2 cards for boys (or young guys)

Good Evening Peeps,

 



Yes, two cards for boys/young guys tonight. The first one is a card I have made for my only step grandson. I have 2 grandsons, one step grandson & 4 step granddaughters & another step grandchild on the way... that is what happens when you take on someone else's children for almost 10 years. There are 4 step kids but I only lived with 3 of them but out of those 3, the 2 daughters are the ones with the children.  Cameron is the only boy & also the eldest out of the step grandchildren. He has been competing in Motor Cross for the past few years & last year came up trumps with winning the age group for the area that he competes in. I am very proud of him (and of all the kids, young & old)

but Motor Cross is such an expensive sport.

Anyway, for his 12th birthday card I wanted to use a sporty image for him & this Kenny K downloads image is the perfect one. I coloured him in Promarkers, Graph It alcohol pens & Sakura glitter and metallic pens giving the edge on the bike & his protective gear including protective suit.

The easel card was made using Spellbinders Grand Scalloped Circles & plain circles of the same range of cutting dies. The smaller circles were cut using the standard Nestabilities dies range from Spellbinders again.  The finishing touch were the die cut words from the Tattered Lace sentiments die set & the little silver coloured bike charm. 

 

 

I am entering this Kenny K Motor Cross easel card into the following challenges:

Totally Gorjuss Challenge #200 - Anything goes
http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-200-anything-goes.html

The ABC Challenge Blog, U for Unlimited
http://abc-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/u-for-unlimited.html

Five Simple Things #119 - Anything Goes
http://asimplefive.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/inspire-me-fridays-119-anything-goes.html

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/dt-call-and-challenge-23.html

Parade Your Crafts - Anything Goes
http://paradeyourcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/pyc-3-challenge-anything-goes.html

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-28-anything-goes.html

Sweet Stampin - Got The Blues
Sweet Stampin - via Bloglovin (the link is too long to leave as the original)

Catch The Bug - Anything Goes
http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/september-anything-goes-challenge.html

My Mums Craft Shop Challenge #9 - Boys Only
http://mymumscraftshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-9-boys-only.html


The next card is one that is for sale, I made a couple of weeks ago but I have not posted on here before. It is made from the Hunkydory "Cards For Boys" card making kit.
I folded an A4 sheet of card into a tri fold card base & added bits from the kit to form the layout as in the photos below. The verse I found on a Hallmark Design Studio software that I have installed on my laptop. This is a large card measuring roughly 8 x 8 & half inches when folded for the envelope.
There is nothing else to say about this card apart from:
yo ho matey and a bottle of rum ;)

Freebie that is perfect for a young lad & is available until Sunday....

Yes you heard right - a freebie that is available for a whole 3 days!!! It did start at 9am (GMT) today, Friday, and is available from DigiStamps4Joy shop

Its called  Moon Walk and is in the freebies section along with 3 other permanent digis. Remember though, this digi image will only be available until Sunday...

We would very much like to see your creations, using this lovely image, on our Facebook page, Facebook, DS4J, where all the fans, new & old, of DS4J can see each others wonderful work....

Here is a card I made using the same image in May/June this year using the same image...

The other bit of news we have is that we are having a Blog Hop next month!!!!

Do I hear about time??? lol, yes it is....

 Details will be posted closer to the time.

Using a free digi image to enter a blog challenge competition..........

Good evening peeps,

Yes you have read that right, I have used a free digi to enter this weeks Polkadoodles Challenge Blog where, if you email Nikky Hall, owner & designer at Polkadoodles has loving & generously given us the chance for a free fairy from her beautiful Christmas cd called Angelberry Christmas.
For this weeks challenge main rule please carry on reading....

To quote: "This week's challenge is Fairy Wings! Angels count too! 

So we want you to join in and show us all your favourite Fairy/Angel creations this week BUT we have a fantastic twist on this for you .... if you wish to enter the challenge you MUST USE an Angelberry Digistamp".

 

I have used a free Angelberry digi image that Nikky was giving away to crafters who emailed her before the end of yesterday, 5th September 2013, anyone else who hasn't requested this image will have to use an image from the Angelberry cd.

