I Love Promarkers - Challenge 394 - Bugaboo

It's time for a new I ❤ Promarkers challenge and this time we are sponsored by Bugaboo and the theme is

Autumn / Halloween

I've used Heels Witches Shoe and coloured it up with Promarkers.  The papers are from a no longer available download - Spooky Dookie from Funky Hand and I am trying really hard to use up everything I have in my stash that I've had for some time!

I only had small pieces of some of the papers so had to be creative with them!  Good luck with the challenge!  I'd like to enter the following:

The Paper Funday:  Anything Goes with Twist of Halloween
A Perfect Time To Craft:  Anything Goes
Ching-Chou Kuik:  Halloween
Fabrika Fantasy:  Halloween

Little Miss Muffet Challenge 200 - Inspiration

Welcome to the half way point for the current Little Miss Muffet challenge!  The theme is

Anything Goes

I've used Junior Hatter Agnes this week, coloured her with Promarkers and popped her onto the retired Funky Hand download papers - Spooky Dookie.  I've used foam pads for extra depth and have also used some vellum that I had lying on my desk.

Good luck with the challenge!  I'd like to enter the following:

Crafty Gals Corner:  Halloween Colours
The Paper Shelter:  Halloween
Simon Says:  Halloween / Spooky
That's Crafty:  Spooky
Die Cuttin' Diva's:  Halloween

Little Miss Muffet Stamps - Challenge 200

Welcome to a new Little Miss Muffet challenge and its number 200!  The theme is

Anything Goes

I've used this cute Polka Dot Pals - Tamsin image, coloured her up with Promarkers and then added her to a die cut sunburst using papers from a now retired Funky Hand download - Spooky Dookie which I've had in my stash for quite some time!

The bat papers are also from the same download.  Good luck with the challenge!  I'd like to enter the following:

Crafting By Designs:  Boo - Scare Me!
The Sisterhood of Crafters:  Cute Spooks
City Crafter:  Halloween
Try It On Tuesday:  Halloween
Passion For Promarkers:  BINGO (centre line - patterned paper, image, die cuts)

Undead Fred

The mornings are so dark when I'm going to work and Halloween is on its way!  I actually feel quite like Undead Fred most mornings!  He's from Dr Digi and I've used Promarkers to colour.

The papers I found in my stash and are from Funky Hand - Spooky Dookie download which are no longer available.

I'd like to enter the following:

City Crafter:  Halloween

Try It On Tuesday:  Halloween

2 Crafty Critter Crazies:  Furything

Crafty Animals:  Anything Goes

Dr Demento

This image just said 'Monster Birthday' to me as soon as I saw it!  I've used Dr Demento from Dr Digi and coloured it up with Promarkers.  I've handwritten the sentiment onto some lime green cardstock I had in my stash.

The papers are from Funky Hand - Spooky Dookie download and are no longer available (I'm trying to use up what I have in my stash!)  I'd like to enter the following:

A2Z Scrapbooking:  Frightfully Fun

Always Happy Birthday:  Happy Birthday
Crafty Hazlenut Patterned Paper:  Anything Goes
Happy Craft Challenge:  Anything Goes
Always Fun Challenges:  Anything Goes

Forgotten Funkies - Spookie Dookie

Each month the Funky Hand Design Team delve into the back catalogue and this month its the turn for us to use Spookie Dookie - perfect for Halloween!

I've meade some funky straws by layering two die cuts and adding a witches hat from my stash (I dread to think how long I've had them!) and also some cupcake toppers - the bats are confetti and again, I think I've had them a fair while!

Pop over to the Funky Hand store - all cds are reduced to £1 as are the acrylic stamp sets - total bargains!!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Brown Sugar: Anything Goes
Craft for the Craic: Something With Circles
4 Crafty Girls: Anything Goes
Decorate to Celebrate: Anything Goes

Happy Bug Day!

Here is one of the new release digi stamps from Jellypark from a fortnight ago - I totally forgot to blog it and the other stamp so that will probably follow tomorrow!  This one is called Bug Boy or Alien and he's been coloured with Promarkers plus dabs of liquid pearls here and there.

The papers are all from Funky Hand - Spooky Dookie download (yes, its a halloween collection but the colours were just what I was looking for!)

