Happy Birthday Grandad

It's I love Promarkers birthday this week and it's also Grandad's birthday so I've combined the two! I wanted to try a 'shaped' card just as something different and was really impressed with Kate's use of card candy in her border (hope you don't mind Kate I used your idea!). The stamps were from a set in my stash, I used buttons and mini mosaics for the borders and my beloved Sakura white soufle pen for the doodling.

I've done the I love ProMarkers blog hop and am entering this card to their challenge: http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/

Valentine's gothic style

This is my slightly gothic valentines card, I've made it for the Fairdoodler's fortnightly freebies challenge: http://fairydoodler-fairydoodlersden.blogspot.com/p/fairydoodlers-friday-freebie-challenge.html. I used my fiskars border punch and my pomarkers. I had a go at doodling the frame and background.

My mum asked me to make this card for my uncle who's 60 this week. I know it's not your usual 60th birthday card but my uncle has always young at heart and somehow I think it works for him!

I'm entering this into the I love ProMarkers challenge which this week is anything goes! http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-51-anything-goes.html

I made this card for the 'I Love Promarkers' Lavendar & Lace challenge http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/. I used a freebie image from a Papercraft Inspirations magazine (obviously coloured with Promarkers!), a doily that I inked in several colours to try and get a match and the Friend topper from KPertiet Defining Moments Love.

This is one of a batch of Christening Invites I've made. I used the 9 square pattern from Helen over at http://itsallfiddlefart.blogspot.com/search/label/9%20Square%20Template%20Card. I get a lot of ideas from Its all Fiddle Fart, I think Helen's great!

This card came from a Papercraft Inspirations article from about 2008. I do like going back over past issues! I've created the stripes & dots using the computer and also printed the star and sentiment. This is the first time I've done stitching on a card. I pre-punched the holes using a needle (I printed out a light grey dashed star to give me a guide to follow) and I used some gold thread from my sewing kit. I'm really happy with the overall effect. What's even better is how simple it was to make AND I've still got all the template for next time!

A New Start!

I've decided to start using this blog to record some of the crafty things I make, either cards are scrapbook pages or stuff with the kids. It remains to be seen if I can keep it up.