At Anchor

A lovely lady called Teresa does some gorgeous artwork, and she's got some digi-stamps available at I Did It Creations. I fancied doing something a little different, and started out with her 'boat' image, and this is the result.




I coloured it with Promarkers, and the backing is in two parts. The darker section is Coredinations which I've embossed with a Fiskars plate in my Wizard and then sanded. I've then added a couple of bits of card I had left over from a previous project - card painted with a mixture of Cosmic Shimmer mist and Radiant Rain. I've cut and embossed both with a Spellbinders Lattice Borderability. The final addition is also a Spellbinder die - one of the snowflake set that I've always thought looks more like a ship's wheel, so I used some wood-grained card and added it.

It fulfils the requirements for three challenges: Passion for Promarkers Anniversary Week which is an 'anything goes week' except, of course, for the use of Promarkers.
Dare U 2 Digistamp which requires 'Something for the Boys' and
Crafty Catz which is also looking for a male-themed card.

Adding Some Sparkle

I said in one of my recent posts that I must try some of my Ching Chou Kuik stamps with my Twinkling H2Os. I've hardly used them since I got my Promarkers - I do find watercolouring so much harder than the markers. Well, I decided to put that neglect to an end last night!



The image is, I think, one of my favourites. She's coloured mainly with my Twinkling H2Os, although I did do the skin areas with Promarkers. The blue background was a mixture of Midnight Cosmic Shimmer spray and Sky Blue Radiant Rain. I used the 'cling film' technique, and when it was dry, I embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder in my Wizard. I've also used a piece of the same (unembossed) card as one of the image layers.

I added some more card - this time coloured with two of the shades from the main image - Guatemalan Green and Mystic Blue, and embossed it with one of the Cuttlebug borders.

I finished the card with some flowers cut using punches, embossed with Swiss Dots and painted again with colours from the image - this time Chiffon Pink and Bashful Blue.

The card fulfils the requirements for two challenges: Sketch and Stash and Saturday Challenge which required no patterned paper.

Fantasy and Flowers

This is one of my new stamps from Crafts and Me! It's another of Ching Chou Kuik's gorgeous images and like all the others I've got, it's wonderful to colour. Naturally, I used my Promarkers. One day soon, I'll have to have a go with my Twinkling H2Os for these stamps too, but then again, the Promarkers are just so much fun! I've highlighted her jewellery and some other detail with Sakura Stardust pen.

The sentiment is also from Sweet Pea Stamps. The flowers and leaves were made using various punches, and in the case of the largest flower layer, one of my Spellbinders blossom nesties (slightly altered to separate and round the petals a little). All the layers were cut from white card and coloured with Promarkers, except the smallest layers on the larger flowers which use Sakura Stardust pen, and they were shaped with various embossing tools, and finished them all with a sticky gem.

The backing paper's another one of my current favourites - from My Mind's Eye and those colours I just love!

This card fulfills the requirements for two challenges - Passion for Promarkers which calls for fantasy/mythology and I Love Promarkers which calls for make-your-own flowers.

Sunshine

Don't know what the weather's like where you are, but it's very hot and sunny here. Got to say, I'm not a fan of summer weather, but knowing it would be hot today, I was up fairly early so I could cycle into Hobbycraft. I got some new stamps from Crafts and Me yesterday and I needed some Kling-On for them. And despite the early hour, I was still too hot when I got back. Still, it's good for me, and it saves the train fare.

So, not a rubber stamp on this card, but a digi-one - from Lilly Boo. I really like the window collection!



I've coloured it with Promarkers and then added papers from Personal Impressions, some card embossed in a Cuttlebug folder in my Wizard then inked, and a hand-written sentiment.

One of the challenges I'm entering it for requires that the inside is somewhat decorated too, so this is what I did:



I used some Versacolor ink and a small butterfly silhouette stamp from Lavinia stamps, then added some handwritten words.

The card fulfils the requirements for three challenges: Sketch Saturday, Colour Create and Crafty Cardmakers.