Waltzingmouse

I recently made a purchase that I've been saving up for.  I made my way over to Waltzingmouse and purchased a couple of stamps I've been desperate to get, Half Pint Heroines, Heroines - Fairy princess, (I already own Half Pint Heroes and love it) and while I was there I picked up Compact Family.

So this was created with Half Pint Heroines, Compact Family and my copics.

I loved this card by Julia Aston and thought I'd create my own version so I used Compact Family to create this card: 

and then I tried to create a female version :

Crafty Sentiments - Bears

Crafty Sentiments Challenge this week is hosted by Me and it's Bears (My MIL favourite!)

I hope you like this little beauty, his name is Patches and this little digi is called Patches Done Fishing.  He has his own little bucket and that frog watching him is so sweet!!

I coloured him with my copics, trying a new technique with the dotting to give a different effect.  I used my fineliner to create the borders and a Waltzingmouse sentiment.

Male card

Saw the G is for challenge over at Cards for men and just had to enter my latest GOLF card! A must in my stash as both my Dad and Grandad are golfers (my Mum too!) As you can tell I was inspired by PTI's framed, I used a Waltzingmouse sentiment and Papermania's golfer.

A trio of bears

Crafty Sentiments have got a load of new bear stamps - Charles Bear and I really like them for male cards so here are a trio of cards I thought I would share with you. They were all coloured with copics, as per usual!

Waltzingmouse sketch Challenge

This week's Waltzingmouse sketch seemed like a really easy one, I had the idea in my mind yet somehow it didn't come together as easily as I had thought it would! Oh well! I had a go.  I embossed with my nesties to create the double frame and I then used the Half pint Heroes to create this little undersea scene.  Think it works, shame the card I stamped onto wasn't that great quality and it didn't help that my memento black ink is running out! The sentiment is in grey memento and I coloured with copics (predictable I know!)

Crafty Sentiments - Birthdays

An easy one this week, Birthdays! Although only easy if you remember - sorry I'm a tad late on this one, I've had a few headaches this week and the computer screen has just made me feel worse so I haven't been with it this week. However I do love the Crafty Sentiments challenges and I think they have some really cute images.  This week's image is one I used a couple of weeks ago (Teddy with Rose) but I decided to use it in a slightly different way. I also used the sentiment from the Patches and Stitch set, I love those sentiments, use them all the time! 


I like this card although if I'm really picking I should have put the top right image on the top left or swapped the top right and bottom left, I dunno I think I've starred at it too long - do you ever do that?

I also want to enter this card into this challenge:

Less is more - 3 squares

Waltzing mouse sketch

I recently bought an amazing stamp set from Waltzingmouse and they are sooo adorable, unfortunately I don't do them justice!  I was on their blog tonight and I saw their latest sketch challenge ends tomorrow so I decided to whip this card up (it's taken me about 45 mins from sketch to blog!) 


So here is my humble offering :

Crafty Sentiments - Male Card

Hi all this is my latest Crafty Sentiments DT card.  This week's challenge is to create a male card.  To be perfectly honest I was struggling until I was sent the Crafty Sentiments new releases and I think you'll have to agree that 'Mike' is absolutely adorable!


I've done my usual CAS styley with this one.  A simplistic, stamp, colour with copics and then write the sentiment (as I don't have many 'male' sentiments) oh and then the hardest bit was embossing this, but I like the embossed lines, especially as they eventually worked!


All you need to do now is pop on over and check out the rest of the teams amazing creations. Oh and if you can why not enter this month, there is a super prize on offer!

Sailing Away

I seem to have quite a few birthdays in August, this one is for my Uncle.  He and my Aunt own their own boat and a remember, as a child, staying on it over the summer holidays (hence the summer links!)

This was created with a boat I've designed especially for this card (I'm sure it'll pop up on DigiSparkle over the next couple of months, once I've created a few other images to go with it!) I created all the elements on the card and then added a frame on top using dimensionals.  This card was created using ideas fom elsewhere, I got the idea for creating the waves using a circle punch from Wendy here at Paper Ink and Smiles.  I got the sun rays idea (which incidentally looks softer IRL) from Geri at Geri's cards here is her tutorial.  

All in all I'm pleased with it (I just hopes it goes in the post ok!)

For these challenges:

Pink Elephant - Summer fun

Stamp with fun - Lilac/Blue

Little Red Wagon - Summer

Cards for Men - Off on an adventure

Papertake - Blue

Simon says stamp - Blue

ABC Challenge - August

Secret Crafter - It's a man's world

Stamptacular - For the boys

Gardner

A little cutie from Jolly Nation, I bought the pre cut decoupage set. I've used some Forever Friends paper and added a small sentiment.

This card is for this challenges:
CRAFT creations - Father's day

My Brave Knight

I started off with a male theme (as there are quite a few challenges out there for masculine cards at the moment.) and decided I wanted to use my knight digi (this is kinda a sneek peak as it isn't yet in the DigiSparkle store).  I then used the DigiDoodles sketch and it followed from there.  You can probably guess the rest - coloured with ... copics, yes! Circle cut out using ... nesties, yes! What a surprise!

This card is for these challenges:
CAS-tastic - Birthday
Simon Says Stamp - Birthdays
Cute Card Thusday - Boys/Men
DigiDoodles - Sketch
Stamp something - Birthday
Stampin for the weekend - Male

Beer Monster

Another male card! As much as I say I find them difficult I seem to do quite a few of them!

