Casual Krafts-men

Hello everyone ,

This post could easily be about the cowboy that extended our bungalow , with a title like that , but that's a whole different story and not what I'm talking about here :) 

I've been absent again for a few days but finally got some time to play last night in my craft room , including using my new Paper Smooches stamps ready for my first Guest Design spot on the PS blog ,Wednesday :)

....... but today I want to share my Casual Fridays card with you , and this week it's a card for the men in our life using a piece of Kraft card somewhere in the design , hence Krafts-men , they come up with some catchy titles :)

As you can see I've gone for mostly Kraft and I've embossed a piece with PTI's woodgrain IP to make the wall plaque . The paint cans and brush are a Woodware stamp coloured with promarkers and I've used acrylic paint on the cans , brush and plaque itself . I just love the wood effect showing through the paint :)

I've got lots of challenges to catch up with , I'll no doubt be back again tomorrow , so bye for now and thanks for looking and leaving a comment ... I truly appreciate them all x

Less is More #11 and Easter Pics

Hi Everyone
Well last day of the Bank Holiday ....... but hang on there's another one next weekend , yay :)


............... so this weeks Less is More challenge is a recipe and it's simply 'off centre' ...... not as simple as you think , you still need to think about balance and composition , hmmmmm .


I decided to use a new digital stamp from Tiffanys doodles here . I loved the clean lines of this image and it lends itself well to paper piecing .

I've printed it once on the card blank and then twice on PP , so I could slightly raise the front of the sofa , and once on red paper for the cushions . The sentiment is generated on the computer ( fonts are '1942 report' and 'journal' both from dafont ) so no stamping at all on this card .

                      Yesterday we had a little egg hunt in our garden , luckily it wasn't as hot as Saturday !
I made a basket for Hannah to use as James wanted to use a white basket we already had so I put my thing cap on after seeing this post from Vicky and came up with this

I printed some pale yellow gingham to decorate it and the scalloped edge is made using a Tim Holtz 'on the edge' die. A Sizzix daisy die and a bow to decorate the handle .


Here's James's basket after the hunt ...... notice the colour grouped eggs .... it couldn't be any other way  :)

He really enjoyed the hunt especially as he found the special egg and egg cup , it took him a while to slow down and look properly  and then he managed to find more than Hannah , I think she let him really :)

Hope you enjoyed your Easter break and thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment , I really appreciate it x

Once more off the edge !

Hello folks
I'm back again with another card for the LIM challenge 'off the edge' style card. My mind works overtime with these challenges and I just have to try my ideas out .

These are a set of stamps from Stampendous and the sentiment is from a different company... Woodware I think . I like the simplicity of the silhouettes but added little pink butterflies (which you can hardly see on the picture) to compliment the monochrome colours .

I'd also like to share a card I made following a colour prompt on Emilies blog here . I know bunting is in vogue at the moment and the puppet strings in the picture gave me the idea . I thought the colours would look better against the Kraft card .

I really like the minimal look and the colours work well together but not a choice I would have made myself so thanks Emilie .

Thanks for looking x

A Birthday Card

First I'd like to say thank you for all the lovely encouraging comments from fellow bloggers, I'm going to have a nosey round all the blogs later.

My Mum's birthday is coming up so at the weekend I made this card.

As you can see I'm getting into this inking round the edge business thanks to a Mr T Holtz and his luuuurvley ink pads and blending tool. The stamps are new from Inkadinkado and will hopefully be good for scrapbook pages too.

I decided to take the camera out today on the daily dog walk and my daughter Hannah came along too to be the photographer as I felt I needed to try and get a decent photo for my profile (I usually prefer to be behind the camera). I'm quite pleased they turned out well and 'voila' a profile photo was created :)