and it wasn't until I was done with the card that I realized I had colored the string on the cat's package the same color. Love when those kind of "accidents" happen, don't you?

This card could be used for any number of occasions. Since the image is so cute I didn't want to make the card too cute with pastel colors or heart shapes. Instead I used a darker pink/green colorcombo and instead of a heart charm I used a leaf - perfect for a fall-themed card. I think it looks kind of vintage-y and I'm very pleased it turned out so "grown up" as it's sometimes hard to achieve with cutesy stamps.
Finished card measures 12.5x18.5cm (about 5x7")

Challenges: 

Creatalicious - anything goes

Cute card thursday  - vintage

Fab 'n' funky - inspired by nature

Passion for promarkers - clean and simple

Penny Black saturday - nature

Pile it on - autumn colors/theme

Simon says wednesday - clean and simple

Tuesday morning sketchers - sketch

Stamp: Penny Black "Fragile" 1920K
Promarkers: ivory, blush, pastel pink, ice grey 1,3 and 5, blender, chestnut, walnut, moss, marsh green, apple and meadow green.
Papers: "Valentine stripes" by Chatterbox, "Discreet" Whisper collection by prima marketing.
Dies: Spellbinder's circle and scalloped circle

Celebrating your birthday with cats and butterflies

So many friends and family celebrating their birthday this and next month so time to make some birthday cards. Here is my latest one. The recipient's favorite color is orange and preferably with black or blue. I couldn't believe my luck when I found this patterned paper in my stash. The whole background is just from one sheet of patterned scrapbook paper. You gotta love those. 

The image is from Penny Black colored with my promarkers. The text is a cut-out from a sheet of scrapbook paper. I added some stickles glitterglue to the letters for some extra sparkle and 3D glaze to the middle of the flowers. The bigger butterflies are shapeabilities dies from spellbinders and the small one a Martha Stewart punch.

And of course the inside has got to be as pretty as the outside:

When assembling my cards I always try different options. Here's a photo of the different layouts I played around with before deciding on the last one:

Challenges:
Crafty cardmakers - layer it up 
Creative inspirations - anything goes
Cute card thursday - animals/creatures
Everybody art - anything goes
Fab 'n' funky - fall colors
I love promarkers - spots and stripes (stripes under the sentiment and spots on the yellowish swirly pattern)
Moving along with the times - anything from the first verse of Dana's song "all kinds of everything" (I used butterfly)
Ooh la la - anything goes

Passion for promarkers - beautiful butterflies
Penny Black and more - sentiment
Penny Black saturday - nature
Penny's challenges - anything goes
Simon says stamp wednesday - stamp it