Showing posts with label Male. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Male. Show all posts

Monday, 20 June 2022

Fathers Day

 


My Father In Law loves golf so I usually make a golf themed card for his birthday and Fathers Day.

This card has been made using 4 digital stamps. The image is  Upset Golfer  from QKR Stampede. I used the Fathers Day sentiment to frame the image. This is a freebie from Desert Diva which is available to down load from HERE.

I found a little old man golfing garden gnome from Tesco which was so cute I had to get it for him. He was wearing blue argyle so this was the obvious choice for the colour of paper. This then of course dictated the colours of blue and brown which is my favourite colour scheme for men's cards. The image was coloured with Promarkers.

The pre-coloured sentiment is a now retired set from Imagine That Digis by Kris. This was printed onto glossy photo paper and was in the perfect colours to match my scheme.


I don't usually put a sentiment inside the card but found this great quote from Tlc Creations which I though suited the image really well. It would be hard to imagine a situation where a golfer would break his clubs though.....


Card Details -


Size - A5

Digital Image - Upset Golfer (QKR Stampede)

Digital Sentiments - Happy Father’s Day (Desert Diva), Golf Set Retired (Imagine That Digi by Kris), Green Pastures Golf (old freebie from Tlc Creations)

Paper - Magazine freebies

Colouring Medium - Promarkers



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Wednesday, 1 June 2022

Floating Strips Birthday

 



It is time for another challenge over at The Paper Funday.
Our challenges are always Anything Goes with an optional twist. 
The twist this time is the theme 'Masculine'


We are very fortunate to have 2 sponsors for each challenge this year which means we get to choose which artist we would like to work with. This really is great as it gives us double the choice. We are very lucky with the amazing sponsors that are lined up this year, many of which are old favourites and some are new to me. 

This month our Sponsors are Varada Sharma & Digi Doodle Studios

For this challenge I have chosen to work with the twist of Masculine. 

The inspiration for this card came from one that fellow crafter Leslie Turner posted some time ago. I thought it was just so clever and effective and kept the link as a card idea for the future. If you are interested in seeing it here is the link to her blogpost with the original link to a Splitcoast Stampers tutorial.

My card is A5 in size so I started off with a sheet of A4 navy card which has got a sparkly shimmer effect. A panel of white cardstock is then added so all the front elements really stand out on it. I then cut a sheet of acetate to size so the strips look like they are floating above the white.

I have a great system for my scraps with a box from Ikea which fits a Kallax unit that sits on my desk. The A4 or letter sized zippered pockets were a gift from my sister from Amazon. The zips are colour coded and I keep my scraps of coloured paper and card in each relevant colour bag. The mesh makes them very strong and so far they have lasted me over 2 years. In the past I got into a real mess with scraps and had 2 big cardboard boxes full which i gave to a friend who runs craft sessions at a senior citizen home. I now try wherever possible to file away my scraps as soon as a project has been finished and then go to this first when I need to use something. After crafting for a number of years and trying so many different ways of organising my scraps I have found this to be the very best way for me to stay tidy and actually USE my scraps.




 For this card I simply grabbed the blue bag and had fun pulling out offcut strips that might have been suitable. It is then simply a case of laying them onto the acetate and moving them round until you have a pleasing arrangement then stick them down onto the acetate panel. This panel is then raised up from the white background with foam pads so the strips look like they are floating.

The main sentiment is a large die from The Works which is a great bookstore we have in the UK that sells some crafty things too. This is a die from their own range which was only £4, really great value for how large it is. I always pop into one of the stores when I am out and about as you can get some amazing bargains from them. It is worth grabbing something you like when you see it though as quite often you don't see them when you go in the next time. 

I knew this particular style of sentiment would be perfect for male cards and I think it works particularly well with this graphic style of card. The die has been cut 3 times in the same sparkly blue card as the base, glued all the layers together for dimension and then added onto the floating strips with some thin foam pads.

Finally the sentiment has been recycled from an old cut up card and star gems dotted onto some of the strips for a bit of bling.

This is the first DT card I have made this year as I took a break to help care for my Mother In Law who was very seriously ill. I really, really missed being creative and blogging and so glad to be back doing the things I love ☺

I hope you will join myself and our fabulous Team over at the Paper Funday Challenge.

Card Details -


Size - A5

Dies - Happy Birthday (The Works)

Embellishments - Star shaped gems



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Friday, 10 December 2021

Toy Box Robot

 


Today is my hubby's birthday and this is the birthday card I made for him. He is into tech and gadgets and whilst looking for an aftershave for him I saw this cool new one shaped in a Robot bottle so it inspired me to make a co-ordinating card with the same industrial feel to it.


