Passion for Promarkers #81 Thank You

New Year and New Challenges from Passion for Promarkers and this week ts all about giving thanks for all those prezzies we got over xmas!

The sponsor is Simon says Stamp who are offering a $10.00 voucher for their store!

Image is by Aspects of Design and is Funky Flowers by Kay Carley which I've coloured with promarkers.  Its not my regular choice of colours but the pantone colour for 2011 is apparantly Honeysuckle which is a kinda pinky red so I decided to have a play with it (I used promarkers in Antique Pink and Salmon Pink with a touch of cool grey 4)  DP's are various including MME and papermania.

Also entering into...

CRAFT - Thank You

Allsorts - Thank You

Bearly Mine Challenge 1!

Happy New Year and we have a brand new challenge blog to come play on woooo!  Bearly Mine Challenges opens today with a sketch (below) so hop over and come see the new blog :)  There are przes to be had too!

Bearly Mine Designs - 2 Digi sets of winner's choice

Crafty Emma - cupcake stamp

 Kenny K - 5 Digi's of Winner's Choice

For this I've used a Kenny K image called Lady Raven coloured with promarkers and mounted on black card which has been embossed with the cuttlebug divine swirls folder.  All DP's are by Bearly Mine Designs and are from the new love dreams set (rock text is a freebe over there too)

Would also like to enter into...

Creative Inspirations - Something New (Kenny K image, papers, large flowers)
Pile it on - Brand spankin new (Image, papers, large flowers)
Sew many challenges - New
Stamp n Doodle - New
Marks finest papers - New

The Stampman Awards and Blog Hop

We are doing something a little different for Challenge # 13 at The Stampman. Last year we held our first awards event, the awards were for proudly presenting your best/favourite crafting project you feel you made during the year. We are going to hold it again this year but we are linking it with our fortnightly Challenge.

We would like you to join in the challenge, which is to show us your best/favourite project of 2010. The award blinkie is just a nice random award for anyone that joins in. Display your award blinkie on your sidebar with a link back to The Stampman challenge Blog.
The most important part of this is that we would like you all to have fun and enjoy taking time to look back on your crafting over the last year, so pick something you have made that you are particularly proud of and feel was your best/favourite work of 2010.

As part of the challenge we are hosting a Blog Hop.  You should have arrived here from the lovely Janet, if not jump back to the start of the hop HERE.

Here's my favourite Stampman project for 2010 which is The Look stamp from Tracey Coates' Alluring ladies set which was stamped on sticky back canvas and coloured with promarkers.

The next blog on the hop is MICHELLE and I guess you'll be wanting a letter or two from me?  That would be.... P  and I have an extra one which is A Don't forget to leave me a quick comment :)

A quick reminder what you need to do to play on this hop!

• Join in the actual challenge with your best/favourite projected linked with Inlinkz here
• Follow your way around the blog hop collecting all the letters you will find on each blog. Write these down then work out the answer when the hop is finished.
• Leave a comment on ALL the blogs you visit in the blog hop 
• Post our event blinkie onto your blogs or a post about the event with your best/favourite project
• Take your award blinkie with pride
• Email the answer to: thestampman@btconnect.com by 9pm (GMT) on Thursday 13th January 2011.  Please put bloghop answer as the title

Challenge Reminders

Its nearly the New Year, have you got any plans?  I'm a stay at home person, have been out once on New Year in 18 years lol!  Prefer to be around my kiddie winks as they're important to me so I like to see in the New Year with them :)

Anyway just a few reminders of challenges if you're looking for an excuse to use all that new stash you got!  I got a letrajet for my birthday on Tuesday, the promarker airbrush system so will be playing with that soon!

Tomorrow over at The Stampman we will be hosting an end of year blog hop with candy to be won!  It will run for 2 weeks and all will receive an award for presenting their favourite project of 2010!  It starts at 12pm tomorrow so hope you join in the hop!

Meanwhile over at the ranch - CRAFTY CARDMAKERS is asking to see your first or oldest projects (Scroll back to your first blog posts if you have nothing older)  Its a bit of fun, shows you how far you've come and some inspiring words from guests including Suzanne from Joanna Sheen's DT, Jill from The Stampman and Linda Elbourn designer for Craft Stamper.  You can make an anything goes with it but you must show an old card!


There is also an Anything Goes Mega Christmas challenge over at Passion for Promarkers, it can be any theme but you just need to use your promarkers or aqua markers and loads of great prizes up for grabs!


Finally there is also an Anything Goes theme at Crafts & Me until Wednesday and the prize being 2 stamps from their new artist and let me tell you my jaw hit the floor when Teresa told me who she'd signed, wowwwwweeeeee!  I am so excited to be working with this stamp range! 

I'll be back tomorrow to show my favourite Stampman project so pop back!

Anything goes at Crafts & Me

Its our last challenge of the year over at Crafts & Me Challenges and we're having an "Anything goes" for the next 2 weeks so pop over and come play!  There is a FAB prize up for grabs oh yes!

"THE PRIZE IS TWO STAMPS FROM CRAFTS AND ME OWN STAMP RANGE YET TO BE RELEASED SO YOU WILL BE ONE OF ONLY TWO PEOPLE BESIDES THE D.T'S TO HAVE THESE STAMPS ON RELEASE DAY IN JANUARY(YET TO BE ANNOUNCED)"

I am sooooo excited over these stamps let me tell you!  Can't wait for the release as they are wowzers!!!

Onto my DT offering for the challenge and my DD asked me to make a candle for a client who's decor is black and silver and I came up with this, doesnt photo very well as the wax coating reflects.

There's a tutorial HERE over on Letraset how to do them.  I've coloured with promarkers, the trim is the martha stewart doiley lace punch (secured with glue dots) with added iridescent crystals and I've added a silver flower with swarovski crystals on her hat.

Would also like to enter into...

Paper Playtime - Christmas
I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes
Simon says stamp - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Critter Challenge - Anything Xmas
Thanks for stopping by & have a lovely xmas whatever you're doing x