The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth

As you have become accustomed to me being late with blogging the new Jellypark releases, I thought I'd better not disappoint!  This one is called The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth and I've coloured her with Promarkers.

I decided to make a bookmark as I was struggling with the offcuts of paper that I had and wanted to use up as they were not really big enough to use!  The spotty paper is from Funky Hand - Rainbow Polkadots download and I have a feeling the blue gingham is from Polkadoodles but I'm not sure as I found it in the bottom of the large box of bits!

The sentiment comes with the image and I've layered it onto some black card.  The brads are not really brads but dots of Sharpie marker with glossy accents over the top!  The ribbons are from my stash and I really dread to think how long I've had them!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create:  Anything Goes
Anything But A Card:  Dust Off Your Old Supplies
The Squirrel and the Fox:  Here Come The Girls
Cupcake Inspirations:  Colour Palette
CAS Friday:  Red, White and Blue

Image:  Jellypark, coloured with Promarkers
Papers:  Spotty - Funky Hand, Rainbow Polkadots download, blue gingham Polkadoodles
Everything else:  My stash 

Bookmark

This is one of the two new release stamps this week from Jellypark - this one is called Boy Reading Book and I've made a bookmark!  It seemed more appropriate to me than a card plus its nice to make something other than cards all the time!  AND I wanted to use up some scraps of card!

I've coloured the image with Promarkers and then layered him onto the bookmark (a scrap of card from cutting down an A4 sheet to make a card blank) and covered it with freebie papers from The Clip Art Fairy.  The stars have been cut with my X Cut die and I handwrote the sentiment.

I covered the reverse too and added some more stars - just didn't take a photo of it so you'll have to trust me on that one!

The image looks a bit like Jacob - he loves reading and is really quite good for his age and he'll read anything - cereal packets, roadsigns - anything!  Whereas Samuel will only read things he is interested in.  So that's basically F1 or racing!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Forever Friends:  Die Cuts / Punches
Crafty Embelies:  Anything Goes
Gingerloft:  For The Guys
Hotshot Crafts:  Anything But a Card
Stampin For The Weekend:  Anything But a Card
Craftroom Challenge:  In The Library

Image:  Jellypark, coloured with Promarkers
Papers:  Freebies from The Clip Art Fairy
Dies:  X Cut
Sentiment:  Handwritten

Jellypark Challenge - Pink ABC

It's time for another Jellypark challenge and the theme this fortnight is:

Anything But A Card and make it Pink!

I've made a bookmark and now that I look at it, there is not a great deal of pink - blame the sky for that!  I've used the cute digi stamp Rabbit and Balloon which is a Little Havens charity stamp so each stamp that you buy at £1.25 each you raise funds for Little Havens!

I've coloured the image with Promarkers but for the background I've used watercolour pencils.  A dotted line has been added around the edge of the bookmark and I've layered it onto some pink card.

Good luck with the challenge!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

I Love Promarkers:  Anything Goes
Inky Impressions:  Anything But A Card
Ruby's Rainbow:  Cute and Cuddly
Digital Tuesday:  Warm and Fuzzy


Image:  Jellypark, coloured with Promarkers
Everything else:  My stash

Dude Time Doodles Challenge - Halloween

I'll keep this post short and sweet as I am in agony sitting down.  My right hip is really playing me up - that's what happens when I stand for an hour in the cold on a Saturday morning watching Jacob play football.  And I should have moved around a little. A few months ago it was my left hip from standing still in the cold for 2 hours waiting for the Olympic torch to pass through Blackburn town centre.

The Dude Time Doodles challenge this week is:

Halloween

And I've made a bookmark with Grim Grisham who has been coloured with Promarkers and then added to a tombstone shaped offcut of black card.  I've drawn the cracks on with a white gel pen.

Don't forget to check out the other Design Team samples and good luck with the challenge!

And Jacob's team lost 10-5.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Heck of a Challenge:  Spooktacular
LEJ Designs:  Gothic / Dark
Papertake Weekly:  Fright Night
Eureka Stamps:  Halloween
Victorine Originals:  Halloween

Image:  Dude Time Doodles, coloured with Promarkers
Everything else:  My stash

Happy Leaves Bookmark!

