Promarker Challenge 53

Wow, you should see the prizes over at the Passion for Promarkers blog this week! I just couldnt resist entering!

I hope you like my entry - I had been struggling to find a use for these aperture cards for ages, but I found that my promarkers worked really well to decorate the outer frame and give them a whole new look!

Quilled Daffodils For The Cupcake Craft Challenge

The challenge this week at Cupcake Craft Challenges was an inspirational picture, which you can use as a theme, or as a colour scheme, or in any other way you like. The picture is of yellow flowers, which made me think of daffodils, probably because I noticed this morning that I have one daffodil out in my garden!

So I decided to go with a daffodil and spring-like theme.

I made some quilled daffodils, mounted them on pale yellow dotted swiss Bazzill, then pale green pearlescent paper then the Bazzill again. I played around with various ribbons etc but decided that it actually looked better with less on it, so just added a small dot of Eucalyptus stickles to the inside corners to finish it off.

Glass Painted Candles for Mojo Monday!

I found these candles I painted onto acetate a while ago, and thought they would be perfect to use for the Mojo Monday challenge sketch this week. I felt like making something bold and bright for a change as I tend to use more pastel shades.

The paper was a magazine freebie a month or two ago, the candles are done with glass paints, everything else from my bottomless stash-pit!

A Yummy Cupcake Card For Sketch And Stash Challenge #5!

I have been busy today! I made this delicious cupcake card using this fortnight's sketch from the Sketch and Stash Challenge. I used one of the gorgeous Dovecraft Retro Floral papers from a recent stash shopping spree! It matched my partly quilled cupcake perfectly!

Everything else - ribbons, pearlescent paper and pink foiled banner from stash.

Cupcakes! I Knew There Would Be A Cupcake Challenge Eventually!

I was so excited to see the theme for the Charisma Cardz challenge this week is CUPCAKES!

It just so happened that I had bought some lovely new Hero Arts cupcake stamps at the weekend too, so it was a perfect opportunity to get them dirty!

So here are my TWO offerings for this challenge (I got a bit carried away!!!):


Spotty paper is K & Co, sentiment is a giant peel-off from The Stamp Attic, image is coloured with watercolour pencils, the sprinkles on top are Stickles - cotton candy and waterfall.

Background paper is from a mini paper stack I bought in Tesco, pale yellow Bazzil (swiss dots) from the Stamp Attic, sentiment is printed, white ric rac is from my local fabric shop (14p a metre!!!!), image is coloured with watercolour pencils and twinkling H2Os, and the icing is sparkled up a bit with cotton candy Stickles.