Football crazy...

Well, actually I'm not, but I do think football cards may sell well at our fund raising event so my new Papermania footballer stamp is being used quite a lot recently. 
I decided to go for making some tall DL cards as I always find them pretty quick and easy to do plus I happen to have loads of the clear card bags in this size so it will be nice to get some of them used up.  I used black ribbed card on top of the red base card and Cuttlebugged the bottom half using the Swiss Dots folder for extra texture.  All the images were coloured using Promarkers.  The fab football boots are part of the Papermania set.  Love them.  Both tags are die cut and the sentiment is a gold peel off coloured black using a peel off marker pen.  Black organza ribbon seperates the two halves and the tags are attached with a black brad rather than a bow seeing as it's 'man' card.

My card is also for the fab challenges at...

• Crafty Creations - Black, white and a splash of red.
• Simon Says - Male Card
• Tuesday Taggers - Touchy feely texture (ribbed card, cuttlebugged and organza ribbon)

Hope everyone is having a fab day.
Huge Hugs
Whoops forgot to say - watch out for something really cool starting next Monday.  It's not another challenge blog, but something really cool that might interest some of us addicted to entering challenges!! 
Another whoopsie - thanks to a comment from one of the DT at Tuesday Taggers I've realised I should have put a link to Tanda Stamps, who are sponsoring Tuesday Taggers this week.  Love Tanda Stamps - bought loads a little while back - hmmmmmmm maybe it's time to search them out.  If you haven't seen/heard of Tanda they do some cool stamps do check them out.
Ann xxx

Yet more fund raising...

and these book marks were so much fun to make.  
I took these three samples to work - tons of stickers (kindly donated by card making forum buddies) and precut scalloped circles.  The ladies I work with had a ball and we ended up with 50 or so book marks to sell at the Mencap Summer Fayre.
Must get back on track with those football cards.

Happy Birthday Amanda and The Promarker Challenge Blog too...

Oh my goodness I cannot believe it's a whole year since The Promarker Challenges began.  I remember being so excited as I had just started to collect the pens and had made a list of the ones needed for the first challenges.  Sheenie friends may remember me joking on the forum that the 'Apple Green' was an awful colour.  LOL - I was teasing them and also trying to stop it selling out when the pens arrived at Joanna's Sheen's store. 

Oh my - think I have most of the colours now and absolutely love using them.  The theme chosen to celebrate at The Promarker Challenge is a super easy one-Anything Goes!  My trouble is whenever there is such an open theme I struggle to decide what to create.  However, I needed to make a birthday card for my daughter's friend, Amanda so this is what I came up with.  Amanda loves big cards, which is perhaps as well as the Popcorn Bear stamp I've used on this card is enormous!!  I really didn't realise it was so big when I bought it.  I had to cut a 6" oval on my Cricut to stamp on and although I followed a sketch from one of my favourite sketch challenges I couldn't fit some of the detail on.  Hope they will forgive me at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

The tag and embellishments were cut using Cuttlebug dies and I used the Swiss Dots folder to emboss the purple panels.

Hope everyone is enjoying the lovely long Bank Holiday weekend.  I worked most of the weekend, but now have a few days off to catch up with everything hopefully.