You Rock, Boy!!!

Hello!

I hope you are all well, and had a fun day yesterday Trick or Treating!!!!!
Sadly we couldn't take Alaia Trick or Treating as we were travelling, I know she would have loved it!

Today I have for you a card for boys. I don't make a lot of cards for men/boys... I guess I'm more of a pink, pastel colours, with lots of embellishments and flowers kind of girl.... But I really enjoyed making this one! so I'm going to start making boy cards a lot more often. As I can't use flowers and girlie stuff, it makes me think a lot more about how to make the card look "cool". I've also realised that I haven't got so many papers that I can use for male cards, so I know what my next craft shopping spree is going to be about!  Do you find men/boy cards more difficult to make?

I used this great image called "Anime Rocker" by Kenny K. His images are great, his style is quite edgy (punk, goth, sexy... ). He also has a lot of characters made in the "anime" style, like the one I've used this time.

The papers I've used are from my K&Company paper pad. I bought it ages ago, it has over 300 paper sheets, lots of different designs. I forgot where I bought it from, but I remember it been really worth the money!  I decided to stick with autumnal colours like orange, green, yellow. It's the best time of the year to used them!

I really enjoyed colouring this image. As usual, with my Promarkers! I'm really trying to improve my colouring... but I guess, it will come with experience!!!!
For the face I used: Sandstone, Vanilla, Blossom and Coral.
For the hair: Slate, Orchid, Lavender and Blender Pen.
For the jeans (I tried to give the jeans a bit of a "wash-out" effect): Azure, China Blue, Cornflower.
For the T-Shirt: Peach, Spice, Coral, Moss, Leaf Green and the blender pen.
For the guitar: Mustard, Tulip Yellow, Winter Berry.
For the Shoes: Moss, Leaf Green, Spice, Peach, Coral and blender pen.




I used my new Tim Holtz Alterations die to cut the black card stock as a notebook paper and I punched some stars to embellish the empty corner at the top right.

I inked all the papers and card edges with black ink to define the borders a bit more.

The rest of the embellishments are quite simple. I used black rhinestones (it's OK to  use some "bling" in boy cards, right?), coloured brads, spiral paper clip and an arrow sticker... all from local shops.

The sentiments are my own. I used a Jonathan S. Harris font  called "Kids Play" to create them.

I'm entering this card  into the following challenges:

Cards for Men #22 - Way to Go

I love Promarkers #192 - Anything Goes

Divas by Design - Use some orange

Penny's Crafts Challege #151  - Black or Bling

Crafting for all seasons #64 - Autumn Colours

Crafty Girls Challenges #5 - Anything goes

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Have a lovely weekend!!!! 

Until next time!

Playing with Yellow, Pink and Brown.... an Autumn card!

Hello!

I hope you are all well!

I've just been blogging for only 2 weeks but I love it. I love the challenges (they are great to get me into making cards I wouldn't dare to make). I also love the process of writing the blog, not knowing what is going to come up from it and thinking that people from anywhere in the world may read it! (scary!).
But above all, I love the blogging community. The way I can "talk" to people with the same interest as me, from any part of the world, I feel "connected".  It's a good feeling. I'm starting to ramble now....


On to the card!

Today's card is a Birthday Autumn / Fall card with a twist! I haven't used the usual deep brown and orange colours but yellow, pink and just a bit of brown. I always like to mix pink and yellow colours, especially for girl cards... I feel like it's a good colour combination (I might be wrong, your opinion would be appreciated!).

It's again an easel card. I love this type of cards!

The lovely image I've used is "Singin in the Rain" by Mo Manning (Mo's Digital Pencil). If I could, I would buy all her digital stamps! I'm in the process of doing so...

The backing papers I've used this time are from We R Memory Keepers Baby Mine (yellow with pink / white spots);  Papermania Capsule Collection Spots and Stripes Pastels (pink stripes paper); the sentiment is printed in a K&Company paper.
I have distressed the edges of the papers with a blade and sandstone and added ink... I love to distress papers.. I like the "messy look"!

I've also used an old corrugated cardboard (it was part of the packaging from a toiletry set I got for my baby shower about 5 years ago!), and I've painted it a bit of silver/pearl acrylic paint from Docrafts. 

The little tag picking out behind the cardboard is a memory tag from the Happy Days journaling cards collection by Papermania (I have scanned it and reduced its size).

As usual, I've coloured the lovely image with my Promarkers. 

This is the first time I've coloured curly hair!!!! I hope I've done an OK job! I used buttermilk, mustard and sandstone.

For the face and body I've used: Sandstone, Vanilla and Blossom.

