A rose is a Rose

Hey everyone. Just a quick one for now. This is Rose and she is one of the new releases that just came out from Spesch Stamps. When Max designed her and I looked at her I just imagined Rosalie from Twilight thus she is Rose. Hope you like.

Lace it up

Morning everyone. Today is normally my Mad for Markers day but seeing I did it on Monday I have today off. So in due course I have this Magnolia card I made for Just Magnolia which is 'Lace it Up' - so use lace on your creation. I loved colouring in Secretive Tilda from the Bon Voyage range. She is adorable. I used my new DP from BasicGrey (Cappella) that I got from The Stamp Spot. That is all. Have a good one.

Spesch Halloween release blog hop

Good morning everyone. Oh how excited am I....!!!!!! I have been wanting to release these as soon as we received them from the wonderfully talented Max. These are the Goth/Halloween release stamps.

Hope you are enjoying the blog hop. If you have come from Renkata's blog than you are in the right place but if not please go to the Spesch Blog and start the hop for your chance to win some Prizes (see below).

Here is the gang being released today. From left to right we have: Winona, Halloween, Jasper, Rose and Max (yes named after the designer himself). I thought it would be fun to make a card with all the characters instead of making individual cards. Had to use the fab papers, flowers, buttons, and stamps that Amy gave me in a blog candy on this card. Thanks sweets.

Here is the blog hop list if you got lost:

Angelique
Danni
Kaylou
Kim
Maria
Miranda
Penni
Renkata
Sammi
Tracey (me)

Next stop:

Spesch Blog

am going to do something fun along the way too. I am going to be giving away three prizes to three random comments along the hop. The prizes are:

1st place will get 3 images of their choice,

2nd place will get 2 of their choice,

and the 3rd will get 1 stamp of their choice.

You have up until tomorrow 23rd Sept 11.59pm (my time) to make

a comment to have a chance to win.

Make sure you comment at the end of the hop as you may win from your comment

there as well. Enjoy...!!!!

How many fingers.....

Good morning. Wow been able to actually post today. Yay...!!!!

This card I made for the hell of it. There is a friend I would love to give it

to soon so am hoping she likes it as much as

me.

Lately I have been steering away from lots of bulky

embellishments just so that I can fit in to an envelope.

I should really invest in a scorpal. Anyone sell them

here in Australia cheap...???

This is so fitting for my friend. The gorgeous Sammi stamped out

TGF Creeper Friday for me - thanks sweets and the

DP is BasicGrey Capella that I purchased

from The Stamp Spot.

That is all.....!!!!!!!!!!

Mad for Markers - Use a digital stamp challenge

Good morning everyone. Do you know how super excited I am....?? Hahaha probably not. I am bringing you a new challenge for this month for Mad for Markers. As host I get to show you the first creation for the current challenge which is to 'Use a digital stamp' on your creation. As host I also get to show you the creation I made with the Sponsor's product this month - Spesch Designer Stamps. As owner of Spesch Stamps I am giving you a sneak peek at the new Goth/Halloween stamps being released this coming Wednesday. This is 'Halloween'. hahahaha not very creative but she is so cute.

The prize this month is a $10 voucher from Spesch Stamps to spend on any of our products.

For those of you not familar with Digital stamps than I will give you a little information. This is just how I do it but others do it differently. I open up my image in Windows Photo Gallery, right click and copy the image. I open a new Open Office document and paste the stamp in to the document. You can resize to any size. Some other programs will work differently to this. If you want to be tricky and combine your images than you will need a photo editing program such as Paint NET (which is free) and follow these instructions here (a wonderful tutorial by the lovely Debbie P).

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 00, 21, 02

Cape: C10, 9, 7, 5

Hair: 100 black, C5, C1

Pumpkin skirt: YR12, 14, 15, 18

Top & Hat: BV000, 00, 02, 04

gloves/eyes: YG25, 23, 67

Cane: B000, 01

I will give you a warning and let you know that some inks on inkjet printers will run when you use your markers on them. To ensure this doesn't happen, sprinkle over clear embossing powder on the printed image as soon as it comes out of the printer and heat emboss the powder. This will allow you to colour in the image without ruining your tips.

Hope you like the sneak peek and get those entries in. There are a lot of Digital stamp companies out there with fabulous images.

Mad for Markers DT call

Mad for Markers

1. We are looking for 2 Guest Designers (for the month of October)
2. We are looking for 5 more full time Design Team members (for Nov 10 - April 11)

We are looking for:
people who are passionate about Copics!
people who LOVE colouring as much as we do!
people with good colouring skills!
people who blog regularly and are willing and able to post regularly here on the M4M blog!
people who think and create "outside the box"!

