Mo Blog Hop - It's all about the Fairies!

It's the third Thursday in the month already which means it's time for our monthly blog hop with Mo's Dream Team.  This month's theme has been chosen by our awesome  Alexandra and that is Fairies! Alexandra is the start of the hop so pop on back there if you want to join in our hop.  Otherwise, you should hopefully have arrived from the lovely Gretha's blog.

  Mo has a wealth of fairies in her digital store so we were spoilt for choice.  I've actually used a series of new images which haven't yet been released into the store and they are Fairy Snowmen - how  cute!!

The only one I've not used from the series is the one holding our snowy friend's head but couldn't quite fit that into my design!

I added the friend sentiment from LOTV into the middle of the biggest snowball - I like the idea that they are actually making the snowman/their new friend!

As you can see, I've gone to town again with my frantage - below is a little close up of this on the die-cut SNOW ( a die from PTI) and the icicle edging ( which is actually a 'goo' punch from Martha Stewart!).

A close up below of our gorgeous Fairy Snowman all finished below.

And a final pic of my finished card.

Your next stop on the hop is to our lovely Debby but the full order is below should you need it.

Alexandra, Anneke, Kaly, Gretha, Julie, Debby, Alice,Vili.

As always, there are two $5 gift vouchers to spend in Mo's shop hidden along the way so don't forget to comment on each of my teamie's blogs as the lucky commentor could be you. 
Have fun hopping!!
Juliexx

Passion for Promarkers - Add some Sparkle

This is the companion card to the one I showed you yesterday- today's is for our  new challenge at A Passion for Promarkers where our theme is add some Sparkle!  I'll try and show you my sparkle in my pics a bit later down but it is quite subtle! 

The image of course is Lili of the Valley, another of their new Christmas releases this year.  

I've coloured him with my Pro and Flexmarkers and then added loads of Shabby and Chunky White Frantage for the snow effect and the sparkle!

I spent ages outside our local B&Q picking up the teeny pine cones earlier this year - I did get some very strange looks, but they had an abundance of trees that shed them!! The little red berries are actually quite sparkly and were bought from the fabulous Wild Orchard Crafts - by the way, they arrived  in two days and I bought them with the refund I eventually got from Oyster Stamps after waiting over 2 months/with 4/5 calls to the shop for some final bits in a biggish order to be fulfilled - their loss!! ( I only got the refund sharpish after commenting on their facebook page!)

The little lantern is a Memory Box die and I think you can just make out the sparkle here from the Frantage.  My papers are from this year's christmas release from Craftwork Cards and the sentiment is also Lili of the Valley.

Our generous sponsor this week Polkadoodles and the lucky winner will receive 1 gorgeous digi called ‘Miss Charlotte’.

        

My teamies have made some awesome cards to inspire you this week, so do check them out here and then come and play along with us!!
I'm also entering my card into the current Lili of the Valley challenge which is Anything Goes!

Hugs, Juliexx

Sketch N Stash using Lili of the Valley

Monday already again?  At least I don't have that Monday morning feeling anymore!  Hope your day goes quickly for anyone who is at work!  :)

Today, there is a new challenge starting over at Sketch N Stash and this is our sketch below:

I've used one of this year's Christmas release stamps from Lili of the Valley (I love them and have another to share with you tomorrow).  I've coloured him with my Promarkers and then added a load of Chunky White Frantage for my snow!

My papers are from My Mind's Eye which have been in my stash for a couple of years now and they never seem to go down! The felt snowflakes are from stash and the white glittery leaves are my newest item - a Christmas garland that I cut down just to have the leaves as embellies! The sentiment is from a Personal Impressions set.

The details of our fab sponsors and the prize for the fortnight's challenge are below:

sponsor - Stitchy Bears

Prize $10

Do pop on over and play along with us this fortnight - we'd love to see you there!  And if you'd like some inspiration, hop on over here to see the rest of the DT's wonderful makes.
I'm entering my card into the following challenges:
Lili of the Valley Challenge - Anything Goes
Christmas Card Challenge - Anything Goes - Must be Christmas
Allsorts Challenge - Christmas

Hugs, Juliexxx

Passion for Promarkers - Oh Baby

Our new challenge starting today at a Passion for Promarkers has a theme of Oh Baby as chosen by our lovely Shelly - very appropriate as she is currently on maternity leave!

I've chosen one of Mo's Digital Pencil images to use - Baby Angel Muriel (click on the link to take you there) - love these cuties swinging on Christmas baubles!

I coloured her with a mix of Pro and Flex Markers then added some Stardust embossing powder to the bauble and wings.  I then used some Shabby Blue Frantage to add lots of frostiness!  

My icicles at the top of the card are from some old tree decorations - love them!!

We have a fabulous prize from Letraset this week - a pack of Metallic Markers for one lucky entrant!

Don't forget to check out the awesome baby inspired cards of the rest of my teamies at PFP here!

