I's a new week and a new challenge at Make My Monday.This time Dawn has asked us for "Something Humorous" I have combined it with a card for my son's birthday. He is a keen mountain biker so I trawled the net for a suitable image and eventually found this one(copyright free)

I coloured the biker with copics and added some splats for the mud he throws up!

Be sure to look at the rest of the DTs fab cards and join in the fun!

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

It's time for the firat of the Happy Little Stampers Challenges for April. As always it is Anything Goes with an optional twist.

 

While I was doing some tidying up I found some printed cards for foiling so I dug out my Minc foiling machine which I hadn't used for ages. So it then took me some time to find the instructions and the carrier for it. I used some copper foil, then blended Distress Oxides across the card and sprayed with water to help the colours blend.

Then I used the sameinks and a water brush to colour the image. Here's another phoyo to shoe the shine.

Do check out the rest of the DT's work and hope to see you playing along.

Rudolph Day - March

Well Rudolph Day is here again! This was a very quick card to make as time has been a bit short the last couple of weeks with lots of appointments. Hopefully that will calm down now that Roy has had his cataracts removed. Just need to get his tendonitis sorted !

I made this as I was tidying some stuff away. I had a Simon Says Stamp kit that had been sitting on my floor since it arrived, and the contents were perfect for a quick Christmas card. A card blank, some patterned paper and two stickers - job done!

Pretty Florals

I am really taken with the Concord and 9th Turnabout stamps. This one comes in two parts, so I have just used the outer stamp for this card, for the new Cardz for Galz challenge. We want to see Flora and/or Fauna on your card.

Obviously I chose Flora! I die cut a circle for the sentiment, which is also part of the stamp set. Colours used are Melon Mambo, Old Olive, Blueberry Bushel and Primrose Petals.

There's lots of fabulous inspiration over on the challenge blog, be sure to check it out.

Get inky!

The challenge at Cardz for Guyz is to get messy and make your own background. Now I have to confess that I never seem to get such good results as other people when I play with inks.

For this card, I sprayed a piece of card with TH Distress Resist Spray. When it was dry I blended Oxide inks over it then misted it with some water. The dies were from a recent magazine. The fish bowl and sentiment were cut from some teal card, but the fshes and seaweed were from a scrap of white card and coloured with copics.

I hope you'll be able to join in with us getting messy!

Hand Painted Peacock

One of my card making friends has been doing a lot of painting and at our last card making evening she gave each of us a decoupage sheet as a trial. This is the card I made with the sheet.

I mounted the decoupage on some shimmery gold card cut our with a Crealies die. I would like to enter this into this week’s Allsorts Challenge. 

Going Round in Circles!

Welcome to the new challenge at Make My Monday. This time we want you to use circles on your card.

I used some old SU cardstock Natural White to make a one layer card, but I messed up the stamping so had to put the sentiment on a strip of card to cover the boo boo! The stamp set is Mix Mash from Happy Little Stampers, sadly no longer available.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the DTs fabulous makes.

March Hares!

It's my turn to set the challenge at Cardz for Galz and as its March I chose March Hares (or rabbits if you havent got any hares!) I had it firmly fixed in my mind what I was going to do, but then I saw a stamp of a hare by Pink Ink Designs which I thought was perfect so bought it, not realising how big it was!!

This is a 7" square card! I coloured it in with Zig Brush markers and a water brush. I'll add a sentiment later when I decide who is going to get it.

I'm also sharing this with Daring Cardmakers who's challenge is Mad March hares.

Use Your Dies

Welcome to the new challenge over at Cardz for Guyz. This time we want you to use your dies. It gave me the perfect reason to use a new die that I bought at the recent Make It Show.

I used an old SU football stamp which I  stamped in black and clear embossed, in the centre of a white panel. I masked off the circle and sponged blue ink through a stencil. I added the die around the football and mounted onto a card blank made from the same blue card. Of course it had to be blue and white as both grandsons and two sons support Chelsea!

Make sure to pop over and see what the rest of the DT have made.

I am also linking this into the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies challenge.

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge

Welcome to the March Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge.

 

 I really had no inspiration this month but as I was putting away the Simon Says Stamp kit for January I realised it had tags in it, so my card was borne.

I stamped the snowflakes in white pigment ink and evetually had to clear emboss them as they wouldn't dry. The paper is also out of the kit and although it is difficult to see in the photo it has white snowflakes/stars on it.The penguin and sentiment are from the stamp set Snow Much which is included in the kit as well.

I hope you'll join in the fun.