Polkadoodles Gift Card and more ProMarker Colouring

Here's today's ProMarker card, colouring details below. You can still win ten ProMarkers of your choice by leaving a comment on this post. Two lucky people will win this week. Scroll down to Monday's post for full details

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Over on Polkadoodles this week, the challenge is to incorporate a gift into your card - this is what I came up with - for a feast of ideas, go over to the blog to see what the creative design team have been up to. As always, there is a prize each week for the winner of the challenge

I started with four empty toilet rolls, and flattened them by running them through my cuttlebug

Printed some papers from the Sundae of Seasons CD, and cut them so that they would fit around the flattened loo roll (note: loo is slang English for toilet)

the covered roll








I bound the four loo rolls together using my Bind-it-All, (if you don't have a binding machine, you could punch holes and use a jump ring to hold them together) and cut four tags to fit inside the open edge (from the Tags, Bags Boxes and More Cricut cartridge) - I am not giving sizes, because different manufacturers use slightly different measurements for their cardboard inner rolls


Each tag was given a ribbon pull, and decorated



Coffee? On a Christmas card? Well, this one is going to hold a Starbucks gift card for my daughter as a stocking stuffer
All the elements were printed from the CD, and coloured with Promarkers.



the gift card is attached with a glue dot to this tag

how perfect is this stamp for my project?

Moving swiftly on to today's ProMarker card, a simple little one, made with a Lili of the Valley image. When I had done the colouring, I mounted the plain circle onto a pinking edge nestability circle, and just mounted that onto a simple white card that had been embossed with the Snow cuttlebug folder

Promarkers used:

for the tree, forest green, holly green and pine

Use the darkest colour first.............

fill in with a slightly lighter colour........

go over the whole lot with pine, the lightest colour. I did some sketchy strokes at the edges to make it look more feathery

I started with berry red on her clothes

and this is where the battery of my camera went flat!

Promarkers used:

Berry red, red, lipstick red, ice grey 2, apple green on scarf

hair - buttercup

skin - blush

star - vanilla and ivory

I left her skirt white, but added shadows with the ice grey 1 marker, and used a tiny line of pastel blue on the snow. I used pompoms on the hat and scarf on the finished card.

Gosh, this post has been a bit of a marathon. Thanks to all of you who have been coming over here this week, and as always, making it all worthwhile for me. I reached 2,000 followers this week, and today marked 500,000 visits to my blog. I think we will have a party to celebrate, give me time to travel, get unpacked, have a little think.....then we can party!

See you tomorrow