Someone was 50 Plus A Stamped Male Birthday Card

I made 2 cards this week. One for my cousin who was 50 last Sunday and one for my sister's boyfriend.

I used 2 stamps and the masking technique for this card. Annie sitting pretty and tree stump with bluebells are both designed by Lou and Karen and sold exclusively by Charmed Cards and Craft. Numbers are Basic Grey Two Scoops stickers

For this card, I used an image from Stampscapes Lakeside Cove unmounted stamp set. I stamped using dark blue ink and added rub-on letters for the sentiment.

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Take care, love and hugs, Sarah C xoxoxo

Birthday Card

Here's a birthday card I made this week based on the card I made here which itself is based on a card I found on DoCrafts by Twinkle*. Thanks again Twinkle*.

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Scooter Boy Mikey

Using Scooter Boy Mikey from the Mikey download collection (available only from Charmed), I made a card for a male family member in his early 20's. I'll be using another Mikey image tomorrow for his older brother's birthday card.

I printed Mikey onto watercolour paper and used my brush markers and blending pen to colour him in before inking the edges and adding some PP, buttons and a sentiment I printed on my computer.

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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.

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Boys Will Be Boys

Crafty Muse challenge for the next fortnight is Boy Will Be Boys. Here's my DT entries:

Door hanger

I took the hard route to get this hanger made, but here's an easy way:

The base is a pre-cut MDF hanger that I painted in red acrylic paints.

In a Word document, I re-sized the page to the area I had to work with.

I inserted the comp boy image from Crafty Muse and re-sized it to fit.

Using WordArt, I designed the wording and re-sized it to fit.

I printed them all out onto paper. That was the easy bit.

Now, this is what I should have done afterwards:

Place a piece of tracing paper over your hanger and your paper on top.

Draw over the printed images and remove the papers.

Go over the outlines with a thin permanent pen.

The explosion image on the right is a stamp that I had to ink over with the permanent pen as it didn't ink properly.

Card

I opened the skier image in Paint.Net (a free programme available here) and coloured it adding the wording.

After printing it onto photo paper, I mounted it onto hammered silver card.

I covered an A5 card in snowflake paper and added the image using foam pads.

I used DST to stick the 2 ribbons on the bottom and added silver snowflakes with stickles on for some bling.

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Love and hugs

You Are 4

My cousin's DGS is 4 tomorrow, so I made a card for him. I saw one today that Lou had made that was curved with a bit cut off the bottom at the back (to allow it to stand) and used that technique for this.

I used a CD as a template and once cut, I covered the front and back in Dream Street hugs and kisses love lines card. I took some green textured paper and free-hand cut some grass. I used Stazon to stamp the flowers, butterfly, dragonfly and bumble bee and wording. I then coloured the images with permanent pens.

I lined the inside with yellow textured paper and made a pocket out of same paper which I attached to the reverse of the front of the card and put some money in it for him. I just hope he likes it now.

A Quick Card and a Brilliant Sunday

I had to make a quick card on Friday night as I realised that I would need to take it to David's Dad on Saturday. It's his birthday next Saturday, but he's going away for a few week's holiday. As there wasn't much time, this is the quick card I made. It's been ages since I completely finished a card in less than half an hour. To make it easier, I used co-ordinating items all from Dovecraft's Masculine Range ~ 6x6 Paper Pack, Funky Brads. Chipboard Embellishments. All that was left for me to do was put it all together and add some fibres and a greeting. I used a peel-off due to the time factor (well, it was nearly 3am!!!).

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I have no photos to show you of my Sunday, but I've had the most awesome day. My niece is leaving Junior School and going to the 'big school'. Doesn't time fly? So that she has a lasting memory of being there, she's visited me these last 2 Sundays and I've helped her to make a mini-album for her friends and teachers to sign and for her to add photos and anything else she chooses. I gave her several ideas and she chose what she wanted and added her own ideas and twist on things. She's such a natural crafter that it's a joy to be with her like this (her elder brother is just the same). She decided to put one pocket on each DLO and make tags for everyone, which looks brilliant. She's going to come over in the Summer holidays and add the final touches to the book and then I'm hoping to take some photos. I did have to frisk her on the way out though as she was threatening to sneak all my stash out the door! Hmmm...... I don't think so LOL

Gardener George and a Magnetic Peg

It's my friends DHs birthday today so, I made a card for him using one of the George at Work downloads by Lou and available from Charmed.

I coloured him in using Paint.net and printed him onto photo paper. I also printed extra boots and wheelbarrow bucket. I stuck strips of PP onto blue card and layered a piece of blue dotty paper on top, then stuck George down. I 3D'd the extra boots and wheelbarrow and added dirt and plants with a brush marker. As a final touch, I added a co-ordinating chipboard shape and a birthday greeting peel-off that I'd coloured blue using a permanent pen.



I also made my friend's DH one of my magnetic pegs. I cut chipboard to size and covered both sides of it inking all the edges with brown versacolor ink. I glued the peg inside the hole I'd made and decorated it using co-ordinating chipboard shapes and a blue button. These are so handy for being a different way to give money as the peg hold it nicely.

Dottie's Challenge Helps Me Make A Birthday Card

I saw the Sunday challenge on Dottie's blog for which Karen said:

This week’s challenge is a sketch challenge. Now interpret this sketch as you please, there are no rigid rules, just let your imaginations flow. Two simple specifications:

• Your interpretation must contain at least one of our downloads.
• I would like to see at least one brad or button.

My cousin's son's birthday is tomorrow and I needed to make him a card today, so raided my George downloads to see if one was right for him. As he's at uni studying to become a scientific teacher, the Teacher George was perfect. I coloured him and the background in using a programme called Paint.net before printing onto photo paper and writing the equation on with a white Sakura pen. I also coloured a box in the same background colour so I would have some for the rest of the card. To assemble this, I used grey mottled card and matted the image and extra yellow piece onto black paper. I cuct a scalloped circle out of the same black, writing on it with the white Sakura pen. I layered the pieces and added black ribbon. I drew scallops around the edge with a black brush marker and added black buttons as required. I just hope he likes it.