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Hello - have you had any happy mail lately? How many Valentines cards did you get? We don't "do" Valentines in our house... (Apparently I get treated like a Princess everyday??) But I do enjoy making Valentines card and there are so many great images at The Paper Shelter to chose from.

For the latest challenge #281 at The Paper Shelter the theme is Be My Valentine and I have used an image called You Have Mail.

I printed and coloured the image which I then die cut using MFT Inside outside stitched square die. I mounted this onto striped paper fromDoodlebug Stars & Stripes collection. I tied some Papermania twine around the edge and tied a bow which I secured with glue and a little wooden heart. I backed a  Wycinanka envelope and hearts onto red heart paper from Taylored Expressions - formula for love  pad and positioned this in the corner. I cut a Kaisercraft clear sticker greeting so I could place it better on the card and added a little red heart from Hobbycraft.  Finally I stamped the little postage mark in the top corner.

I used these promarkers and flexmarkers to colour the image - 

Skin - Antique White, Blush, Soft Peach, Coral, Spice - Baby pink cheeks and Powder blue eyes, 

Hair - Sandstone, Tan, Cinnamon & Henna

Post box - Red, Poppy, Ruby, Cardinal Red, Burgundy.

Inside box & shoes - Cool Grey 2,3,4 & 5

Bag -Sandstone & Tan.

Uniform - Egyptian Blue, Indigo Blue & Midnight Blue

Thanks for popping by and leaving some love at this Romantic time!
Liz (:(|)x

Dragons in the Garden.

Here is my latest DT Card for the I love Promarkers challenge #281 - The theme this week is "In the Garden" and it is sponsored by Letraset. You can win a pack of Promarkers - if your creations is chosen by the random number generator.
I bet loads of you out there are making lovely Summer garden based cards - Get them entered and resist the Christmas in July!!!

This image is from Tiddly Inks and is called Hello Pet.
I used a DL card as the image was just the right shape. I mounted it onto matt black card and drew around the edge using a Letraset 0.2 fine marker pen in black.
I used a little blue chalk to take the white from the sky and I also used Clear Wink of Stella on the Dragons wings and the lollipop flowers - but neither shows up here very well! I attached three homemade enamel dots made from Perle beads in shades of blue and green. 


I used the following Promarkers & Flexmarkers -
Dragons - Pale Citrus, Bright Green, Emerald, Turquoise & Sea Green
Horns - Sky, Azure & True Blue.
Lollipop flowers - Sunflower, Mandarin & Hot Pink. 
Grass -Pale Citrus & Grass green.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges -
Aurora Wings -  anything with wings
Colouring in Scrapland - Things with Wings.
Always something special - CAS
A Gem of a challenge - Animals

I have my fingers crossed for sunshine very soon!
Have a good week
Liz (:(|)x