Jellypark are sponsoring the Pile It On Challenge this week and the theme is:

Be Happy

I love this cute little image of jumping in leaves from Jellypark! I've coloured it with Promarkers and used an offcut of card from a Funky Hand cd Craft The Year Away (and this weekend there is 25% off all Funky Hand products!)

I've used a Nestie to draw around for the shapes and then inked the edges. The letters are cut with my Cuttlebug Baby Face alphabet set and the ribbon and beads are from my stash.

You'll have the excuse the rather rubbish photo - it gets dark a bit too early these days so you can't see all the colours on the leaves - looks better in real life, honest!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Craft Your Days Away: Halloween Colours
If The Shoe Fits: Halloween or Fall
Wags n Whiskers: Fall Colours
CRAFT: Autumn
CCEE Stampers: Autumn
Rubber Red Neck: Colour Challenge

• Image: Jellypark, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: Funky Hand - Craft The Year Away cd
• Dies: Spellbinder Nestabilities as a template and Cuttlebug Baby Face alphabet
• Everything else: My stash
  

Bookmarks

It's sometimes a lot easier to make girly bookmarks but I like the look of this Tiddly Inks image so much that I decided to make some boyish ones! The image can be found here in the Tiddly Inks store and I've enlarged them to fit a decent sized bookmark and coloured with Promarkers.

I've used a small Nestie as a template to draw around to create the scalloped edge shape and then I've inked the edges, drawn a line with a Cool Grey 3 Promarker and then dotted a line too. A bit of random inking with my very faded (but trusty) tiny black inkpad before laminating the bookmarks.

The twine stuff at the top is actually thick elasticated cord and its kept in place with a dark silver We R Memory Keepers snap.

So there you have it! Hope your Bank Holiday is warmer than it is here - windy, cold and heavy showers - all the better to be indoors and crafting!!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Tiddly Inks: Back to School Bookmark
Allsorts: Back to School
Just Us Girls: Back to School 3d
Totally Papercrafts: Back to School
Dutch Dare Card Challenges: Anything But a Card
Paper Play: Back to School

• Image: Tiddly Inks, coloured with Promarkers
• Snap: We R Memory Keepers
• Dies: Spellbinder Nestabilities as a template
• Everything else: My stash
  

Just Like Mummy!

I found myself a new challenge site whilst blog hopping! It is Crafty Sentiments, and the current challenge is:

Bookmarks

Jacob has rifled through my box of die cuts and also printed digi images to see what he can use himself as he's quite into making cards and generally making things. I'd been asked ages ago to make some Hello Kitty bookmarks and I had some die cuts so thought I'd get my act together and enter my bookmark for the challenge.
Paper is from my stash and I've shaped the edges and doodled a pink line around. Added some thin satin white ribbon through the eyelets and tied the top and bottom into a bow and added a silver Hello Kitty charm. Jacob also decided that he wanted to make some bookmarks and here they are! He's used two Dustin Pike images and coloured them with pencil crayons then I've also laminated them for him and cut them out.

I think he's done a pretty good job - not bad for a tired 5 year old!! He was really pleased with them when I showed him that I'd laminated them when he went to bed last night.

• Images: Dustin Pike, Hello Kitty die cut
• Papers: From my stash
• Everything else: My stash

Another Bookmark!

Yes, another bookmark! Well, its easier and more economical to make more than one at a time! This one uses a Dustin Pike image, which I've coloured with Promarkers. I've used some new card that I bought a box full from The Papermill Shop - its 300gsm and is not a true bright white in colour but it has a slightly watercolour texture hence the lovely bleeding of colours!

It's for the Stamping Vacation challenge of:

When I Grow Up - Truck Driver

I've only coloured one side - and the Promarkers did not bleed through either (result!) and then laminated it for extra durability.

• Image: Dustin Pike, coloured with Promarkers
  

Not Quite As Quick As I Thought Bookmark!

