Weekend Workshops

Hi there,
have you noticed any changes to the blog? yup we've moved the workshops so that the challenges don't get lost further down the page.
You can find all the workshops by clicking on the "Weekend Workshops" button under the blog header. I'm sure you'll agree it tidies things up a bit.
This week's workshop is a fab Elephant image  from Helen and we can't wait to see how you get on with it.
See you over on the Weekend Workshop page, and please scroll down for the current challenge which is still running.
 Hugs
Gina, Denise and the DT xxx

Weekend Workshop #20

Hi there, and welcome to our 20th Weekend Workshop - yes its still Debbi here I'm afraid lol
Every week we are more and more overwhelmed with the challenge entries, and we hope that our tutorials, hints and tips are proving useful. The current challenge is a cracker (not literally) and we're looking forward to even more of you entering as you can use any colour of Promarker - please remember though that you do need to use at least 1 Promarker plus the fabulous sketch from Gina to be eligible for the prize. So get crafting, you still have until this Tuesday at 9am to enter.
Gina would also like to thank all of you who have sent her get well wishes - she really appreciates it, you might also want to pop over and enter her super birthday and blogaversary candy. I'll let you into a wee secret, she's gonna be 40 on the 22nd of October. Haha, I'm so going to get my backside kicked for that lol And talking of birthdays, today is Michele's birthday - pop over and send her some birthday wishes.

Anyway, moving swiftly on.... Caryn has done this fantabulous flower tutorial for us all, and its so easy - but so effective.

Spikey flower tutorial by Caryn

I have been asked by a few people how to make the spikey flower that I had on my card for the “Cool Aqua and Apricot” challenge.  I have tried to show it as well as I can but it was at night when I took the photos so please excuse the poor light!! 
You start by cutting a strip of paper into an elongated triangle (remember isosceles from school??).  The size of the strip will determine how big your flower will be.  Go by the width of the “fat” end – what ever length this is your finished flower will be just under double this. Next you need to cut along the entire length of the strip so that you end up with a fringed edge.  Be careful not to cut all the way through but just up to the edge. 
 
For the next bit you need a simple quilling tool (like a double-pointed pin – but not sharp!!)
Slide the thin end of the strip into the quilling tool and start rolling it up.

If you are using single-sided paper, then make sure the patterned/coloured side is on the inside of the roll.  Like-wise if you’re using double-sided then the side you want the flower to be should be on the inside of the roll.

At this point you will need to make any little adjustments but DON’T LET GO!!!  Carefully remove it from the quilling tool and add a small dot of glue to the loose end to hold it in place.  Finally, carefully bend the “petals” back from the outside working in.  Lay the flower down on the table and press firmly on the centre to flatten it as much as possible.  Add a dot of glue to the bottom and then it’s ready to go on your card!

Ok, that’s it!  Hope someone out there finds this of use – I’ll be scouring blogland now looking for examples!! 
Take care,
Hugs,
Caryn xxx

I don't know about you, but I can see these flowers popping up on loads of my cards now.
Remember all our tutorials are available in PDF format so you can print them out and keep them. Just email me (Debbi) and let me know which one(s) you would like.
coming up NEXT WEEK – We have an animal image tutorial for you

Hugs Gina, Denise and the DT xxx

Weekend Workshop #19

Firstly we'd like to thank you for all the fabulous entries so far in this week's challenge, there is still plenty of time to enter - before 9am GMT on Tuesday, when the new challenge will start.
This week Sue has done a fabulous tutorial on colouring Tilda, you will love following her simple instructions, and we'd love to see how you get on.
Gina is taking a wee break from things for a while as she still has some ongoing pain from the car accident she was in a few weeks ago, so I (Debbi) volunteered to help Denise with the behind the scenes PfP stuff, so please bare with me


Tilda Colouring Tutorial
Here is a picture of the colours used for this image.



Skin Hair and Rose



Firstly lay a layer of your palest colour in small circular motions.
Skin almond (my favourite at the moment)
Hair Vanilla
Rose tulip yellow.. Stem forest green (darker shade first on this bit)



Next highlight areas with the next colour
Skin Blush and sunkissed pink
Hair add a little highlight with saffron on roots and tips
Roses add highlights with mustard.




Next stage is to blend the colours with the lightest shade
Skin Almond
Hair Vanilla and then a bit more saffron at the root and ends then highlight
with white gel pen.
Rose blend with buttercup, stem use leaf green in the middle and blend over the darker green.

Dress and Sash



Dress as before lay a layer of pale pink all over in a circular motion
Sash colour with satin



Dress highlight and shade with baby pink
Sash use dusky pink in the creases.



Dress blend colours together with pale pink
Sash make sure there is enough shading with dusky pink in creases

Tights Almond and satin alternated then blended together with almond.
Saffron at the edges and white highlighter pen (sorry I can't get a close up in focus)
Colours wings with satin and then I added yellow stickles.

