One Wild Ride!!

Hello!

Today I'm sharing a card I made ages ago, using One Wild Ride. I'm not the best at making male cards, but I'm very happy with this one!

I decided to make a z-fold card with a 'twist'...

...it opens the opposite way to usual! The reason for this?

So the bike looks like it's travelling! I had a lot of fun making this. Lots of neutral colours but quite an effective card I think. What do you think?

This is a great set for all sorts of occasions, and I reckon it would be great for those bike chicks too!

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Have a lovely day!

One for the guys!

Good morning all!

I'm here again with my DT card for CAS-Colours and Sketches, which this week uses these colours...

I immediately thought of a male card when I chose these colours, and just for once, I went with what I intended!

I have used one of my few 'man sets', Guy Greetings for this card. The car and the greeting are stamped in Chocolate Chip, but I stamped off the sentiment first to give a softer look. I also inked the edges of my die cut panel (cut using Chalk Talk Framelits) and the DSP with the same ink for a vintage look.

The ribbon is a little bit from my stash...I have so much to use up as I always hoard ribbon, don't you?! I finished with some Candy Dots, mainly because I managed to get ink on the top right of my card, grrrr! Still...we crafters know just how to fix a bodge don't we?!

I look forward to seeing all your cards...are you going male too?

Awesomely Artisitc...me??

Hello everyone!

Wow it's good to be back with a DT card for CAS-Colours and Sketches! I've had a few weeks off as I had some family issues and it took a fair bit of my time dealing with everything, and to be honest, I just didn't feel much like crafting.

But I'm back today with a card I made from just one stamp set...Awesomely Artistic...

I do love this set, ever since I had a play with it at Telford back in May! I've had it a while but just not had the inclination to play with it until now.

I had a little play with the 'kissing' technique on this card....I inked up the flowery stamp and then I 'kissed' it with the fern frond stamps. This gives the ferns a more subtle effect and a slightly watercolour effect. What do you think? The dragonfly was sprayed with water after inking, then stamped, which again gives a smudged, watercolour effect. Why not try it yourself?

You know, I get a lot of people comment on how 'artistic' and creative I am when they see my cards. My reply is; 'I may be creative, but I assure you, I don't have an artistic bone in my body....I just get great stamps from Stampin' Up!'

As I couldn't decide what sentiment I wanted on my card I am leaving it blank, which means I can enter it into the challenge at SUO Challenges where they would like to see cards with no sentiment this week.

I look forward to visiting you all for inspiration...I need lots at the moment after being off so long!

A little bit nautical!

Hi everyone!

I'm back today with my DT card for our sketch challenge at CAS-Colours and Sketches. This week's sketch is a fun, easily adapted sketch...

So here is how I used it...

I used the fab stamp set, Guy Greetings, and stamped then heat embossed the anchor for a metallic appearance.

The sentiment is stamped in Real Read and I used some retired DSP and ribbon to give my card a nautical effect....the red, white and blue work so well together, don't you think? A couple of staples give it a real 'man' feel!

We're looking forward to seeing your creations this week so do drop by and give our challenge a go!

Hats off to our sketch challenge!

Good afternoon!

Today is a sketch challenge at CAS-Colours and Sketches, so here is Jane's fab sketch...

And here is my DT card...

As soon as I saw the sketch I had this stamp set, Guy Greetings, in mind! I figured it would be perfect and teamed with some of the Neutrals DSP I think it makes for a fab male card, don't you?!

I stamped the main hat images in Black Memento ink, then after stamping in Versamark, I heat embossed the top hat in Basic Black Stampin' Emboss and mounted it with a Stampin' Dimensional. 

We've had some gorgeous entries to our challenges recently, and I'm sure this one will be no exception!

Enjoy playing!

A bit of Argyle

Yeeeehaaa!

Well as you read this I shall be on my way to London, hopefully, to go to the Country Music Festival!! Eeeek! Excited much??

Almost as excited as I am to share this card with you! Ok, maybe I'm a tad giddy today! (don't worry, I'll be back to normal next week!) 

Back to the card....I have had this Argyle embossed panel sat on my desk for months, and no, I am not exaggerating! I had plans for it once but they didn't pan out so it has sat there getting shifted around until I finally found the perfect sketch challenge to use it with (details of that below). Imagine how chuffed I was to find I had matching Back To Black DSP too!

