Father's Day cards

These are the cards I made for my two sons to give to their dad. It's taken ages again to upload photos ... after my recent problems with Mr. Blogger I decided that he perhaps didn't do late nights ... he doesn't seem to like Sundays either.

For this first card, which is 6"x6", I used a Papermania stamp of a man asleep in his chair, hubby does this a lot, surrounded by his newspaper, tv remote and cup of tea. I liked the idea of using some distressed newsprint for the background after watching a demo on the web, so I looked through the sports pages for a suitable piece of the correct size. Unfortunately I couldn't find what I was looking for as I wanted all words without pictures and didn't like the blank spaces between the columns. Then I had the idea of cutting out the column strips and pasting them randomly to create the background (I used Ranger Distress Inks first) and I'm really happy with the result. The image was coloured with Promarkers and the word strips created on the pc.





My second card is A5 size and I have used a free download called 'Soccer Nut' which was a Friday Freebie from Bugaboo Stamps. I printed the image twice, once onto craft card from which I cut out the 'nut' and created texture using a Cuttlebug embossing folder. The rosette was created with scalloped nesties and another free image but I can't remember where I got this from. I love Soccer Nut, he's so cute.



Thanks for stopping by, if you leave a comment I can return your visit.

Hugs, Lynn x

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Week 105

Late again adding my entry for this weeks challenge over at Penny Black Saturday but I don't know where time goes these days - I look at the challenge each week with the intention of making a card then suddenly it's Friday evening again and I've not got around to uploading my entry. Then of course Mr Blogger goes on a go-slow (he probably thinks he can take the weekend off) but finally he's cooperating. This week there was a sketch to follow which had quite a lot of layers.



And here's my effort ... I've used dark green cardstock to make a 6 inch square card, Bloom and Grow papers from MME and the flower, gems and sentiment stamp are all Papermania. Image coloured with Promarkers .

GRRR ... HE'S NOT REALLY COOPERATING ... JUST DELETED MY CARD PICTURE AND IT'S TAKEN ANOTHER HOUR TO UPLOAD AGAIN.



I really don't know how so many people manage to make cards every day and update their Blogs on a daily basis ... I'm also beginning to think that Mr Blogger doesn't like me ......

Lynn x

Swirls

This card is for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge - week 104. Well this photograph will have to do, the silver mirror card makes getting a good one very difficult and I've taken loads. If I get close enough to show the image well, I can see my own reflection, if I move to the side so as not to see myself the silver card looks black. This was without flash and I was losing natural light, with flash there is even more problems so I'm done. I had a good idea for this card but as happens it got adapted so it's not quite what I had in mind and I'm not starting again or I'll be too late to enter the challenge which is 'Swirls'. It's ok but not one of the best cards that I've made..

Card base - A5 smooth white 300g

Stamp - Penny Black 'Daydreams'
coloured with Sakura stardust pens in pink, green and silver

Silver Mirror card embossed with Devine Swirls

Green card, Pink Ribbon and gems from my stash

Sentiment generated on pc

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Two cards for Danny

It was my elder son's birthday last week and these are the cards I made for him. The first was for his brother to give to him and was made with a Papermania decoupage pack that I bought a few weeks ago. I don't usually buy things like this as I prefer to stamp and colour myself, but after looking at the stamp set that this pack is based on I decided that I wouldn't use the stamps much so bought the decoupage pack instead. It included enough images to make four cards plus co-ordinated backing papers, but such is my willpower that I went back later and bought the stamps too ....... well I needed them, lol.

Base card - Smooth white 300g A5 size
Decoupage & Paper Pack - Papermania 'It's a Man's World' by Clare Curd

This second card was from my husband and me and at 21 cms square it's bigger than I usually make. I used 2 sheets of thick A4 card, joined at the spine, to create this. I didn't want anything girly so chose card and papers in shades of plum/burgundy, they do look better in real life, not so dull as they seem here. Added a bit of faux stitching, brads and ribbon for extra interest.

