Let's Celebrate You

 Good morning, hope you had a good Bank Holiday weekend and you weren't too inconvenienced by all the airport holdups, road and rail works that were going on. Easter weekend is not the time to go on the roads, in my opinion, especially this year as it's the first holiday since Covid restrictions were fully lifted, we Brits are like lemmings heading for the coast at the first opportunity!

Anyway the good weather allowed me some time in the garden but I also had time to make a card for the new Cardz4Guyz challenge. Here's what I came up with using the new theme of :-

TAG IT

I used the current challenge at The Male Room as my starting off point and included a tag cut from an embossed panel and these cute critters from MFT.

I took a panel of white card, trimmed to give me a border when added to an A6 card. The tag was cut from it using a Poppystamps die, then embossed with a Cuttlebug EF that I've had since I started making cards many years ago. Behind the tag opening, I added a snippet of DP and I then glued the panel onto an A6 white base card. On some Copic friendly card, I stamped the 3 critters from MFT's Birth-Yay set, coloured them with Copics and fussy cut them out. Using another ancient MS grass punch I cut two strips of green card and added them to my tag. A hole was punched in the tag and a bit of jute twine was added before gluing the tag at a jaunty angle. The animals were added along with the stamped sentiment strip to complete.

So where will the theme take you? If you need more inspiration why not check out the rest of the team here.

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Cute or Flowers

I went cute, well I usually do, especially as flowers aren't exactly masculine! Cute cards are always needed when you have 2 socially active Grandsons as well.

Color Hues #39

Good afternoon, we're halfway through the month so it's time for a brand new colour combination at Color Hues. Here's my take.

Over at the Flower Challenge they want you to add a heart to your design, so I decided to make an engagement card with a stenciled heart background and some bold purple blooms from Altenew.

To start, I took a slightly smaller than A6 panel of white card and stenciled through a heart stencil with Nuvo Moonstone Glimmer paste and set to one side to dry. I've not used the paste for awhile and although the original paper cap is on and lid was tightly shut, the paste has dried out a lot. Anyone else had the same problem? 

On a panel of Copic friendly card, I stamped the Altenew Poppy Garden flowers and leaves in Memento Tuxedo Black, colouring the petals with a mix of V12, V15, V17 and V09 Copic marker. The leaves were coloured using YG21, YG25,YG17 and YG67. The flower centers posed a slight problem as I was limited to the colours in the challenge and neutrals, but I got over this by using a selection of Copics from the green section, YG00, YG95, YG97 and G99.

The greeting is an old Cuttlebug plate die cut from silver mirror card, mounted on fun foam and a stamped sentiment strip from HLS. The completed panel was then added to an A6 white base card.

So where will the colours take you? The DT have come up with some fabulous ideas to get your creative juices flowing, check them out here.

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Pirate Treasure

 Good evening. As we head to the middle of the month, I have good news, the swallows are back! Well actually I only spotted one when I hung out the washing this morning but it's a start, I also spotted a wheatear earlier this week so spring is definately here. It's also time for a new challenge at Perfectly CAS.

This month we have a theme that could take you in lots of different directions but here's what I came up with!

This fun pirate with his stash of gold doubloons is from the Party like a Pirate set from MFT.

I stamped the treasure chest, pirate and gold on to Copic friendly card, coloured with Copics and then fussy cut the elements out.

On an A6 white base card, I inked in a soft background using an MFT cloud stencil and part of the waste from a die cut circle for the island. The elements were then arranged on top and my LOTV sentiment stamped below completes.

My stash of masculine birthday cards was depleted by my daughter's recent visit, so it will go towards a new pile!

So where will the cue card take you? It could include gold coloured elements or themed ones but which ever way you go don't forget to keep it CAS!

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Does pirate qualify as an occupation, I hope it does!

Masculine

Spring Bunny with Daffs

Hi, just popping by to share a card made for a few challenges out there.

I needed another Easter card to go with the one I made a couple of weeks ago but this time I was influenced by a couple of challenges so went with this LOTV image Spring Bunny with Daffodils. In the original image he isn't jumping quite so high but to make a better arrangement on my background I decided to cut him from the flowers and added him separately.

On an oval white die cut, I inked the background using the MFT cloud stencil, added some green at the bottom, then added the Copic coloured fussy cut daffs.

After colouring with Copics and fussy cutting the rabbit, I added him to the top half of the oval.

The finished panel was then added to a plain white A6 base card on which I'd stamped the sentiment in black.

That's about it, thanks for stopping by. 

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Bunnies and Blooms

Hoppy Easter/ Animals

Playing on a Sunday Afternoon

Good morning all. 

After a busy day in the garden yesterday, I decided to have a chill session playing in the craft room before tea. One of my DT commitments was proving tricky so I gave up and got my alcohol inks out and had a play. The ladies at JUGS want foil on alcohol inked backgrounds so, I looked at my few inks and decided to go with a wintry sky look. I'm still running behind in my efforts to make Christmas cards all through the year, I know, nothing for ages then like London buses two in a row! Here's what I finally ended up with.

I used Sailboat Blue and Turquoise on a thin scrap of Yupo paper, messing around with blender solution, foil and blending tool, I came up with this. Well part of the strip, there's another half left that I can use for another card. 

The foil adheres to the sticky edges of the pooled ink so you have to be quick applying it, I chose silver to go with the blue, then trimmed my panel down and added the little wintry scene using that Marianne tree scape die and a die cut tiny IO deer. The sentiment was stamped onto a white A6 base card and embossed in silver EP, then the finished panel was added on foam pads.

That's one more for the Christmas stash!

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