The Daily Marker Collor Challenge day 2

So it is already day 2 on 

The Daily Marker Color challenge

so I try to keep up and here is my card

for today:

On this card I used one of the STAMPlorations free images

again and of course this time I used the coffee cup.

The image is colored with blending markers.

You find all the details of the STAMPloration

Love/Spring Challange HERE.

The background of this card is a piece of 

design paper from my Stampin'Up! stash,

the ribbon is from my Club Scrap stash and

the card is finished off with a few sticky pearls.

I wanted to decorate the evelope too, so i stamped

this coffee cup on the front side.

The sentiment is by Your Next Stamp

and the coffee cup is by Honey Bee Stamps.

The cup is colored with pencil, for on the

envelop the color of markers is not very well seen.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

The Daily Marker Color Challenge

On the Daily Marker Blog

there is a 30 day color challenge.

i am going to try to color something

every day of Febuary.

You find all the details of this color challenge

on The Daily Marker Blog

and you can also upload your projects there.

As today is Groundhog's day, i looked

online for a coloring image and found

this cute image on a teacher's site.

Oh, you have no idea what is Groundhog's Day?

Well, I had to look it up too and found it HERE.

The image was a little different, but I left out some thing

and used this for my card to pint for coloring.

So here is the start of my coloring that

I shared on instagram.

For the background of this card I used the direct to

paper technique with ground expresso oxide distress ink.

Next I used the speckles stencil by Tim Holtz

and the same ink.  The sun behind the groundhog

is a die cut.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

STAMPlorations Love Theme

Here is my entry for the STAMPlorations 

Love/Spring theme linky party 

with some wonderful free downloads.

You see all the different images below that you can choose from.

And yes....there even is a coffee image and I did not

pick it this time!

For my cupcake card, I started out with the background

of this card with the direct to paper technique

with pink worn lipstick oxide distress ink.

Just add some ink on your craft sheet a few

drops of water and pick this up with you paper.

I dried it with my heat gun.

Next I used two different Tim Holtz stencils.

The heart stencil with the same worn lipstick 

oxide distress ink and the alphabet stencil with

brushed corduroy oxide distress ink.

Then I colored the printed image I downloaded

from the STAMPlorations site. I used

blending markers to color the rose and the cupcake.

The background is colored with the worn lipstick 

oxide ink. After  finishing the coloring and 

matting the image, I added some string and 

sticky pearls to finish the card.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Mojo Monday 508

My card today was inspired by the Mojo Monday 

sketch you see below.

It is not exactly, but I guess you can see the inspiration!

I started with a piece of black cardstock and

embossed it with the candy hearts embossing folder.

Then i added some gold and copper gilding wax.

This is the beautiful result.

This stamp is by Honey Bee Stamps

from the set Coffee Break.

I stamped it twice: one time on red paper

and one time on pink paper. The inside of the 

cup is colored with markers.

For the inside of the card I used 

Altenew stamps. They are from the set

Coffee Talk.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Simon Says: Love is in the Air.

In honor of the Chinese New Year

that starts on Feburay 5th

and will be the 

year of the pig, I made some 

pig Valentine cards:

I did not make them by myself,

I had some help!

We want to enter our cards for the 

Love is in the Air challenge on the

Simon Says Stamp Monday Blog.

We started with downloading this cute pig image HERE

and after printing we colored the pigs with pencil and markers.

This card is made by my grandson.

He embossed the background and added some ink

and stamped the sentiment. I cut the pigs for

him and after he punched out some

circles I added them with a stapler to the card.

As there where some pigs left, we also

added some inside.

Here is one of my cards.

For the background I used two different

Tim Holtz stencils and the mini heart stamp

by Michael Strong and oxide distess inks.

The pig is colored with markers.

The sentiment is a freebie for you. 

I made it up in Photoshop. Grab it by

clicking with your right mouse button

and save it to your computer.

For my 2nd card I started with the direct to 

paper technique with oxide worn lipstick ink.

Next i stamped the xoxox Club Scrap stamp

and the sentiment ( Heart to Heart 2009).

After coloring and cutting out the pig,

I also stamped the mini hearts on a seperate

piece of paper and cut them out. Both are added

with foamtape.

Thank you so much for looking

and have a creative day!

Vintage Printables

I am having fun with my new digital images from

Create with TLC. I bought all these images

from Paulette's Etsy Shop HERE.

My grandson loves lions and other wild animals

and once i had these images, I suddenly had all

these ideas for cards.

The cards are all made with photoshop

and printed on my computer to make them into

real cards. Please take a look here:

All te sentiments are by Create with TLC too.

You might find some freebies on her BLOG.

Do click on the pictures to have a more close-up view

of all the cards.

The ribbons are from my photoshop stash.

Here you see the complete images that you

get in the animal set.

 The flowers were a freebie and the giraffes came as a gift

after I bought the animals.

Hope I given you some inspiration.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Simon Says: Have a Heart

Have you downloaded Michael Strong's piggy

for the Chinese New Year here? 

I try to come up with more ideas than just for the New Year.

How about a Valentine's piggy?

I got the idea foir this card when I noticed this weeks

challenge on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Blog:

Have a Heart.

For my card I used the following: 

Michael Strong pig freebie

heart embossing folder

Michael Strong heart rubber stamp

pink ink

card stock

The background is embossed with sweet hearts

with a touch of pink ink.

The heart is stamped with neon pink and colored 

with a softer pink marker.

The pigs are printed and colored with a marker.

The sentiment I made up with the computer,

for I had no stamps fitting this card.

As I made it up myself, I share it as a freebie

for you. Feel free to grab the sentiment.

I also decorated the inside of the card with a piece

of left over pink paper from the front panel and

the smaller heart stamp.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!