Crafty Muse Goes Spotty

It's hard to believe that it's been a fortnight since the last Crafty Muse challenge, but it sure has been. Once again, I'm not at home for it, so this is a scheduled post again and any comments will be approved once I return home. I'm visiting a cousin of mine who I haven't seen for 15 years. We lost contact and I was traced by her son at the end of last year. Should be a good week-end as I'm staying with her and her family until Sunday.

So, back to the reason for this post. On Crafty Muse, we challenge you to use lots of spots on your crafting. You have 2 weeks to get creative. Here's my card using an image from the boy/male image download collection, together with some backing paper from Poundland and some spotted ribbon. I printed the image onto watercolour paper and used watercolour paints. The sentiment was designed in Word and printed onto card before inking over it with Sage Versacolor ink.

Thanks for looking.

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Go Mikey!!

Lou's digital downloads are always worth waiting for and the latest collection (MIKEY) is no exception. Have a look here and then hop over to Charmed to get yours. You can see cards made using them at Dottie's World.

The best things about them for me are that:
1) there's no waiting for them to arrive in the post
2) you can re-size them to your needs
3) you have a choice of choosing them with a white background or transparent
4) they don't cost much
5) they'll make teen boys and young men's cards so much easier to make

Have I convinced you to get them yet? I have? You won't regret it. Just in case you need any more convincing though, here's a picture of the pre-coloured ones you get along with the black & white images for you to colour as you wish.


Thanks for looking
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.

Thanks for looking

Love and hugs