Don't be a square

Good morning all, and welcome to my post to announce the latest challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.

This week our challenge to you is to make a project for a male that is -

Anything but a Square

Here is my interpretation, a bit boring as it might not be a square but it is a rectangle!

I promised to show you all what I did (here) with the man from the freebie set I got over Christmas, so here he is, very dapper.

I needed a card for my Nephew's birthday, so had to keep the design pretty flat to be post friendly. I was tempted to repeat the layout of the lady card but in the end went with my fave aperture sketch.

The background to the skyline was inked using a stencil using my MFT sunray die but it doesn't really show up in the light. I've been waiting to take a photo until that rare thing around here a bright day, so I quickly took a snap before the rain came back! I layered up the skyline with dark gray and black die cuts adding the Copic coloured and fussy cut chap and the clapper board from the free set to the top panel along with some gold stars. I gave the edges of the card a little lift with some pale gold EP.

Please check out the fab inspiration of the rest of the DT and join in.

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                                                      (no sketch for me this time)


Anything Goes with a die
Used 5 here inc making stencil for sky.

One layer only

Good morning craft friends.

A new year has started and so has a new challenge over at Cards und More.

Our new challenge is simply -

A ONE LAYER CARD

Simple, or not? We would like to see a card made from one piece of card folded in half with no additional layers and minimal embellishments, where the image is stamped or printed directly onto the cardstock.

Here is my take. 

To make this, I took a plain white A6 base card, masked the edges to make a white border and the central area with a circle, then stamped the balloons etc. After colouring the balloons, hats and streamers with Copics, I removed the masking and stamped the greeting and used a die to emboss the frame.

So that's it, For more inspiration please check out the rest of the DT and why not join in, we'd love to see your OLCards.

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PARTY                                     The sky's the limit

                                                        Hope that balloons, streamers and hats 

                                                     in the air fit the bill!

Welcome 2016

While I was out between Christmas and the New Year, I bought a copy of Creative Stamping magazine, you know for a quiet read when everyone had gone home!

Along with the mag came a set of stamps with a Hollywood glamour theme, I thought they could be quite useful so I indulged.

Having played around with the stamps I decided to make a card or two with the results, so here is one of them.

I used quite a few different bits and bobs for this, a MFT skyline die, Happy from my Balloons and Banners set from Dee's Artsy Inpressions, digits from Uniko's Classic Numbers, an embossed star panel courtesy of my friend Di  and of course the glamourous lady from the free set.

To make the lady I had to stamp the dress and then made a mask before stamping again with the glamourous lady, the martini is from the same set.

To create the lights in the buildings I first cutb the skyline in black then without taking the black die cut out I partially cut again with some glittery hammered gold card this time. The sentiment was die cut with a MFT banner from a Blueprint set. The skyline was popped up on pads above the starry background and the lady was glued flat onto the top panel then popped up on pads over the embossed stars.

There was also a dapper gent with the lady, but more of him later!

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That's about it, thanks for stopping by. :)

Thanks Di

Hey, here I am again! 

This time I'm here to share a DT card I made for the new challenge over at Fantasy Stampers.

As it's the first of the new year and also our 2nd anniversary of the blog, Jan has chosen the appropriate theme of -

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

For my card I went with this card based on the sketch and colours over at Fusion.

I've used some Stampin Up images courtesy of my good friend Di, she lent them a few month's ago and this is their first outing! They are from the Bloom with Hope set.

They were stamped on some scrap card then coloured with Copics and fussy cut.

The top was made using an panel of white card with an oval aperture that I embossed with a Couture Creations dotty EF. From the die cut oval I cut a smaller one and stamped the greeting. I wrapped some ribbon given to me by another crafty friend Chris through the oval opening and glued a scrap of some textured red card from the stash on the base card. After gluing on the blooms, I popped the panel up on pads as well as the central oval.

That's it, now it's over to you. We'd love to see what you come up with, perhaps using some of your Christmas stash!

Please check out the rest of the DT for more inspiration and join in. Please remember that we need to see good old fashioned stamping for your project to be eligible for our top 3.

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Sketch Saturday January Guest Designer

Good morning and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I'm also celebrating as I'm guesting this month over at Sketch Saturday, Yay.

Such a suprise to be asked and happy because it's one of my favourite challenges.

So without any more ado here is my first card using this week's sponsor's image.

This this week's sketch.

I used the Beauty Flower from Sami Stamps to create a background paper then coloured it using Copics and mounted it onto an old lime green base card. The weather here has been so dreadful I wanted to make a card that was a little more cheerful, so went with a springlike palette of yellow and green. The smaller panel was printed with Twisted Citron DI and a freebie EF. 

The larger Beauty Flower was printed out twice then coloured in the same palette before fussy cutting one and cutting the center petal out of the second, mounting it over the first on a pad after a little bit of shaping. I used a new to me die 'Happy Birthday' that my daughter bought me at Christmas in some gold mirror card, a bit of lime green georgette ribbon and bow complete.

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Anything Goes

ABC Challenge - Y is for Your Choice