A paper piecing challenge

Firstly i want to say a very big thank you to all of you who joined in with our birthday blog hop last week , I had loads of comments  on my card  and even got a few new followers to my blog too,so hello to all of you ,I  hope you will all be following me on my crafty  travels through blogland .
Of course i also had to pick  a lucky winner for my blog candy and my daughter Patsy kindly picked a number for me. She chose . . . . . . . . MARIA INKYMITS  so if you would like to email me your address i will get it in the post for you x

now our next challenge is sponsored by   die cut dreams  and there are some lovely die cuts on offer as your prize - we want to see your paper pieced creations and you must use promarkers too !

I made 2 cards for this  challenge , the first one  was for my hubby's birthday and i had the hump with him when i made it  so i was going to add the greeting "Happy birthday A*** HOLE " I decided against it in the end !

my second one is in much better taste - I stamped the background papers  and the card , using some stamps that had never been out of the packaging in the 3 years that i bought them!  (they were part of a set )-honest !

I♥PROMARKERS challenge #18 a sketch

 This week at I♥  promarkers we have a little sketch challenge for you .I have used this gorgeous piggy from lilyboo's boutique, it was in  the first set i bought from there and it has always been one of my favourite of Sam's designs .

I have also entered it into this weeks challenge at Passion for promarkers as they want to see your pink birthday cards

a couple for lily-boo's

These were supposed to be  posted a while back ,only i only just noticed that i forgot ;)
The wedding card is for this months challenge at Lilyboo too , we want to see your shaped cards - any shape allowed as long as its not a rectangle or square  shaped one .
The other is to show off the cute new pirate collection at lily boo boutique

I LOVE PROMARKERS

I'm gutted , i just realised that the deadline to apply for the  I love promarkers DT has passed , Now when i put things on my TO DO list ,I must 'nt forget to look at the list every day .
 I had just been so busy and now the month has nearly gone ,taking the deadline with it - Oh well there's always next time lol
I have joined in with their latest challenge which is to follow the sketch and have some sort of animal on it -( well mine's a chick but thats sort of an animal right ???)
It was such a cutie i could nt resist it !
Its available at Lilyboos boutique  as part of the easter collection
I made it as an easel card using acetate as the background .

Since i just realised i have crossed two challenges for promarkers in the same card i am going to enter it in both !

Passion for promarkers  wants a spring theme and you have to include the animal i mentioned earlier !

I love promarkers has a sketch  with the twist of spots or dots

DT CALL AND NEW RELEASE AT LILYBOOS

Lily boos are recruiting Design team members , come and show us what you can do with a lilyboo - details are on the boutique
you will also see the latest new release from lilyboos - a set especially for mothers day, here is one of them , a cute little frog , which could be used for any card really ,not just mothers day.
This cat image is also available at the boutique , there are just loads of collections , i bet you will want them all !

run run as fast as you can . . .

and catch yourself a gingerbread man ! (groan )-SORRY!
These are a few cards i made using the latest release from lily boos
they are gorgeous and calorie free too !
thankfully you dont have to pick which one to eat -sorry i mean use first as you get all six designs in the set for just £1.99

Oh baubles !

I just realised that i did nt post my sneaky peak for the brand new collection of christmas images over at lily-boos
they are gorgeous little baubles ,a collection of 6 for the amazing price of just £1.99 !
my favourite is the snowman , but anyone who knows me will tell you i just love snowmen !

BOO !

Remember that sneaky peak ? well here it is in full , the new Halloween collection has just been released over at LILY BOOS BOUTIQUE .
Pop on over there and take a look , there are lots of fabulous designs and they are all very reasonably priced, i have made a card and a calendar page for next year, I am going to do a page for each month ,showcasing one of lily boos designs on each one , I used Scal to cut out the bats and the wording on the calendar all images are coloured withmy fabby promarkers

LILY BOO'S NEW BOY COLLECTION AND POLKADOODLE CHALLENGE

I had already made this card as part of the design team to promote the new boys collection on lily -boos boutique. When i checked the polkadoodle challenge site i saw that my card fitted the sketch rather well so this will also be my challenge entry for this week .
I used accent essentials cart for the circles and wildcart for the words-in-circle

The big reveal !

