A Birthday Card

I'd like to share with you the birthday card that I made for my torturer [personal trainer]. I always make him a handmade card but last year I didn't have time to make one so I gave him a bought one and did he moan about it and make me suffer, so this year I thought I'd better make him one.

I swiped wild honey, faded jeans and vintage photo Distress Stain across a white card blank and then splatted the same colours onto a piece of white card, I matted this and the image onto black card. For the image I used a stamp from Flonz Craft. I embellished it with some spotty ribbon and a peel off sentiment.

I'm entering my card into the following challenges.
Tanda Teaser 202 All things manly.
Paper Pretties Masculine.

Three, Two, One.

The theme for the August ATC swap at the UK Stampers is to use three of something, two of something and one of something. I use three faces, two words and one crown.

I cut the ATCs out of some card that I'd coloured with Dylusions ink and I coloured the edges with peacock feathers distress ink. I stamped my PaperArtsy image onto white card and coloured the cheeks and eye with coloured pencil then I adhered it to the ATCs. I stamped the words [stamps unknown] and them I stamped and gold embossed my Flonz Craft crown, cut it out and adhered it to the ATCs. I drew lines round the edges of the ATCs.

I'm of to Ireland on Thursday for a week, our friends son is getting married there. Most of our friends are just going for the weekend but we decided to add a couple of days either side of the weekend to make a longer break. I'm not sure if I'm taking my laptop with me so I'll try and schedule a couple of posts before I go and I don't think I'll be able to do any commenting but will try and catch up as soon as I get back.

Fashion At The Craft-Room

It's time for another challenge at the Craft-Room and it's my turn to choose the theme, I have chosen FASHION. I think we all like fashion whether we follow the latest trends or just like looking at photo's in magazines etc. For my card I've chosen fashion of the 50's but you can choose any fashion trends from any era. Have fun with the challenge, I'm looking forward to seeing what you create.
Here is my card.

The first prize for the challenge is provided by our brand new sponsor Flonz Stamps, they're based in New Zealand and they have a fabulous range of stamps.

I layered various patterned papers over a card blank and attached some spotty ribbon. I stamped the images onto white card and coloured the skin areas with coloured pencil. I stamped the images again onto patterned paper and cut out the dresses then adhered them to the main images. I matted the images onto black card and added the flowers and gems, the sentiment is of the computer.

The design team have made some fabulous samples so why not visit the Craft-Room and take a look.