• Cardmakers
• Scrapbookers
• "Off the Page" creators
  

What does the DT involve?
- We would like you to be able to blog weekly (on a set day) on your own blog with links to the Mad for Markers store... to provide inspiration for the current challenge as appropriate.
- We would like you to post here on the Mad for Markers fortnightly!
- DT members are given a small discount to the online store.

How to apply?
1. Please create a post on your blog about this DT call and link up or show us your favourite/ best coloured Copic Creations.
2. Leave your name and a link to your blog post in the Inlinkz section!
3. Leave GDT after your name if you wish to apply for the Guest position, or DT if you want to apply for the 6 month full time position. You are welcome to apply for both as they don't cross over. Please put DT/ GDT after your name.
4. Please email us on madformarkers@gmail.com if you have any questions!\

DT call will remain open until Sat 2nd October at 11.59pm... International applications will be accepted as well!

Friday Sketchers #120

Morning everyone. Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. I am hoping that I have still sleeping in my hotel room when you read this. Crossing my fingers that I had an awesome night out with the girls. Anyway.........I made this card with the sketch from Friday Sketchers. It has been a while since I have created a card with a Sweet Pea Stamp so here she is.

Got a question for you all. What do you all do with your cards that you don't specifically make for someone....???? I have a bucket load of cards sitting here collecting dust and I have also tried to sell via a Facebook page but noone seems to be interested. Everyone says what lovely, beautiful, stunning cards they are but not willing to buy them for $3 each - What the.....!!!!!!! Come on $3 for a handmade card - one of a kind. Hmmmm let me know please. TIA.

Stamp Something Digi Day with Wink Wink Ink

Evening all. Hope you have had a super week. Today for Stamp Something I have this Birthday card made with images from Wink Wink Ink. This set is called Birthday Essentials and goodness is there a lot in the set. There is coloured and uncoloured elements so if you are feeling lazy than you can just print off the coloured essentials. I decided not to be lazy LOL. I coloured this up for I am sure the many Birthday card I will have to give out for my sons friends. Hope you like.

My week in nearly over woo hoo. In fact I am probably snuggled up in bed whilst you read this (if you are still reading LOL). I am super excited as I am having a girls night tomorrow night. I am off to a friends place at lunchtime and will be off to the city where we will be doing shopping, staying the night (we have a fab hotel room) and a night of eating, drinking and hopefully some crazy, silly dancing thrown in there. LOL. It has been over 10yrs since I have been to a nightclub and one of my GF's wants to go to a club. That will be interesting LOL. I have no idea what to expect. I think I am too old for that stuff - shhhhhhh don't tell anyone. hahahahaha. I am sure we will be having lots of fun. No more posts from me for the weekend. Make sure you come back on Monday for my Mad for Markers post to bring in a new challenge and to have a sneak peek of one of the new Halloween stamps from Spesch Stamps. Enjoy your weekend.

Simply Betty Challenges #1

Hello hello. Hope we are doing well. Did you enjoy the Simply Betty Blog hop yesterday...??? I did and the DT did an amazing job but then again it wasn't hard when you have such great stamps to create with LOL.

Today is the first challenge over at Simply Betty Challenges. Challenge #1 is to take inspiration from this picture below and make something.

Now I love the colours and the pattern on the stockings so decided to use both. I used Drew from the Punky Teens range and coloured her up. Isn't she the best....???!!!! It seriously wasn't hard to match the colours with my Copics. LOL. You can grab Drew at the Simply Betty store here.

The quote on the card is from the Inkadinkado Kids Quotes. I just love them and have two sets now - woo hoo. The quote was coloured in with Prismacolor pencils and odorless spirits.

Why don't you pop in to the Simply Betty Challenges blog and see the rest of the DT's work - I tell you you won't be disappointed.

Products: Simply Betty Stamps Drew Digi stamp; Copics; Prismacolor pencils; Sassafras Lass DP; SU card; buttons from Haberdashery shop; Odorless spirits.

Some people

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Morning everyone. Today is my Mad for Markers day so I thought I would show you a card I made for a friend. Hopefully they will love it but if not too bad LOL. I love this quote and didn't write down who it was from but I just did a google search for friendship quotes and there are so many lovely ones out there.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 00, 21, 02

Blue/green: BG13, 23, 11, 10

Reds: R39, 37, 35, 32, 30

Hair: E49, 47, 44, 43

Other: YR21.