Crafty Cardmakers #23 Mens cards!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!! Its Man Card time over at Crafty Cardmakers! You know how much I just luuuuuurve man cards (NOT!) hehehe!

I'm rather late posting this week, had soooo much I've needed to do, my schedule is all squiffy and my youngest DD is driving me round the bend! My eldest DD has flown off to Crete for her first holiday without us old duffers so hope she has a good time! She's learnt not to have ice in her drink lol!

Our Special guest over at Crafty Cardmakers is Sandy Hulsart who has a wonderful stampscapes & photoscapes blog here

I was extremely short on time to make my card this week (uploaded 8 minutes before live!) so this was a really quick make using an alcohol inked background I saw on Sandy's blog and thought That'll do!

I applied alcohol inks with a stiple brush and blending solution, dropped a few droplets of ink on, dropped more drops of solution on and gave it a spray with iridescent gold glimmer mist (Well I have to have sparkle dont I!!)

Stamped the mountains and cove, oak tree branch and man in boat and used brilliance ink around the edge to make a spotlight. Its all done on linen card for a textured effect. I've also spread paper glaze on the water bit.

10 minute make (which is totally unheard of from me!) and I've no mans birthdays for a while ha!

Entering into...

Cards for Men - Fathers Day

Magical Crafts - Fathers Day

Pear Tree Designs - Fathers Day

Incy Wincy - One for the guys

Stampin for the weekend #8 Masking

The challenge this week over at Stampin for the weekend is masking. Thought I'd give my stampscapes a run out this week!

Started with the lady stamp, make unknown as its a UM from fleabay! Then masked her and did the stampscapes cabin, masked them both and added the mountain. Coloured using adirondack and used a streaking technique where you pll colour in from the edges like a feather and gradually build it up that way. Trimmed it all down then stamped the stampscapes oak leaf to frame.

Tilda & Friends ATC challenge - Bugs!

Well here's my first go at a blog challenge! Tilda was stamped on watercolour paper then masked and I then stamped the background hills and grass using stampscapes stamps.Its coloured with watercolour pencils and sakura stardust pens. The extra sparkle is made by mixing the water with a tiny bit of pearlex iridescent watercolours. I've added the little dragonflies, which are coloured using sakura stardust pens and stickles glitter glue, and some flowersoft on the grasses for extra dimension.

HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY BOO!

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday dear Boo

Happy Birthday to you!

Yep its Boo's 40th today! We got him a solid silver tie slide, traipsed everywhere round trafford centre for that! Eefie managed to lose his last one! DD got him an "I'm not 40, I'm two 20 year olds" mug lol! And he got a couple of the BBC wildlife books to go with his DVD's and a mini birthday cake :-)

Here's the card I made him, its a stampscape on watercolour paper that I coloured with various inks. I added sakura stardust clear to the water so its all glittery on those bits and added some flowersoft to add dimension.