As The Crow Flies Blog Hop

Welcome and thanks for hopping along for the Mad for Markers - As The Crow Flies Digi release day. Have you had a look yet....??? These stamps are darn cute to boot and a wonder to colour. 

There are four new stamps released today:

Pinwheel

Raindrop

Jesse 

and

Ice Cream boy - which I have decided to use for today. 

You can purchase these wonderful stamps from Mad for Markers - as well as the ones from last release HERE. 

If you have came from Sam's blog you are in the right place but if you haven't why don't you join in the hop and start at the Mad for Markers Challenge blog.  

 I made our Ice Cream Boy have red hair. My eldest has 'Strawberry Blonde' hair and he is gorgeous so thought I would make him look similar (minus the freckles).

Markers used:

Skin: E000, 00, 11, 04; Hair: E33, 08, YR14

Cone: E41, 53, 55; Ice Cream: Y35, RV25, B04, YG07

Tshirt: W5, 3, 1, 0, blender; Shorts: B91, 95, 97, B06

Shoes: R22, 14, 17, 29, W5

Other: Sky- B0000, Pavement: C7, C5, C3

Thanks for hopping by for the As The Crow Flies release blog hop - next stop is Mel's blog. 

have a good one 

Blender Challenge entry

Good morning everyone. Wow it has been a long time since I did a post for Mad for Markers and I am truly sorry to Miss Sammi but thankfully she has been a super duper friends and understands my woes. Anyway - a card to enter in to the Blender Challenge at Copic Oz. What that means is that they want you to use your blender somewhere on your creation so what better use of the blender than using it for scales on the little mermaid. I have just spotted the blender on her tail to make it look like she has scales. What do you all think...??? She is cute regardless.

Copics used:

Skin: E0000, 00, 11, 02

Hair: BV0000, 00, 02

Tail: BG13, 23, 15, blender.

Mad for Markers Birthday Blog Hop

Good afternoon! Thanks for joining us for Mad for Markers Birthday Blog hop... we are pleased you have come along to help us celebrate 2 years at Mad for Markers !! If you came here from Rose 's blog then you are right on track ... If not please go over to the M4M Challenge blog to start the hop....:)

This card was made with Gifty Gwen by Some Odd Girl. I used a little bit of the sketch from Sketch Saturday but not exactly so will not be entered in to the challenge this week I think I did an awesome job. What do you reckon...?? LOL.

There will be prizes for people who hop along .. hidden on blogs throughout the hop so make sure you leave a comment on every blog!

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 00, 11, 02

Dress/shoes: V04, 06, 12

Jacket: YG21, 23, 25, 63

Present: RV27, 29, R39

Hair: E50, 51, 53, 55

Eyes: G21, 03

Bow on present: BG 72, 18

Now it is time to go to Kasie's blog to continue your journey.

Fairy Birthday Wishes

Good morning everyone. How are all the Copic lovers out there....??? Hope we are all well. It is still very hot here in Australia - at least where I am - good old Melbourne. Phew...!!! Bring on Winter. I am sick of this heat.

Today I bring you a card made with the gorgeous Wishes from Some Odd Girl - she is one of the Nouveau Girls and can be purchased in store at Mad for Markers here. I loved her the minute I saw her and knew right away that I had to buy her. Ain't she the bomb. LOL. Ok being pathetic I know but I do love this stamp.

This card was made by following the sketch at The Sweet Stop. I made the 'ribbon' by sewing a length of crepe paper down the middle and pulling one of the threads to ruffle it. I love how it turned out.

Markers used:

Skin: E0000, 00, 11, 02, 04

Dress: R00, 11, 21, 85, 32

Wings: BG0000, 10, 11,

Hair: E43, 44, 47, 49, Chocolate Spica pen

Eyes: BM pen, BG18, 72, 75

The Blues

Good morning everyone. I am here bringing you another Friday post for Mad for Markers to show you my favourite colour (at the moment). I love blues and light brown/creams together. This is Sweet Thinking Mae from Some Odd Girl and I bought her from Sammi at our favourite store - of course. You can pick her up here.

Markers used:

Skin: E000, 00, 11, 02

Hair: E31, 34, 35, 37,

Dress: B0000, B00, B01, B95

Top/shoes: E41, 43, 44

Mad for Markers is 2yrs Old

Mad for Markers is 2yrs old - woo hoo.

Here is what Sammi had to say:

Good morning everyone! I am excited to post today as it is the start of our birthday celebrations.. on this date in 2010 I nervously sat in the NSW Dept of Fair Trading to see if I could register the name Mad for Markers... and voila! The name was registered... the next month was spent getting in stock and waiting for the website to be designed and then for me to enter all the product... on the 22 March 2010 the website went LIVE!! And so we are celebrating Mad for Markers birthday ALL MONTH LONG!!

I am very grateful to my Customers, Readers, Design Team and of course my friends and family to help Mad for Markers continue! Without you all I would just be sitting here with a bunch of markers hehe!! This way I get to share my bunches of markers - SO THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!

