A promised serpent crusher

An explanation of today's advent image:God created the world  and it was good... He created Mankind (Adam and Eve) in his image to look after his world under his rule...  but sin entered the world when the serpent deceived Eve and she ate the fruit from the tree God had commanded them not to eat from and also gave some to Adam who also ate it.

Today's Bible passage contains God's curse to the serpent promising that Man and Woman's offspring would "Crush his head" Full text available here -
Genesis 3:8-15 New International Version (NIV)

IMAGE FOR COLOURING

Advent 2018 - Jesus is the Reason for the Season

Good evening. It's the 1st of December today and thus the start of Advent.

Here's a little definition from Dictionary.com

Advent

noun.

1. the arrival of a notable person or thing.

    "the advent of television"

    synonyms: arrival, appearance, ermergence, materialization, surfacing, occurence, dawn, origin,

    birth, rise, development.

2. the first season of the Church year, leading up to Christmas and including the four preceding  

    Sundays.

    Christian theology 

    the coming or second coming of Christ.

As a Christian, Advent is when we look forward to Christmas and  celebrating the birth of Jesus, the King, "God with us" who would "save the people from their sins" :) He has arrived and done this and will return again one day! 

Each day during the lead up to Christmas I'm going to share a picture and a Bible passage. I'll put the line art images here on my blog in case you or some children in your life would like to colour them in. Below is today's image ... I'll post a new one every day :) 

The Bible passage can be read HERE

I've also set myself the task of December Daily this year.. I've made a little handmade journal that I will record (with photos and journaling) the months happenings :) Do you do anything for Advent or December Daily???

A birthday card for my Guy

It was Guy's birthday earlier this week .. and this was the card I made for him.. I used a stamp from The Greeting Farm and coloured it to look a bit like Guy :)

All the papers are from my stash... slowly getting through these!!

The stamp "You're Simply Amazing" is a Kaisercraft one.. available in a great set HERE

I found an old Creative Memories sticker (the computer) and used it on the card! 

The HAPPY BIRTHDAY I wrote with the chisel tip of my BV18 Copic marker and added a 2nd line with a multiliner! I also outlined the rectangle borders using a 0.3 multiliner - my favourite size!

I made a FAKE Cheesecake.. FAKE because it was dairy free and so absolutely no cheese .. the main ingredient is cashew nuts .. it actually worked well although was a bit of a fail on the night as there was no room in the freezer at my in-laws for it and so it kinda melted into a soggy mess... since it re-froze it actually tastes quite yummy!

Thanks for stopping by! 

Sammi 

xoxo

Gluten and Dairy Free choc chip cookies

Today we had a women's afternoon tea for the women from our 5pm church meeting. It was lovely to hang out and drink tea together :D I experimented with a new recipe .. I found a few online and kinda merged/ experimented with what I had. I think they turned out quite OK :D

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup almond meal

1 cup coconut flour

1 teaspoon g-f baking powder

6 tablespoons of Coconut oil (melted)

4 tablespoons of honey

1 generous squeeze of Vanilla bean paste

2-3 tablespoons of rice milk

1/2 block cooking chocolate roughly chopped (sadly Woolies has no choc chips that are dairy free)

METHOD:

I just threw it all in the bowl and mixed it up .. then scooped out small balls and slightly squashed them.

COOKING TIME:

~10minutes on 180 degrees... our OVEN is really off though..so this could vary!

It's a yummy not tooo unhealthy snack.. which is especially nice with a cuppa tea on these wintery wet days we are having!!

Have Hope

Good afternoon everyone! 

Hope your week is going well! I've been working on another Copic video today... just a bit more editing to do before I share it on Youtube... meanwhile, 

Just popping on to share another of the recent cards I've made using my unending supply of paper ... and some gorgeous stamps from The Greeting Farm. this is the Best Friends Stamp and the sentiment is also from a TGF set :D

Copics used:

Skin: E000, E43, Bv000, R20, RV13

Hair: Yr24, YR27, E19, R59

Scarf/Eyes: BG01, BG13, BG57, B99

Top: BV11, V12, V15

Boots/ Pants: E40, E41, E42, E43, E44 

Thanks for stopping by!

Sammi

Lots of layers

Good afternoon,

Today I'm sharing a card I made for the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge.. which is "Anything Goes" with a twist of "lots of layers" I had fun layering up LOTS of different bits of paper to create the card layout.. then coloured up this image "Best Friends" from The Greeting Farm.. (YES I STILL LOVE them hehe )who is also "wearing lots of layers" - unlike me in this heat,  tee hee

Hope your Monday/ week has started off well.. not sure where mine went... Well come to think of it I do...  down a rabbit hole of videos and iphones and imovie and youtube. I've started off a new youtube channel for my business Mad for Markers and I coloured this stamp in the first video :D

All you need in life is a Friend who has chocolate

Hello everyone,

I'm back again... three days in a row... we're cooking with gas .. well almost! (Let's see if this can be kept up) .. There's plenty of challenge blogs out there to keep the inspiration coming :D 

Today I'm sharing a card I made for the AUD Sentiments Challenge .. which is to create a card "for a friend" ... I love this sentiment stamp which I've cut up to fit on the card.. and It would make a great card for a friend.. although would probably need to be accompanied by a block or box of choccies :D

The image is Creeper Tuesday from The Greeting Farm and has been coloured with the following Copic markers:

Skin: E50, E31, E42

Dress: R81, R83

Hair: V000:V12, V15, 0

Crown: Y26, Y32, 0

Boots: C5, C8

Thanks for Stopping By,

Sammi

xoxo

You had me at Hello

Good afternoon,

Hope you are having a great weekend so far... ours has been pretty quiet so far which is kind of nice.

