CAS @ATSM

Welcome.

Today is the start of a new challenge over at ATSM where we are also celebrating our 3rd birthday!

This week we would like to see projects that are -

CAS

This is my card to celebrate our 3rd birthday using STAMPlorations Dee's Arty Impressions - Party Mates.

I stamped and masked elements from the party set before colouring the images with Copics and die cutting the Avery Elle 'HAPPY' die from the panel. I cut a few more from scrap card before reassembling. The birthday is from Uniko and the trimmed down A6 panel was then adhered to a bright blue base card.

This is a closeup of the stacked die cut element.

This week we have FOUR fabulous sponsors.

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Wow, lot's of goodies on offer so no excuses not to join us this week! Pop over and check out what the rest of the fabulous DT have been upto and then join in.

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Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you back again soon. :)

PS: STAMPlorations are celebrating their 2nd Birthday soon, so keep your eyes peeled for more news of the blog hop.

Father's Day Take Two

Good morning bloggers and welcome.
As it's Tuesday it must be time for a new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.
Thanks for all the fabulous entries for out texture challenge, I think we are starting to get the message across that making cards for the men in your life isn't as difficult as you think.
This week our theme is-

FATHER'S DAY

Sadly my Dad is no longer with us but I made this card and my Grandson may be able to send it to his Dad!

I used the latest sketch over at Sketch Saturday using some DP that was in the stash from NitWits.

The cheeky little chap was from a sheet of images I kept from a mag years ago, so not sure of the name, which I enlarged and printed off on a piece of white card. He looks a characterful little chap! As usual I coloured him with Copics before double mounting him onto the DP. I fussy cut the overlapping parts before I die cut the MFT rectangle.

OK, now it's over to you. For more inspiration pop over to the main blog and check out the rest of the fab DT inspiration.

I'm joining in the fun at-

          

                                                  Father's Day
Loves Rubberstamps - Masculine Theme
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Masculine Wedding Card?

Good evening folks.

The weather has not been as bad as the weathermen would have had us believe yesterday, in fact it was positively balmy this morning. Still there is a little drizzle in the air now but definitely not the thunderstorms that were predicted!

My son is off to a wedding of one of his Leeds Uni friends next weekend, so I've made him a card as requested. I was struggling to find a male friendly card but also keep it suitable of the happy couple.

Then I remembered a new die I got the other week in anticipation of 30th birthday cards and it has a suitable greeting. So here it is.

Apologies for the reflection on the embossed frame, the sun wasn't even out!

The die is from MFT - Road Trip and I cut it out in a glossy white card stock, assembled the parts, adding the greeting to match UK registration plates and added some tin cans to the bumper. They are actually the wing mirrors attached with linen thread! I made the window panel into a shaker card to give it a fun twist, adding die cut hearts and a few sequins and beads.

I've left it at that as it is a card from a guy to the happy couple, so no frilly touches.

I'm joining in the fun at -

Time Out Challenges - Happy is the bride the sun shines on.

Well I hope the sun does shine on the Peak District next Saturday for the wedding!

Moving along with the Times - To the Happy Couple

Thanks for calling around, see you back soon. :)

Sunset Butterfly Thanks

Good morning, good morning, good morning.

The sun is still shining, perhaps summer is finally here!

Just a quick post to share a card I made for the latest challenge over at Less is More and a couple of others got in there as well!

This card reminds me so much of my bloggy friend Loll. I love her work and think I must have absorbed her style and it just burst out with this card. I started by inking up a square panel that was floating around my bits box. I inked it up using the 'Sunset' colours for the challenge and blended them into an ombre effect and then just for the hell of it I spritz it with a fine mist of  corporation wine, plain water to you. As the wonderful Darnell would say 'Hammy just whispered in my ear'. 

Now what? The intensity of the colours meant I had to use a white background but it looked a little plain, so I got out my trusty ef box and had a furtle about. I picked out a couple of folders including this Cuttlebug one which I finally went with. I can't remember when I last used it. It was too small for my panel, as they always are, so had to faff around extending it, hope you can't see the join.

Now the question was what to put with it? I thought of a card by Loll I saw recently and thought of this MB butterfly duo and it just had to be in gold mirry and I just had a little bit of vellum on the desk that did the solid section, you can still just about see the panel through it.

When I made the CASE of Virginia's card I didn't think I had any gold thread but I had a rummage through my sewing threads and found some, so that was added into the pot, followed by a Marianne tag greeting and voila!

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Sunset Colours                                                  

                                          

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Texture

Welcome fellow crafters.

It's Tuesday so it must mean a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz, where we aim to show you that making masculine cards isn't that difficult!

This week our theme is -

TEXTURE

So anything goes really so long as we can see texture, be it embossing, fabric in fact anyway you can think of to add it.

Here is my inspiration card.

My son is thirty this year, my hasn't the time flow by, so his friends are that age too and I thought I would make a card for future use.

I started by cutting out the 30 using some MFT dies from a white card panel which I then embossed with a Cuttlebug ef. I stamped the the 'th' in black and then added the die cut ring of red.

I wanted a bit more interest for the inside of the numbers so I covered some white card with washi tape and added it on the red card under the numbers before putting on the embossed panel on foam pads and mounted the red flat on the base card.

A very simple card to make once I had come up with the idea!

For more inspiration pop over to the main blog for more masculine inspiration from the DT and our two GDs.

I'm joining in at -

                

# 87 Masculine

Thanks for calling around, come back soon. :)