So what's going to happen all month you ask??

Well.. we will have a bunch of giveaways... you will be able to enter each day on either the blog here or on our facebook page depending where the giveaway is held ... We have... a sample pack of Xpress It blending card for each day of the month, a load of digi images, Spicas and maybe more... so don't miss out!!

We might have an extra challenge or two ... perhaps some games....

The Celebrations will culminate on the 22nd March with a BIG Copical blog hop!!! WITH more fun prizes!! You will be able to sign up to participate on Monday right here :)

I thought it would be fun to have some Mad for Markers Birthday Digis to colour... so I have drawn up a number of images... which are available in the store TODAY for you to purchase... and they might sneak into some prizes throughout the month also ;)

Please join in the fun.

Friday Sketch #11 and M4M

Good afternoon all my lovely friends. Hope we are all well. Just a quick one. We have another fabulous sketch from Genevieve this fortnight over at Friday Sketch Challenge. I used the TGF Wedding image. Can't remember the name of it. LOL. Hopeless. I made this card for one of my school mum friends who knows I make cards. Thankfully it was a hit.

I combined this with my M4M post as my little girl went in to hospital to get some dental work done under anesthetic and I didn't want to do two posts. Lazy I know. All went well with my little girl and she is back to her normal self.

I decorated the middle of the card as well.

Markers:

Skin on girl: E0000, E000, E00, E11

Skin on boy: E000, E00, E11, E02

Dress: W1, W3, blender,

Girl Hair: YR21, YR14, E08,

Boy hair: E57, E59, E49

Suit: C03, 05, 07, 09, 10

Bow and flowers: R24, 29

Always

What an awesome day we are having here today - at least we are supposed to. The sun is shining and it is nice and warm. What everyone wants when it is Summer. The best part is - my boys started their first day of school yesterday (for the year) - my youngest son started Prep and my big boy is in Grade 1. So proud of my boys. My little Miss is off to Kinder this year. I won't know what to do with myself with three mornings a week. Yay....!!! I am kinda excited. Can't you tell LOL.

Have we all got our Valentine's cards done. I have only done a couple - I only need to give one out to my darling hubby. I try and make love cards so you can give to friends as well.

Today being a Friday means it is my Mad for Markers day. I used 'In Stitches Tia' stamp - she is available as a set here. She is great to colour. Have a wonderful day - and weekend.

Markers:

Skin: E000, 00, 11, 02

Heart: R22, 24, 29, 59

Pants: C5, 7, 9

Hair: E31, 34, 35, 39

Top/shoes: R81, 83, 85, 89

Happy Australia Day

Anyone want a freebie image....??? If you are a true blue Aussie or even if you are not, Sammi at Mad for Markers has these images as a freebie. Pick one and email Sammi on the details provided above.

Happy Australia Day to all the Aussies crafters out there. Not too much sun but have fun fun fun.

I'm back at M4M

Hello hello everyone. What a wonderful break I had and I am back over at Mad for Markers - yep and my days have changed. I am now a Friday girl - woot.

I thought I would start this year off with an age old question. What skin tone colours do you use...?? Some people like using the light and other the dark. I kind of like the in between colours but from time to time I will do the others. I have coloured three images for you today to show you the differences in the skin. The colours used are under the image. Please click on the photo to see a larger view.

As you can see from left to right the change in tones. The middle one is the one I typically use but will from time to time do the E00 as the base colour. It is always a personal preference for anyone and sometimes you may not have the colours I have used in any of the three. What do you all think...?? What is your preference...?? Let us know.

OMG you need to go in store and get some new stamps. Oh wow there are some cute Some Odd Girl stamps and of course - the fabulous TGF stamps. Please go to the store and have a look.

Having a dingly dangly Xmas

Morning everyone. It is hump day. Woo hoo. Ahhh I feel exhausted. Just want the silly season to be over. All these activities we are doing this year are very tiring. No matter. I am sure we will get through it in one piece.

Today I have a card made for Mad for Markers using the sketch from The Sweet Stop. I used this gorgeous elf stamp from Digital Pencil. I do love Mo's stamps. This card was made especially for Tyler Prep teacher Miss Spano. He really loves her and he wanted me to make a special card for her. If I have time (yeah right) I might be able to manage a needle felted apple.

Copics used:

Skin: E0000, 00, 11, 02

Bauble: BG10, 11, 23, Kindyglitz

Clothes/Hat: W1, W3, blender, R17, 24, 22, 29

Boots: BG13, 15, 18

leaf: G21, 24, 26 (my own blend)

Background: BG11, 23, clear Spica pen.

Red, Purple, Blue

It is Wednesday - so that means it is time for my Mad for Markers post.

Christmas is only a little over a month away and I have not yet finished my cards. How aobut all of you....??? I definately do not want to be leaving to the last minute - in fact I normally try and get my cards out the first week of Christmas. Phew - and then I wait for cards to arrive in case I forgot someone - which happens quite often.