Image before shading and blending



Finished Image ready to make into a card



Hope you made it to the end and thanks for looking Sue :o)

Weekend Workshop # 18

Thanks for all of the entries for this weeks challenge, you still have plenty of time to join in the challenge closes at 9am on Tuesday morning.

This week Ida has done a great tutorial on the Forever friends bear, I am sure you will love it.

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Forever Friends Tutorial – Ida

Seeing as I love the Forever Friends stamp I wanted to share a very basic tutorial with you on how I coloured my newest bargain! For this tutorial I have used the following colours: Oatmeal, Apricot, Blossom, Rose Pink, Primrose, Soft Lime, Lemon, Yellow and Ice Grey 1. I start of by colouring in the smallest spots on the image in round circle motions. (with the lightest colour tone, in this case Oatmeal) I then move on to colour the larger areas, continuing to use circular motions with my marker. When I have covered my whole image I add a darker colour (Apricot) where I want my shadows to be. When I have added the shadow, I go over the area with my lighter colour (Oatmeal), still in circular motion so that the edge of the darker tone blends with the lighter one. I repeat this step until I've cover all the areas I want to high light with these colours. I also add a line of grey around the whole image to give it some more life. Here I have used Ice Grey 1. I use the same steps to colour the gift box, using one light colour and one darker, in this case - Blossom & Rose Pink for the bow, Primrose & Soft Lime for the box and Lemon & Yellow for the tag. Thanks for looking, I hope this this was some how helpful! :)

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coming up NEXT WEEK – We have another great tutorial this time from Sue,
Hugs Gina, Denise and the DT xxx

Weekend Workshop #17

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and enjoying your week. We have a great tutorial from Debbi this week. If you would like to have one of your tutorials here on PFP for everyone to see or would like to do one especially for us, we are opening it up to everyone, so if you feel like you have something to share please email me :)
We also have a big thank you to Sarah B and Caroline for being such fabulous guests. Look out on Tuesday for our next 2 guests :)

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We know how much storage for our pens is a problem, well Ida has found some fabulous storage at Camilla’s blog, Sue and myself (Gina) could not wait to have a go so here is my new storage

Here is a closer look :)

Now all you need is a

• DVD rack from Ikea @ £7.99
• 14 DVD cases
• Debbi’s new colour chart (email me if you would like one)
• Your gorgeous ProMarkers

I must say it took me a while to do it and I have to thank Sue for the super idea of using Debbi’s PDF colour chart, but it is soooooo worth it, they look fabulous and stick out just enough to make them easy to get and put back.

Hugs Gina xxx

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I think almost everyone has at least one animal stamp in their collection and so we have decided to do a series of tutorials on colouring animals with promarkers. I thought I'd start with a horse as its a popular theme, especially with little girls. I love this image; Charlotte's Horse from Whiff of Joy, designed by Alison Acton. Although its a cartoony type image it's also realistic in form and shape.
First things first, the image is stamped onto IQ Smooth 160 g/m2 with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. And I'll be using the following promarkers; Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa and Umber. (I have also used Vanilla for the mane and tail which is not pictured)

The first thing I do is to imagine where the lightest bits would be, this is the bit that most people fin the most difficult to imagine. The easiest way to do it is probably to do an image search of horses on the internet. This is one that I found - it might look awfully complicated - but if you almost close your eyes, so that you are looking through your eyelashes, it is easier to see where the light and dark areas are.

So I have started with the lightest areas and very roughly coloured these areas with Sandstone

Then I take a small section at a time and colour the remaining white bits with Cinnamon. Then blended using the Sandstone in small circular movements.

Next I take the Cocoa promarker and using small strokes, colour the darker areas. Then blend with Sandstone

The I repeat the above 2 steps (with the cinnamon, then cocoa) for each of the other small sections

I took the Umber promarker and added tiny shading to the darkest areas - the furthest away hind leg, and the back of the other three legs, and the shadow behind his jaw then blended with the Sandstone again.

Then I moved onto his mane and tail. I coloured the areas that I imagined would be hit by the light source with Vanilla.

Then used Sandstone to colour the rest of the mane and tail and blended with the Vanilla

I kept adding more layers of Sandstone and blending with Vanilla until i was happy with the effect

And this is the completed image made into a card

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Hope you have enjoyed this weeks workshop, don’t forget if you want to join in and put a tutorial on, please contact me here

Hugs Gina, Denise and the DT xxx

Weekend Workshop and Blop Hop Winner

Well, we had a fantastic response to the 1^st ever Passion for Promarkers Blog Hop to launch the 56 brand new colours from Letraset, it looks like all of you are as excited as we are about all those lovely new colours to play with. The whole team would like to thank you all for entering and for all your lovely comments, and we hope you had as much fun as we did.
So without further ado, we’d like to announce the lucky winner of a complete set of 56 new colour promarkers is........................................

*****Julie*****

Congratulations Julie, you are now the proud owner of all 56 new promarkers, just email me with your address and she’ll send you out your prize.
We also had 11 mini prizes, each of the DT were offering 1 new colour promarker plus their blog hop card. So pop along to their blogs to check and see if you’re a winner.
Please note, all prizes must be claimed by Tuesday 22^nd September or they will be re-drawn.
Now back to business, this week we are showing you some more blonde tutorials this week, Michele and yours truly have shown you how we colour blonde hair.

