Happy Birthday Mate Ute.

Good morning everyone.

Here is one the cards that I made for the Artist of the Month display at the Sarina Tourist, Art and Craft Centre.   This particular card is based on a project that Anna-Karin made for her son.  I had a different jalopy done but mucked it up so had to improvise and use another jalopy that I was going to bin.  The day I was working on these jalopies (I made 6 cards in total), was also the day that I managed to stab myself with a pair of scissors.  My finger bled so much, I didn't think it was going to stop. lol  Too much hurry and not enough care.  That was two weeks ago and it's only getting better now.  Anyway onto my jalopy.

I've used Distress Crackle Paint, Ranger Verdigris embossing powder, Opals utee, Adirondack dabbers and inks on my ute.  The background paper was made by myself by putting together different pictures of Queensland number plates, resizing them, adding a brown background and then printing out on Kraft card stock.  Lots of Tim Holtz stamps and products were used on this card as well as Stampin' Up card stock.

I've decided that I really love working on Grunge Board and Grunge Paper, it takes ink etc beautifully.

The rusty metal bottle top and nails were a good touch I thought and with the Happy Birthday mate, made this a really Aussie bloke card.

Thanks for visiting,

 

Vintage Little Darlings

I saw this card on my blog surfing travels.  It was perfect for two baby cards that friend's of mine had asked me to make for them.   I've kept the basic layout but changed a few things.  What attracted me to this card was the die Astrid used.  I had just purchased this same die and thought, wow, perfect!!

That paper is Graphic 45 Little Darlings.  The 'boy' stamp is an old one by Lucy's Stamps.

The card stock is Baja Breeze and Naturals Ivory.  The little safety pins are charms with the rings removed.  I didn't add any ribbon because these are, after all, baby boy cards.  The two flourishes are from Cheery Lynn and a Doo Hickey Die.

Hope you like my two vintage baby cards and thanks for visiting my blog today.
 

                             
                             

For The Men

Two more for the men in our lives. Again using Basic Grey Boxer papers but this time with a different stamp and sketch. The stamp is by Stamp It called Landrover. Again this stamp lends itself brilliantly to Versafine ink. I did try water based dye inks with this stamp and they just didn't cut it. The sketch is SCS262 with a couple of alterations. At this stage I like one with and one without the greeting but that may change.
Thanks for taking the time to look.

Oh and my other piece of news, last weekend Charlie and I went to Brisbane. Saturday night saw us at the AC/DC concert and it was AWESOME!!!!!!! They played for two hours straight and it was raining some of that time. The stage was getting wet and so were the people in the pit. Glad we were under cover. I'd go again in a heartbeat. Loved it. Thousands of people and before the concert the excitement and build up of the people there was fantastic.

Another sunny day here in Koumala. I'm off to make some cards, robots and rock stars this time. Again thanks for visiting my blog and all the comments you take the time to leave.

Back again!

Yes, my blog has been neglected. Sorry about that. For the two weeks before this I've been on a cardmaking frenzy. April is coming up very fast and Jean and I must have a decent display.
Amongst others, which I'll put on my blog gradually, these are four male cards I've managed.
The first one I silver embossed the tyres, then with the other three, I used black Versafine with black embossing powder. Versafine is a fabulous ink to use for photo and solid stamps. It doesn't 'bead' on the stamp and stamps beautifully.
I've kept the cards a bit regimented with straight lines which I feel suited the sketches I used and also the Kaisercraft designer paper.

For the first card I used this sketch SCS259.
The second card uses this sketch SASSC48.
The third and fourth cards uses a sketch from the 2 sketches 4 You site, Kazan's sketch 43.

Onto other news, we've had rain for so long, that our feet are now webbed. pmsl I love the rain and to see green grass is fabulous. I hope the parts of Australia that need rain get it soon.
My son ended up in hospital with Glandular Fever the weekend before last so that was another episode to deal with. Thankfully, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with him now.

Once again, sorry about my absence. I have been checking up on all my blogs that I follow but rarely commenting at the moment. All your cards are wonderful. Hope you all have a happy day and thanks for visiting.

Two more cards

Here are two cards I made at Anne's. I just did most of the embellishing at home. I wanted to have a bit more texture and oomph to them. lol Couldn't find the right words. The components for these cards are mainly 3d sheets with a Lucy's stamp, just for you and colourbox fluid chalk ink used for the greeting. The porthole and ship pics are on the same sheet. I added kindy glitz to the water to give it some dimension. Also I put gold brads around the porthole again to add interest. I thought the string tied in knot added to the theme. The knapsack, boots, suitcase are on the one sheet. I just added the photo corners and brads to dress the card up a bit.

Thanks for looking.

A couple more

These are from the stamping day I had with Karen. Fantastic fun. When are we on again Karen? lol

I used the Wanted stamp set to stamp the background and the layered scallop circle. The papers are from the Round Up Simply Scrappin' set. Ribbon is Groovy Guava. Cardstock is Groovy Guava and the inks used are Close to Cocoa, Sage Shadow and Groovy Guava. The sentiment is from It's your birthday.

This card was the first for the day on Saturday. It wasn't working for me at all until Idecided to do the trees. I stamped the Paisley background stamp in Sage Shadow onto Sage Shadow cardstock. The Trees were done with Chocolate Chip ink as was the sentiment. 'Dad' is a Lucy's stamp. The rest of the supplies were Stampin' Up.

The strip underneath 'Dad' is from the Outlaw designer series paper. I also used a ticket corner punch (which unfortunately isn't in our current catty) The other colour cardstock is Really Rust.

Hodgepodge hardware completed the card.

Hope you like and thanks for looking.

Card class today

Today was our once a month class at Ilbilbie with Michelle. As usual, I enjoyed the cards. This time we learnt how to do the Cracked Glass technique and revisited the serviette technique.All of these cards are exactly how Michelle made them. I keep mine for future reference. The Frog and the Rose are the cards using the serviettes and have also been given a 3d look. The frog is saying 'hello', sorry lousey photo.

The other photo is of the two cards using the cracked glass technique which I loved. Very cool and very simple.

Female birthday - no pink

This is the card I made for a comp on a UK forum that I'm a member of. I 'spose in some ways it could be more a male card but I added the black and white floral ribbon. Some females like the black and red combo. I was happy with it.

Both the stamps are by Lucy's Stamps. The wording stamp was masked. The first time I had done this and it worked perfectly. The backing paper is DCWV, black and white mat stack.

All comments appreciated.

Editet to add, that I used a sketch from somewhere, can't remember where from, so thanks for the sketch.