At Kate Hadfield Designs there are so many fabulous sets it is really easy to get inspired to use them. There are digital stamps which you can colour, coloured versions you can scrapbook or make into digital layouts. Papers, patterned overlays and doodles galore. No matter what your skill level there are so many goodies to play with.



The image is from the Toy Box Stamps pack. There are so many great stamps depicting well loved toys for little kids and big ones too.



I chose to use a masculine colour scheme of greys, blue and black. The robot is coloured with Promarkers and a fine liner for the small details.

I used a self adhesive foiled 'paper' for the grid background. I bought a pack of 5 from Hobbycraft probably 15 years ago. This has been added onto a blue card blank. The patterned paper is a snippet from a Ki Memories sheet I actually used for his card last year and then I just trimmed it with a black cardstock border.

The sentiment is an old freebie from Birds Cards. It is from 2012 and still available to download. Just follow the link. There are loads of free digis and SVG files on this blog and is a great resource.

For anyone interested this is the inside of the gift box with shower gel. It is called Phantom from Paco Rabanne and smells really nice, citrus, vanilla and lavender.




Over at Kate Hadfield Designs there is lots going on. Kate is really generous with her freebies which are readily available. If you sign up to the newsletter you get access to an extra subscriber area the Doodle Den where there are loads more freebies. There is a gallery full of projects by the Creative Team and customers and so much inspiration for crafters and teachers. I would highly recommend you pop over there and join in the fun.

Card Details -


Size - A5

Digital Image - Toy Box Stamps (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Sentiment - Happy Birthday 2U (Birds Cards)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Fineliners

Papers - Ki Memories & Hobbycraft


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Monday, 25 October 2021

An Autumn Birthday

 


Many moons ago I was the supervisor on the curtain department in a big Allied Carpets store. I have loved fabric and textiles since I was about 10 and although retail can be long hours it was a fabulous job. I was a trained interior designer and really loved helping people match fabrics to the carpets they had chosen.

At one time the designer Jeff Banks created a Home collection in conjunction with us and there were an amazing range of voile panels which had embroidered leaves woven into them (they were REALLY expensive) I had the display one when the range ended and painstakingly cut the leaves out with my trusty Fiskars scissors as I knew I could use them in my crafting somehow.

Of course.... they never have been used until NOW! This card is using one of those leaves and they are just beautiful. I needed to make a birthday card for a friend and neighbour. In the UK Autumn is definitely in full swing now so it seemed appropriate to make it an Autumn inspired card perfect for an adult male birthday.

I used brown cardstock for the base and added one of my most favourite leaf papers.The handmade paper is thick with a leather texture and gold sparkle threads embedded in it. You can see this more clearly in the image below.


I added a wooden button from The Works and tied some parcel string and a scrap of sisal string. The ends were then secured under the patterned paper.

The mesh leaf has been treated to a couple of swipes with a product called Glitter Kiss from Cosmic Shimmer. The fibres in the mesh have picked this up and it has a subtle glitter to it. It is a gel like texture with glitter suspended in it that does not shed when dried. It may be my new favourite thing !

Finally the sentiment is a very, very old foiled one from Kanban which has been popped up on 3d foam pads.

Card Details -


Size - A5

Paper - Woodland Folk (Lee Holland by Papermania), Handmade paper with gold sparkles

Embellishments - Mesh Fabric leaf, string, sisal string, wooden button (The Works) Glitter Kiss (Cosmic Shimmer)



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Wednesday, 6 October 2021

Birthday Party Owen


It is time for another challenge over at The Paper Funday.
Our challenges are always Anything Goes with an optional twist. 
The twist this time is the theme 'Halloween OR Add Purple'


We are very fortunate to have 2 sponsors for each challenge this year which means we get to choose which artist we would like to work with. This really is great as it gives us double the choice. We are very lucky with the amazing sponsors that are lined up this year, many of which are old favourites and some are new to me. This month our Sponsors are Fred She Said Designs & Paper Nest Dolls



I chose to work with Birthday Party Owen from Paper Nest Dolls. I have been making a concerted effort to make more masculine cards this year both young men and older ones and loved this fun image. I very rarely make halloween projects so opted for the purple option and knew this would be a great way of adding lots of colour including purple.

All the papers and card are from my scraps and I assembled the majority of the card before I coloured the image. This enabled me to use fun papers with several colours and then used those to ensure the card was co-ordinated. The background paper is from one of my favourite ever paper pads the Glitter Stack from DCWV. I loved it so much I bought it in 12" and 8" versions. The glitter is encapsulated and fun for a male card but not girly.

