Digi Galore Challenge Blog!

Well today is the exciting day! The first challenge on the Digi Galore Challenge Blog is now live! Come across & join us. I've been a member of the Digi Galore Facebook Group for about 6 months now and have found it to be an amazing source of inspiration. Everyone is really helpful & there are some great tutorials on there. My colouring and card making has come on leaps & bounds since joining there.

We now have a challenge blog & I'm really honoured to be on the Design Team. Are you ready for the first challenge?????

The Theme is 'Back to School'  and here's the card I created for it:

What do you think? It's a bit bright and bold but I thought it worked for the back to school theme. 

The image is Travelling Colours from Saturated Canary. I love the images that Krista designs & she's such a lovely lady.

I've coloured it using my Promarkers (if I've not told you before I LOVE these pens) I even used them to create the red & blue mats so they coordinate in precisely.

The Digi paper is from Sassy Designs - I love digi papers as they take up no storage room & you can resize them to fit. Sassy Designs has a huge range of paper packs at very good prices I thought this one with the apples on worked for the back to school theme.

I hope you like it, I'd love you to leave a comment so I know what you think.

If you've not tried Digi images before don't be scared - you're in for a treat.

I'm a total fan for several reasons:

• They're easy to use - you download them from the internet, put them in Microsoft Word or any other publishing software & you're ready to print them. 
• You can resize them to suit the project you're working on.
• You can flip them to create a mirror image.
• You print them off your normal inkjet printer.
• If you use a nice smooth card you can colour them with the lovely promarkers. 
• They're affordable - most digis are under £3 each & there are many many free ones available. freedigitalstamps.blogspot.co.uk/ has a daily list of free digi stamps available - it's a great way to try to see if you like them.

Really looking forward to seeing your entries. There's a $10 voucher for Make it Crafty for the winner of this month's challenge.

Come back on Monday for details of a different challenge group .............

Lots of cards!

I've had a bit of a creative spell recently so thought I'd share some of my creations. As ever I'd love to hear what you think. I've had nearly 150 visitors looking at my last post with the Dutch Saturated Canary Image but only 3 people have left me comments.

My first card uses a digi from Papelitos Stamps.

 The sentiment is a freebie from Ginger's House (there are some great sentiments on there). 

I've coloured her in  pink & would like to enter her into Papelitos Stamps 'Pretty in Pink' Challenge

Digi from Birdie Brown

Sentiment is from an acrylic stamp set (designer unknown)

Digi From Birdie Brown

Sentiment is an acrylic stamp (designer unknown)

Paper from Sassy Designs

Digi from Jellypark

Sentiment from Create with TLC

These roses are a rubber stamp from Imagination Crafts called Shadow Rose. It comes in 2 sizes. I bought it after seeing a card that the lovely Brenda on Aly's Crafty Den made. Brenda is a lovely lady & sent me some Perfect Pearls to try. I've not made any cards with this stamp yet but enjoyed having a play. What do you think?

Stamped with Memento inks

Stamped with Versamark Ink then brushed over with Perfect Pearls

See the shimmer!

Versamark/ Perfect Pearls on burgundy cardstock - it makes the shimmer stand out really well.

Finally Come back Tomorrow and on Monday for exciting news & chances to win prizes x

Exciting News

The amazingly talented Mo Manning had a 24hr freebie in her shop of her new digi 'Laptop Baby' over 1000 people grabbed it and she's now set a challenge to come up with a good sentiment to use with it. The freebie has ended now but you can buy this lovely image at Mo's shop.

Here's my entry. Many of my friends seem to be having babies at the moment but they all live a long way away so I don't get to see them very often - so I thought of this sentiment.