It's been a while since I joined in with the Delicious Doodles challenges and again this is one that I knew exactly what to make when I saw the challenge theme:

3 Dimensional Project

So here is a bookmark! I know, not very exciting, but I do like making them (or maybe its just the laminating bit I actually enjoy!) and they always seem to go down well at Craft Fairs and the boys like them too!
This one uses a Delicious Doodles image that I've had for a fair while, and she's been coloured with Promarkers. I have snipped the hair pin bits off as they were a bit fiddly. I don't know where the paper came from as it was in my box of bits (see - I am trying to use it all up!) and I've folded it over so its double sided.

I used one of my Nesties for the shaping - simply drew around it and then cut it out. A bit of doodling and inking around the edges and then I laminated it all. The colour in reality is a lot closer to the backing paper, but at 6:15am this morning it was the only chance I got to take a photo!

The bookmark actually took a lot longer than I thought to make it - hunting through the box for the right bit of paper and then trying to make it look right as with straight sides, it just didn't work! And I got engrossed in an episode of MASH!!

• Image: Delicious Doodles, coloured with Promarkers
• Paper: Don't know
  

Simply Create Challenge 37 - Bright and Bold

It's time for another Simply Create challenge! We had an overwhelming response to the last challenge so please bear with us whilst we go through the entries!

This fortnight we are sponsored by Robyns Fetish and the design team have been sent some images to play with! The theme is:

Bold and Bright

I've used this cute image, coloured her with Promarkers and added some glitter glue and made her into a shaped bookmark!

The bright pink backing card is from my stash along with the ribbon (which is actually a perfect match although the photo does not show it) and the flower pewter brad. Good luck with the challenge - for more details on how to enter please see the challenge blog!

• Image: Robyns Fetish, coloured with Promarkers and glitter glue
• Everything else: My stash
  

Polkadoodle Challenge 41 - Spooooky!

It's Friday so that can only mean another Polkadoodle challenge! This week I am hosting the challenge which is to create

Something Spoooooky!

This can be anything you want - the more spookier the better and the Design Team love to see creations other than cards - so get creative! The deadline for the challenge is Sunday 24 October at 12noon GMT and please remember our 10 challenge rule!

I've made two bookmarks this week from coffin shaped card! Both characters are from the new cd Sundae of Seasons and from the Autumn collection. Both are pre-coloured (great if you are in a rush!)

I've added some drippy goo punches which were sent to me by Lis - thank you for coming to my rescue!! To finish off the bookmarks, I've doodled a white line with a gel pen around the edges.

Pretty quick and easy to make and with other characters available on the cd, you could make a set!

Good luck in entering!

• Images: Sundae of Seasons cd from Polkadoodles
• Punches: Martha Stewart Drippy Goo sent to me by Lis (thank you!)
• White gel pen: My stash

Summer Bookmarks

The Dotties World challenge is one with a twist! The theme is:

That Summer Feeling

But to make something different to what you would normally make. I've been thinking about making more bookmarks, so this was an ideal opportunity!

I've used three different collections of Charmed images to make the bookmarks and coloured them all with Promarkers.

Around the edges of three of them, I've dotted a fine black line, but all have been inked with a colour and then black too.

The reverse papers are from Funky Daze from Funky Hand - I printed them off at A5 size for a smaller pattern, used a prit stick to add the two sides together and then laminated them.

All five bookmarks used one sheet of laminating plastic and then I cut round them to give a better shape (as they went in the laminator not quite straight!)

Because the images are quite small, they were quick to colour. Not sure which one is my favourite as I like them all!

• Backing papers: Funky Daze from Funky Hand
• Images: All Charmed Cards and Crafts downloads, coloured with Promarkers then laminated
  

Bookmark

Now this nearly did not get made. Version one ended in disaster (coloured beautifully plus added a name on the reverse with die cut letters and the whole thing got jammed in my laminator). So after much gnashing of teeth and burning of fingers (the two rollers in the machine were a tad hot) I and the husband mended said laminator so I could then get on and make bookmark version 2.

I'd decided to make a bookmark for the Passion For Promarkers challenge which is:

Books

And I knew the image I wanted to use - it is a freebie from Dustin Pike.
This bookmark is double sided - the same image is on the reverse - and coloured entirely with Promarkers and then laminated. So nothing fancy and it is for Samuel to use in his school books or at home as I hope it will encourage him more.

And for his teachers to ask where he got it from.....

• Image: Snake bookmark image from Dustin Pike, coloured with Promarkers