Passion For Markers Mega Anniversary Challenge

It's a special day today in the Passions for Markers calendar - 14 years since the challenge started!  To mark the anniversary we have lots of special prizes from our Sponsors and a fabulous theme of Anything Goes!  

Here's a list of our brilliant sponsors and their prizes:

Dies to Die For are offering a £20.00 voucher

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Leann’s World 101 are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images

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All Dressed Up stamps are offering 2 digi images

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Uniko Stamps are offering 1 stamp set (which must be in stock)

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Polkadoodles are offering 3 digi images

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Colour of Love digis are offering 3 digi images

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Sheepski Designs are offering 3 digi images

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Lili of the Valley are offering 4 digi images

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Alex Syberia is offering a £10 voucher (valid on digital products only)

Both Teams have come together for the challenge and you can check out their gorgeous makes here.  We hope you'll be inspired to come and join in the challenge, just remember to please let us know what type of markers you have used to be in with a chance of one of these super prizes.

A list of the products I used is below.

Papers - Victoria and Albert Museum Collection

Image - A Day for Daisies

Stitched Frames - MFT

Flowers - Marianne Designs - CR1436

Tag - Marleen's Banners - Marianne Designs- CS1058

The sentiment is a really old one and I don't have the packaging anymore.

Passion for Promarkers - Summer is Coming challenge

Just nipping on quickly while Grandy is occupying Violet who we've had overnight while Holly had a night away for her birthday - camping mind you but she says it's been wonderful and the weather is so fabulous it was perfect timing!

Anyway, our new challenge at PFP starts today with a theme of Summer is Coming and what says Summer more than the sea and mermaids right!  This gorgeous image is Mermaid and Baby and is one of many beautiful images from A Day for Daisies, our sponsors this week!

Funny, I was pleased with this card until I put it together and now, hhmm - wish I'd done the top part differently but there you go. I just love this border from Marianne though so went with it - full list of Marianne products used below:

Lacy edged Circle - CR1331

Scroll Border - CR1442

Oyster Shell - CR1407

Coral Leaves - CR1406

Leaves - LR0229/LR0571

As I said, our sponsors are the fabulous A Day for Daisies, and the DT have been lucky enough to work with lots of their images - check them out here.  

The lucky winner will be given a voucher to spend in ADFD online store so come and join in the challenge!

Hugs, Juliexx

Anything Goes at Passion for Promarkers

Good morning peeps- it's new challenge day at A Passion for Promarkers with s super easy theme of Anything Goes - I'm well into Christmas cards now (although I do have a couple of other cards to sort, including hubby's birthday card!!).  So, I chose this gorgeous image from our sponsor, A Day for Daisies - it's called Painted Mushroom Top and I think it makes a fab Christmas card.

I've used Tim Ranger enamel dots on the main image and also the die cut toadstools - photo below just to see the dimension you get.

I've used a fantastic new folding card die from Marianne Designs - it makes it so easy to have an alternative shaped card  - full list of Marianne products below:

Anja's Folding Card Die - LR0553 - NEW!

Three Small Tree dies - LR0556 - NEW!

Toadstool Dies - LR0372

Snowflake Dies - LR0393

Check out the rest of my teamies' fab makes here.

Hugs, Juliexx

Make it Feminine at Passion for Promarkers

Today's card is for our Make it Feminine challenge starting today at Passion for Promarkers - love this theme chosen by our fab Nic.  And, when you're being sponsored by A Day for Daisies, you get to play with one of their gorgeous girly images!!  I chose Fairy Flower Bouquet Portrait - isn't she a beaut!

I wanted to keep her looking ethereal so chose my colour scheme from the Prima Nature's Gardens pad.  And, my August DT pack arrived from Marianne Designs so couldn't wait to use these new flower dies and the word dies - love these!!  Full details of Marianne products used below.

Marianne Products Used

Flowers - LR0546 - New!

Word Die  - COL1458 - New!

Frame - LR0371
Clear Glitter Dots

I also added some Wink of Stella glitter to her wings - think you can just about make it out in the pic above.

As our sponsors,  A Day for Daisies are offering one lucky winner a $12.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  Their images are gorgeous so why not pop over to the store and check them out.




Hugs, Juliexx

Passion for Promarkers new challenge

Hey Blogland, it's time for a new challenge at Passion For Promarkers with a my favourite theme of Girl Power as our theme chosen by our lovely Hazel!  There's nothing I like better than than make a girlie card and with our sponsors being A Day for Daisies, what better than using one of their gorgeous girlie images, Vintage Lip Colour.  It was another dear friend's special birthday recently and the image was just perfect for her.

