Paper Smooches Adventure...

Before I tell you about todays card, I just wanted to say a big hello & welcome to all those lovely people who have recently joined as followers - I love sharing this craft and it is a privilege to have you along for the adventure :)

This card was inspired by this fortnightly photo from Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge.  I love the natural textures and colours, along with the nautical and time theme - perfect for a little boys card.  I created the waves by using the negative pieces created when I used an EK Success Scalloped Edge punch - you can achieve a similar effect with any scalloped edge - just turn the negative punch out up-side-down and you have an instant wave!  The clouds are from the gorgeous new Paper Smooches Whimsical, and the time-related sentiment is stamped using Paper Smooches Alphadots.  For a change, I tried stamping with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Faded Jeans to keep with the stonewashed feel.  Papers are a combination of MME On The Bright Side - Two, Authentic Gathering, and the pirate ship and treasure island are cut of from Grace Taylors Playtime.  Finally, I mounted the scene on white cardstock to reflect the white edging around the clock.

Once again, thanks for joining me on this adventure!

Hangin' Out with a Colour Q...

I LOVE this bright spring colour combo from Colour Q, loving using negative die-cuts too!  I cut out the two circle windows using a Fiskars circle cutter.  The white base layer is embossed using Craft Concepts Christmas Vine embossing folder.  The branch was die-cut using My Favourite Things Branches with Leaves, and the cheeky monkey is hand cut from Kaisercraft Party Animal Collection.  Sentiment is stamped in StazOn Timber Brown, using Paper Smooches Alphadot stamps.

Hangin' out with you is the funnest thing to do! 

Beats house painting and shovelling a tonne of soil and building rubble into a skip ;)

There She Goes, Out of This World...

I don't know about you, but I never seem to have enough male-themed cards in my collection.  My very first There She Goes Stamps arrived this week, so it was a perfect time to break them out and make boy card perfect for the There She Goes Sketch Challenge.

My very first copic coloured card too - chose an easy image to start me on my copic way, this gorgeous astronaut and moonscape, with matching sentiment from There She Goes Out of this World.  I die-cut a series of stars using My Favourite Thing Stacking Stars, and punched the star border with a Martha Stewart border punch.  I pierced a hole in the astronauts space suit and threaded some Sew Easy Fancy Floss through the space suit and tethered it to a star.  Papers are a combination of MME Lime Twist, Echo Park Dots & Stripes and SEI Happy Day.  The astronaut was pop dotted so he looks like he is floating away.

Judging from the look on DS face when he saw this, I can tell this is going to become a well-used stamp set :)

PS. My hubby started reading this post over my shoulder and exclaimed in disappointment..."Aren't I enough of a male-themed card for you!" LOL

Play Hard, Have Fun...

Had fun creating this little robot for this weeks Cards for Men Challenge Boys and Their Toys.  Stamped the various body part images onto Fancy Pants Rough & Tough papers using Stampendous Spot's Botz.  Based the card layout on this great sketch from Deconstructing Jen - just rotated the sketch clockwise to fit the robot image.

Hope you have a great weekend playing hard and having fun! :)

Constructing cards...

Some cards origins are more obvious than others!  Believe it or not, this card was inspired by this weeks sketch at Deconstructing Jen - the sketch was rotated 90 degrees clockwise, and in the process the stars became embossed in the blue background.  Anyway, I LOVE this colour combo by CR84FN and couldn't resist playing along.  Sentiment was stamped and embossed with seafoam white - a favourite as it really pops on strong colour backgrounds.