Sketch N Stash New Challenge

Eek - it's my last week at work!  Just where have the last three months gone?  Still not much further with our move either, but am looking forward to some time out - already got a week full of  stuff starting with Ally Pally on Sunday - anyone else going?

Back to today's card and it's for our new challenge over at Sketch N Stash using the sketch below.

We also have two fabulous sponsors for this challenge, as below.

Sponsor - Crafty Indivduals

Prize 

& 

sponsor - My Creative Classroom

Prize online workshop

For my card, I've used a gorgeous digi image from All Dressed Up called All Dressed Up for Christmas and I've coloured her with my Promarkers, and added Frantage for a bit of glimmer and sparkle.

The sentiment is one of the new Christmas ones from Lili of the Valley and layered up on a Stampin Up bauble punch - I think that is my old item used from Stash. 

The teeny crackers are a Joanna Sheen die and then I've added lots of Frantage - Vintage Lilac and Aged Silver.

Hope you will find some time to come and play with us over the next fortnight and you can see the rest of the gorgeous DT makes here over at Sketch N Stash,

Have a great week.

Juliexx

A Passion for Promarkers and another A Day for Daisies image

Yep, another A Day for Daisies image from me, this time for our new challenge at A Passion For Promarkers where we have a gorgeous theme of Pearls and Pins - right up my street!

My beautiful image is  Spring Flower Hair ( a new favourite!) that I've coloured with my Promarkers and Trias.

I've then used a Petal point card blank and used the card as a template to cut out the paper from a DCWV Luxury 12x12 pad.  I then got the Frantage out again, this time in Aged Wine, added some pearls, flowers and pins and that was it - I printed out the image quite large scale, so didn't have an awful lot more room for anything else! 

As mentioned, ADFD are our wonderful sponsors so do come and along and join in this week's challenge!

And don't forget to check out the wonderful cards of my fab PFP teamies here!

Passion for Promarkers New Challenge - Embossing - Dry or Heat

We have a new challenge starting today over at Passion for Promarkers with the theme chosen by ME!  So I've chosen Embossing, Heat or Dried or both in my case!

I've used another adorable digi  image from Mo Manning called Paddy which you can find here in Mo's  store. 

For the embossing, I embossed the cream paper for the middle flower with a grid-effect folder to match the background paper and then I also embossed the middle kraft coloured mat.  Finally, I added a load of Aged Taupe and Aged Ivory Frantage for a bit heat embossing.

I think the papers are by an american company called Recollections- they were part of the 10 kilos I bought back from California last year!

Our sponsors for this challenge are the fab Polka Doodles, so I do hope you will come along and join in with this week, just remember to use your Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Tiras or Aquamarkers in your project.

Basic Grey Challenges Anything Goes - Final Challenge

Yes - very sad to report that this is our last challenge at Basic Grey Challenges.  : (

But we're hoping to go out in style and have an Anything Goes theme, before we go!

I decided to make a tent card, inspired by this fabulous Mo Manning digi stamp, Little Elf Pipa, and as she is swinging on a bauble, I thought I would make it swing in the aperture!  But it doesn't, I hear you cry and that's because I'd run out of my normal Crafter's Pick Tacky glue and had to use a runnier glue that made a mess and stuck my image to the back of the tent so it doesn't swing - that clear?  No- just ignore my babbling!

I've coloured her with my Promarkers and Flexmarkers, then added some glitter for her fur trim and some Aged White Frantage onto the bauble to give it some depth and sparkle!

Love this little sentiment with the image - perfect, don't you think?

This is where it got messy, when I tried to glue down my hand made wreath around the aperture.  I used ribbon, gold string beading, red sequin ribbon and these little rose hip style berries and entwined them round each other to make the wreath. And of course, my yummy BG papers are Jovial 6x6 papers.

Well, I  hope you will help us to go out with a bang and join us in our final challenge.  Thank you to all my fabbie BG teamies who have made being part of this team so wonderful!xx

Our sponsors are again the fabulous Simon Says Stamp, offering their regular prize of $25 dollars to the lucky winner!

Happy Saturday!

Sketch N Stash

Happy December everyone - the panic festive season has begun!  We made a start on putting up our decorations yesterday, most of it's up - just got to add a few more lights and garlands and we'll be done until it's time to decorate the tree in a couple of weeks!

On to today's challenge at Sketch N Stash and we're using the sketch below from our back catalogue with an optional theme of Snow.

I loved this Memory Box candle die when I saw it and bought it ages ago but this is the first time I've used it. I've seen some gorgeous cards made with it blogland, and need to use it more!

The papers are from Craftwork Cards, and I added some mesh ribbon from stash, copious amounts of Frantage for the snow option, a few flowers and a couple of rusty jingle bells, which I just love!  Bought these from the Ribbon Girl and they'd already run out of the teeny ones! The little lantern die is from a Memory Box set.

One lucky winner gets to win these goodies 

from Crafty Individuals

My teamies over at SNS have got some fabulous cards to share with you, so check them out here... and then come and join in our challenge!