Today I'm sharing a card I made for the Cute Card Thursday Challenge .... this is one of my all time favourite stamps from the Greeting Farm - Miss Anya Treats ... the one word sentiment "Hello" is from a Kaisercraft stamp set :)

The image has been coloured with Copic markers :)

Have a great rest of the weekend! 

Thanks for stopping by,

Sammi

xoxo

Southern Girl's pattern trio

I have missed blogging and hope to get back into it a bit more this year, I've looked up some challenges to get me started  ... There are tons out there and great to help get inspired, so I have a few cards lined up to share over the next couple of days :D It's awfully hot here still downunder and so making cards is a great thing to do sitting under the airconditioning!

Today I am entering the Southern Girls Challenge which is to have three or more patterned papers on the project... I have used three :D I've been trying to use up all the bits and pieces of paper I have here :D

The image is Love It from The Greeting Farm and has been coloured with the following Copic markers:

Skin: E000, E21, E43, R81, RV63

Blues: B21, B23, B24, B26, B99

Hair: E43, E44, E47, E25, E71

thanks for stopping by,

Sammi

xoxo

Happy Birthday Gran Margaret

Good morning!! Today is Margaret's Birthday! Margaret was one of our first customers at our shop in Rockdale and has is the brains behind our Progressive Freebie challenge on the Mad for Markers Creations Facebook group so I thought it was necessary to create a DIGI of Gran Margaret for her Birthday!!

Here is the card that I made ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARGARET!!!

Rebekah with Coffee

Good afternoon,

Today I'm sharing a card that I made with Rebekah ... one of my latest digis :) she is happy with her Travel cup of coffee :)

I am loving the BlueGreen colour family at the moment and it goes perfectly with the Ubud Dreams Paper which is what I have used for the papers and added I some diecuts from the same range.

I'm going to enter this card into...

the Aussie Digital Artists Challenge blog - Have you seen this blog that started this year? It's a great way to support  Aussie Artists :) This month the sponsor is Sasayaki Digital Stamps and there are some absolute cuties there.. why not check them out :)

I'm also going to enter into...

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper challenge for April :D
and
Love to Craft Challenge Blog for April :)

Thanks for stopping by!
Sammi

New Release - April girls

Good afternoon,

Today is a happy day at Mad for Markers... we have just activated the new website ... www.madformarkers.com.au and are hopeful this will be much more user friendly than our old website... and it's a NEW digital release day!!

Today there are 4 new images released .. you might have seen one already if you are on our Mad for Markers Creations group ... Rebekah with Coffee ... and then three other girls all dressed up for winter, Chloe, Bridget and Emily .... I have used them on a project life - esque card which I will use in an album or planner :D

You can find all the new girls as Digital stamps in the NEW store HERE :)

Margaret and Rose have both created some lovely cards with these girls also.. make sure you go check out their blogs to see their work and leave them some words of love and encouragement :)

Ubud Dreams canvas

Good morning,

Today I'm sharing a canvas that I created using the Kaisercraft Ubud Dreams paper :)
I love the blues and bluegreens in this paper!!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!!

Sammi
xoxo

and the winner is....

I'm a little late drawing the winner of the blog candy as I was rather caught up in planning and running our Mad for Markers Arty Farty Crafty Party on this weekend just gone!

We had a wonderful weekend of colour and cake :D Here is a photo that I uploaded to Instagram... showing Emma's Art journaling and Prismacolor class and Gin's Project class :) There were more photos if you want to see them, just search #artyfartycraftyparty on Instagram.

 Ok... Now to announce the winner.. thanks to those who entered - I loved reading your answers to the questions posed :) In order to draw a winner I wrote out all the names and added the additional entry slots and then used Random.org to pick a number... Drumroll.........

 

and the winner is Terriavidreader :D Congratulations! 

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Good morning, Im sitting at the shop ... and it's quiet.. so far only one customer has come in.. although she didn't end up being a customer just an enquirer as I didn't have what she was after .. sad day.

