I have had a little bit of a hiatus from the blog that certainly wasn't intentional, but you how life just sneaks up on you and takes the carpet right from under you?? Report cards, a two-week trip to Ireland with my husband's rugby team, then 5 days later a trip to Disneyland with my choir and band... I've also made a major life decision that will hopefully help with my stress-level and my ability to cope with busy times in my life. More on that later!!

Back to the title of my post - as a cardmaker we are always looking to what the next holiday is, and it just happens to be Mother's Day! I hope to have a bunch of different cards made so my friends and family can give them to their mommas. It's my first official post as on the The Twinery DT and I've used the twine to add some pops of colour.

Today is the big day: our blog hop for big prizes! I coloured up this beautiful Wild Roses image with Tombows and a waterpen. For the background I scribbled some light brown ink on a palette and picked it up with a large waterpen for an aged look:




Thanks for stopping by today, here's where you need to hop to next:

Debbie Fisher

This week we are absolutely delighted to be working with the team at TombowUSA, creators of amazing markers and adhesives. Over the last 40 years Tombow has been expanding their flagship line of pencils to include pens, adhesives, and premium markers for all types of artists and art projects.

These markers are waterbased and blended with a blending pen, slightly different than the alcohol based brands our Design Team is used to using these days. This collaboration gave many of them the opportunity to learn something new.

Personally, I was looking forward to working with these markers because I have only coloured with Ranger Distress Markers (water-based markers too) and was frustrated with some aspects of watercolouring with them... I will say this about the Tombow markers: they are lovely to colour with! Bright, bold colours that retain their depth even when blended with water! That was one of my pet-peeves with Distress Markers and I'm glad that Tombow markers offer both depth and blendability... Here's my card:



I stamped the Sweet Sunflower Cling Stamp image with black Archival ink and coloured with Tombows and blended with a waterpen. I absolutely love the results I got, especially on the petals...

Thanks for stopping by today and I'll see you tomorrow for our big blog hop and giveaway!

Hi there and greetings from Ireland! I am hanging out in our Dublin hostel lounge before heading out for some shopping and later a tour of the Guinness factory!!

I made this card with Technique Tuesday's March Greenhouse stamp set. I thought I would pull out my metallic PanPastels and create a shiny focal image. Here's today's card:




I stamped the image with Versamark ink then dusted some bronze PanPastel over the ink. So easy...

Here's a shot that shows how shiny it is:




I then chose some clean colours for the sentiment panel to finish off the card. Thanks for stopping by! Stay tuned for some Ireland pictures!

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Tobi Crawford (you are here)

Lea Kimmel

Tenia Nelson

Suzanne Czosek

• You can simply add the URL link from your project after it has been uploaded to your online craft gallery. If you upload your card to an online craft gallery, please use the keyword NON1 so we can check out your beautiful work! You can also use online photo-sharing sites like Flickr to share your photos too! 
• Please mention and link back to this post to let people know about this fun challenge!
• Whether you are Naughty or Nice, we sure would appreciate cards made especially for this challenge, but really and truly, anything goes as long as it fits our monthly theme! 
• You have until the 25th of each month to submit your creations and then the DT will pick two winners, one for both Naughty and Nice!