The final touch then was to add the foiled sentiment from Craftwork Cards which has been matted onto co-ordinating layers.

I hope you will join myself and our fabulous Team over at the Paper Funday Challenge.

Card Details -


Size - 6” x 6”

Digital Image - Birthday Party Owen (Paper Nest Dolls)

Papers - all from my paper scraps including Glitter Stack (DCWV)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers


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Monday, 27 September 2021

Meerkat Birthday

 


Imagine That Digistamp has given us this great set to play with the Meerkats as the Digi of the Month for September. It is a progressive image challenge and as long as you take part with the image for that month you will automatically get the following one. Kris has shaken it up this month by giving each participant different parts of the set so we get to make lots of different cards this time round.


I have been given the Meerkat birthday image and a number of sentiments. This image was perfect for me to make a birthday card which I have given to my next door neighbour for his birthday today.

I have coloured the image with Promarkers and used some star shaped peel off stickers to decorate the balloon. The image has been matted with scraps of blue and holographic silver card from my offcuts. 

The base of the card is a dark blue with a silver stardust effect. The background has been in my scraps since December 2009 !!! I made a card back then using 2 of the papers in a quadrant effect and kept the other 2 pieces with the intention of making another card with them at a later point. They were already taped together ready to mount and I never ended up using it. Over time the double sided tape ended up losing it's sticky. I knew it was a few years and found the post for the original card on my old blog. You can see it HERE if you are interested. I was gobsmacked it was so long ago to be honest.

I used a thin metallic washi tape to add a bit of sparkle and cover the joins in the papers. I rarely use washi tape as I don't find it sticks very well so I added a thin double sided tape to the back and that has held it a lot better. Also I find wrapping the ends underneath stops it coming loose too and I am much happier with the results.

Finally I added a sentiment with some silver peel off stickers and a few little stars.

Kris really does design some fabulous kits and the Digi of the Month challenges are a great way to build up your collection. If you don't take part I would highly recommend you get involved.


Card Details -


Size - A5

Digital Image - Meerkats (Imagine That Digistamp)

Designer Paper - Cupcake 12x12” (Basic Grey)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers

Embellishments - Peel off Stickers, Washi Tape (The Works)



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Sunday, 26 September 2021

Tink's Birthday

 


Our Brother in Law to be shares his birthday the same day as mine. He got together with my sister in law during lockdown and this is the first birthday card I have made him so of course it had to be a bit special didn't it....😉

He particularly loves hares so I used that as my starting point for this card.

We had a combined birthday family meal yesterday and he opened his card then and loved it and how personal it was to him. I call that a result !

I had an email from Craftworld with a free template for a Corner Fold Up Card which I have seen around blogland but not previously made. I thought it might make a nice 'scene' type of card so had a practice on scrap paper and it is so easy to make this style of card.


I started with some brown card for the base. I have several of the coloured card pads from Lidl and they are slightly bigger than an A4 sheet of card. You use a square as your base and this worked out to a 5'5". I tried using a 12"x12" kraft cardstock but it was a bit flimsy and I am much happier with this base. The colour is much better as well so happy accident ☺

The sentiment section has a piece of fern paper which is from a 4" square pad of paper Inspiring Nature from 
. The sentiment is a die from there and I added a glittery owl and some leaves.


The 'hares' are rabbit dies from a set called Winter Wildlife Embellishments from the Paper Boutique. I cut 2 sets out using the 'wrong side' for one of them so I could create a mirror image on the card. I used dark brown for the background layer and the inside of a Weetabix box for the foreground. Pencils were used to add some shading details and gel pens for the eyes. The leaves paper in the background is from an old Papermania pad Woodland Folk. I added some more of the glitter leaves and some trees that were with the owl. It has a lovely Autumn feel to this card, perfect for an Autumn birthday.


This is what it looks like when opened out. I added some velcro dots to secure the bottom together when it stands up. I have seen a recent tutorial at Beccy's Place that used magnets hidden underneath the layers of paper. I didn't have any so used what I already had to hand.


Card Details -


Size - 5.5” Corner Fold Up Card

Dies - Happy Birthday (The Works), Winter Wildlife Embellishments (The Paper Boutique)

Designer Papers - Inspiring Nature (The Works) Woodland Folk (Papermania)

Colouring Medium - Arteza Expert Pencils

Embellishments - Glitter Owls & Trees (Poundland) Glitter Leaves (The Works), 


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