Male Summer Birthday Card

Why are male cards so hard to make? Because we don't feel or know we can't really use ribbons, flowers, glitter .........  They're not so bad if the guy in question is into anything, but when they're not or you don't know, what do you do? I had one of those to make this week and decided to search the gallery of DoCrafts to see what others had done. I'm so glad I did as one card jumped out and I've based my card on it. Thanks Twinkle* for that.

Thank you for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

What a Scrap !!

Well, I got in gear and did some scrapping yesterday.

First for the UKS May week 2 challenge by the Doodlebugs. They said:

1. We would like you to base your layout on the attached sketch - 10 points
2. We all love using stamps now and again, so incorporate stamping in your layout - 5 points
3. As it's May, we decided to indulge our love of ribbons. So get creative with your ribbons - 5 points
4. And finally, as we are the DOODLEbugs, we couldn't leave out doodling!!! - 10 points

After inking a piece of yellow Bazzill with green and orange Versacolor inks, I:

1. flipped the sketch over ~ 10 points
2. stamped 3 journalling blocks next to the photo using green versacolor ~ 5 points
3. taped (on the back) lengths of yellow check and green ribbon ~ 5 points
4. doodled fake stitching swirls on the right and continued it around the photo and journalling ~ 10 points

30 points claimed for The Ruby Snippers
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Here's my Lo for the UKS May House Challenge which is:

THEME : MY FAVOURITE PLACE / TECHNIQUE : STITCHING

I've copied this from the description I put on UKS:

I've gone for a totally diferent take on this challenge.

In the mid 70's, Dad and I went through a life changing experience and after that my favourite place was to be anywhere he was. The photo shows the award ceremony with Dad and I centre stage.

I've hand-stitched the frame around the photo, the star and the spiral. The background is white card coloured with 3 versacolor ink pads. The scroll and lettering were made with yellow paper. I used a pen to add fake stitching to the letters and inked the edges of the scroll with versacolor.
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Last but by no means least, heres a scrapping challenge LO I did on the DoCraft site set by a member.

We were allowed to use:
* 2 pieces of plain card stock
* 1 piece of patterned card stock
* 1 photo
* 2 different ribbons
* and nothing else

Well, I finally got my head around it and came up with this for which I used:
* dark red bazzill for the base and a small piece of green card to matt the photo
* 1 piece of 6x6 patterned paper (instead of card stock) from a K & Co paper pad. I cut this up and used it for framing and as embellishments
* photo of a hill/mountain near Burnham-on-Sea that Mum and I used as our landmark when we were on holiday there
* brown and burgundy ribbons layered on the green card to frame the photo
* that's your lot

Challenge met and thoroughly enjoyed too

Well done if you got to the end of this post and thank you so much for looking

Driving

On the DoCrafts forum, the scrappers have a fun bi-monthly challenge. I decide to have a go at the March/April challenge which was to use:

* 3 different papers - patterned or plain ~ I've used green Bazzill and 2 from DreamStreet Papers - Art Nouveau ~ Inspiration and Muse from Charmed Cards and Crafts
* Brads or eyeletts - Green brad in bottom left corner and ribbon brad on pull tag
* Ribbon - through ribbon brad
* 3 photos - Yep of my nephew and David playing with remote control cars last October
* Hidden journalling - Under the photo of the cars and accesed bypulling on the ribbon brad
* And if possible a song title - Driving in my car by Madness

The other wording says "Learn laughter from little children by thinking their thoughts, dreaming their dreams and playing their games". I've added the words 'not so' above the word 'little' as my nephew was 13 at the time. It's available from Charmed Cards and Crafts.

Title has been cut using Ellison Tootsie die-cut alphabet