The frame is cut with a Fiskars 2 in 1 punch that cuts the corners and border- I love them, they make it so easy!  The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley and of course there just had to be some Marianne in there - the flourishes, of which  there are several!

LR0151- Flower Stem and Leaf

LR0414- Swirls and Leaves

The flowers and pearls etc are of course all from stash!

Before you leave don't forget to check out the gorgeous makes of my fabulous teamies here and then come and join in our challenge to be in with a chance of winning a yummy $12 voucher from A Day for Daisies!



Have a great day
Juliexx

Christmas in July!

 Morning peeps!  Sorry I'm late posting today, but got a nasty sting on my hand yesterday and have been to the Drs who has given me a dose of steroids so hopefully they will kick in soon!

No colouring for me for a few days! :(  

Anyhow, today's cards are for the challenge that has started today at Passion for Promarkers with a great theme of Christmas in July as chosen by my lovely teamie, Hazel.  We're being sponsored by one of my favourite illustrators (and who I don't use enough) A Day for Daisies, and I've used their cutie digital image Candy Elf, and made 4 cards!!

Ha, that's good for me - only another hundred or so to go!! I've listed below the shades of red I used as I know some people struggle with these colours - mine is blues, just don't seem to be able to crcack them:

Firebrick (Flexmarker)

Red

Lipstick Red

Salmon Pink

Pastel Pink.

 The papers are a mixture of My Mind's Eye and Basic Grey - do you know I have nearly come to the end of The My Mind's Eye pad- that's some going for me!

I've decided to keep them small and simple for this year's Christmas to ensure I keep postage costs down!

Do check out the wonderful makes of my fab teamies here, and come and play along!  

Our sponsor, A Day for Daisies is offering a $12 voucher to the lucky winner!

Sketch N Stash - new challenge today!!

Hello - we're back from our month long challenge over at Sketch N Stash - hope you missed us!!
Good to be back and with the fab sketch below!



We also have the awesome A Day for Daisies sponsoring us and I've chosen the beauteous Bewildered B for my card which you can find here in the ADFD store.

My papers are by Teresa Collins from the Stationery pad, love them and don't know how I managed to actually use them!!

The ribbon was from stash and the sentiment , I think is Paper Trey Ink, although as I made this card a while ago  I can't quite remember!!
Don't forget to take a peek at the gorgeous makes by the rest of my SNS teamies here, and hope you can find some time to play along with us over the next fortnight!!

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!

New Challenge at Sketch N Stash

I am a huge fan of A Day for Daisies images so was thrilled when the DT were able to pick an image to use for our new challenge starting today.  I've picked the fabulous Vintage Fairy Magic - just click on the link to take you to her on the ADFD site.

Now as you can see, I had to rotate the sketch 90 degrees so that the image fitted perfectly with the sketch.  You can probably also see that I went a bit nuts with the Frantage (Aged Silver) and forget to brush it back before I applied heat.  Still I do quite like the aged effect it gives. (I've cheated here and photoshopped it off her face for her close up, just so you can see how pretty she is!) You might also be able to see that where I heated the frantage the ribbon melted slightly but I also like that effect too!

My papers are from one of my new Lili of the Valley pads  and a Prima Fairy Belle pad.  I've used a Memory Border die, Meridan, to edge my papers and then another Memory Box leaf die  to frame the flowers. 

As mentioned we're being sponsored by the wonderful A Day for Daisies for this challenge and the winner will get an amazing £10 to spend on ADFD images - yum!

And before you leave me, don't forget to check out the makes of my lovely SNS teamies here!

New Challenge at Sketch Saturday sponsored by A Day for Daisies

Happy Easter everyone.

This is my third card for my guest DT stint over at Sketch Saturday, and as this week's challenge is being sponsored by A Day for Daisies, I was lucky enough to be able to choose an image from their awesome catalogue!  The image I've used is the beautiful Fancy Dress Fairy and I've coloured her with my usual Pro and Flexmarkers.

This week's lovely sketch is below, I've just flipped it to show off my gorgeous Pink Paislee papers.

Because I didn't want to cover up the papers, I've been quite restrained with my embellishing, a few Kort and Godt Pinwheel flowers from Live and Love Crafts, a Tim Holtz Butterfly Border and another little Marianne die cut butterfly.I

Don't forget to take a peek at the beautiful cards made by the regular Sketch Saturday team here,

We've got a a big family birthday tonight, a la Great Gatsby style, so we're all dressing up with flapper dresses and short bobbed hair (and that's just the men!).  

Enjoy your weekend!