Patterned digital papers - Funky Hand
Plain card, brads, ribbon - from stash
Sentiment stamps - Papermania

Thanks for looking.

Hugs, Lynn x

Liam's 9th Birthday card.

The youngest son of our next door neighbours was 9 last Wednesday and I made this cricket themed card for him. Liam plays for the Under 9's team at our local cricket club so I used a green base card and the club colours of red and black. The image stamps are from a Clare Curd set and I used some of the smaller stamps with Versamark to add interest to the background ... not showing up very well in the photos though. The images have been coloured with Promarkers and some of the equipment in the bottom right corner has been attached with foam pads. I wanted a stripey paper in red and green to match the colour scheme but I didn't have anything suitable so had to search through my cd's for a DP. After going through all my Funky Hand discs and Pink Petticoat downloads, without success, I managed to find this one on a Kirsty Wiseman disc, it's just perfect and very 'crickety' I think.

Stamps - It's a Man's World by Papermania
Images - For the Love of Sport set
Sentiment - Party Animal set

Green and Black card from stash

Striped DP - Cherry Ade collection
from Patti Picklicious Printables by Kirsty Wiseman

No 9 - Hippy Chick die set by Provocraft

Colouring - Promarkers

I wonder if Liam has noticed that there are nine cricket balls on the card?
Thanks for looking.

Hugs, Lynn x

Kirsty Wiseman's 3rd CD

This is the first card I've made with my new CD from Kirsty Wiseman called 'Colour Me Crazy'. There are lots of colour collections and it was difficult deciding which to use first as they are all lovely. There are also lots of cute images which come with both an outline version to colour yourself and a pre-coloured version which is handy if you need to make a card in a hurry. I do like to do my own colouring but at the moment I am making cards with the Y5 children that I work with, for our stall at the School Summer Fayre, and although they are enthusiastic some of the colouring is not quite good enough for cards that you want to sell. With this CD all the children will be able to get a good result, even the ones with limited colouring ability. I made this card as an example for them and used a pre-coloured image but then went over the ribbon with my Sakura clear gel pen for added interest. The small flowers were cut out of the DP then shaped and attached with small foam pads to give them dimensi0n. The sentiment stamp is 'Forever Friends' and came free with a magazine, I used one of my Marvy Brush Markers to ink it up as it was just the right colour to match the papers.

Hugs,
Lynn x

Shaped card for Get Funky Challenge - May

At last my card for the latest challenge at Get Funky, which is to make a shaped card. I was beginning to think that my efforts would be in vain as we have had no internet connection for a couple of weeks so I couldn't upload it. We had been having problems connecting to the internet because the 'hub' kept re-setting itself. It would start to load a page then all the lights would go out, then all start to flash and before making a connection the lights would go out again. What a pain - my husband and son kept saying that they would sort it out but after much faffing about getting nowhere I took things into my own hands and rang the BT help desk. After about two hours of pressing this and that, crawling under the desk to unplug various wires and a lot of hanging on while he spoke to his colleagues, he agreed that the hub was faulty and arranged for us to be sent a new one. Hubby was surprised when I told him what I had done and very impressed when the new hub arrived within two days.
So onto my card ... it's based on a template that I downloaded ages ago from somewhere, made bigger and reshaped a little. The papers are from the Son Day collection on 'Funky Daze' but the motif on the front is a re-sized sentiment from 'Now that's Funky'. Because this printed in black I decided to add a black dotted line around the scalloped edging (created with Nesties) to tie it in ... not sure whether I liked it better before but it's too late now.

White base card - A5 size
Digital Papers - Son Day from Funky Daze
Motif - Circular sentiment from Now that's Funky
Tools - Scalloped Nestabilities
Inside verse printed on PC using 'Angelina' font

Thanks for looking and any comments left.

Lynn x