Use It Up

Hello again,

Have you been following my craft day progress along the week? Well if you have, the card I have to share with you today is the last of the batch I was asked to make for Maddy. This card was made mainly using retired products, that I can't bear to let go of. The Cheers To You set was always a good to of mine for a good cocktail card and was also fab for men's cards.

The DSP is all retired I'm afraid but if you're anything like me you'll have loads of retired products that still need using, so thats what I'm trying to do, don't worry I'm not doing anything silly like vowing not to buy any new goodies until I've used all my retired products, I don't think I would last more than a month, but it's good to use what you have sometimes, especially when it's as pretty as these papers are!!

I can't remember the name of these one's (so if you know please leave a comment) but I was asked to make a purple and green card so these were just perfect! I broke out my aqua painter  for the cocktails and bar they are standing on, and I couldn't resist adding a little glitter! I think from now on all martini's should be served with glitter olives!

I hope you have enjoyed the week so far, I have one more card to share with you tomorrow, xx

Why Are Men's Card's So Hard??

Hi there,

As you may remember from the beginning of last week, I have been working on some masculine cards that I was asked to make for my sister's friend.

I was asked to make 3 or 4 cards that could be sent instead of just writing a letter to her partner who is serving in Afghanistan, because of this they had to be blank and for no specific occasion. The added twist is that she didn't want cars, or bikes on them.

This got my brain working overtime, when ever I think of making a men's card I immediately think of my motorcycle stamp, or the retired Loads of Love pickup truck stamp. I trawled through my stamps and decided on stars (which you can see here), beer and football.

I'm also trying to use up some of my retired stash, so I pulled out my retired papers stash from last years mini and picked some suitable for male cards, and voila!

I think that the hardest thing about men's cards is resisting the urge to put rhinestones, glitter, ribbon and bows on them, but I have the answer, Jumbo Eyelets and card stock strips instead of ribbon!

Please pop back soon for more masculine ideas!
xx

Happy Birthday Nikki!

Good morning,

Today is my little sister's birthday, I have waited to post this card until the day just incase she tries to get a sneaky peek before hand.

I really like shaped cards at the moment so I thought I would go for a stepper card, using the Cheers to you set, as she loves a good night out on the town. I have paper pieced the cocktails on the 'steps' which in-colour DSP and have colour co-ordinated her card with her red living room, hee hee.

Have a great day Nikki! xx

less is more

Hi everyone.

I'm back home, with a few cards made, most of which I can't share with you until the 1st April, it's getting close, I'm so excited!!

Last week I was looking on-line at other crafty blogs when I came across a post for a 'clean and simple' card. I'm more of a 'more is more' kind of girl rather than less is more but I thought I'd check out the Less is More blog (you can take a look by clicking on the name). So many of the cards were simple but stylish so I thought I'd have a go at the next challenge.

I got my boyfriend Dan, to go onto the site and find out this week's challenge, and was horrified to hear that it was a masculine card. These are the only cards that I dread being asked to make, they are so difficult, so this really was going to be a challenge!

Well here is my first attempt.

 I think I may have gone a bit too simple, what do you think? I'd love to know what you think of the clean and simple style.

Here's what I used
Stamps, Cheers to you
Paper, Chocolate chip CS, Crumb cake CS, Old olive CS
Ink, Chocolate chip, Whisper white
Accessories, Scallop border trim

Back soon with some more cards xx