My Favourite Earthling..

Hey,

Happy Saturday!

Today's card I made for a colleague that is a good friend and he recently left the company I work for - today also happens to be his birthday!

He is pretty much the definition of G.O.A.T (Greatest, Of, All, Time) and he is very missed.

We have this space thing going on, so I wanted to make him a silly card with the Lawn Fawn 'Beam Me Up' set.

I obviously wanted the spaceship to be beaming up a Goat - LOL, obvs. BUT I suddenly realised that the beam that comes with the set is too small for my large goat (Paper Smooches - Green Acres), so I had to draw the beam myself.. I am pretty pleased with myself!

I made the background using a cover plate by Hero Arts 'Star Confetti' and neon paper. I added a little hill using Lawn Fawn 'Stitched Hillside borders' and stamped the sentiment.

I'm pretty pleased with how well the idea in my head came out!

Have a great weekend, gym and brunch with a friend for me.

Cx

 

The Male Room: Space...

Hey,

Happy Monday.

I had a fun weekend, but I'll tell you all about that later on this week!

One of the entrants over at Retro Rubber this time had entered her card for our challenge into the latest challenge over at The Male Room and the theme is totally me, as I love Space / Science.

I have been loving masking off circles recently, so thought that would be a good place to start with my Space themed card. First I stamped and heat embossed the stars in white and then with my circle mask in place I used Faded Jeans distress oxide ink and blended over the stars.

I decided to use the MFT Space Explorer set and I had planned on using one of the Boy Astronaut stamps, but then wanted to use the 'Have a blast' sentiment and so felt the rocket worked better.

The rest of the sentiment is by Simon Says Stamp and is one of the most overused things in my craft room.

A fun make that will be leaving shortly for a Man/Boy that likes Space as much as me!

Cx

Retro Rubber Challenge #80 Dotty for you...

Hey,

Welcome to another awesome Retro Rubber challenge.

Here's this week's theme -

I instantly thought of 'Space' when I saw this theme and so broke out a rather neglected set by Paper Smooches 'Space Cadet' from 2016.

To create the main focal point of my card - a moon / planet like circle, I masked off the area and blended Faded Jeans and Broken China Distress Oxide inks. I stamped stars onto this circle using Tsukineko Delicata White Shimmer ink..its not very visible in the photo, but looks great IRL.

I stamped two of the actual planets from the set, I think these also count towards using dots and circles!.

I stamped, coloured and cut the Spaceman and two little aliens and mounted them onto my card using foam tape.

The fun sentiment is actually new and by MFT.

This card is totally going to my Nephew for his birthday later on this week!

Show us your spotty makes and pop over to Retro Rubber and get inspired by the things the DT have made.

Challenge ends February 23rd. Don't forget to tell us the age of your stamp, that is part of the fun of our challenge and please only enter 10 challenges including Retro Rubber.

Cx

Space stencil....

Hey,

Happy Friday..

I can safely say I am ready for the weekend, it has been a LONG week...

When I was home recently I bought a big batch of stencils by Dutch Doobadoo, I had never heard of them, but saw a load of their cool stencils in a magazine...

The one I used on this card is called 'The Sun'..I thought it looked kind of like space / the galaxy..

I used x4 different colour distress inks through the stencil directly onto a whopping 5x5inch card...

I die cut out the middle of the stencil using a Simon Says Stamp stitched circle die.

I then stamped and coloured the Gerda Steiner spaceship and Alien.. I had to mask off the ship to stamp the Alien inside.

I fussy cut it out, added some thread and mounted it to my card, so the ship would be half in and half out of the circle..

For the final touch I stamped the fun 'Happy Birthday Human' sentiment onto a banner from the same set and fussy cut it out.

The stencil is blowing my mind a bit..

Fun card, that is in the post and winging it's way to a little boy that I think will love it!

Have a great weekend, I am going to craft, workout and eat...

Cx

Say Cheese!!

Hey,

This is my second commissioned card this week and again I have used Paper Smooches stamps.

I was asked to make a card for a friend, the brief was quite specific - "make me a selfie style card for my Sister"..

For this card, I went with the Space Cadet stamps, as I decided an Astronaut / Alien selfie was perfect for the brief :)

I stamped the Astronaut and Aliens so they looked like they were taking a selfie. After colouring them, I die-cut them out using a Kaisercraft polaroid die - which I die-cut twice, so I could have the starry frame.

The sentiment blocks were created by using Tim Holtz alphanumeric dies and I tape them down to create words before cutting, so the spacing is right.

I affixed everything using mini staples.

I love it, it's quite funny. More selfie cards methinks.

I texted a photo to my friend and she said she loves it, but her and her (twin) sister will be fighting over who is the pink Alien and who is the green one!

Sisters!

Cx

Happy Birthday Human...

Hey,

Hope you are having a fun weekend so far..

I wanted to show you another card using the fun Gerda Steiner stamp set I bought recently - my first card with it is here.

I love the sentiments that come with the set.

I used balloon dies by Papertry Ink that came from the lovely Darnell. I deliberately kept one plain, so I could add the sentiment.

I actually added a sparkly 50 to one of the other balloons before this left my desk for a friend.

Oops moment occurred when I didn't realise that the chalk marker was making spots and kept doing more, so the poor Alien looks a bit like he has measles..

No matter, oops moments maketh a card..or something.

Cx