Hope you like it, I think my favourite part is the sentiment, I'm really enjoying handwriting sentiments and exploring different types of fonts - how long it will last is anyone's guess!

I did this for the Get Sketchy challenge, I even managed the bous challenge a hand doodled sentiment! Loved this sketch especially as it appealled to my simple nature and my love of nesties!

Square white card blank
Image: Beer selection from DigiSparkle
Paper: free digi paper (can't remember where from)
Other: Nesties, funky labels die and big shot, Papermania white gel pen, Derwent Coloursoft pencils and sansador, black cardstock (WHS), Ink it up black ink

U Rock

Boys cards, inspiration always seems to be lacking! I was going for a teenage boy card, shouldn't have used the oval nestie but I'd already cut it! Must get the square and rectangle nesties soon! The image is another one from Digisparkle and I wrote the sentiment myself.

This is for a couple of challenges:
Digital Tuesday - music
Crazy 4 Challenges - stitching (I hope faux stitching counts!)

Card blank: white square
Image: Punk from DigiSparkle
Other: big shot, nestie, red ink, black gel pen, card from my stash

Fall to Layout

This is my go at the Fall to Layout at Clean & Simple. A beautifully simple sketch and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I used a DigiSparkle stamp from the Beer selection. I always find male cards hard but this one seemed to come together really easily. I wrote the sentiment myself as I didn't have any suitable stamps!


Square card blank
Image: Beer from DigiSparkle
Paper: Ikea
Other: Ribbon from ikea, nestie, bigshot, black gel pen

Uncle's birthday

I somehow arrived at Wednesday last week without really knowing where the week had gone. This wasn't great as it meant I had to pack as we were going awaythe next day, make sure I had photographed all the cards I wanted to blog this week and then I suddenly realised it was my Uncle's birthday on Saturday! So this is my rush job card (why I hadn't got any in my collection that were suitable I don't know!)

I used a Paddington bear I had stamped, coloured and cut out ready (thank goodness!), so all I had to do was add the blue oval and the sentiment. Why is it that when you're in a rush things just don't seem to come together! Anyway, I finally added 'Uncle' with Papermania alphabet and handwrote the rest - not great but it was appreciated (I spoke to them yesterday!)

Card: CardTonic tall card blank
Image: Paddington stamp (free from a magazine)
Sentiment: Papermania alphabet and blue ink and handwritten with blue gel pen
Others: nesties, big shot, derwent coloursoft pencild and sasador

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 yellow robot

My DH thinks all my cards have to include nesties and circle ones at that, it's not quite true but this another circle nestie one! Hopefully with a little more of a masculine theme - I think the yellow works! This is one of my favourite stamps from DigiSparkle, Robbie robot (although my girls call him Walle!) I did this with the Sweet sketch Wednesday in mind.



Craft tonic white card blank
Image: Robbie robot from DigiSparkle
Yellow Papermania colossal paper and yellow paper from ikea
Other: Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder, gold glitter gel pen, and of course 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.

Boys for the Toys - imac G4

This is for my husband's boss, as with all in the office they like their technology and apparently this computer is iconic design! Don't see it myself but hopefully this image will appeal to him. This is one of the new images from DigiSparkle, we're trying to get more 'Toys for the Boys' stamps - keep an eye out for these!
White square card blank
Image - imac G4 from DigiSparkle
Silver card embossed with cuttlebug embossing folder - swiss dots (using the big shot)
Black card
Silver peel off

A pile of challenges

I worked quite hard on these, and as I'm staying at my Mum's without all my stash and I was working on the floor not a desk, I feel quite pleased with them! Nothing like blowing your own trumpet, is there!

This first card is for a whole pile of challenges:

Pile it on: Good things com in three's - like my 3 little monkey's!
But in the card sense: 3 ribbons (the 3rd one is hiding behing the flower) 3 flowers (layered, I know it's flimsy!) and 3 papers.

Stamp something: Birthday somethings


Get sketchy Well that was the sketch!

Pollycraft: Favourite things

This definitely uses my favourite things, my nesties and big shot! How did I cope without them? Well, no more dodgy circles for me (well not many anyway!)

Image - Digistamp The Pianist from Digisparkle
Card blank - Elco, Square
Paper - Paper pad free from Quick Cards made Easy Magazine
Flowers - Papermania elements and mini silver brad
Ribbon - Glued flower and straight navy blue ribbon & white sparkly ribbon from stash
Sentiment - Papermania mini birthday clear set
Derwent Coloursoft Pencils, Sansador oil, silver gel pen

This second one is using the sketch from Friday sketchers. I really like Robbie the robot but couldn't work out how to use him. I'm still not convinced it has shown him off properly, I think I needed different colour stars, I don't know. Any suggestions? Please be honest, it's the only way I'll learn! Oh and the blue doesn't look very blue in the photo; I need to practice my photography as well as my colouring!

Image - Digistamp Robbie robot from Digisparkle
Card blank - Elco, Square
Paper - From my stash and embellished with stamp from Papermania Alphamania clear set
Stars - Nesties
Derwnt Coloursoft Pencils, Sansador oil, Black gel pen, Blue ink pad