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

Reverse Confetti..Playing with new goodies..

Hey,

I won the February Reverse Confetti sketch challenge, which meant I got a $20 voucher..obviously I spent more than that, but now I have all these lovely new things to play with.

Here is the March Sketch -

I decided to rotate it to the left, it worked better for my idea...

I bought the Bearing Gifts set because I loved the Bear in the car and thought it would make excellent birthday cards.

I had this crazy idea to create a scene and would you believe it, it worked!!

I really liked the current theme over at The Male Room -

I thought I could combine the RC sketch and The Male Room theme...I love how the DT have used wood.

I hunted and found a piece of wood effect background paper in my ridiculously large paper stash and die-cut out using a Simon Says Stamp stitched die and in the same paper stack I saw the blue piece of paper that worked as 'sky' in my opinion. I die-cut that piece using a smaller MFT stitched die.

Then I stamped the trees onto a green patterned paper and fussy cut them out. I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the Bear (I don't have the dies..yet).

I spent a while laying it all out before the glue came out...no room for mistakes here..I didn't fancy fussy cutting anymore!

I love the end result and feel like the Bear is driving through the woods to deliver gifts!!

Always fun to combine challenges.

Cx