For the Boots: Tulip Yellow, Mustard and the Blender pen.

For the umbrella: Blossom, Pink Mittens, Buttermilk, Eggnog and the blender pen.

I have paper-pieced the dress and coat. I love paper-piecing lately!

I have used a brown ink pad to colour the background of the picture. 

My tip for Top Tip Tuesday is: if you don't have a proper ink blender like me, you can buy cheap make-up sponges and use them to blend your ink!

I printed the leaves, cut them and inked them to give them the brown colour.

I used Anitas 3-D Clear Gloss Finish for the rain drops. 

I used Tim Holtz Alterations On the Edge die to make the pink stripe's background paper look like a notebook page. The fence die cut is from my new Marianne Creatables die.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

The yellow spotty brad in the flower is from Doddlebug Design Ink Boutiques brads.

The spotty ribbon, buttons and charm as from my own stash.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges (in no particular order):

Mo's Digital Challenge - My favorite colour: Yellow

Seize the Birthday - Anything goes Birthday

Sister Act Challenge #30 - Anything goes
Bunny Zoe's Challenge - October "Ribbon"

Brown Sugar #65 - Autumn

Crafty Catz # 204 - Spots and Stripes 

A Gem of a Challenge #103 - More than one fold  (Easel card)

Crafty Little Fairies - Anything goes

613 Avenue #43 - Anything goes with optional twist: Paper Piecing (dress is paper-pieced)

Sweet Stamping - Wood, Trees or Leaves

Creative Corner Challenges - Femme Fatale

Cutie Pie challenge #56 - Cute with embellishment bingo (die cuts, buttons, ribbon, charm, flowers)

C... is for Challenge #9 - Buttons

Paper Nest Dolls Challenge #16 - Anything goes

Crafty Boots Challenge - Autumn

Lexi's Creations #102 - Birthday Celebrations

Victorine Original Challenge #71 - Fall or Thanksgiving

Party Time Tuesday Challenge #144 - Anything goes

LEJ Designs Challenge #77 - Anything goes 

Top Tip Tuesday #113 - Seasons
Oldie but a Goodie - Charming  (charm and corrugated cardboard are old)

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Now I'm going to get Alaia in her fancy-dress, as she has a School Disco this evening! (I wanted her to dress as a witch or something scary, but she just want to be a princess!)

Thanks and until next time, 

Purple Rain

Hello!

It's Friday!!! and of course.. It's raining!!!! putting a smiley face to the wet and cold weather!

I'm looking forward to this weekend... we will get our coats, boots and hats to enjoy the Halloween events in our area... There is a Ghost train! (I would love to go, but not sure If it's the best for a 4 and a half year old...) we'll see. It's supposed to be for families after all!

So, I've got the perfect card for you today... with umbrella and everything! It's an easel card, loving this type of card at the moment. I'm pretty sure I'll show you a lot more of this in the future!

The digi stamp I used is from Polka Doodles. It's so nice and it can be used for so many different cards, Birthdays, Friendship... 

The backing papers I've used are from Pink Petticoat Colour Collections and Papermania Capsule Collection Designer Die-Cuts (the black polka-dots). I've distressed all the black card stock and the papers with sandstone and inks. 

I made the sentiment with my computer (the quote is not mine).  I'm starting to play around with the idea of creating my own sentiments.... I would love to make some cool ones to share with you all!

And now let's talk about the colouring! I used my promarkers (as always!). 

For the face and skin: sandstone and vanilla.

For the hair: Blossom and Pink Carnation (yes, Pink hair!)

For the dress: lilac, lavender, orchid and Slate. 

For the boots: slate, lilac and blender pen

I decoupaged the umbrella with the lovely papers I used in the backgroud.

I also used Sizzlits Decorative Strip, Marianne Creatables and Nellie's dies as background and to embellish the card. 

The roses and flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and leaves are die cut from a Marianne Creatables Die set.

The buttons, ribbon (and bow) and pearls are from a local shop. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Incy Wincy Challenge - Purple and Black

Passion for Promarkers #221 - Give me a "P"  (purple, pink, pearls, polka dots)

Polka Doodle Digi Choosday digital challenge #1 - Anything goes

Fab'n'Funky #190 - Distress

I love Promarkers #191 -  Pink Hair

The Hobby House #5 - Roses

Penny's Paper Challenge #150 - Buttons and Bows

Hanna and Friends #183 - Anything goes

Sister Act Card Challenge #30- Anything goes
Crafty Little Fairies - Anything goes
Bunny Zoe's Challenge - October "Ribbon"

Wish me luck!!!!

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Thanks and see you next time!

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas*.....

(*At least when you are into card-making!)

