The three wise monkeys

Morning all.

As it's Tuesday it means it's also time for a new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.

This week we want you to include -

3 of SOMETHING

in your projects.

Here is the front of my card for the DT.

Regular visitors my recognize these cheeky little chaps from an earlier challenge but I thought they were fun and just the thing for my Son's birthday. After printing I coloured them with Copics before fussy cutting them and mounting them on pads on the panels. The background DP is from NitWits and is a really bright and fun, just what I needed.

This is just the front and because it was a really special birthday I wanted to make the inside a surprise. I am guilty of not finishing the insides of my cards til I need them but I took a little more care with this one.

Take a look inside.

When you open the card these balloons pop out and announce the rather significant birthday!

I stamped banners in bright colours from STAMPlorations Banners and Balloons set along with some trumpets and party streamers. I die cut the balloons from matching card and sandwiched a strip of acetate between the front and back, sticking the acetate strips between folds in the middle of the card. The inner was then glued to the outer to complete. 

OK, now it's over to you. Check out the rest of the team's inspiration over at the Cardz4Guyz blog and join in. Please make sure that you state what three things you are including in your project.

I'd like to join in over at -

               

Bright Colours                                               For the Boys

Anything Goes

GeometricFlower

Afternoon folks.

I've been having a bit of a play in the craftroom but I'm not sure if I like the end result.

What do you think?

I've tried this before here using a butterfly image so thought it would work with this large gerbera image too.

I stamped and then masked the large gerbera daisy from Uniko then added some leaves and coloured the image with Copics. The panel was then cut with a Sizzix hexagon plate die and reassembled on a white base card. The gaps looked a little too wide and perhaps too much of the image was lost, so I penciled in the missing sections of the stamp which improved it slightly. I popped up one or two of the hexagons for added interest.

I will join in the challenges over at:-

            

Thanks for calling around. :)

Music and a sketch

Hi and welcome to the latest challenge over at STAMPlorations.

Here is my card for this month's inspiration

and this is the sketch I used.

As we have changed things around a bit with our monthly challenges you can also use the theme.

For my card I used the theme as well!

I sarted off by making a panel of coloured card by sprinkling Brusho crystals onto white card then spritzing the surface with water and watched how the magic crystals exploded. I love how they do that and the effect is never the same. I used turquoise and ultramarine for this panel. I used quite a bit of water with this and very little Brusho!
After the panel was dry I inked through an ARTplorations Flourishes stencil with some white pigment ink. I then cut out a MB Moonlight butterfly from the center of the panel then cut it down the middle of panel and butterfly. I ran the base panel through a Cuttlebug musical score embossing folder and adhered it to the base card. I used the Happy Birthday from Dee's Artsy Impressions Balloons and Banners to stamp the greeting then popped up the panel up on pads. From some of the scrap I stamped a couple of small butterflies from the Trendy Butterflies set and fussy cut them before attaching them to the embossed panel along with a few sequins and tiny diamontes.

For more fab inspiration visit the rest of our very talented DT and GDs on the STAMPlorations blog where you can find all the details about fab prizes.


I'd like to join in a few challenges too -

      

    'Take some TIME OUT to 'Make your Mark' 

Sprays and Mists                                              

                                                 

Thanks for stopping by!

Making a Mark

Morning all. hope I find you well and welcome to September!!

I can't believe it's already 3/4 of the year gone.

Anyway it's time for a new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz. This week it's my challenge and I've come up with the theme of -

LET'S COLOUR

I love a bit of colouring, I find it very therapeutic. Recently my daughter found the relaxation of colouring and I'm sure I read somewhere that it is now regarded as beneficial in stress relief, so get out those crayons, pens or paints and join us. Just make sure it's suitable for a male recipient young or old.

Here's my card.

After choosing my own subject I was struggling with which image to use. but looking around blogland I came across the latest sketch at Sketch Saturday ( regular visitors will know I love a good sketch, haven't really got a fave but love to use them to inform my layouts) and a partially coloured image of this little footballer. My daughter came around at the weekend and took a load of cards away with her so I'm replenishing my stock of little boys cards. As my Grandson is going back to school on Wednesday, I'm sure his social whirl will start again and need the odd age 6 card!

The image is from LOTV, Goalie Saves. My Grandson, loves playing in goal on the grass at the back and frequently organises the family into teams. I used Copics to colour but instead of colouring the ball I cut out a stamped football from my friend Jen's set which I had stamped a load of, last time I was at her house for some crafting, shaped with an embossing tool , then popped up on pads. I used papers from the Nitwits collection All Spaced Out and a strip of scrap from the box. I added a few stars and a number six in one corner and added a Happy Birthday banner under the image.

That about wraps it up for me but for more inspiration check out the rest of the DT's fab projects

I'm joining in over at -

Sketchy Free for All (mirrored)

Anything Goes

As You Like it - Favourite Layout - Sketches

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon.

Congratulations Shery

Just a quick post to share the happy news that Shery of STAMPlorations fame and her hubby are the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl called Catherine. You'll be pleased to hear that mum and baby are both fine. 

I've got the stamps all ready to post this by snail mail so hopefully it will arrive before the bub's first birthday!

Becca, The Damsel of Distressed Cards, is organising a blog hop to celebrate the safe arrival.

If you would like to leave some love for the Russ family just hop over to the STAMPlorations blog for more information.

Once again lot's of love and best wishes to Shery, David, and the baby.

Just linking up over at -
Simply Create Too - Special Occasion