Card for Eleven Challenges

I saw the topic for this weeks' Passion for Promarkers Challenge and thought yikes - like a lot of other people - but I thought I'd have a go.  The topic this week is to create a background for your project using Promarkers.  I deliberated on various different things but after I had coloured this gorgeous Ching-chou Kuik Sweet Pea stamp an idea came to me.  I did some swirls of three different blues (pastel blue, aegean and midnight blue) onto a piece of matt photo paper.  I then waited for it to dry and then put some dots on the mid blue lines courtesy of the blender.  It's a delicate effect and I might use it again.  The Sweet pea stamp has been coloured in with Promarkers and highlighted in places with the Sakura Stardust Clear pen just to add some glittery/sparkly accents.  The two different die-cut flowers are from Dawn Bibby and were a light blue but I coloured them with the mid and dark blue and finished off the centres with some card candy.  The raffia was light blue and I thought added some nice texture but didn't quite go so out came my Tim Holtz Faded Jeans Distress Ink Pad and hey presto the colour matches better.  I distressed the edges of the backing paper and stamped image to tie in and used the Tim Holtz applicator which I got with the QVC TSV a few months ago.  Personally I found this easier than the cut-and-dry foam so I shall need to get some more foam pieces.  I finished off around the card with some faux stitching.

This card fits in with the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Touchy feely

Passion for Promarkers - Create a background using Promarkers

ABC Challenge - S is for Sparkle

Your Next Stamp Challenge - Stitching

Penny's Challenge - Anything goes

Incy Wincy - Something Magical

Pink Elephant - 1 image, 2 dies and 3 different favourite embellishments (2 different flower die-cuts and my three favourite embellishments are flowers, card candy and the use of raffia/ribbon/fibres)

One Stitch at a Time - Torn, distressed or shabby

Totally Gorjuss - Texture

Totally Papercrafts - Distressing

Stamp Something - Stitching.