The letters have been cut with a Sizzix alphabet die - Girls are Weird and I've used some silver offcut of card that I found in my stash.  A bit of doodling around the edges and the card is complete!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Colour Me Creative Challenge:  Anything Goes, Twist - Animals (well, sort of!)
Send A Smile 4 Kids:  Punches or Die Cuts
Totally Gorjuss:  Sweet
Word Play Saturday:  Birthdays
Creative Corner:  Anything Goes

Image:  Jellypark, coloured with Promarkers and liquid pearls
Papers:  Funky Hand - Spooky Dookie download
Dies:  Sizzix Girls are Weird alphabet

Dude Time Doodles - October New Release & Blog Hop!

It's the last Wednesday of the month so its time to reveal the new Dude Time Doodles images and to kick it all off we have a blog hop for you!

One of the Dudettes will be the hostess with the mostest and one lucky commenter will win a digi image! So make sure you leave me a comment - I've not yet been the hostess so this could be the one!!

If you've arrived at me from Michelle then you are on the right track although there is no start and end point, just make sure you've visited us all! From me you need to hop to NanaConnie and leave a comment there too!!

It's a double whammy from me this month as I've been given two images to work with! First us is Fanny She Devil looking rather bewitching in a fetching orange overcoat. All coloured with Promarkers plus red glitter glue for her hair. Papers are from Funky Hand - Spooky Dookie download and I've made the sentiment myself on the pc. Everything else is from my stash.

And next up is Grim Grisham again coloured with Promarkers. All the papers are from my stash and I've added some faux stitching but that is a real bandage!


Good luck with the hop and don't forget to leave a comment! Once I'm awake I'll directly link to the blogs in the hop before and after me!

I'd like to enter my cards into the following challenges:

Jens Digi Stamps: Let's Here It For The Girls (Fanny She Devil)
Bows and Berries: Glitter (Fanny She Devil's hair)
KB Cute Monday: Halloween

• Images: Dude Time Doodles, coloured with Promarkers
• Pattened Papers: Funky Hand - Spooky Dookie download
• Sentiment: Computer generated
• Everything else: My stash
  

Dare You Rattle My Chains?!

Its search for a Guest Designer time over at Dude Time Doodles! And its really easy to join in too - all you have to do is pop over to the challenge blog and snag the freebie on offer, make something with it, blog it, link it back to Dude Time Doodles and you just never know - it could be you!

Gavin Ghost is the freebie and I've coloured him with Aquamarkers and turned him into a doorhanger.
The papers and mini letters are from Spooky Dookie download from Funky Hand and I've added some bat embellishments (made by me!) and some Sizzix die cut ghosties all with wobbly eyes!

And not forgetting the bandage - cheaper the better and I do get some odd looks when trying to work out if its crepe or cotton weave!

Good luck with the Guest Designer hunt! I'd like to enter my doorhanger in the following challenges:

Haunted House Designs: Kreepy Kids (doorhanger for one of them!)

Send A Smile For Kids: Anything Goes (for kids)

• Papers and letters: Spooky Dookie download from Funky Hand
• Image: Gavin Ghost, coloured with Aquamarkers
• Ghosts: Sizzix die cuts
• Bats: By me
• Bandage: Morrisons
  

Peas On Earth

I'm on a mission to make Christmas cards despite the sunshine (well, in between the thundery showers anyway!) Plus I've added a ticker countdown at the top of my blog as I'm attempting to create 100 Christmas cards before November.... And November 2011 too!

I found a new challenge blog (new to me) which is Christmas Stampin' and the challenge this week is:

Make Us Laugh

This Whimsie Doodles image always makes me giggle, so perfect for the challenge! I've coloured it with Promarkers plus stickles on the fluffy bits on the hats. I've used some red and silver card from my stash for layering plus a left over bit of Spookie Dookie download from Funky Hand.

I've used a Nestie to draw around to make the shape, plus I've dotted a fine black line around the edge of the image. Card candy and ribbon from my stash.

So that is one down, 80 to go.....!

• Backing papers: Spookie Dookie download from Funky Hand

• Image: Whimsie Doodles coloured with Promarkers
• Dies: Spellbinder Nestabilities as a template
• Everything else: My stash
  

Dino Sore

I'd been asked to make, at short notice, a card for one of my cousins to-be-nephews who has broken both wrists on the first day of his Easter school holidays! Eeekkkk! So in need of a sketch that would fit the image (Dustin Pike, coloured with Promarkers) I found the current Sweet Sketch Wednesday, and because I'd not managed a challenge for a while, I thought it a great way of combining the need for the card and the challenge!


All the papers are from Funky Hand - Spookie Dookie Halloween download (see how I'm trying to use up ALL the bits in my bits box?!) and I've simply inked the edges with black ink and doodled a fine black line around them too. String is from my stash.