 

I have just made a decorative ovals spellbinders dies cut around the Angelberry image that I had previously coloured with a mixture of Graph It, Flexmarkers & Promarkers pens & added the glitter
effect with a Sakura gelly roll pen in Clear Star.

Using the decorative oval die I cut out the necessary pieces to make an easel card. The stopper is made from a wide decorative gold edged satin ribbon topped with a decorative matt gold effect satin ribbon with a picot edging.  The little sentiment just says "from me to you".
A clean & simple card made with love for a friend yet to be chosen from a long list I have...

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Polkadoodles & Studio 12: A Fairy theme using Angelberry digi stamp
http://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/a-week-35-fairy-time-and-free.html

Paper Crafting Journey:  Anything goes
http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/anything-goes-challenge.html

Update on my crafting life...

Good Morning peeps,

Well after yesterdays glorious weather (I only ventured in to my back garden) as I was crafting until my morning carer arrived then I sat at the laptop designing inserts & a page full of Christening invites
that I need this next week (early on). I have 4 items to make this weekend, it might be 5 as I really need to join in with the new stamp release over at DigiStamp4Joy which I didn't have time to make last weekend.  (Naughty naughty I know but I have been told its not a ruling that you create for every new release).
I have only had 2 bad days this week where I haven't wanted to craft, I did get distracted a couple of times by my daughter, Tia, wanting money for this & that, with her stunning me quite late last night that she would like some money on Saturday to go trouser/jean shopping with her best friend Sam. Tia, apparently, has realised that a lot of her trousers don't fit her anymore, as in too short in the leg.
What a time to go clothes shopping....the last weekend before starting college.!!
What I have created this week? Well, I have made quite a few things this week & also a lot of communicating with a couple of clients. I have secured an order for 30 Christening invites though. It is my first time of making Christening invitations but I know how to create them as she had seen a beautiful invite that she wanted "copying" but I cant or rather, Wont, copy as its unethical to say the least. I have a completely different ribbon to the lace on the photo & obviously different wording but I am using a high grade pearlescent paper for the writing, not plain white.
I have made a 30th Wedding Anniversary for my son-in-laws parents, a "wife" card for the same couple from the husband, a 50th mans birthday card, rugby themed birthday card for my son-in-law, a birthday card for his nan, I did start a "autumnal" themed project for a DT (Design Team) application for Creative Expressions but now I have the time to finish it off I cant find it!!! What a pain in the rear that is...

Well the news I have, is that I am now a member of the DT for Crafting Musketeers Challenge blog!!!!!!!!!!! That makes the 3rd design team I am a member of now & I am so pleased to be on all of them. Heads up to DigiStamps4Joy, Stampin For The Weekend and of course Crafting Musketeers
I have started on SFTW but I dont start on Crafting Musketeers until October & I have to create my project earlier as I have to have an operation on my left hand in the first week of Oct.



Anyway, I have to show you some of the cards that I have made this last few days -

A Birthday card for a Facebook friend of mine, Helz Cuppleditch,
who has in fact, designed & hand drawn the image before production
made in to the die cut card making kit that I had brought.



A joke rugby theme Birthday card for my rugby playing son-in-law

A 30th (Pearl) Wedding Anniversary card that was commissioned
by the husband for his darling wife. (My son-in-laws parents)

A cute but heart warming 3rd Wedding Anniversary that I have made for my eldest
daughter & hubby, (Steph & Martin) using the Crafters Companion Party Paws kit





 


A birth Congratulations card, commission order from my eldest sister as her only son
& wife have a baby in the house now, little Katie-Louise came into this world safely.
This is a layout of how I would have sent the card to the new parents. The pictures that my
eldest sister & her husband eventually chose was photographed in the next 2 photos....

The front of the Birth Congratulations card that my eldest sister & hubby decided
was the version that they wanted to send to their eldest son & wife on the
birth of their first child Katie-Louise

This is the inside of the card with the simple but sweet phrase to congratulate
the birth of baby Katie-Louise, with a gorgeous pencil drawing print of a
mummy Zebra & foal



50th Birthday commission order

My first post for my new position of DT member of .........

