Cardz for Guyz - Music

It’s new challenge time at Cardz for Guyz and this time we want to see cards with Music as the theme. By sheer luck a magazine I had just bought had a set of free music related stamps with it.

I used the drum kit which I stamped in black and clear embossed, then coloured with Promarkers. The sentiment and music notes are from the same set. A rummage through my papers and a nice bright sheet seemed to go well with the image. As always please check out the other DT makes, and hope to see you joining in.

Rudolph Day Jan 2018

This is one of the cards I made while at the HLS Craft retreat back in November. I saved it to post for this month’s Rudolph Day challenge as I knew I probably wouldn’t get time to make one this month. Although it doesn’t show up in the picture it is a light up card, with the light at the top of the middle tree.

The stamp is from one of the lovely sets from HLS, which Kylie very generously gave us at the retreat. 

Floral Fancy Folds

I'm afraid I was unable to make a card for the last  Make My Monday challenge as I was unable to get near my craft room as the builders were working just outside it. If I hadn't had this one unblogged I wouldn't have had one this week either. The theme is fancy folds.

I made this one for my sister-in-laws birthday last year and for some reason it never got blogged. The papers are some very old K&Co ones. The flowers are a SU set - Flower Shop. There's some great inspiration on the challenge blog so do pop over and visit the rest of team.

Shades of Blue

Well I managed to get into my craft room while the builders were elsewhere in the house and make my DT card for Cardz 4Guyz. The theme is Shades of Blue so I decided to use some new stamps from Uniko. I coloured the background stamp with 3 shades of blue Copics, the stamped the Hugs sentiment in a dark blue over the top using the Misti of course.

I also coloured the card blank with one of the Copics to make sure it matched my panel. Don’t forget to visit my teamies over on the challenge blog for lots more inspiration. 

HLS Christmas Challenge.

I am delighted to say that I have also  joined the HLS Christmas challenge design team.

The first challenge for this year is CAS! When I was at the retreat in November Kylie showed us how to make light up cards, so when I got home a created a couple more for my grandsons.

    

                      

The dies are from Creative Expressions. I cut everything out of white card then coloured it with Copics. The photos are a bit dark despite playing with them. Unfortunately with the builders still in occupation my usual photography spot was unavailable!

Happy Post!

A Happy New Year to you all!

I am thrilled to tell you that I am now part of the Happy Little Stampers Design Team, and today it's time for the first challenge of 2018.

I used a NBUS Uniko stamp called Floral Lily which I embossed in Pewter, and coloured with Distress Oxides.

I'm afraid the photo is really rubbish, due to trying to take it amongst all the builders' disruption. I will be so VERY glad when they have finished, I can get my house back and my new craft room - can't wait!

I do hope you will join in the challenge, theres lots of lovely inspiration for you.

The Last Two!

The last two Christmas cards for this year! Both were made at the Craft Retreat in November.

The  Christmas trees were cut out of white card and sponged using Distress Oxides in Iced Spruce and Peeled Paint. The Snowy card is all Penny Black - I love those snowflake frames.

All that's left is to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and I'll see you all in the New Year with some exciting news.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

No card from me today but a video instead!

We had a quick trip to the local garden centre a few days ago to get a couple of last minute gifts and found this lovely little scene.

Last minute Christmas at C4G !

It's time for a last minute Christmas card at Cardz 4 Guyz. Wirh all the building work I wasn't sure whether I would get enough Christmas cards made this year, so I designed a couple of digital ones that I could quickly print off. (It goes against the grain to buy them!)

I made this one using Craft Artist and some of the Daisy Trail kits. If you still have time to craft before Christmas why not join us, if you dont need another card this year, you will have a head start on next year's!!

Partial Die Cutting

Here’s another card made at the HLS retreat I went to in November. One of the sessions was partial die cutting. Never having been to a retreat before I really didn’t know what or how much to take, so the choice of dies I had that were suitable was limited. But I thought the Penny Black stamp and die set would be OK and this is the result! 

The colours are not very true to life in the photo as the hats, scarves and snowflakes are really aqua not green!  I’m entering this into the following challenges:

The Sisterhood Of Crafters - All about Christmas

Allsorts: Snowflakes