I’m cutting it fine with this week’s submission to Passion for Promarkers challenge [Week #107, ‘tie a yellow ribbon’]. From selecting colours, finding the cardstock, drawing the bow freehand, shading and blending to cutting out, mounting, photographing, uploading and blogging in less than 45 minutes. And all because I don’t have any yellow ribbon in my stash! Managed to submit it with two minutes to go… and I’m not a morning person either!
Those of you who know me well know that I don’t do babies… So when it came to sitting down to do this week’s challenge over at Passion for Promarkers [Week 106, ‘babies’], procrastination set in! However, I overcame my phobia reluctance and put pen ProMarker to paper cardstock.
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I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on a few of the new ultrafine tips for ProMakers (thank you Michelle at Letraset), and here’s my review!
This week over at Passion for Promarkers, the theme is ‘park life’ [Week #105]. It’s currently the hottest day this year here in sunny Leicester, so my view of park life must be wishful thinking for cooler days? It’s perhaps not quite the summery image that many would be conjuring up, but I remember the fun of sledging in the park and the stamped image was perfect.
This week’s theme at Passion for Promarkers is ‘here comes the bride’ [Week #104]. I dusted off a set of Woodware clear stamps [Wedding Bliss FRCL036], inked up and coloured away. The centre window is punched out of my normal cardstock with a Martha Stewart ‘all over the page’ scalloped edge square punch. Border round the window was drawn freehand. Peel offs are from my stash.
I’m not sure what the rules are on multiple entries to the Passion for Promarkers challenges, but I’m submitting this one too! This is the second of my winnings from Some Odd Girl, Flower Kaylee. I found the combination of pink and brown a little tricky, but hopefully it’s come off.
Week #103 over at Passion for Promarkers: ‘blue/brown’ or ‘pink/brown’ colour theme. This is obviously an entry for the former category. The image is from my winnings for the anniversary challenge, Puddle Hopping Tia from Some Odd Girl. The background and raindrops are my own additions to make the card. I just couldn’t quite come up with the right sentiment!
This week’s challenge at Passion for ProMarkers is ‘sporting marvels’ [Week #102]. I couldn’t find an image I liked, and being of a non-sporty inclination I don’t have any stamps either. So I created my own digistamp, tracing a picture out of Saturday’s Times newspaper, scanning it, tidying it up in an image editor and then printing it out onto coated cardstock before colouring in. The figure six and the ball were hand drawn. A couple of bits of ephemera (gleaned from the net, printed in colour and then distress inked), layering with foam pads, and the card is complete.
Incidentally I was one of the winners in their grand second anniversary draw last week 🙂
I got a bit confused by this week’s 2nd anniversary theme at Passion for Promarkers “all the 2’s”. Back when I was a doctor, all the twos meant the extension number to call for a cardiac arrest or other on ward emergency alert to go out. And here in Leicester, dialling all the two’s will get you through to the local police! However, reading the rules set me right, and here’s my entry 🙂
This week at Passion for Promarkers, their 100th challenge is ‘red, white and blue plus a charm’. It’s taken a few days of mulling over, and an hour in the construction, but here is my card. I didn’t want to go down the flag route and remembered bowling shoes the last time I was at the ten-pin skittles alley – you know the ones… laces that are too long, and they feel like clown shoes. They fit the challenge perfectly. The charm laced onto the shoe is ‘live’ – bound to encourage a bowling aficionado.