Best Wishes

Hello and welcome back,

Today I am sharing the second card from my masculine card class held last Saturday.

I used a stamp set that really covers a few different means of travel, and this set is so versatile and perfect for the guy cards that seem to be so hard to design. Below are two close-ups of those gray triangular pieces. Using VersaMark, I stamped the images that are a compliment to the ship theme.

Supplies used on this card:
Stamps - Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection - Travel Ways, Simple Sayings (Sentiment)
Ink - India Ink, VersaMark
Card stock - Black, White, Dark Gray, Brown
Dies - Spellbinders -Circles S4-114, S4-116
Bakers Twine

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

• Cardz 4 Guyz  - Monochrome For Guyz (#8 )
• Craft Room Challenge - Age of Aquarius - All things water based (#9 )
• Just Inspirational Challenges  - Anything Goes (#25 )
• LEJ Designs  -challenge #85 Anything Goes (#184 )
• Sweet Stamps - challenge # 153 Anything Goes (#48 )
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes (#88 )
• Digi Sketch Challenge - Sketch* and/or Theme: For Men (#14 )
• Imagination Crafts - (January) Anything Goes (#49 )
• Make it Monday -  Always Anything Goes (#160 )
• My Craft Creations - Always Anything Goes (#29)
• Ooh La La Creations - A Man Card (#21 )

Just Celebrate

Hi Everyone,
Saturday I gave a class at Simply Said Rubber Stamps in Loveland, Ohio .The theme for the cards was masculine. We all have problems with those types of cards, it seems. So throughout the week I will be sharing the 3 cards from this class.

Here is the first card 

Supplies I used:

Stamps - Unity Stamp Co - What the Buck, sentiment - Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous - Simple Sayings

Ink - Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Gathered Twigs

Dies Used - Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations On the Edge - File Tabs, Steampunk

Corrugated Box Strip

Bakers Twine

Card stock - White, Yellow, Brown

I am submitting this card in the following challenges:

• A Gem of a Challenge - #111One for the Boys(#75 )
• Crafty Calendar -   Lets Celebrate(#201 )
• Anyone for Anya - Corrugated Cardboard.(#12 )
• Challenges 4 Everybody -  Challenge #37 Anything Goes.(#507 )
• Hobbycutz  - Challenge #32 Lots of layers (#55 )
• Scribble and Scrap - Challenge #10 (1st Week) Always Anything Goes.(#81 )
• Sentimental Sundays- Challenge #190 More than 3 Layers (#72 )

Thanks for stopping in today and stay tuned for for my next post with another masculine card design.

hello friend

Hi Everyone
Glad you stopped in today. I had my monthly club meeting this past week and I want to share the card that I made for the challenge for our  January meeting. Just a little background - We usually have a challenge each month and we are given some type of product, usually an embellishment,or a stamp, and we are supposed to use it in a project of some kind.We are to use it, some how, in our creation.We generally get the challenge items one month and then bring in the finished project with the challenge items incorporated in it, the following month.

Well Denise gave each of us a magnet that looked like a badge. The magnet I chose had feathers on it. As luck would have it, I picked up a new die last weekend, and it was a feather. So, I was all set to make this card. I had a few other things hanging around so I added those items to the card too.

I used some corrugated paper from a box, and some black and yellow card stock. I also had a piece left over from playing around with my Gelli Plate, used that as the bottom panel you see on the card. Then there are the feathers and that round badge looking magnet. I used white card stock in making the feathers. I sponged ink onto the feathers shapes and then snipped them to look more realistic. I used stamps from Tim Holtz to make the "hello friend" sentiment.

The challenge next month is going to involve glitter shapes. I chose some swirly ones, so it will be interesting to see where my imagination leads me. There were other types of glitter shapes given out so we all have different things to work with.

In our club, usually someone volunteers to lead a tutorial for the project for that month. Denise suggested in place of her tutorial,  that we do a round robin of sorts for next month. Everyone will start their own card, with one thing on it, then we pass the cards around and as that happens each of us will add something to each of the cards. Hope that made sense. LOL We've never done that before so I will have to let you know how it turns out. Sounds interesting. Hmmmmm......

I am submitting this card in the following challenges:

• Brown Sugar –  No. 77 - Anything Goes (#149)
• Digitally Sweet -  No. 71 - Anything Goes (#48)
• Polkadoodles -  No.3 -  Anything Goes/ Girl Talk (#25 )
• Sister Act Card Challenge -- No. 40 - Anything Goes (# 132)
• STAMPlorations Challenge Blog -  January - Stamps and Feathers (#40 )
• Wags 'n Whiskers - 2W, 2E, SIO - No. 120 - (W2 of 2) - Anything Goes (#153)

Thanks for stopping in today

                                             See you soon

                                                                   Have a great weekend.

Yappy Birthday

Welcome back everyone,

Are you staying warm?? Well it's really cold here in the northern part of the south, otherwise known as Northern, Kentucky. I was invited to a birthday party for a darling 3 year old and who would want to miss that, even if it is 16 degrees out.  The party was held at a local pizzeria and we all had a wonderful time. Logan, the birthday boy himself, got so many gifts I think he got more that he did at Christmas. LOL

Let me share with you the card that I put together for his 3rd birthday.

I had the stamp of the dogs in my stash but I wanted to add something else to this card. It needed some more personality. LOL  What would be more appropriate than a dog house. I hand drew the dog house and then decided to make the house look like it was made of wooden siding. I added the siding boards (yellow card stock) to the cutout of the doghouse. I layered the siding starting from the bottom, working up, overlapping just like you see on a house. I trimmed the edges and then I then added the house trim in dark brown and used a black piece to give the opening some depth. I attached the dog house to the card front with dimensional foam. The paw prints are stamped in VersaMark and embossed with clear EP.

The sentiment is computer generated as is the inside sentiment. Coloring of the dogs and the front sentiment was done with my Spectrum Noir's

Logan's mom, Morgan, thought this card was so cute and I am so glad she liked it. She is saving this card so Logan can look back on the card and pics that Morgan took, when her gets older.

Supplies used:
Stamps - Great Impressions
Ink/Markers - India Ink, Spectrum Noir, VersaMark
Clear Detail EP
Cardstock - Mint Green, Yellow (siding), Black, Dark Brown, Medium Brown
Dimensional Foam

I am submitting this card in the following challenges:

• 4 Krafty Girlz - Challenge # 9 Anything Goes  (#240)
  
• Charisma Cardz - Challenge #51 Its a boy thing (#25)
• DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge -   Monthly Linky Party (open till January 31, 2014) Anything Goes (#202)
• Scrapbooker PhD - Use Stamps (#4)

Thanks for stopping in and I will see you soon