I ♥ ProMarkers ... and Promarkers ♥ Me - Woo Hoo!

I was really thrilled and not a little surprised this last week, to receive an email from the lovely Karen at I ♥ ProMarkers, asking me whether I would like to join the  I ♥ ProMarkers DT. Woo hoo!! Well I love my Promarkers (and Flexmarkers!!) so I had to think about it for all of about 3 seconds lol!!

So here I am with my first I ♥ ProMarkers DT card for challenge #94. The rest of the team create wonderful creations every week so there was no pressure lol!! ... but I have done my best :-)

This week's theme is

Snowmen & Snowflakes

... and we are sponsored by Robyn's Fetish, who gave the DT some snowmen images to play with. This gave me my first challenge of the new DT as I don't normally work with digis, but it was easier than I thought, and this little guy "Carl the Snowman" was easy to colour and also quite adorable!

Stamps: Robyn's Fetish digi "Carl The Snowman"; Whimsy ticket stamp;

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers; glamour dust on scarf and mittens;

Paper: unknown offcut from my stash;

Supplies: sparkly gems from The Hobby House; peel off greeting and sparkly ribbon from my stash;

Tools: large circle and lacy circle nestabilities; Cuttlebug "Ice Crystal" die; Martha Stewart "Aspen Snowflake" punch; Crafts Too "Snowflakes" embossing folder.

Challenges:

Crafty Catz #110 - Snowmen

Sundays With Crissy #23 - Christmas Card Using Non-Traditional Colours

Sweet Stampin' - Punches & Dies

Craft your Days Away #34 - Buttons or Bows

Dutch Dare #140 - Recipe

(I used ribbon, image, patttterned papers, layers and rhinestones!)

The Ribbon Reel #16 - Anything Goes

The Pink Elephant #127 - Photo Inspiration

Sketch Saturday #183 - Sketch

Looking forward to being on the I ♥ ProMarkers DT and to seeing your creations this week :-)

Oldie But A Goodie #25 - The Great Outdoors

Hi everyone and welcome to another Oldie But a Goodie Challenge. Thanks so much to everyone who entered last time - some fab interpretations of Francesca's sketch! Don't forget to check the main challenge blog to see if you have won the prize from the last challenge.

This time it is Lisa Jane's turn to choose the challenge theme, ad she has chosen

The Great Outdoors

.. and Lisa has also donated this fab prize by Flippin' Stamps ...

Don't forget that in order to be eligible for the prize you should submit a new piece of work which features a stamped image (no digis please) that is at least six months old.

I decided to interpret the great outdoors as encompassing nature and the garden ... and here's what I did ...

I really adore this Penny Black bunny and hadn't used him in a while, so I thought I would create a kind of country garden look with floral paper, and a punched garden trellis with butterflies and foliage.

Recipe:

Main image: Penny Black "Bunny Bath" coloured with Promarkers and Copics;

Sentiment: Debbi Moore;

Papers: Prima;

Supplies: flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts; ribbon recycled from some packaging (can't quite remember what now lol!)

Tools: large oval and large scalloped oval nestabilities; Martha Stewart "garden trellis" edge punch and small monarch butterfly punch; Marianne D Creatables foliage die.

Challenges:

Craft your Days Away #26 - Birthday

Sentimental Sundays #67 - Flowers

Penny Black Flickr Challenge - Nature

I ♥ ProMarkers #77 - Things With Wings

Spoon Full of Sugar #162 - Happy Birthday

Pollycraft #105 - Recycle

Hope you can join us this fortnight.

Hugs