Good morning - hope you're all keeping warm and ready for this week's challenge at I ♥ Promarkers. Thanks so much to everyone who entered last week's picture inspiration challenge - fab interpretations!
This week we are getting all lovey dovey, with a theme of
Love Is In The Air
Ideal for Valentine's Day, but also for spring anniversaries, weddings or any other love-related occasion you may have in mind.
This week's prize is a fabby £10 online store voucher for Joanna Sheen.
Don't forget to be eligible you need to submit a new project you have coloured using Letraset Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Aquamarkers or Tria pens.
The rest of the DT are clearly loved-up this week as they have made some fabulous samples - do check them out. Here's my Valentine card for my darling husband.
This is another 8" * 8" card - for the last few years all the cards I have given him have been a tad smaller than those I received from him; so I have of course been trying to convince him that my cards are small but perfectly formed lol!! I think he's going to be a bit surprised when he sees this!
Someone commented on yesterday's 8" square card that it must be huge and indeed that is true - originally I thought it would be about 1/3 bigger than the normal 5.5" square; but when I actually thought about it logically I realised that the surface area is 400cm2 as opposed to just over 210cm2 on a normal sized card - so it's nearly twice as big!!
This card has a few new things on it for me (apart from the Memory Box die, that is!!) ... it is the first time I have bought a digi kit and used both a digi image and printed papers. I had to google what type of paper to print my backing paper onto, but it seemed to work fine. I don't think I will be printing papers as a rule as I guess they would hammer the ink cartridges, but it's nice to have the option :-)
I have also gone for a bit of a different "look" in terms of colouring - a stronger more graphic look rather than shading with multiple pens - I just thought it worked better with the very simple line image and simple colour scheme of the papers.
I have also gone for a bit of a different "look" in terms of colouring - a stronger more graphic look rather than shading with multiple pens - I just thought it worked better with the very simple line image and simple colour scheme of the papers.
Here's a view of the inside of the card ... with the kit it was so easy to get it all co-ordinated!
Stamps, and sentiments: all from Pink Petticoat digi kit "Old Fashioned Girl";
Papers: cream papers from Pink Petticoat as above; black paper by Bo Bunny;
Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers;
Supplies: ribbon from stash;
Tools: Martha Stewart "Valentine lace" edge punch; Memory Box heart edge die; classic heart nestability.
Challenges:
Ooh-La-La #98 - Be My Valentine
Dream Valley #25 - Valentine
PTT #54 - Valentine's
Top Tip Tuesday #69 - Valentine's
Sweet Stampin' - The One I Love
OSCC #168 - For The One I Love
Simon Says - Love Is In The Air
Creative Inspirations #149 - Lots of Love
Bling It On (February) - Love Is All Around
Creative Inspirations #149 - Lots of Love
Bling It On (February) - Love Is All Around
Allsorts #140 - Free & Easy February
That's all for today - hope you can join us for this week's challenge :-)