As promised i can now reveal the whole of the card . The new boy's collection has gone on sale today on Lily- boo's boutique so i can show what i have done with 2 of them . There are six images in each download set for a bargain price of just £1.99 come and get yours HERE

I have used sizzix dies for the rod and fish embellishment on "gone fishing ",I used promarkers for colouring both of my images

Gardening

Yet another little people card , but this one has a little extra to it - The garden elements are all from lily boo's boutique ! It's called the summer garden collection #25 I love how they filled my little garden up so quickly !
The background was created in "paint" just using the spray can feature . As usual i used the sizix doll die to cut the head and hands and then i cut the clothes by hand .
Extra thanks to Lou and Sam for the garden collection.x

SNEAKY PEAKY !

Here's a little sneaky peaky of a card i have made from the latest collection over at lily-boos boutique
You will have to wait until Sunday though to see my card in full as this is when the newest collection is due to be released .
If you cant wait until sunday you can always hop on over to the boutique and see all of the other amazing images that are available .

it must be love

I like these cute little "chogs " as they are known in our house .I wanted to keep them as the main feature on the card so i kept the whole thing very simple . The love is cut from beyond birthdays cart and the little quote at the bottom is a rub on .
I will be sending this one to my Dad and step mum for their wedding anniversary next month . The "chogs" are from lilyboos boutique

Another one for lilyboo

This one is from the More girls collection. she is coloured with promarkers and mounted on a nesties scallop circle. The background paper was a freebie in papercraft essentials magazine.
I cut the shooting star charms from thick aluminium foil ( the inner seal from a tin of coffeemate !). i used a couple of sizzix dies for these- pigeon toed charms and original stars.

A couple for lily boos inspiration blog

The inspiration blog is starting to look really good but needed more of our work to show off . I made both of these from the Christmas corners set, although i did cut the edges off because i didnt get the size right to fit on the front panel without a gap .
the snowman was really quick to colour thanks to all that snow !just a little shading with a grey promarker and a colourful hat - oh and the carrot nose .

This one is for lilyboo's boutique

I had nt used any of lilyboo's designs in a while so opted to make a boy card for a change , This one is from the Boys toys collection.These designs are so easy to work with and cut out (if you want to cut them out that is ). I used Kay Miller downloads for the background paper and elements .This set is called kickin 'it . He is coloured with promarkers and mounted on foam pads for dimension
click on the snail on the left hand side to see this and many more fab designs from Lily Boo

uk crafters challenge

This is my challenge card for the uk crafters thread on the cricut message board , We had to use dry embossing of some sort so i used one of my (never used ) fiskars embossing plates . I found out with a bit of jiggling plates and shims , that it would work in my bigshot ! I would never have even tried them if it had nt been for this challenge . I knew immediately which one to use ,because i ve had this spider image in my head for the last few days - I love him !- it's one of Sam's creepy crawlie circles - so the web was just perfect for it . I rubbed over with a silver ink pad to make the embossing stand out . I also added black card candy which i also rubbed with the inkpad to make them look like metal studs . the message and the border are cuttlebug embossing folders .

Lily-boo's octopus

This little octopus is so cute- He's from the lily- boo boutique under the sea collection , which is not available for general release just yet ! Only for us very lucky design team members at the mo '

my two for today

I made both of these today , despite the sweltering heat in my craft room .
I have jjust posted both on the lily -boo boutique dt blog .
i'm rather proud of the puppy pic cos i drew it myself ! . i drew it a few days ago on a note pad , which of course had lines all over it !.
i had to scan it into my computer , open it in paint and rub out all of the lines and then airbrush over the marks - after quite a while i got a result i was happy with - and unusually for me i saved it ! so there could be quite a few Hovis cards from me