The Image is Laptop Baby from Mo Manning

The Sentiment is my Own

The Paper is from Sassy Designs

I coloured the image using my trusty Promarkers

Skin: Oatmeal, Blush, Pastel Pink cheeks

Hair: Primrose, Buttercup, Pastel Yellow, Mustard

Clothes: Baby pink, Antique Pink

Edges of Picot Circle die cut & mat for sentiment are coloured with Antique Pink

I also made a good discovery today. I have a great big pack of slightly pearlescent card banks which are great but sometimes look odd when made into cards as they're a different tone - not quite white. I experimented with the top half of this card and found that colouring with my baby pink promarker gave a lovely coverage & the pearlecense  shows through :D Yet another great discovery with my Promarkers!

I also made another card using the 'Hug Monster' sentiment from Create with TLC using a different digi than last time. This set of monsters comes from Birdie Brown. I think I like it better than my last attempt - possibly because I didn't try to do fur/ hair this time.

Image from Birdie Brown

Sentiment from Create with TLC

Paper from Sassy Designs

I can't remember which Promakers I used for the orange monster - it was a bit of a voyage of discovery. The Middle monster is Turquoise & True Blue & the other monster is Prussian.

I have other exciting news to share today - I've become a member of 2 Design Teams ...... yes TWO!!! Having never been on one before it feels great :D I'll let you know more details once things are settled.

Hope you're all having a wonderful day. Please leave me a comment - I'd love to know what you think x

Three Cards this afternoon

A day off work today so I made a few cards. The first is one for a male friend who has rather a soft spot for Betty Boop! I was going to make him a tractor card but then decided this might be more fun. The image was a colouring page I found online & coloured myself. It's my first attempt at an easel card and I'm pleased with how it looks, but do wonder if the recipients of these know how to make them stand up or just think we've sent a very odd card x

The image was from an online colouring page

The sentiment is from Create with TLC

I then made a quick silly card for a lady on the Crafting Facebook group I'm on who's having a rough time of it at the moment. I had this lovely sentiment from Create with TLC so went on a search for a Hug Monster to go with it. I found this freebie who did the job, but my hair creation didn't go very well. It gives the general idea though. Yet again I created the matting layers by colouring white card with my Promarkers.

Image is a freebie from Away with the Pixels

Sentiment is from Create with TLC

Coloured with Prussian, True Blue & Turquoise Promarkers

My final card was made using an image from a new company I've found - Jellypark. They have some lovely images. I have this one twice as I bought it, then also got it on the free DVD that comes with this months edition of Complete Cardmaking. I've generally stopped buying magazines but did give into this one as the DVD of digis & papers that came with it is brilliant. I really love the Jellypark images & have signed up to their free club & newsletter.

I resized one of my papers from Sassy Designs & printed a second copy of the stamp off so the dress printed on top of the paper. I then cut it out & glued it on the main digi stamp. I coloured it with my Promarkers (as ever) and even added some bling to the jewellery with my metallic gold & a tiny bit of stickles on the earings & necklace.

The backing paper is the same paper from Sassy Designs printed at a bigger size. The Sentiment is from Create with TLC.

That's all for today - I think I might follow this lady's idea & have a nice glass of wine. Then again maybe not x

I Love Promarkers Circle Challenge

Here's a quick one from me today - I saw the Circle challenge on I Love Promarkers & decided to give it a go.

I think I included enough circles! The Rocker card base starts as a circle & is shown here. I cut it on my cougar & scored it on my Hougie board.  I've used the lovely Picot Circles die from nestibilities which is now sooooo much easier to use after I put release foam in it (before I was making very loud noises every time I tired to use it - trust me SUCH a difference!

The Image & Sentiment is from Bugaboo

I coloured her with my trusty Promarkers & even coloured the decorative edging on the circle and a silver edging around the paper with my metallic Promarker to highlight it.

The Paper is from Sassy Studios (circles on that too) and I finished it with a triple row of circle peel offs. Sassy Studios currently have a 25c sale on so a great time to stock up - you can get lovely digi paper packs for 25c!!!! Brilliant to have on the computer to print out as you need them.

I'd love to hear what you think x