Simply Male

Morning, you'll never guess, the suns out this morning, Yayyy!!!! There might be rain later but for the time being the suns rays are beaming in through the windows.
I've lots of jobs to do today but I thought I'd share an ultra quick card I made the other evening first. I had no time to colour up one of my fabulous LCI Teenager images,  so I had to resort to a couple of die cuts.
 

I couldn't believe my luck,I looked in my paper box and found a square of this gorgeous pearlescent black and white paper that I was to be addicted to a few years back. It's perfect for a bit of impact for a male card. It doesn't show up too well but the paper is matted onto foiled red card along with the embossed panel.
  

A bit of inky stitching to the star, a punched hole with a swing tag tied through and stamped with LCI stamp "Today" grounded with a spot of Pinflair Gel.  Three black eyelets and the inside decorated to reflect the front completes the card.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

PDS124, Embossing,

Crafts and Me 81, Embossing,

Waste Not Wednesday 16, Forgotten Stash,

DOC24, Die cuts and punches,

Kaboodle Doodles 116, Embossing,

Lexis 63,Die cuts and punches.

Thanks for stopping by,

Happy Friday!

Julie.x

Get Your Girly On With Southern Girls

Evening all, me again, this time I'm back with my DT card for Southern Girls where the challenge this time is
 "Get Your Girly On" that's an easy one that's for sure!  And with the amazing sponsors this time it's just got to tempt you! Check out the challenge to find full details of all the sponsors!

I was lucky enough to be given products from two of the sponsors.
The gorgeous "Party" image and "Surprise" are both by Stampotique. I coloured the image using Copics and added glossy accents to the balloon and plenty of stickles everywhere else.

The lovely Vixypink digi paper pack is from Eiglassing  I have used them both inside and outside of my card. The one on the front is  stunning with the graduation of colour to the edge,saved me from doing my usual inked edges!

Luckily some recycled ribbon from a birthday cake matched the colours perfectly but to make it look even more girly I topped it with some lace,three purple roses and some pearl  topped pins.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

Inky Impressions, Anything goes,

Little Darlings, Flowers,

Simon Says Stamp, Anything goes,

Scrap Creations, It's a girl thing,

RCC50, Anything goes,

Tuesday Throwdown 95, Use sparkle,

Timeless Tuesday 166, centre vertical line,bingo.

That's it from me for today,scroll down for my earlier post.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Starring Two Buttons!

My word, what a lot of rain we've been having of late. It's hard to believe that we have a water shortage here in Kent! Well at least the water butt is full for when the warmer weather comes as we have a hose pipe ban!

Onto today's challenge at Scrapbook Sisters where the theme this week is a recipe, "One Circle,Two Buttons"!

 

For my DT card I used a selection of papers, a Nestie die to cut an off set circle from a larger circle cut using the Cricut and Plantins Schoolbook, some Xcut Nesting Stars on Pinflair gel to sit around the frame, and a generous amount of TH distress inks to make my papers more rugged and manly lol!
  

Some inky stitching and 2 buttons tied together with some string complete the card.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
PTT65, Anything goes and Kraft,
AWNB6, Anything goes,
MIM86, Anything goes.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

It's Totally Ladybug Tuesday!

Morning! Did you think I'd left the country? I have no idea where the time has gone! 
So here we go, It's Tuesday and time for a new challenge at Ladybug Crafts Ink. This time it's being hosted by the one and only Michele and the theme is "Birthday".

I used the lovely Garden delight's digi, "Clear Vase of Delight" cut it out using an Xcut die, added some bling and some glossy accents,

A scalloped border placed on some lace, ribbon and LCI sentiment completes the card..

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

DMC33, Birthday,

House of Gilli, Ribbon and Sparkle,

Lexi 63,Dies and punches,

MIM86, Anything goes,

CCH 116, Feminine,

CSF49, Bingo,middle horizontal line.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Ding Dong The Bells Are Gonna Chime

Is this a good enough clue to the theme for this week's challenge at Scrapbook Sisters????? no?
Well just for you then,
 the theme for Week 80 is Wedding Card .

I wasn't sure what I was going to do for my DT card but whilst browsing round Paperchase with my youngest I came across the most delicate piece of paper, it was marked as tissue but it reminds me of.... I think it was called Angel Hair paper that I used to use when I first started making cards many moons ago. You use to use a wet paintbrush around the edge before pulling it, giving a delicate rough edge.

 

Anyway, I'm getting side tracked. The tissue has delicate silver and gold flecks amongst the fibre, beautiful in real life but I'm afraid the photo doesn't do it justice.

I sprayed my card with glue, carefully placed the paper on top and left it to dry for a few minutes before cutting it to size. The hearts I cut on the Cricut using Plantins Schoolbook but this was done a few hours later giving the glue plenty of time to dry, I was chuffed that it worked and so thought I'd push my luck and use an Xcut border punch on it as well to create the scallops.

To my amazement it worked although the punch did groan slightly as the layers were a touch thick together.

I touched the edges of the cuts with a silver ink pad, unfortunately it looks a bit darker in the photo than it actually is.  A stamped sentiment added, some gorgeous bling, card complete.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

Lexis 63, Punches and Dies,

Paper Sundaes 116, Anything goes,

Stamping with The Dragon, Wedding,

MIM85, Anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by,

Happy crafting!

Julie.x

It's A Doodle

I love a bit of a doodle so wanted to make an entry for this week's LIM challenge. Unfortunately my camera is trying to spoil things for me and my photo looks less than clear (or is it my eyes???)  This little cutie and the sentiment is from Ladybug Crafts Ink, I bought the set a while back and this is the first time I've inked it up. I stamped the image over the edge of the 3x3 card and doodled around the edge of the card using a copic fineliner.

 By the way, Kerry had a few technical problems so has decided to extend the half price cling stamp sale to allow for the early troubles, what a result for the rest of us ;)

I'm using this card for the following challenge:-
LIM63, One layer doodling.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

This Is What Life Is All About

I had so much fun colouring up Skateboarder Josh today,I even found myself searching out Skateboard shops to get an idea of how to colour up his deck (get me, lol!) I ended up with giving it a non specific flame type colour effect,I might try something else another time, maybe some transfers or stickers, my daughter thought that this looked fine though.

I followed a sketch again,not something I generally do but I enjoyed adapting it to suit my needs.

I embossed both of the strips using different embossing folders and rubbed them over directly with a TH distress ink pad, I distressed the edges of the rest of the papers and even the twine to take away the white,clean look.

I'm enjoying using the stapler at the moment, I even stapled a couple of die cut stars together. A LCI sentiment and some inky stitching and my card's complete. (I'll add the name of the paper pad I used tomorrow)

Skateboard Josh is from the new Teenager digi range at Ladybug Crafts Ink, where you can find 14 different images altogether, suitable for boys and girls.
The Cling Stamp Sale is on until Saturday if you fancy grabbing yourself a bargain.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

SSS153,choose, I  followed  SSS81,

Clear It Out, Sports/leisure, stars,

CCC8, Kraft,

DTC155, Birthday,

Karen's Doodles 110, Tough/Cool,

SOS47, Masculine,

MIM 84, Anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x