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Blonde Hair Tutorial - Michele

This is my preference of colours to use for colouring blonde hair Ivory, Pastel Yellow, Gold and Cinnamon.

The image I've used is stamped onto white Data Copy Colour Printing paper 160gsm using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

First of all, I go all over the hair in small circular motions using the colour Ivory.

Then using very light strokes, I use Pastel Yellow

Now with the Gold ProMarker pen, go over the hair where you think it would be darker. Again using very light strokes.

Next I use the colour Cinnamon, where I think the hair would be darker.

Here's a little tip for you - don't throw away pens if they are running out.

I find these perfect for colouring hair, especially the darker colours.

Now with the Ivory ProMarker go over the whole of the hair using small circular motions.

Here is the image again fully coloured in.

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Blonde Hair Tutorial – Gina

This is my take on blonde hair, I have used Anya Snuggle and inked her with memento ink onto IQ paper.

I started off using Primrose and covered the whole area of hair, I usually do a couple of coats just to get the ink into the paper and I find it blends better this way

I then added Vanilla to the roots of her hair and the parts which I think are darkest, I do think that this is the hardest part deciding where is darkest, so I always do the roots the ends of the hair and then any where that hits an edge, i.e from a bow. I then go over the whole area again with the Primrose this blends in some of the Vanilla used

I then moved on to Pastel Yellow, and again do the darkest areas but this time I use less than I did of the Vanilla, again I go over the whole area with Primrose

I then go over the darker areas again to give it more depth but be careful not to overdo the darker areas as it will be harder to correct, once you are happy go over with the Primrose again just to blend in :)

Hope that is of some help, like I always say the best way to learn is to practice yourselves and if you want to show us how you do it just drop us an email :)

Hugs Gina xxx

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coming up NEXT WEEK – Tutorial on colouring a Horse

Well we hope you have enjoyed the tutorials for this week, take care until next week :)

Hugs Gina, Denise and the DT xxx

Weekend workshop #15

Well we have quite a few things to tell you this week before we get going with a fab tutorial for Debbi’s image next challenge. Thank you so much for all of your gorgeous cards again, they are getting better and better :)

**** BREAKING NEWS ****

Firstly all know the new ProMarkers are coming out week commencing 14th September, well the DT have been very fortunate to get some ahead of launch and will be doing a Prize blog hop on Sunday 13th at 10am to celebrate the launch, there is a fabulous prize so please pop along and join in. All the details will be on Sunday, but here is just a tease of what you could win……sorry you didn’t think it was going to be that easy did you :)

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Also we have some good news for all crafters one of our sponsors Wendy at Secret crafter  is now doing free p&p on all orders in the UK so if you want to get your hands on some of the new PM’s or any other crafty bits go check out the website :)

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Debbi has done another one of her fabulous tutorials, the image will feature on her challenge card on Tuesday, it will be another any colour week so don’t forget it don’t matter how many PM’s you have as long as you use one :)
Image Tutorial Debbi
I am so excited to be able to use the brand new promarker colours for my image tutorial this week. They arrived on Thursday morning, giving me just enough time to use them for Tuesday's challenge. You'll have to wait until Tuesday to see the image made up into a card, and I hope you like what I've done.

First I stamped the image, Claudia the Artist from Sugar Nellie with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Stampin' Up whisper white cardstock

The first colour I used was Blush, for all the skin areas

I used on of the new colours Tan for areas of the skin that would be in shadow eg the right arm and just below the hem of her trousers and blended with the Blush

I then coloured her trousers with another of the new colours, Mulberry, using a small circular motion

I then added Plum to the areas of her trousers that would be in shadow and blended with the Mulberry.

For her top I used Orchid, again colouring it with small circular movements

I have added Purple to the areas that would be darkest, then blended

Moving onto her belt/scarf, I used Pink Carnation to colour the whole area. I then used Fuchsia Pink for the shadows and blended again with the Pink Carnation (2 pics below)

Moving onto her hair I used yet another of the new colours, Caramel. I coloured the areas that I wanted highlighted, where I imagined the light would hit.

The second colour I used for the rest of her hair was Walnut.

I blended this very lightly with the Caramel, I left the effect quite rough, to make it look like it has more texture.

The I added Umber to the areas that wouldn't get any of the light e.g. the underneath of the hair on her right, the roots and ends.

Again I blended this with the Caramel, roughly for more texture.

For her accessories, bracelets, earrings etc I used Cerise. Then added Magenta from the old colours for the areas in shadow (pic below)

Finally, this is the finished image, you will see how I've made it into a card on Tuesday morning for my challenge week where you can use any colour of promarker.

Debbi xx

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Well that is it for this week, don’t forget the fun starts this coming Sunday at 10am, we will see you then :)

Hugs Gina, Denise and the DT xxx