Our format over at Passion for Promarkers is changing slightly this week and will be different from now on.  Firstly we are lucky enough to be joined by our first Guest Design Team members who will be with us for the next 4 weeks.  They are the fabulously talented and ever so sweet Sarah B and Caroline.  They’re work has really impressed all of the DT every week and so we are delighted they have agreed to be with us for this time.  Secondly there is a change to the challenge format.  Instead of the DT picking colour themes every week it will alternate between a theme picked by a DT member followed by colours picked by a GDT member.  Make sense?  Good!

This week the theme has been picked by Moi and it is “Glittery and Girly”.  I love glittery, sparkly things and I love girly things so there it is.  You can use any colours you fancy on this one so ANYONE can enter as long as they use ProMarkers.  Yay!

Our sponsor this week is the fabulous Secret Crafter and they’re offering 6 promarkers to one lucky winner. Back to the ironing for now :0(

Hugs,

Caryn xxx

Now I don’t really “do” distressing so whenever I see a challenge coming up on that theme I do sort of shudder!  At A Spoonful of Sugar this week we’re looking for distressed effects on your cards so I have completely cheated and used a paper with a distressed effect already printed on it!  It’s from a HUGE K & Co pad I recently got from QVC which I have to say I am chuffed with.  It’s got some gorgeous papers in it and only a few that are “not me”.   I have paper pieced the clothes and umbrella with coordinating papers from the pad and used my retro daisy punches from Craft U Love for the flowers.  Please pop over to the blog and have a look at how distressing is meant to be done as the other DT members are all much better than me!

Well, it’s the final 24 hours before school starts again (hallelujah)  and as usual everything has been left to the last minute.  I still have uniforms to iron (with name tags to attach), PE kits to sort, lunch box contents to buy, children to bathe, socks to pair…..  Don’t get me wrong, I love having them around and have really enjoyed these holidays but I have SO much to do and the house needs to get back to normality.  They NEED school!!  I NEED school!!

Off to find the iron!

Hugs,

Caryn xxx

Monday means Cupcake time and this week we have a recipe for you to follow – 3 buttons, 2 papers, 1 ribbon.  I really enjoyed making this card actually and am quite pleased with how it turned out.  I guess when you’ve got good ingredients it sometimes just comes together without much effort.  The papers are the lush Washington Apple from Stampin Up! and the cute stamp is a Ketto by Stamping Bella coloured with PMs and stickles.

This week we have a great prize up for grabs from Quixotic Paperie which is a £10 voucher to spend online.  They have some really beautiful and individual items in their store (LOVE the cherry charms)

Well hope everyone is managing to enjoy an unsurprisingly damp bank holiday!  We’re hoping to nip over to the Matthew Street festival in Liverpool later but if it doesn’t dry up a bit it might be the Blue Planet aquarium again instead – it’s inside!!!

Have a happy day one and all.

Hugs,

Caryn xxx