Football again

Son 1 wanted a card for a friend, so I chose a green card, to represent a pitch,

stamped nice large numbers,  (not this actual set, but very similar) cut them out and used

chalks to colour them a pale green,

and added the football stamps randomly over the top.

Next I stamped silver and green whistles onto some medical tape I bought for just this

purpose, popped the tape onto the card and finished off with the numbers.

I'm entering this into the Crafty Boots sports challenge

Football or drums?

Next to celebrate a birthday is my eldest son.

He has two passions in life, one gets me cold and wet and muddy and the other is increasingly audible, so I decided to combine them for the card.

I began by embossing the card with a stave using my Allegro folder. I was very proud of this, as I had to pop it through my Cuttlebug twice to cover the whole card, and it came out just fine, a new achievement for me. Sorry about the photo, some trouble with the light / shadow here!

Again, please ignore my shadow!

Next I stamped some footballs randomly over the card and I cut a number of drums out in various colours, and then a few more in white, and used the white skins to make the drums look a little more realistic.






I combined all these elements and to finish off I stamped large numbers, (9cm high), coloured them using my Promarkers (purple is his favourite colour), cut them out and popped them over the top, using craft pads to add some dimension.

The card was well received as Son 1 realised that I'd put his favourite things into the card. Success! 

I'm entering this into the Crafty Boots challenge.

Time To Celebrate

Hubby was not alone in celebrating his birthday. A long time friend and now neighbour shares his special day, and all the cardmaking means I got behind on my blogging. Oops.

I bought some new die cuts recently and the idea of using  my clock die came to mind quite quickly.

I wanted to cut the clock from some thin wood I have, but I knew I was up against the clock (!), as the friend popped round unexpectedly, so I had to get the card ready to send home with him, so I decided against rushing and wasting the wood, and used some white card instead.

I inked it with Distress stain, using two coats, but I didn't feel the colour was intense enough, so while it was wet I rubbed an ordinary ink pad across and got a much darker colour.

Then I stamped the hands in black ink, added black embossing powder, popped the face back into place (having kept that white) and put it all together, using a brad to secure the hands.

FInally I got out my Fiskars Sentiments stamp set, and Brother labelling machine. I used some craft pads to stick them on to add dimension. At last Time To Celebrate