As I am not in a very creative mind at the moment I decided to print out multiples of the same image and colour them in different colours. So here they are. Hope you get some inspiration.

Skin: E0000, E00, E11, E02

R20, 22, 24, 29, 89, blender, R000, 01 (background)

W9, 7, 5, 3, 1, blender

Skin: E00, 00, 11, 02

V09, 12, 15, 17, V0000, 000 (BG)

W9, 7, 5, 3, 1, blender

Skin: E000, 00, 11, 02

B39, 29, 24, 21, 95, B0000, 01, 02

W9, 7, 5, 3, 1, blender

This little elf is available at Make it Crafty.

Yep another Christmas card

Morning everyone. How are we all...??? Yep you guessed it - another Christmas card. I have to get ahead of all my cards for the season and frankly I always get behind so this year I thought it would be perfect to start early. So another 29 to go LOL. I thought I would show you this cutie from Make it Crafty. This is socks. Cute to boot right. I made him green as I figured he was an Elf - why not....!!!! Not too bad anyway. lol Could use it for a halloween/xmas card mixed in together LOL. Hope you are all up to date with your cards.

This card was made for the Sketch Saturday sketch this week.

All markers are available at Mad for Markers.

Copics used:

Skin: YG0000, 00, 02

Socks: R29, 24, 22

Hat: R59, 29, 24, 22

Shorts: C9, 7, 5

Hat brim and shirt: YG63, 25, 21, 00

Hair: C10, 5, 1

Eyes: YR14, black spica

Seasons Greetings

Oh wow oh wow oh wow. Can you believe it is now October. Gosh the time has flown and we are fast approaching Christmas so I thought I would make another Christmas card. I do love the reds and greens you can use for Christmas. Some of my favourite marker combos. This little cutie elf is from Make if Crafty and he is available in store now -here. So another card down, hmmmm another 30 to go LOL. What about all of you....??? Have you go your Christmas cards organized...?? I used the sketch from Friday Sketch Challenge. The new fortnightly challenge can be found here.

All markers can be purchased at Mad for Markers.

Copics:

Skin- E000, 00, 11, 04

Jacket/hat - R22, 24, 29, 59, 0000

Pants - G21, 24, 28

Bell - Y21, 26, 28,

Hair - C10, 5, 1

Shoes - C5, 7, 9, 10

White- C0, 1, 3, blender

Background - E41

black spica in eyes.

Christmas is coming

Good morning everyone. How are we all...??? I am here today with a very special post to let you all know about the current need for submissions to Sammi for her second edition of Copicendium over at Mad for Markers. As you all know Christmas is fast approaching and because of that Sammi is wanting to do a Christmas edition of the magazine so email her your creations - especially if you have done some creating with Copics and scrapbooking. Be it tags, globes, whatever - Sammi needs it.

Now on to my card. This is a sweet stamp from Sugar Nellie and it is the most fabulous stamp to colour.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 00, 11, 04

Jacket: R24, 29, 59,

Skirt: YG21, 25, 63, 67,

Hair: E49, 47, 41

Hat/socks: B91, 93, 95, 97, YR12, 14, 18,

R24, BV000, 02, 04,

Star: Y21, 26, YR14, W5, Clear spica

Wings: B0000, 01, 93

White: W1, W3, blender

Gloves: R22, 24, 29

Nevaeh

Good morning everyone. It is Wednesday so that means it is my Mad for Markers post day. Today I have a gorgeous girl Nevaeh. This girl is so cute. I love her dress so thought it was perfect to colour and put in here for my post. What do you reckon...??? She comes from Saturated Canary Digi's on Etsy and you can find them here.

I used the sketch from Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge. You can find the sketch here.

Markers used: Skin- E000, 00, 11, 04; Hair - E49, 47, 44, 43; Dress - BG11, 13, 15, 18, E49, RV25, 29, 000, 13, blender; Stocking - W1, 3, E49, 47, 44, 43, blender; Shoes - RV13, 25, 29, W5, 7, 9.

Hope you get some inspiration from my card.

Sorry for being MIA but I have been busy busy making bears - or should I say trying to make them. If you want to see what I have been up to go to my bear blog here. If you click on the links to the bear blogs and vote for me I might get to number one so please please please I would love to get your votes. TIA.

Birthday Ian

Good morning everyone.

It is my Mad for Markers day

so I am here to show you a fab stamp that is now

available in store right here.

This is Birthday Ian. I must admit that I am not

very good with boy cards even though I have two boys

myself. Will have to make an effort. LOL.

I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday

for this card. What do you think..???

Enjoy your day.

Markers used:

Skin: E00, E11, E02

Shirt: Yg0000, 00, 01, 05

Hair: E50, 51, 53, 55

Jeans: B91, 93, 97

Banner: V12, 15, 17, YR20, 12, 14, Y11, 18, 26, YR14.

Shoes: R24, 29, W5

Shading: W5, W3, blender