Dino-fun

This little card is for my nephew, we're off to his party today - have fun Isaac!

The image is a Pollycraft Dinosaur (sadly no longer available!)

Here's some of the products I used:

Fancy Pants Paper - To The Moon MFT Die-namics By the letters Uppercase MFT Die-namics By The Letters MFT By The Numbers Double sided tape Memento Black Ink Copics Crafters Companion - Neenah Classic Crest Card

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Metropolis

Hi all. I've found I need to keep my stock of kids cards up to date at the moment (so many birthday parties!) so here is a young boys card.  I used Paper Smooches Metropolis which I bought from Make the Day Special - was really pleased with them as a shop, they specialise in stamp sets that can be difficult to get over here in the UK so I've bought Lawn Fawn and Paper Smooches sets from them :)

This is quite a basic card, stamped and coloured with copics.

Boys

Here's a few more cards I created to add to my stash of boy cards, hope you like :)

The first card is created with a Pollycraft dinosaur, copics, nesties and my Die-namics Dainty Dots border die and a handwritten sentiment.

This second card has a Bugaboo image which, as per usual I coloured with copics and added dp and my Die-namics Dainty Dots border die 

Boys

Just recently I seem to have had to create  load of boys birthday cards as there are quite a few more boys in my girls' class. So I decided to create a few more for my stash. I've had these sizzix doll dies for ages and the girls have loved creating their own little dolls but for some reason I haven't used them on a card so I decided it was time to try. So here are my creations:

These cards are for the Cards for men anything goes challenge

Orange dino

Yes, you will notice a theme, probably for quite a while knowing me! I've finally taken the plunge and purchased a set of copic ciao's. I was gutted that they were rubbish until I bought the right paper (many thanks to Amanda on splitcoaststampers) and wow they're amazing, I love the way the colours pop.

I love this dino, he's a new DigiSparkle product and was just waiting for the right way to use him. I found several challenges that just called out for him.

This card is for these challenges:
Digital Tuesday - kraft, orange and 1 other plus a digi image
Sweet sketch - sketch
Bee Crafty - Distressing (around the edges are slightly distressed)

White square card blank

Image - Dino from DigiSparkle

Sentiment - handwritten

Other - Orange, kraft, brown paper from stash, hole punch, whispers permenant brown marker.

Tractor

How hard is it to do male or boy cards? I've been challenging myself recently to do more of these, if only to have some in my collection ready!

I do like this tractor stamp from DigiSparkle but have left it sitting in a box fully coloured just not knowing how to use it! I finally had an idea and although it hasn't come out quite as I wanted I still like the thoery of putting it on a wheel.

See what you think:

Image: Tractor from DigiSparkle
Card: White square card blank
Sentiment: handwritten
Paper: Black card from WHS and red paper from ikea
Other: Derwent Coloursoft pencils and sansador ink, white and black gel pens, shpaed scissors, nesties and big shot

A touch of ... well a touch!

An iPod touch that is! This is yet another DigiSparkle stamp, this time from the Toys for the Boys range. This is the iPod touch from the iPod range (4 ipod digistamps for just 99p - can't be bad!) I think I've gone for a retro feel with all these reds, black and greys (was that an 80's colour scheme? remember a lot of those colours in my brother's room!) Love the stamp (and fairly pleased with my colouring) the layout isn't quite right but I'm struggling to identify why!


Image - Ipod from DigiSparkle

Sentiment - Papermania clear birthday set

Card from stash

Other - nesties, cuttlbug swiss dots embossing folder, big shot, white gel pen, black and white ribbon, derwent coloursoft pencils and sansador.

First birthday

It's my nephew's first birthday this weekend and I needed a card quickly as I had to get it in the post (why do these dates always spring up on us?) I had already coloured a Jolly Nation toddler so I used that and then added his name.

However, this card just didn't want to happen. I couldn't seem to line the oval up with the scalloped oval so after about 8 attempts I decided to use tacky glue and in squeezing the tube it exploded all over my work luckily the image escaped! So, here is my card, glue free!


I decided this fitted into the Anything baby goes at Stampin' for the Weekend.

Card blank - white square
Image - Jolly nation coloured with Derwent Coloursoft and sansador
Name - Papermania acrylic stamps
Other - nesties, silver gel pen

A Challenge or two

Well here goes, my first challenge card. I thought I'd go for broke and have a go at piling the challenges on. So I've managed 3 challenges in one go. I'm impressed with myself, although I'm not amazed by the card. This was my first go at colouring using pencils and Sansador. I'm relatively pleased with the colouring but I'm not convinved about the brads. Oh well we live to learn!

So here's my 'pile':

Pile it on - Oh boy!
Lord have Mercy - Sketch #35
A Spoonful of sugar - Challenge 65; Travel

Card blank - from my stash

Paper - papermania pack

Image - Cartoon car from Digisparkle

Brads - Papermania elements