Masculine Birthday

I love having a day off, and one where I actually manage to be quite productive!  For my last card of the day I have used the Sunny Challenges 'Masculine Card' theme with the Pals Paper Arts sketch challenge.

I don't think it is possible for me to do a masculine card at the moment without using Washi Tape and Gorgeous Grunge!!!  They just go so well together, and I love the grungy look of the Label Love birthday sentiment.  In the photo it is a bit difficult to see the second from the top strip of washi tape, because it matches the card stock, however in person it is quite prominent.

To get the little 'skid marks' I used the stamp without a block, folding the stamp in half and just inking up the bend in the middle.   

Now I have to head off and tidy my desk after so much creating today!!!

Happy Stamping

Dynamic Birthday

It has been a while since I posted, I can't believe how busy I have been of late. I have had a little bit of time to create including a weekend retreat which was great and I will post some of my creations over the next week or so. Anyway enough excuses, I had a moment on the weekend and spotted the Dynamic Duos colour challenge and thought I would use them for a masculine birthday card I need.

I think that Feeling Sentimental and That's The Ticket go perfectly together and make quite a good masculine card.  The addition of Early Espresso to Island Indigo and Pool Party add a masculine edge, as do the brads.  

Hopefully I will have time to do some more creating and posting soon!

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Freshly Made Sketches #66

With Christmas behind us and another week off work ahead of me I have had some time to sit and create!  This time I have taken inspiration from the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I have mentioned that a brown box of Stampin Up goodies arrived on my door step, well along with the Pretty Petites and matching punch, it also had another SAB set in it.  The stamp on this card is from the Vintage Verses set, and I wanted to use it to make a more masculine card - not sure if I have hit the mark - thoughts?  Also in my brown box was the bright and cheerful World Spectacular DSP which I have paired here with Polka Dot Parade DSP.  

Back to the craft table!
 
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Loads Of Love

This month Stampin' UP!® have offered 20% discount on a range of 2-step stamp sets. Check out Stampin' UP!® Customer Home Page for more details.
One of these sets is Loads of Love, its a really great set as its so versatile and has an addon set that goes with it, as well as a standard wheel.
I have done some cards with the basic Loads of Love set to show its versatility as a stamp set. I hope you like them ...

This one was just using the pile of hearts from the set, I did this one and the book mark to show the use of the set wasn't limited to the truck.

Cardstock: Kraft, Whisper White, Melon Mambo

Ink: Black, Real Red, Melon Mambo

Stampset: Loads of Love

This book mark is just using the bunch of flowers from the set, I have raised them with a dimensional. Pot is a 1" circle with the top and bottom cut off and sponged to give definition.

This is using the stamp set with the truck - but in the colours of christmas, with some Dazzling Diamonds on the truck to simulate snow. Its almost like Mrs Claus helping deliver a truck load of presents!

For this card I used the Pastels and Blender Pen on Watercolour Paper. It was my first real attempt at using pens on this type of paper, having given up using them on the Whisper White and Very Vanilla. They are really nice to use on the watercolour paper, and the quality of the Stampin' UP! paper is lovely. I wanted to use some different colours so chose Apricot Appeal and Elegant Eggplant for this card - very happy with the colour combo. I matched the colours on the truck with the cardstock and brought out the colour of the hearts on the truck with some punch out hearts which are covered in Crystal Effects and then lightly sprinkled with glitter. The elegant eggplant needed a "little something" so I stamped tiny hearts from the Pony Party set onto it using versamark.

This last one in the group (so far) is a more masculine card, used More Mustard and Soft Suede as the primary colours, water colour using inks onto whisper white cardstock for the image, and finished off with the lovely Soft Suede ribbon.

As you can see, this really is quite a versatile stamp set, and at 20% off for the month quite a bargain! Contact me to order yours today.