Our challenge over at Watercooler Wednesday this week is by Heidi and is another Masculine Anything Goes Challenge. I love the challenge of a masculine card cause I'm sure I'm not the only one who struggles if you don't have masculine images as such. I used to use Wetlands as my go to Masculine stamp set but that retired and at the moment I don't have much in my stamp collection. So I went with papers.
Here I've used a collection of our new Wood Textures Designer Series Paper layered onto Early Espresso Card Stock. The sentiment is from Colourful Seasons. I've added some Burlap Ribbon and some Enamel Dots in Island Indigo just to give all those browns a lift.
This card will be going to hubby when he least expects it. He always makes me smile!
Come and join us at the challenge this week and pop by the rest of the Design Team to see what inspiration they have for you.
HAPPY CRAFTING
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The challenge over at Watercooler Wednesday for this week was Anything Goes - Masculine Cards. A great challenge for me as I do Masculine Monday You Tube tutorials.
Once again I have turned to Wetlands for my masculine card. I love this set because its not obviously a masculine set and therefore very versatile. But I think it lends itself to masculine cards without being in your face - if you get my meaning!
I used Early Espresso cardstock for the base and the Designer Series Paper is from the gorgeous Falling in Love from the Spring/Summer catalogue. Not probably your first thought for male cards as it has a lot of pink in it but that's the beauty of our Designer Series Paper - they are double sided and I loved the neutral background on this paper. The opposite side is quite pink as you can see from this little picture below.
I used our Watercolour Pencils and a blender pen to colour in the goose and marker pens to stamp the ferns with the two colours. I edged the top of the DSP and the greeting with a touch of Tangerine Tango and Rose Red ink just to give a hint of a sunset. A touch of the Burlap Ribbon, one of my favourites and the Decorative Punch label for the sentiment completed this card. This was all made with one stamp set!
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I've been playing with a new set today - not new as in the Catalogues but new to me - and I've been playing with the framelits which comes with this lovely set of Best Birds. I know this is going to be one of my favourites for a long time.
I decided to pop it into the Global Design Project 072 this week which was to CASE the designer's card.
I wanted to give this card a slightly vintage feel so I've inked the edges of the paper and the cardstock and given the bird a slightly muted colouring.
I love this burlap ribbon but do sometimes find it difficult to use but I thought it looked quite at home here on this card with the bird on top.
Here's a list of the supplies I used in making this card:
SUPPLIES
Stamp Set - Best Birds
Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake,
DSP - Serene Scenery
Accessories - Stitched Framelits, Basic Pearls, Best Birds Framelits, Linen Thread, Burlap Ribbon
As usual all supplies can be purchased from me if you are in the UK and parts of Europe.
I was so delighted to be given the chance to be on the Pootles Design Team for the month of October. This means that every Thursday for the next month you will find a new project by the team using the stamp set Totally Trees which you will find in the new Winter Catalogue.
I adore this set Sam Hammond sent us. And I must admit I over looked it when I was pouring over my new Catalogue for all its showier Christmas cousins. But what a versatile set this is. It comes as a Polymer set with 27 yes 27! stamps.
I am basing my cards for the next month on Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. I do have a wonderful retired stamp set by SU from 2005 called Season by Season which actually has this wording on it but sadly I couldn't use it for this challenge. But I found ways around using the actual words.
So my Spring card uses one of the trees with extra leaves stamped on it. The birds are a sweet addition to this set - those facing right to left have been stamped using the reverse technique. Basically you stamp them on to some acetate and then press this on to your card stock.
I've used Mint Macaron and Crumb Cake here - Mint Macaron is one of my favourite SU colours! I've used some of the lovely DSP from the Serene Scenery. The sentiment is from the Jar of Love set.
For the ribbon I have glued some of the gorgeous Mint Macaraon Sheer Linen onto the Burlap which gives great texture. A little addition of some Enamel shapes finishes off the card.
The challenge over at Watercooler Wednesday this week is anything to do with the letter 'B'. Well that gives us a wealth of ideas but my first one was the beautiful bird from Picture Perfect. He has been in his box for a while so I thought it was time I gave him some wings again.
I used Always Artichoke for the card base and stamped some of the leaves from this set as a background with Versamark.
The paper is from the gorgeous Serene Scenery 6x6 Designer Series Paper pack. Oh my this paper is so lovely if you haven't tried it yet I would urge you to. It really is paper you just want to look at but I now make myself use it!
The touch of our new Burlap ribbon seems to blend in with the mood of this card. The bird was initially stamped in Smoky Slate, then Early Epresso then Pear Pizazz and cut out and I added dimensionals to give him some movement. A touch of Wink of Stella to make him sparkle.
I'm singing along to 10CC whilst writing this - one of my favourite bands in the 1970's yep I'm that old lol! and it's so good to hear them again!
