The Male Room Challenge - Man's Best Friend

The challenge in The Male Room is " Man's Best Friend" which to me means a dog! Unfortunately none of my SU stamps had dogs on them! In fact I wasn't even sure that any of my stamps had dogs, but when I looked I found I had more than I thought I had !! I thought this one looked quite fun!

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The papers are from a retired pack of Pocketful of Posies,  and I thought these two looked suitably masculine. I sponged Soft Suede ink all round the image just leaving the centre highlighted.  I used the modern label punch to cut out the sentiment and  added some candy dots in the corners  to finish it off. The central banner was cut with the Banners framelits.

The Male Room Challenge - Retirement

It was lovely to see so many entries for our Valentine challenge in The Male Room.  This time the theme is retirement and I knew I had the perfect stamp for it. (Non SU I'm afraid!)  However the papers and punches are! I really liked the soft colour of this paper.  A banner with the sentiment threaded on it finished it off.

Recipe:

DSP: Sweet Sorbet (a sale-a-Bration item)

Stamp Sets: Teeny Tiny Wishes (sentiment), Banner Blast (banners), Non SU image

Misc: Banner Blast punch (a sale-a-Bration item), Modern Label punch, white Bakers Twine

For more inspiration check out my team mates blogs and we look forward to seeing you in The Male Room.


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Bordering on Romance

This is one of the new stamp sets in the summer mini which I have used for the first time. It is coloured with the SU markers in Riding Hood Red, Pear Pizazz and Marina Mist (it should have been Baja Breeze but I yhought it need something a little deeper). The papers are from the Twitterpated DSP, I used the framelits to cut them out and added the new pleated satin ribbon also from the summer mini. The sentiment is Teeny Tiny wishes stamped out with the word window punch, mounted on red cut with the modern label punch. Three rhinestones on the ribbon and faux stitching around the image finished it off.

Spice Cake

Well hello there - I'm back from a lovely relaxing break on the Red Sea. Although I have to say it wasn't as warm as we expected it to be. They were having "unseasonably cool temperatures" for our first two days - in fact I was cold!! So not much crafting has been done but I do have some cards to show you that I made before we left. These are two thank you cards I made to put in with some orders from very good customers.

I used the lovely Spice Cake papers with Crumb Cake and Soft Suede and a scrap of Pool Party card,  Ruffled Ribbon in Pool Party, Modern Label, Word Window and Scallop Square punches, Charming stamp set and the sentiment is from the hostess set Faith in Nature. Matching envelopes out of the papers completed them.