So hope the poor lad likes his card and gets better soon!

• Image: Dustin Pike, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: Spookie Dookie download from Funky Hand
• String: My stash
  

That's Not My Hand!

Over on Dude Time Doodles it's time for Fill The Guest Designer Spot where you get a freebie image to play with, make a creation, link it up with the blog and you just never know, you may get picked to play along with the Dudettes for a month!

The freebie this week is Bobby Bubbles who, along with his rubber ducky is enjoying the bathtub, when along came a............aaaaaggh!!!

I've used the image to make my card for the Cards For Men Challenge which asks for

Water

It's been coloured with Promarkers, edges inked and then dotted with a blue gel pen. The backing papers - perfect spotty match, (and even better as they were still lying on the table from a few projects ago!) are from Dreams Come True from Funky Hand. The little letters are also from Funky Hand but the Spooky Dookie download. A bit of faux stitching around the edges and the card is complete.

Hope you can join in the quest for a Guest Designer spot - and what better way to get a Dude Time Doodles freebie!

• Image: Dude Time Doodles, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: Dreams Come True from Funky Hand
• Sentiment: Spooky Dookie download from Funky Hand
• Everything else: My stash
  

Cute or Scary?!

I've made this little monster from my own template and used papers from the new Funky Hand download Spooky Dookie which has papers that can be used not just for Halloween!

The card fits with the Let's Ink It Up challenge which asks for

Halloween Colours

The only bit of ink (if you don't count the liberal amounts around the edges of the monster!) is the little Stampin' Up sentiment stamp which was sent to me in a swop by Jenny (thank you!)


I've added some big wobbly eyes rescued from an old project Jacob made at nursery and then hand cut all the other shapes. The spots are from a hole punch - my cutting out skills are not that good!

• Template: My own
• Papers: Spooky Dookie download from Funky Hand
• Sentiment: Stampin' Up
• Everything else: My stash

No Girls Allowed!

Now this was going to be something completely different for the Sassy Cheryl challenge this week which is:

Add Some Dimension

I was going to make a card with the image I'd coloured with Promarkers and at the last moment decided to make a door hanger! The dark blue card from my stash was ideal as it was quite thick and didn't need to be doubled to add thickness and strength.

I've punched holes around the aperture and added some string for interest. The three silver stars are table confetti (although quite chunky!) and the lettering is from the new Funky Hand download Spooky Dookie as I really like the ransom note style lettering (although you could punch them out too).

I've inked the edges with black ink and the image has been layered onto some bright blue and then black card, although it doesn't really show in the photo - just take my word for it!

• Image: Sassy Cheryl, coloured with Promarkers
• Lettering: Spooky Dookie download from Funky Hand
• Everything else: My stash
  

Dare You Enter?!

Sometimes when I see a challenge I know exactly what I am going to make, and for the Moving Along With The Times challenge this was no exception!

This weeks challenge is:

Anything But A Card

As I had the brand new Halloween download from Funky Hand - Spooky Dookie to play with, I knew I wanted to make a door hanger. I've used a chipboard template for the actual shape (which I drew round) and printed directly onto a sheet of 270gsm white card which I glued back to back.

I've inked the edges and added here and there some black card candy - not sure if you can quite see it in the photo. The ransom style letters are also from the download and I've inked them too.


Both the tombstone and mummy are Sizzix die cuts - I've added the letters on the tombstone with liquid pearls and the little mummy is wrapped with bandage. Really quick and easy to do - the longest part is waiting for it all to dry!

Spooky Dookie is a fab download and it can be used not only for Halloween as there are some non Halloween type sheets too!

• Backing papers: Spooky Dookie download from Funky Hand
• Dies: Sizzix Sizzlets tombstone and Sizzix body die
• Letters: Spooky Dookie download
• Everything else: My stash

Spooky Purple!!

A great sketch from Card Patterns this week:



Although I've flipped the semi circles - not intentional, I just glued them wrong and didn't realise until it was too late!


All the coloured papers are from the new Funky Hand download - Spooky Dookie which was released over the weekend. A great set of papers including alphas and a topper page which proves that Halloween papers are not just for one night of the year, but can be used for all year around!


I've used black card from my stash for the layering and the spooky ghosties are Sizzix die cuts which I've inked a little and added wobbly eyes.

• All printed papers: Spooky Dookie from Funky Hand
• Black card: My stash
• Dies: Sizzix ghosts