Some Odd Girl - Octopus Birthday Card for Dad!

HEY HEY!

I've been crafting again, and just haven't gotten around to photographing/blogging/uploading them yet... I have a card going into my stores (Madeit, and Etsy) tonight, so keep an eye out!

Anyway, on to the card for my dad

I started with the Octopus stamp, which came in my last Some Odd Girl Order, (he jumped into my cart, before I had a chance to say "Stop, don't, come back"), I coloured him up with my Spectrum Noir Markers, and then set him aside, I grabbed some patterned papers (from American Crafts), and doodled around the outside. I added a strip of ribbon and a sentiment. The anchor is from the stamp set, I've embossed it in silver.

Here is the close up

Simon Says Stamp - Father's Day/Masculine

Craft your Passion - Father's Day/Boys

Mojo Monday - #348 Sketch

Father's Day Card - MFT stamps & The Alley Way Stamps - Clean and Simple

Hi guys! I've been busy contemplating my uni assignments, and not much else, so I haven't had a lot of time to craft... I did get to make my dad a Father's Day card though... 

My dad is quite difficult to make for, as he's not a 'sports fan' or, anything remotely similar to what people think of for father's day cards! So, I went with something quite simple - 

I used patterned papers, from Echo Park, and stamps from both My Favourite Things, and The Alley Way stamps, I used the "chalkboard" technique on these, and doodled around the papers, using a white gel pen (on the dark paper) and a black felt tip pen on the patterned papers. I added twine, some metal swirl paper clips, and a few rhinestones...  

Deconstructing Jen - Sketch 116

Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge 86

My Favourite Things - Father's Day card

Hi ya! I'm on a bit of a Father's Day kick at the moment, trying to get a few bits into my card store, in time to have them in the mail for September 1! 

Here is one I made up yesterday -

I used the MFT Graphi Tee Stamp set, to stamp the "World's Greatest", the Dad was cut out using my bigshot and alphabet dies, in Artichoke card stock, and glued down. I used patterned papers from Echo Park (I think!) The yellow is the reverse side of the main background paper. I then added a speech bubble paper clip, a wooden flourish moustache (coloured with a brown spectrum noir marker) and added some buttons stack on top of each other, with a twine bow -

MFT Stamp & Win - MFTWSC136

Cards for Men - Metal

My Favourite Things - Father's Day Card (Masculine)

Hiya! I have a quick card share today, with a tutorial going live over on The Stamp Spot blog this morning, featuring this card... So, head on over and take a little look see, as to how I created this -

I used products from The Stamp Spot store, including patterned paper from Sn@p, washi tape, and of course the MFT stamps. 

The card is pretty basic, but, the stand out feature, in my mind at least, is the chalkboard effect... Here is a close up -

MFT Blog - Stamp and Win #135

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Father's Day Card 2012 - Feeling Sketchy

Hi guys! It's that time of the week again! Time for my Feeling Sketchy post! This week is the start of a new month, which means, we've got a new sponsor!!! Welcome to Sassy Scrapper! They have some seriously drool worthy stuff in their store, with flat rate shipping of $6.95, I suggest you go check them out!

Anyway, this weeks sketch was perfect for a Father's Day card -

And here is my card - 

I downloaded a drawing of my dad's favourite car, and edited it in gimp to add my sentiment, I then printed it out on to white cardstock and cut it out using my dies. The patterned paper is from My Minds Eye, and went perfectly with the 'car' theme. I used ribbon from Ribbon Carousel, Woven Diamond Ombre Ribbon and tied a bow. It looked a little plain, so I got a hat pin out, and made a flag using patterned paper and hot glued it into place. The car itself got a liberal lot of Crystal Effects and the card base was stamped with the 'Worn' stamp by SU!

Overall, I'm happy with how this card turned out, masculine cards can be a bit trial and error. 

Thanks so much for joining me back this week... Don't forget to link up your entries at Feeling Sketchy

Alley Way Stamps Fathers Day / Dad's Birthday

Hi Again! This is my second post for today, scroll down for my Feeling Sketchy DT post, or click here...  I had some time to play tonight, and needed to make my dad's birthday card (his birthday is this weekend) So, I looked online for a bunch of inspiration... I don't have a lot of masculine stamps, but I knew there was one or two hiding in my digital stamps! Here is my card -

My dad is really tough to make cards for... he isn't into any sports, except for the V8 supercar races, and he only really watches the Bathurst 1000... So sports images are out, he doesn't fish, or hunt and he isn't a huge fan of sailing or anything else. I did have one image that will be his fathers day card, but I thought I'd try some 'dad humour' for this one. I printed my mushrooms (from The Alley Way Stamps) onto white cardstock and coloured them up using my Spectrum Noir markers. Once I was happy with the colouring, I added some Liquid Pearls in white to the toadstools spots and cut out the image panel. I mounted it on some Real Red card stock and set it aside. The rest of the card is made up with Basic Grey card base, layered with Real Red card, and patterned paper from My Minds Eye. I stuck down some red grosgrain ribbon and attached two buttons on top of each other, and a mini bulldog clip finish off the front of the card... I decorated the inside of this card too...

I used the same My Minds Eye patterned paper, as well as red grosgrain ribbon and the matching sentiment from The Alley Way Stamps. 

I am entering this into two challenges, the first is the sketch challenge at Mojo Monday and secondly the anything goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for popping by!

Stampin' Up! Sense Of Time makes Wonderful Male Cards

I have been patiently waiting Kim uploading the cards from our craft day last week, but now that she has started, I want to show you some of the cards I made. We found we work best issuing colour or stamp challenges to each other, as we both have a similar card style... It is always really interesting to see the differences in card while using the exact same ingredients... well, here is my card

The colour challenge for this one was Early Espresso, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake and Soft Suede. I have used the Sense of Time stamp and the sentiment is from Well Scripted. The ribbon is non-su, and the shape next to the clock, is a not yet released SU! item... come back on the 1st to find out the details on it... 

Check out Kim's version of this colour combo/stamp set here

Don't forget, that you only have 16 days to get your hands on the beautiful Well Scripted set, for more info, call me on 0405 173 237 or send me an email

Happy Stamping!