There are times when only a marker pen will do! That's especially true if you want to join in with a colour challenge and the only colours you happen to have are in marker pens.
Ahem - that's me this week with the TGIF challenge - their colours are last year's In Colours which I must admit were not my favourites. I was lucky enough to win a set of marker pens at Convention but I never did follow up on buying the full ink pads.
The challenge over at Addicted to Stamps this week is also using Marker Pens so my card can double up.
I've kept my card quite CAS (clean and simple) and I've used an old SU set which I've been using lately for some inchies for a swap I've organised on my Joy of Sets Facebook Page. It;s called A Little Love.
These colours do seem to scream sweets or ice cream and I thought this little sweet dispenser was the perfect stamp. I've used the Stitched Framelits to layer the little squares and kept the colours as block colours. The sentiment is from an old Project Life set called Remember This.
The challenge over at Inkspirational this week is neutral colours for a Christmas card. I really loved this challenge as I normally grab reds and greens and maybe blues and doing a neutral card was a revelation.
I've used one of my favourite Christmas sets from Stampin Up which is an old one called Winter Post. The image of the skaters is so nostalgic and it really lends itself to these neutral colours. I've used a Holly Embossing folder for the Very Vanilla which had a circle cut out. The skaters are behind it with dimensionals to give this an impression of a bauble. The stamping at the top is another old set Autumn Days which had this stamp of fir cones to give the impression of a Christmas tree branch for the bauble. The touch of gold thread just finishes off the card.
As I'm in a neutral mood I decided to do another neutral card for Addicted To Stamps challenge which is a CAS challenge.
I've used a very old stamp I dont even know where its from - I've added an old metal brad to the top of the tag simply layered it onto dark brown and used the Holly Embossing folder direct on the Soft Suede.