Anyway on a brighter note I am sharing a card that I made using some of my favourite things... some stamps from The Greeting Farm and  one of them includes a quote from one of my most favourite Bible passages - Psalm 139

To help me MAKE more cards and DO MORE blogging again I have been looking for some challenges to enter and I found some fun ones :D

Colour Crazy Challenge is Anything Goes :)

Crafty Girls Creations also have an Anything goes challenge on :)

Country View Challenges have an Anything Goes challenge as well :)

Thanks for stopping by my blog... SCROLL DOWN for my 9 year Blogaversary candy.... there's still a couple of days left to enter :D and T ... thanks for inspiring me to actually post a blogpost today :D

Blog candy 2017

Good afternoon, a day later than I said but HERE is my blog candy post to celebrate 9 years of this blog... and to kickstart my new year of blogging more regularly (we'll see how it goes ;)

I've found 9 different things to include .. that are related to my blogging/ crafting journey :)
1. Copics
2. Prismacolors
3. Spica pen
4. 0.3mm Multiliner
5. kneaded eraser
6. a rubber stamp
7. 6 x 6 paper pack
8. Marker bleedproof paper
9. copics of Copicendium

To go in the draw 

1. please leave a comment here and your email so I can contact you if you WIN :D
 if you don't want to add your email in the comments you can send it to me via email

2. for another entry follow my Instagram page :) and comment on the blogcandy pic

3. for an additional entry join my business Mad for Markers facebook group (a place to share colouring/ artworks)

ok... now I think I need to have 9 options for entries .... so for 6 more chances tell me in your comment your answers to these questions (yup my blog over the years morphed into  a space to share life as well as Art/ Craft):

1. your favourite colour
2. your favourite Social Media outlet
3. your preferred colouring medium
4. do you blog - if so please leave your address so I can come say "Hi"
5. where you were 9 years ago
6. where you would like to be in 9 years time

Thanks I think that's probably enough... I'll leave this open till the end of January :)

Sammi
xoxo

9 years later - blogaversary

If anyone is still reading this TODAY is my blogaversary.... I think I will have to get some blog candy together as a celebration... 9 years ago I started this blog... as a bit of a record of my crafty creations... a bit of an online VAPD .... I have many diaries on the go .... and this is just one of them I guess.. I come and go ... Much change has occurred ... the blog (unlike a paper diary) is where I have made many great friends.. and  though its been a while since talking to many EVERY one I've come into contact with through this blog has a special place in my heart! 

I miss the days of blogging, entering challenges, hopping around everyone else's blogs... Once again I may try and do this more often again.. although time is a bit more strained these days... with the shop and creating, preparing, advertising classes etc etc etc...

Tomorrow I plan to post a candy piccy ....

Today I am posting this Girl that I drew and coloured for the Mad for Markers Copic Colour Conference that I am holding in February at the shop :) Isn't she pretty (even if I do say so myself) :D

The main focus of this class will be her HAIR ... I used my fav brunette Copic combo ... E33, E35, E37, E77 and E79.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sammi

xoxo

Introducing Eliza ...

Good afternoon,

I have decided that I would like to draw a character each week... to practise and thus hopefully improve my drawing skills... and I thought why not make it an open/ fun challenge.. So here is my first character and the intro to the challenge:

 I have started a brand new Sketchbook for this purpose... each week I will draw/ create a new character... either a face or whole figure, there may even be some animals/ monsters too... and will upload them to my own blog, Mad for Markers and various Social media sites. I would love for you to join in and I look forward to seeing who you create :D

Please use the hashtags so that we know that you are playing along and we can come and look at your creations! :D

Donna the Christmas Wood elf

Good afternoon, well It's AMAZING - I am blogging  a coloured image again finally! This is one of my Christmas girl images that I drew for the store.

I called her Donna ... which is because she has the reindeer ears of course ... on the weekend just passed we went to my Mum's school fete and I had a bunch of my Christmas images there for people to colour in .. one of the parents coloured this image up as a woodland elf ..with Green skin and I really liked the effect so I thought I'd try colouring her green.. it's pretty different but I think I like it :D maybe she's a bit too bright but it was fun!

Copics used:

Skin: YG01, YG03, YG06, G24, G21, G20, YG63, YG67, R81, RV55, RV000
Eyes: BG05, B24
Hair: C6, C8, V28, BV18, V09
Ears: E23, E25, E11, E13, E15, E18, W5
Headband - Pink: RV55, RV34, RV69
Headband - flowers: G85, G29, B34, B37, B39 + Molotow white pen + 100
Pink baubles : R81, R83, R85, RV55
other bauble: B21, B000, BG02, BG05, BG09 + c4, C6
Background: E53, E42, W5, W7, W3, E81, E84, E87, E89, B34, 110


I NEED to get organised with my Christmas cards and presents.. how are you going? I can't believe it's about 1 month to go :o

You can purchase this DIGI Here

and the markers (if you are in Aus or NZ) from here :D

Christmas Girl face

Good afternooon,

Hope your week has started well.. Today I'm just popping on to share a colouring that I did on the weekend.. during the demos I was doing on our stand - we had a great time at the Papercrafts Festival in Penrith :)

This girl has just been released at Mad for Markers today along with some other Christmas themed images... she is also the Progressive freebie image on our facebook group :)