Keeping it simple..

Hey,

Hope you all had a good weekend..I am still paying for mine...way too much bday celebration fun times..

Today I wanted to share a card I made for a friend's Son.

Always tricky this age group - between 7-11 - as they are not babies, but not teens yet.

I decided to break out a new stamp from a set I got from Tiger.

The sentiment is by Crate Paper.

Very, very easy card to make and I think age appropriate.

I have decided that I will not be cleaning up the little ink blemishes that you can see - I mean jeez, its handmade for a small boy..I don't mind them and I bet he won't either!

Cx

Challenging kids

I wanted to enter a couple of challenges this week and yesterday I realised the week is almost over!! I think it's because I'm working on kids cards for an order and it's tough because of the age groups, so that's where my focus has been..

Anyway, I've mangaged to figure out a plan for most of the kids cards and for the challenges I've settled on -

Mojo Monday - #281 - and here is the sketch -

Kenny K - #131 Going Round in Circles

My entry is the main photo today. It's a good match to the sketch and it's a bit fun. I think I might send it to my friend in Hawaii!! I like the circle paper - which is by Pink Petticoat. The stamp is one of the ones that I won in a Kenny K challenge. The ribbon was a gift from JT and it's amazing, the pale pink parts are textured. I am loving the flower punch, embossing thingy too! It makes superb flowers. This card was fun to make, although colouring the teeny tiny stamp was a bit tough..

WOYWW yesterday was fun as always and I got asked if I would show a better pic of the shark card. So here he is along with his friend Mr T-Rex!!

Mr Shark

Mr T-Rex

Cx

Kids stuff

I recently decided that my kids cards were lacking that 'kid appeal' and have been racking my brain trying to think of good ideas. By chance I was in a wonderful art shop and saw a Galt colouring-in book. Voila! Lightbulb moment.

I bought the book, chose some of my favourites and scanned them in, retouched them, printed them out at a suitable size and coloured them in using my Promarkers! Today's main picture is one of the cards I made using this technique. Below are a few more.

Clown

Witch

I think it's a good technique - but a word of warning, if you are planning on selling your cards, I would suggest you do not use anything from the Galt books, peruse your local pound store for generic colouring books, which will minimise the copywrite issues. The ones I have shown here are not for sale, they are for my godchildren (of which there are a bejillion!). 

I have also been re-using my favourite Bugaboo Poppi Penguin digital stamp. I've been making these for a while now for customers, but never for friends and family and decided, if I used certain colours they would be great for boys of all ages (= men too). Here are a couple of pics - I love the glittery glasses!

Blue Poppi + Red Glasses

Close-up on the Red glittery glasses

Red Poppi + Yellow glasses

I am now happier with my 'kid' options and think this will please my customers and possibly some of my friends with kids, who are always on at me to make more kid cards!

Cx