Hello again!!!!

It's raining today.... so to cheer myself up I went on a mini shopping spree to the Craft Shop! I don't really need the "it was raining" excuse though ... I go when it's raining, sunny, snowing. windy... I doesn't really matter!

I needed to top up on my card stock as I was running out of certain colours. But of course, I couldn't just buy card stock... I had to take a look at the dies and stamps!!!! (to my husbands frustration!). So I also got the "Tim Holtz Alterations Torn Notebook Die" and some paper lace doilies...  The shop has a little table with all the sale items, loads of them all mixed up, where you really need to go through everything, moving around stuff to find something you like... and I found a lovely mini stamp with a quote on it. This will be great to stamp as a sentiment on the cards!

I can wait to use all the great stuff I got today!

And the purpose of this post... I want to show you a card! 

This time I've gone for the Vintage theme.... I've used this lovely Mo's Digital Pencil digi stamp. It's called "Santa Kai". Isn't he lovely? 

I stamped the sentiment and the "Seasons Greetings" stamp in brown, and I used the Tim Holtz Distress ink in Antique linen around the edges. 

The big stars are hand-made, and I used my Joy Crafts snowflake die to create the snowflake.

The paper I used is from the Desert Blooms collection by First Editions Paper. 

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I coloured the image with my promarkers. I tried to colour it in a "vintage way" (my own method, still learning!) so I added some yellows to the red clothing to give it the "faded" look. 

For the Santa suit I used: Slate, Poppy, Antique Pink and Buttermilk with the blender pen.

For the pyjama bottoms I used Sandstone and I used the blender pen to fade the colour. The same with the present and the ribbon...I decoupaged the present and added some colouring over it.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Digital Pencil Challenge #206 - Make it Vintage

Here come the boys #63 - Christmas in Brown and Cream

The Ribbon Girls Challenge -  October Colour Challenge, Brown

Polkadoodles Challenge Blog #42 -  Christmas is coming

Totally Gorjuss #206 - String

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Thank you for taking a look. Until next time!!!!

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.....! Lili of The Valley New Baby Card

Hello!

It's Monday...  Did you have a nice weekend? I hope you did and you are all ready and full of energy for the week ahead!

My new card is for someone quite close to me who will be having a baby soon. I decided to make the card early, as I know I will be getting really busy in the next few weeks with Christmas cards and the nice challenges. I guess it's OK?

Before showing you my card, I had to share with you this nice quote I found today... so true! following the baby theme....

taken from www.prifx.com

For this card, I challenged myself to make something new to me. So after taking a look around, I went for a Criss-cross card. They take a lot longer to make, but the end result is great!

I chose to use a Lili of the Valley rubber stamp. Lili of the Valley does lovely and cute stamps for all occasions. I've got quite a few of them (a lot!) and I can't stop myself from buying more and more!

The "Cute as a Button" stamp is from Hobbycraft. I used it together with the blue faux leather string and white string as a "catch" for the front cover.

As you can see, I've covered the names in the sentiment, as they may read this blog!

The papers I've used are from Pink Petticoat Colour Collections and Jennifer Ellory Floral Papers. I have distressed slightly the edges of the papers with sandpaper and blue ink.

I stamped the image on white card stock and as usual, I coloured it with my Promarkers. 

For the hat and baby-grow I used: Cornflower, Powder blue, lilac and blender pen.

For the face: Sandstone, Vanilla, Blossom and blender pen. 

For the blanket and floor: Icicle and blender pen.

I've used Anita's 3-D Clear Gloss Finish to accentuate the dots in the baby-grow.  I've also used it on the punched stars and the Nellie Snellen flourish corner die-cut.

The floral border was created with a Martha Stewart edge punch. 

The doily at the back of the image is a Sizzix die-cut, embossed with the tiny dots embossing folder from Cuttlebug.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the leaves are a die-cut from Marianne Creatables.

I made the sentiment myself (in Spanish) and embellished it with rhinestones from a local shop.

The tiny envelope on one of the sides is the Envelope, Scallop Lace from Sizzix. Once the baby is born, I'll insert a card with baby name and date of birth.

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I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Lili of the Valley Ideas to Inspire Challenge - October "Anything goes"

Brown Sugar Challenge #64 - Blue, Gray and White

Totally Gorjuss Challenge #206 - String
The Hobby House Challenge - The sweet smell of roses
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything goes

Alphabet Challenge Blog - "R for roses"
Stampin' for the weekend - Anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody #31 - Anything goes
Pennys Challenge #149 - Anything goes

I'll try to do something different every so often... It's fun to learn new techniques! 

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Until next time!!!!