Hiya peeps, yes I have been lucky enough to be chosen for another Design Team!!! Yeahhhhhh!!!!!!!

I am still a member for DigiStamps4Joy, but this Challenge blog is for "Stampin For The Weekend".

My term started on Friday 29th August and our sponsor for this challenge is "Summer Colours" and is sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps.
For my first challenge post I decided to use with Flower Bears Poppy  using my Promarkers & Graph It pens to colour it, then cutting as close as I could to the lines. I then mounted the coloured image on to some spring green coloured card and then cut around almost to the line leaving a thin edge of the card.  The papers I used for the backing on the base card are from my own stash, one printed from a cd rom by Polkadoodles, and the other is a freebie that came with a craft magazine that I buy regularly. I added a die cut border down the join of the 2 papers, added the mulberry paper flowers (topped with a yellow coloured flower shaped faux pearl). The finishing touch was a die cut topper to which I stuck down the lovely phrase that I found in a card making kit years ago by Papermania.
I hope you like the finished card..... ;)

Halfway reminder for challenge #74 - "Anything Goes" this month

Hiya peeps,

Yes its that time again, my post for my Design Team of Digi Stamps 4 Joy (shop) &
Digi Stamps 4 Joy (Challenge Blog).
The theme this time is for Anything Goes, so, an easy one for you this time crafters!! Get your crafty heads & hands on over to the blog:
"Enter your paper projects (maximum 3 entries per person, each from a separate blog post) in Mr Linky below. The randomly drawn winner will win THREE images of your choice from the store, and 2 runners up 1 image each.  

IF YOU USE A DIGISTAMPS4JOY IMAGE, YOU COULD WIN THE BIG PRIZE OF $10"

For my creation, a card, I hve used a scrap of Ivory hammered embossed A3 size width anyway lol. It is a piece left over from when I cut a circle card using my Spellbinders Grand Circle dies, so had wastage & put it to one side. I knew it was too big a piece to throw away. Anyway, I levelled it off & using as a tent style card, (my favourite fold at the moment), also using other wastage of the red spider web netting I placed it on top of the patterned backing paper that was free with a craft magazine I had brought ages ago (I am a sucker for craft magazines).  I then die cut round the image, available by clicking on her name which is:  Punkette Petite, colouring her with both Graph It & Promarker pens. I then cut her out using a Spellbinders Grand Labels 1 die & mounted her on a square piece of a Papermania Henbury Lane paper pad set, and stuck that on top of the red spider web netting. I then added paper flowers & topped them with a red faux pearl in pearlescent red, adding extra faux pearls to the side edges of the grand labels 1 die cut and to the sides of Punkette Petite's hair bobbles.
Overall?? Another good fairly quick card from me. I am pleased with it.
How about you? How do you rate this card?? Please leave a comment below & I will reply asap.
Thank you in advance.

This weeks new digi stamp release over at DigiStamps4Joy

 Yes, a completely different image this week for you from designer Jen. Click on this link to view or buy Kiss The Cook.


I have used a ready made card blank that I brought ages ago from Create and Craft tv. I used 2 scraps of paper that I had in my stash & topped it with a new lace that was only delivered yesterday. It is so soft!!  I brought the mint green stretch lace from a lady who sells on Facebook. If you would like details please email me.  I coloured the image with green Promarkers &  honey coloured Graph It pen. The white die cut the image sits on is from my own stash of Spellbinders. The flower swirl was a gift cut in white that I coloured again with my Promarkers, this time I used pine & tulip yellow.
The words are die cuts from the Tattered Lace sentiments die set.  The green drops in the centre of the yellow flowers are from Polkadoodles. Its from their collection of different coloured dew drops. These are Apple Green shade.
I think this might be used as a notelet to send to the parents of an in-law who are old & have quite severe problems. I don't see them anymore as they have moved to Dorset to be near their only daughter.

I hope you like this card, its a quick and easy image to colour/use for quite a few different occasions.