Rudolph Day April

Thank you all for your good wishes and comments on my post about lack of making. But without further ado its time for another Rudolph Day!

I used a NBUS Tim Holtz Stamp Set that fell into my basket last September! The border is a Penny Black die. 

Now that the meds have kicked in I am able to do a lot more but do still have to pace myself. It’s easy to  overdo things!

Into the Woods

The challenge for the next two weeks at Cardz for Guyz is Into the Woods. We want to see anything you might find in the woods on your cards, but they MUST be male orientated. As I have realised my Christmas card stash is seriously not enough I went for the Christmas option.

I sponged white ink on some Kraft card but it just seemed to soak in, some Tim Holtz dies and a small sentiment out of my odds and ends box.

I look forward to seeing your masvuline makes!

3D Background

We have a new challenge at Cardz for Galz. We would like you to make your own background. So should I do random stamping, use a stencil, brushos etc etc.? In the end I went with none of those, I used a 3D embossing folder, which came in one of the monthly kits I get.I had to dig out my Big Shot to use it as I couldn't get it to go through the Grand Caliber, which is my machine of choice.

I sponged Antique Linen over it and the Cosmic Copper to pick out the pattern.  The dragonfly and sentiment are cut out of copper mirri card.

Pop across to the challenge blog and see what my teamies have come up with.

Cardz for Guyz - Get Well

The challenge this time at Cardz for Guyz is Get Well. I decided to go for a humorous one.

The digi stamp is from Bugaboo, coloured with copics and cut out with a stitched rectangle die. I mounted it onto red, again cut out with a stitched rectangle, and placed it off centre to make room for the sentiment, which is from a Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz set.

There's lots more inspiration over on the challenge blog, so hope you'll come and play too.

Simon Says Challenge - Tim Holtz

The challenge this week is:

WE LOVE TIM HOLTZ :-)

We have an absolutely fabulous challenge for you this week !! We are going to get creative with Tim Holtz gorgeous products :-) If you don't have any you can still join in, just make something 'Inspired by Tim' He has made some awesome video's for you to see and you can see them here We know that for some of you you may feel that this is a BIG challenge and difficult. But it isn't ! You can do cute cards not necessarily 'grunge' Just add a torn edge with some ink dabbed on and you can enter !! Or just add some glitter glue like stickles !! Probably every card anyone makes can be entered for this challenge ! AND YOU CAN COMBINE WITH AS MANY CHALLENGES AS YOU LIKE :-) So you have NO EXCUSE :-)Heidi is once again offering a very generous prize of a $25 Shopping spree to the Simon Says Stamp Store but this week it is with a twist :-) You are to choose Tim Holtz goodies :-)

Now the only Tim Holtz products I have are some Distress ink pads and some Alcohol Inks. Love the ink pads but haven't been brave enough yet to use the inks! So here is my entry using Distress ink pads in Vintage Photo, Spiced Marmalade, Peeled Paint and Mustard Seed plus a smidgeon of Cosmic Shimmer Dark Bronze Mica powder.The stamps are from Elusive Images.