I die cut 'happy' from Crazy About You, then stamped the 'Birthday' from the same bundle before punching out with the Word Window Punch. I then added some banners of ribbon to give a little colour and voila! Another 'man card'!

I think I'm getting the hang of non-girly cards just recently!

So here are a couple of challenges which helped inspire me...

Stampin' Celebration - #99

Stampin' Royalty - Embossing

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I'm now going to enjoy the rest of my weekend...I'm sure I'll be back with some pictures after the weekend! 

Have a good one y'all! ;)

Read all about it!!

Hello all!

I have a very exciting weekend ahead of me...I am going to the Country Music Festival at the 02 London tomorrow and I can't wait! There are loads of artists that I'm looking forward to seeing, but my favourites are definitely Lady Antebellum!

So I may be missing for a couple of days, but I'm sure you'll survive without me! ;)

Ok so on to today's card...

I am making a concerted effort to make more 'man cards' recently as I never seem to have very many in my stash...they are just so much harder to make, don't you think? 

For this one I used some of the Typeset Speciality Paper and after I had cut my piece, I screwed it up to give it a little texture before sticking it to my card blank.

The sentiment is from Label Love and is punched with the matching Artisan Label punch, which I then layered onto a Scalloped Oval, with a little Linen Thread behind, again for texture and interest.

I do quite like this one...I think it's perfect for those males that like to pop their feet up and read the paper on a Sunday morning!

I did use a couple of challenges for inspiration...

Just Add Ink - #252

Colour Q - #282

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or feel free to contact me directly as I would love to chat crafty and maybe place an order for you!

I hope you have a fun weekend planned and I will see you very soon!

Amazingly Amazing!

Hello all!

It's Thursday so it's time for our new challenge at CAS-Colours and Sketches, and as it's the fifth week of the month, it's a double!! 

I have used our sketch this week to make a card for my wonderful Mike, just to let him know how much I appreciate him!

I used Work Of Art for the zig-zags and the sentiment from Painted Petals. The sentiment is exactly what I want to say to him!

I finished with a couple of dots punched using the 1/4in punch, which is in the Weekly Deals this week, reduced from £8.25 to £6.19...what a bargain!

What are you making this week? We can't wait to see! :)

Did you get any snow last night? We actually did! Well, as I write this post and schedule it to publish this morning, we had about 2 inches...snow day! Hope you have a good one, whatever you are doing :)

Bermuda Clockworks

Hiya peeps!
Do you have stamps in your stash that you haven't used yet? Go on, admit it, you know you have! Well I have a card here using one such set...

This is the fabby Clockworks set that I bought kind of on a whim, and up until now I couldn't figure out how to use it!

The background Bermuda Bay panel is embossed using the Houndstooth Embossing Folder. The DSP is High Tide from the Spring/Summer catalogue.

Keiran gave me his view on this card...'I like the design of the card but I don't like the compass because it's not got any colour' Oh well, can't please everyone!


Stampin' Up! supplies used

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I am entering my card into a couple of challenges...
Freshly Made Sketches #126

CASual Fridays - Shades of Grey

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If you are following my Love Life, Live Lent, then here's today's task...

Care for those in need

Watch the news. Pray for someone or something you've seen on it. 

There is always such bad news so I think this is a worthwhile thing to do!

Right...work, gym, film night at school...rock 'n roll!! Have a fabby Friday!

It's a Tie!

I bet that's not what the result of the Grand National will be tomorrow lol!

I have a quick card for you this evening that I made because I really wanted to enter the challenge at Retro Sketches this week...I loved the sketch, had an idea, so here it is!

I have used the Best Dad Ever set, and stamped the stripey ties in Basic Black and the spotty one in Basic Gray. The papers are from the Neutrals Designer Paper Stack, and I coloured my Whisper White Baker's Twine with my black ink pad before tying round the card in a double bow. The embossing was done using the Honeycomb EF. Quite a manly and classy card I think...perfect for that office worker!

If you would like to get your hands on this set, please do contact me and I will be happy to order it for you, along with anything else on your wishlist!

Challenges

Retro Sketches - #57

Sister Act - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Designed To Colour - Hexagons (embossing folder)

Ok I'm off to get some tea and catch up on emails and commenting. Have a lovely Friday evening! :)